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10% off! Go Optimus! Go Grok! Go "sum of your parts" collide & collab in the future! And kudos also to the pioneering mind whose name is hidden in the design & the unnamed brilliant plethora of minds developing you both! Design available on mugs/apparel/stickers/etc at https://t.co/KgQnzPjK4v (Design created w/Canva Pro & AI artwork created by Nick Marques for Canva Pro :-) @grok@Tesla_Optimus@spacex@Tesla@elonmusk@neuralink #AI #ArtificialIntelligence Blessed be X'ers!! 😀
A musical start to the day 📚🎶 His Majesty officially opened the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for Humanities at the University of Oxford.
This centre brings together seven humanities faculties and research institutes, along with world-class libraries, exhibition areas and performance spaces.
During the visit, The King met representatives from local community groups, visited the Bate Collection of musical instruments and viewed the Sohmen Concert Hall.
🚨 BREAKING: Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, who Biden FIRED for exposing rampant DEI in the Pentagon, has just been confirmed by the Senate as Under Secretary of the Air Force
WHAT A COMEBACK! 🔥
Well deserved, @matthewlohmeier! 👏
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JD Vance reveals what his family found after his devout, f-bomb loving grandmother died.
VANCE: "She was a woman of very devout Christian faith. She loved the f-bomb.
"When she died, we discovered 19 loaded handguns in her house.
"Not just 19, but 19 spread randomly all over her house.
"What the hell did she need with a loaded handgun in the silverware drawer?
"She wanted to make sure that no matter where she was, if somebody walked into her house in Middletown, Ohio, she had a loaded handgun within arms reach because she couldn't move around that well."
They just don't make 'em like that anymore.
تُثبت الأبحاث المشتركة بين بلدية إسطنبول الكبرى ومختبرات علم الاجتماع الحضري، أن المدينة نجحت جغرافياً في تحويل كتل الشوارع إلى أكبر محمية حضرية مفتوحة في العالم تضم ما بين 125,000 إلى 300,000 قطة شاردة مستقرة بيئياً؛ حيث يستند هذا الاندماج الاجتماعي الفائق إلى القانون التركي لحماية الحيوان رقم 5199 (بروتوكول ممنوع القتل وممنوع الحجز)، مما خلق قوة تسويقية ناعمة وسياحة تخصصية تضخ ملايين الدولارات سنوياً في الاقتصاد المحلي عبر "البصمة الرقمية" السياحية، لتتحول القطط بذكائها التكيفي من كائنات شاردة إلى مواطنين مشاعين ذوي سيادة (Communally Owned Pets) يديرون المشهد السياحي العالمي للمدينة. 🐾
#باستيت
It all started with a voice memo.
One of the first recordings discovered among Mac Sinise's files was a simple melody hummed into his phone. That recording became the inspiration for "Falling Into You," a moving collaboration that grew from Mac's original melody, journal entries, and handwritten lyrics.
It's just one of the many stories behind Resurrection & Revival: Part 3 - an album celebrating Mac's creativity, passion, and enduring musical legacy.
The full album begins streaming everywhere Friday, July 17. Until then, order your copy today at https://t.co/bJyLqX8Bx6.
Watch the full video and listen to "Falling Into You" now at https://t.co/73qZq8xccc
ELON MUSK: “I’ve always had the philosophy that everyone at the company should receive stock in the company so that they can participate in the upside of the company. And it’s great for aligning incentives as well, so as the company prospers, the people at the company also prosper. So that’s just been my philosophy from day one: make sure everyone gets stock in the company. There are, I think, several thousand people, not just one welder, but several thousand people, who were working on the production line. And if they started at the company relatively early, then probably their stock is worth over a million dollars at this point.”
Laotian national Tou Lue Vang was convicted of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl in Minnesota.
He was set to be deported until @GovTimWalz issued him a pardon.
Then, I revoked his legal status. @ICEgov has removed him from the U.S. and he will never endanger another American.
🇧🇷🇳🇴 A Brazilian kid getting bullied at school for rocking long hair like Haaland.
Word reaches the Norwegian machine.
Haaland immediately records a personal birthday video.
Tells the boy to keep the style, ignore the haters.
Humble giant energy.
