Sheldon Miller

Founder of @stocs_global Software & Tech Optimizing Circular Sustainability. Ex-Journo, 4th gen Forest fan, ex-Editor of The Trent Times @NFFC fanzine.

[Sheldon Miller @SheldonMiller]

@BradMayorFPL They have the most creative midfield of any team at the World Cup

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@forestmad80 It’s the World Cup Premier League football transfer version of the Space X IPO…to the moon 🚀🚀🚀📈📈📈

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@Tim_Citeh For a club that prides itself on data drink these data points in…and if the data’s not enough come back after the World Cup and continue to argue the valuation…it may well have gone up 📈

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

I believe we now have evidence of FIFA's World Cup ticketing shell game: FIFA is colluding with third-party resale platforms for its own supply management.

Look at this SeatGeek map (secondary market!) for Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde. The circled areas are not random single resale tickets, but large, contiguous blocks of seats: entire rows and swaths in sections 101/102, 112/113, 119/120, 134–137, 139, ...

The blue circles appeared weeks ago, then the purple blocks suddenly showed up a day or two ago, and the red blocks seem to have appeared recently too.

That's not what ordinary fan or even commercial scalper resale looks like who resell pairs, fours, and scattered seats. Instead, this looks like inventory being dumped in bulk onto secondary markets, at prices below FIFA's official site.

Why doesn't FIFA just lower prices on its own site Probably because official price cuts could trigger refund demands, chargebacks, or consumer-protection headaches from fans who already bought at much higher prices.

Instead FIFA keeps official prices high, avoids openly admitting the market-clearing price is lower, and moves unsold inventory through third-party resale platforms instead.

[TheNewPhysics @CharlesMullins2]

🚨 ROLLS-ROYCE JUST RAN A JET ENGINE ON 100% HYDROGEN AND IT REACHED FULL TAKE-OFF POWER.

In a landmark test, a Rolls-Royce jet engine successfully operated at full thrust using only hydrogen fuel for the first time in history.

The engine was tested across a complete simulated flight cycle, including fault scenarios, proving that hydrogen can not only burn inside a modern aero gas turbine but can deliver the power needed for real commercial flight.

Why this matters:
• Aviation is one of the hardest sectors to decarbonize
• Hydrogen produces zero CO₂ when burned — only water
• This test validates that hydrogen combustion, fuel systems, and engine controls can work together at full power
• It moves hydrogen aviation from theory into practical engineering reality

The deeper implication is huge:
We are now seeing the first real proof that large commercial aircraft could one day fly on hydrogen instead of kerosene.

While many challenges remain (especially hydrogen storage and airport infrastructure), this test removes one of the biggest technical doubts: whether a jet engine can actually deliver full power on hydrogen.

The race toward zero-emission flight just took a major step forward.

What do you think will hydrogen or battery-electric eventually power most commercial flights?

Follow for more frontier energy and sustainable technology.

[Sheldon Miller @SheldonMiller]

@Pras_fpl Italia 90…hands down…

https://t.co/HvSV5RMWmI

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@afc_ben10 England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v Argentina 🇦🇷 Mexico ‘86…the most infamous & most famous World Cup goals ever scored…in the same single match

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@MartinRemains He’s a paid agitator

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@nw_nicholas Rent-a-mob

Paid agitators

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I miss @England’s old skool international tournament warm ups…

https://t.co/QTs5pTpWtb

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This… 👇

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@iciazur Mon Dieu, quel désordre!

[Nick Light @nicklmg]

Interesting that everyone seems to have forgotten that just a year ago Musk went in and destroyed a lot of guardrails in the SEC

Almost like this was the plan all along………..

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Nigel Farage hasn't voted in Parliament for the last 11 weeks and has now missed 77 votes in a row, according to official records. The last time he turned up was to vote against adraft regulations for the Employment Rights Act, and that says it all.

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@DeadlineDayLive I can see Real Madrid making a move for Elliot Anderson straight after the World Cup

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Source: https://t.co/0qziFFCqXz

[Brett Erickson @BrettErickson28]

Trump now finds himself in an entirely new situation with the War in Iran.

He doesn't hold the cards. He has no notable leverage. And he can't simply declare bankruptcy for the seventh time and move on.

And it shows.

Donald Trump is not a statesman. He is not a diplomat. And I think, in many ways, this is what endeared him initially to many of his voters. He was businessman that accumulated billions of dollars of personal wealth through casino's, real estate, television, golf courses, and a multitude of endeavors.

You can say what you will, but at the end of the day, you don't accrue a net worth well beyond a billion, or even hundreds of millions of dollars, without being "successful", so let's put that partisan argument to the side for now.

But all throughout Trump's life, he's held the upper hand. He grew up wealthy. He received significant financial assistance from his father. And he had an effectively unlimited financial safety net in the event of failure. These are not points meant to be political hits, nor are they able to be refuted. They are simply the facts. Reality.

As a result, Donald Trump always had the leverage. He was a trust fund baby. Again, this is simply the truth. It is reported that Fred Trump left his children around a billion dollars when he passed away in 1999. Trust me, if you know beyond a shadow of a doubt you are set for life regardless, you live life differently.

