Alex

In the age of identity politics I identify first and foremost as a mango lover

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@PositivFuturist 1.3k views - semi viral

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@SHistorians @PGAChampionship The fourth major should be international. The PGA doesn’t really have its own identity, particularly given it is contested on the same courses as the US Open

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@SirAlfonsoBonzo @_HistoryNerd It’s an observation about human psyche not about any sort of cruelty to cats

My original post wasn’t clear on the above, apologies

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@SirAlfonsoBonzo @_HistoryNerd The child probably doesn’t know that. But instinctively wants the cat to put in a little work

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@Fredg2005 @SkyBet The point is that if SkyBet don’t offer good odds competitive forces will mean another bookmaker can to attract business. Thats the beauty of the free market (albeit in this country it’s no truly free).

Nobody is forcing anybody to bet at shit odds.

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@CuriosityonX Why’s the rover itself censored?

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@eugyppius1 Whales have to actively surface to breath, if they don’t, they drown.

It is possible the whale knows his time is up and would rather die slowly on the sand bar than endure the continuous fight of having to surface for air.

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@GolfRamble 2x Open>2x Masters because you’d, in most cases, be winning on different courses.

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@FT They could try and muscle the PGA championship out of the major rostrum. It is by far the weakest major and lacks an identity.

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@FT There are rumours that they wish to remain a part of golf. A good place to start would be to establish what they could brand a fifth major, it’s currently a shame that so many golf courses don’t get shown across the world. Could make it match play.

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500 new homes in the capital city of this country warrants an announcement by the fucking mayor things are so bad….

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

Londoners urgently need new affordable homes.

Our partnership with Peabody will deliver 500 new homes across the capital by 2032, helping families across London access safe, secure and affordable places to live.

https://t.co/Y9BQTtFqFC

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@Rainmaker1973 Tom Hiddlestone

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Watch Jane Street bring down the gilt market next

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

🚨 SILVER CRASHED NEARLY -50% IN 53 DAYS.

And we may have found who caused it.

Silver hit ATH $121.64 on January 29, 2026. Today it sits at $65, a 46% collapse, and 25% of that drop happened AFTER February 25, 2026.

Why does that date matter?

Meet Jane Street. They made $20.5 billion in revenue in 2024 with only 3,000 employees, more than Citibank and Bank of America who both have 200,000+ employees. They do not bet on markets going up or down. They bet on markets MOVING. 87% of their $662 billion portfolio is in options, which make money when prices swing hard and fast.

In Q4 2025, Jane Street bought 20.67 million shares of SLV, the most liquid silver ETF in the world, up from just 41,100 shares the quarter before. That is a 500x increase while silver was rallying hard, and nobody knew.

- January 29: Silver hits $121.64 ATH with everyone maximally long.

- January 30: Silver collapses 30% in 30 hours, the worst precious metals crash since 1980, with CME raising margin requirements mid crash and cascading liquidations making it worse.

- February 25: Jane Street's 13F filing becomes public and the world finds out they were the LARGEST holder of SLV the entire time, bigger than BlackRock and Morgan Stanley. Silver is now dowm another 25% after this disclosure.

So Jane Street built a $1.3B secret position while silver rallied, silver crashed 30% in 30 hours, the world found out they were the biggest holder only AFTER the crash, and silver dropped another 25% on top.

49% down total, sitting at $69 today.

Here is what most people are missing.

A 13F filing only shows long equity positions and does NOT show short positions, derivatives or the full options book, meaning Jane Street could have had a massive short bet on silver through options and nobody would know.

Step 1: buy $1.3B of SLV and become the largest holder.

Step 2: build a 10x larger options position betting on silver falling.

Step 3: use that size to push the price down, ETF loses a little and options make 10x back.

Step 4: nobody finds out until 45 days after quarter end when the crash is already done.

This is not just a theory. There is documented proof Jane Street ran this EXACT playbook in India between 2023 and 2025. SEBI wrote a 105-page order, the largest fine in their history, and impounded $570 million from Jane Street.

On Bank Nifty expiry days, Jane Street bought massive amounts of index stocks in the morning to push prices up while simultaneously building short options positions 7.3 times larger than their stock position.

Then in the afternoon they sold everything, the index dropped and their puts printed money. On a single day they lost $7.5M on stocks and made $89M on options.

The stock trade was just the cost of running the operation. SEBI found this across 18 expiry days and a whistleblower said it happened on 90 to 95% of all trading days.

In crypto, the bankruptcy administrator of Terraform Labs filed an 83 page federal lawsuit against Jane Street alleging they used inside information to front-run the $40 billion Terra/LUNA collapse.

When Terraform quietly withdrew $150 million from Curve Finance with zero public notice, a wallet linked to Jane Street pulled $85 million from the same pool within 10 minutes.

A Jane Street employee had interned at Terraform and allegedly ran a private chat called "Bryce's Secret" with insiders as a back channel for non-public information, and Jane Street allegedly avoided $200M+ in losses.

Blockchain forensics traced the wallet back to Jane Street through Coinbase records. Same pattern as India: get positioned ahead of the move, extract the profit, everyone else takes the loss.

The physical silver backing SLV is held by JPMorgan, who paid $920 million in 2020 for manipulating precious metals markets, the largest CFTC sanction ever, after admitting their traders placed hundreds of thousands of fake orders in gold and silver futures for 8 straight years with their top spoofer receiving 2 years in prison.

So the full picture: the silver backing the ETF is held by a bank convicted of 8 years of silver manipulation, and the largest holder of that ETF is a firm documented running a cash into derivatives manipulation scheme in India and facing a federal lawsuit for insider front running in crypto. Silver is down 46% and sitting at $65 today.

None of this is proven in a US court and the macro explanations for the crash are real.

But no regulator has asked the one question that matters: what was Jane Street's TOTAL net silver position on January 29 and 30, including the full options book and complete derivatives exposure?

Because if the India playbook was running in silver, the $1.3B ETF stake was just the cost.

The options position on the other side was the profit. And the 49% crash was not a crash. It was a payout.

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Incredible how well he moves, speaks and looks at 105

[BBC Breakfast @BBCBreakfast]

Happy Birthday Colin Bell aged 105.

The former RAF pilot who regularly flew a mosquito bomber during World War Two began his special day with a surprise on #BBCBreakfast

https://t.co/xAwEL35aoc

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She obviously has a great sense of humour because it’s not possible for her to not know how football scoring works. Either that or it’s made up

[Football Away Days Club @AwayDaysClub_]

When Peter Crouch writes about Abbey Clancy, he makes it clear she has never been that interested in football.

He says it is “not unknown” for her to text him at 2:45pm on a Saturday and ask where he is.

He actually likes it that way.

It means that when he walks through the door, he can switch off completely.

He gives one example from a day he would rather forget.

Two yards out.

He hits the crossbar.

After the game he is “obviously a little down on” himself.

Abbey sees it straight away and asks what is wrong.

He tells her he has just hit the crossbar from two yards.

She does not react like someone who understands football.

She reacts like someone who thinks he has just done something special.

“The crossbar? But that’s such a small target.”

“Anyone could have hit the net – that’s easy, it’s right in front of you.”

“But you managed to hit something right up above your head, and first time.”

“That’s amazing!”

He walks in gutted about missing from two yards.

And his wife is convinced he has just produced something world class.

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@nexta_tv Wonder what those who don’t believe contrails form naturally think of this

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@getstuffedtwit @petedroberts @HugoGye Some of those cyclists will be net beneficiaries of the state as well