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[Denzel Rust @AdemLuz]

Everyone is always rooting for you. Your parents want you to be a great son. Wife wants you to be a great husband. Your boss wants you to be a slam dunk hire. Every first date you’ve ever been on they’ve been rooting for you to get laid. Every time you started to tell a joke people hoped it would have a hilarious punch line. Your proximity to anyone is a reflection of themself, meaning the deck is never stacked against you, and your failures are completely your own

[frostzy @lmkifiwin]

> be HR Department
> Spend years creating complicated hiring processes, endless DEI trainings, and mandatory workshops
> Convince everyone you're essential for "company culture" and "talent management"
> Meanwhile the best people get hired through simple referrals and direct outreach
> Top talent leaves because of the toxic bureaucracy you helped create
> Layoffs still happen and you can't stop them
> Companies that keep HR minimal still build great teams

In practice, HR often creates more problems than it solves.

HR in 2026 still desperately trying to justify their existence is getting really pathetic.

You think traditional HR is actually necessary or mostly just expensive corporate theater?

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

Women and children are emotion-led.

Men are rational.

To emasculate men: feminise them.

Tear away their rationality and make them emotional. Turn them into eternal adolescents.

The two pillars of this transformation: porn and video games.

The system doesn’t want focused men.
It needs them distracted. Overstimulated. Emotionally reactive.
A man who can’t focus is easy to control.

That’s why so many are trapped in the same cycle: porn, video games, dopamine, repeat.

Porn kills ambition. Video games replace real achievement with artificial progression.

A grown man with the mindset of a permanent teenager.

Consumerism isn’t just about buying products. It’s about consuming identities instead of building one.

The system doesn’t need chains anymore. It just needs distractions.

[Sudo su @sudoingX]

let me tell you what just happened. hermes agent just flipped the entire market and hit #1 globally on openrouter across ALL ai apps.

not coding agents. not cli tools. ALL of them. 271 billion tokens. openclaw sitting at #2 watching from below.

i have been telling you for months. drop the bloat. drop the typescript that phones home. drop the corporate wrappers pretending to be open source. and every single time i said it, someone in my replies told me i was wrong. that openclaw was untouchable. that hermes was too small. too niche. too early. look at the board now anon.

this didn't happen because of marketing. this happened because tek and nearly 1000 contributors built something that actually works. open source in and out.

hermes agent beat openclaw. beat kilo code. beat claude code. on pure usage. not hype. not funding rounds. not product hunt launches. raw token volume from real builders doing real work.

if you're still running openclaw bloat after today, that's not loyalty. that's denial. the market just spoke. hermes agent is the standard now.

and this is just the beginning. we're not slowing down.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

These yellow pit stains are usually caused by deodorant or antiperspirant mixing with your sweat. You can remove them by spraying the area with 3% hydrogen peroxide. Let this sit for an hour and then throw the garment into the wash. For more stubborn stains, soak the garment in Oxiclean overnight, then wash. Note that Oxiclean is fine on certain fibers (e.g., cotton), but not others (e.g., silk). Always read labels before using a product.

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

THIS GUY REPLACED EVERY SUBSCRIPTION FOR OVER 30 SERVICES WITH A HOMELAB HE BUILT USING CLAUDE CODE

he built his own self hosted version of basically every service you pay for online and runs it all from a 27U server rack in his house

the goal was simple:

stop renting access to your own data, stop paying monthly subscriptions for things you can run yourself, and have one private dashboard that controls everything in your digital life

he opens one homepage on his browser and from there he can:

> stream his entire movie and TV collection through plex or jellyfin
> request a new movie through overseerr and watch it appear in his library automatically once it's downloaded and tagged
> back up every photo he takes through immich (his own google photos)
> store all his files through nextcloud (his own google drive)
> manage his audiobooks, ebooks, music, RSS feeds, recipes, and bookmarks from one place
> block ads across his entire network with adguard home
> see live grafana stats for every machine running in his house at any moment

and a lot more

the homepage dashboard even shows the current weather, his calendar, system stats, download queues, library counts, and shortcuts to every service he uses

the hardware list:

> netgate 1100 router running pfsense+ for firewall, DHCP, DNS, and VLANs
> tp-link 8 port managed switch
> tp-link archer C6 access point
> raspberry pi 4 dedicated to a full screen grafana dashboard
> HP laptop with i3 11th gen and 24GB RAM running proxmox VE as the main hypervisor
> compaq laptop with a core 2 duo and 4GB RAM running proxmox backup server
> tower PC with a core 2 duo running unraid for the NAS

the proxmox VE box runs every self hosted service inside a debian VM with docker compose. backups run on a schedule with chunk based deduplication. unraid handles all the storage with mixed drive sizes and a single parity drive

every device is on a tailscale tailnet so he can hit anything from anywhere in the world without poking holes in his firewall

then he built his own private streaming empire on top of it:

> plex and jellyfin pointing at the same library
> overseerr to request movies and shows
> radarr, sonarr, lidarr, readarr managing different media types
> prowlarr indexing everything
> sabnzbd and qbittorrent handling the downloads
> bazarr pulling subtitles automatically
> tautulli for plex stats
> trailarr for trailers

then the rest of the stack:

> nextcloud replaces google drive
> immich replaces google photos
> paperless-ngx for OCR document management
> adguard home blocks ads across the entire network
> miniflux for RSS, karakeep for bookmarks
> mealie for recipes, navidrome for music, audiobookshelf for audiobooks
> calibre for ebooks, code server for VS code in the browser
> stirling PDF, IT tools, microbin, searxng, pairdrop

every service surfaces through homepage, a self hosted dashboard he built tooling around to auto generate the YAML config (made with claude code)

this guy is paying $0 a month for what most people pay $200+ in subscriptions for and had an initial setup cost of ~1000 to 1500 USD

the homelab community is quietly the most overpowered and cracked group of builders on the internet

[Cooking Hub 🧑‍🍳 @CookingHub_]

1 pan steak dinner in under 15mins.

