Haitian Hashira

#unapologeticallyblack #BLM #LUnionFaitLaForce pronouns: That/Neg 🇭🇹

[Haitian Hashira @jonah_markenzie]

Gamora: You never loved anyone, that's why you can't get the soul stone

Thanos:

[Clarence Thomas the Tank Engine @TheRealJChubby]

No housing for working people but ICE and Israel get as many blank checks as they want.

[Lyth ♠️ @Lytherian]

We should talk about William Dafoe Green Goblin the way we talk about Heath Ledgers Joker. A generational performance

[protagonist @RodsFromGod]

@DragonflyJonez Have you seen the statistical case that Rodman is the GOAT? Hella compelling.
https://t.co/SPpHKCxdHM

[🐢✨America Is Musty✨🐢 @DragonflyJonez]

There’s a certain type of basketball fan who tries to over intellectualize when a player stinks it up bc they think it makes them look smart. “No no no you have to understand. This guy having 4 points in a game 7 was actually a fault of scheming and mismanagement by the coaching staff” yadda yadda yadda.

So I appreciate it when a genius level basketball mind like Legler just cuts thru all the bullshit like “nah this ain’t have shit to do with x’s and o’s. That mf was just scared” bc it’s really quiet often just that simple

[Couper Moorhead @CoupNBA]

When Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett work together, good things happen.

[Haitian Hashira @jonah_markenzie]

James William
Curtis Blair
Sean wright

Are my trio

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

The officials for the 2026 Finals 👀

[Ballsack Sports @BallsackSports]

In 2018, Nike basketball was on fire. If you walked into Footlocker, they had LeBron, KDs, Kobe’s, PGs, and Kyrie’s on the shelves. An elite lineup of signature models, and also had the hyperdunk line. In 2020, Nike unveiled the GT Cut 1, a modern shoe with great traction, court feel, and cushion. The future of Nike basketball was bright.

Around post-COVID, Nike made the genius decision of taking shoes off their shelves (including footlocker) to sell directly to consumers, cutting out the middle man. The problem was this shelve space was taken up by competitors, and consumers began taking their business elsewhere, especially in the running industry.

Nike then fumbled their relationship with Kyrie Irving by limiting his creative output and freedom over his line. They replaced the controversial, brand “unsafe” Kyrie Irving, and the fading Playoff P with the Guns ‘n Buns duo. They gave the 🌽 addict the worst signature line ever unveiled (did anyone ever buy a single pair?). The Ja line has been a massive success however, pairing good performance & less expensive models with fun colorways, continuing that 2010s Nike signature vibe under a very marketable athlete.

Signing Tatum was a great move, but his shoe line has been rather generic and has never really caught much hype. And Luka? I forgot they even signed Luka. He has a signature model, but’s rarely marketed. It’s probably more popular with the pickleball crowd than basketball crowd.

The Kobe protro line was a great move, but was iffy on execution. The performance “upgrades” have been hit and miss. And Chinese competitors are creating better Kobe-like shoes at a cheaper price. And they’re marketing their shoes through IG and TikTok.

Nike threw basketball fans a bone with the LeBron 20, but went away from that successful formula. The GT Cut 2 was a flop. The tariffs have led to rising prices while the quality has regressed.

Fans have voiced what they want, but Nike hasn’t listened. Their competitors have, and they’ve taken market share.

Nike has had Caitlin Clark in their pipeline since 2022. They signed her to a signature shoe deal in spring 2024, but they had no plan or vision for her. When Caitlin Clark was the hottest athlete on the planet in 2024, Nike sat on their hands, and merely tossed her a few Kobe protro colorways. Generational fumble.

Nike has an elite marketing team. They have money. They have designers. But they lack any sense of leadership and creative direction for the brand.

They’re milking the past while competitors are taking over the present. Adidas went all in on Ant and Jeremiah Smith. New Balance snagged Flagg. Nike got Wemby, but has him playing in some sharkskin ass bricks. Not even his own shoe, and he’s in year 3 leading his team to the finals.

Nike got lucky as Steph became a free agent again… but to no one’s surprise, Nike fumbled again.

It might be time to pivot to pickleball, because Nike is getting shoved into a locker by everyone.

[Haitian Hashira @jonah_markenzie]

Dwyane Wade
Kevin Durant
Joel Embiid
DeMarcus Cousins
Anthony Davis
Kobe Bryant
Shaun Livingston

[HAWK @HawkEmDownChris]

You can’t say Derrick Rose. Name an athlete you wish had a fully healthy career.

[Haitian Hashira @jonah_markenzie]

The @DwyaneWade disrespect is truly laughable.

[Basketball Forever @bballforever_]

Victor Wembanyama will make his NBA Finals debut just 3 SEASONS into his NBA career 🤯

That’s faster than Kobe, LeBron and MJ 🔥

[Haitian Hashira @jonah_markenzie]

See if I had the money like he did

My wedding gift would be to clear her debt so we can build higher together.

