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[arshia @arsh7a]

met kanye sorta

[Maria from GA via Naija🗳 @looking_finding]

Nolan bros after punching down (non-derogatory) on MCU stans are discovering there are a higher forms of cultural elitism that can punch down on them and are crashing out lmao

[Toni Kroos @ToniKroos]

Football won

[Liam 🇵🇸 @Hezbolsonaro]

Heard a quote last month in comparison to Infantino—“Sepp Blatter loved money but at least he liked soccer”

[/+/ @Sxne19iv2]

Honestly prefer to exit like Ronaldo has with dignity and honor intact than what Argentina have transpired at the last 2 World Cups. Opposition players recorded doubting your achievements is a massive legacy hit. Now more like SGA of football instead of a GOAT candidate

[K @Damocleansword]

Sepp Blatter had a finesse with his own corruption. It never impeded with the love of the game. Infantino on the other hand is just a straight up jaguda.

[arshia @arsh7a]

@websterkaroon The bars pretty low tbf, wouldn’t give them much credit coming back against New Zealand that was a pretty shocking performance.

[nic carter @nic_carter]

one of my favorite things that happens at each world cup is when a random country goes out in the group stages and it turns into a national scandal. the coach is forced to testify, there's parliamentary inquiries, etc.

[arshia @arsh7a]

@BrickCenter_ The commentating is dreadful wow

[Fr33 Gunner 💻 @Fr33Chas3r]

Club soccer fans spent all season using terms like “tactical chess match”, justifying 1-0 set piece wins , and supporting inorganic state backed satellite teams but won’t watch the sport in its rawest and most passionate form

[arshia @arsh7a]

@CollisionInt @yslenjoyer Wdym doubt it they exist in Europe 😭

[Raj Chohan @rajsinghchohan]

Alonso hive we won. Nobody serious made any inference on Xabi’s coaching ability or personality with this bunch of divas. Xabi was the consummate gentleman who was loved by the dressing rooms of 3 massive clubs so he was pretty obviously never going to be the one at fault.

[Jack Pitt-Brooke @JackPittBrooke]

45 minutes to remind you why you love football so much and now a reminder of what they've done to it.

[Red-1 @RedTheOne]

Madrid tous les jours mdr, zéro concurrence

[LindyMan @PaulSkallas]

Iranians are a land people. They always have been. They spread their culture to their neighbors. The religions come and go. but the land remains the same. They are not a diaspora people. When iranians leave iran they never keep their language or religion and they end up marrying out quickly. Iranians dont have cultural software that Mediterranean groups or arabs have to keep their culture alive in other lands.

The land must be defended by every inhabitant, woman and children included.

[EH @EHcomps]

Mesut Ozil vs David Silva - 2009/10

[Balaji @balajis]

I'm going to make some obvious points.

(1) Blowing up all the oil infrastructure in the Middle East is an insane idea, and may well result in a global economic crash and humanitarian crisis unrivaled in the lives of those now living. We're talking about the price of everything everywhere rising, from food to gas, at a moment when inflation was already high. All of that will be laid at the feet of the authors of this war.

(2) The antebellum status quo of Feb 27, 2026 was just not that bad, but we're unlikely to return to it. Expect indefinite, long-term, ongoing disruptions to everything out of the Middle East.

(3) Also assume tech financing crashes for the indefinite future. The genius plan to get the Gulf states caught in the crossfire has incinerated much of the funding for LPs, for datacenters, and for IPOs. Anyone in tech who supported this war may soon learn the meaning of "force majeure" as funding gets yanked.

(4) Many capital allocators will instead be allocating much further down Maslow's hierarchy of needs, towards useful basic things like food and energy.

(5) It's fortunate that all those progressives yelled about the "climate crisis." Yes, their reasoning about timelines was wrong, and much of the money was wasted in graft, but the result was right: we all need energy independence from the Middle East, pronto. It's also fortunate that Elon and China autistically took climate seriously. Now they're going to need to ship a billion solar panels, electric vehicles, batteries, nuclear power plants, and the like to get everyone off oil, immediately.

(6) It's not just an oil and gas problem, of course. It's also a fertilizer problem, and a chemical precursor problem. Maybe some new sources will come online at the new prices, but it takes time to dial stuff up, particularly at this scale, so shortages are almost a certainty.

That said, China has actually scaled up coal-to-chemicals[a,c] (C2C), and there's also something more sci-fi called Power-to-X[b] which turns arbitrary power + water + air into hydrocarbons. But all of that will need to get accelerated. I have a background in chemical engineering so may start funding things in this area.

(7) Ultimately, this war is going to result in tremendous blame for anyone associated with it. It's a no-win scenario to blow up this much infrastructure for so many people. Simply not worth it for whatever objective they thought they were going to attain. But unless you're actually in a position to stop the madness, the pragmatic thing to do is: scramble to mitigate the fallout to yourself, your business, and your people.

[a]: https://t.co/ITat4tmAFd
[b]: https://t.co/bWwiSQcgyt
[c]: https://t.co/FQCqMhy5d3

[Sam Haselby @samhaselby]

The richest guy I know, a hedge funder in NYC, said this a lot, that rich people in the US underestimate how much social suffering and privation effects their lives, how much anxiety and unhappiness seeing it produces. Underestimated second-order effect.

[Soda @fredsoda]

graham is an honest reflection of the US

a nation driven by nihilistic, violent rage against a world that is irreversibly moving on from its hegemony

[camilo @AscendedYield]

you gotta be Londonmaxxing

[Alexander @alexanderrX_]

london thursday evenings are unmatched. no other city comes close. yes it has its downsides but the social scene is something else. give it 10 years and it becomes the sf of europe when companies decide to leave us