"The only meaningful solution – a smaller and more modest World Cup, less beholden to autocratic power, more accountable to its public – is also the only solution that can be safely ruled out."
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Extremely cool story alert: scientists find Earth's largest whale graveyard at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. By that @daniellawler.bsky.social.
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Many French-English or English-French puns do not work. This one, however, is absolute perfection. Chapeau, @cahiersdufootball.bsky.social.
Hallucinant. Sur 150 journalistes français·es envoyé·es à la Coupe du Monde, seuls 10 sont des femmes. Et dans la presse écrite, c'est encore pire : 2 sur 80.
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An observation about this World Cup compared to the previous two. Russia and Qatar made massive efforts for obvious reasons to change public perceptions and really went extra mile with hosting. The United States seems to not care about external reputational harm in same way. And we are seeing that.