Brazil getting a penalty because a Norwegian player *checks notes* has arms, is it?

My mental health is pretty fragile in general at the moment and incredibly fragile specifically today and yet I am still contemplating staying up most of the night to watch England get yeeted out of the World Cup.

🕗 RELEASED: The Restless Course - an Animated Emissive Clock for #CitiesSkylines2 The Restless Course was installed on the corner of Scrutton and Clifton Streets in Shoreditch, London in 2018. This faithfully recreated 3m-diameter metal clock uses animated lights to display the in-game time.

Please, my cat, he is very cute.

Decided it would be vaguely fitting if the final act of the Starmer era is a policy that starts off as a well-meant but rushed populist measure, ending up with police officers ordering people out of pubs halfway through an England World Cup knock-out penalty shootout.

I went to a zine workshop

“I do not want to be perceived. For being perceived is breaking me, and I need to put myself back together.” Oooof (complimentary).

Venus and Serena, or as they're collectively known, the Tennisy Williams

Let me tell you, nobody cared about "biological advantages in sports" when I was a short, uncoordinated kid who got boobs early. Sports are fucking unfair. Nobody has the "right" to win. But everyone should have the right to play.

If you want to be ready for the next heatwave, Snag have a sale ending tonight and £1 UK delivery. Chub rub shorts under a dress or baggy shorts are a lifesaver (whatever your gender). snagtights.com

Hey there Delilah If you're reading this I am dead And you have now inherited My cursed ancestral homestead By the sea Where legend says that there might be A banshee

Look at this awesome little lad @fionchadd.bsky.social made me for my birthday. 😍

I can’t quite believe this but a friend is cycling 1500 miles around Ireland. He’s fundraising for Cancer Research UK, which is particularly close to my heart right now. If you’ve got a few quid to spare, please consider chucking them his way. It’d mean the world. www.justgiving.com/page/colin-b...

do you wanna tell math-based ghost-stories, or is the poor little baby 2²

My sea shanty choir is doing a fundraising gig soon for Mama Suze, the organisation Annabel Rook and this essay's author set up to give a space of joy for survivors of gender-based violence and forced displacement, along with Hackney Migrant Centre and Sounds Like Home women's choir

This is quite literally the best thing you will see today.

please anyone in/near Stratford look out for Emily, she's tiny and a fucking idiot goblin and I'm desperate to find her please please please bring her home safe 😩

I don’t know why I wasn’t expecting it, but I laughed so hard* when I saw the amount of goalies *barely audible nose laugh so I wouldn’t wake my pardner. Yes I’m a cowboy

standard policy is you don't push prime minister changes to prod on a Friday.

this 'watch me outsmart ai' content that’s popping up everywhere is an absolute travesty. 'watch me use the bad tool to be unfunny'. like yes we get it it is not intelligent but showing you’re smarter than a markov chain is like showing you’re more alive than margaret thatcher. get a grip.

Bandit is wandering around the house squeaking because he really wants skritches but it’s too hot to sit on our laps.

Lots to say about this quote from Phillipson but I think a key element is how cis people are understood as 'biological' and therefore as having material needs (services, spaces) where as trans people are an 'identity' and therefore only have cultural/recognitional needs ('not being pilloried').

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

What do you think the effects of this potion are? Prints available: lindenshieldarts.com/products/fin... #TraditionalArt #FantasyArt #MixedMedia

Right. Ice lollies.

New political spectrum just dropped

The Old Cabinet is dying, and the New Cabinet struggles to be born: now is the time of ministers

@bootsmcgoot.bsky.social this little lad has expressed a wish to see more of the world, so he will be winging his way to you as soon as I get my arse in gear 😅

“I told him it sounds like he’s just feeding Prime Ministers to Larry and he just started crying.”

Happy Summer solstice. This is a pinhole camera 6 month exposure photo I took from Winter solstice 2024 (bottom line of the photo) to Summer solstice 2025 (top line of the photo). The lines are the Sun as it appears to move across the sky and gets higher and higher until we get to Summer solstice.

Best wishes to all the Longest Dads on Father’s Solstice Day

10 years today since @dan.echoesanddust.com proposed (at the top of Glastonbury Tor, no less), and 8 years today since we got legally married <3

ref’s clearly not been drinking enough during the hydration breaks

We are they not singing "the referee's a cramper". Game's gone

NGL... I laughed at the sight of the Scottish duck marching with the bagpipers in Boston:

Ffs Australia, we were all rooting for you

The moles are tremendously honoured to have inspired this poem. We like to think their ghosts are friends too. @glassjarofmoles.bsky.social

Dan is reading choice bits of Darren Jones’ wiki page out loud and it honestly sounds like someone’s already been in and edited it to make him sound as no-hope as possible

when i said 'let’s circle back to that' i more meant, like, in a different era, a different city, another life. let's circle back to it when we're old, or maybe when we're young again...we'll circle back in vienna, or in cairo, or in those slender black cat streets of paris, streetlamps and gossip

Early Bird tickets are now on sale until 31 July or until they are sold out! There aren’t many In-person tickets left for the general sale. Make sure you get yours as soon as possible so you don’t miss out on what promises to be an amazing day. 2027.stateofthebrowser.com/tickets/

Today I will be finding out exactly how much crochet I can get done during a round of chemo. Already managed 4 tentacles and 6 eyes while waiting for blood test results.

Nightmare for a friend of mine in London. Please share.

We watched Dear England yesterday and it’s functioned a bit like one of those “the story so far” recap at the start of a new season.

It’s hard not to come to the conclusion that Esther Ghey thinks the internet ‘transed’ her daughter and also thinks that was a bad thing.

The duty of care issues around younger people are real, serious and should be treated as such, but issues of radicalisation and misinformation among older and more tech illiterate people is all but ignored in this discourse.

Has anything been said about how any of this applies to embedded content? Will websites that embed YouTube videos be expected to implement age verification?

I keep coming back to this with different thoughts but my most important and enduring one is: don't ban kids. Make these better for everyone.

today I discovered this incredible story of a minor league pitcher who is 6'4 wears glasses and a ginger beard who hurt his elbow and went to the doc for Tommy John surgery and was mistaken for a pitcher from a diff team who was also there for TJ surgery on same day anyway heres their pics and names

Quite an interesting little history of webrings if you're into that sort of thing brisray.com/web/webring-...

instead of silly messages asking for 5 bucks, Dems need to send messages promising the highest donor first crack at the wrecking ball for the ballroom