Austin Bigley @StatAustin

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.? Because we gave them that L in 1776.

Stop being a bitch.

Massimo @Rainmaker1973

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The odds of being slapped by a random turtle in the middle of the ocean are low, but never zero.

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Neighbor in Greece: I have some olive oil for you from my home village. Me: Thank you! I may have enough room for maybe one small bottle in my luggage. Neighbor: Perfect. Two small bottles of olive oil it is! The bottles 🤦‍♂️:

The earliest known record of a pet with a name dates back more than 3,450 years to ancient Egypt. The cat was called Nedjem, a name that translates to “Sweet One” or simply “Sweetie.” Nedjem belonged to Puimre, a high-ranking official who served as the Second Priest of Amun and oversaw temple estates and religious ceremonies at Karnak Temple. The cat’s name appears in Puimre’s decorated tomb at the Theban Necropolis, where Nedjem is shown beneath a chair, a common artistic way of depicting beloved household pets. The name Nedjem (ndm) means “Sweet One,” “Pleasant One,” or “Delightful One.” It was also used as a personal name in ancient Egypt, suggesting it was an affectionate and familiar term rather than one reserved for animals. Nedjem offers rare evidence of the close bond ancient Egyptians could share with their pets. Although cats were valued for protecting grain stores from rodents and snakes and were linked to the goddess Bastet, they were also cherished companions.

@UnitedAlex7 It was a controversial VAR penalty

@TalkinBaseball_ He beat the throw!

Mamdani: There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it: American exceptionalism.  American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free, is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West, is why children in far away lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here. And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional. For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshipping the wrong Gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants for whom power was something someone else had. We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else. The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence-that work endures, my friends, and it belongs to us all. It belongs too to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel— the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too.

@LegacySiu R9 Ronaldo

Portugal vs Croatia The decision to disallow Joško Gvardiol’s late equalizer for Croatia against Portugal relies on a fundamentally flawed and contradictory interpretation of the rules of football. The official ruling states that a microscopic sensor spike inside the ball registered a touch from Igor Matanović, constituting a "pass" that put Mario Pašalić offside. This logic falls apart under intense scrutiny when evaluating intent, physics, and the game's established precedents. 1. Completely Clean Initial Onside Positioning First and foremost, when Ivan Perišić initiated the original ball into the box, every single Croatian player was in a completely legal, onside position. The entire sequence built toward a legitimate scoring play. Stripping away a critical goal based on a microscopic, invisible inflection point later in the sequence violates the spirit of fair play. 2. Contradictory Logic Regarding Intent The VAR interpretation relies on a paradox. The officials claim that the touch from Portugal defender Renato Veiga was "irrelevant" and a mere deflection because he was not the intended recipient and was oblivious to the ball hitting his back. Yet, they simultaneously label Igor Matanović's headbutt attempt as a "pass" to Mario Pašalić. Matanović was clearly making a direct attempt on goal, not trying to pass. If the referee rules that a player's deliberate intent does not matter for Matanović, they cannot logically turn around and use a lack of intent to excuse Veiga. 3. The Precedent of Defender Liability and the "Block" Ruling that Renato Veiga's touch was irrelevant directly contradicts basic football rules regarding defensive liability. Consider an identical physical scenario on the pitch: an attacker fires a shot or cross full force at a defender who has his back turned and has no idea the ball is coming. If that ball hits the oblivious defender's back and goes out of bounds over the goal line, the attacking team is awarded a corner kick. The defender is held fully liable for the touch simply by taking up space on the field. Veiga did not stand in the 18-yard box by happenstance; he placed himself there deliberately to block the path to the net and take up critical space. If the microchip dictates that Matanović's goal attempt counts as a conscious play on the ball, then Veiga's body placement must be counted as a defensive block. 4. A Loose Ball Interception, Not a Pass Because Matanović's action was a clear attempt to score, the resulting collision with Veiga’s back was a physical block that completely disrupted the ball's original speed and trajectory. Once the ball deflected off a defender who was actively acting as a human shield, the phase of play changed. Mario Pašalić did not receive a calculated, deliberate pass from his teammate; he intercepted a loose ball resulting directly from a defender’s physical block. Therefore, no offside offense occurred, and Joško Gvardiol’s goal should have stood. #croatia #portugal @FOXSports @barstoolsports #fifa #portugalvscroatia @FIFAWorldCup

@Complaxes That would be 10/10

@DrewPavlou @sardonicimp Right wing Marxist is a made up term. It just means right winger that you don't like. Tucker Carlson does not ascribe to the teachings of Karl Marx. Come on now

@PL_Match_Centre I can't tell. Parsing this level of detail out was never the intention of VAR. We were supposed to reverse egregious calls, not look for tiny changes in ball rotation.

🚨Zlatan Ibrahimović on Joško Gvardiol’s disallowed goal as Croatia suffered a dramatic last-minute World Cup elimination to Portugal: 🗣️ “Football can be unbelievably cruel. I don’t care what anyone says—I think Croatia have every right to feel robbed. I’ve watched the replay, and I still don’t see enough to convince me that Gvardiol was offside. When you disallow a goal in the final seconds of a World Cup knockout match, it has to be obvious. For me, it wasn’t obvious. That goal should have stood. Croatia believed they had saved themselves. The players celebrated, the fans exploded, and in a few seconds it was all taken away. Those are the moments that break teams. Instead of talking about an incredible late equaliser, we’re talking about another VAR controversy. Portugal will celebrate because they’ve gone through, and congratulations to them. But if I were Croatia, I’d leave that pitch feeling like football had taken something away from me tonight.”

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@jakedc6 The issue is more with the VAR officials than the ref himself. The VAR team asks him to review because they think he made a mistake. The ref rarely sticks with the original call or no-call in these circumstances. I think it was more a bad VAR decision than a bad ref decision.

@BrentScher @AdamKinzinger Oh come on. That is just trying to glom onto the World Cup to try to make the Fair look good.

Imagine if Biden or Obama had bragged about shaking down a private company for 10% public ownership. Where are the supposed stalwarts of free markets like @club4growth or @Heritage or @freedomcaucus ? 🦗🦗🦗

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Three BIG WINS at the Supreme Court this morning! 1. States can count mail-in votes arriving after election day, as long as it’s postmarked before Election Day. 2. The Federal Reserve Board Member, Lisa Cook, that Trump illegally fired must stay. 3. The Supreme Court will not intervene to change the fact that Trump has been found liable for sexual abuse and defamation.

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out. The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing. Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees. The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in. Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal. The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals. The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion. This is your tax money. It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children. This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close. We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket. Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us. google.com/url?q=https://…

new york is such a unique place because what do you mean the twice-failed republican nominee for mayor curtis sliwa is representing the iheart radio float at nyc pride