Well hey, that’s less sucky than I bargained for! Any port in a storm amirite #COYS

You know things are bad when you find yourself fantasizing about the relative contentment that, say, Everton fans must feel #COYS

Yeah I think we can dispense with the idea that a 2-week international break would change the vibe around #Tottenham. Nothing is going to change about this team’s woefulness until they clean house.

Being a #Tottenham fan now has become like a bad relationship. I find myself wondering whether my team actively hates me, or is merely indifferent to me. #COYS

Total #USMNT fan here, but real talk, that was kinda bullshit. No way that should have been a red on the Mexico player, Chavez. I’m not crazy about the acting by Berhalter, even tho it worked

DOS A CERO #USMNT! Another gift from the Mexico goalkeeper, we’ll take it

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL #USMNT 1-0

LET’S GO #USMNT! WIN THIS MEANINGLESS GAME!!

Today in AI news: More libraries succumb to "high volume" traffic (AKA AI scraper bots) and are forced to make their services slower and more annoying for real researchers.

Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL)@cerl-community.bsky.social · last wk.

CERL implemented ANUBIS on its data.cerl.org and datb.cerl.org to stop high-volume traffice from interrupting service. Scripted access may be denied on e.g. CT, MEI, PPD, VD Zurich, ISTC, STCN and ESTC. Please contact the Secretariat for advice on how to re-instate scripted access to the databases.

Check out #IrishMessi here, leaving guys with their shorts around their ankles and scoring 🔥

FC One Football@fconefootball.bsky.social · last wk.

⚽ Goal by Troy Parrott 🇮🇪 Ireland 1-0 Austria 🇦🇹 ▪️ TROY PARROTT GIVES IRELAND THE LEAD!!!! #NationsLeague #IRLAUT

For the record, I would like to clarify to Sen. Eric Schmitt that I just visited Trader Joe’s, which is a grocery store. I did not go meet a traitor named Joe.

Published my first book, other than that nothing much going on

A hearty congratulations to my team for sucking this bad all year and somehow managing to avoid losing 100 games #SFGiants

Today the US Men’s National Soccer team started a player who was born after I moved into my current apartment

Uh… sure, I’ll accept help

The slacker efficiency of this is simply perfect

senator, how will this lower prices

Trump’s ICE thugs shot 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez through his car window as he was delivering food yesterday in Austin, Texas. His wife and lawyer were reportedly denied access to see him in the hospital, and ICE is now trying to deport him. This violence must end. Abolish ICE.

RIP to Matt Suhey, who, as Jeff Pearlman recounts here, was a true mensch youtu.be/r-5LRPj4GBQ

Walter Payton Trusted Matt Suhey More Than Anyone In His Family And This Is Why

YouTube video by Press Box Chronicles with Jeff Pearlman

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By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Paramount has reportedly reached a settlement with California and other states suing to block its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros

As ever, my given name is a byword for something seemingly anodyne that will lead you to hell

Ken Tremendous@kentremendous.bsky.social · 3w ago

Meet Derek.

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

My team still causes me pain, but at least we scored a couple goals so yay? #COYS

The Bayeux Tapestry is a really cool & remarkable historical chronicle, and if I were in Lincoln I would def go see it. But when I did, I’d annoy everyone by reminding them of my favorite Bayeux Tapestry fact, which is that it’s not a tapestry. It’s an embroidery www.bbc.com/news/article...

Bayeux Tapestry: Conquest Coins on display at Lincoln Castle

The 960-year-old coins are on display at Lincoln Castle as part of a Bayeux Around Britain tour.

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A lot of people like to sum up the situation by saying my team sucks. This misses the nuance of the situation. There are several significant aspects of the game that my team excels at. Missing chances to score, for example. #COYS

In a perfect microcosm of my 26 years in LA, I just turned off the Emmys and went and scrubbed my toilet

Looking forward to the next few years of DJT putting a gun to the head of institutions and demanding they change their name to his name. For what is the United States but one giant vanity project for a sundowning narcissist www.npr.org/2026/09/14/n...

Kennedy Center says it's on the brink of bankruptcy, might close as early as Tuesday

In two board resolutions made public Monday, the arts institution says it is in a dire financial and physical state — and that only President Trump can "rescue" it.

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Spurs vs. Everton was uneventful, but a pleasant enough little kick-about. I hope both teams had fun. (Because the fans didn’t) #COYS