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[Maria Tikas @MariaTikas]

Sense entrar a jutjar les decisions de cap jugadora, perquè no ho he fet ni ho faré, sí que crec que al Barça no se li pot retreure res.

Salma va arribar com una aposta de club quan no era futbolista a temps complet, va créixer molt gràcies a la feina de Giráldez i Pere Romeu, amb un pla individualitzat, i hi ha hagut moments de tot. Se l'ha cuidat molt i se li ha fet la millor oferta possible dins dels límits marcats (com també va passar amb Ona Batlle). Marxa havent fet un gran tram final de temporada i amb el record del Camp Nou i d’Oslo

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 Official, confirmed. Andreas Christensen signs new two year deal at Barcelona. 🔵🔴

Exit option in summer 2027 part of verbal pact.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

In January, our administration inherited a $12 billion budget deficit — a fiscal crisis greater than the Great Recession. 

Today I am proud to announce that our balanced budget has cleared the final step and passed the New York City Council. 

We balanced the budget by taxing the rich and making government more efficient. We did not balance this budget on the backs of working people, and we never will. 

Every year that follows will build on these principles: Honest budgeting. Fiscal discipline. Transparent government. And an unwavering belief that working people deserve a government that delivers for them every day.

[Florian Plettenberg @Plettigoal]

🚨🇩🇪 A personal note: @jonatah is a hero. One of our leaders. One I wasn’t just proud of yesterday. One who actually had the guts to take one. One who scored and celebrated exactly the way you should celebrate.

I am ashamed, as a German, of all the *** who are now defaming and insulting him. Absolutely disgraceful. I hope there isn’t a single follower from my community among them. If there is, please let me know. They will be removed immediately.

Every reasonable German and millions of fans around the world feel exactly the same. No doubt about it. Full support for our defensive leader.

[Maria Tikas @MariaTikas]

Els comentaris d’aquest post (i de tots els que s’han fet ressò del seu missatge) fan molt fàstic.

Parlem d’una malaltia que afecta més del 10% de les dones en edat reproductiva, amb un retard històric en el diagnòstic, que provoca un dolor crònic incapacitant, que pot afectar la fertilitat i que, avui dia, ni tan sols té una cura. En molts casos, l’únic que s’ofereix és tractament hormonal, amb tots els efectes secundaris que això comporta, per intentar controlar els símptomes.

Però encara hi ha qui ho redueix a un “pren-te un ibuprofèn i ves a treballar”.

Si això afectés majoritàriament els homes, costa de creure que continués sent una malaltia tan infradiagnosticada, tan poc investigada i tan banalitzada

[Bright Simons @BBSimons]

"How you do anything is how you do everything."

[Avenati @Bartho_AA]

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[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthleticFC: Penalty shootouts are brutal. Is there a better way to settle tied games? A fairer way? A more fitting test of skills?

We asked our writers and this is what they think the World Cup can steal from other sports: https://t.co/r4KfBlk4e1

[ESPN Africa @ESPNAfrica]

They got Freddie Gibbs in a Congo jersey after fans called him Yoane Wissa 😂🇨🇩

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[Zito @_Zeets]

I feel like Americans always think in excess. The tension of the World Cup comes from the fact that it is every four years and cycles through generations of players. It’s something to wait for and build up to.

[Neal 🇦🇺 @NealGardner_]

France now have Sweden and Paraguay on route to the Quarters…

Curious: are people going to say the World Cup is “rigged” for them too?

[Rafael Hernández @RafaelH117]

Argentina wins these easy Copa América titles because they only face teams like Ecuador and Paraguay, both countries who beat Germany. Heh.

[Bright Simons @BBSimons]

We rationalise underdevelopment when we justify low thinking & poor imagination by blaming poverty.

If I got a dollar anytime someone said to me that so and so shallow reasoning outcome should be excused because so and so people are disabled by "bread and butter issues," I would have beat Musk to a trillion dollars.

I blame Maslow. He made it too easy for his ideas to be bastardised. Now, the "poverty blocks thinking" excuse has a pyramid to hide behind.

