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The Daily Beast@thedailybeast.bsky.social · 3w ago

Nice to see the Ronaldo guy’s still getting work

A New York sculptor is furious after spending $100,000 of his own money on a life-size statue of Charlie Kirk, only to find nobody wants to buy it.

He’s even older than I thought

Messi from behind. His shirt says Messi, 10, and date 1893

Oh shit a thing happened!

This might be the first World Cup final to be cancelled mid-run.

Never has a game looked more like it’ll be settled by one accidental handball and a penalty, after a 4 min VAR check

The Athletic@theathletic.com · 4w ago

What casual fans don’t realise is back then Messi was bathing so many babies. He was insatiable. “Bring me more!” he’d yell and such was his fame they’d comply. He did most of the babies in Catalonia. This was a statistical inevitability.

Lionel Messi helped bathe a five-month-old Lamine Yamal as part of a charity photoshoot back in December 2007. It is such an extraordinary coincidence that it scarcely feels believable, Messi admitted on Friday. nyti.ms/4wPhn9A

Matt Kirshen @mattkirshen.bsky.social · 4w ago

Since Clacton's been framed as entirely a race between Farage and Count Binface, it's hilarious to find this guy is also on the ballot. Genuinely not seen him mentioned once. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Matt Kirshen @mattkirshen.bsky.social · 4w ago

The richest man in the world's child pornography machine is poisoning Black families

Reuters@reuters.com · 4w ago

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

More like Lindsey Deadham

oliver levy @helicule.bsky.social · last mo.

Who’s your favorite hydration break sponsor? Powerade’s pretty great but I’m a Lenovo guy.

You think you know a channel.

Google news alert:

Google • 34m
BBC Four arrested and officer hurt in violent disorder

Given Messi’s talent and popularity, someone should put him in a commercial. Imagine what an association with him could do for your brand!

Matt Kirshen@mattkirshen.bsky.social · last mo.

A few days earlier:

The president and a third of the Supreme Court just tried to revoke Balogun’s citizenship

Paul Scheer @paulscheer.com · last mo.

The response to this this essay has been so nice. Thanks all for reading substack.com/@paulscheer/...

Paul Scheer (@paulscheer)

This started as just a conversation with friends and it lead me down a rabbit hole of what we need to do to help tv comedy.

substack.com

The most important thing non-profit FIFA does with its charity money is fly a bald man to three cities a day

The president and a third of the Supreme Court just tried to revoke Balogun’s citizenship

James Downie@jamescdownie.bsky.social · last mo.

Schrödinger's vote

Alito's argument – that counting ballots after Election Day means "the electorate’s choice does not occur on election day, and the federal election-day statutes are violated" – is some of the dumbest reasoning I have ever seen. The "choice" doesn't occur at the time of counting!

"If ballots received after election day are added to the set of ballots that dictate the election’s outcome, the electorate’s choice does not occur on
election day, and the federal election-day statutes are violated."

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Nothing sums up Team Starmer’s shitness at political comms more than playing Things Can Only Get Better when you’re the departing leader

At Starmer’s “Cheer up, I’ve resigned” party, and the guys are not beating the “clueless failsons of smarter people thirty years ago, unable to understand why pushing the D:Ream button doesn’t do anything any more” allegation.

The Prime Minister was there for hours and hours, from the afternoon until the late evening, and Lady Starmer and the children joined too.
He left "politician mode" behind and told the aides and loyal MPs assembled in the garden that he would never forget their support. "Vic and I made a decision," a guest recalls him saying, "and you have stood by me, and I'll never regret it." Unusually, Victoria Starmer spoke next, thanking everyone for having their backs.
The kids played on the trampoline.
Attendees felt bonded. After Taylor Swift and a lot of 90s rock, the compulsory Labour anthem Things Can Only Get Better was blasting, and they jumped and danced around as a group.

Heather Hogan@heatherhogan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Men is too headache sequel just dropped

Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”

Why are they showing this one person in the crowd?

A single USA fan who looks like Ed Norton and also like Brad Pitt

cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ludicrous! How else are you supposed to learn new words that you mispronounce in your head for 10 years until the first time you try to use it in a sentence?

"books should never contain words I don't already know" is genuinely insane when you have a constantly updating infinite dictionary on the device you are currently using

Maybe Ecuador's manager shouldn't have wasted valuable training time trying to kill John McClane

A man with shoulder length blond hair, in a suit with polo neck. He is Sebastián Beccacece and when he's not Hans Gruber's chief henchman he manages Ecuador.