Chris Roche

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Anya Taylor-Joy on how she first got involved in ‘THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT’

"I was working on 3 different things at the same time. I read the book in 2 hours, ran to Scott Frank and was like: She has to have red hair and it’s not about chess."

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Every famous death in The Odyssey is the same crime.

The Trojan War? Started because a houseguest stole his host's wife. The cyclops? Blinded for eating his visitors. The suitors? Slaughtered for overstaying their welcome in another man's home.

Nolan read it correctly. Homer wrote 3,000 years ago about one thing: how you treat strangers decides whether civilization holds.

Here's why the Greeks were obsessed with it. Ancient Greece had no hotels, no cops, no ID. If you traveled anywhere, you knocked on a stranger's door and hoped.

So they made hospitality sacred. Feed the stranger. Give him a bed. Don't ask his name until after dinner. Zeus himself enforced the rule, and any beggar at your door might be a god in disguise. So you treated every stranger like a king.

Break the rule and the gods break you. That's the entire plot.

We still carry the proof in our mouths. Guest, host, and hostile all come from the same ancient word. A stranger at your door was always both things at once.

Nolan bet $250 million that after 3,000 years, we still need the reminder. $257 million opening weekend, his biggest ever, says he was right.

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

Patrick Mahomes knowing almost every QB from their silhouette 😳

(via @Chiefs)

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Fable 5 thinks we are idiots

[Stoolies Clubhouse 🏴‍☠️ @StooliesClub]

The only funny skit SNL has had in 20 years thanks to the legend @natebargatze:

#America250

[Royally Sage @sage1411]

My brother posts this every year in the family chat on the 4th. Still hilarious.

[Dr. Parik Patel, BA, CFA, ACCA Esq. @ParikPatelCFA]

Ages of Founding Fathers in 1776:

James Monroe, 18
Aaron Burr, 20
John Marshall, 20
Alexander Hamilton, 21
James Madison, 25
John Jay, 30
Thomas Jefferson, 33
Thomas Paine, 39
John Adams, 40
George Washington, 44
Dr. Parik Patel, 28

This nation was built by brilliant young men.

[Kentucky Girl @Notwokenow]

One of the most inspiring stories from July 4, 1776, centers on the courage and unbreakable unity of the men who adopted the Declaration of Independence.

On that day, the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia formally adopted the Declaration, with Thomas Jefferson as its primary author.

This document announced the 13 colonies’ break from Britain and proclaimed timeless ideals: that all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness, and that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

The signers (starting with John Hancock’s famously bold signature on the engrossed copy, followed by others on August 2) knew they were committing an act of treason.

If the Revolution failed, they faced execution, the seizure of their homes and fortunes, and ruin for their families. British forces were already in the colonies, and a price was on the heads of leaders like Hancock.

A legendary (though possibly apocryphal) exchange captures the gravity perfectly.

As they prepared to sign, someone reportedly noted they must all hang together.

Benjamin Franklin replied with his famous wit and resolve: “Yes, we must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.”

This wasn’t empty bravado.

The delegates pledged “our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor” in the Declaration’s closing.

Many did pay a heavy price—losing property, enduring hardship, or seeing family suffer—but their stand ignited a revolution that birthed a nation founded on liberty.

What makes this story soar is the ordinary men (merchants, lawyers, farmers) choosing extraordinary principle over personal safety.

They bet everything on an idea—that free people could govern themselves—against the world’s greatest empire at the time.

Their boldness, unity in the face of mortal danger, and vision of self-evident truths continue to inspire movements for freedom worldwide.

250 years ago today, the Founding Fathers signed their own death warrants, warrants that they themselves had drafted.

Happy Fourth of July!

This legacy of defiant hope and shared sacrifice is worth celebrating today and every day.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today marks the 250th anniversary of one of humanity's brightest, strongest, and most influential dreams – the American Dream of an independent, free, and prosperous nation that defends people's freedom, faith, and the pursuit of happiness.

That dream has endured many trials. It did not merely survive – it has, for two and a half centuries now, served as an example for other nations and helped the entire humanity stand firm and become freer. This was especially important in the 20th century, when America helped save the world from the rule of tyrants and built the alliances and partnerships that, for the first time, gave a large part of humanity lasting peace and the opportunity to develop in freedom.

Now, in the 21st century, America's influence and importance are certainly no less. And we see that particularly clearly in Ukraine, which is fighting for its independence, freedom, and our people's right to happiness with much the same hope, the same purpose, and the same determination with which Americans won and defended their own independence.

We deeply value the support of the United States, especially now, during Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine. American weapons – from the Javelins that President Trump decided to give to Ukraine to the Patriots that most reliably protect the lives of our people – everything the United States has provided to help us defend our country demonstrates the strength of the American spirit, American resolve, and American technology.

And we know the value of all these words better than anyone. When we ask America for Patriots, we believe that the values of respect for life and for people that prevailed 250 years ago will prevail again today. The world needs the kind of leadership that guarantees protection for freedom and for life.

I wish America a happy Fourth of July, the President of the United States and all Americans every success, and all of us around the world who value America – fruitful cooperation. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." That is what unites all of us – all who respect America and thank America today.

May the dreams of free people always triumph over the evil and hatred of those who seek to destroy freedom. America, thank you! I am confident that if we're in it together, we'll definitely achieve peace! Congratulations on your Independence Day!

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Imagine being Amy Coney Barrett and being the mother of two adopted children from Haiti and having to explain to them why she voted to terminate Temporary Protected Status for roughly 330,000 Haitian Nationals living and working in the United States.

[TPS @TotalProSports]

🤣🤣🤣

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Alexander Dumas, how to become a Man

[Turbine Traveller @Turbinetraveler]

Turns out there's a faster way to board an aircraft!
Someone should tag literally every airline and show them this.

📹: bad_science_jokes

[L’Atlantista 🇮🇹🇺🇦 @Latlantista]

Oggi ho il piacere di annunciarvi che il “corridoio terrestre” verso la Crimea, che i russi chiamano “rotta di Novorossiya”, è stato ufficialmente chiuso.

Le autorità d’occupazione hanno esteso, “fino a nuovo avviso”, il divieto di transito per i veicoli civili su praticamente tutta l’estensione di questa strada che ora si trova costantemente sotto tiro ucraino.

Complimenti agli ucraini e a tutti i contribuenti europei: è un risultato davvero importante, strategico oserei dire.

[Today Years Old @todayyearsold]

Hollywood has spent nearly $600 million trying to bring Matt Damon home.

Have they considered maybe he just doesn’t want to come back?

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Leonardo da Vinci's greatest paragraph

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

C. S. Lewis with maybe the most important paragraph ever written for people with creative ambitions

[Ekaeo @Ekaeoq]

I really thought about the best watch brands for each category and this is what I came up with:

1) Unlimited budget: without a doubt Rexhep Rexhepi

2) Best watch brand under 15.000€: Otsuka Lotec, simply unbelievable stuff for money, also the watchmaker is such an incredible person, fully focused on craft and nothing else, it's what watchmaking is all about

3) Holy trinity: it's VC

4) And for a novelty piece under 5k, I'd buy something like a Kollokium Projekt 01