Thoroughly enjoying everyone showing Infantino and Trump a red card today. Excellent work Bluesky 🦋

#OTD #RedDevils #Belgium🇧🇪

BOOKS!

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

For fellow bird nerds: two freshly hatched Egyptian goslings, spotted at the back of the boating pond on Hampstead Heath 🪿

Americans are now so used to their president cheating and breaking rules that many of them seem genuinely not to understand why the world was rooting for Belgium.

Grimly fascinated by how he always manages to soil everything, and yet a significant minority of people still support Trump. How are they not expiring from EMBARRASSMENT 🙄

Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.

“After it ended, the Belgian team’s social media account had a message to the U.S. on Twitter: “Overturn this.” Perfect. #WellPlayed #Belgium

Thank you to Belgium for enforcing the rules-based international order

FIFA makes surprise last-minute change to refereeing team for USA v Belgium:

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What a wonderful day for discourse.

Perfect.

Mexico’s national bird is the golden eagle so that is honestly some fucking win

Woken up to news that it will be England v Norway in the quarterfinals of a World Cup. As the underdogs, Norwegians really are going to have to RO, RO, RO for our lives! 🫠🇳🇴⚽️🥁🇳🇴🚣🫎

Norway beat Brazil in the FIFA world cup. This is the people celebrating in front of the king’s castle in Oslo. In their midst? The Crown Prince. And most people had no idea. Gotta love Norway ❤️

As in 1066 England will prevail against the Norwegians before tragically losing to the French a couple of weeks later.

What a picture

AI isn't 'inevitable'. Banning and resisting it isn't 'going against the tide'. We can reject this narrative and determine our own future. But it will be a fight, and it will take greater tech literacy. Which tools are bad and which are not? Who are the bad actors? Which politicians are fighting?

Children’s Games (detail), by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1560, 📸 by @kgmadeit1

Brazil has now played against Norway 5 times at the World Cup. This might sound crazy, they have never won.

Fantastic team effort and Norway’s magnificent moose Haaland delivers again, quarterfinals baby! 🇳🇴⚽️🇳🇴🚣

Norwegian shirt on and trying not to bite my nails. Have fond memory of Papa Johansen taking me to see Norway play Brazil in a friendly at Ullevaal Stadium, possibly pre-World Cup ‘94? Brazil thrashed us 4-0. Let’s hope for a better result tonight, RO! 🇳🇴⚽️🇧🇷

Phew. With the exception of the Rosa Parks skit, Episode 1 felt a little flat, this is more like it (from episode 2 of Larry David’s new series “Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness”) 🇺🇸⛳️

The humanities have been so denigrated and dumped on in recent decades, who could possibly have known critical thinking skills would eventually come in handy? 🫠

Ukraine salutes America on its 250th birthday

PEANUTS featuring "Good ol' Charlie Brown" by Schulz.

“London wants a “decision-shaping” role in the rules and regulations that Britain has agreed to follow as part of its push for closer ties with the EU.“ You had that when you were a member of the EU. Sorry Britain, thanks to brexit you don’t get to shape those decisions anymore 🤷‍♀️

“As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free” Humming along to Joan Baez’s performance of “Battle Hymn of the Republic” on the eve of the United States Semiquincentennial, and saluting all the brilliant artists and performers who already make America great 🇺🇸🎶 youtu.be/YHforl6vnco

For non-Americans, this series is really helpful. One minute clips that explain American history.

This is the secret main essential true 250th anniversary event: the brave voice of democracy and justice; the brutal forces of silencing; it's all here.

Epic trolling of Trump by Hunter Biden today.

Who needs fireworks? #bloomscrolling (NYBG Chrysanthemums)

We called this "joined up thinking" when i was younger. More of this please.

And we all know these loser neo confederates would have joined the Axis powers, not the Allies in WW2.

I so want the Chicago Pope to excommunicate him. Just 86 his ass, Leo. You’re South Side, you know what to do.

Just a reminder that Putin and friends made a lot of excited noise about how Western Europe would be freezing to death and using horses instead of cars without Russian oil, just a couple of years ago. Play silly games…

If you want people to take the geopolitical threat from Russia seriously (and I agree that they should), this nonsense is the absolute worst messaging and will only harm public support for that cause.

Nine months after my dad died, my mother has yet to receive her widow’s pension. Here’s an idea: when someone submits a death certificate for their spouse or partner…just issue the pension without delay? Or are bureaucrats just prevaricaring to see if the widow or widower kicks the bucket first 🧐

The satire writes itself here…

This was a winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Prize for the Opening Sentence for the Worst of All Possible Novels (the novels in question being imaginary) and I think it’s rather marvellous…

Am racking my brain to think of ways we can all keep the pressure and heat on this story. Meta & Mark Zuckerberg - one of the richest men in the world - are putting unfathomable legal and financial pressure on whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams. Pretty sure most people are on her side - not their's

'Peonies' by Japanese painter Kiyohara Yukinobu (1643-1682) #WomensArt

Still possibly Hull’s greatest contribution to the world of memes.

Maximum respect to Ivory Coast, a formidable team, but let’s go, heia heia Norge! 🇳🇴⚽️🇳🇴⚽️🇳🇴

Oh look it’s our kitchen 🫠

Oh she was magnificent in both The Good Life and To The Manor Born, very much worth (re)watching on BBC iPlayer 🤍

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