Tim Lomax

Tweetin about baseball, soccer, traffic and things that strike me as odd.

[The Chicago Pope @TheChicagoPope]

Just to be clear… you think this was rigged while Trump is currently president and in charge of the government? But it wasn’t rigged when Trump won in 2024 while Biden was in charge? But it WAS rigged in 2020 when Trump was also in charge? But it WASN’T rigged in 2016 when Trump wasn’t in charge?

Jesus fucking Christ you fucking morons are exhaustingly and insufferably stupid.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

It was actually our 250th anniversary.

Not that you would know — you spent it with the British.

[Danielle Decker Jones @djtweets]

Scaramucc Scaramucc
Will she do the boom’rango
Hannity and right wing, very, very frightening me
Zacharia Zacharia Zacharia Zacharia
Zacharia Way to go!
Where’d she go!
Ohhhh
I'm just a tired girl, nobody preps me
She's just a blonde K with an ‘attorney’ fee
Spare her a life from this monstrosity

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Just so you understand the scale of betrayal: first, our "partners" didn't warn Ukraine about the incoming ballistic missiles, so the air raid alert wasn't activated before impact, robbing people of their chance to survive.

​Then, Starlink was restricted to stop working at speeds above 100 mph. This renders useless, first and foremost, our interceptor drones. It doesn't limit our ability to attack inside Russia, it limits our ability to stop another apartment building or school full of civilians from being hit.

​Wow, just wow.

[Tim Lomax @TimThots]

@FreddyLA7 Eat at Baja Grill on Kavanagh. Great TexMex with an Arkansas twist. Try the “I Cant Believe Its Not Acid” Sauce!

[Hendrix Warriors @HendrixWarriors]

Congratulations to Mary Addisyn Stubbs on 1000 career digs!

The senior went over 1000 with 15 digs in the Warriors' 3-0 sweep of Concordia Texas, and averaged 5.18 digs per set over the Warriors' three weekend matches.

@HendrixVBALL | #WeAreWarriors

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin on ICE detention centers, where at least 58 people have died:

"We're not providing Holiday Inns."

[Tim Lomax @TimThots]

Nope.

[George Rule @GeorgeR_1971]

@RustySuretteTV Pete Hegseth
Position and Responsibilities
Title: Secretary of War
Sworn In: January 25, 2025
Order of Service: 29th Secretary of Defense, transitioned to Secretary of War on Sep 5, 2025
Role: Oversees the War Department, serves as the principal war policy maker and advisor.

[Tim Lomax @TimThots]

@tomrenniesoccer
Isnt Enzo affecting play in front of goal?

[Tom Rennie @tomrenniesoccer]

It’s all so bleak. Forensic, contradictory, subjective. Football just does not need this. Total abolition now.

[Maryam @hell_line0]

The Texas GOP just made ending no fault divorce a 2027 legislative priority.

Read that again.

They want to make it harder to leave an unsafe/unhappy marriage.
Not harder to abuse someone.
Harder to leave.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

This is the most deceitful headline of the year so far. What the Post says happened, didn’t.

Fauci raised a hypothetical in January 2021—then correctly said the next month that no evidence of the hypothetical being real had emerged.

And even if it *had*, COVID would be *worse*.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

I'm posting this video so we NEVER FORGET what insurrectionist Donald Trump did on J6

Instead of accepting defeat and honoring the peaceful transfer of power, Donald unleashed a deadly mob on the U.S. Capitol in a last-ditch effort to overturn the certification of Biden's landslide victory.

THIS is what an insurrection looks like 👇👇👇

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Trump LIED again. He said the Italian granite pavers used to replace the historic Tennessee flagstone walkway in the West Colonnade would be “paid for by me.” Instead, he used $688,232 of taxpayer funds from the National Park Service budget to fund it. 🤬

[Bleeding Heartland @LauraRBelin]

No one should be surprised, because he’s said similar things so many times. Still, it’s shocking for the president to be spewing gutter racism from the Oval Office.

[Ruth Buscombe @RuthBuscombe]

“Do you ever miss being on the pit wall?”

I’ve been asked that question more times than I can count.

My answer has always been:

Yes… but no.

This weekend, Formula 1, F1 TV, AWS and Globant gave me a pit wall seat I never saw coming.

It made me reflect on the biggest career decision I’ve ever made.

People often ask whether I’d ever go back to a Formula 1 team.

The truth is, I never left because I’d stopped loving strategy. I left because I wanted the opportunity to fight for race wins and World Championships. After years of waiting for that chance, I realised I couldn’t spend my life hoping someone else would eventually give me that opportunity. So I stopped waiting and chose a different path.

The moment I stepped off the pit wall in 2023, I made peace with the trade off.

That was the cost of moving forwards.

I thought I was giving up the chance to ever sit on a Formula 1 pit wall again.

What I couldn’t possibly have imagined was everything I’d gain instead.

I never imagined I’d get to call strategy at the Indianapolis 500, losing it once by two corners before winning it back to back.

Or spend 24 hours fighting for every second in endurance racing, feeling completely awake at 3am, experiencing the highest highs and the lowest lows, and losing by just 1.9 seconds after an entire day of racing.

I never imagined I’d work across IndyCar, IMSA, NASCAR, WEC and iRacing, chasing what I jokingly call the Strategy Triple Crown.

I never imagined I’d work on the F1 movie alongside Brad Pitt and be at a Premiere, through Strategy!

Or speak on keynote stages across six continents, sharing ideas about strategy with audiences from the Olympic movement to Wall Street.