That's just me tho

[✦ 𝓢𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮 ✦🪐 @upshine3]

Calculate time in reverse.
That is, if I have an appointment at 4, I start scheduling my whole day in reverse: I have to be there at 4, so I have to leave my house at 3:15 and be ready by 3:10. Getting ready takes 40 minutes, so I have to start by 2:30 at the latest, so I have to shower at 2. For that, I have to finish my chores at home, which I estimate will take about 2 hours, so I have to start at 12, but first I have to eat lunch, so I'll start cooking it at 11... and so on...

[thami @thamieverywhere]

bro to bro: if you like skinnier girls, get yourself a skinny girl. if you like thicker girls, get yourself a thick girl. if you like fitness girls, get yourself a fit girl. you are entitled to your own preferences.

but what you are not going to do bro, is date a girl who is not your type and make her feel inferior to other girls.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Wingstop employee wants Americans to know when you go to Wingstop you’re just buying regular Tyson chicken. He shows all the boxes as proof

I ran the numbers on Tyson wholesale chicken prices and compared it to Wingstop prices

They markup the chicken over 500%

- Wholesale Tyson chicken wings typically cost restaurants $1.50–$2.50+ per pound
- A pound of bone-in wings yields roughly 8–10 wings
- Cost to Wingstop: $0.20–$0.35 per wing that’s including sauce, seasoning and prep
- Selling price: $1.00–$1.50+ per wing, or even higher in combos
- Markup is 300–500%+ on chicken cost

You’re just paying for regular Tyson chicken wings in sauce that’s fried

Make it at home and save yourself the 500% markup

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Sony was so suspicious of this game they sent someone to the studio to check the footage wasn't faked. A tiny team had built a PlayStation game too big to fit inside the console, then taught the machine to read it off a spinning disc, piece by piece, as you played.

The PlayStation came with two megabytes of memory. After the basics took their cut, only about one and a quarter megabytes were free for the level you were playing. One photo on your phone is bigger than that. Crash levels held far more than that, so they could never sit in memory all at once.

The fix came from one of the studio's programmers, Andy Gavin. He built a system that grabbed the level off the disc in tiny chunks as Crash ran, always pulling in the next stretch of the world a beat before you reached it. Then he went further and arranged the data on the disc by hand, so each piece sat right where the laser would land at the moment the game needed it. Lean in close and you could hear the disc drive whirring and clicking without a break, feeding the game as you moved.

That nonstop reading is what worried Sony. Every move Crash made meant the drive had to fetch new data, and a disc drive can only be read so many times before it wears out. A Sony exec asked how many reads finishing the game would take. It was more than the drive was built to survive. He went quiet, told the team to keep that to themselves, and helped get the game approved anyway.

Even with all that, the game barely fit, right up to the final days before the deadline. The team kept rewriting the same lines of code in slightly different ways, shaving off a few bytes here, a few there, until the first game fit with about four bytes left over. Four bytes is not even enough to spell the word Crash.

Warped, the 1998 game on screen, was the third and most ambitious version of all this. A jet ski level, a biplane, a motorcycle, a tiger ride along the Great Wall of China, all running on the same little machine that could barely hold one ordinary level. It sold around 7 million copies. The three original games together passed 21 million and turned Crash into one of the best-selling Western game series ever in Japan, a market Western games almost never cracked.

A studio that had to trick a console into running its game built one of the best-selling series the original PlayStation ever had.

[Sammylee @Sam_leee_]

@JeffBiesinger

[Frankie Stockes @realStockes]

Days after bee venom was found to kill cancer…

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins celebrated Saturday that “American beef; the best beef in the world! — will be back on the shelves in China soon.”

Beef in the United States just hit $7 per pound — the highest price in recorded history.

Beef prices are up 77 percent since January 2020.

Rollins’s own MAGA base turned on her within hours.

Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist: “supply relative to demand was jacking up prices, but now we are going to export the U.S. beef we were told we were short on to China? Make it make sense.”

Wendy Patterson, a MAGA commentator with 200,000 followers: “Beef that the American people can’t afford to buy… Fire her globalist a– already.”

This is the same Rollins who said in January that a $3 meal of “a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a corn tortilla and one other thing” was an affordable healthy dinner.

It is the same week three out of four Americans told CBS News their incomes are not keeping up with inflation.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Zohran Mamdani has turned blocks in front of 50 NYC public schools into car-free ‘Soccer Streets’ where children can play in celebration of the upcoming World Cup.

[TAZ 🌪️ @TazxTaz_]

I booked my flight to Chicago for my graduation in June through Spirit….i paid for myself, my mother, my aunt, and my sister…hotel bundled in like I usually do….these people are offering me a 190.00 credit and I spent over 1k on this shit. Mind you, I protected the trip….i-