My six year old wants to play soccer. Not because she’s been captivated by the World Cup games, but because she wants to be on the cards like the Bosnian players in their “Take Me To America” video.

Norway manager saw Belgium win taking its two biggest names off and learned the wrong lesson

With these red and green kits the team is ready to be Moroccan around the Christmas tree.

Build the whole offense out of free kicks

Never tweet. That’s the real lesson.

Gotta think that there’s a strong correlation between how bad Belgium have been in this game and the fact that they’re trotting out some of the greatest players in Leicester City history. Does Danny Drinkwater have some Belgian heritage?

Haven’t seen Virgil shut down an attack like that since the Gates of Dis.

With the Spelling Bee finished, I took a look at what it got right, and what it got wrong. cc @minakimes.bsky.social doomsdata.substack.com/p/spelling-b...

Sure Norway is great, but you should also check out their sister country, Neitherway.

Our soccer team is actually fun

@iankarmel.bsky.social Ian I love the pod and am a big fan, so please know that I say this with the utmost respect: I cannot abide your Goodnight Moon slander. “It doesn’t even really rhyme” is the sort of literary criticism I would expect from Sean

The Pope called it soccer, game set match.

@scrippsbee.bsky.social Hello! Is the website going to post the Spelloff results?

“Your outie loves the Knicks.”

Going to become a DJ with a vampire aesthetic called The Disc Count.

An Arsenal goal from open play? In this economy?

Final three speller pre Bee ranks: Champion: 3 Runner up: 12 Third: 1

Scripps National Spelling Bee@scrippsbee.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The winner of the Spell-off and the Champion of the 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee is #Speller29 Shrey Parikh. His winning word is bromocriptine. After a buzzworthy performance, he takes home the Scripps Cup, and the knowledge that what he tackles, he conquers. Congratulations! #spellingbee

Tethyan now rated as the hardest word of the Bee so far #spellingbee @scrippsbee.bsky.social

BEELO pre-Bee rank based on the model priors (in order of speller number): 37 4 3 5 1 12 20 22 100 Out of 247 spellers. Not bad for a first run.

Scripps National Spelling Bee@scrippsbee.bsky.social · 3mo ago

BEE still our heart! The 2026 Bee Finalists' first photo together.💙💛 #Speller13 Aiden Meng #Speller20 Oliver Halkett #Speller29 Shrey Parikh #Speller42 Zwe Spacetime #Speller56 Sarv Dharavane #Speller137 Ishaan Gupta #Speller155 Kushi Gottimukkala #Speller207 Avishka Dudala #Speller213 Logan Bailey

Fixed an issue with some spellers incorrectly being marked as still active (result of some feed errors earlier on the Bee site). We are now current. foxandfortune.shinyapps.io/BEELO/

Top 6 pre-Bee spellers are still alive as of the end of Round 7.

Let’s go Sarv

Mina Kimes@minakimes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Scripps National Spelling Bee Semifinals start now! 2:30-6:30 at spellingbee.com 8-10 pm on ION @scrippsbee.bsky.social

The Scripps National Spelling Bee Semifinals start now! 2:30-6:30 at spellingbee.com 8-10 pm on ION @scrippsbee.bsky.social

@scrippsbee.bsky.social is someone able to fix the missing words in round 4? Gives the result but not the word attempted spellingbee.com/round-result...

Site is still running smoothly but being held up by the Bee site, which is still stuck in the middle of round 4. We will have updates once the Bee site refreshes.

@scrippsbee.bsky.social the round results page is a bit behind on updates for round 4

After correctly spelling “funori” BEELO now rates Israel at a 1531, with a 0.54% chance of winning.

Scripps National Spelling Bee@scrippsbee.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We'll give him all the praise for reaching Round 3! #Speller233 Israel Mensah from VA has answered the vocabulary question for the word adulation correctly. spellingbee.com/speller-summ... #spellingbee

cc @minakimes.bsky.social

Bloody Mat Conner@matconner.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Had to rework how the live poller updates but we are now officially live: foxandfortune.shinyapps.io/BEELO/

Had to rework how the live poller updates but we are now officially live: foxandfortune.shinyapps.io/BEELO/

Site is updated. I’ve cleaned up visuals so they appear readable on laptop/mobile. Also word prior model improved so the round baselines are more robust, giving us much more realistic difficulties for later-round words + kick on effect for speller ELO priors foxandfortune.shinyapps.io/BEELO/