Diego Mina

The harsh hurricane brings clearer skies.

[Messi @Economist254]

🇨🇦 Canadian fans have found the person responsible for their national team’s elimination from the 2026 World Cup - the University of Montreal, which fired its physics professor Mehmed Bounou back in 1994.

Because of that, he had to return to Morocco with his wife and three-year-old son Yassine.

32 years later, Yassine Bounou saved every Canadian shot in the Round of 16 and knocked out the national team of the country where he was born.

What do they call this?🤭🤭

[Winnipeg Jets @NHLJets]

Reject modernity (AI slop jersey swap)

Embrace tradition (Apple pencil)

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Taiwan solved tax evasion in 1951 with a trick so cheap it should embarrass every tax authority on the planet.

The problem was an all-cash economy full of small shops. A merchant pockets the cash, skips the receipt, and the sale never existed. Auditors can't catch what was never recorded, and hiring enough of them to watch every noodle stand costs more than the missing tax.

So finance chief Ren Xianqun flipped the incentive. Print a lottery number on every receipt. Draw winners every two months on live TV. Top prize today: NT$10 million, about $310K.

Suddenly the customer and the shopkeeper want opposite things. The merchant wants the sale off the books. The customer wants the ticket. And there are millions more customers than merchants. Every transaction now carries a built-in witness demanding the paper trail.

Year one, reported tax revenue jumped 75%, from NT$29 million to NT$51 million. Seventy-five years later, roughly 70% of Taiwanese still play. Convenience stores redeem the smallest NT$200 prizes at the register, so even a coffee receipt feels like a scratch card.

The elegant part is what the audit force costs. The prize pool runs about NT$7 billion a year, roughly $20 million. In exchange, the government gets 23 million unpaid auditors working every checkout line in the country, forever. No inspector general on earth delivers that coverage at that price.

Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Slovakia all copied it. The most effective compliance tool ever built looks like a game, and that's exactly why it works.

[Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔 @HistorianZhang]

A topic for someone else but I always felt there's a PhD dissertation in these SE Asian Chinese disapora oils and remedies

[Ash @hudsboba]

Ik the jokes about you can tell which actors FU wanna fuck but also this account is FILM Updates they care about films & that's why they fuck heavy with Hud. He is not just breakout star but also has gold resume of short films and is genuine film nerd with keen interest in films.

[theo 🎧 is lost @sharkfinks]

hockey rpf but instead of any ships it’s just my team staying together and not getting traded everywhere and also signing their extensions

[Keriseni @Keriseni_]

Do you think they have their own world cup

[A Jennie of Jennie and Jennie 🏳️‍⚧️💾🔞 @gncgalactus]

The act itself does not move me, but In a world of 8 billion finding the other person who is the same sort of insane to do with with you is terribly romantic

[goma @soigomaa]

Her name was Gisèle Halimi. Born in Tunisia in 1927 to a Jewish mother and Muslim father. Refused to eat as a child until her parents treated her the same as her brothers. She became a lawyer.
In 1960 Algeria was fighting for independence from France. The French military was using torture in its colonial prisons. Women were being assaulted, electrocuted and beaten in custody.
Nobody would defend them. Gisèle did. She stood in French courtrooms and forced the military to answer for what they had done. She made France look at itself. She won cases nobody thought were possible. Then she kept going.
She spent the next 40 years dismantling every French law that failed women. She fought for abortion rights when abortion was illegal. She argued that r*pe was not a minor offence when French courts treated it as one. She won both. She changed French law so many times the legal establishment stopped counting. When she died in 2020 France called her the most fearless lawyer in its history.

[Hamza🗽🌐🏙️💹 @schitcoin]

Kosovo-Chechnya-Kashmir-Palestine-Kurdistan-Tibet is now an extinct combo, but was briefly very popular among the global left in the ‘90s.

Kashmir barely even gets a mention at Jummah now. Palestine is the only one that expanded beyond the Muslim and/or Leftist spheres.

[definitely not user idiotlor 🥸 @clairopoulin]

No offence but like why can’t you guys just confront these people in person. You’re equally weird for taking pictures of strangers and complaining about them online. It’s so easy to just be like “hey can you cut that out”

[alex bronzini-vender @alexbronzini]

Zohran's campaign was not as positive as people seem to remember. He was absolutely ruthless.

He cut an ad attempting to link Andrew Cuomo to Jeffrey Epstein!

[Palantir Neurodivergence Fellow 👊🪂🇵🇸 @FungibleWorker]

This desire to subvert the ethnographic gaze dishonors the wonderful diversity of ways that ppl have navigated the nature/culture divide. What’s more satisfying: everyone’s always been a modern rational subject just doing bits or ppl are authentically different and strange?

[s @44leafs]

McKenna answering "Selena Gomez... put some tension on that line" for who he'd put on a Bieber-McKenna-_____ line I'M CRYING HE IS SO MESSY 😭😭😭

[riley @moreitscider]

The team they’re building in Florida rn:

[˗ˏˋ ci ᯓ★ ˎˊ˗ @STCRCR0SSED]

this second paragraph specifically is so fucking important to be mentioned because nhlers are othered by nationality and it sounds crazy to people who don't know it

[Raine 🖤 show!Kyle truther VAMPIRE ERA @hamiltongoalies]

Why don't the Scott Hunter haters ever address the one ACTUAL problem with his casting which is that François Arnaud is the world's most perfect Eric Bennett

[水shui₈₇ 🦪 | #svethealings @fujobritta]

the thing is that i really wouldnt have a problem with hrtwt looking to real life hockey players if they were actually looking deeper and relating their experiences to a broader spectrum of issues in hockey culture instead of just going "omg this is literally ilya/shane irl"

[Leah Pierson @leah_pierson]

The residency selection process incentivizes medical students, writ large, to do research.

This is bad because:

1) Most people go to medical school to become doctors, not researchers. We should let them do the socially valuable thing they want to do and are presumably best at.

[Sasho Todorov @SashoTodorov1]

The depressing aspect to the Haiti TPS removal is that the hatred of the Springfield Haitian community is specifically *because* they are hardworking, churchgoing, families who raise their kids and aren't involved in the fent trade. They remind the locals of their failures.