This is how your work-related Sunday email finds me.

“For years to come, there are many people on the right, in the media, and voters at large who are going to have to explain and justify how they fell into the trap of supporting Donald Trump.” — Marco Rubio, 2016

Seems a fair sum for such widespread negligence. Fingers crossed.

#WorldCup - sports not politics

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

Hands up if you're a neutral cheering massively for Belgium against the USA. ✋️

Socceroo Awer Mabil torches Pauline Hanson’s “monoculture” idea “It’s all bullshit” 🔥 Says multiculturalism makes Australia the best country in the world. “If anybody’s trying to divide that, then they’re probably not Australian themselves.” 💥

The red card against Balogun was a bad call, but given the apparently corrupt circumstances under which it was suspended, the only ethical choice is for Balogun to voluntarily sit the match out. If he plays there will always be an asterisk not only on his performance, but on that of the whole team's

THREE extremely unethical situations at the World Cup require more football stakeholders to challenge wrongs. 1. Banishment of the Somali referee 2. Balogun red card political interference 3. Treatment of Iran team Players/managers/officials/administrators. Pressure on FIFA should be unrelenting.

One of my cartoons for Tuesday's Metro

fmd! does #Trump have to cheat at EVERYTHING?! #Balogan should suck it up like every other player given a dubious decision against them in the history of the game. He should refuse to play the next game. Jesus, Team USA. You fkn sooks! Go #Belgium 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪

Do not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys meant to make a profit. Educacioun ys meant to make the future. A businesse ys ther to deliver a goode or servyce to customers. Educacioun ys ther to empower citizens. A businesse ys for private benefit. Educacioun ys for the common good.

Instead of asking for people to not use their AC in the heatwave, how about turning off the data centers instead?

Just give Egypt the Oscar and we can get on with the game. 🙄

Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient.

The only person allowed to profit from things being manipulated like the stock market etc is D JT and Company

'Last breath' by Beth Robertson Fiddes, contemporary land and seascape painter whose work concentrates on the Scottish highlands, and Western Isles #WomensArt

And don't forget: we don't have to help Bezos get richer. A lot of products on the Amazon site can be purchased directly from the vendor on their own website.

Scenes from Home Alone 4 where 10 year old Macaulay Culkin becomes President…

BREAKING: Greenland and 86 other countries have announced they are two weeks away from a nuclear weapon. Willing to negotiate settlements with Trump.

You don't become the World's First Trillionaire without trampling humanity on the way there.

This post has received the love it deserves.

I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand

The way no one even bothers to try to stop Elon Musk anymore - he's allowed to take hundreds of billions of dollars in exchange for empty promises, or incite pogroms and push white nationalism, and no one pushes back or tries to constrain him at all - feels like a society that's simply given up

I assume he'll be the world's first deca-trillionaire as well, because despite his companies having not actually demonstrated any great new successes in years, he is apparently allowed to simply PRETEND they have. And we'll shrug and say "may as well go with it" and repeatedly multiply his wealth

The rocket company hawking a technology that isn't physically feasible is worth 10 trillion dollars! The fourth-runner-up AI best known for its willingness to produce rape fiction and child porn is worth more than the entire US economy! Can any of this be true? Who cares, it pays to lie about it!

Now that Naarm has provided a clear model for making clear to Hanson and Joyce they can FRO and FO some more I look forward to this model being replicated any and everywhere they try to raise their racist mugs

I think it's really really important to understand GenAI as a shockingly effective tool of social corrosion: the reason it is a huge problems is because accepting a massive drop in quality, accuracy and meaning as a trade for convenience is a deal SO MANY PEOPLE are happily taking

The President just said we're on the cusp of a deal with Iran. Today's post explores two fun facts: 1. It's the fiftieth time he's said this. (I counted!) 2. Even so, stocks rose on the news. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-to-pri...

Michelle Mischkulnig, contemporary Australian textile artist #womensart

sure gas is headed to $8/gallon but at least cornell got rid of their gender studies classes. or at least i think they did, i haven’t checked and if im being honest i wouldnt really know if they had or hadnt because it doesnt affect me but it makes $8/gallon gas all worth it

This is a brilliant thread.

Martyrdom of Saint Simon Zelotes, Saint Judas Thaddeus, by Martin Johann Schmidt, 1796

The face of someone who’s devoted their life to service, science and space exploration needing to listen to some draft-dodging, out-of-shape bozo brag that he easily could’ve been an astronaut.

🧵Fairly Decent 2026 Choons...

Pretty clear we need to ban trains.

And, for the record, this was also very obviously Trump depicting himself as a doctor. About to do a prostate exam.

This is so well done. 👌

Iran don't even need nuclear weapons anymore. Now they know where their leverage is. Book needs updating to The Art of Painting Yourself Into a Corner.

Trump said he would not hesitate to drop an explosive, strongly worded new deadline if his demands weren’t met. theshovel.com.au/2026/04/07/t...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

New renderings for the WH

And I am so, so, so angry at the stupid culture wars and deliberate blocks put in place to the nation being able to have energy sovereignty. That any chance we had of transitioning the energy economy was derailed decades ago by fu*kers simping for fossil fuel. Energy security IS national security

again I point out how strange it is that high-level diplomatic negotiations of war and peace are being conducted by freelancers Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, both of whom have egregious conflicts of interest, and not the actual secretary of state

Men who think they own their daughters are always the biggest red flags.

DOGE were never trying to reduce a deficit. These 12 year-olds have no idea what they destroyed. Research grants were devastating, but the aid was next level.