me: oh, I’m not that much of a football obsessive, it’s just a hobby really also me: surely if I refresh the Reuters report about the FIFA crisis meeting in Morocco just one more time this minute there will be news about whether Infantino is quitting

Infantino holds crisis meeting in Morocco as FIFA stake sale fallout continues

FIFA President Gianni Infantino is holding a crisis meeting with top officials of the governing body in Morocco on Wednesday as he looks to shore up his position following the collapse of his proposal...

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Calvin Klein, Hobbes Groß

column on ceuta and the new phenomenon of "border porn": migration as livestream spectacle, the frontier as computer game www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ceuta was a carnival of anti-migrant content for hateful opportunists on the right – and a lesson for the left | Jonathan Liew

It was framed as a perfect storm because nativists dearly wanted it to be. Looking on, progressives failed to meet the moment too, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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Ursula K. Le Guin’s Home Recognized as National Historic Landmark, to host Writers’ Residency locusmag.com/2026/08...

eitt sem er næs við ísland er að stundum birtist fólk úr fortíð minni sem ég velti stundum fyrir mér hvað sé að gera í lífinu þessi dægrin í forsíðuviðtölum

just occurred to me that some of you might not know about face agates

welp www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...

Google adds AI to satellite images, raising fears of deepfakes in the sky

Journalists, human rights advocates and open source analysts recoiled in horror at the move: "The opportunities for abuse and disinfo are literally boundless," said one.

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Nú er þetta ekki mikilvægasti þátturinn í fréttinni en ég hjó eftir því að Ceuta var lýst sem spænskri „hólmlendu“, eins og Kalíníngrad er hólmlenda Rússlands. Ég held að tæknilega séð sé Ceuta ekki hólmlenda því landhelgin er óbrotin á milli borgarinnar og Spánar. Hafið þið tilfinningu fyrir þessu?

Like a lot of megalomaniacs and aspiring autocrats, Gianni Infantino looked at Donald Trump and thought "I could do that." It turns out it's harder than it looks. newrepublic.com/article/2137...

What Gianni Infantino Learned From Donald Trump

The FIFA president’s plan to sell off a stake of the World Cup suggests he’s emulating his hero.

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me, arriving home: oh… ambulance turning into my street, hopefully the old woman next door is okay oh… the ambulance is stopping behind a fire truck that’s stopped outside my house … … oh (everything turned out fine, an incense stick fell into a flowerpot, which caught fire, it was doused)

Þessi ljóðabók kemur út eftir tvær vikur

I Made You This Comic! Reuploaded with alt text. 1/3

Valedictorians.

such is the speed of corrupt idiocy at fifa, that a satirical piece published four hours ago about the corrupt idiocy at fifa, had become obsolete an hour later when it came out that the corrupt idiots at fifa had decided to put the World Cup up for sale

Who dares ridicule Gianni Infantino as the World Cup boss creates global peace? Not me: is it you? | Marina Hyde

If you thought he was just a shady rule-dodging reprobate, the Fifa boss’s latest 15-page Instagram rant might make you think again, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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all else aside, it is remarkable that the most read article on a major news website boils down to “ancient greek translator critiques billion dollar film”

It looks like a UFO… but it’s actually one of Finland’s most iconic designs.

Video: A new Futuro House is being created ahead of Helsinki Design Week

It looks like a UFO… but it’s actually one of Finland’s most iconic designs.

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MetaFilter is officially hiring for a new *Community Operations Manager* role. See the job description and information on how to apply over on MeFi Jobs: jobs.metafilter.com/2046/MetaFil... Tell your friends! Applications through August 17. #remote #flexible #part-time #anywhere #jobfairy

I realize that whining about Google is getting old, but I was startled to see that these sites were results 4 through 7 (2 of the top 3 were to Wikipedia, one of whom was pertinent) for ‘homer melesigenes’ (the latter being Homer’s birth name in ancient tradition). Avoiding slop was Google‘s point.

If, like the rest of the Internet, you’re trying to read Emily Wilson‘s critique of Nolan’s Odyssey film on the London Review of Books website, which is buckling under the strain, it can also be found on the Internet Archive.

Weird to be doing a bit of historical research and realize that one of the people involved is a close friend, and most of the other people are either friends of friends or people I vaguely know peripherally. Somehow I didn’t think this was going to be a feature of my life when I was 45.

Thirteen of the celebrated architech's designs are included on the prestigeous list.

See Alvar Aalto's works that just gained Unesco World Heritage status

Thirteen of the celebrated architech's designs are included on the prestigeous list.

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300 kids vs. 3 adults is genius halftime entertainment

Við konan mín sáum fugl í Öskjuhlíð sem við vorum nokkuð viss um að væri kvenkyns gráspör. Hvort sem við höfum rétt fyrir okkur eða ekki, þá væri gaman ef gráspörinn tæki aftur upp á því að verpa á Íslandi.

I find it fascinating how books can come in and out of fashion. A quarter-century ago “The Education of Henry Adams” was anointed as the greatest English-language non-fiction book of the 20th Century. Today I wonder if it would even make the top hundred. I doubt half of the top ten would, actually.

Til hamingju með daginn elsku druslur!! 🙌❤️‍🔥 Það er stundum óþolandi að hugsa til þess að við skulum ennþá búa í samfélagi þar sem kynferðis- og kynbundið ofbeldi er ennþá allt of algengt og normalíserað, þrátt fyrir alla þá vinnu sem konur, hinsegin og kynlífsverkafólk hefur unnið í gegnum aldirnar 😮‍💨

At Trans Pride in London!

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Slogan suggested by @lizamezzo.bsky.social, who is pure class

What’s your most embarrassing moment as a writer? Mine was meeting David Sedaris’ husband, Hugh, and telling him: “Oh my God! My friends will never believe I met you! This is awkward. I’m not normally this awkward.“ I then added: “I hope the Earth opens up and swallows me now”. His laugh was kind.

Taco Bell Quarterly@tacobellquarterly.org · 2w ago

All you have to do is embarrass the hell out of yourself and then call yourself a writer. It's so easy

"We may think companies are immoral, but that’s because we assume they are coldly dedicated to their bottom line, not making billion dollar decisions based on something someone sent them on Facebook."

We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

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I saw a boy, maybe 12 years old, wearing a T-shirt with Richard Belzer’s face and the name “John Munch”. I’m trying to think what the equivalent would’ve been when I was 12 in 1993. Maybe a kid in a M*A*S*H or a Bonanza shirt.