had a good talk with mcconnell today. he told me: “This is the water, and this is the well. Drink full, and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes, and dark within.” and i said totally man feel better soon and then he had to hang up.

Seeing a LOT of posts recently about how Northern Irish loyalists are copying the US far right, which seems to completely misunderstand what they’re doing when they put up pictures of Kirk or whatever. Comes from a POV that fundamentally privileges the US.

'ha any American candidate would wipe the floor in the UK elections!' *checks the news* One high-ranking US Senator is currently being Weekend-in-Bernie'd whilst another (liberal!) candidate with a nazi tattoo is dropping out, and it's *not* because of the nazi tattoo

Because Farage's financial affairs don't just look dodgy, they look ridiculous and that's what makes a scandal stick. Important to stress that that's the ridiculous thing, not a man with a bin on his head.

In fairness, "Bogtrotters go home" is also a very Dublin opinion as well.

TWO-LANE BACKTOP (1971): Literally a film that could only have been made in the early 70s; the existential car race, its nods to a Kerouacian vision of America, the absent-minded hippie chick, the hitch hikers and, importantly, the demands it makes on its audience and its non-resolution resolution.

USA 94 Quarter Finals - 7 UEFA, 1 CONMEBOL CUsaM 26 Quarter Finals - 6 UEFA, 1 CONMEBOL, 1 CAF But only one country appeared in both the QFs in 94 *and* 26 - Spain.

6/8: Just overestimated the importance of hosting. For the QFs I suspect one upset, but I'm going to be boring and pick the obvious. I think if Morocco were facing Spain or Argentina I'd fancy them but they aren't so... FRANCE v Morocco SPAIN v Belgium ENGLAND v Norway ARGENTINA v Switzerland

UPDATE: Yeah

Colombia and Switzerland ruining what would have been the first WC Last 16 to have no games go to extra time ever. Still maybe they can become the first since 1986 to feature no game going to penalties (I doubt it).

You're laughing... I can't withdraw my Bonk from Kraken and you're laughing?

@aelkus.bsky.social it’s Baudrillard and Verhoeven’s world: we just live in it.

every single one of the major european directors of the 1950s-1980s grew up watching american cowboys and gangsters shit. they loved it. they might have done weirder and more stylized versions of it, but they loved it without any shame

"And that's why I've today decided to dress as the greatest warrior of them all: Liberace"

Colombia v Switzerland being referred to as Charlie v The Chocolate Factory.

Following in the footsteps of Louis St Laurent

Spain v Portugal in tournaments has always been boring.

What people perceive as authenticity, I think, is actually for a politician to fit into an archetype.

On Graham Platner, and why the tattoo should always have been the end of it, and character more broadly in politics: www.ft.com/content/d8f1...

Fun life hack: live said life in a way that you never have to get too invested in the defense of someone who once got a nazi skull tattoo.

Fun fact: famously the other Nordic countries, which do not have oil, have very weak welfare states.

The number of people who ignored incredibly blatant red flags on this guy is insane to me. This story is not surprising at all.

What's Norwegian for "Any boss who sacks anyone for not turning up today is a bum"?

You vote for the grand hope of national regeneration and glorious triumphs but it ends in a farce of shitcoin rugpulls and general state/social degradation Pure Brazilianism

We'll have the Roberts Supreme Court overruling VAR judgements before this World Cup is out. Sotomayor writing the dissent explaining how it was offside.

AMERICAN MOVIE (1999): This image below was me throughout:

"Jazz is America’s greatest artistic gift to the world...If it had done nothing else, this would suffice" [Yes, I mercifully excised that part about Kenny G]

Can we please have one World Cup without Paraguay please?

All my more specific predictions were degrees of off but I did get 12/16, so not that bad. Now, before I finally go to sleep, the last 16: Paraguay vs FRANCE Canada vs MOROCCO Portugal vs SPAIN UNITED STATES vs Belgium Brazil vs NORWAY MEXICO vs England ARGENTINA vs Egypt SWITZERLAND vs Colombia

The latest shtick of the tech bros is to say that anyone who opposes them is an agent of the CCP. Meanwhile, they invest heavily in China, manufacture there, and pursue sycophantic relations with Xi Jinping. Thiel is no exception.

Two substitutions for injuries in the first twelve minutes, hmmmmm....

That game raised a lot of questions about this cup that had not been sufficiently raised yet, this now being the main one.

Oh Moby Dick, I clutch thy heart at last!

HA!

VAR continues to be bad.

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The two goalscorers in this game are aged 37 and 41.

Still find it amazing that so much in America is decided by a group of nine people playing death/retirement chicken.

it's so awesome how the entire capitalist and media class conspired to create the conditions to reelect Trump. They all need to be crushed into oblivion.

It's a fact that if France win the World Cup Didier Deschamps will a) become the first non-Brazilian to win the world cup three times and b) become only the second coach to win the world cup twice but c) still have massively underachieved as France coach.

Much better game than the 2002 game btw.

Very 'physical' game this.

Couple Gazing at the Moon https://www.wikiart.org/en/caspar-david-friedrich/man-and-woman

Round of 32 predictions: Netherlands vs Morocco has a very good chance of ending up with its own wikipedia page called "Battle of Monterrey (2026 FIFA World Cup) Colombia vs Ghana has strong potential to the most stolen "worst team wins by fluky 1-0" game of all time. The power of Quierozball.

The US Yankee discourse on X about Europe is genuinely unhinged even on topics where they easily do have a point as well. The tech bro sphere especially is kinda plainly insane and losing its marble People in tech had a reputation as nerdy savants but whenever i see one now they are clearly nuts

Really no European society not even Belarus, Serbia or Azerbaijan has just raw autocratic callous decadence. That is one of many things the war is about.

This is also an excellent example of AI/ML being used as a device to make human experts more efficient, but that doesn't fit with the VC messaging that it will enable bosses to fire all workers everywhere.

Socila Democrats overtaking Fianna Fail, when?