Maggie Lee

[Maggie Lee @firefly_brigade]

@TristinHopper The “I am Canadian” ad

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

Unsurprising. The most resentful people in the US are those who believe they are owed everything and fail; the least resentful are those who were given nothing and achieve.

[KΞRL_✂️ @KRL_defi_]

Glen Powell says Tom Cruise convinced him to stay on Top Gun: Maverick after he lost the role of Rooster.

Rich Eisen : “You originally auditioned for the role of Rooster in Top Gun: Maverick.”

Glen Powell : “That’s true.”

“I felt great about the audition.”

“Then I got the call that I wasn’t going to be Rooster.”

“I was literally wearing an American flag tank top and aviators.”

“I immediately ended up in the fetal position.”

“It was the worst Fourth of July ever.”

“A few days later, Tom Cruise called me and said, ‘I still want you to do the movie.’”

“I wasn’t sure I wanted to anymore.”

“He and Jerry Bruckheimer invited me to sit down and talk.”

“Tom asked me, ‘What kind of career do you want?’”

“I said, ‘Yours. I’m trying to be you.’”

“He said, ‘Do you know how I do that?’”

“I said, ‘You choose great roles.’”

“He said, ‘No. I choose great movies, and I make the roles great.’”

“That completely changed my perspective.”

“Even being a small part of the Top Gun ride has changed my life forever.”

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is Bryan. Once a week, he takes a shelter pup on a New York City adventure in his ‘Adopt Me’ backpack, hoping someone will fall in love. He films their big day out, and almost every dog he’s featured has found a forever home.

[📹 madmax_fluffyroad]

[Tommy2 @t0xmmy2]

Something good is happening at this World Cup.

The Scots turned up. The English turned up. The Norwegians turned up. They sang their songs, got stuck in, and the Americans loved them for it. Glasgow and Boston are getting twinned off the back of it.

For 30 years we’ve been told to view the US as some sort of Great Satan — all imperialism and orange-man clichés. Not everyone buys it of course, but enough do.

And then Europeans actually go, and find a place that feels familiar. Makes sense to them. A bit richer, a bit further ahead, but recognisably ours. Settled by Europeans, still deeply European in its bones.

There’s a gathering-of-the-clans feeling to it. Old neighbours discovering they still like the same songs, the same drink, the same daft humour, and genuinely enjoying each other’s company.

None of it’s a surprise, really. It’s just been buried under so much politics that we forgot we were allowed to enjoy it.

Good to be reminded.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

In a new video, Jo Frost, aka Supernanny, warns that some modern parents are hindering their kids’ independence by choosing short-term convenience over teaching basic life skills.

The Instagram post featuring the video is filled with comments from teachers agreeing with her that it’s a growing concern.

@Jo_Frost

[Connie Shaw @_ConnieShaw]

British culture is better than Pakistani culture. This isn’t controversial.

[George Regnery @georgeregnery]

@RaminNasibov Since 1912, only eight countries have never had a violent overthrow of the government or been occupied by a foreign country.

1. United Kingdom
2. Sweden
3. Switzerland
4. Australia
5. New Zealand
6. United States
7. Canada
8. South Africa

[Lester @Chen]

the best 3 minutes of video I've watched this year

[kitze @thekitze]

i asked gpt-image-2 to 90s-maxxx our boring ass kitchen and i just want to ask WHERE DID WE GO WRONG AS HUMANS WE USED TO HAVE IT ALL

[Josh Billinson @jbillinson]

Florida to California via the Moon is a domestic flight until another country proves otherwise

[Town Moron @townmoron]

@redsteeze Finding out it actually IS easier to teach plumbers to astronaut than to teach astronauts to plumb:

[Kat Rosenfield @katrosenfield]

recently described my husband as my favorite person to not-do things with, which seems to me the secret of ultimate marital contentment; you can always find someone to do activities, your life companion is the person with whom you can blissfully do nothing

[The AI Robot Guy on X @Housebots]

>Be Noelia Castillo Ramos
>Your parents love you
>They fall on difficult financial times
>You are ripped away from them by the government
>Your grandmother and mom are crying and begging
>They bring 12 police officers to stop any resistance
>You are placed in a “teen shelter” full of muslim migrants
>You aren’t allowed to leave
>The staff treats you like you are worthless
>The muslim teens decide to gang r*pe you
>You think you will get help
>Nobody comes. Nobody listens.
>They rape you again, with even more people this time
>You try to report it
>The women in charge of the shelter are woke liberals
>They refuse to report it to avoid making muslim immigrants look bad
>They won’t do anything
>You try to be happy
>You can’t move on
>You jump from the 5th story of the building
>By the grace of God, you live
>You are injured, but you still have hope
>The state tells you about the option of euthanasia
>You pass it off at first
>The trauma keeps replaying in your brain
>Still, nobody is helping
>You feel hopeless
>Spain is falling
>You decide to do it because you feel worthless
>Your dad fights to keep you alive for years
>He loses in two different liberal courts
>You are scheduled for euthanasia
>The days pass
>You do an interview, which is really a desperate cry for help
>Still, nobody does
>The date gets closer
>They keep you isolated so you have no idea there is so much love and support is outside
>Your best friend desperately tries to get up to talk to you
>She is blocked by doctors who seem to take pleasure in the power they have
>The process begins
>You are alone and probably pretty scared
>You feel like you have no choice
>The sedative sets in
>The last thing you see is a cold, dark hospital room
>The toxin is administered
>Your lungs slowly stop working
>You die in your sleep
>Your abusers still face no consequences
>You become a monument to the failure of a state that was supposed to protect you

[Maggie Lee @firefly_brigade]

@TristinHopper She wanted to sell them out before she met the man. She just needed the motivation after her father destroyed her collection.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

AI is so much fun sometimes.

🔊

[pnorm @paleonormie]

Maybe in 30 years when the wounds aren't as fresh, someone will make some brilliant media highlighting the pitch black humor of the fact that ICE has thus far only killed white citizens and anti-ICE actors have only killed immigrants

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

Carney, I think, wants Canada to be part of Europe. That might sound conspiratorial, and I hate conspiracy theories. But I think he's done and said more in this direction than any Canadian leader ever. I think that's very anti-Canadian and I hope people are vigilant against it.

[Maggie Lee @firefly_brigade]

@FaithKMoore Sardines!

[Maggie Lee @firefly_brigade]

@hollowearthterf I took out all personal pictures, kept the decor minimal with a “less is more” attitude and had a few Christmas pieces up. House sold in two days.