Ok bye everyone time for me to delete all my social media again

LOOOOOLLLL he’s lost the Asian Football Confederation too, get fucked Infantino www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Asian football chiefs join Uefa and Concacaf as backlash grows after Fifa presses on with World Cup plans

Fifa faces calls for an urgent review of its governance after insisting the World Cup sell-off would continue despite all 55 European national FAs threatening a boycott

theguardian.com

For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚

Trung Le Nguyen@trungles.com · 2mo ago

So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.

you know how corrupt you gotta be to be too corrupt for the fed that once let an executive expense a $6k/mo apartment for his cats

Luis Paez-Pumar@lpp.bsky.social · 6d ago

Infantino has lost CONCACAF, time to pack it up, buddy: www.concacaf.com/competitions...

for the first and only time in my life I am with Europe on this 😭💀

Emily✨@emilyoram.bsky.social · 6d ago

Reading that UEFA statement like

on loop, at full volume www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arto...

Kavinsky - Wayfarer (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Record Makers

youtube.com

Reuters@reuters.com · last wk.

French DJ Kavinsky found dead in his home in Paris reut.rs/4g1CTCk

Would love for Farage to throw a tantrum and draw this fight out for ages, let’s implicate and taint as many of Reform’s senior figures as possible please

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last wk.

This is surely curtains for Farage's political career. I don't think there's any coming back from it. I hope not, at any rate. Looks like there could be a strong basis for a criminal case as well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“For a field that is supposedly reshaping science and is so advanced in terms of scientific potential, not having any scientific documentation seems like a very weird paradox,” says paper co-author John Ioannidis, a metascientist at Stanford University. 🤡 www.science.org/content/arti...

AI’s top startups are barely publishing their research

More than half of AI “unicorns” have never published a paper or preprint

science.org

I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

New BBC investigation. Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Loving the Classics vs Film people critiques of The Odyssey

Dan Sheehan@dansheehan.bsky.social · last wk.

With all respect, there is no group whose opinion I am less interested in when it comes to a film adaptation of The Odyssey than Classics People. When an entire discipline revolves around reverence to and thorough knowledge of a text, evaluating a deliberately modern adaptation is kind of impossible

The Royal Astronomical Society is shocked and dismayed to hear that the UK's iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory is at risk of closure amid a slew of catastrophic budget cuts. Read our full statement here: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

Settlers torch two mosques in the Palestinian territory as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu threatens 'more broad action'.

Why are Israeli settlers on a rampage in the occupied West Bank?

Settlers torch two mosques in the Palestinian territory as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu threatens 'more broad action'.

aljazeera.com

Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".

The Turner Diaries - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.

X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups

You’d think the far right doing nazi salutes, rioting and attacking people of colour on the street would be slightly further up the news and political agenda but no it’s treated as business as usual

elizabeth is apparently entering her vamp phase?@thatelizabeth.bsky.social · 2w ago

‘You can’t call them nazis even though they self identify as nazis’

It’s on Channel 4 in the UK!

Nanjala@nanjala.bsky.social · 2w ago

Did you know that women also play football? The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), which also serves as the continental World Cup qualifier, starts tomorrow. It’s going to be free to air in a bunch of countries - check with your national broadcaster.

My great-grandfather was among the first Jews sent to Dachau, but it had operated for 8 years prior. He arrived to find a concentration camp already full of communists and other leftist dissidents. The public's acceptance of their incarceration paved the road for his own.

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 2w ago

fascists use anti leftism to build power and co opt centrists and liberals. they are doing this right now! this is what all the gibberish anti communist rhetoric is about!

Over a month ago, Harper's Bazaar UK published what appears to be a heavily AI story, and at BEST a story that objectively, directly plagiarizes from a bunch of AI slop. There's been no statement, no investigation, no response to multiple requests for information, and the story remains live.

Litbowl@litbowl.bsky.social · last mo.

🧵 Ignore the part of this that is a shitty advertisement for Pangram. AI checkers are fallible; there's a ton of astroturfing for Pangram specifically right now. The actual piece here definitely deserves investigation and I'm a little baffled that it didn't raise red flags purely by human eyes.

PSA: if you feel like maybe reading some old books, like maybe you were inspired to pick up Pride & Prejudice because @trungles.com was live-posting his read-through, you could do much worse than Standard Ebooks. Think Project Gutenberg, but nice epubs.

Standard Ebooks

Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. Download free ebooks with professional-quality formatting and typography, in formats compatible with your ereader.

standardebooks.org

Madison police kill man in broad daylight in front of witnesses wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/madis...

Madison police kill man in broad daylight in front of witnesses • Wisconsin Examiner

A Madison police officer shot a man several times, killing him during an arrest for allegedly casing cars in the Willy Street neighborhood.

wisconsinexaminer.com

Sami Schalk@drsamischalk.bsky.social · 2w ago

Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.

water to be removed from dehydration measures

The i Paper @theipaper.com · 2w ago

Rent controls set to be ditched from Burnham’s cost of living blitz trib.al/0UK9ymF

@runwithskizzers.bsky.social if you’re interested!

Emily✨@emilyoram.bsky.social · 2w ago

OK, we've got just under a month until the Premier League kicks off, sooner if you're a fan of the EFL or SPL, and you know what, I really enjoyed the football posting over the World Cup and think we should keep up that energy. Here's the Starter Pack I made for it go.bsky.app/EvGoMRN

anything except tax very rich people more

I have updated my original story with a link to a statement from Norfolk CC addressing the news, as well as an article from Eastern Daily Press that highlights the apparent lack of communication between local Reform leadership & some of their councillors: www.edp24.co.uk/news/2627501... 📚📜

Reform say they are 'content' for library staff to take part in Pride events

The Reform administration at County Hall has said it is "content" for Norfolk library staff to take part in Pride events and set up themed…

edp24.co.uk

Matt@mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 2w ago

I have been looking into what has been happening in UK Public Libraries that are overseen by local authorities led by Nigel Farage's Reform UK 📚📜 teenlibrarian.co.uk/2026/07/19/r...

Hope this rumoured Minister for AI is ready for the data centre backlash lol

Laura Woods@woodsiegirl.bsky.social · 2w ago

Microsoft is planning to build 3 massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Burnham appears to be pivoting to “industrial growth = defense industries”, which is so so so short sighted it’s almost impressive

Lying on the internet is not new, but with images at least people used to use Photoshop and put work into it. Now people just put images through GenAI and post 💀

I do feel the wildfires have been seriously under-reported

Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social · 2w ago

Large fires in the Peak District, Cairngorms and north Wales are now effectively competing for limited firefighting helicopter resources. On Saturday, Welsh farmers said they felt abandoned - while authorities had approved helicopter use, they were still waiting for one to be available.

Would be verrrry interesting to know how many of these parents are receiving (dis)information, support and/or funding from US book banning campaigns & their crowd.

Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · 3w ago

As a queer children's author, this is a deeply unsettling trend. www.thebookseller.com/news/lgbtq-a...