Brandon T. Minster, KBE, VC

Making the easy look difficult. 'I don't generate falsehoods. I generate facts.'

[Brandon T. Minster, KBE, VC @btminster]

You better have an A-plus texting game if you feel you're special enough to ignore all other forms of contact. Spoiler alert: you don't have an A-plus texting game.

[Brandon T. Minster, KBE, VC @btminster]

Some of you have no idea how NFL holding works:
* what Sauce Gardner did was holding because otherwise Mahomes throws an interception.
* what Donovan Smith did was not holding because otherwise Mahomes doesn't convert 3rd & 22.
Learn the game, people.

[Brandon T. Minster, KBE, VC @btminster]

Ah, "ticketing innovation," the birthplace of a fee for "souvenir paper tickets."

[U.S. Soccer @ussoccer]

.@ussoccer 🤝 @Ticketmaster

U.S. Soccer and Ticketmaster announce multi-year partnership to drive ticketing innovation » https://t.co/pq82kWRzgN

[Brandon T. Minster, KBE, VC @btminster]

The @Pirates had three seasons this year:
1. 20-8 (0.714 winning percentage, better than the Braves)
2. 21-46 (0.313 winning percentage, worse than the As)
3. 33-29 (0.532 winning percentage, not yet eliminated as a wild-card)

[Brandon T. Minster, KBE, VC @btminster]

"When every aspiration is frustrated, a person still must seek a meaningful goal around which to organize the self. Then, even though that person is objectively a slave, subjectively he is free." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, "Flow," p. 92

[Brandon T. Minster, KBE, VC @btminster]

What's the deal with office gossipers who give you dirty looks when you walk by? I'm not trying to hear about your beef with Linda, Susan; I'm trying to get some water.

[Brandon T. Minster, KBE, VC @btminster]

Remember when Cousin Matthew couldn't stand up until he was afraid Lady Mary might trip? Why was Downton Abbey a thing?

[Brandon T. Minster, KBE, VC @btminster]

Watching this #MNF game with no sound; seems like they're using some rule about all Rams TDs don't count. What's up with that?

[Brandon T. Minster, KBE, VC @btminster]

That dog sucks at police work. He's got the confidential phone number just hanging out right there for everyone to see.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Drugs worth half a million euro seized https://t.co/tq0RyuSLEr

[Brandon T. Minster, KBE, VC @btminster]

How did we end up in this terrible equilibrium where every game is its own app?

[Brandon T. Minster, KBE, VC @btminster]

Imagine how much technological progress we would have if we didn't ignore 80% of the Nobel-laureate-intelligent people on Earth.

[Whyvert @whyvert]

The birthplaces of Nobel Physics Prize laureates.
https://t.co/VqV5UfiqFN

[Brandon T. Minster, KBE, VC @btminster]

Netflix: Remember three years ago, when we made a show critiquing how dystopian modern capitalism is? Well, now we're making our metaphor come true!

[Netflix @netflix]

456 real people.
4.56 million dollars.
Squid Game: The Challenge begins November 22.

[Nabeel S. Qureshi @nabeelqu]

Housing is a centuries-old technology and should be basically free by now, just like food/water/electricity. It's pure insanity that we've made it a scarce unproductive fake "investment" asset and allowed it to take up an insane amount of people's budgets

[Brandon T. Minster, KBE, VC @btminster]

Four Seasons Landscaping is a detail I hope the history books never lose.

[Brandon T. Minster, KBE, VC @btminster]

Doctor: What's this sore here?
Me: Six years ago I got a bug bite that got sunburned and it's never healed.
Doctor: Sounds legit; I'll ask no follow-up questions.

[Brandon T. Minster, KBE, VC @btminster]

Imagine how much value it would add on here if there was a way of telling real public figures and legitimate news from rumors and lies. Like a checkmark or something. Maybe blue.

[Brandon T. Minster, KBE, VC @btminster]

Imagine the size of the fine Morgan would have if she had gotten her knee blown up!

[Jenna Tonelli @jennatonelli]

INBOX: The #NWSL has issued a fine to San Diego Wave FC forward Alex Morgan for comments detrimental to the league made on social media on September 17, 2023, in violation of Section 12.2.5 (e) “Prejudicial Statements and Public Criticism” of the League Operations Manual.

[Dan Wiederer @danwiederer]

Justin Fields acknowledged he has been playing too robotic, then bit the pin off the grenade and rolled it into the building with his explanation for why he believes it is that way: "Coaching."

Wow.

A LOT more on that in a bit.

[Brandon T. Minster, KBE, VC @btminster]

Sweden lets high-school-student interns be defense minister?!?!

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

Minister @rustem_umerov met with Swedish Minister of Defence @PlJonson on the sidelines of the #Ramstein 15.
Blue and yellow coalition is strong!
🇺🇦🤝🇸🇪

[Brandon T. Minster, KBE, VC @btminster]

No one in America wants this rematch, but it's what we're going to get. Is that what the Greeks meant by "democracy"?

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

NEW: Trump calls on Republicans to use the 25th Amendment to remove "Dumb as a rock" Biden from office

Fun fact: The 25th Amendment allows the president’s cabinet to transfer the authority from the president to the VP. It has nothing to do with Congress

Who's "Dumb as a rock"?