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[Lima @limalemonnn]

In 2019, Tobey Maguire won $15.6 million playing poker against billionaire Andy Beal. Beal delayed payment and asked for a discount. Maguire spent $500,000 on a lawyer and collected his full $7.8 million share.

In the video below, private poker organizer Molly Bloom describes what the Spider-Man actor was like at her table. She recalls him saying: “It’s not really about money. It’s more about crushing souls.”

Bloom remembers Maguire assuring an opponent during one hand: "Listen, I have the top hand. I swear on my mother's life". The man agonized, eventually folded, and Maguire revealed the bluff.

According to Bloom, he made a different demand of her: to receive a tip, she had to climb onto the table and bark like a seal.

Bloom refused. She says the standoff lasted 35 minutes: the game stopped while everyone at the table watched.

A few weeks later, Bloom says, Maguire arranged for one of the wealthy players to host the games at his house. The other players followed, leaving her without the game she had been running.

Then Maguire called her: “You’re done. You’re over.”

Lawyer Tom Goldstein helped Maguire collect the money from Beal. In January 2026, the actor described the arrangement in court, where Goldstein himself was facing tax charges.

Beal had lost money to Maguire and owed him payment. Bloom refused to be humiliated and lost the game she organized.

Was winning the money enough for Maguire, or did he need the people at the table to feel defeated?

[percy contreras @VonpercyPercy]

Y el pueblo Rapa Nui levanto la vos para decir que no son escuchados @hotuititeao

[Lianna @lianna_armenian]

✝️🇦🇲 Never forget the #Armenian Genocide that martyred 1.5 million blessed #Christians.

Rare archival footage of Armenian children on death marches - stolen childhoods, lost generations.

May the blessed #Christian martyrs rest in peace.

[Freedom Alternative🏴‍☠️🚬 @Freedomalternat]

AVAST (Czech company) was great. Then a US company bought it and turned it into spyware.
Skype (Estonian) was great. Then Microsoft bought it and killed it because it didn't spy.
RAV was great. Bought by Microsoft and killed because it actually cleaned desktop viruses [1/2]

[🇺🇸 Jake Hilton 🇮🇱 @TheDemSlayer]

OCTOBER 7, 2023: SHE KNEW SHE WAS GOING TO DIE.

Libi Cohen-Meguri, a 22-year-old infantry officer, went to the Nova music festival.

She was shot while fleeing the party. At 8:11 a.m., she called her parents and said:

“I’ve been shot in the stomach, I’ve been shot in the arm, I’m losing blood. I’m going to die.”

Calmly, quietly, she understood; these were the last minutes of her life.

She asked her parents to call Tomer, her twin brother, and Maya, her little sister, and said:

“I’m going to die. I just want you to listen to me.

I love you, Yariv. You’re the best father I could have asked for.

Mom, stop screaming. Just listen to me. You are the best mother we could have ever had. Don’t forget to be a good mother to Tomer and Maya after I die.

Tomer, how lucky we were to live this life together. I love you.

My Maya, never forget—you are the treasure of my life.”

When she finished speaking, her parents told her to get out of the car, lie down on the road, and pretend to be dead.

With her last bit of strength, she got out of the car and laid down on the road.

“Mom, they’re coming to shoot me again,” Libi said after lying down.

While her mother listened on the phone, shouts in Arabic could be heard, and then a barrage of gunfire.

It didn’t stop.

It kept going, until the call was disconnected.

And that’s how Libi died—with demonic beasts from the pit of hell standing over her and emptying a full magazine into her body.

Libi died with LOVE on her lips: love for life, love for her family, and love for her people.

Her memory will forever be a blessing.

NEVER FORGET.
NEVER FORGIVE.

NEVER AGAIN IS NOW.

Israel is hunting down every single Palestinian and Hamas terrorist who participated in the October 7th Massacre—to kill them all.

They’re living on “borrowed time,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

Sooner or later, every one of these monsters will be found and eliminated.

[DANIEL🥤🏊🏋️‍♂️ @Daniel399492892]

Ley cholito Según Contraloría (2026), entre 2017 y marzo de 2026 se entregaron más de $33.647 millones a los municipios para el programa.
162 municipalidades no informaron el destino de más de $16 mil millones, y 61 no realizaron las jornadas de rescate ni control poblacional.

[Auguste Bardamu @AugusteBardamu]

L'Histoire retient Pol Pot comme le boucher du Cambodge.

Mais on oublie souvent le paradoxe le plus glaçant de ce dictateur.

Le tyran qui a voulu ramener son pays à l'âge de pierre n'était pas un paysan illettré.

C'était un bourgeois formé dans les universités parisiennes.

