The #WorldOfBricks is in #munich and I see no content here 🤔. I probably have to go there myself
https://www.world-of-bricks.at/

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"World Cup stadiums were ‘built for yesterday’s climate’. Should the games be moved?"
#Sports #WorldCup #Climate

Should FIFA consider rescheduling the World Cup amid extreme heat?
Experts have called on World Cup stadium owners to retrofit their buildings to better deal with blistering temperatures.

Prediction : #England will NOT win the world Cup 2026.
...and the drought continues.
#worldcup2026

Even if you're not into soccer, this is kind of cool. #WorldCup
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/ivory-coast-irish-pub-9.7233870

Ireland's not in the World Cup. So this Irish pub turned its flag upside down to cheer the Ivory Coast | CBC Radio
When Ireland failed to qualify for the World Cup, staff at an Irish pub in Scotland joked that they should just turn their flags upside down and become an Ivory Coast bar instead. Three weeks later, Biddy Mulligans manager Ruairi O'Neill has found himself running what he believes is Scotland's first Ivorian-Irish pub.

I don't see how in the world this call is against Ghana. Ridiculous decision.
#ENGGHA #WorldCup #fedifc

"The World Cup is one wildfire away from an air quality disaster"
#WorldCup #Sports #Football

The World Cup is one wildfire away from an air quality disaster
FIFA says it's prepared for "climate-related risks" but doesn't appear to have a plan for wildfire smoke, which can be harmful to players and fans.

"#Spain manages to win a #WorldCup during FIFA’s cash-counting award show"
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/soc

Spain manages to win a World Cup during FIFA’s cash-counting award show
The battle for sport’s soul played out in front of – and made – billions

🌊 The ocean gives us oxygen, food, balance. Protecting it protects everything.
#WorldOceansDay #BlueCarbon https://worldoceanday.org

Celebrate World Ocean Day
World Ocean Day catalyzes collective action for a healthy ocean and a stable climate. Powered by the World Ocean Day Youth Advisory Council, we help unite and rally the world to protect and restore our blue planet!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
World Party:
🎵 Ship of Fools
#WorldParty
https://nocturneblue.bandcamp.com/track/ship-of-fools-world-party-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ndKgw7LvKO7zIk1rgOQJ2

I read Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger", mostly by the pool or the beach while on holiday last week.
It isn't really about her being confused with Naomi Wolf, except on a surface level. Or even really about Wolf moving from left feminism towards right wing conspiracy theory.
Really it's about how political culture has changed as the world has moved more online and suffered the consequences of a pandemic and the often wrongheaded political responses to that.
Conspiracy thinking and a whole culture concentrating on reticence and reactionary thinking instead of evidence and logic.
While reading it I was hanging out with some folks who are much more right wing than I generally do. Here's some things they said:
I don't believe in Sunscreen. Isn't it funny how skin cancer rates have gone up as sunscreen becomes more popular.
I don't believe in COVID.
Carbon Warming models don't even take into account the sun.
I thought Chemtrails were a conspiracy theory, but came to believe it.
Claiming to believe in freedom while also wanting a crack-down on asylum-seekers, thinking they are destroying society.
So it's easy to believe Klein's basic thesis here, the worry that reactionary conspiracy thinking is breaking the entire body politic.
I don't think it's that people have lost all rationality. It's that people are wearing their conspiracy theories as badges, identifying them as a member of a group. Like religious beliefs that bind a group, the more stupid and outrageous they are the more those badges work to identify the ingroup from the outgroup.
The worry is always when they decide the outgroup need punishing for not taking on those conspiracy beliefs and turn to suppression and violence.
#reading #books #worldPol

#ai #world differences #comedy
#macron,

"is there (still) a lot of use of "signage" emojis like 🏪 or even more abstract 🛅?" - These complex ones are not so frequently used. BUT emojis are often used for signs in real life (= meat world, not digitally). I have a huge collection of photos I put together with the help of students. I think emojis are particularly good for this because such signs are often about rules, what we're not allowed to do or supposed to do. And emojis "soften" this face-threat (being told what to do) a bit, by being cute and colorful and generally perceived as positive. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay

"The dark side of the 2026 World Cup: Record-breaking emissions and thousands of flights"
#Football #WorldCup #Sports

How polluting will the World Cup be? 2026 could break all records
A report warns that the tournament in the US, Canada and Mexico could produce twice the emissions of previous editions.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
World Party:
🎵 Rescue Me
#WorldParty
https://open.spotify.com/track/4VqAyUcMH6LkhVLjcEVNmU

Until then, Indian fans will once again watch from afar, cheering the Messis, Ronaldos and Neymars of the world, while marvelling at the achievement of nations such as Curaçao, the smallest country ever to reach the World Cup.
The inevitable question will linger: if Curaçao can do it, why can't India?
#worldcup

Since it is #WorldBicycleDay I took a longer tour into the office today and took the oppertunity to drop by Oslo's monument to Santa with Butt Plug or being British as I like to call her ButtPlug "Daddy Christmas" (the Brits will understand).
"On a special night, once a year she travels the world and brings the gift of a filled cavity to one and all."…

Will I go to hell if I wonder if the World Cup opening ceremony will end with footballs rolling and bouncing down the steps of that fibreglass ziggurat?
#WorldCup

🤔 Are #emojis a universal language? - No, for two reasons. 1) They are not a language, as they do not show the properties that human languages have: grammatical structure and free combinatorics, enabling us to express complex thoughts. 2) They are not really universal. While many emojis are interpreted similarly all over the world (I guess it's pretty clear what one could mean by 🍕 ), some emoji meanings are closely tied to cultural assumptions (e.g., some of the gestures 👍 , buildings ⛩️ , food), and others are very context-dependent and might follow different conventions in various groups, including linguistic or regional groups (e.g., 🙃 for which we found strong differences between populations in Norway/US vs. Germany/Bulgaria). #WorldEmojiDay #linguistics

