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[Pedro Miguel @PedroMiguel9521]

Para los que no entienden por qué las mujeres dominan el mundo...

[Alternative News @AlternatNews]

These G1 Chinese robots do the laundry dance. Humans join in, in the background.

China is so far ahead in robot technology that the West will never catch up. China has most of the patents required to make robots perform human actions.

The majority of US GDP is based on Services, whereas China is inventing and making things.

Who took us down the wrong track

[いちか @nBwQSzmg3qU2ysd]

この映像、ただの「すごい」じゃ済まない…
命を預かる覚悟がそのまま映ってる。

熊本県八代市の熊本総合病院で、7月28日の地震発生時の手術室映像が公開された。

[iPaul @iPaulCanada]

中国小姐姐介绍淋浴家具的视频火了🔥

网友评论：“要是有那样的淋浴，我得每2分钟洗一次澡”😭

[mieux718🌸 @mieux718]

https://t.co/4vQcojIHil

昨日インスタを見ていたら今年のお正月に韓国のガラ公演での永久メイちゃんとミンチョルくんのチャイパドのコーダが流れて来たわ✨

メイちゃんとミンチョルくん、2人の踊りの質が似ていて良い感じね🥰

来シーズンはマリインスキーでも2人の共演が見られるかな…❓

[ABDCHAIN @Web3luveer]

Matt Damon reveals the exact moment he realized he'd made it

"After Good Will Hunting, I remember going to Calvin Klein and buying like 20 pairs of boxer briefs."

"A salesperson came running out insisting she give them to me... I said, 'No, no, no, I really need to buy these. This is a rite of passage for me.'"

"She wouldn't let me buy them. She said, 'I might get fired if they hear that you had to come in and buy underwear.'"

[Jen @SweetTexanRose]

I am not a UCLA fan, but I’ll give credit where it’s due! This girl’s gymnastics routine ATE and left no crumbs! If you love gymnastics and like Michael Jackson, this routine will blow your mind! Just watch what she can do. 🤯

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

I crack up every time I see this! 😂😂😂

[Scott Vander Dussen @VanderDussenS]

Reposted, since X doesn't allow edits after the first hour.

The 10-year-old victim in this video was moments from not coming back. A few seconds, a few yards of distance, and this ends very differently. And the lifeguard who went in after him would have been left to carry that largely on his own.

A firefighter, a police officer, or a paramedic who works a call that ends in a death has access to counseling, peer support, and critical incident debriefing. That exists because we decided as a country that the people we send toward the worst moments of other people's lives should not have to process those moments alone. Open water lifeguards have no guaranteed access to any of it, because they are not categorized as first responders. Same water, same outcomes, same weight afterward, different classification on paper.

That is what H.Res. 1188 is about. It calls for recognizing open water lifeguards as first responders and emergency response providers. It is sitting in committee right now. If you watched this video and felt something, that is the thing worth doing something about.

In the meantime: watch your kids every second they are in the water, and swim near a lifeguard.

To the guards at Seabright and everywhere else, thank you. Nearly all of what you do never ends up on camera.

—

Answers to the most common questions:

"WHY DID YOU TAKE THE ORIGINAL POST DOWN?" Because I opened it with the wrong thing and couldn't edit it. I don't use social media; the only platform I've used routinely is Instagram, for my photography hobby, and I'm new to X and a bit clumsy with it. My original opening line about reposting rights was intended for media outlets, who all ask the same questions before running footage, but I phrased it poorly and it read as a lecture to everyone, which was not my intention. My mistake. The message that mattered got buried under it, so I've moved that information where it belongs, below.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU HELP?" This happened at 3:42 PM on Saturday, July 25. I was next to tower 1, at the west end of the beach, when a sneaker wave crashed and the sound made me look up; I saw the boy's head drifting back out, about 200 yards east of me, closer to tower 2. Another man beside me saw it at the same moment and we both alerted the tower 1 guard, who radioed and got word that tower 2 was already on it. The guard you see in the video was already out of his tower and running down the sand before most people on the beach had registered anything was wrong; a second guard near tower 2 came in behind him to assist. The tower 1 guard held his position next to me, which is exactly right; you don't empty every tower on a half-mile beach for one incident. Only then did I start recording. I'm a photographer, not a lifeguard, and at 200 yards I was shooting through a telephoto lens; the compression makes it look far closer than it was. Watch the video and you'll see the responding guard waving off the bystanders who jumped in, because every untrained swimmer in that water is another liability and potentially one more person to rescue.

