FP

Father, Friend, Aesthete, Atheist, Banker. Aspiring shawarma stand operator.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The rock that wiped out the dinosaurs was about six miles across, taller than Mount Everest, moving at 45,000 miles an hour. It hit shallow sea off what is now Mexico at 60 degrees, which a 2020 Imperial College London study found was close to the deadliest angle possible.

The steep angle mattered more than the size. Coming in at 60 degrees threw the most rock and gas high into the sky, where wind could spread it around the world. And the target was the worst it could have picked, shallow seafloor made of sulfur-rich rock. The impact turned that rock to vapor and threw billions of tons of sulfur into the air.

The blast, equal to billions of Hiroshima bombs, was only the start. As the debris thrown into space fell back to Earth, friction turned each piece into a glowing hot pellet. For up to an hour, the sky over much of the planet glowed like the inside of an oven set to broil. Anything caught in the open cooked. The only land animals with a real chance were the ones that could hide underground or underwater.

At a site in North Dakota, nearly 2,000 miles from the crater, scientists found fish buried with tiny beads of impact glass still stuck in their gills. Those fish died within an hour of the strike, killed by a wave that sloshed out of an inland sea when the ground heaved.

What finished the dinosaurs came slower. The sulfur and dust wrapped around the whole planet and blocked out the sun, and with the light gone the warmth went too, dropping global temperatures by several degrees and keeping them down for years, in some models more than a decade. Plants need sunlight to make food, so in the dark they died. The plant-eaters starved. Then the animals that hunted them starved as well, and the loss climbed up the food chain until about three quarters of every species on Earth was gone.

Here is the part the joke gets right. Birds are dinosaurs. They split off from small meat-eating dinosaurs more than 150 million years ago and lived alongside the giant ones for over 100 million years. Most birds died in the disaster too, including every last one that still had teeth. The ones that made it were small, ground-living birds with beaks that could crack open seeds, and seeds can sit buried in the soil for years, waiting out a disaster.

Those few survivors became every bird alive today, more than 10,000 species. The pigeon outside your window is a dinosaur whose family lived through the single worst day this planet has ever had.

[Create Profit @Create_Profit]

This has got to be the best photo of 2026 so far.

[A Jennie of Jennie and Jennie 🏳️‍⚧️💾🔞 @gncgalactus]

The act itself does not move me, but In a world of 8 billion finding the other person who is the same sort of insane to do with with you is terribly romantic

[FP @felandath]

@MelatKirosCO fuck it. Baddies will snatch democracy back from the hands of the autocrats.

[Dan Gray @credistick]

There's a reason why people warn against "knowing just enough to be dangerous" (aka the midwit meme).

It's not the job of an early-stage VC to understand the technical details of a portfolio company, beyond ensuring it's not obviously snake-oil.

Otherwise, there would be a filter of "experts" preventing anything new being built.

e.g. Multiple credentialled experts are on record saying @valaratomics wasn't going to work. The same is true for @SpaceX, @genentech, @moderna_tx and @Tesla, and many others who faced deep skepticism from their respective fields.

The history of innovation is not just invention itself, but also the churn of human capital.

The speed of progress is constrained by society's willingness to abandon dated credentials and embrace a more meritocratic free-market of ideas.

The role of the VC is basically to pull-forward that churn of human capital; funding a new generation of ideas and inventors through the valley of doubt.

[Lilith @liiliith0]

Artık doğum günümde insanlar beni alkışlarsa ne yapacağımı biliyorum.

[Josephine Barnes @BarnesJose56012]

This is the best accent I've ever heard😂🥲

[Paul Snively @JustDeezGuy]

Phil Williams. My boss’ boss at Apple. Surfer dude, feet on his desk. We guys asked each other over lunch “What does Phil do all day?”

Then Phil left.

“Oh.”

I’m sorry, Phil.

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

Lamine Yamal’s little brother being the most entertaining thing ever 🥰🥰

[greg @gandalf_thegreg]

toddlers to people with deformities in the grocery store

[FP @felandath]

@prem_thakker about fucking time

[Diana Kristinne @DianaKristinne]

Compelled to RT this picture every time it pops into my TL, because it's such an insane thing to have happened. If it was in a movie you'd think it was too much.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Happy Fathers Day to the best and most involved generation of dads in recorded history

[OneShotFox🇳🇿 🔜 MP @OneShotFox]

Generational mog during national anthem

[FP @felandath]

@Ndiayee0 leave the execution. how does he even see the pass.

[Andrea 🇮🇹🇪🇺 @ClassicalSocdem]

Sometimes a picture is worth more than a thousand words