En 1975, il prend le pouvoir avec les Khmers rouges et décrète "l'Année Zéro".

Son projet : vider les villes et transformer le Cambodge en un immense camp de travaux forcés agraire.

Le résultat sera le génocide le plus fulgurant de l'Histoire moderne.

En moins de quatre ans, près de deux millions de Cambodgiens sont exterminés. Près d'un quart de la population.

La cruauté du régime tient dans une seule devise, froidement répétée chaque jour aux déportés par les miliciens de l'Angkar.

L'Angkar, c'est "l'Organisation" : l'entité suprême, sans visage et toute-puissante du parti communiste khmer, qui contrôle chaque seconde de la vie des citoyens.

Son mot d'ordre absolu : "Vous garder ne rapporte rien, vous détruire ne coûte rien."

Pour le dictateur, la culture et l'intellectualisme sont des maladies mortelles qu'il faut éradiquer.

Avoir les mains douces est une condamnation à mort. Parler une langue étrangère est un crime capital.

Même le simple fait de porter des lunettes suffit pour être abattu à coups de pioche ou étouffé avec un sac en plastique, car le régime refuse de gaspiller des balles.

Les témoignages des survivants décrivent une déshumanisation absolue.

Le cinéaste Rithy Panh, qui a vu toute sa famille mourir dans les camps de travail, raconte la terreur psychologique : "Pleurer un mort était un acte de rébellion. Si tu montrais ta peine, tu étais exécuté."

Les enfants étaient arrachés à leurs familles et endoctrinés pour devenir les bourreaux de leurs propres parents.

Dans son récit de survie, l'ingénieur Pin Yathay résume l'anéantissement voulu par ce système broyeur : "Nous étions ravalés au rang de bêtes. L'Angkar nous avait volé notre humanité."

Pendant que son peuple crevait dans la boue et la maladie, Pol Pot dirigeait l'extermination depuis le confort de ses résidences.

Mais la véritable insulte à la morale se trouve dans la fin de l'histoire.

Contrairement aux dignitaires nazis, le bourreau du Cambodge n'a jamais répondu de ses crimes devant un tribunal international.

Pol Pot s'est éteint paisiblement dans son lit, libre, en 1998.

[Amerika'nın görünmeyen yüzü @CirkinAmerika]

Erkekler Adası vs. Kadınlar Adası…

İki grubu da ayrı ayrı ıssız bir adaya bırakıyorlar.

Erkekler hayatlarının en eğlenceli günlerini geçirirken; kadınlar susuz, yemeksiz, perişan…

Mevcut sistemin tamamen erkek emeğine dayandığını ve bu emeği sömürerek yaşayanları fark edin.

[Kateri Seraphina @KateriSeraphina]

"La prédiction la plus glaçante de toutes"
Le 2 février 1905, à Saint-Pétersbourg, naissait Alissa Zinovievna, philosophe et écrivaine d’origine russe, mieux connue dans le monde des lettres sous le nom d’Ayn Rand.
Elle déclara :
« Lorsque tu te rendras compte qu’il te faut l’autorisation de ceux qui ne produisent rien pour pouvoir créer ; lorsque tu verras que l’argent afflue non vers ceux qui échangent des biens, mais des faveurs ; lorsque tu comprendras que beaucoup s’enrichissent non par leur travail, mais par la corruption et les influences, et que les lois, loin de te protéger contre eux, les protègent contre toi ; lorsque tu découvriras que la corruption est récompensée et que l’honnêteté devient un sacrifice, alors tu pourras affirmer, sans l’ombre d’un doute, que ta société est condamnée. »
Ces mots résonnent, telle une vérité intemporelle, comme un avertissement gravé dans le marbre du temps.
Le monde littéraire

[silvan @silvanrec]

El CEO de Adobe viendo cómo alguien creó un editor de pdf de 20mb, lo publicó 100% GRATIS y no puede hacer nada porque técnicamente no hizo nada ilegal

[Hunter Weiss @Hunter_Weiss]

Sicario border shootout scene in real life. Just how Denis Villeneuve envisioned it

[Old England in Colour @englandincolour]

The London Olympic Games in 1908.

[💀 Brent Di Cassare 💀 @NoobGoneBadX]

The Untold Pep Files: A Story of Drugs, Referees, and Dark Money in Football👇

Imagine a story so massive it makes the Lance Armstrong scandal look like a warm-up act. It starts with a single player, spans across three countries, and exposes a decades-long trail of destroyed evidence, "miracle" doctors, and institutional corruption.
Welcome down the rabbit hole. 🕵️‍♂️⚽

CHAPTER 1: The Player Who Got Caught
Before Pep Guardiola was the master tactician, he was a midfielder for Brescia in 2001. That was the year he tested positive twice for the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone.
His defense? "Contaminated multivitamins."
Who was the man preparing those exact vitamins? Dr. Ramon Segura, the same physiologist who was working with Frank de Boer when De Boer also tested positive for nandrolone that exact same year.
The pattern was set early: win at all costs, and surround yourself with questionable medicine.

