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[The Figen @TheFigen_]

A young man recreated his father’s old modeling photos from years ago, and the results are absolutely beautiful.

[Liam Mitchell (Bucs Vault) @BucsArchive1976]

Week 16 - 2000 (10-5)
TB 38 STL 35
This is widely considered the greatest regular season game in Buccaneers history, as it should be. The game had it all. Huge plays on offense, takeaways and big hits on defense, back and forth scoring, a combined 9 Hall of Famers, primetime television when MNF on ABC was peak and two of the best teams in the NFL battling it out in a rematch of the 1999 NFC Championship game. I’ve charted “highlight” plays for nearly every game in Buccaneers history, which sure is subjective and yes reg season games do not hold the same value as Super Bowls/Playoff games but when you’re strictly talking number of “highlight" plays, I promise this game clears all. It's basically 3 hours of non-stop highlights from both teams. Jealous of the folks who were there that night.

[kendrick Lyrics @WordFromKdot]

2 years ago today, we heard Not Like Us for the first time… unforgettable 🔥

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

You see this kind of thing in struggling lower-income Southern households, and it tells a very specific story.
When life hasn't delivered much.... no wealth, no power, no real social standing.... some folks discover that white supremacy is basically a free membership card to a club that makes them feel superior without requiring any actual achievement.
It's the world's laziest status symbol.
The starter kit is always the same:
*A Confederate flag honoring a war their ancestors lost badly 160 years ago.
*A gun they'll never actually need.
*A Bible they've never actually read.
*And Fox News running 24/7 telling them they're REAL Americans.... unlike those fancy elitist Democrats who are secretly importing an army of replacement voters to steal their....
Their what exactly? Their Dollar General? Their 1987 Camaro on cinder blocks in the yard?
FOX found the formula, and they never let go of it: Take a man who has nothing, tell him the reason he has nothing is because those people are taking it.... and suddenly he's not a struggling nobody.
He's a soldier in a cultural war. He matters. He's relevant. He becomes a MAGA Warrior!
And THAT.... ladies and gentlemen.... is precisely how a twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, 34-time felon, bankrupt New York con man who golfs at his own resorts became the hero of the working man.
You genuinely cannot make this stuff up.
And I write this so that hopefully they will recognize what they have done and what they are doing and snap out of it.....
I was born and raised in Appalachia ... These very people could be my relatives ..... but ... I .... got common sense from my granny ----- "question everything". VIA~Lee Murphy

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

A new CNN investigation reveals that Trump and Hegseth have hid from the public how badly U.S. military sites in the Middle East have been damaged by Iran.

These new images are disturbing.

[Kadi🇪🇪🌻 @TheFl0orIsLaVa]

I lost brain cells watching this.

[Emmett Voss @Emmett_Voss]

J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings, on why he built the entire world of Middle-earth before writing a single story in it:

In a rare interview, Tolkien is asked why he spent 14 years building the world of The Lord of the Rings.

His answer reveals a philosophy of creation rooted in something deeper than storytelling.

When pressed on whether the hobbits and their world emerged from his unconscious, Tolkien pushes back. He describes himself as a "meticulous sort of bloke" who spent those years "finding time schemes and getting everything right."

The appendices, the languages, the social customs, the histories, all of it existed before the story did.

In fact, the world came first.

The Hobbit itself was almost an accident:

"It existed in posy and in large scale plan before The Hobbit was written. The Hobbit was intact originally an attempt to write something outside it and drew into it."

The interviewer, stunned, asks why.

Why invent an entire world before writing a single story in it?

Tolkien's response gets to the heart of his creative philosophy:

"Because being made by a creator, one of our natural factors is wishing to create. But since we aren't creators, we have to subcreate. Let's say we have to rearrange the primary material in some particular form which pleases us, which may it isn't necessarily a moral pleasing. It's partly aesthetic pleasing."

This idea of subcreation is the key.

Humans cannot make something from nothing, but we can rearrange what exists into forms that please us aesthetically, not just morally.

When the interviewer suggests that moral concerns must outweigh aesthetic ones, Tolkien disagrees.

He argues that an "aesthetic facet is as strongly to be predicated as a moral one in this world."

On the question of good and evil in his world, Tolkien clarifies that the Dark Lord was not always dark. He fell, "several stages down of Lucifer." The one ring, he notes, represents "a power so enormous that even if a good man were to use it against a bad it would corrupt the good man."

He emphasises this insight predates the atomic bomb. He was building these stories as an undergraduate, long before modern allegories could apply.

Asked finally whether he would rather be remembered as a man who said something or a man who made something, Tolkien refuses the distinction:

"I don't think you can distinguish. The made things unless it says something won't be remembered."

