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[IntellectualAmb @IntellectualAmb]

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[jake newtron 🚀 @jacobnewtron]

Repullze has a wager for Call of Shame about Ketchup. 😳

“i’ll personally pay for your flights & hotels for Paris, come to EWC, i’ll buy a Brand New PC & i’ll prove to you Ketchup isn’t hacking. We both put up our Youtube channels. if Ketchup doesn’t fry out in front of you i’ll delete my Youtube channel.”

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

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[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

Al Pacino’s transformation as Michael Corleone throughout The Godfather is the pinnacle of on-screen acting. This role spring-boarded Pacino’s career, he never really looked back. It’s one of Cinema’s most important performances when you consider much of the film hinged on Al .🎂

[IntellectualAmb @IntellectualAmb]

@grulag_ @PullzeCheck Finally

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You're looking at 12 shows with an average IMDb rating of 8.89 out of 10. Five of them sit above 9.0. HBO built this run across 24 years, and the whole thing traces back to a single business decision made in 1972.

HBO launched on November 8, 1972. The audience was 365 people in a small Pennsylvania town paying $6 a month. The first broadcast was a hockey game. The entire company was built on one idea: you pay us directly, we show you movies and events with zero commercials.

That "zero commercials" part turned out to be the most important business decision in TV history. When a network runs on ad money, it has to keep advertisers happy. Advertisers want huge audiences, which means safe content, which means shows where nobody says anything too real. That's how network TV spent decades cranking out predictable cop dramas and family sitcoms where every storyline wraps up in 42 minutes.

HBO's money came from subscribers. They didn't care if a show made Coca-Cola uncomfortable. They cared whether it was good enough to keep you paying next month. So they handed writers and directors total creative control. The Sopranos put a mob boss in therapy for six seasons. The Wire spent five years inside Baltimore's drug trade where the cops are just as damaged as the dealers. Neither show survives a single pitch meeting at a network where Toyota needs to keep writing checks.

The Sopranos premiered in 1999. By 2004, it became the first cable show ever to win the Emmy for Best Drama. HBO has now pulled in over 1,500 Emmy nominations and more than 220 wins. In 2025, they broke their own all-time record with 142 nominations across 20 shows.

I think the spending gap is what really drives this home. HBO made House of the Dragon for about $20 million per episode. Amazon spent $58 million per episode on Rings of Power. Nearly triple the budget. HBO's show rates higher on IMDb. At some point the raw dollar amount stops mattering and the creative environment takes over. HBO figured that out before anyone else did.

By the early 2010s, HBO was pulling in $1.2 to $1.5 billion a year in profit. From 365 subscribers at $6 each to 132 million worldwide today.

Netflix sees the math clearly enough. In December 2025 they offered $72 billion to buy HBO's parent company Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount Skydance countered at $110.9 billion. A bidding war over a network that started with a hockey game broadcast to a few hundred living rooms in Pennsylvania.

Fifty-three years ago, HBO bet that people would pay for TV worth paying for. Every show in that image is what happens when the bet keeps winning.

[IntellectualAmb @IntellectualAmb]

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[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

An individual circulated copies of the Epstein files among CPAC attendees

[vids that go hard @vidsthatgohard]

Bro hit a spliff, chugged a beer, lit himself on fire and flipped into a waterfall, absolute cinema

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

Woke up randomly thinking about Philip Seymour Hoffman. No real rhyme or reason, just can’t help think that this is one of the best actors I’ve ever seen in my life. I wish PTA and PSH had more runway to make more meaningful films together. But I’m thankful for what we have.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

JUST IN: New explosion sound in Abu Dhabi, UAE

Reports of sound of an explosion in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

Source: Reuters

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Gaza. What they’re proposing is sunbeds over skeletons. Deranged. Psychopaths are at work.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Israelis have Telegram channels where they post videos of murdered Palestinian children to celebrate

Israel's national pastime: killing Palestinian children, filming it, and celebrating in group chats. Your "civilization" is a crime against humanity.

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

⚡️🇮🇱Former Israeli student and teacher Hadas Emma Kedar exposes Israel’s education system as a brainwashing pipeline.

She says schools erase Palestinians from existence, rewrite history, and weaponize Auschwitz to justify apartheid and ongoing violence.

[Sal the Agorist @SallyMayweather]

Putting Benjamin Netanyahu on the Board of Peace is like putting Jeffrey Dahmer on the board of a culinary institute.

[Gerald Celente @geraldcelente]

While children are still buried in the rubble

That's how demonic these people are

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

Anchorman is an all-time comedy for a few reasons but the entire News Station Brawl is the best cameo I’ve seen because it gave us multiple cameos in one fell swoop: Wilson, Stiller, Robbins. This is as good as cameos get.

[IntellectualAmb @IntellectualAmb]

@grulag_ @jacobnewtron What is he coming back? Money is probably good.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Lewis Hamilton travels to Jordan to meet Red Crescent teams, witnessing the relentless efforts to aid Gazans in crisis

Not just legendary in sport, legendary in life

[Owen Benjamin 🐻 @OwenBenjamin]

Lucky Larry! The luckiest boy in the world!

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

Tim Dillon nails it.
Most Americans are so sick of being lectured on why we have to care about every other foreign country in the world when we have so many serious problems of our own.