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Awkwardly placed

[3121 @3won2won]

@SalvadorDafti Bar Martha definitely worth checking out too. Not far away in Ebisu.

[3121 @3won2won]

@ManUtd Yuck

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Remember that FIFA technically is a nonprofit organization. It’s a corrupt machine that deserves to die. The goal should always be to maximize exposure to football, to democratize the sport, to buy fans first. I wonder if FIFA will survive the next 40 years (roughly the rest of my lifespan).

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[𝙱𝚘𝚋𝚋𝚢’𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚎𝚕 @SalvadorDafti]

Jimmy Smith - Root Down (And Get It)

Jimmy getting it on at the Bombay Bicycle Club. No words, no need, with the music given ample space to breathe. A supple expression of pure groove in the funk era.

1972.

[Rhett Bartlett @rhettrospective]

You can stop searching.
Because Polly Farmer coached Geelong from 1973-1975

[3121 @3won2won]

@UTDAlex8 Sell Bruno?

[Travis Chapman @Travispaints]

Tusken Raiders in Tuscany, my acrylic painting

[LeTigre @LeTigre_12]

Meet this week’s rising star

[Daniel Storey @danielstorey85]

Peter Drury's house during a power cut

[Brian McDonald @BrianMcDonaldIE]

The Strokes used their Coachella set to show CIA coups and Gaza footage. They’ll probably never be invited back, and they knew it.

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

Ever wondered how Electric Six would go down in a Victorian drawing room?

Then wonder no more!

This is from The Armstrong and Miller Show and is one of those sketches that, had I written it, I’d have retired immediately with a smug grin on my face.

Good day to you.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

[Demetrius Remmiegius 🇰🇪 @DemetriusRO6]

Donald Trump turns 80 in June,

A historic moment.

He be the first president whose age exceeds his IQ.

[Criterion Collection @Criterion]

Will Arnett x WITHNAIL AND I (1987) 🍷

Buy our new 4K edition of this film or more than a thousand more Criterion editions for 50% OFF at https://t.co/agiPYjcF01 during out 24 Hour Flash Sale!

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Absolutely incredible cover of Frank Ocean’s "Thinkin Bout You" by @flea333 on bass and trumpet with an orchestra on The Tonight Show

[Adam Smith @adamndsmith]

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

[Lewis 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @WaldronLewis]

>be John Davidson
>born 1971
>Galashiels, Scotland
>working class family in the Scottish Borders
>football-mad kid
>just wants to be a goalkeeper

1983:
>you're 12
>a scout is coming to watch you play
>this is your shot
>then something happens
>your body starts doing things you can't control
>tics
>involuntary vocalisations
>noises you didn't choose
>head teacher's response: whip your hands with a belt
>you perform badly
>dad leaves shortly after
>you walk into a river
>you're 12

school:
>no diagnosis
>no framework
>just a kid who "can't behave"
>mocked daily
>leave at 16
>no qualifications
>the world has decided what you are

1989:
>BBC comes to Galashiels
>films your life
>"John's Not Mad"
>airs nationally
>some people feel compassion
>most kids use it as ammunition
>your face becomes shorthand for mockery in playgrounds across the country
>you know this
>you keep going

the wilderness years:
>no diagnosis until you're 25
>25 years old before anyone gives it a name
>you've been living it for over a decade without language for it
>you get a job
>caretaker at Langlee Community Centre
>you stay there your whole working life

the turn:
>a family is referred to you
>their daughter has Tourette's
>she's struggling
>you start hosting workshops
>schools
>police stations
>you explain what it means to live in a body people don't understand
>unpaid
>for years
>because nobody did it for you

2019:
>Holyrood Palace
>the Queen is about to give you an MBE
>you shout "Fuck the Queen"
>directly at her
>she reacts with complete calm and kindness
>the kid the belt hit
>gets a medal

2025:
>a film about your life premieres at Toronto International Film Festival
>"I Swear"
>six BAFTA nominations

February 2026:
>you're in the auditorium
>watching a film about your life
>your Tourette's doesn't stop for the occasion
>it never has
>mid-ceremony your tics ring out across the room
>and on the live broadcast
>as Black actors take the stage
>you shout a racial slur
>involuntarily
>uncontrollably
>you leave early
>you know you're causing distress
>you've known that feeling your whole life
>Jamie Foxx goes on Instagram
>"Nah he meant that s**t"
>"Out of all the words you could've said Tourette's makes you say that"
>the internet piles on
>thousands outraged at a man who cannot control what comes out of his mouth
>the film that explains exactly this wins three BAFTAs that same night
>including Best Actor
>the room got it
>the internet did not
>because the internet didn't watch the film

see -- Every founder, artist, activist, author, coach or ANYONE who wants to change the world should take note:

Stop apologising for who you are.

Be the change you want to see.

[Aɴᴛ @AntSpeaks]

This intelligent young Black woman with Tourette’s Syndrome explains the incident at the BAFTAs and how Tourette’s affects the person living with the condition.

Her race shouldn’t need mentioning, but unfortunately too many people have reacted emotionally to this situation and need a Black woman to explain why someone with Tourette’s who is white is not vocalising profanities toward Black people simply because they’re racist.

We need more logic and critical thinking, as this woman brilliantly demonstrates, and fewer snap judgements driven solely by emotion.

[3121 @3won2won]

@dariusdan @grok what is this?