Shona Black

One more time! 🦈⚽️

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

🇧🇷 Lula and Sócrates, in the early 1980s. Sócrates played for Corinthians, the São Paulo club supported by Lula, who at the time was one of the leaders of the ABC metalworkers' union. In #Brazil, a military regime was in power at the time. 👇

Done. Grudgingly, frankly - but done. ✅ I beg #bcpoli for electoral reform.

Chelsea out-Spursing Spurs here...

On the one hand, I think we have to regulate scams to have a hope of rebuilding institutions. On the other hand, could not happen to more deserving people.

Our hopelessly corrupt leaders are speeding us face-first into fascism, and those whose job is to oppose them are too timid - or complicit - to put their foot on the brake.

Warm-ish take: Olivia Rodrigo is under-rated. Yes I know she is highly rated; but not highly enough. Generational talent.

Well, she called a fake, costly, illegitimate 'referendum' as a PR stunt. And lost, badly. So...

Just, the 24% need to move to the US and put the rest of us out of their misery.

No. Nope. I'm sorry, your inflatable bananas and your Oasis songs don't make up for 18 years of cheating. It's all invalid, and you're embarrassing yourselves by pretending it's not.

Kylian Mbappé tells Brazilians not to get discouraged and vote for Lula. Proving that just because you are a rich and famous footballer, you don't HAVE to be an asshole.

Australopithecus 3 million years ago:

Serie A watching this shit in England

“Manchester City proving their point today on the pitch” The point being that cheating gives you a massive advantage.

It's too sickening. Switching over to Sassuolo-Milan.

The Poznan celebration is a great symbol for Man City. Stolen.

Holy Spursiness 🙀

BODEGA CATS!

If Sadiq Khan is a trans ally, why is he allowing JK Rowling’s Harry Potter to take over the Christmas lights in Oxford Circus? Email him now and ask him to pull the plug on transphobia. goodlaw.social/e1ae3f

Piers Morgan commenting 'excellent statement' tells you everything you need to know 😹

When you've got England punditry on ITV at 9.45pm, and you're working on your suite of monolothic abstract expressionist canvases at 10.30pm.

Integrity is key, here. For too long, we've abided an integrity-free, repercussion-free society. Football is a tiny part of that, but - well, if the powers that have been using it as PR value it - let football be the first to say no. No more.

For #TruthAndReconciliation day, a couple reading recommendations: Becoming Kin by @daanis.ca True Reconciliation by Jody Wilson-Raybould The Knowing by Tanya Talaga ...and looking forward to Truth Before Reconciliation, ed @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social & Sean Carleton #BookSky

Since we all really FELT that ancient pooch who wouldn’t drop the ball, I figured I may as well tell you a bit about dogs in ancient Mesopotamia. They leave traces everywhere, from bricks to burials to proverbs. Here’s a 4,000-year-old paw print of a pooch on a brick from ancient Ur

Did I just get back from a viewing at Bonhams auction house in NYC of cat-themed art? Why yes- yes I did. Did I take pictures, including of these Chinese ceramic cats from the Qing Dynasty? Also yes! Will I make a thread of some of them? Indeed I will, which will include...

Sham City Presenting the irrefutable evidence.

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

Important point for those saying (understandably!) oh now they'll just appeal for years...I believe they already have been appealing for 2+ years. And they have failed.

An example of one of the damaging knock-on effects of the fraudulent dealings, that likely will never be held to account: City's illegal spending didn't just acquire the best players, it rigged the entire market to put good players out of reach for most clubs.

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll.

The offside rule in football: by virtue of where he is standing, refusing to play the team of a genocidal Israel, Gavin Bazunu has just played every other Irish squad member, the FAI, UEFA, and the Irish government, offside.

And if you're a City fan you should be even more furious because players with the grace & skill of De Bruyne or Silva could potentially win titles without a thumb on the scales. But we'll never know because Pep & the board decided they'd fix the game just in case. It cheapens everyone it touches.

Trans rights are, in fact, human rights. Pass it on.

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