The Free Speech Disrespecter

[MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls @MARVELTokon]

D-8 🎉

Marvel legend Leinil Francis Yu joins our launch countdown with this stunning illustration of Iron Man, brought to life with breathtaking colours by fellow legend Romulo Fajardo Jr.!

[The 44 ⚽️ @The_Forty_Four]

How are we letting THIS guy sell the greatest competition in our sport for his own personal gain…

[Telegraph Football @TeleFootball]

'Of all Gianni Infantino’s delusions, perhaps the most dangerous is that he regards himself as a head of state.

'Hawking a slice of the World Cup, for all its flaws the most cherished competition in sport, should be the cue for outright rebellion. Uefa should have the courage of its convictions and issue a warning to secede. For what would the event be, ultimately, without Europe?'

@oliverbrown_tel says, in Infantino's warped realm, too much is never enough 👇
https://t.co/JrmANxbb8n

[Telegraph Football @TeleFootball]

Uefa is ready to boycott the World Cup as the Fifa backlash intensifies against Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell the tournament to private investors.

Senior figures in the game say “we have to act fast” to torpedo Infantino’s £15bn plan, which Uefa says is trading the game’s “soul”.

@tom_morgs and @ben_rumsby report ⤵️
https://t.co/u6zEednWuw

[UEFA @UEFA]

Further UEFA statement on FIFA plans: ⬇️

[Koshkinetic @koshkinetic]

Every time I talk to someone about China I inevitably end up having to slip in something like "well yeah they're responsible for the welfare of a fifth of humanity" and it always makes people pause for a moment.

[Eric Michael Garcia @EricMGarcia]

A couple that had been deported to Guatemala by ICE was found bound and shot to death in a sugarcane field.

ICE agents deported Nixon Giovanni Pérez Paz despite the fact they said there was not a warrant out for his arrest.

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

The Economist doesn't understand how good "eco-authoritarianism" sounds to the youngest denizens of the dying corpse of the neoliberal war state, where it's 100 degrees in upstate New York and Trump is this close to doing drone strikes on endangered grizzly bears

[Rusty Shackleford @Gr33nOnions]

It was a really beautiful testament to the human spirit that during a global pandemic we all turned against each other, abandoned the environment, and decided to price gouge everyone

[SR meL @melanji]

I’ve been reflecting a lot on what trans and nonbinary folk experience in the esports community. I hope this message isn’t too late, given recent events.

There are many issues I could talk about, but I just want to speak on one: there must be an unspoken grief in being trans and seeing your idols vilify you.

I grew up watching CS:GO. My favorite team was Luminosity after Cluj-Napoca in 2015. I remember rushing home from school to scour twitch chats and copy my favorite players’ settings. I cheered when C9 won the Boston Major. And of course I watched all of the Rank S highlights and can still quote the funniest clips from heart, even 11 years later (jeez im old).

Esports was an escape for me, as I’m sure it is for so many of us. Yet, because I am a woman, I watched with dread as my escape was bastardized over the years by influential figures ostracizing women. I saw the same people I looked up to point and laugh and say people like me were inferior, that we could never do what they do, that we don’t belong in esports, that trans women weren’t my friends and were out to get me.

That anguish and betrayal I felt from a community I poured years of my life into is exactly what trans women and nonbinary folk experience times ten. They are esports fans just like anyone else. They’re here as an escape just like anyone else. They don’t want to be treated differently from anyone else. All they want is the same respect you give any other human being.

After asking for something so simple, so basic, they experience far more hate and rejection at the hands of the very people they look up to. All while already living life constantly vilified and questioned. It’s a shame we’ve allowed this radioactive environment to fester here.

To my peers: I promise you some of your biggest fans HAVE BEEN trans and nonbinary folk. Gaming is incredibly diverse, and if you’ve played in front of a crowd, you know this already. They tell others how good you are. They try to copy how you play. They make beautiful art of you and your teams. They wake up early or stay up late to watch your games. They celebrate your successes and feel for your failures. They’re just like any of your supporters.