"WHAT WERE THE CONDITIONS THAT DAY?" Red warning flags were posted on the lifeguard towers, meaning hazardous surf, with the beach open; flags are a warning system, and lifeguards on a public beach have no authority to bar thousands of people from the water. A long-period south swell from Southern Hemisphere storms was driving dangerous surf along the coast for days before and after; the National Weather Service had a beach hazards statement in effect warning of sneaker waves, strong rip currents, and breaking waves up to 10 feet, and Santa Cruz County Fire had posted warnings two days earlier. The dangerous part of this kind of swell is the pattern: long stretches of relatively mild water, then sudden sets of intense waves. Water that looks calm when you walk in can turn violent minutes later, which is exactly how swimmers get caught out, and exactly why trained lifeguards watching the water matter. Santa Cruz lifeguards made more than 25 rescues that Saturday alone. The beach was busy and plenty of people were in the water.

"IS THE BOY OKAY?" Yes. Once he was brought ashore, I stopped recording and walked over. By the time I crossed the beach to that end, he was sitting up under his own strength and talking with the lifeguards who pulled him out, as fire and ambulance crews arrived. That moment felt private, so I chose not to film or photograph any of it. I later learned he was medically evaluated and released the same day.

"DID THE FAMILY APPROVE THIS?" I've been in contact with the boy's father since the rescue. He's aware of the video and supportive, and he and I have been working together to make sure the lifeguards get the recognition and thanks they earned.

"ARE YOU MAKING MONEY OFF THIS?" No. I haven't monetized this video on any platform, and I've released it to media outlets at no cost. Since posting it, I've heard from several lifeguards grateful that what they face on a regular basis is finally documented clearly.

FOR MEDIA OUTLETS: I shot this video and I retain the rights. For licensing and permissions, DM me here or on Instagram @santacruznow.

Video: Scott Vander Dussen / Instagram @santacruznow

[𝑴 @mocoballet0217]

Young star ballet gala
念願のココレワ、ミハルキン達観て参りました　熱中症になりかけホテルを予約しやはり悔しいので笑Bプロも鑑賞　

素晴らしかったのですが前日から少々違和感と考えさせられる場面もあり（憶測か　それともそれが現実になってしまったか）後に少しずつ呟きたいと思います

[ESTRELLA @Nereura9]

Un imitador de Michael Jackson de gran talento (Cai Jun) superó con facilidad a un espectador en un centro comercial chino. El espectador intentó desafiar al artista con sus propios pasos de baile, pero el imitador ejecutó un impecable moonwalk que se viralizó en internet.

[mieux718🌸 @mieux718]

先日の眠れる森の美女の公演より永久メイちゃんのフロリナ姫のバリエーション🩵

メイちゃんのフロリナ姫は以前から素敵だったけど、もっと進化した感じがするわ🥰

美しくアラベスクのポーズを取った後に更に身体がしなやかに伸びて行って、優雅で繊細な踊りに魅入ってしまったわ✨

[Nara Indriyani @Naraindryni]

Hello Kitty made from hundreds of Ballet Dancers😍 Stunning optical illusion performance

[RC deWinter @RCdeWinter]

A grammar book walks into a bar

* An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.

* A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.

* A bar was walked into by the passive voice.

* An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.

* Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”

* A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intents and purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.

* Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.

* A question mark walks into a bar?

* A non sequitur walks into a bar.
In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.

* Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."

* A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.

* A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.

* Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.

* A synonym strolls into a tavern.

* At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.

* A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.

* Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.

* A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.

* An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.

* The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.

* A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.

* The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.

* A dyslexic walks into a bra.

* A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.

* A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.

* A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.

* A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony .

– Jill Thomas Doyle

[Coppélia @CoppeliaAllegro]

#BalletClass #BalletDancers
#BallettStudioLeonovich

[Russian Market @runews]

Natasha from Russia!

[ruiko417 @gudruiko0714]

モスクワ国際コンクール一次予選終わりました。
この目で見れて幸せ😀

#Moscowballetcompatition

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

The French are making some incredible AI videos about their current predicament

[mieux718🌸 @mieux718]

土曜日から始まったモスクワのバレエコンクール、日本人ダンサーの方達も5人くらい2次予選に進んだわ👍

マリインスキーのセカンドソリストのグジェレフ瞭舞くん、1次予選では海賊のアリと眠りのデジレ王子のバリエーションを踊ったけどとても素敵でした🥰

良い表情でしなやかに踊っているわ💫

[Coppélia @CoppeliaAllegro]

#BalletClass #BalletDancers
#MayNagahisa #MariaIliushkina
#Mariinsky