(psst, the Scottish Government should do this too and it will frankly be a bit embarrassing if Labour, who have been worse than useless at countering the far-right, figure this out before my party does)

Nandy perhaps realising that the new prime minister will not be too weak to sack her and actually is interested in the policy area of culture, media and sport.

on twitter I learned that I'm a libtard and should kill myself and on bluesky I learned that this is punching down and I should kill my self

I'm sorry, but I just spent a week seeing millions of Americans on here screaming that there was no possible way there could be infrastructure issues anywhere that rendered air conditioning a less than perfect tool for dealing with heatwaves. Are you saying they were *lying*? On the *Internet*?!

the cool thing about having irish family you don't talk to much is you'll remember something said to you 30 years ago you haven't thought about since and say it out loud to yourself and realise it is totally insane

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

i get the impression that a lot of americans genuinely don't think people in other countries are real

very very funny to lump celtic and rangers in with the english football team. thank you danny i agree, celtic and rangers are spiritually english football teams, as are their fans

It’s fine - they don’t swim here.

Football is great because it allows you to get the conspiracy theorist bit of your mind out in a healthy way.

if he misses, at least he'll get another go pretty soon

Personally I think anyone who climbs the Empire State Building should be killed by biplanes, whether or not they’re a gorilla

Seeing English people on the TL go heavy on cheering for their team against DR Congo

Sony is taking this away from us

You know that Harry Kane is a genetic freak because his hairline receded just far enough to provide a perfect surface for a header

It’s happened again

From Anti-Fascist Action Dundee: The Aberdonian far-right group Unite the Klans are planning to descend on Dundee alongside fascists from across Scotland. Gather against these far-right thugs on Dundee City Square at 1400 on 18th July.

I supported the expanded world cup format but it's incredibly frustrating to watch the weaker teams just sit back and hope to soak up pressure. Ok England are losing but would it kill them to try and come out and play?

i think those worries about england winning the whole thing were, shall we say, misplaced

dudes rock

england fans booing 60 minutes into a round of 32 game at the world cup. you have to say, that's magnificent

good friend of mine has multiple pride things out in front of her house (in a neighborhood plastered with reelect mike johnson signs) and has gotten multiple notes in the mailbox thanking her, including one from a closeted teenager signaling virtuous beliefs is good, actually

It’s Congoing Home

a now former saints player, who shall remain nameless, once absolutely hated playing football to the extent that he started one game for us as the player he was cover for was injured, we won that game, then when the player he was a substitute for came back he went into coaching & immediately retired

“There’s contact” ok that would be a great point if physical contact was banned in football, which it is not

england's defense is not good

The pub I'm at is playing is playing Three Lions (Football's Coming Home) and no one is singing along, if you wanted a snapshot of the nation right now.

My review of onigiri:

DR Congo are doing what

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

Marco Polo coming back from China:

this is like comic book level villainy

Satire as a genre is dead

Real good faith stuff, using this photo. Nobody is claiming there aren’t areas for improvement, but I’d argue that the amplification of the notion that Glasgow is some sort of hellscape feeds into a number of the really ugly issues that are increasingly rearing their head.

If you don’t take a firm, consistent position on ‘culture war’ issues then the one your opponents make up for you is the only one the public will hear

average british daytime tv roundtable

If England win tonight they'll face Mexico next. The two countries in this world cup where I've had the best Mexican food.

one of my buddies on my physics degree got hospitalised because he made a homemade smoke bomb in his kitchen and used to go cow tipping

Just an addendum to this, the EA have released a statement indicating that previous work by this group resulted in damage to a flood defence and spreading of Japanese Knotweed.....

congratulations on saying the daftest thing i will read today

Nothing will satisfy anti-immigration campaigners. So we should give them nothing.

Dear trans friends, I love you and stand with you always and please join me in the ultimate win (outliving our enemies)

I realise that I’m chippy and aggrieved all the time about Scotland, and prob a lot of Scots come across like that, idk. What you have to realise, though, is that *all we ever hear* is doom, gloom and casual dismissal

The irony of people in Sam Smiths pubs being the last to find out about this.

absolute weirdo who ran tadcaster like a fiefdom but did own some lovely pubs www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2624097...

MCR playing glasgow in marching season is a recipe for some absolutely incredible misunderstandings

cats when you close the door of their carrier and it's time to go to the vet

witcher 3 making everyone in toussaint danish instead of french because they didn't want to ham it up too much is such a funny and inspirational stylistic choice

Scottish Labour 4 Kate Forbes