The animated video attached to this post depicts the so-called "Antikythera Mechanism." It is more than 2000 years old.

Discovered in fragments in 1902 by a Greek Politician, several experts worked day & night to reassemble and unlock its inner workings.

The machine, sometimes called the world's first analog computer, embodies 500 years of Greek conceptual thinking. But for what?

It tracked the moon, aligned calendars, & modelled the cosmos.

Why was such exquisite and painstaking engineering deployed to grasp such distant phenomenon?

Didn't the Greeks have mouths to feed? Leaking roofs to patch? Textiles to weave?

They did, but the stars could not wait.

We like to tell ourselves a tidy story about progress. First bread, then stars. First fix the roads, the drains, the clinics, the hunger - and only then, much later, may a poor society permit itself to dream about higher concepts. Survival first then imagination.

What the Antikythera machine tells us is that progress doesn't have that patience.

The Greeks realised that watching the constellations could help manage harvests better. Reading Orion might save a fortune from drowning. Learning about fluids and screws together can overcome an invading army.

Meeting basic needs also opens the door to climbing higher logic.

Imagination is not the scarce resource we like to pretend it is. It is everywhere, already at work, disguised as survival.

Given the reputation of the Greeks as pioneers, you might be tempted to think that this was merely the product of broad social enlightenment.

Well, the period during which the pieces that became Antikythera were being assembled over hundreds of years were far from advanced. Thw average Greek was far from Plato.

Most Greeks then were poorer than the average Botswanan or Moldovan today. Most couldn't read. Life expectancy was barely 40.

In some Greek towns then, when a pandemic hit, random people were selected, painted, slapped & tossed out of the town in the hope of abating the disease (read about "pharmakos"). Hardly Xanadu.

Yet there were pockets, subcultures, of mind-boggling genius. People calculated the size of the Earth using sticks & shadows. And the distance to the moon using rods and discs.

Such pockets can be found today in Kokompe and Suame Magazine too, in the little folds of our daily lives.

The spirit is in the soups that take 4 hours to make. And the funeral mourning display and its sequenced rhythms.

Do these elaborate tapestries not flourish in the midst of poverty because they matter more than food?

The real question is why so little of these sparks of elaborate imagination and creativity accumulate into broad changes in our societies.

Into industrialisation, modernisation, city planning, and all the higher order systems we seem to crave.

Funny enough, Antikythera also begs this same question.

That machine did not start an industrial revolution. It became a fossil. The workshop vanished, the patrons died, the knowledge stayed trapped in too few hands - and the sea swallowed the rest.

What was missing was not genius. It was a big enough subculture to grow around it. Call it a conversion belt. Think of it as the difference between a miracle and a civilisation.

And this is exactly where too many of our economies stall today. We celebrate the occasional hero, the sudden breakthroughs, but fail to form clubs to sustain the spark.

Yes we are saddled with "bread & butter issues," but we can always choose to make it about "bread & stars" if we want.

[M.anifest @manifestive]

Please stop amplifying Ebo hwaen hwaen. People are going thru real tragic losses and trauma from the floods and here goes another charlatan that should never have been platformed being opportunistic. Kmt.

[footballytics | change the ǝɯɐƃ @footballytics_]

#FIFAWorldCup📊
Always #Messi
After the group stage, the standout attacking profiles are not only finishers, but players who also create for others.
High xA plus strong xG/goal threat shows who is involved in both the final pass and the final action.
#ViniJR #Haaland #Albiceleste

[Weffrey Jellington @jeffwellz]

Not that it would make it okay if it were the politician, but sometimes it’s not even them. It’s their child going to buy Matcha and not wanting to sit in traffic.

[Michael Essien® @MichaelEssien]

Some good memories ⚽️♥️

#blackstars🇬🇭 #germany2006🇩🇪 #worldcup

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: A Mexican “Batman” has reportedly emerged in Jalisco, hunting motorcycle thieves & taping them to street poles.

[DopeFutImage @FutDope]

Wait till he gets to 78.
Brazilians will find another player called Freekickahino with 82 goals.

[Outspoken™️ @Out5p0ken]

On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded:

“Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”