Karim El Laham

[Amir D @starks_arq]

This picture means something to an entire generation of Dutch people.

I'm one of them.

My parents came to Holland as Moroccan immigrants.
I was born there.

Dutch passport.
Dutch better than my Arabic.
The first 18 years of my life, Holland fed me, schooled me, raised me.

The Moroccans helped rebuild Holland.
Holland gave them roads, schools, a future in return.

Fair trade.

But we never really integrated.

That's not on one side.
That's on everyone.

We learned to speak for our grandparents, because they never got to learn the language.
We brought our food.
We brought our culture. Mosques. Books and humor.

We had fun.
We hung out.
We went to each other's weddings and loved the mix of it.

And still.
We never really became one.

The politicians made sure to categorize us.
They needed us to be outsiders, while we were busy acting like insiders.

So a wall went up between neighbors.

Then yesterday a silly game with a ball put two teams on the same grass.
Two continents.
Two cultures.

Except they're not two teams.

They're teams stitched together by the same life.

The Dutch know the Moroccans. Intimately.
The Moroccans know the Dutch. Intimately.

The Moroccans in Morocco spend every summer selling to the Moroccans from Holland.

The Dutch spend every day next to Moroccans. In School. At The local butcher. The streets.

The Moroccan team is full of Moroccans carrying Dutch passports.

The Dutch team is full of their actual friends, neighbors, and colleagues.

Such a simple game.
Such a complicated story.

When I look at this image I don't see football.

I see high school.
I see pride.
I see distance.
I don't see compassion.
I see resentment.

And that's exactly how we lived in beautiful Holland.

Together. Happily.
And quietly, unconsciously, apart.

I left when I was 18.
I went back to Morocco.

I resented Holland.
For years it was me vs them.

Now I understand what I actually have.

I can read two cultures from the inside.

And I get to choose.
What I carry with me.
What I leave behind.

Because every culture has its gold.
And every culture has its rot.

The trick is knowing which is which.

Love. Be kind to each other.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

Historical World Cup for African teams. 🌍✊🏿

✅🇿🇦 South Africa
✅🇨🇻 Cape Verde
✅🇨🇮 Ivory Coast
✅🇲🇦 Morocco
✅🇸🇳 Senegal
✅🇬🇭 Ghana
✅🇪🇬 Egypt
✅🇨🇩 RD Congo
✅🇩🇿 Algeria
❌🇹🇳 Tunisia

9️⃣/🔟 teams have qualified to World Cup Round of 32 👏🏾✨

[Frankie 🇪🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇴🇨🇭 @LFC_Franklin01]

Typa shit Salah had to go up against every AFCON

[Global News Monitor @GlobalNewsMontr]

⚡️Daniel Cormier released, then deleted, screenshots of DMs showing Eric Trump asking him whether any upcoming White House lawn UFC fights were rigged so he could bet on them.

Despite multiple reputable journalists reporting seeing the tweet with their own eyes, Eric Trump claims the screenshots were AI-generated and says that is why they were quickly deleted.

[Raws @Raws_LFC]

Arne Slot has blood on his hands.

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

This is your wakeup call.

Anthropic just took down Fable 5. It's over.

Here's the thing tho: no company or government will EVER be able to take away your local models.

There are Opus level models you can run right now on your home GPUs, and nobody can ever stop you from using them

This is only the beginning of events like this. Day 1. More government overreach will happen. This will only keep happening more and more as models get closer to AGI

Become sovereign. Buy your own compute. Before even that becomes illegal

[Rex @RexCity01]

How do I explain to my kids that PSG upgraded their attack?😭

[EuroFoot @eurofootcom]

🇧🇪💎 Absolutely 𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐁𝐋𝐄 goal from Ajax winger Mika Godts (20) 😳👏

[The NEWS @thenews_fr]

😂🇫🇷 Macron : « Je lis des livres en anglais. »
Un élève : « FOR SURE »

[NASA @NASA]

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.

Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

Theo Von is not “losing his marbles,” he’s 100% correct @joerogan

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

Theo is all of us rn

[Amock_ @Amockx2022]

BREAKING : This is sigma pro max 🔥

Israel supporters 🇮🇱: Only Muslims have problems with attack on Iran

Pedro Sánchez 🇪🇸: "Even Pope condemned the war against Iran, will you call him a Muslim too?" 😂

This man has spine, courage and wit 🗿

[Ryanair @Ryanair]

finally celebrating something

[Manny @Manny_Official]

This is mental…

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

With @Grok, we keep the honest versions and kill the bad transformers (I believe they are called “Decepticons”)

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

Most people are not ready for the truth,

[Middle East Observer @ME_Observer_]

⚡️⭕️ The Israel-aligned Lebanese "MTV" channel filmed targets for Israel to bomb in Beirut's southern Suburb earlier today, wich Israel bombed a few hours after their report.

Fatimiyoon hacker group just hacked their website and gave the following statement:

⭕️Fatimiyoon Electronic Team:

The Zionist MTV channel has become a target for our project

DDoS attack, our cyber units are working to access the channel's databases and those who work in it

[Anfield Edition | æ @AnfieldEdition]

Igor Tudor thought this random bald man was Slot 😭😭😭

https://t.co/lyaxwapxib

[Adam @AdamJoseph]

Oh. My. God. What a goal.

Arda Guler won the Puskas Award tonight. https://t.co/Rd6kYkfj0X