I mean “Trump visits the National Association of Black Journalists” already sounds like an SNL skit, I don’t know what people are expected.
⚽️ The World Cup has VAR, but it hasn’t had quite the life-sucking force that it has in other leagues and competitions. What are they doing better? How can others learn from it?
🎶 So much VNV Nation has become blipty-bloopty that it makes it extra-satisfying when they do a proper 00ntz.
🕊️ Mennonites march 135 miles to White House for Gaza cease-fire
“We need to do something that doesn’t make sense because what’s happening in Gaza doesn’t make sense,” said organizer Nick Martin, explaining the rationale behind “All God’s Children March for a Ceasefire.”
⚽️ No soccer game has ever been a “chess match”. Stop trying to make this a thing. #Olympics
🎶 Did you know that there are still bands that release their albums on streaming platforms, but not on Bandcamp?
I’m not sure why, but this year I’m really getting a kick out of rogue cornstalks in soybean fields.
Got a pair of those synthetic Birkenstocks.
Spouse called them “Birkencrocs” 😆 #portmantodd
Repeat:
If you want to colonize space, prove you could succeed by first solving climate change.
⚽️ On this day: saw Brighton, Brentford, Chelsea, and Newcastle.
If all goes well, it’s Chelsea and Celtic tomorrow.
⚽️ I was late to the #USWNT game, but what a joy to have Mallory back and see that excellent 🎇 Pugh Pugh 🎆!
🪵 Log day update:
Trainer said my form is consistently good with the 70-pound medicine ball, now. (That’s whether it’s lifting, walking with it, hoisting it around, etc.) 💪
Feels good!
I have now received about 10 emails (at various points throughout the day) from Delta saying that my flight from this morning was cancelled.
I think they’re having a rough time over there.
🗳️You think prices are bad now?
Imagine what they will be like if MAGAs succeed in kicking out the very people that are helping keep prices down.
🎶 it’s “industrial rock” not “noise rock”
Get off my (rivet) lawn!
Still mulling over some of Postman’s 📚 Amusing Ourselves to Death and this is my emerging theory of dystopias:
- the conservative failure mode is towards Orwellian dystopia
- the liberal failure mode is towards Huxleyan dystopia
⚽️ Congrats to the winners, and thank you for not playing “VAR football”, Spain!
We call this my “Aiel shirt”
😈⚽️ Just offered some of my Atlanta coworkers a Corn Jersey.
