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[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

The moment he saw his son, even the usually taciturn father couldn't hide his emotions.🥹💖

[Kevin W. @Brink_Thinker]

New Jersey school has required every freshman to hike 55 miles on the Appalachian Trail for 53 years straight.

At St. Benedict’s Prep in Newark, this isn’t optional — it’s a mandatory 5-day rite of passage before becoming a sophomore.

Many students have never hiked or camped before. They train together in the spring, then get split into small teams where each kid gets a critical role: navigator, medic, cook, captain, etc. No one knows everything — they must rely on each other.

With minimal adult supervision, they hike rain or shine, facing blisters, sore muscles, and real challenges head-on. As one administrator put it: “The only way we can get through this is if we work together.”

The result? Teens who return more confident, resilient, and bonded — proving that real growth happens when you step away from screens and into the wilderness.

What an incredible tradition! Parents, educators, and anyone raising tough kids — this is gold.

Who else believes we need more experiences like this?

[Capt BlackBeard @Ray_B241]

Just another example of why you don't stop trying. She sounds amazing.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.

She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.

Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.

Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.

Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.

She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.

By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

[Capt BlackBeard @Ray_B241]

@itsmichaelluu Could be an assumption about the drop %, but the stocks are all solid.

[Michael | Hypermarkets @itsmichaelluu]

When $SPY crashes 10%-20% this summer, everything will be on sale.

Add these 16 stocks for the reversal of a lifetime:

1. $NOW — AI automates every enterprise workflow at scale
Buy zone: $85–$100 | Near 52-week lows, massive AI re-rating

2. $BE — Fuel cells powering AI data centers off the grid
Buy zone: $200–$220 | $ORCL deal de-risks demand story

3. $ASTS — Satellite broadband direct to your phone, globally
Buy zone: $65–$70 | Post-earnings flush, thesis intact

4. $GOOG — Gemini + TPUs + Search = AI moat unmatched
Buy zone: $300–$320 | Key support, 52-week low area

5. $LITE — Optical switches are the nervous system of AI
Buy zone: $600–$700 | Pulled back from $1,000+, still growing 85% YoY

6. $MU — HBM memory is the oxygen inside every AI server
Buy zone: $700–$750 | Key support after Broadcom-induced selloff

7. $SNDK — NAND flash storage exploding on AI inference demand
Buy zone: $1,100–$1,200 | Bull flag on the weekly chart

8. $TE — Data center power infrastructure, critical AI backbone
Buy zone: $6–$7 | Oversold, government energy tailwinds building

9. $RKLB — Launch provider + space systems for AI-connected satellites
Buy zone: $80–$90 | Pulled back hard, $816M SDA contract intact

10. $AAOI — 800G transceivers shipping to hyperscalers at scale
Buy zone: $120–$130 | Volatile beta, best entry on deep dips

11. $NVDA — Designs the GPUs that run every AI model on earth
Buy zone: $165–$175 | 52-week support zone, Jensen demand still intact

12. $ONDS — Drones + autonomous rail powering AI-enabled defense
Buy zone: $7–$8 | Near prior base breakout level

13. $IONQ — Trapped-ion quantum computers for post-classical AI computing
Buy zone: $27–$40 | 52-week range low, government funding tailwind

14. $AMD — EPYC + MI300X chipping away at NVDA's AI market share
Buy zone: $350–$360 | Key technical support from prior consolidation

15. $ARM — Architecture inside every AI chip ever designed
Buy zone: $220–$240 | Pulled back from highs, royalty model scales forever

16. $ORCL — Cloud infra + AI database layer for the enterprise
Buy zone: $130–$140 | Near 52-week lows pre-earnings catalyst

Remember, when $SPY sells off, you should the strong companies and hold for a massive move back towards $820+ by year end.

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[Tee Rickey @OCRichardP]

"Life is hard...but it's harder when you're stupid."
~Sen. John Kennedy

[Capt BlackBeard @Ray_B241]

There are some things in life that you never forget. lol They are very good at what they do.....

[Just call me Gunny @JRM58506966]

“From the second my boots hit the ground off that bus, from the moment my footstep down, it was damn near two weeks before I could shit. You couldn't hear shit over the screaming, running, standing at attention, and getting DI until your soul left your body. The Drill Instructors hit us so hard and so fast you didn’t even have time to think — just react. One minute you’re a civilian clutching your bag with your asshole puckered up, next minute you’re standing on the yellow footprints getting your whole existence destroyed. Welcome to the Marine Corps.”

[RC deWinter @RCdeWinter]

A dwarf with a lisp went to a stud farm.

"I'd like to buy a horth,” he said.

"What sort of horse?" asked the owner.

“A female horth,” the dwarf replied, so the owner showed him a lovely mare.

“Nithe horth,” said the dwarf. “Can I thee her eyeth?"

The owner picked up the dwarf to show him the mare’s eyes.

“Nithe eyeth,” said the dwarf. “Can I thee her teeth?"

Again the owner picked up the dwarf to show him the mare’s teeth.

"Very nithe teeth, can I thee her eerth?"
the dwarf asked.

By now the owner was getting a little fed up but didn’t want to risk losing the sale, so again he picked up the dwarf to show him the mare’s ears.

“Nithe eerth,” the dwarf said. Now can I see her twot?"

The owner picked up the dwarf by the scruff of his neck and shoved his head just under the mare’s tail, right into the lady parts.

He held him there for a couple of seconds before pulling him out and putting him down.

The dwarf shook his head and said,
"Perhapth I should weefwaze that…
can I thee her wun awound?"

[Capt BlackBeard @Ray_B241]

Has anyone ever seen a poor plumber!! lol

[Math Files @Math_files]

A mathematics professor once discovered that the sink in his kitchen had broken. He called a plumber, who arrived the next day, tightened a few fittings, and quickly fixed the problem.

