Good Vibes Villain.

Experienced Poetry Snapper. Walker Extraordinaire. Casual Reader.

[Good Vibes Villain. @DJCasualties]

This is a reminder to you (really me), to close the social media and pick up a book.

[Eddie Gonzalez @bansky]

Twitter is unreal lmao

[Mecha 🇵🇸 @electromechgirl]

Do boomers not understand that culture is downstream of material conditions. Do you guys just not understand that youth orientated destinations closed, gas and cars got expensive, and that by comparison the internet is free

[Aiden Chase 🧢 @AidenChase01]

@Trummors Zohranibad = Manhattan
Mamdanistan = All boroughs of NYC

[Good Vibes Villain. @DJCasualties]

@FestiveJeff @punishedmother @Trummors Let me write that down.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

@audramlove yea, i'm a bot

a bot to put deez nuts in your mouth

[Fascists showing why their moms never loved em🇲🇽 @NaziCringe]

I like how every time these fuckers get assaulted by someone it's always another white person.

[AT @primediscussion]

These clips continuing to spread have made Jaylen Brown’s “the bar is fucking low” comment an instant all-timer.

[Good Vibes Villain. @DJCasualties]

@hecubian_devil For a bunch of folks that only type on Twitter and/or engage in theory they miss this opportunity. Brad has put his body on the line for our immigrant neighbors. Surely that counts for something.

[Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil]

Leftists understand the concept of ideological pipelines, sheepdogs, wedge issues, kayfabe, etc, when it’s used by our enemies against us.

But when someone on our side is clearly doing the same thing—in this case, serving as a welcoming ideological entry point for people to move further down the anti-Zionist ideological pipeline—we have a tendency to reject it as hostile to our project.

It’s odd. We recognize that these tactics work for everyone else—right, center, center-left—but we eschew them when they could be useful to us.

To be clear: I’m very glad DSA is proudly and unequivocally anti-Zionist. We are the pole that people hopefully get moved towards. But I’m also glad people like Lander exist to help them get started on that journey!

A healthy political ecosystem has all these pieces and more! A healthy political ecosystem, like a real ecosystem, has diversity. Different people filling different niches in the system.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

the one conspiracy i believe is that this place is full of bots programmed to say insane, incendiary things and they're funded by foreign organizations who want to divide americans and destabilize US society

[魂(Tamashii33) 🥀💢💔| 🆓🍉 @Tamashii33_]

Let me make one thing god damn clear

As a child I learned very early that democrats were evil because my family and friends were always abandoned by the empty promises they made for immigrants

At least republicans acknowledge their hatred for us straight forwardly

Hasan was the FIRST non-spanish political speaker that I had ever encountered that would speak ACCURATELY of the struggle of immigrants that most dems are not even aware of

And called for the end of ICE

Fucking happy that he is talking about Lorenzo right now and staying consistent in his values

[Clarence Avant Jr. @OGPrinceAGAIN]

He was so right about the bar for being smartest in the room is low af in the league because for weeks we’ve heard nba players tell us how hundreds of millions of dollars isn’t enough money… meanwhile I’ve never once heard any of them mention any of this shit lol.

[needy girl is also over...watch anyway tho!! @justMizuyuki]

all im saying is the right loves to trash on how supposedly lefties r so unattractive they're sure to die alone or whatever but i've never heard of a case where someone fakes their politics for the sake of dating ppl politically to their right.

[Andy Lunique ➡️ Develop Brighton @InGameMenu]

Rory Sutherland spoke on the term "doorman fallacy". Love that guy, he speaks behavioral economics. It’s what happens when leadership cuts a line item that looks redundant on a spreadsheet, entirely missing the unmeasurable, qualitative value it actually drives.

Example: Of view a doorman strictly as a mechanical mechanism to open a door, replacing him with an automatic slider looks like an easy financial win. But if his actual function is elevating the hotel’s status, greeting guests, and commanding the curb, you didn't just cut cost, you downgraded the entire experience.

Let's look at it another way:
Restaurants (because of course). A spot facing financial pressure looks at the payroll and decides to eliminate the host, replacing them with a sleek iPad check-in kiosk.

The assumption is, You just wiped out an entire labor shift and optimized your front desk.
In reality: You killed the guest experience before they even sit down.

A tablet can’t read the energy of a room, smooth over a 20-minute table delay with a complimentary drink or app, or make a high-spending regular feel like a priority. You traded a vital hospitality touchpoint for a piece of glass. When repeat bookings tank and your average check drops because the vibe feels sterile, that spreadsheet "saving" becomes an expensive mistake.

In the next ten years, we'll learn whether yet another one of Sony's gambles was worth while, or will they have shown their nearly strangely loyal fan base how valuebale they really are.

I personally have little interest in continuing building a library with PlayStation, allowing my kids to invest, or being a champion to the platform for first time or returning players.

Sure there will be great experiences, but every purchase is tainted with the expectation of the brand not being in favor of the consumer, so I'll put my games on other platforms even if it's not the "best place to play"

[real person™ @shesarealperson]

we are in a cowardice epidemic. people avoid making any decisions at all. decisions are commitment and commitment requires the bravery to take responsibility for your desires. they would rather live in a state of possibility and ‘potential’ than run the risk of being wrong.

[Jack Freeman @jackfreeman]

This is how we know you guys don’t know shit about the body, or athletics in general.

First off: lifting heavy like a football player does nothing for your basketball game. Most basketball players don’t lift heavy at all unless they’re trying to put on mass. He’s 250. Clearly he doesn’t need that. Those are also 30s and not 15s. Not being able to read is also an issue for you

Secondly: this is a CORE workout. It’s about engaging your CORE while doing movements. Not shoulder pressing 60s to show how strong you are. You can’t do any of this btw bc you’re build like an accountant

Third: these things have worked for 23 years. And he’s one of the 3 best players to EVER play… doing things like this to maintain his functionality, athleticism, and increase his longevity… exactly what the fuck have you done?

[Rebs Gaming @Mr_Rebs_]

Michael Maynard, who worked at id Software for 21 years, says roughly 50% of id Software employees were laid off.

Michael says, “Microsoft/XBOX decided half the team was deemed useless…such a waste for an entire team dedicated to excellence for many years…Just really sad that this is how Id Software, the PIONEER/INNOVATOR of FPS action games is relegated to just another "reorganization" of assets.” #Xbox

[Jonathan Parkes Allen 🌹 @Mar_Musa]

If Pope Leo is in fact successfully able to run the right-wing larping phenomenon out of Christianity he should be canonized immediately after death, no further questions asked

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.