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[Travis Guggenheimer @travisinLB]

“there are no good billionaires”

ok then explain why MY billionaire risked federal prison to bring parades to the hard working people of Los Angeles????

[carlos @_Carlos_ChR]

@Dodgers LFFFGGGGGG

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Georgia I entered a Chick-fil-A drive-thru line of forty cars.

I turned off my engine. I prepared to wait the way my ancestors waited out a siege.

Six minutes later I was holding chicken.

I do not know what happened to the other thirty-nine cars. The line moved like water that had somewhere to be.

A young woman walked between the cars taking orders on a small tablet, on foot, in the sun, smiling like the sun was her idea.

I said thank you.

She said, "My pleasure."

I did not think about it then. I should have.

At the window I thanked the young man for the food.

"My pleasure."

I thanked him for the sauce.

"My pleasure."

I thanked him for thanking me—

"My pleasure."

I want to be clear about what was happening.

This was a duel.

In Japan I trained in courtesy for forty years. Bowing angles. Seasonal greetings. The correct depth of apology for seventeen distinct situations.

I was a white belt in that drive-thru.

I escalated. I used my most formal English. I thanked him on behalf of my entire family line.

He said, "My pleasure," and gave me extra sauce.

Extra sauce. Unprovoked. A counterattack.

I returned the next day to reclaim my honor.

It was Sunday. The restaurant was closed.

All of them were closed. In the entire country. They close every Sunday, and they have closed every Sunday since the beginning, because the founder made a promise, and the promise did not expire when he did.

I stood in the empty parking lot and understood I had lost twice.

Once to a teenager with sauce.

Once to a man I will never meet, who kept his word so long it became a building.

In my country we say a samurai's word is his life.

I had never seen a restaurant say it back.

I returned Monday. I ordered. And this time I said it first, before she could.

"My pleasure."

She smiled and said, "It sure is."

America, I surrender.

It was my pleasure.

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

@GoonersDream @MarinoMLB stop gooning and learn ball

[Dr. Sócrates @DrSocr]

“No abucheen a estos, apoyen a estos porque son latinos, no griten esto, no festejen esto” Chinguen a su madre pendejos. Esto es fútbol, no la feria de las culturas amigas.

[Shuy® 🇺🇸 @jesus_solis]

Aunque la sangre me une al pueblo inglés, pues mi bisabuelo nació en Norham, una villa de Northumberland, Inglaterra, situado en la orilla sur del río Tweed, que es la frontera con Escocia, antes de emigrar a Piedras Negras, hoy mi corazón está con México. Vamos, @miseleccionmx.

[LFLH @flariosh]

El árbitro agregó tiempo hasta que anotara #Austria Dijeron 4 minutos, se jugó hasta el 90+6’
Un asco lo ocurrido en Kansas City. Totalmente antideportivo @fifaworldcup_es @fifacom_es
Como en España 82, un empate arreglado para que ambos equipos clasificaran.
#mundialdefútbol

[Slovak Football 🇸🇰 @slovak_football]

@Eschentharrn Holy shit I just came in my pants

[UEFA Obscura @UEFAObscura]

🏆 Of the 1,248 players at the 2026 World Cup, there are 6 whose names contain Roman numerals that equal their squad numbers. Naturally, when you add those six numbers together, you get 23. This is the 23rd edition of the World Cup:

🇨🇮 #1 Yahia Fofana
Yah(I)a Fofana
I = 1

🇪🇨 #7 Pervis Estupiñán
Per(V)(I)s Estup(I)ñán
VII = 7

🇯🇵 #2 Yukinari Sugawara
Yuk(I)nar(I) Sugawara
II = 2

🇲🇽 #5 Johan Vásquez
Johan (V)ásquez
V = 5

🇲🇦 #1 Yassine Bounou
Yass(I)ne Bounou
I = 1

🇺🇸 #7 Giovanni Reyna
G(I)o(V)ann(I) Reyna
VII = 7

[Fredrik @F_Edits]

🇧🇪 Tielemans is the longest World Cup name where you alternate between left and right hand for each individual letter on a QWERTY keyboard

[UEFA Obscura @UEFAObscura]

🏆 From the 1,248 players at the World Cup, you can make 13 consecutive individual legal chess moves by combining players’ initials with their squad numbers:

16: Bf8 - 🇵🇹 Bruno Fernandes
17: c5 Kh7 - 🇧🇷 Casemiro, 🇩🇪 Kai Havertz
18: Ra4 Be7 - 🇭🇹 Ricardo Adé, 🇨🇭 Breel Embolo
19: Rh4 Bf8 - 🇨🇿 Robin Hranáč, 🇵🇹 Bruno Fernandes
20: Ra5 Be7 - 🇺🇿 Rustam Ashurmatov, 🇨🇭 Breel Embolo
21: Ne4 Bf8 - 🇨🇭 Nico Elvedi, 🇵🇹 Bruno Fernandes
22: Kd3 Be7 - 🇦🇹 Kevin Danso, 🇨🇭 Breel Embolo

To get to this stage, you must have made the following moves:

1: d4 d5
2: c4 e5
3: dxe5 g6
4: h4 b6
5: h5 h6
6: hxg6 fxg6
7: a4 c6
8: a5 a6
9: axb6 Qd7
10: e3 Nf6
11: Ke2 Bg7
12: g4 O-O
13: Nc3 Re8
14: Nf3 Qd8
15: Nd4 Nbd7
16: Nb3

[Fredrik @F_Edits]

Leo Østigård is the first player this World Cup to both score a goal and block a goal with his ass-cheek

[adrianceitor @adrianceitor_]

#OJOALDATO - Por PRIMERA vez en TODA la historia de la Copa del Mundo una selección consigue alinear dos jugadores con nombre de árbol.

🌳 Dani Olmo
🌲Yeremy Pino.

DON LUIS DE LA FUENTE.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Norway v France is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries have Antarctic territorial claims named after women.

Norway has Queen Maud Land, named after Queen Maud of Norway. France claims Adélie Land, named after Adèle d’Urville.

Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.

[Adam Aaronson @aaaronson]

Norway vs. France is the first match of the World Cup where one country's flag can be found inside the other

[MisterChip (Alexis) @2010MisterChip]

ECU 🇪🇨 2-1 🇩🇪 GER (80') - Gonzalo PLATA es el TERCER jugador con nombre/apellido de elemento químico que marca en TODA la historia de la Copa del Mundo, tras Fernando HIERRO y HELIO Varela.

⚛️ HIERRO (Fe)
⚛️ HELIO (He)
⚛️ PLATA (Ag)

[Fredrik @F_Edits]

🇦🇷 Nico Paz is the only World Cup player whose names does not intersect or overlap itself on an alphabet circle

[UEFA Obscura @UEFAObscura]

At the 2026 World Cup, 7 players in total wear the same squad number as the number of Morse code dots and dashes in their full name:

🇺🇸 Tim Ream (13): .-. . .- – - .. – -

🇧🇷 Bremer (14): -… .-. . – . .-. -

🇨🇦 Ali Ahmed (20): .- …. – . -.. .- .-.. .. -

🇨🇻 Wagner Pina (24): .– .- –. -. . .-. .–. .. -. .- -

🇧🇪 Nathan Ngoy (25): -. –. — -.– -. .- - …. .- -. -

🇹🇳 Anis Slimane (25): … .-.. .. – .- -. . .- -. .. … -

🇩🇪 Deniz Undav (26): ..- -. -.. .- …- -.. . -. .. –.. -

[Adam Aaronson @aaaronson]

Ecuador vs. Germany today is the first match of the World Cup between countries with their consonants and vowels in complementary positions