My favourite thing about (non-Buddhist/Jain etc) reincarnation is that without fail, everyone who believes in it always claims to have been a famous or interesting person rather than one of a billions of ancient Chinese peasants.

Smoking on that shit that makes you Gary for the rest of your life

Cape Verde remain the only team to never lose at the World Cup finals - with 3 draws. (Yet to win too!)

Cabo Verde holding the European and World champions to draws in normal time with a team of journeymen pulled from across the diaspora has to be one of the all time great world cup performances.

in tears at the guy throwing down the kangaroo after that PK

BEACH MVP

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There's no shame in losing to Brazil

What an incredible World Cup by the DR Congo team, who overcame a devastating Ebola outbreak and war, and brought unity and hope to so many through dark times. Fimbu!

Just got served an AI generated ad for a power washer where the call to action was “buy now before new consumer safety regulations come in in a few weeks and this gets banned.” Incredible, no notes

Feels like the right call tbh. He put the good feeling back in the team and moved them up a level but despite some individual fantastic results, just couldn’t break that glass ceiling. I’ll always be grateful to him for giving us a national team we could believe in again

We qualified, won a game, John McGinn did his goggles celebration on the world stage, we drank a city dry, said city fell in love with us, we got robbed of a penalty in a narrow loss, we got gubbed, every single result in the known universe went against us, we went hame. Let's do it again in 2030.

Figured I should make a thread for the most important part of the World Cup: Unsolicited Football Kit opinions. Starting with the obvious: the Scotland away kit fucks, easily the best we’ve had in a decade, I will buy one when they’re on sale

This is how summer 2026 has felt so far

And all the next day Toad played music for his seeds.

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

Think this will remain one of the all time "The haters said we couldn't do it, and turns out they were right. Great call from the haters" stories of all time.

Watching right now. Man, we used to make proper movies. "A Knight's Tale" establishes its entire premise within the first 3 minutes and then immediately cuts to "We Will Rock You" and some amazing practical-effect action that holds up amazingly well after 25 years. And this cast? Jaysus.

Forget aircon. The most important policy response to the heatwave is we need to bring back louder clothing. So many burlap sacks, so many drab, orphaned shirts.

Reluctantly reorienting my World Cup affiliation

I thought kick off was later and I’m sad I somehow missed it but that’s a great result for Scotland.

Exactly three years ago, the @weirdmedieval.bsky.social podcast launched. Over 60 episodes later, I’m so proud that something so homespun has found its audience and thrived. It’s a joy to make the show and a joy to meet all the wonderful people who enjoy it

this is the scariest man in football

Aaah the live broadcast from Cape Verde being interrupted by the goal

We still talk about you…

Salivating at the thought of Group G sleepwalking into Oops All Draws

Dawg they’re doing a hydration break in the Spain-Saudi game, it is IN DOORS

If you’d offered me 0-1 against Morocco 3 days ago I’d have been pretty happy If you’d offered it to me 3 minutes into the game I’d have promised you a kingdom If you’d added “and you’ll be gutted not to get an equaliser” I’d have realised you were mad and left the room

All part of the plan

Right now they’re just wrestling each other

idly watching Australia - USA in the pub and it feels vaguely wrong, like watching cats playing fetch

Watching the Soccer Derby (US v Aus), and I swear to Christ I just saw an Aussie player called Beach

Just remembered that both London and Glasgow are host cities for Euro 2028 and started vibrating in my seat

Bumpin that youtu.be/zArPZQhnhWk?...

Hard to explain but this happens to the statues in your city it is a sign of great respect

Every Scottish story out of Boston is so charming. "Scottish man plays bagpipes with bucket drummers." "Scottish fans sing full version of Proclaimers hit at Fenway." "Scottish fans enjoy notorious cop slide." "Bars run out of beer due to Scottish visitors." A shame this can't go on all year

Walked into a Maltese cafe in the middle of festa and got stunlocked by the Germany scoreline

A strange voice from far away said, “PRESENTING THE GREATEST TOAD IN ALL THE WORLD!”

STOP THE COUNT!!!!!!!

I found it! The algorithm brought it back to me

LNER Flying Scotsman, 1928.

scotland are a really good football team you know

Lego should release a set that’s of your house and you build it and see a tinier version of you inside of it, and what are you doing? You are building a Lego version of your house, but smaller. And who is inside that house? A third, even smaller, you

happy with some of those at the top but justice for the basking shark, I want a note that features this guy specifically

Learning facts

Gutted to hear that John Blanche passed away. His art made Warhammer this grimy, outrageous and dreamlike feeling that has been catnip to me since I was a teenager. One of the greats ❤️