Writer: Sol
Today’s guest was influenced in large part by his Mamaw, a devoted Christian woman with an unrepentant potty-mouth, and the bestselling memoir that made her, and him, famous. I'm reminded of the first saw him interviewed, shortly after the presidential election in 2016, by a panel of flabbergasted talking heads on CNN who were trying, desperately it seemed, to make sense of Trump’s unlikely victory.
As you might recall, most of the pollsters got that one wrong, and a lot of deeply confused journalists were wondering why Trump won in Ohio, and in many so other places where Hillary Clinton was expected to easily prevail. The author of Hillbilly Elegy offered a thoughtful explanation, which came down to the simple fact that a lot of Americans in a lot of flyover states felt overlooked and underserved and taken for granted by their elected officials. Coincidentally, around the same time, I was invited on to Meet the Press to answer the same question. Prior to the election, I had predicted that the outcome was going to be a lot closer than people thought, and Chuck Todd wanted to know if the men and women I’d highlighted on Dirty Jobs might have provided me with some unique insight.
After the interview, Kim Strossel – a reporter at the @WSJ who was also on the panel - asked me if I’d read Hillbilly Elegy or met the author.
“Not yet,” I said. “But I just saw him on @CNN and liked what he had to say.”
“There’s an obvious parallel,” she said. “You’ve gotten famous working alongside a lot of forgotten Americans, and he’s gotten famous writing about them. You two would probably have a lot to discuss.”
Ten years later, it seems that Kim was right. I do in fact, have a lot to discuss with the author of Hillbilly Elegy, including his latest bestseller, Communion, which he’s been writing for the last decade. I suspect he’d have published it sooner had he not been distracted with his run for the Ohio Senate and subsequent elevation to Vice President of the United States. But regardless, Communion is finally available, and @JDVance has dropped by to discuss it, along various matters of national importance.
Our whole conversation is here. https://t.co/KDReDQiX3h
Hopefully, Mamaw is watching…
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Bonnie Tyler.
A proud Welsh icon, her extraordinary voice and unforgettable music touched millions around the world and will continue to inspire generations to come.
Our thoughts are with her husband, family, friends and all who loved her. Diolch am y gerddoriaeth.
W
No planting, no leaking, no secret meetings with the press, no social media bots, no books, no documentaries full of complaints. Just focus in his family, his work and representing his nation #PrinceWilliam
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In 2013, a girl named Peh Yan Heng was walking along the beach when she discovered a stranded octopus stuck on the shore. It was very weak and struggling to breathe.
She gently picked up the octopus, carried it to deeper water, and released it back into the sea to save its life.
Once the octopus was back in its familiar environment, instead of swimming away immediately, it turned back toward the girl’s feet. It slowly extended one of its tentacles, gently touching her leg or almost “hugging” her in a slow, deliberate motion as if saying thank you for saving it. Only after that did it swim off into the ocean. 💓
During the final season of Magnum P.I., Tom Selleck made a very specific demand to CBS.
It had nothing to do with his iconic mustache, his red Ferrari, or superstar treatment.
He wanted his crew to receive $1,000 bonus checks.
The show had actually finished under budget, thanks to the grueling, behind-the-scenes discipline of the crew. But CBS flat-out refused to pay the bonuses.
So, Selleck found a loophole.
He negotiated a larger final payout for himself and then quietly redirected that money straight to the electricians, drivers, makeup artists, and camera operators.
He could have pocketed the extra cash and smiled for the cameras. Instead, he made sure the people carrying the show were seen where it mattered most: their paychecks.
That quiet generosity has been a theme his entire life.
Years later in November 2020, Selleck dined at Elio's in NYC. On a $204 bill, he left a massive $2,020 tip.
His handwritten note simply read: "Honoring my friend Donnie Wahlberg's 'tip challenge' with my sincere hope for a better 2020."
The best part? He never even bragged about it to Donnie (his Blue Bloods co-star). The restaurant staff were the ones who shared the story.
Even off-screen, Selleck has always been a class act. A veteran of the California Army National Guard, he’s been a fierce advocate for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, making sure people remember that the 58,000+ names on that wall represent real lives, not just numbers. 🇺🇸