Hey folks in an attention economy let’s ease off on the attention.

Apart from everything else - you would have to despise Trump and Farage for taking up so much space. Be lovely to go 20 mins without having to hear about them

So anyway, we need to burn the servers...

I was expecting maybe Diomande to be the breakout star of the World Cup, but I hadn’t reckoned with Derogable.

If you read one thing today, this week, this year, read this. ht @samueljohnson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/has-americ...

What a hero. Saved us from extra-time and sent Ronaldo out. I love Premier League winner Mikel Merino

American exceptionalism is a hell of a drug.

USA starting lineup against Belgium has just been announced by FIFA #USABEL

Individually they seem like a decent enough bunch of lads but after this I hope Belgium hammer them.

I think we can agree this has more panache.

Phew, just imagine if the neoliberal consensus had viewed third level as a commodity valued only for economic utility and cattle prodded school leavers into stem subjects for 20 years while humanities were cut to the bone. That would be bad.

Bye bye Paraguay, you’ll not be missed.

Tech billionaires should be pleased we only want them to pay some taxes and not breaking out the torches and pitchforks

Went out on their shield, some effort.

I’ve been watching World Cups and Euros since 1982 and at no point in those 44 years has any tournament been poorer for Austria’s departure.

If you reduced immigration to actual zero (not net), it wouldn’t appease the far-right. They’ll go after previous immigrants. Then citizens with immigrant parents Then citizens who “aren’t British enough”* Then dual nationals Then Irish people Then LGBTQIA+ people, women, the sick, opponents…

Force feeding us the slop like we are Foie Gras Geese with deficient appetites.

Me: I can’t wait to see a replay of that goal. US TV Producer: Can I interest you in eight different crowd reaction shots? Me: Just the replay would be fine. US TV Producer: What about a pensioner with a Messi sign? Me: Just all the angles of the goal please. US TV Producer: Here’s Peyton Manning.

Reactionary centrists crave "common ground" with the far right so as to demonstrate their own lack of ideological blinders and prove their central thesis that genteel policy debate can fix us. Easiest place to find it is jointly inventing a caricature of the left and blaming it for everything.

Four gigs in six days all on work nights. I turned 53 last week so if you see me out tomorrow night you have permission to slap me and tell me to wise up. Don’t let the old man in. #PaulWeller #alterbridge @thecure.com @kingsofleon.bsky.social

Few people are less sympathetic to Tyrone than me but Jesus they were on the wrong end of a couple of crucial calls in that game. #GAA

This is one of the dumbest and saddest things I've ever seen. We should not think of universities in this way, and if we do that'll destroy everything that is both useful and good about them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem.

Konsa attempts a two footed flying karate challenge gets nowhere near the ball and VAR decides nothing to see.

Bumped into a music legend on my commute back from London tonight. Every bit as sound and cool as you’d hope him to be. #TheModfather.

If you’re ever feeling imposter syndrome, just remind yourself that this guy gets paid to write for The Guardian.

arrested or appeased, place your bets

Hear me out: what if we replaced rolling news with helicopter footage of trains every day? I don’t think anyone would actually be less well informed.

Well Cape Verde are determined to wreck my bed time.

Trumpstadamus is at it again.

Edward Longshanks would have given Scotland a fairer crack of the whip than that referee.

This ref has given Scotland nothing, and how they didn’t VAR check the penalty on McTominay was ridiculous

BBC commentators didn’t know who Cliff and Marshawn were. For shame #GoHawks #Seahawks

But I was told it was inevitable.

It didn’t and it hasn’t. I have zero patience for this kind of chin stroking nonsense.

Belfast says no to racist fuckwits. #Speirgorm | #StopRacism

A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.

a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman

Roughly 3 times as many ppl as arrested over 2 nights of racist pogroms in Belfast

They should have protested by blocking roads and setting a bus on fire in Belfast. Minimal risk of being arrested for that, as long as they don’t put a sticker on an ATM.

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

There isn't a way forward here that doesn't run through disarming and aggressively policing loyalist paramilitaries.

‘They’ are predominantly loyalists, in predominately loyalist areas, running amok ahead of an annual, hundreds of years old celebration of ‘being up to our necks in fenian blood’ This isn’t the only factor in what’s happening in Belfast but it’s a really big one that almost everyone is ignoring

“Protesters expressing legitimate concerns“

Sighs

27 people were made homeless after Tuesday night's violence in Belfast, including children.

It’s hard not to feel powerless at times like this when violent thugs seem able to act with impunity but there are organisations in Belfast we can support like Anaka Women’s Collective who make difference. Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks chuffed.org/project/1854...

English commentators need to stop analysing Northern Ireland through an English lens! When you see anti-immigrant riots in Belfast, Ballymena or Larne and immediately reach for "Britain's far-right problem", you're missing half the story. This isn't just racism. It's loyalist terrorism. 1/

Social media would have less power and influence if legacy media was more forthright in dismissing and challenging its harmful narratives rather than indulging and reinforcing them.

"Protestors"