And I certainly never imagined I’d get the privilege of bringing Formula 1 strategy to millions of fans around the world through F1 TV.

Most importantly, I never imagined the extraordinary people I’d meet. People from motorsport, technology, finance and so many other worlds who completely changed the way I think about strategy, leadership and high performance.

Professionally, I’m happier than I ever imagined.

Personally, I’m happier too.

I’d made peace with the trade off long before I knew how extraordinary the upside would become.

Then Sunday happened.

For a few hours I found myself doing exactly what I’d always loved.

Not watching Kimi Antonelli’s race.

Looking for ways he could win it.

Every projection kept bringing me back to the same answer.

If Mercedes wanted to win, they had to commit to the one stop.

When they did, instead of protecting the safe result, I felt exactly the same rush I used to feel sitting on a Formula 1 pit wall.

Then the Virtual Safety Car came.

A championship contender rolled past me in the pit lane.

A familiar double gut punch.

And in that moment, as I gathered myself to calmly give the next race situation update on the other end of my radio panel, I realised something.

It felt like coming home.

Just as a better version of myself.

Ironically, if I ever did go back to Formula 1, I’d go back a better strategist than when I left. Not because I forgot what Formula 1 taught me, but because of everything it allowed me to learn afterwards, in other championships, with AI, with technology, and with people outside motorsport.

If you’ve made it this far, I guess the point I’m trying to make is this.

The dream you have at 22 doesn’t have to be the same dream you have at 36.

Sometimes it grows.

Sometimes it changes.

Sometimes the thing you think you’re giving up leads you somewhere you could never have imagined.

Three years ago, if you’d asked whether I’d give all of this up for another shot at a championship winning Formula 1 pit wall, I’d have answered immediately.

Today…

I’m not so sure.

And I think that’s a pretty wonderful place to be.

Thank you to everyone at Formula 1, @F1 TV, @awscloud and @Globant for making this happen.

And, Dear Pitwall, I will see you soon after a little Shutdown. 😉

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

We had nowhere close to the highest mortality rate from Covid of any country in the world. Eastern European countries, which had crappy vaccination rates, had far higher mortality rates than we did.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Elon Musk asked for a name of a person he has killed.

He got a list.

[🔻agitprop + absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty]

A months-long Sky News investigation into the US double-tap strike on a Minab girls' school found the Pentagon had tracked the site by satellite since 1987 and could still count children's shadows in the courtyard before firing anyway.

What the evidence shows:

Three Tomahawk missiles fired from the USS Spruance, 716 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea, hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab on Feb 28, the opening day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Witnesses described a second strike hitting the exact spot where a teacher had moved surviving students for shelter, killing nearly everyone who had taken cover there. A third strike followed on the same site. Death tolls range from 156 to over 170, most of them girls aged seven to twelve. The school had been walled off from the adjacent IRGC naval base since at least 2015, had its own website, and was geolocatable through open-source materials any analyst could have pulled in minutes.

Built to fail:

The Pentagon's own machinery for preventing exactly this outcome had already been dismantled. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slashed the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence workforce by roughly 90 percent and cut CENTCOM's civilian casualty assessment team from ten people to one, months before the war started. A May Pentagon Inspector General report found the office had become a shell on paper with no budget, no mandate, no real mission. A functioning warning system was defunded on purpose, then blamed for not warning anyone.

Accountability buried:

Four months on, CENTCOM's commander told reporters the investigation was near complete, yet nothing has been released. Asked in June whether anyone would face consequences, Trump called it a strange question, adding that mistakes are made and war is nasty. The mistake was choosing not to fund the office that exists to catch mistakes like this one.

My take: A military that surveilled a schoolyard for four decades didn't fail to see the children, it decided in advance that seeing them wouldn't change the targeting. Nobody in this chain lacked information.

[Man City Brazil @ManCityBrazil]

O comentarista suíço David Lemos, encerrou a transmissão resumindo com precisão os problemas desta Copa do Mundo, ele foi perfeito.

🗣️"Não há dúvidas de que esta foi a Copa do Mundo mais comercial da história e também uma das mais politizadas."

"Não esqueceremos os preços que pessoas sem grande poder aquisitivo tiveram de pagar para viver sua paixão pelo futebol."

"Em alguns casos, sequer puderam entrar no país por causa de sua nacionalidade, fossem torcedores, jornalistas ou até árbitros, como o somali Omar Artan."

"Também lembramos do tratamento inaceitável dado à seleção do Irã, que não pôde defender suas chances de forma adequada durante o torneio."

"E há ainda o caso de Folarin Balogun. Vimos um presidente se vangloriar de ter ligado para o presidente da FIFA para conseguir retirar a suspensão de um jogador."

"A política se infiltrou no coração do futebol, embora a FIFA afirme querer mantê-la acima de tudo. Fica claro que isso só vale até certo ponto."

"Foi uma Copa do Mundo em que todas as partidas foram disputadas em quatro tempos, e cuja final teve um intervalo de quase 30 minutos."

"A crise tem dois nomes: dinheiro e poder. Hoje existe uma crise de confiança entre muitos dos envolvidos no futebol e a FIFA."

"Nas próximas semanas, muito dinheiro será distribuído a diversas federações e a muitos agentes do futebol, que serão educadamente convidados a permanecer em silêncio."

"Esperamos que tudo isso seja levado em consideração e que não volte a acontecer."

[William Merrin @william_merrin]

The Guardian wins the caption of the year competition :) #worldcup