Thank you to those who know this already. I promise your acceptance doesn’t go unnoticed.

For those who don’t: It’s an incredible opportunity and gift to be someone’s escape in this world. What a waste to squander it.

And to the trans and nonbinary folk reading this: you are welcome here. Existence is resistance. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

[𝖬𝖸𝖪𝖤𝖫 ♰ @mykel_aGain]

Alan Ritchson says Hollywood action space needs more everyday protagonists like Indiana Jones who was a professor not just military or ex-military heroes.

Alan Ritchson: One thing I'm trying to do is hark back to the '90s, when you would get protagonists like Indiana Jones, who was a professor and an archaeologist. This was not a government-trained CIA operative.

My production company has deals split across town, and we're working hand in hand with a lot of studios to develop the future action space. Weirdly across the board, everybody is making content where the main character is former military or current military.

I want to tell stories with protagonists who are more on their heels, less invincible, and less trained. It'll create a whole new sea of content where audiences can see themselves on screen.

We need stories where protagonists are everyday people like plumbers or electricians caught up in extraordinary circumstances, but not necessarily prepared for it.

Maria Sten: Totally agree. Excellent.

[T. Bernadetti @MrsRoyKeaneo]

WATCH THIS! Engineers storm the stage in protest against Amazon's use of AI in the ongoing 🇵🇸 genocide

"When Amazon employees say something against project Nimbus you fire them!"

Watch how his face drops! He's there to promote AI yet goes into screensaver mode when confronted

[jz2 @mixedgrass666]

This starts at the top but the people carrying it out are lower than dog shit to me

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

The goal that stole your hearts all the way to the top. 💙⚽️
Sidny Lopes Cabral is your Hyundai Goal of the Tournament winner at the FIFA World Cup 2026! 🌟

#FIFAWorldCup #Hyundai #HGOTT #HyundaiGOTT2026 @Hyundai_Global

[Will 🦥 Menaker @willmenaker]

One of the most evil things imaginable to me

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

On Halloween in 2016, Hannah Eimers and a friend drove four hours from her home in Tennessee to Athens, Georgia, for a party. In the early hours of November 1st, she was on her way back when her Volvo drifted off Interstate 75—even though she was sober—and collided with a steel guardrail. Her car hit a safety feature on the rail that was designed to slow the vehicle and force the rail to curl up. Instead, it tore through the Volvo and cut Hannah’s body in half.

Not long after Hannah’s death, her father, Steve, began researching guardrail accidents. He’s since driven some 40,000 miles through 25 states to inspect guardrails. Based on his research, he believes there are about 1,000 annual guardrail-related deaths in the U.S.—virtually all of them preventable—and tens of thousands of miles of dangerous guardrails presently on the country’s roads. Now he meets with politicians, advocates for guardrail safety in Washington, and posts inspection videos from the sides of highways on his YouTube channel, TheGuardrailGuy. Charles Bethea reports on the man who has made it his mission to fix the nation’s guardrail problem: https://t.co/vgDrZcIeaI

[brandon s. @b_cuse_]

It’s crazy how you can simply point out that this didn’t used to happen every single summer and armchair environmental scientists will jump in and try to gaslight you into believing that this is totally not a downstream effect of human-induced climate change.

[microplastics nanobubbler @facetedcarapace]

If you want the real ass answer, people don't "engage in fandom spaces" because they like a wide variety of things a completely normal amount, and they also don't have lives and identities so small and threadbare that TV shows or popstars are a load-bearing pillar.

[Here's What I Reckon: @angryaboutbikes]

Very often I think about when that war criminal killed himself at The Hague by taking a cyanide shot, and amidst the memes and screenshots and "me when the lads get the tequilas in", one person was tweeting "Hang on, isn't this all a bit fucked up? Are we fucked?"

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

Boomers can’t incorporate this information because they must believe that their wealth was “earned” by their singular grit and skill. It’s central to their identity. Everyone should have this sort of lifestyle affordability. But this goes against America’s individualistic ethos.