What this means is that Donald Trump, throughout his business career which WAS hyper-successful, never HAD to succeed. He could also walk away if a deal was not in his favor. He, by definition, always held the cards. Generational wealth.

And don't get me wrong, President Trump was savvy in his exploitation of this reality. You'd be a fool to enter a deal you didn't think was highly beneficial to you if you didn't have to make a gamble. That'd be stupid.

In every transaction, every business dealing, it was either in his favor, or he walked.

Because. He. Could.

And when business endeavors failed to pan out? Bankruptcy could be declared. Again, save me the partisan takes, Donald Trump declared bankruptcies on his businesses six times. And he was RIGHT to do so. That's the correct financial decision... but it's an off-ramp. A quick fix.

These same realities - holding all the cards, being able to walk away, having a legal escape valve - do not exist in the quagmire he finds himself in with the Iran War.

The reality facing Donald Trump is one that he has never had to navigate before. Iran does not care that he is wealthy. It's irrelevant. Trump can't simply walk away because Iran would retain control of the Strait of Hormuz and it would destroy Trump's legacy. There is no emergency "bankruptcy-equivalent" escape valve here.

Now, Donald Trump has to sit on the other side of the table at a time when the stakes are the highest they have ever been in his entire life. No training wheels. No safety net. Trump's been thrown right into the deep end with perhaps the most savvy negotiators in the world.

President Trump holds effectively zero leverage with Iran.

There is not a modicum of domestic American support for this war. It was never sold to the American people. Many see this as Israel's war that is not "putting America first". The goals and objectives have changed by the day. For this reason, alongside the unlikely chance of success in the first place, a large-scale ground invasion is not a serious suggestion being put for by anyone with an above room temperature IQ.

Iran holds insurmountable "escalation dominance". If the United States targets Iran's energy infrastructure? Iran will retaliate massively across the Gulf. GCC countries have already made it abundantly clear to Trump that they fear Iran. That they don't trust the US-bought military equipment to protect their infrastructure or civilians. Iran can cut undersea cables. Iran could close the Bab al-Mandeb Strait and further cripple maritime shipping. Anything the US can do to hurt Iran, Iran can do tenfold to hurt the global economy.

Reopen the Strait of Hormuz by force? We tried that under Operation Freedom, and it was so ridiculous and stupid that it was canceled within 48 hours. Some are suggesting we try again, but seem to entirely misunderstand reality (as they have throughout the entire conflict). What? Is the United States supposed to effectively occupy the Strait of Hormuz until the end of time? How many vessels per day would be able to navigate the Strait of Hormuz with US naval escorts? What would the costs of this be? Can we adequately protect our sailors? Why wouldn't Iran, again, utilize their escalation dominance and shut down the Bab al-Mandeb or strike Gulf infrastructure? It. Doesn't Work.

The unfortunate reality is that President Trump holds no cards. He has no meaningful leverage. His ONLY option is making concessions at the negotiating table...

Is this something Trump is even capable of navigating in the first place though? A President, one who has made perhaps the gravest mistake in the history of American foreign policy, one who has never experienced these constraints before, one who has a litany of allies ready to turn their backs on him the second he capitulates... A man who's entire legacy will not be, "Trump the Businessman", nor will it be "Trump the President". It will eternally become, "Trump the Failure".

But it's his only choice. The Iran Hawks and Israeli Lobby that surrounds him, and they do, are prepared to claw him to shreds on Fox News and Newsmax. We saw this exact situation play out just this past weekend when initial terms of a potential Memorandum of Understanding was leaked. His so called "allies" in the United States turned their back on him immediately, leaving him with almost nobody remaining. Not after the Epstein Files. Not after this Iran War debacle.

Donald Trump now finds himself in an entirely unfamiliar situation. He doesn't hold the cards. He has no escape valve. And there is no realistic scenario where he can credibly claim victory... The only path forward is the one that will permanently destroy his legacy.

But it's the only way to end this war.

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@Topbin90 Turf hasn’t been laid, watered, rolled and bedded in long enough.

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This is just the half of it, I suspect. After it comes crashing down, we’re going to find out what crazy financial over engineering, over leverage & over stated filings have been applied, where & by whom. The greed & FOMO will have pushed some folks to do some really stupid stuff. It’s a tale of human market behaviour as old as the hills.

[🇨🇳 Guo Shen 郭深 @GuoShenCN7]

🚨 let me tell you what this actually costs you because I'm sure most people don't know..

Obama returned $1.7 billion to Iran..

and here's the part nobody wants to say out loud.. that was Iran's own money.. impounded funds.. a Hague-related ruling.. not a single dollar of yours..

the Strait of Hormuz was open the entire time.. free.. no deal required.. no war required..

now run the math on what just changed..

Trump backed a conflict that closed the Strait.. 20% of the world's oil supply.. gone.. and the proposed fix is a $300 billion reconstruction fund for Iran.. linked to US envoys Witkoff and Kushner.. pending Trump's final sign-off..

$1.7 billion of Iran's own money = open strait..

$300 billion of your money = maybe open strait.. for 60 days..

that's a 17,547% cost increase to get back to where we started..

and the people who spent years screaming about the $1.7 billion are the same people calling this 4D chess..

the system worked for someone today.. just not for you.

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