Shaker

Richmond Tigers fan, Denver Bulldogs player and USA resident.

[Ernest_soft 💯🙄🙄 @Ernest_soft]

@totalcristiano 😂😂😂😂

[FIFA World Cup Stats @alimo_philip]

🇦🇷 ABSOLUTE MADNESS IN NYC RIGHT NOW!

🗽Times Square is completely overrun by Argentines — they shut down every street around it because the crowd is INSANE!

🔥 What’s going on?! This energy is next level!

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

I don’t think people realize how absurd this is. Scottish runner Josh Kerr just broke the mile world record in 3:42.66, an average speed of 16.2 mph. Most people couldn’t even briefly reach that speed, let alone sustain it for an entire mile.

[AFL @AFL]

Tom Lynch kicks his 500th goal of an outstanding career 👏

#AFLTigersHawks

[Richmond FC 🐯 @Richmond_FC]

Celebration of the Meatball 💛

[Aviation @xAviation]

When the 747 and A380 line up, you stop and watch!

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

A college economics professor stated that he had once failed an entire class. That class insisted that socialism is functional and that no one should be poor and no one rich, that everyone is equal...

The teacher told them, "OK, we will do an experiment on socialism in this group.

All grades will be averaged, and everyone will get the same grade, so no one will fail and no one will get a 10."

After the first test, the grades were added up and divided by the number of students, and everyone got an 8.

The students who studied intensively were upset, but those who studied less were overjoyed.

As the second test approached, the students who had studied a little learned even less, and those who had studied more intensively told themselves that they also wanted a "handout", so they also studied less.

The average of the second test was 6.

When the third test was given, the average score was 4. To the great surprise of all the students, they all failed.

The teacher told them that socialism will eventually fail because when half the population sees that they cannot work, because the other half will take care of them, and when the half that worked realizes that there is no point in working anymore, because others are the beneficiaries of their labor, then that is the end of any nation
The story may be a fable not a fact but the moral is real
Get it?

[MatchReport @MatchReportH]

This Is Why We Love Football” — Zlatan Ibrahimović

“People in the USA always ask me why football is the greatest sport in the world. Tonight is the answer.

A nation playing at its first FIFA World Cup stood across from the defending world champions, a team filled with players who have won everything, and they never showed fear for one second.

Cape Verde didn’t park the bus and pray. They defended like lions, yes, but they also believed they could score. They believed they could hurt Argentina, and they did it twice.

Their goalkeeper refused to surrender. Their defenders never stopped fighting. Every substitution brought fresh legs and fresh belief. Even when Messi reminded everyone why he’s one of the greatest players in history, Cape Verde simply got up and fought again.

That’s what impressed me the most. They never accepted that they were supposed to lose.

This wasn’t only the first World Cup match for Cape Verde. This was a message to every small football nation around the world.

You don’t need a population of fifty million to compete. You don’t need the biggest league or the biggest budget. What you need is personality, belief and courage.

Argentina are through, and they deserve credit because champions always find a way.

But Cape Verde leave this tournament with something equally valuable. They leave with respect. Every football fan who watched this game will remember the night a tiny nation stood eye to eye with the world champions and refused to blink.”

#ARGCPV

[Chino @ChinoUTD]

🚨 Drogba on Cape Verde after Argentina’s win:

🗣️ Reporter:
“Argentina are through, but what did you make of Cape Verde?”

🗣️ Drogba:

“I don’t remember watching a team play Argentina with so little fear. Argentina scored. Cape Verde answered. Argentina scored again. Cape Verde answered with probably the best goal of the tournament.

At no point did they play like a team that believed they were supposed to lose. That’s what impressed me.

Before this tournament people asked me who the surprise package would be. Some said Croatia. Some said Japan. I don’t think anyone expected Cape Verde.

They played Uruguay. They played Spain. They played Argentina. And somehow every game felt like the other team had to earn it. They may be going home.…but they’ve made the whole football world remember their name.”

[Motivaciones Fútbol @MotivacionesF]

¡HONOR, CABO VERDE!

➟ En la primera Copa del Mundo de su historia.
➟ Empataron ante la Selección de España de Lamine Yamal, Pedri, etc.
➟ Empataron ante la Selección de Uruguay de Fede Valverde, Muslera, Loco Bielsa, etc.
➟ Sumaron sus primeros puntos en su historia de las Copas del Mundo.
➟ Llevaron hasta prórroga a la Selección de Argentina de Messi en los dieciséisavos.
➟ No perdieron ningún partido en los 90 minutos en todo el mundial.
➟ 3 de sus 4 partidos fueron ante Campeones del Mundo (España, Uruguay, Argentina).
➟ Aunque fue su primer mundial, parece que llevan jugando toda su vida jugando mundiales.
➟ Nos regalaron la mejor historia del mundial.
➟ Quedaron eliminados pero se ganaron el respeto de todo el mundo.