[Tanner @MooreForAll]

Dinner as a single man like $20 you add a woman its now $100

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

BRO I’M FUCKING DEAD

[sid @immasiddx]

Instagram growth gurus are so funny.

He can’t use his laptop because he’s holding a drink.

He can’t drink because he has a cigar in his mouth.

He can’t smoke his cigar because both hands are occupied. 😭

[Trad West @trad_west_]

As Jesus hung on the cross on Good Friday, He spoke seven times. Each word was deliberate. Each word was profound. Here is what He said:

1. “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.” (Luke 23:34)
He said this while the soldiers were still nailing Him to the cross. Not after. While it was happening. His first words from the cross were a prayer for the people killing Him.

2. “Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.” (Luke 23:43)
The last person Jesus saved before He died was a convicted criminal hanging next to Him. The Church recognizes him as Saint Dismas. He asked only to be remembered. Jesus gave him Paradise.

3. “Woman, behold your son. Behold your mother.” (John 19:26-27)
Nailed to the cross, Jesus looked down and entrusted His mother to John. The Church holds that in this moment Jesus was not only providing for Mary personally. He was giving her as Mother to all of humanity.

4. “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46)
The only time Jesus called God “God” instead of “Father.” He was quoting Psalm 22, written by King David 1,000 years earlier. The Church is clear: this was not despair. Psalm 22 begins in suffering but ends in total triumph. Jesus was pointing His listeners to the whole psalm.

5. “I thirst.” (John 19:28)
Two words. The Creator of all water, dying of thirst. Catholic teaching holds that His thirst was not only physical but a thirst for souls. Saint Teresa of Calcutta built her entire mission around these two words.

6. “It is finished.” (John 19:30)
In Latin: “Consummatum est.” The debt was paid in full. The Old Covenant fulfilled. The sacrifice complete. He bowed His head and died.

7. “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” (Luke 23:46)
His last breath was a prayer to the Father. He came from the Father. He returned to the Father. He brought us with Him.

No greater love has ever been shown.

[Adam | Faithful Messenger @Adam_FaithfulM]

In 1986, the American Medical Association published an article titled "The Physical Death of Jesus Christ". It details the entire process of Jesus' trial to His death on the cross.

In Luke 22, before Jesus is arrested, it is written that He was in great distress & sweating blood. Although rare, it is recognized as Hematidrosis, a condition caused by high levels of stress.

At the time, the crucifixion was considered the worst death for the worst of criminals. But this is not all Jesus faced. He endured whipping so severe that it tore the flesh from His body. He was beaten so horribly that His face was torn & His beard ripped.

A crown of thorns, 2-3 inches long cut deeply into His scalp. The leather whip used to flog Him had tiny iron balls & sharp bones. The balls caused internal injuries while the sharp bones ripped open His flesh. His skeletal muscles, veins, & bowels are exposed, causing major blood loss. Most men do not survive this kind of torture. After Jesus was severely flogged, He was forced to carry His cross while people mocked & spat on Him.

Crucifixion was a process meant to instill excruciating pain, creating a slow & agonizing death. Nails as long as 8 inches were driven into Jesus' wrists & feet. The Roman soldiers knew the tendons in the wrists would tear & break, forcing Jesus to use His back muscles to support Himself to breathe. Imagine the struggle, the pain, the courage...Jesus endured this reality for 3 hours!

The Gospel of John writes that after Jesus' death, a Roman soldier pierced His side with a spear & blood & water came out. Scientists explain that from hypovolemic shock, the rapid heart rate causes fluid to gather in the sack around the lungs & heart. The accumulation of fluid in the membrane around the heart is called a Pericardial effusion & the lungs is called a pleural effusion.

To the world, Christianity is as foolish as it can get. They believe it's for the weak. But when you are confronted by the reality of the cross, it's clearly not a pretty sight. It is brutal & horrific.

This is the weight Jesus carried. The weight of the sins of the world, all so that we can live. God's wrath is fully satisfied in Jesus. This is what it took. Repent & believe! Jesus is “God among us” in the flesh. Jesus is our Savior. Jesus loves you so much that He went through this spiritual and physical punishment for your sins and mine.

Jesus is the LORD, Almighty God, Everlasting Father.

Thank You, Jesus.

[1stclassclips @1stclassclips]

"Women sleep with 500 football players, go crazy, get BPD, get a therapist, she's on antidepressants, is a raging bitch, and then she discovers the Lord and finds a numb nuts beta male porn addict who says 'oh you're beautiful'" 💀

[Elvin @elvin_not_11]

it's beautiful that I can traverse through 25 years of UI design history by clicking 3 times on Windows 11.

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

Is this just a universal experience?

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

Women shouldn’t get tattoos.

[Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello]

This breaks my heart.

A mother details how she just wants to be a stay-at-home mother and take care of her family—rather than working in the corporate world.

Young women, listen up!!

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Woman responds to the "nose ring theory"