Thank you, @jamiesmart.bsky.social, for helping my son to draw Bunny vs Monkey. He watched your iPlayer show and drew this from memory a few hours later.

launching a substack in 2026 sends several messages, none of them good 1. you're not politically attentive enough to know the company is run by white supremacist coddling assholes 2. you know the company is run by white supremacist coddling assholes and don't care 3. you're getting paid, see #2.

I'm not sure QOTSA have ever sounded better than this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbyK...

Haaland buying a taxidermy racoon is tremendous. #runwithus

Oh, a prominent marketing professor is bullish about synthetic qual, is he? Oh, his company invests in that and it's not declared, is it? Oh, he responds by blocking when this is brought up, does he? Right. Right right right.

If you see this post your mentor.

It started out with racists/How did it end up like this?/It was only racists (x2) Nige's wearing a suit/And he's wearing a bin/Reforming the land/Surely Binface can't win Now he's on LBC/Nige's stomach is sick/And it's parlimentary But he's off to Clacton/He's not really acting/ Don't make him go

And now I have "when you're wearing a suit and he's wearing a bin" in my head to the tune of Mr. Brightside.

I loved the responses fromTuchel and Bellingham. They both care. It is a Good Thing, not a Bad Thing. I'd far rather that than some saccarine nonsense about 'playing for the shirt' when they've squeaked a 2-1 / not played well. Just a shame it's now meeja wibblings for the next 2x days.

GABRIEL CLARKE: Thomas, you’re into the semi final. Your thoughts THOMAS TUCHEL: football is suffering, it is futile

“Zverev feeling like these close calls are going against him” He’d have some experience of that, I’d wager.

Total lack of sadness: Zverev losing, Andrew Castle’s last Wimbledon. Both excellent things.

Music contributes 8 BILLION per year to the UK economy, and has been critically damaged by UK governmental neglect across the music ecosystem since 2010. Apparently that neglect will continue. Receipts via @ukmusic.bsky.social www.ukmusic.org/news/new-rep...

Native is a funny term to describe someone's competency at something. Wild, untamed, just themselves - the exact opposite of what most companies want.

I have checked what the Japanese media are saying and there seem to be competing names for the man. Some are going with ゴミ箱伯爵 (Gomibako Hakushaku - Count Trashcan) whilst others are using the katakana that you have for foreign loan-words and opting for ビンフェイス伯爵 (Binfeisu Hakushaku).

Been learning to do cryptic crossword clues lately, and Google AI has been a really big help 👍

Writing about Cannes. I did not go, but that hasn’t stopped me. tl;dr: Set up a proper creative festival. buttondown.com/Will_Humphre...

That's it, the Internet is now closed for the day.

Spending warm summer days indoors. NOT writing threatening verse to a buck-toothed girl from Luxembourg.

iron rule of British politics is even if a guy who dresses as a bin becomes prime minister he will have been to Oxbridge

Foxtons has gone from having a brand idea to something capital G generic. #moversneedshakers

Farage's Clacton campaign adopts extreme targeting.

I am bored of hearing what the current crop of marketing thoughtfluencers (not Rory, but most of the rest) thinks about things. Most of the time, it's lazily peddling the historic schtick. New voices, please, ones a bit more attune to what marketing is like NOW, not in the mid 90s.

One is a political joke long past its sell by date; the other’s Count Binface.

Show the foul in the box, VAR. Why didn't you check that?

YES YES YES YES YES!

GET IN EGYPT! WHAT A GOAL!!

That was not a foul. Salah was away.

Shithousing Argentina. HOOK IT TO MY VEINS.

Watching this appear as the second slide in 99% of all brand strategy presentations.

What a save.

It's mental when you actually listen to Farage talk out loud, just an utterly foul, entitled sounding dickhead. And yet by far the most popular politician in the UK

The best way to describe Farage’s business model is instagram influencer who happens to work in politics not fitness supplements. He does just enough to keep in the media so he can get paid for endorsements. He can’t graduate to podcaster because all the episodes would sound the same

This is absolutely glorious. Watch if you've ever played Disco Elysium, and if you haven't, play it ASAP.

Called it.

The last RT is actually the plot for Alien Earth's second series.

If Mitch McConnell’s alive and brain dead in hospital we should respect his wishes, and implant a foetus in him and keep him on life support for a full 9 and a half months while it gestates

No, the US team didn't throw the game because of the orange wotsit's actions. No, they didn't 'score goals unlike any they've scored at a World Cup before'. They just lost to the first above average team they played. That's it.

😬

Roberto Martinez there, the man who destroyed Belgium’s golden generation.

Countdown to Ronaldo’s tears….

Wondering why the reffing seemed so, well, fair in the simulation-fest that is ESP-POR. Take a bow, Anthony Taylor. Next to the Uzbek refs only using VAR to make decisions, you’re doing well. (He will now drop a huge clanger).

The only scandal that would cause Nigel Farage to lose voters would be the discovery that he's actually a compassionate human being who has been using his wealth to fund refugee charities.

Outstanding. www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...

In a world of Donald Trumps, be Hercule Poirot.

A pal of mine posted this on the other place. I'm done in.

FIFA have announced the referees for the USA - Belgium game.

Another note from the weekend. I went camping (I hate camping) with my son's year group this weekend. It was definitely glamping. No need to cook, expensive Rose in the shop, etc etc. Not in our class, but there was a child named Oakley there. OAKLEY. I wonder if his sister's called Rayban.

Would the world be worse if we banned video recordings of podcasts? No, no it would not. Yes, this is my biggest middle aged view. If you'd like to stay, I have others.

I don't know if we can attribute everything to Greggs' patriotic decision to remove their Mexican menu items, but we can surely attribute some credit thereto.