CHAPTER 2: The Barcelona "Miracles" & Operación Puerto
When Pep took over Barcelona in 2008, guess who he immediately brought in to lead the medical staff? Dr. Ramon Segura.
At the same time, Spanish football was shadowed by Operación Puerto, the infamous raid on Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes that uncovered 99 blood bags containing EPO. Fuentes openly admitted on trial that he had worked with football and tennis stars, famously taunting the court that naming his clients meant Spain would have to give back their Champions League, European Championship, and World Cup trophies.
The Spanish judge’s response? Refuse to let him name names, reject WADA’s appeal, and order all blood bags destroyed under the guise of doctor-patient confidentiality.
Add to this:
Journalists uncovering full-season "doping preparation plans" for La Liga giants.
Real Sociedad’s president admitting they spent €327,000 annually on illegal black-market PEDs.
Retracted slips on radio revealing players using growth hormones for "muscle recovery."
Spanish football's Golden Era was built, but the paper trail was conveniently burned.

CHAPTER 3: The System Expands — Financial Doping & Negreira
Winning wasn't just happening on the pitch; it was being secured everywhere else.
While the public obsessively meme's about Premier League charges, Barcelona was paying millions to Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, the Vice President of Spain's Refereeing Committee. When asked in court to provide the "referee reports" they claimed to be paying for, Barca couldn't produce them. They paid off the referees' boss, plain and simple.

CHAPTER 4: The Bayern Friction
When Pep arrived at Bayern Munich, he tried to bring his hyper-aggressive medical protocols with him. He insisted on sending injured players back to Barcelona to be treated by his preferred specialists.
This sparked an explosive fallout with Bayern’s legendary physician Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt, who walked out in disgust over Pep’s demands for unnatural, record-breaking recovery times. Bayern’s old guard refused to bend the knee to Pep's dark arts.

CHAPTER 5: Manchester City & The Ultimate Machine
At Manchester City, Pep finally found a club with zero moral boundaries to stop him.
The strategy reached its final, perfected evolution:
Financial Doping: Siphoning billions in hidden payments to bypass FFP rules and buy infinite depth.
Medical Anomaly: Key players like De Bruyne, Kompany constantly flying to Barcelona to see Dr. Ramon Cugat, mysteriously recovering weeks ahead of human biology norms.
Refereeing “controversies” and literally paying off referees like Michael Oliver.
When Samir Nasri got caught receiving illegal IV drip treatments in 2016, it was framed as an isolated mistake.
THE VERDICT
From nandrolone positives in 2001 to 115 financial charges and paid-off referee chiefs today... Pep Guardiola didn't just adapt to elite football. He systematically redefined how to cheat it.
You think Lance Armstrong was the biggest cover-up in sports history?
You haven't been paying attention.

[Tironianae 🍊🍊 Z. - Ultra Verbum Vincet @Tironianae]

For those that still don’t understand what Benghazi was all about:

🚨So here's the REAL story:

Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission.

Sec State Hillary Clinton had brokered the Libya deal through Ambassador Stevens and a Private Arms Dealer named Marc Turi, but some of the shoulder fired Stinger Missiles ended up in Afghanistan where they were used against our own military. On July 25th, 2012, a US Chinook helicopter was downed by one of them. Not destroyed only because the idiot Taliban didn't arm the missile. The helicopter didn't explode, but it had to land and an ordnance team recovered the missile’s serial number which led back to a cache of Stinger Missiles kept in
Qatar by the CIA.

Obama and Hillary were in full panic mode, so Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to retrieve the rest of the Stinger Missiles. This was a "do-or-die" mission, which explains the Stand Down Orders given to multiple rescue teams during the siege of the US Embassy.

It was the State Dept, NOT the CIA, that supplied the Stinger Missiles to our sworn enemies because Gen. Petraeus at CIA would not approve supplying the deadly missiles due to their potential use against commercial aircraft. So then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus when he refused to testify in support of Obama’s phony claim of a “spontaneous uprising caused by a YouTube video that insulted Muslims.”
Obama and Hillary committed TREASON!

THIS is what the investigation is all about, WHY she had a Private Server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and WHY Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was the result of the YouTube video, even though everyone KNEW it was not.