A message from the activist group Everyone Hates Elon: “If you have a trillion dollars in a world where children are starving, you're not a visionary, you're just a cunt”
#elonmusk #capitalism

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
World News:
🎵 Sidestep (edit)
#WorldNews
https://open.spotify.com/track/2DKlZoozJDcMUMhZd6wB2J

3 Argentinians Jailed After Violent World Club Football Match | Estudiantes vs. AC Milan | Oct. 1969
#Worldcup

Don't Cry for Me Argentina
It won't be easy, you'll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel
That I still need your love after all goals scored
You won't believe me, all you will see is a Messi you once knew
Although he dressed up to the nines
He failed to score a goal for you
I had to let it happen, I had to change
Couldn't stay all my life a scorer

"The 2026 World Cup could be the hottest yet"
#WorldCup #Football #Sports #Climate

The 2026 World Cup could be the hottest yet
A new analysis finds climate change is increasing the odds of dangerous heat during many 2026 World Cup matches, putting players, fans, and workers at greater risk.

Canada set the record for the most goals scored by a CONCACAF nation in a single FIFA World Cup match by defeating Qatar 6-0
and J David gets a hat-trick. historic
#worldcup2026 #

#WorldCup

England stars would be allowed to use VIAGRA to help them rise to #WorldCup altitude levels amid Mexico fears
("There is no evidence to suggest that England players actually plan to take Viagra") 🤣
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/39637765/england-viagra-world-cup-mexico-city-altitude/

The #WorldCup may be over halfway done, but it's taken me that long to get fed up having the outcome of matches being spoiled on #BBC Sports.
So I made a little #Stylus stylesheet to hide everything, and wrote up the process. Not the most important work, but quite fun, and has already paid dividends in my enjoyment of the football ⚽
https://theadhocracy.co.uk/wrote/hiding-bbc-world-cup-spoilers

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
World News:
🎵 Don't Want to Know
#WorldNews
https://worldnewsband.bandcamp.com/track/dont-want-to-know
https://open.spotify.com/track/7B6DtCnFPBT30KahEWaHP7

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FreakZonePlaylist
WORLD BRAIN:
🎵 Minute papillon
#WORLDBRAIN
https://open.spotify.com/track/6h9DpgttzIscg0VXEnyUUx

#socceroos

Irankunda is the fastest man in the world, Patrick Beach is a brick wall

#WorldCup

#arghhhh #AI is going to #fake over the #world!

#arghhhh #AI is going to #fake over the #world!

World Cup trademarked?
use Mondo CUPS
#fifa #worldcup

Three people die in mass fan celebrations in Mexico City after World Cup victory... the three died from suffocation.
Smothered to death by mass hysteria
#mexico #worldcup2026 🇲🇽

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
World of Twist:
🎵 Sweets
#WorldofTwist
https://open.spotify.com/track/3tTS8o6Qr4CeP7Fu05ruPq

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
World Party:
🎵 Ship of Fools
#WorldParty
https://nocturneblue.bandcamp.com/track/ship-of-fools-world-party-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ndKgw7LvKO7zIk1rgOQJ2

🏳️‍🌈 Today, I was at the Dutch National Opera & Ballet recording for 'Unfolded Voices'—a wonderful project by the Amsterdam Rainbow Dress Foundation for World Pride Month.
We recorded a brand new piece by #composer Thomas van Dun. Had great fun adding my voice to this collaboration alongside a fantastic quartet of singers.
The recording is expected to be available for listening starting at the end of July. Stay tuned!
#WorldPride #Choir #ContemporaryMusic #LGBTQIA #Amsterdam #ClassicalMusic #NewMusic #RainbowDress #AmsterdamRainbowDress #singing #ClassicalSinging

This whole thing stinks from the on-field non-call to off-field reversal.⚽🦨
One way to redeem this situation is if Balogun sits out the Belgium game and USA wins without him. But little chance of that.
#FIFA #WorldCup #Balogun #RedCard

Dear Ronaldo
Unlike #Messi you will NEVER EVER win a world cup.
adeus
#worldcup2026 #Worldcup #ronaldo

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime
World News:
🎵 Sidestep
#WorldNews
https://worldnewsband.bandcamp.com/track/sidestep
https://open.spotify.com/track/2DKlZoozJDcMUMhZd6wB2J
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2KW4FxNKVGpVTgIJYolnNY
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
World News:
🎵 Don't Ever Meet Your Hero
#WorldNews
https://worldnewsband.bandcamp.com/track/dont-ever-meet-your-hero
https://open.spotify.com/track/4dmSnBgiEPZqymlDhPVcEw

This is an excellent and in depth interview mostly about Trump, how he works, and why we’re here in this state of the world.
Scaramucci surprises me with the quality of his answers, and he says we should not discount Trump as “stupid” either, so point taken.
Sit down for 45min and check it out on @…’s new long form YouTube channel.
I am left disturbed, confirmed, but also optimistic that someone like Scaramucci is optimistic.
#uspoli #USA #World #canPoli #NATO #Ukraine #Russia #affordabilityCrisis #politics

this may be englands best game in a world cup match.
#FediFC
#WorldCup2026 #eng #mexico

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
World Party:
🎵 Message In A Box
#WorldParty
https://open.spotify.com/track/6fExMvR1PjfDzqaQSqSmn9