Tara ✨

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

Flipping for his FIFTH international goal!!

JEDI!!!!

[W.E.B. DaBoi @Tyre_94]

Them boys been in North Carolina for one day and acting like this haha

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You use vowels when you talk, the a and i sounds. Sperm whales hide the same ones in their clicks. Slow a click down and the vowel appears, with a pitch shift that changes meaning the way Chinese does. We have the whole structure mapped and still cannot read a word of it.

The clicks come in quick little bursts that sound a bit like Morse code. Scientists call one burst a coda. For a long time the assumption was that the rhythm carried the whole message, just taps in a pattern. Then a team at MIT ran roughly 8,700 of these bursts through software built to catch patterns, and a hidden order fell out.

Think of it like a few knobs the whale can turn. One knob sets the beat. Another changes the speed. A third stretches or squeezes the timing halfway through, the way a singer drags a note. The last drops in an extra click. Turn those knobs in different combinations and you get at least 143 patterns the whales use over and over. People build words from a small handful of sounds the exact same way.

None of this came from us. A sperm whale makes sound by pushing air through lip-like flaps inside its nose, equipment that has nothing to do with the human throat. Two animals on completely separate paths, tens of millions of years apart, both landed on vowels anyway.

They have accents too. Whale families cluster into clans, some spread across a whole ocean. Each clan favors certain clicks the others rarely use. Take the Caribbean clan: it has a signature, a short 1+1+3 pattern found nowhere else, passed down for at least thirty years. One sweep of more than 23,000 of these click patterns across the Pacific sorted the whales into seven clans, each known by the clicks it prefers.

We can lay the whole alphabet out and watch the accents shift from clan to clan. Not one of us can tell you what a single click means. The grammar is right in front of us, and the dictionary is blank.

[Leandro 🇧🇷 @crfleandropires]

Modric, Perisic, Kramaric e Kovacic chegando pra mais uma Copa pela Croácia

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@Kenn321705 I’ve never stolen an erection in my life.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

This is @RobSandIA, the Democratic nominee for governor of Iowa….LFG bro!

[Juez Central @Juezcentral]

La selección de Cabo Verde documentando todo su viaje a Estados Unidos, en la previa del Mundial, es lo mejor que vas a ver hoy.

Pura ilusión, pura alegría. Los amamos.

[Tara ✨ @TeaWald]

So tired of this derelict 😕

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Josh doesn't even mention the worst part of Fetterman's irresponsibility. Because he won't wear a suit, he's *literally not allowed on the Senate floor*. That's where negotiations happen. He just doesn't go. He sits in the hall and signals thumbs up/down through the doorway.

The Senate is very much built on bargains and personal back-and-forth. Fetterman just sits all of it out. He plops himself on a chair in the hallway, alone, scrolling his phone, until an aide taps his shoulder to tell him it's time to peek his head in and vote.

[🍄 @AngryAFMario]

Hunter Biden is straight up a MAGA whisperer 😭😭. Like those tv shows where an animal expert calms down a rabid dog.

[Peñargrol @CAPArgento__]

por que estan tan timidas las medias 😭😭

[Myron Medcalf @MedcalfByESPN]

The kids after he did the red-tailed hawk sound

[Modo Scaloneta 🇦🇷🏆 @ModoScaloneta]

JAJAJAAJAJ el Mundial es lo más grande que hay 😭😭

[Pete Blackburn @PeteBlackburn]

$13 was all it took to hate myself. What an establishment. Will be back

[Pablo Iglesias Maurer @MLSist]

Christian Pulisic went out of his way to praise the crowd in Charlotte today. Felt very genuine and came, a bit, out of nowere:

[Ben Wright @benwright]

This from Dempsey is one of my favorite first touches in all of soccer

[lindz. @leholmes52]

Cook Out is going to be packed.

[Kaitlin Tomassoni @ktomassoni1]

This is what you get when Duke, UNC and NC State fans all cheer for the same team 😂🚨

[Criminal Penguin @Crime_Penguin]

I think about him a lot

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

THE CANES ONSLAUGHT CONTINUES

3 GOALS IN 2:27

[z-Griff @M_Griff10]

Leaving for work this morning, I looked over and saw what was left behind in the cul-de-sac - a hockey net, scattered sticks, and the remnants of what had to be a 15-20 kid street hockey game last night.

And it hit me… I live at Topsail. A beach community in North Carolina. Yet these kids are choosing to play hockey in the street instead of the “traditional” Southern sports you’d expect around here.

That’s what the Carolina Hurricanes @Canes have done for this state. They didn’t just build a fanbase, they grew the game. It’s honestly amazing seeing hockey take root in places as random as a beach town cul-de-sac. 🏒🌴 Happy Gameday!!!

#SoundTheSiren