koko

[♡ @sajz3zo]

bcs jiraiya has the most insane jutsu arsenal in the series—no magic eyes, no kekkai genkai, no clan, nothing but fucking gas

[h. @haerinfeed]

3 years with Powerpuff Haerin

[floppy @CactusFuturist]

Every server I played on like 13-15 years ago already had the sitting plugin for stairs and slabs. I was getting regular lap dances from the local gamer girl WHORES on faction servers while my little Steve voxel PECKER boinged up n down. These newgens have nothing.

[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.

[keegan @Keegan59992745]

Yea we suck at this sport
Yea we elect pedophiles
Yea we have a fentanyl crisis
Yea we can’t afford homes

😎

[MASTER STUDENT🤲🏾 @MUSICANDBUILDS]

NOBODY:

THE 2026 LAKERS:

[. @xdxdxd62621818]

my ex trying to reaper ult me mid crash out

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

"He always acted like he was smarter than us." - Front Office that just traded Jaylen Brown for 36 year old Paul George

[Miles @mtvsthewrld_]

GRIM REAPER POINTING TO HIS WRIST LIKE DAME DOLLA #ISTHISTHEDAGGER

[brandon* @brndxix]

USA playing down a man in honor of Charlie Kirk ✊

[riddy @Caydenail4]

Playing flex dps above the age of 22

[Billie @Billie_T]

First shoot out in America that’s not in a school

[MusChampion @Less_HumbleTeej]

LMAOOOOO YO

[ShitlibSupreme 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @ShitlibSupreme]

The Adolph effect is happening

[Anything NJZ ⚢ @LoveStarzz1]

and that's what happens when your legal system fails your most promising girl group

[curia @yizhuopinioes]

lembrei que enquanto nós brasileiros temos a floresta amazônica o japão tem a floresta de suicídio NÓS NÃO SOMOS IGUAIS GUYS

[Link🇻🇦 @ZeldaZealot]

The Japanese have discovered mothman and I’m realizing it’s the American equivalent of a Yokai

[mev 🏀🧸🌹 @mevvybear]

I’m not even kidding this is one of the greatest tweets of all time

[fenlon @1fenlon]

the way my friends just got me this cat for my birthday so that i wouldn't kill myself and it kinda Worked