Lathan Romero

Co-Host of @BabyBrainpod Podcast! Go stream!

[Lathan Romero @Lathan_R_R]

My homies on very different vibes right now

[𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor_]

This is basically what philosophers and anthropologists mean when they say that the 'individual' is a relatively modern construct, and that many other cultures conceive of people in a more porous, contingent, interwoven fashion. Weird as it sounds, it's just observably true.

[Radical Graffiti @GraffitiRadical]

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT (who left us 19yrs ago today) was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.

[Chioma Amadi @Chioma__Amadi]

If you’re hunting for a remote job, you just need to figure out how Reddit works, and you’ll never be unemployed for a long time.

Here’s a list of subreddits you should bookmark right now:

[Molly🎧🏳️‍🌈 @RasberryRazz]

France made this wastefulness illegal cause it’s cruel and only causes more waste issues. Any food market or restaurant over 400 square meters has to donate all their good unsold food to charities and are fined if they do anything like this. That law should be applied everywhere

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

If you have federal student debt, you may have recently received an email from the Department of Education telling student debtors who are in the SAVE forbearance to switch plans.

We want to encourage you to not rush this next step.

Take a deep breath. You have until September.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize.

Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness.

Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding.

He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history.

The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future.

A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite.

That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.

[wilma ⚢ @intherosewoods]

i read this advice when i was 13 and it literally changed my writing life i love it so much. finishing a paragraph with a long, solid sentence that feels earned to the reader is such a good experience

[Shadowhawke @Shadowhawke]

You dont get better by winning, you get better by playing well.

Release the desire to win, and replace it with tangible goals that you can say you passed or failed, regardless of winning or losing, to evaluate what next to work on.

Winning will be the by-product of playing well

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

I have spent much of my life doing things I'm bad at. I was the slowest swimmer on the swim team, the worst player on the soccer field, the somewhere-beyond-third-chair violinist, and the least-flexible yoga student in the room. Sometimes I hated it. I'm always glad I did it.

[Kurrco @Kurrco]

Trevor Noah references the Kendrick Lamar / Drake beef at the #GRAMMYs while introducing Kendrick Lamar:

"I thought about writing a few jokes roasting you, but then I remembered what you can do to light-skinned dudes from other countries.”
https://t.co/wapbaxWhGf

[SiinWop @siinwop]

“Hiphop is dead”

Stupidest agenda I’ve heard

[Lathan Romero @Lathan_R_R]

@Moshimadden Built the set, meant to sell for 3.97 sold for 397k
BIG L 😭 literally all my coins gone

[Peeps @PeepsYGO]

This is my favorite genre of post:

“Hi my name is John Capitalist Regulationsarebad. Recently I’ve noticed everything in Europe is better, healthier, and I’m happier being here. However, they have more wealth distribution and a social safety net. Can someone explain this to me?”

[Reed @ReedMySole]

Trying to argue that Hip-Hop is dead in 2025 is kinda foolish tbh.

[Mr GNX @MrGNX407]

Vince Staples On Kendrick Lamar Being The Greatest Hip Hop Artist Of All Time 🐐

[🐢✨America Is Musty✨🐢 @DragonflyJonez]

It’s like how he said “bullets breeze by you (bayou) like Louisiana mane” years before Brees was throwing bullets as a Saints QB. A prophet.

[untitled7549 @untitled7549t]

Mamdani: he he yes I did smoke pot tee hee

Cuomo: absolutely not. that’s disgusting and disgraceful

Silwa: