James M

@st4rpower.bsky.social

Occasional copywriter; FFC H3; craft beer and crisp ponce.

My entire life I’ve never called it the FIFA World Cup. I’ve always called it the World Cup. Fans don’t give a shit about FIFA. If national teams showed up for a World Cup tournament not held by FIFA we would all watch it. World Cup is the brand. FIFA is nothing.

There are some Argentinians lads on my train behaving in such a way that makes me worry they may not make it to wherever they’re supposed to be going to watch the game.

Thames Water increased its bonus payouts to £4.1m for senior managers. It has £19.7bn debt, fleeces customers, dumps sewage in rivers, loses billions of litres of water to leaky pipes. Numerous criminal convictions, licence not revoked. But bosses rewarded .. for what? Govt/Ofwat do nothing.

Thames Water increases bonus payments to £4m despite uncertainty over future

Annual results show struggling firm’s net debt has risen to £19.7bn, up from £17.7bn a year earlier

theguardian.com

Editor: You get those photos of new signing Harry Wilson? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin weirdly photoshopped with a single massive tattooed popeye forearm and a football that isn't even round just like you asked. Editor: what

A bafflingly shit photoshop used by Actual Leeds United on their Actual social media feeds to announce the signing of Harry Wilson showing a bodged together vaguely Wilson-ish homunculus sat in an unreal dressing room that looks like something from Attack of the Clones

If only the media had ‘followed the money’ a little earlier rather than relentlessly platforming that obnoxious crook for years then we might’ve been spared the whole Brexit shitshow 🤷🏻‍♂️ Anyway, back to the football.