I just searched "millennial optimism costume" on TikTok and it's absolutely devastating/accurate www.tiktok.com/@rayberrie/v...
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Drinking, Fighting, Falling in Love: a chat between @badwool and Tom Wood about his Incredible Photos of Merseysiders in the 1980s www.vice.com/en/article/t...
Drinking, Fighting, Falling in Love: Tom Wood’s Incredible Photos of Merseysiders in the 1980s
To mark his new book “And Love Comes in at the Eye”, the legendary photographer sits with VICE to discuss his life's work.
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this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted
Definitely nothing at all suspect about a referee from Manchester just making up two fouls in order to send off our best performing player in the match & hand the advantage to a team literally found to be cheating & paying people off the books. Nothing at all suspect about that.
Hard to devise a better metaphor for the past decade and a half of Premier League football than Man City winning while playing with an extra man.
Usually I'd be desperate for proper footy to be back after an international break, especially with a huge game up next, and yet I just feel...flat. Footy is supposed to be an escape from real life but increasingly it mirrors the cynicism, corruption and lack of accountability we see beyond the game.
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
They’re calling this guy a terrorist btw bsky.app/profile/cwar...
Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · last mo.There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
Considering that Trump invaded Venezuela, kidnapped its leader, then bombed Iran for 6 months...it would be wise to take such threat seriously. I'm wondering what Iceland thinks about this 1 week after the referendum now...
80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
For those thinking only their country is stupid. Iceland votes no in EU referendum. The no vote was speahead by a small group of extremely wealthy families with an official title of "sea barons" (and yes the were backed by older rural country pumpkins)
Time and again climate change is treated as though it were binary: we cannot prevent it, so ok, it’s there let’s embrace it. That’s entirely wrong: it is a sliding scale. We cannot prevent 1.5 degrees. But maybe 3? Or 5?
A performance for the ages by Norway, the most joyful side at this World Cup. I'm surprised that the British pundits are downplaying the quality of their play. They were magnificent, at 100% of their potential, from Nyland to Haaland.
if congo pull this off i want the british museum empty by midnight
We need to stop treating racism as something that can be bargained with, and stop treating racists as if they are rational actors. We also need to stop treating the explicit anger-generating algorithms of social media sites as if they can be defeated or worked around. We need to do so much better.
I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that
DR Congo superfan denied US visa to support team at World Cup
Michel Kuka Mboladinga is iconic for his motionless tribute at DRC games, but a US World Cup repeat has been denied.
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81 % of eastern German municipalities have fewer residents today than in 1985. Losses cluster especially in Pommerania and rural Sachsen-Anhalt, where towns often shrank by a third or more. Growth is almost entirely confined to larger cities like Berlin & Leipzig and their commuter belts.
When "right" is wrong. Did anyone think this "goal" was offside when it was "scored"? According to the letter of the current law, it is. The problem, here, is the isolation of a single, ephemeral moment in a continuum - a continuum in which Iran derived no advantage from Khalilzadeh's position.
Gave an interview to @news.sky.com earlier this evening about heatwaves. I said I gave a very similar interview 10 years ago (that time to BBC) about heatwaves. Politicians have failed to act. Societies have failed to adapt. And here we are. We are in dangerous climate change.
Abbey@abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhen reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
as I've mentioned before, most left writers can't help but be aware that they would have larger platforms and a lot more money if they started saying reactionary shit while still proclaiming themselves leftists. 1
If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?
I’m dismayed by the decline in the quality of everyday items, systems, and interactions. Not only because our quality of life is eroding, but because once you’ve normalized the enshittification of everything, it’s much harder to notice it or to fight it.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the shifting baseline concept as applied to everyday life. People in their 20’s now have no memory of highly functional systems, products (from blenders to sweaters) that were so well made you could hand them down across generations, or even helpful customer service.