gah, this is the bit I hate - I never use AI products and very much go out of my way to never interact with anything produced by AI (I'm not even on Linkedin!) so it will....make me worse at weeding it out of my life in the future? I just want to opt out! why can't I be allowed to opt out!

Will Davies@will-davies.bsky.social · 11h ago

Stunning opening sentence to this piece www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"saudi arabia owns EA" is going to be the headline you see basically everywhere for this one but "jared kushner is about to use EA as a vehicle for trump administration bribes" is equally relevant imo

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 22h ago

EA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...

It's TEMWA TIME at the WAFCON! Temwa Chawinga has been lighting up the WAFCON with her goals and I looked at what makes her such a brilliant player! Follow me on instagram, I am trying to post regularly there: instagram.com/odriozolite

Dinner time

on this week's @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social: talking about the failed Infantino-Kushner private equity scheme, the FIFA-UEFA cold war, and @themlg.bsky.social explains the core problem with any campaign to "clean up the game" and reform FIFA www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHJg...

perfect substack note

Yes, FIFA is the Hydra and cutting off its head will not fix things. It's not about pruning the branches, but rather pulling the rotten roots

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2d ago

Infantino is not the problem ft.trib.al/5qdaL5k

"Su madre explicó que la futbolista llevaba años buscando una oportunidad para construir un futuro mejor. «Me decía que no tenía futuro», afirmó entre lágrimas, recordando que el cansancio y la falta de perspectivas terminaron empujándola a intentar emigrar."

Kat O’Brien@lavidagata.bsky.social · yesterday

Faten Ben Omar El Azizi, una futbolista con 20 años, se murio ahogado en el intento nadar a Ceuta con tantos marroquíes más. El artículo dice que fue considerado una de las mayores promesas de su generación. www.campodegibraltarsigloxxi.com/la-promesa-d... @hillaryjhaldanephd.bsky.social FYI

"we should build an army by creating a society no one would want to defend"

Today is Venn Day, in celebration of the mathematician John Venn, born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn Diagram.

In celebration of #YorkshireDay, please enjoy this Sean Bean bastard collection. Sound up, bastards.

I'm really glad that ESPN got rid of a talented and knowledgeable dude like Ryan Clark so they could pay a sleeveless punter more money so Aaron Rodgers could be on TV complaining about Dr. Fauci. What the absolute fuck is wrong with everyone

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Nothing happens for a reason. Anyone who claims otherwise is in the pocket of Big Causality

this should’ve been the beginning of the end for infantino. the fifa/eafc game is the most popular sports franchise in the world, for a “nonprofit” whose mission statement is to ‘globalize and popularize’ football, getting $150m for the game to literally be called ‘FIFA’ is the deal of the century.

Treblig 🇺🇦@camtreblig.bsky.social · 2d ago

An underrated cause of Infantino’s problems is him playing silly buggers with EA Sports: FIFA got $150m a year just to let EA use the name on a game. Literally free money. But Gianni got greedy and wanted more, EA called his bluff and walked away. Since then he’s been trying to make up the shortfall

Skinner was far, far from perfect but a whole bunch of Utd fans are about to realise he really wasn't the problem

DOD is not letting trans service members attend their own separation hearings unless they conform with Whiskey Pete's notion of their gender. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds

The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.

theconversation.com

hi, social scientist here. assigning a label of "ADHD" to a pattern of genetic markers, behavior, and response to medication is a process of social construction. the switch from calling it ADD to ADHD? redefining the criteria to catch it more in girls? both products of social (re)construction.

Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 3d ago

Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD

Said to someone the other day that I couldn’t remember experiencing a rainless July before (in my corner of London), nice to be right but also, holy shit

James Ball@jamesrball.com · 2d ago

"Kew Gardens has had a weather station since 1871. This July was, based on third party analysis of Met Office data collected at the site, the first calendar month on record where no rainfall was measured at Kew."

Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:

The key difference between the regular meatwall and the mormon meatwall is, for the latter, you have to soak the meat

andré@andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 7d ago

mormon meatwall

WNBA (the org) courted this. They could have nipped this in the bud, but instead they placated anti-trans activists, so now bigots have glomed onto them. If you don't tell them their opinions are vile and are unwelcome, they will destroy you or leech on you forever. just ask amnesty international

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 3d ago

riley gaines is at the minnesota lynx vs indiana fever game posing with people courtside as they line up for photos

The vibes in the Utah dressing room must be elite, this is a group that's just having fun out there

NWSL@nwslsoccer.com · 3d ago

What a finish from Kiana Palacios 😱

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

Everyone every time I open my mouth

andré@andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 3d ago

soph, PLS

Been losing more time recently and didn’t realise my sick note elapsed a few weeks ago, which means I didn’t get my money through to pay my rent, leading to a very pissed off and overdrawn dad, hence why I’ve been scrambling to get something sorted on either side.