Furthermore, the Taliban knew that the administration had aided and abetted the enemy WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission, so they began pressuring (blackmailing) the Obama Administration to release five Taliban generals being held at Guantanamo.

Bowe Bergdahl was just a useful pawn used to cover the release of the Taliban generals. Everyone knew Bergdahl was a traitor but Obama used Bergdahl’s exchange for the five Taliban generals to cover that Obama was being coerced by the Taliban about the unauthorized Stinger Missile deal.

So we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised, as well and a Sec of State that is a serial liar, who perjured herself multiple times at the Congressional Hearings on Benghazi. Perhaps this is why no military aircraft were called upon for help in Benghazi: because the administration knew that our enemies had Stinger Missiles that, if used to down those planes, would likely be traced back to the CIA cache in Qatar and then to the State Dept’s illegitimate arms deal in Libya.

Forward this again and again and again until everyone reads the true story of Benghazi.

[Danitza Sabrina @DanitzaSabrina]

Y a mi hija la Sub- inspector #DanitzaAraya de @PDI_CHILE Porqué? La sacó de las filas ,recién operada,con diagnóstico de un DOCTOR que ella nunca vió,sus médicos de @clinicaMEDS de cabecera JAMÁS le dieron su alta, CERNA la Discriminó por estar en estar Parapléjica?

[Fascinating History @Fascinate_Hist]

Meet Princess Olga of Kiev. In 945 AD, a rival tribe murdered her husband.

Their revenge plan? Asking her to marry their prince.

Her response was a masterclass in absolute devastation and /🧵

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

Rhodesia Railways used to be an absolute powerhouse.

427 locomotives, over 11,000 coaches and wagons, and a workforce of 29,000 people who actually knew what they were doing.

They moved more than 4 million passengers a year, on a network that ran all the way from Botswana down to the South African border.

Back in 1955 they even introduced Centralized Train Control, an electronic system managing switching and signals across 1,250 miles of track between Mutare and Ndola. Basically, they built human error out of the system decades before most of the world thought to.

Then in the late 70s came a $140 million electrification project, running high-voltage overhead lines from the Dabuka Marshalling Yard into Harare. This wasn't a quick fix either, it was infrastructure meant to last a century, and for a long time it was the backbone of mining, agriculture, and manufacturing in the country.

Fast forward to the National Railways of Zimbabwe, and it's honestly a hard story to tell. Engineers, mechanics, and inspectors who knew the system got replaced by political appointees.

Maintenance didn't just slip, it stopped altogether, like someone assumed the infrastructure would just look after itself.

And that's not how any of this works. Stop investing in locomotives, stop maintaining track, let the signaling equipment rot, and eventually the whole thing doesn't just slow down, it collapses. Those electric trains that used to climb steep gradients with ease got grounded because the parastatal couldn't even keep its own power grid running.

Once the neglect became institutional, that's when the real vultures showed up. Not small time theft, full-blown structural destruction.

The Harare–Dabuka electrified line got stripped down to nothing. Copper wiring, transformers, even the signaling systems, all torn out, melted down, and smuggled across the border.

Today, NRZ runs at a tiny fraction of what it used to. Coal, chrome, lithium, and farm produce, all pushed off the rails and onto trucks instead.

Now the highways are getting hammered by overloaded haulage trucks, logistics costs are climbing, and our export competitiveness is taking the hit.

The story of Rhodesia Railways to NRZ isn't really about missing trains. It's a case study in what happens when political patronage and zero accountability are allowed to run unchecked, a logistics powerhouse reduced to scrap metal.

[İnşaat Doktoru @insaatdoktoru]

1939’da Almanya’da üretilen bu tezgah yaklaşık 90 yıl sonra halen hassas dişli üretiyor.

Eski Alman mühendisliği gerçekten başka seviye..

[Modern History @modernhistory]

Sixteen years have passed
since this duo created this
masterpiece.

[Loran @0xLoran]

In 1964 Richard Feynman picked up one piece of chalk and explained the exact problem every AI lab is burning billions on in 2026.

The BBC filmed it. It has been free for 60 years. Almost nobody has watched it.

His point: nature only ever answers in mathematics. Every lab trying to force a language model to "reason" is slamming into the same wall Feynman mapped 62 years ago.

He was 46 here. The Nobel came 11 months later. The reels survived and now sit on YouTube with fewer views than a keyboard unboxing.

Skip to the blackboard in the middle. He takes one of Kepler's laws and rebuilds it from zero, in notation a 12-year-old can follow.

No slides. No jargon. One piece of chalk.

An ML engineer I know paused it 4 times and made his whole team watch it before standup.

You're 62 years late. It is still free.