steve!

~ singing mounted fish enthusiast ~ Singer/Producer/Arranger ~Cedi Osman stan

[Anthony @omgitsbirdman]

you know whats crazy Fox should have done what JR did and JR should have done what Fox did

[steve! @99shinetime]

@NekiasNBA Oh no

[Scott Robertson @counterscottGO]

anti-ICE Wemby vs. Mamdani's Knicks, woke is so back

[steve! @99shinetime]

@NekiasNBA Gotta love when u have the receipts

[steve! @99shinetime]

I’m sorry did @stevejones20 say, “is it that sweet I guess so” on today’s pod? @dunkerspotpod did I hear that correctly? If so, swag

[Cleveland Cavaliers @cavs]

CHANGE OF PLANS: CLASSIC EDITION TOMORROW. #LetEmKnow

[Hoop Central @TheHoopCentral]

Charles Barkley talking about Max Strus:

"That's a pretty man…He's a good looking man…I would not look him dead in the eyes.” 🤣🤣🤣

(h/t @ohnohedidnt24)

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Graduate 'ghosted' by employers has applied for 400 jobs and had only three interviews https://t.co/sTWpjRnjt2

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize.

Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness.

Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding.

He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history.

The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future.

A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite.

That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.

[steve! @99shinetime]

@RealDCunningham It looks to be about 6-8 inches extended? ended at the painted part before I’m guessing

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

The Cleveland Cavaliers are signing two-way forward Nae'Qwan Tomlin to a new two-year, $3 million guaranteed contract, agent Aaron Turner of Verus Basketball tells ESPN. Tomlin has served as a reliable, energetic reserve for the Cavs.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

ICE Chases Protestor In Major Escalation in Minnesota — Air Force Called In

[steve! @99shinetime]

@HPbasketball 😂😂😂😂

[Cleveland Browns @Browns]

it's your last chance this season to win an authentic practice jersey!

hit us with a repost for your shot at bringing home a piece of our weekly routine 🔁

@Binary_Defense | #DawgPound

[steve! @99shinetime]

This is terribly sad and if you don’t care about the quality devolving that’s ok bc neither do the people in charge

[The Kennedy Center @TKCOfficial]

ONE NIGHT ONLY!

Experience the heart of Christmas at the Kennedy Center!

Charles Billingsley and special guest Matthew West present 𝘕𝘰𝘦𝘭: 𝘑𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘴 𝘐𝘴 𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘯
—a spectacular evening of timeless carols, big band joy, a live nativity, and a celebration of faith.

7:30 PM on December 17th.

Tickets⤵️
https://t.co/ug0aBIcGMM

[#3 @NaLyssaSmith]

i don’t watch football but i’m now a browns fan

[steve! @99shinetime]

@cavsdan @cavs Deep fried ham ☺️

[Haley Britzky @halbritz]

NEW: A distinguished female Navy captain within Naval Special Warfare — a Purple Heart recipient with experience w/ SEAL Team Six — was expected to take command this summer, when it was abruptly cancelled just days before. The impression within the NSW community: Secretary Hegseth did not want a woman fronting a role that would recruit special operations.

Her career is now effectively over.

That and more about how women in the military are being impacted by current policies and rhetoric around their service, w/ @brikeilarcnn @ikhurshudyan
https://t.co/hZbSFSPqc6

[McNeil @REFLOG18]

Paul DePodesta after nine years with the Browns

[steve! @99shinetime]

hamburger

[Pablo Torre 👀 @PabloTorre]

🚨 UPDATE: Clippers owner Steve Ballmer has been sued by 11 Aspiration investors who allege Ballmer used the company (now named Catona) "to secretly funnel millions of dollars to star NBA player, Kawhi Leonard [...] paying him more than allowed by the NBA’s salary cap rules" 🧵