mickey twice 🦈🦈

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[Park MacDougald @hpmcd1]

It’s a good thing they made Lord of the Rings when they did so we didn’t have to deal with Zendaya playing Galadriel

[Nic Munoz @nic_munoz]

If you haven't read a biography on Alexander the Great yet... you are TWEAKING. This guy literally just marched East and conquered everyone and anything in his way. No strategy. Just pure war. He used catapults when no one use catapults in war. He built bridges where no one was able to build bridges. He would march at the frontlines with his army fighting hand to hand combat. He dreamed of becoming godlike like Heracles and Achilles. He thought about his named being remembered for a thousand years. His biography is probably one of the most inspiring things a man can read.

[chl$ @chelsssseeeea]

LOTR might genuinely be one of the greatest things humans have ever put on a screen and I’m not even exaggerating. You can watch it as a kid and think it’s about hobbits and swords and this terrifying ring. Then you watch it as an adult and realize it’s basically about everything that actually matters.

Power corrupts people and evil usually starts really small..Good people can be tempted and courage isn’t about being fearless. Friendship can literally carry you when you can’t carry yourself anymore. The smallest person in the room can change the course of history. You do the right thing not because you know you’re going to win, but because it’s the right thing to do.

Honestly… I think it should be mandatory viewing for kids at some point. Not just “watch the movie” but actually dissect it. Why does Boromir fail? Why can Sam resist what other people can’t? Why does Frodo show Gollum mercy? Why is Aragorn a good leader when he spends half the story reluctant to have power? What happens when someone becomes consumed by resentment, fear, or the desire to control other people? Then make kids apply those questions to their own lives. Friendship, temptation, loyalty, courage, responsibility, choosing who you want to be when nobody is forcing you to choose correctly. There are probably more useful lessons about becoming a decent human being buried in those movies than in half the stuff we make kids memorize in school…and those are learnings and lessons that would stick and could carry you through all of life.

My favorite part is that the heroes aren’t these invincible characters either. They’re tired, scared, tempted, and completely outmatched. Half the time they have no idea what they’re doing but they just keep going….

Then somehow Peter Jackson took ALL of THAT and made three epic movies at the same time, filled them with real sets, real landscapes, thousands of extras, incredible music,… and made something that still looks better than movies being made with $200M budgets 25 years later.

I really don’t think we’ll ever get another thing like it.

[AJ @AJ__SR7]

Genuinely no doubt in my mind that if Arsenal didn’t snap this guy up after the Euros

He would’ve landed at Madrid and been recognised as one of the world’s best

He’s everything a ‘galactico’ stands for

The fact Arsenal have two of them in their backline with Saliba…

Insane

[Solus @Ersatz_Solus]

I find something strangely profound about how polar bears always have this look of boyish innocence to them no matter what the context is. Even covered in the blood of his prey, the bear looks like a silly little guy. Much to learn.

[Aporia @aporia9n]

Always found this chart fascinating

Women increasingly dominate as platforms move towards appearance / social life / social proof

Men increasingly dominate as they move towards information / ideas / work

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

This is a disaster for the human race and I’ve really lost patience with the useless morons who can’t see that. An AI video chat that passes for human has no necessary legitimate applications. It will be used to scam old people out of their life savings. Lonely, mentally vulnerable people are going to form romantic attachments to people who aren’t real. Isolation will increase. Mental illness will skyrocket even more than it already has. Kids in grade school will have AI boyfriends and girlfriends. All of this will happen. And worse things we can’t even conceive at this point. People are already forming unhealthy emotional attachments to text-based LLMs. Once there’s an audio and visual component, it’s over. Millions of brains will be broken irreparably.

The benefits of this technology, whatever they are exactly, are so vastly outweighed by the societal catastrophe it will cause, and is already causing, that you can’t even measure the two categories on the same scale. But at least this is the best thing that ever happened to third world scammers. So if you’re in that community, congratulations.

[Luis Vercetti @97Vercetti]

How it feels after you calm down

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Absolutely terrifying. You can see the golden age end in real time. Everything got worse once they killed websites for feeds.

[91 @91cheefv2]

Man City having to play at Anfield first game since news broke is prime WWE script writing

[BlockHead @blockhead4000]

If you leave Germans alone with fields and rivers they'll automatically start building highly productive farms and factories like a baby beaver building a dam with toys. Theyre like ants they just have to work and build steel mills and machine shops and stuff they cant help it.

[Kristian Sturt @FootieWriter]

Relegating Man City would actually let them off lightly.

My punishment:

-35 points for their next FIVE Premier League seasons. And no Champions League qualification during that period, by any route.

The punishment is fixed. The consequences aren't.

Get 100 points? Congratulations, you've got 65. Enjoy the Europa League.

Have a normal City season? You're finishing mid-table.

Have a bad one? You're in a relegation fight.

Here's the best bit, if they DO get relegated, the clock stops.

They don't get to spend a year battering Championship teams, come straight back up and call the punishment served. They return to the Premier League and the -35 is sitting there waiting for them.

After a couple of years without title races or Champions League football, maybe players leave. Maybe recruitment gets harder. Maybe maintaining a '90-point team' gets harder too.

Five Premier League seasons.

No title race. No Champions League. No easy reset.

Just £1bn worth of squad fighting for 10th.

Beautiful. #MCFC

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Premier League confirm an independent Commission has found Manchester City GUILTY OF ALL CHARGES related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.

The club has the right to appeal the independent Commission’s findings and has until Friday 2 October to exercise that right.

The Premier League Board’s intention is that the full process (including any appeals and publication of relevant decisions) is concluded as soon as possible.

The independent Commission found that between Seasons 2009/10 and 2017/18:
- Manchester City arranged ‘sham’ contracts (which misrepresented the true agreement between the parties) with a number of its commercial partners, as well as relying on ‘sham’ agreements with others, to artificially inflate the club’s revenues and reduce its costs
- The club filed misstated accounts and concealed the true state of its finances from its auditors and football regulators
- Manchester City was significantly in breach of both the Premier League’s and UEFA’s spending limits
- During the Premier League’s investigation, Manchester City committed multiple breaches of its duties of co-operation and utmost good faith towards the League (three of the four alleged breaches were upheld)

[Ron Iver @ronnui_]

How do we explain to younger generations that short sleeve tshirt over a long sleeve used to be so popular they used to make fakes which were just long sleeve tees with different sleeves stitched in to look like it's layered

[Toluwaleyi @BawiTeee]

It takes sheer courage to procrastinate. You either have an insane amount of faith in your last-minute abilities, or you are simply unbothered by the consequences of inaction. Either way, you’ve sure got some guts.

[Investing Addict @InvestingAddict]

Men used to go to war now they check their sleep score to decide if they can take on the day.

[27. @dimvji]

doomscrolling on twitter instead of ig and tiktok so at least i’m wasting my time intellectually

[Daniel @danielgothits]

Lmaoooo

[A @dieselsuperstr]

My coworker is like 70 pounds bigger than me and she said wow you’re hungry when I was eating breakfast I hate fat women they seethe whenever they see a skinny girl eating

[signüll @signulll]

it’s insanely fun when you find ppl who will endlessly riff with you about virtually anything.

like something stupid, profound, maybe something even offensive, a half baked idea, or just complete garbage. you just keep tossing thoughts back & forth forever. this is one of the most underrated forms of compatibility.

if you have friends like these it makes ordinary time feel unusually alive.

& if you have a relationship like this it’s even more valuable cuz most of life is thousands of random dinners, car rides, walks, errands, & nights on the couch. if the two of you can make basically anything entertaining to each other you’ve solved a surprisingly large part of the problem.