DE PIE ANTE LA SELECCIÓN DE CABO VERDE.

[Community Notes & Violations @CNviolations]

Bro is huge

[Joey Mannarino @JoeyMannarino]

Take a good, hard look at this video.

A tiny 9-year-old girl, standing there looking lost, confused, and completely out of place while these grown men swarm all over her.

One’s got his arm draped around her, patting her head like she’s a pet, gesturing and smiling as if this is some joyous occasion.

This is her wedding. To an adult man.

Islam not normal, it’s not “culture,” and it sure as hell isn’t harmless religion.

This is straight-up child abuse and pedophilia dressed up in religious clothing, the same sick practice their prophet normalized when he married a 6-year-old.

We need to call it exactly what it is and stop pretending otherwise.

[Josip @l3d1c]

🇭🇷 Croatia got eliminated from the World Cup by a closed-source sensor.

FIFA says the Kinexon chip in the Trionda "proved" Matanović touched the ball. Absolute disgrace. What actually happened: they ran signal processing over 500Hz IMU data from a 14-gram sensor and isolated a supposed contact spike from thousands of noisy samples dominated by bladder harmonics, panel flex, spin wobble and stadium micro-tremors, then nullified one of the most dramatic World Cup equalizers in history via spectral analysis of what is essentially glorified noise.

Oh, and it gets better. They moved the chip this year. Back in 2022, it used to hang suspended in the center of the ball. Now it's glued into the sidewall of ONE panel, with counterweights stuffed into the other three so the ball doesn't fly like a shopping cart. So sensitivity now depends on which side of the ball the "contact" happens relative to the sensor. Totally fine basis for ending a nation's tournament.

An IMU measures acceleration. Somewhere in a proprietary pipeline, a threshold decides which acceleration counts as "touch." That threshold is unpublished. The false positive rate is unpublished. The calibration data is unpublished. The patents are literally still in their secrecy window. And FIFA owns the raw data, so nobody can independently audit the trace that ended Modrić's last World Cup.

And we're all supposed to accept a "heartbeat graphic" on the broadcast as if that settles anything.

Since we sadly all know you won't ever admit your crimes or remove this technology for good, at least open source the detection pipeline, @FIFAcom!

Publish the thresholds, the error rates, the raw IMU trace from last night. If the tech is right, transparency costs nothing, right?

[🇺🇸🇩🇪🦉 @jonahcelona]

• Suspension lifted so he can play the first 2 games
• Penalty not given to Colombia
• Colombia robbed of a legal goal
• Penalty to Portugal when they are losing
• Croatia robbed of legit goal

This is going to be the most rigged World Cup ever

[rainer 🇦🇱 @theomaniaa19]

IL PALLONE NON CAMBIA DI MEZZO MILLIMETRO LA DIREZIONE.

NON ESISTE NESSUN IMMAGINE CHIARA CHE LO TOCCA.

DOVEVA ESSERE CONVALIDATO COME GOL REGOLARE DA REGOLAMENTO GIA CHE NON ESISTE NESSUN IMMAGINE.

IL FURTO PIU SCHIFOSO DELLA STORIA DEL PALLONE.

[T/R Football @Trfootballx]

🚨🗣️ Wayne Rooney: "Daylight robbery man, this is unacceptable. How is that offside when the ball clearly hit the head of Veiga! Saw Modric laugh and I said yeah the ref is a joke."

"Ronaldo and Roberto Martinez should know they don't deserve this win."

[FAN INTER-MESSI @FANFOOTMESSI]

🚨🗣️ Zlatan Ibrahimović sur Fox Sports :

« Ils ont annulé la suspension de 3 matchs de Cristiano. Ils n'ont pas expulsé 2 joueurs portugais contre la RD Congo pour une faute méritant un carton rouge.

Il y a quelques jours, ils ont refusé un but légitime de victoire pour la Colombie et maintenant ils ont refusé un but de la Croatie qui aurait pu leur faire gagner le match.

Pourquoi la FIFA accorde-t-elle autant de favoritisme à Cristiano Ronaldo et au Portugal ? »

[El Pelado De La TV @peladodelatv]

La FIFA está eliminando este vídeo de todas las redes sociales porque demuestra que le robaron el partido a Croacia. ¡Míralo mientras puedas!

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🇺🇸 INCREDIBLE! DC will have over SEVEN HOURS STRAIGHT of flyovers on America’s 250th birthday, featuring COUNTLESS military aircraft, including the new Air Force One

… and possibly even even the new STEALTH bomber, the B-21 👀

America is about to have an INCREDIBLE birthday! 🔥

(h/t @PenguinSix for the schedule!)