Christo du Plessis

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[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Blue bags up.

Japan 2, Netherlands 2 — an absolute thriller in Arlington. And then the real show started.

The Japanese end pulls out thousands of bright blue bags. First they wave them like flags, bouncing and chanting until the whole section is one giant wall of blue. Then — same bags, new mission. They fan out across the stands and scoop up every bottle, wrapper and cup till the seats look brand new.

And who's right in the middle of it, grinning with a bag in his hand? Jameis Winston. Giants QB. Heisman winner. Out there cleaning up with the Samurai Blue like it's the best gig of his summer.

No chore. No lecture. Just a party that cleans up after itself.

Best fans on the planet. 🇯🇵💙

[Race @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk got rejected by Netscape. He walked into the lobby, was too shy to talk to anyone, and walked out. Never got the job.

At his first company Zip2, the board demoted him. Twice. They refused to let him be CEO.

He got fired from PayPal as CEO while flying to his own honeymoon. The board voted him out mid air.

He almost died of malaria in 2000. Ten days in intensive care. Lost 45 pounds. A day from death.

His first child died at 10 weeks old.

His first rocket exploded. Falcon 1, flight one. Burned on the pad.

His second rocket exploded.

His third rocket exploded. The last of his money was nearly gone.

Tesla nearly went bankrupt in 2008. The closest he ever came to a nervous breakdown.

Both companies almost died on the same Christmas Eve.

He was sued by investors. Mocked by the people who built cars before him.

His childhood heroes, the astronauts who inspired him, testified against his company to Congress.

The Cybertruck window shattered on live stage in front of the world.

He overpaid for Twitter by his own admission and watched its value collapse.

He was beaten unconscious as a child and thrown down a flight of stairs.

He has said he goes to sleep alone and it kills him.

He failed in public, over and over, for thirty years.

He is the richest man in the history of the world.

The difference was never the absence of failure. It was the refusal to stop after it.

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@DailyPicTheme2 Wheels are made to spin! And there’s more than one in the picture 😉

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@peterboghossian The money on paper is not the thing here - my delight in this is that success in what @elonmusk has been doing for a long time has been rewarded.

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@BorisJohnson And what is driving your lust 🤔

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@gregsherwoodmw I wonder of any of the class mates in the picture were involved in the bullying of @elonmusk

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@DailyPicTheme2 In the deep rural areas of Transkei 🇿🇦

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@DailyPicTheme2 #Pub @ home

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@PanoPhotos @NeilThin @drramyamurali @Steveontour2 @CumbriaSkyscape @donrisi @StuartH89403516 @Scotlandsviews @Kristin_Mae @IrishGirlJillE The port of Port Louis 🇲🇺

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Happy Sunday!

I think there is just enough yellow in this John Deere to qualify this photo for #SundayYellow.

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Moving a great Baobab. Saving the tree.

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