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😂😂😂 like an old locomotive 🤣

Lucky you, Portugeese🥹

A Pathetic History of Portugeese Players

Portugal just need a good team to punish them and show them the exit👌🏾

The book inspired by this madness may be called, The Pathetic Life and Historyof a Xenophobe

As someone currently involved in an anthology project, I find this thrilling and humorous at the same time🤣 lithub.com/am-i-the-ass...

The complacency syndrome, things most of them must treat

Wow, Senegal!

Pathetic commentators

Goal!l Ball! Congo!

I think of trees that resist floods and storms, I think of the celebrations where the gourd is left to rest. Hussain Ahmed www.guernicamag.com/sekere/

What a spectacular goal! Up Côte d'Ivoire!

It is a good time to read my njakiri as the Commonwealth doubles down and announced Jamir Nazir as their overall winner. flaminghydra.com/the-ai-trial...

What a good turn for Morocco!

I will return to you Marrakech

The mighty are falling

Turns out a Yiddish language intensive really is the best way for me to stay offline But while I am here briefly, please please subscribe to @flaminghydra.com! All cylinders really firing over there, and very proud to be a contributing writer there.

Congratulations

"You Cannot Do This" by Gwendolyn MacEwen.

The charging charger, Alphonso

Hey look, boy! It is Canada!

My hate-watching of South Africa is now successful and complete

The Bafana got their Canadian reality; I love it!

Fanonian triumph by the Algerians.

"a gargantuan orgy of ill-organized spectacles." Soyinka describing Festac 77

The Pleasure of the Congolese ✨🎉

Portugal absymal display will be talked about in years to come. No these are no contenders.

So far impressed with the Panama fort, and their aggressive stint

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

Happy Sabbath to the Adventist in the Blue World. Maranatha🎉

“Coins meant for rice or kerosene slid across the counter and came back white rum hot as apology,” reads a line from Jamir Nazir’s “The Serpent in the Grove.” It’s a short story full of strange and overwrought metaphors & flourishes bordering on the incomprehensible. flaminghydra.com/the-ai-trial...

As much as I want Portugal to win, this is my expected underdog story

But but… hard decision against the belgians

CABO VERDE, THE WORLD’S TEAM

This bot deluge stopped when?

Is it magical realism, or just gibberish? The hill is talking; the bush is growling; the grove has a mind of its own. Every phrase is either hackneyed or hallucinatory, reaching for something beyond, something visceral. flaminghydra.com/the-ai-trial...

Have you heard about the Norwegian humiliation? Apologies, that was a masterclass from the French🌚

Paraguay used to be a soccer paragon

We will call this match the battle of the mids

When eventually I secure my Bluesky banger, Lord do not let it be one of my mediocre posts🌚

TODAY: @mariabustillos.com considers The Pool and its equally murky antecedents. "After so many years of watching this deep-rooted plant bear its filthy harvest I came to see clearly that what MAGA offered my brother back then, what it has always offered" flaminghydra.com/through-a-po...

‼️A note to our authors about AI scams. Please be wary of any communications about your books that do not originate directly from AU Press.

In the summer of 1969, June Jordan, the acclaimed Black feminist poet, activist, and educator, took a reporting trip to Mississippi that permanently reframed her politics. hammerandhope.org/article/june...

My two cents about the AI kerfuffle in the newsletter @flaminghydra.com Read the rest below, flaminghydra.com/the-ai-trial...

The genAI wars are at least giving literary scholars a chance to make themselves heard. What constitutes 'quality' and 'authenticity'? What distinguishes the human? @jidesalawu.bsky.social has a fine analysis of the Commonwealth/Granta debacle at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-593/

My two cents about the AI kerfuffle in the newsletter @flaminghydra.com Read the rest below, flaminghydra.com/the-ai-trial...

Here is @jidesalawu.bsky.social with fine analysis of the Granta / Commonwealth Prize fiasco, b/w fine new fiction by @lukeoneil47.bsky.social flaminghydra.com/issue-593/

A few new short pieces of mine up today at @flaminghydra.com including this little number thank you for reading them and sharing the post.