Kelea Quinn

Peak Performance Coach & Recurve Archer. PBs 575/18m. 560/25m. 650/50m. 625/70m. PROOF Planner is a free PDF to track performances and special projects. Try it!

[Kelea Quinn @KeleaQuinn]

Start every day with a miracle. Look in the mirror and know that you survived everything that came before. You will keep fighting this day too. Breathe. You can do this. 💘

[Scott Vander Dussen @VanderDussenS]

This is the original video. I shot it, I own it, and I am the creator of record. It is not open for reposting without permission.

Here is the part that has not made it into any of the coverage. That boy was moments from not coming back. A few seconds, a few degrees, a few yards of distance, and this is a very different story with a very different ending. And if it had ended that way, the lifeguard who went in after him would have been left to carry it largely on his own.

A firefighter, a police officer, or a paramedic who works a call that ends in a death has access to counseling, peer support, and critical incident debriefing. That exists because we decided as a country that the people we send toward the worst moments of other people's lives should not have to process those moments alone. Open water lifeguards, in most places, have none of that, because they are not categorized as first responders. Same water, same outcomes, same weight afterward, different classification on paper.

That is what H.Res. 1188 is about. It would formally recognize open water lifeguards as first responders and emergency response providers. It is sitting in committee right now. If you watched this video and felt something, that is the thing worth doing something about.

And in the meantime: watch your kids every second they are in the water, and swim near a lifeguard.

To the guards at Seabright and everywhere else, thank you. Nearly all of what you do never ends up on camera.

Video: Scott Vander Dussen / Instagram @santacruznow

[juan @juanbuis]

i can’t believe someone solved recipe design decades ago and everyone just decided to ignore it

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑒 @purelivn]

doing away with house courtyards was a very bad decision for humanity

[The Weird Canadian @Weird_Canadian]

Just a word to the people out there who think they need to assign themselves a political affiliation in order to discuss political topics.

You don't.
You can be your own person.
You can pick and choose what you like and what you don't like, be non-partisan, not associate or state you're part of any sort of political party 🤷

This is the problem with politics nowadays: you've got to be labeled to fit someone else's mold

[Laiiyylaa @Laiiyylaa]

My therapist once told me: Imagine being bitten by a snake and, instead of treating the bite, you waste time chasing the snake to understand why it bit you and prove you didn't deserve it.

[Inner Thoughts. @Decayedlov]

@tii_bag Nothing exposes entitlement faster than someone getting angry after losing access to something that was never theirs to begin with.

[Gnostic Rampage @GnosticR3301]

@heavensbvnny Oh damn, that’s the entire generation of X 😂

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

just watched my dog squeak a ball for 15 minutes and thought “wow dogs are so easily entertained.” Then I realized I just watched my dog squeak a ball for 15 minutes.

[Trevor Spencer @TSpencer260]

@RandBusiness You can always train skills. You can’t train intrinsic motivation.

[Dick Delingpole @DickDelingpole]

I do love a good café but I'm increasingly aware that the water will be unfiltered and fluoridated, the milk will be full of Bovaer, the food cooked with seed oils and the bread full of folic acid. I'd love to see a café make a stand against these unwanted additions.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

The truth is not only getting more attractive, but the lies are getting uglier.

[Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️ @EricJorgenson]

@WTSmith17 Never, ever apologize to ANYONE for the time you take to be a dad.

[Philip @outsidetheboxNL]

"There is a poverty that comes from having too little, but there is another that comes from needing too much".

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Arguing with NPCs is pointless

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The literacy crisis isn’t that people can’t read the words. It’s that they can’t understand the context, infer meaning, recognise nuance, identify contradictions, or draw logical conclusions from what they’ve read.

[𝒥𝑒𝓈𝓈 @worldreads]

terrible time to have a history degree & pattern recognition skills

[Elle34 @34Elle34]

@bitchuneedsoap @drawandstrike Never attribute to incompetence what can be attributed to fraud.

[Alan Poirier @alan_poirier]

@TristinHopper Amazing how the application of a modicum of common sense can fix just about anything.

[David Wolfe @DavidWolfe]

imagine how much propaganda it took to convince people that sunlight, the source of all life on earth, that animals seek out and plants turn to, is killing us.