So It Goes

My mind is broken. Please help. Or don't.
And he dons the cloak of elitism and wields the dagger of douchebaggery…

[Yves-Angeline @AdamantxYves]

That titty shake took me OUT 😹

Like there was no reason for it, and I live.

[Ben Mwaba, PEIZ @mwaba_ben]

One thing about adulthood that way too many people learn way too late (and have no choice but to learn the hard way): you have to be deliberate/proactive about everything. For the first time in your life, you can't be passive participant in anything.

[ISLAND BOY 🏝🍒 @ISLANDBOYY11]

Ryan Gosling and Popcaan 😭

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

When I was young I thought things were bad because solutions were complicated, and now I’m older and realize things are bad because the solutions are often simple, but they would inconvenience affluent people, or those who aspire to be, and religious fanatics.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

For the first time, the original Pakistani cypher — cable I-0678, the document that triggered the removal of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan — released in full by Drop Site.

The classified document, known as a cypher, shows that State Department diplomats had threatened in 2022 that Pakistan would suffer greatly if Khan remained in office, but that “all would be forgiven” if he were removed in a no-confidence vote.

The Biden administration was infuriated over Khan’s refusal to grant rights for U.S. drone bases in Pakistan, as well as his neutral stance on the Russia-Ukraine war.

@MazMHussain | @ryangrim | @worqas

🔗 Read the full story at Drop Site News

[Piers Morgan Uncensored @PiersUncensored]

"I wouldn't have agreed to come on the show if I'd known we were going in this direction..."

Liverpool fan Mehdi Hasan reluctantly congratulates Piers Morgan on Arsenal winning the Premier League.

📺https://t.co/XiEPiQwlO9

@piersmorgan | @mehdirhasan

[Ben Davis @BenTheBaneDavis]

I truly believe with his stopping power and long range if he’s able to stay on the outside and target Usyk’s midsection he has a real shot of getting KO’d in the third

[Max Marchione @maxmarchione]

In some very real sense, Ozempic was invented in 1990. Pfizer ran the human trials and just never published them.

They showed it lowered blood glucose in diabetics, slowed gastric emptying, and killed hunger; the same 3 things that make Ozempic work today.

The joint venture agreement said internal data stayed internal, and that was that. Pfizer killed the program in 1991. The reasoning, as far as I can tell, was that nobody would ever want an injectable diabetes drug besides insulin.

So, the license went back to the hospital in Boston that held the patents.

Novo picked it up in 1992 and spent the next two decades building liraglutide, then semaglutide.

It's insane that data sat in a filing cabinet for 30+ years.

I only know this because Jeffrey Flier, one of the Harvard scientists in the room, finally wrote it up. He's in his late 70s and didn't want the history to die with him.

This makes you wonder what else is in those filing cabinets.

Ozempic could've existed 27 years ago.

[Rodger Sherman @rodger]

no 6-foot-6 adult has ever looked more like a 12-year old than Carter Bryant being hugged by Wemby

[Focused 🧘🏾‍♂️👁️ @xonphused]

You loose your essence and flavor?

[Cerebral Assassin @xysist]

Some people are asking what securitization of fuel is and I want to explain using a simple analogy using a cow

A short thread :

[‎🧜🏿‍♀️ @Mamiwatar]

"He’s been laughing at memes all day. Show him a post of someone his age buying a car"

[Willis Evans Otieno @otienowill]

Are some people in this country considered more human than others? When ordinary citizens are struggling with rising fuel prices, high taxation, collapsing purchasing power, and an unbearable cost of living, the political class remains heavily cushioned by public money. MPs continue receiving generous fuel allowances, car maintenance allocations, and multiple taxpayer-funded privileges while the same taxpayers financing those luxuries are being told to tighten their belts and endure economic hardship “for the sake of national stability.”

That contradiction is morally disturbing.

The ordinary Kenyan pays more for transport, food, electricity, and basic survival every single month, yet leaders insulated from that suffering continue operating within a protected economic bubble financed by the very people carrying the burden. Austerity is constantly prescribed to citizens but rarely practiced by the political elite themselves.

A serious government cannot continuously demand sacrifice from the public while preserving comfort at the top. Leadership should begin with shared hardship, not institutionalized privilege.

“A society begins to decay the moment leaders are protected from the suffering they impose on the people.”

[Bob Golen @BobGolen]

Asked my algebra teacher if I would ever use algebra after I graduated. She said I wouldn't, but some of the smart kids will.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

58,000 Americans died in Vietnam.

Over 3,000,000 Vietnamese died.

And for fifty years, American culture has centered the grief of the 58,000 while treating the 3,000,000 as a backdrop.

As scenery. As context. As "the Vietnam War experience."

They built a wall in Washington with American names on it.

A beautiful wall. A solemn wall.

Good. Mourn your dead.

But understand what that wall does not say.

It does not say why they died.

It does not say what they were doing there.

It does not say what was done in their name to the people whose country it actually was.

It does not mention My Lai, where American soldiers massacred an entire village, old men, women, children, babies, and the officer who ordered it served three years of house arrest before being pardoned.

Three years. House arrest. Pardoned.

For five hundred people murdered in a ditch.

It does not mention the 2.7 million acres of Vietnamese forest doused in Agent Orange, a chemical weapon disguised as herbicide, that is still deforming Vietnamese children today.

Not in 1970. Not in 1985. Today.

Children born in 2020 with bodies twisted by a war their grandparents fought.

And the chemical companies that made it are still in business.

Still profitable.

Still un-prosecuted.

And yet they send us human rights reports.

They grade our democracy.

They warn us about our behavior.

The audacity is so enormous it becomes almost impressive.

Almost.

[Kim Iversen 🇺🇸 @KimIversenShow]

Iran SHOULD get a nuke.

[Charity @tiny_charoh]

Me when he takes me to his hidden gem hangout spot

[est.1997 (but spooky) @MOLENAIDE]

Fun Fact: the band here (Puffy Ami Yumi) is actually called Puffy. But when promoting in the states they have to add legally add “Ami Yumi” to their name because P Diddy tried to sue them over copyright infringement since he went by “Puffy” at the time

[Frank J. Fleming @IMAO_]

Interestingly, Xena Warrior Princess had a black Helen of Troy thirty years ago, but race wasn’t a big deal back in the 90s.

[Nyakundi Report @NyakundiReport]

Protests over high fuel prices take a different turn in Kitale, Trans-Nzoia County as residents turn a section of the bus park into a running track, with touts and drivers engaging in relay races.