Rachel Megan Barker
@rachelmeganb.dftba.social
Highly caffeinated. Mostly travelling, sometimes writing, works in politics now and then. (she/they) 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦 https://savelife.in.ua/en/ 🇺🇦
Lots of analysis about threat of the Greens usurping Labour on the left. Reform usurping the Tories on the right. But none about how Binface has completely usurped the Monster Raging Looney Party for the joke vote. Another party that just couldn’t adapt to the attention economy
Messi is like the soft-spoken gang boss who says things like, “While I personally abhor violence, some of my associates may be less fastidious.”
Julianna 💎@batariangal.eurosky.social · 2w agoBBC panel talking about the post-whistle Argentina scrap taking a moment to talk about Messi being gracious in defeat and, ngl, as a tourist, I feel like that guys gets way too much of a free pass
It is sort of hilarious to imagine describing the final to someone like "that it was like the most intense, insane, gruelling game of football, it was nasty but the good guys won and then the losers literally started throwing punches at them....also the muppets showed up at one point"
I think it's really nice that Spain and Cape Verde both won the world cup
I don't like relying this much on someone who is basically a child
Sort of fascinated by Spain's really long kicks
Clearly what I was trying to say earlier is that I would like to shake that man by the hand and congratulate him on his fine and necessary innovation. Apologies for any confusion
Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 3w agoTrying to find out who invented the third-place playoff in 1934 and why
Not saying I understand what the players just went through but I am saying I did just dance for an hour outside the stadium in the Florida heat so....
This being the only six days I will be in England for the world cup is making me overly emotional about all the England team stuff
why were we built just....so ill suited for existing?
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no World Cup games today but I'm handling it fine, mentally. in fact, you wouldn't believe what my Zlatan Ibrahimovic puppet just said to my Alexi Lalas puppet! PUPPET ZLATAN: Zlatan angry Zlatan still have to see soccer Carrot Top on Zlatan's day off! hahaha! oh Zlatan, what won't you say!
the year is 2030. Spain, Portugal and Morocco are hosting the world cup. 46 teams are in attendance. Meanwhile in Vancouver, BC, in the fourth year of the penalty shootout between Colombia and Switzerland, the score is 0-0
just sitting here vaguely gestering in the direction of the Switzerland goal in case that helps at all
"sorry I can't, I am making a pirate raft on Thursday" eavesdropping in London remains good
I have slightly delightfully found myself in a vintage football shirts store's bar area to watch the second half
COMING UP 🔜 Our first pre-season fixture 👇 🗓️ Sun 12 July 🕧 KO 12.30pm 🆚 @dhfcw.bsky.social 🏟️ Imperial Fields, Back 3G pitch, SM4 6BF 🎟️ FREE 🍻 Bar open #AFCW
If anyone needs me I'll be in the corner trying to work through my incredibly complicated feelings about the USA men's team
Remember when the game was postponed cause of a thunderstorm what feels like about twelve million years ago
excuse me I will be in a corner weeping with joy for a while
I am in a random hotel in the middle of no where and I just heard three different voices shout "yes!!!!" from different rooms along with my own and it was beautiful 🏴
a curious definition of Gestapo - but also, a curious definition of "displaced"
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · last mo.A curious definition of what the Gestapo did from Kemi Badenoch, this.
Apple TV doesn’t do marketing? Do the whispers of a blind prophet in the Kabul market not count? The petroglyphs depicting the Morning Show found in the Forbidden Tomb in Giza? I personally learnt about See from a statue in Rome that spoke in the voice of a long-dead child.
GPT-Ern Malley@denam.bsky.social · last mo.Oh hey there's a crime thriller upcoming on AppleTV starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Timothy Olyphant I literally wouldn't have heard about if I wasn't randomly catching up on Slow Horses. Which I also didn't know had a s5 last year. Bless Apple's ideological opposition to advertising.
I was gonna make a joke about AppleTV and HBO sharing strategies but the thing with HBO is it advertises ONE franchise ad nauseam at the expense of all others
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · last mo.so AppleTV for some reason decided never to advertise any of their shows anywhere but at least once you become a subscriber the app helpfully tells you about all those new shows, right?
