Douglas Loft ✝️👨‍🚒

Every day's a gift.

[Douglas Loft ✝️👨‍🚒 @DouglasLoft]

@deadbeargulch @i_danieall Best live album ever.

Lucked into seeing him live in a small bar near Nashua, New Hampshire.

One of life's great memories.

[Douglas Loft ✝️👨‍🚒 @DouglasLoft]

@SandyofCthulhu I loved this game!

Damn the consequences, it was worth it!

Many thanks to the whole team.

We ran a dedicated Quake server on a T1 while others lagged out. Those were the days...

[Douglas Loft ✝️👨‍🚒 @DouglasLoft]

This story just keeps getting worse, but let's go back to the beginning.

It's April of '23. I'm fighting cancer. Despite that, I've turned over all my '22 information to my long time CPA @CLAconnect in time for filing.

On April 13, I receive a notice stating all has been received and it's ready for transmittal. I've Docusigned everything.

Routine. We've done this for... decades ?

Still, I send an email on the 13th to confirm it's completed.

Extra careful.

"I did the docusign. Are we done?"

No answer.

It's tax season, he's probably busy...

[Douglas Loft ✝️👨‍🚒 @DouglasLoft]

@CLAconnect was my accountant for many years. Business and personal. They screwed up my 2022 personal taxes so bad it cost me over $9,000 today. They were not just incompetent. They also lied to me about it. Then they ghosted me. Buckle up, you won't believe a large accounting firm can behave like this. I'll add a 'chapter' a day to this story right here...

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Croatian freediver Vitomir Maričić achieved one of the most extraordinary feats in human history by holding his breath underwater for 29 minutes and 3 seconds, a new Guinness World Record.

Experts had long considered such a duration impossible. While a trained dolphin can typically hold its breath for 8–10 minutes and most humans can barely manage one or two, Maričić remained completely still underwater for nearly half an hour on a single breath.

The attempt pushed his body to extreme limits. As the minutes passed, powerful contractions wracked his diaphragm and his organs endured intense physiological stress. Yet through years of rigorous training, mental discipline, and specialized breathing techniques, he stayed calm and focused until the end.

What makes this record even more impressive is Maričić’s purpose. He didn’t do it for fame or personal glory, he used the achievement as a powerful platform to raise global awareness about ocean conservation, marine protection, and the urgent threats facing our oceans.

A stunning demonstration of human potential and a heartfelt call to protect the planet’s most vital ecosystem.

[MattZ @wvmattz]

Moments ago, we watched the departure of SpaceX multipurpose support vessel, Doug, from Port Canaveral. The latest info says it's destined for Jacksonville... but why? Maybe @TurkeyBeaver could give us some juicy info? 😀

@NASASpaceflight | https://t.co/2B3Q119t2x

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Pessimists sound smart. 

Optimists build the world.

[BowTiedYukon @BowTiedYukon]

22 year old fitness influencers tell you that you need 8 hours of sleep, stretching followed by a good warm up, train scientifically, the sauna, a cold plunge and no microplastics

Most fathers are running on 5 hours of sleep, 400mg of caffeine, a quick warm up, crush a lift, meat & potatoes & disciple to get through the day

The world was built by men who showed up tired, not by men waiting for perfect conditions

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Polish prodigy Marcin Patrzalek responds to those claiming his music is fake.

Watch this tutorial breakdown: One guitar, zero fakes – mastering melody, bass, and percussion all at once.

[Douglas Loft ✝️👨‍🚒 @DouglasLoft]

@Cernovich This man's actions are inexcusable.

He doesn't represent a generation.

[BowTiedBull.eth - Read Pinned or NGMI @BowTiedBull]

Can't tell you how much value there is in forgetting the "vacation home". Better to just rent since the upkeep is absurd for something you use 3-4 months a year

One house is good enough for 99.99%. Only exceptions are tax set ups etc.

[Douglas Loft ✝️👨‍🚒 @DouglasLoft]

My family has been in the commercial painting business going back 90 years. Caulking is easily one of the least appreciated skills one picks up and it takes practice. My brother excelled at it; his beads always looked factory made.

Tougher than it looks, eh?

Use a plastic (not metal) scraper to remove the mess so you don't damage anything.

[Douglas Loft ✝️👨‍🚒 @DouglasLoft]

@Truthful_ast That's an R/V.

We're putting R/V's on the moon?

Outstanding!

[USTA @usta]

Robert Cash and JJ Tracy are the No. 15 seed in men's doubles at Roland Garros.

After being standouts at @OhioStateMTEN and semifinalists at last year's US Open, their journey is more than two years in the making.

[Douglas Loft ✝️👨‍🚒 @DouglasLoft]

This is the proper approach to life.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Psychologists did tests where they showed that losing hurts way more than winning feels good. Loss aversion. For me it’s the opposite. I shake off losses - black them out completely to the point I don’t remember. Avoiding losses would be a bad strategy for me. I chase wins.

[Douglas Loft ✝️👨‍🚒 @DouglasLoft]

@Cernovich @adamscrabble @BowTiedBull Nice messaging.

[Douglas Loft ✝️👨‍🚒 @DouglasLoft]

@adamscrabble Yes, thank you Adam.

[HAKİMİYET KANUNLARI @HAKMYETKANr1]

Lenfatik drenaj egzersizi olarak bilinen bu hareket, lenf akışını hızlandırırken tüm vücutta kan dolaşımını artırıyor.

Üstelik tek bir egzersizle neredeyse tüm kas gruplarını aktif şekilde çalıştırıyor.

Birçok uzmana göre; enerji, dolaşım ve hareket kabiliyeti açısından dünyanın en etkili egzersizlerinden biri olabilir… 👇

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.

And honestly, it explains a lot.

We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.

We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.

That is not a small thing.

People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.

Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.

We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.

We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.

We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.

We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.

And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.

That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.

A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.

We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.

That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.

But we exist.

We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.

And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

[Brandon Avedikian @bavedikian]

Legalized sports betting destroys the lives of young men. It will turn out to be one of the most harmful public policy decisions ever.

I saw a video of a young man with a massive following (his name is Alex Eubank) talking about how a casino offered him $80K/month for a brand deal.

He explains that he turned it down because in order for the casino to make money, his audience has to lose money. And whatever they pay him, his audience will lose much more.

He talks about how these casinos target influencers with young, impressionable audiences to take advantage of them, and that no amount of money would convince him to take the deal.

Mad respect to this young man.

The NFL, NBA, and MLB should take notes.

Going all in on promoting sports betting to their fans is a disgrace. It’s a morally bankrupt move to drive profits by taking money from young, impressionable, often struggling, men.

They should be ashamed.