The professor was pleased—until he saw the bill.

“This is a third of my monthly salary!” he exclaimed.

Still, he paid it. As the plumber was leaving, he said, “I understand your situation. Why not join our company? You could earn much more than you do now. Just one thing—when you apply, say you only finished elementary school. They prefer that.”

The professor, intrigued, followed the advice. To his surprise, he was hired. The work was simple—occasional repairs, tightening pipes—and his income improved dramatically.

Some time later, the company introduced a new rule: all employees had to attend evening classes to complete basic schooling. The professor had no choice but to attend.

On the first day, the subject was mathematics. The instructor asked a student to write the formula for the area of a circle on the board. The professor was chosen.

He walked up confidently—but then hesitated. He couldn’t recall the formula.

Determined, he began deriving it from scratch. The board quickly filled with integrals, derivatives, and complex expressions. After several minutes of work, he arrived at a result:

−πr²

Unsatisfied with the negative sign, he tried again. And again. Each time, the same result appeared.

Frustrated, he turned to the class. Behind him, the other plumbers were whispering to one another:

“Switch the limits of the integral.”

[Paul White Gold Eagle @PaulGoldEagle]

Senator John Fetterman says he was the only Democrat on the Senate's Fraud Exploratory Committee to vote in favor of opening an investigation into Malia Obama's suspicious USAID grants when she was still living at the White House in 2007.

"She was just a kid," said Fetterman, "So shouldn't we be looking at how a high school girl snatched $2.3 million for writing pen pal letters to a few dozen kids in Africa?"

Fetterman says the party's refusal to investigate its own people is the main reason he believes there will be a red wave in November.

"Nobody sees it coming, but mark my words."

[Alan West @mypoliticalx]

Also remember they think blowing themselves up is a wise thing 😂

[Alphx Elite @Alphx_Elite]

Un hombre notó que un niño conducía por su entrada todos los días por diversión y en lugar de enojarse, hizo esto para el niño.😍😁

[Mr. Pool @MrPool_QQ]

🔻 A document was signed at Camp David on Saturday night that has not been made public.

Four men in the room. No staff. No cameras. No record in the official schedule.

Trump flew in at 9:40 PM. He left at 11:07 PM. Eighty-seven minutes.

The document is 14 pages. It carries two signatures that have never appeared on the same page in history. One American. One Iranian.

The war ends on Trump's terms. Not in weeks. In days.

What you are seeing on television — the missiles, the "friendly fire," the collapsing ceasefire — is theatre. Controlled noise designed to give both sides the ability to say "we fought until the end."

Neither side is fighting. They are PERFORMING. For their domestic audiences. While the ink dries.

Netanyahu was not told. He found out Sunday morning. That is why Trump called him and said what he said. Not in anger. In notification. "It's done. You were not consulted. Adjust."

Saudi Arabia closed its airspace because it was ASKED to. Not as a refusal. As a signal to Iran that the corridor is clear. No American jets flying means no "accident" can disrupt what was already agreed.

The Pentagon sealed the press room because the announcement is scheduled. And it cannot leak early. Not because of secrecy. Because of SEQUENCE.

First the troops move. Then the cameras turn on. Then the world finds out what was signed in 87 minutes on a Saturday night.

June 8.

The war was won before you were told it started.

⟁

Forward this before it disappears.

[Capt BlackBeard @Ray_B241]

@McDonalds Glad to hear you're revamping your menu. Let me know when your food will actually get moldy faster than 5 - 10 years. Then I'll think about calling what you sell actual food that goes inside a human body.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

At an aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes

[𝒦𝑒𝓁𝓁𝓎࿎☽ @idropFbombs]

"This is the twelfth junkyard in six weeks to mysteriously burn everything in it.

Now let me ask you a question.

If you were about to take all of the older vehicles that are on the roads off, and you didn't want anybody to find parts, how would you do that?

If you're about to say, 'You know what? We don't want all these older vehicles on our roads anymore. We're gonna put new mandates, we're gonna make you buy cars with sensors, we're gonna do all this stuff' — but how do we stop people from continuing to keep their old cars?

Maybe burn all the junkyards?

Nah, that couldn't be it, right?

Like, that's just too smart of thinking, right?

That's conspiracy thinking, right?

This is just an accident, right?

No coincidences, right?

Stay safe, America."

[lordmicky.base.eth @0xlordmicky]

A cabbie picks up a Nun. She gets into the cab and notices that the VERY handsome cab driver won’t stop staring at her.

She asks him why he is staring. He replies: “I have a question to ask, but I don’t want to offend you” She answers, ” My son, you cannot offend me. When you’re as old as I am and have been a nun as long as I have, you get a chance to see and hear just about everything. I’m sure that there’s nothing you could say or ask that I would find offensive.”

“Well, I’ve always had a fantasy to have a nun kiss me.” She responds, “Well, let’s see what we can do about that, you have to be single and you must be Catholic.”

The cab driver is very excited and says, “Yes, I’m single and Catholic!” “OK,” the nun says. “Pull into the next alley.” The nun fulfills his fantasy with a kiss that would make a hooker blush. But when they get back on the road, the cab driver starts crying. “My dear child,” said the nun, why are you crying?” “Forgive me but I’ve sinned. I lied and I must confess, I’m married and I’m Jewish.” The nun says, “That’s OK. My name is Steve and I’m going to a Halloween party!”

[Capt BlackBeard @Ray_B241]

How do you not love this little guy. Major FU to everyone!!! Give that dog a steak. lol

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

10/10 for attitude 😂

[Capt BlackBeard @Ray_B241]

These are priceless. OMG

[꧁Bobbi꧂ @SaltyBitch_52]

These guys are funny.
Deer Blind Dad Jokes.