[Dylan Palacio @greentoepalacio]

If I had it my way, you’d wear that goddamn hat everywhere the rest of your pecker sucking life.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"I'm kind of tired of you being called pastor... you hate everybody. You attack Black people, gay people, immigrants, Jews. All you do is spread hate."

@Timodc confronts controversial Christian nationalist pastor Doug Wilson on Piers Morgan Uncensored.

[Nick Offerman @Nick_Offerman]

•The U.S. Senate may hold a floor vote TODAY which would overturn a 20-year moratorium on sulfide-ore copper mining on 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest land in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) Wilderness in northern Minnesota. The Boundary Waters is the most visited Wilderness in the United States. 

🛶 Enjoying the Minnesotan/Canadian wilderness by canoe or other lesser watercraft is one of our nations greatest available pastimes, and one I have personally enjoyed my entire life. We must protect these public lands from the rapacious capitalists threatening to turn them into a poisoned wasteland.

•This vote in Congress would open the door to copper mining at the headwaters of this entire ecosystem. This kind of mining produces toxic pollution, including acid runoff and heavy metals, that can contaminate nearby waters.

•The Boundary Waters supports a major outdoor economy that sustains thousands of jobs and generates over a billion dollars a year - built on clean water and intact public lands. But this vote would clear the way for toxic mining that puts all of that at risk. It would also set a dangerous precedent, making it easier to roll back protections for public lands across the country, including wilderness areas, national monuments, and national parks. 

•This is a defining moment. If you care about clean water, public lands, and protecting places we can’t replace, now is the time to speak up.
•Protect the Boundary Waters, and vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140. Let’s save this treasured place for all of us—forever. https://t.co/JhNAR6Za2O

[Acyn @Acyn]

Buttigieg: If you want a house, your mortgage went up because interest rates went up, because of this war. Your tank of gas got more expensive. The price of food this summer will be more expensive because fertilizer is more expensive because of this war. They are asking for an extra half trillion dollars for the defense budget. That is thousands of dollars from every household in this country. So we are paying directly for this. And what do we get in return? Is the world any safer? No

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Actual quotes from President Trump:

Trump’s “victory timeline” claims.

Mar 3: "We won the war."
Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully.
March 10: practically nothing left to target
Mar 11: “You never like to say too ⁠early you won. We won. In ​the first hour it was over.” Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
Mar 13: "We won the war."
Mar 14: "Please help us."
Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"

Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
Mar 24: "We’re making progress."
Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.” Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away."
Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO."
Mar 28: No major quote
Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing
Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing"
Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon."
Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not
Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences.

Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
April 6 :a whole civilization will die
April 7: total and complete victory
April8: objectives were met

A true disaster

[Billy Misanthrope @notesfromspain]

Probably the most accurate nailing of the MAGA base I have ever seen.

[pupapup @MatthewPlus]

@ochocinco Real one.

[pupapup @MatthewPlus]

@kwon Love that. 54 close to 55 in this city. Let’s go Kwon, love you too bud!

[Ari Meirov @MySportsUpdate]

BREAKING: #Bucs LB Lavonte David has announced his retirement after 14 seasons — all with Tampa Bay.

An ageless force, David was one of the most underappreciated and underrated players of his era, starting 215 games, winning a Super Bowl, and being a true class act on and off the field.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Project Hail Mary opened last week. Great film. But nobody is talking about the credits. They should be.

A guy with a telescope spent hundreds of hours collecting light from objects so distant that the photons hitting his sensor left their source before Rome was founded. His name is Rod Prazeres. His images ended up on 70-foot IMAX screens worldwide.

Look at what he captured. The Rosette Nebula is a cloud of gas 5,000 light-years away that has arranged itself into the shape of a human eye, ringed by fire. The Vela filaments are a stellar explosion still spreading outward through space – blue threads so fine they look like frost on glass. The dust pillar in the Pelican Nebula is manufacturing new suns right now. While you read this.

None of it was rendered. All of it is real.
Weir spent years getting the science right. The filmmakers felt the same way about the sky. When they needed something beautiful enough to close the film, they went looking for something that actually exists.
They found it. 5,000 light-years out.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Sal Bets @salbets_]

Most people don't know this but...

The UFC has a massive event tonight.

And here's exactly how you can take advantage in the betting market:

[RedWolf🐺 @RedWolfMMA]

When Michael Venom Page landed a literal skull crushing flying knee on Cyborg and then rolled a pokeball at him as he writhed around in pain has to be one of the most disrespectful things I've seen 😭😭

[pupapup @MatthewPlus]

@TheCinesthetic I always refer to this and A Clockwork Orange as the only perfect films I’ve ever seen. Brilliant.