Phphlele

Rooting (and crying) for Niners since 80’s

[Phphlele @PhilippeALevy]

Niners training camp - August 15, Let’s go!

[Phphlele @PhilippeALevy]

@StatsOnFire Looks more like a dog flea collar to me, but yeah, anything to get Big Trent back on the field!

[Phphlele @PhilippeALevy]

@KP_Show Loved both your NN articles this week KP. Your analyses are spot on. I read, listen to, and watch a lot of Niners analyses and yours are always the most pertinent. You’re an asset to our fan community.

[Phphlele @PhilippeALevy]

😳… 🏈❤️💛 !

[Kyle Posey @KP_Show]

The 49ers defensive line yesterday:

Player they traded for last October
Player they signed on August 6
Player they signed on August 24
Player they signed on September 4
Player they traded for on March 11
Player they drafted in the 4th round of '26
Practice squad player making his pro debut
Player they signed on July 26
Player they signed on September 23

[Music over time🎻 @Peal8888]

Singing an Elton John classic in front of the legend himself — and absolutely nailing it. 👏

[Nick Wagoner @nwagoner]

#49ers looking to get to 3-0 for the 2nd straight year. It'd be the first time they'd done it in back to back seasons since 1989 (won SB) and 1990 (NFC title game).

If they win by 10 or more points against AZ, it'd be first time they've won their first 3 games by 10+ since 1952.

[Phphlele @PhilippeALevy]

🐐

[Boris Becker @TheBorisBecker]

Goat

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Good. But it feels sensationalist to say Ukraine "hit Moscow" without pointing out this means legitimate military and refinery targets, not the apartment buildings, shops, and other civilians that Russia intentionally targets in its war of terror.

[Phphlele @PhilippeALevy]

🫶❤️‍🔥

[Jake @JakeCan72]

Harvard kids singing Radiohead’s “Creep.”

This could have gone very wrong.

Then the lead singer opens his mouth.

The Harvard Veritones have won at the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella — the real-world competition that inspired Pitch Perfect.

Turn the sound on for this one.

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

Gorgeous illustration of the lifting condensation level (the height at which water vapor condenses into clouds). The rocket ain't bad, either.

[Phphlele @PhilippeALevy]

8️⃣🤩

[NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day @apod]

If you went outside at the same time every day and took a picture that included the Sun, how would the Sun's position change? A visual answer to that question is an analemma, a composite image taken from the same spot at the same time over the course of a year. The featured analemma was composed from images taken every few days at noon near the village of Callanish in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland, UK. In the foreground are the Callanish Stones, a stone circle built around 2700 BC during humanity's Bronze Age. It is not known if the placement of the Callanish Stones has or had astronomical significance. The ultimate causes for the figure-8 shape of this and all analemmas are the tilt of the Earth axis and the ellipticity of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. At the solstices, the Sun will appear at the top or bottom of an analemma. The featured image was taken near the December solstice and so the Sun appears near the bottom. Equinoxes, however, correspond to analemma middle points -- not the intersection point. In two days there will be an equinox ("equal night"), when day and night are equal over all of planet Earth. Many cultures celebrate a change of season at an equinox.

Image Credit & Copyright: Giuseppe Petricca

[Phphlele @PhilippeALevy]

Heroes 🇺🇸💔

[Sterling Snow @sterlingmsnow]

I reread this every year.

I cry like a baby every year.

Todd Beamer died a father, husband, and hero.

Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.

Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?

Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.

Lisa: Your name?Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.

Lisa: Are you okay?

Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.

Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?

Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.

Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.

Lisa: I promise.

Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.

Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)

Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.

Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.

Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.

Lisa: What are you going to do?

Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.

Todd: Would you pray with me?They pray the Lord’s Prayer. Then: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.

Todd: God help me. Jesus help me.Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.

[Phphlele @PhilippeALevy]

@Libertymama888 @elonmusk @TheNewsSlicer Your anti-Israel obsession is antisemitic. Any outrage for Iran’s regime, Houthis, Talibans, Hamas? Israel is not perfect but it’s the only democratic country in the Middle East, only to have equal women’s rights, gay rights. Orthodox Jews and Epstein are not the Jewish people!

[Phphlele @PhilippeALevy]

Yup. OR we can just let Russia pay for our lavish weddings and miss the Games of Drone finale

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

See my pinned tweet. Ukraine and Russia are innovating constantly to gain advantage in this modern war, with China, Iran, and North Korea benefiting from their support of Russia. The West will be left behind in this "Game of Drones" unless they do the same with Ukraine.

[Phphlele @PhilippeALevy]

Pats cheating? No way 🤣

[Ryan Paganetti @RyanPaganetti]

Much has been made of the Patriots’ mysterious “Pink Stripes.” How about yellow ones?

I went through more than a decade of TV broadcasts and uncovered a diabolically clever piece of Patriots gamesmanship.

When opposing kickers lined up at Gillette Stadium, the video board displayed a reverse view of the kick, placing a second, offset set of yellow uprights directly behind the real ones.

In windy conditions, even the orange streamers on the video board appeared to point in the opposite direction from those atop the physical uprights, making the illusion even more disorienting.

I found dozens of examples. In the same games, I reviewed 52 Patriots field goal attempts.

The illusion appeared on Patriots kicks exactly zero times.

We actually tried copying the idea when I was in Philadelphia, but the location of the video boards at Lincoln Financial Field made it nearly useless.

It is the perfect encapsulation of the Patriots dynasty. No detail was too small, and no possible edge was left unexplored.

We talked about this tactic and more on tonight’s episode of the Paganetti and Underhill show, out now on Youtube

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

If you don't like the news, ban it. Why not? It works in Russia.

[Phphlele @PhilippeALevy]

🤣🤣🤣🇺🇸🇩🇰

[J Hunter🍁 @MrJoKeR604]

"And then he got the same agreement the U.S. has had with Greenland and Denmark since 1951 🤣🤣🤣"

[Phphlele @PhilippeALevy]

😢🇺🇸

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

TRUMP: “I mean, there's something wrong with a country that can allow people to write purposely negative stories.“

That’s an actual quote.

There is everything right with the USA, and our First Amendment, which “allow(s) people to write purposely negative stories.”

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[Phphlele @PhilippeALevy]

Yep. Many Iranian people are smart. Many Chinese people are smart. Many African people are smart. Etc. Only dumb people think they’re the only ones who are smart…

[Cyrus Janssen @thecyrusjanssen]

One has to give credit where credit is due…the trolling is next level

[Phphlele @PhilippeALevy]

🤣🤣

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Man, this video is really good.

[Phphlele @PhilippeALevy]

💯🇺🇸

[Tom Harrington @cbctom]

The White House media ban
reminds me of the Teddy Roosevelt quote:

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”