Matt Carter

A postie! A footy fan! A Wrestling fan! Christian!

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

Nebuchadnezzar dreamed of a statue. Daniel interpreted it as four successive empires: Babylonia, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. Each was replaced by the next until a rock not cut by human hands destroyed them all. Daniel 2 is one of the most remarkably specific prophetic passages in Scripture.

[Jon Del Arroz | Sci-Fi And Fantasy @jondelarroz]

It's finally official. The man who's destroyed Doctor Who beyond comprehension is finally out.

Russell T. Davies took this beautiful sci-fi property and turned it into extreme LGBTQ propaganda, writing full episodes attacking the fans very unsubtly for not accepting it, and causing incredible backlash.

His legacy was destroyed with the lowest ratings ever for trying to appeal to the "modern audience" that never showed up, and he lied to us about how successful it was the entire way, despite us being able to see the ratings numbers.

It's a good thing the BBC doesn't have a Christmas special this year from him, because it would be an absolute trainwreck.

Good riddance.

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

Doctor Who is a decades-old, beloved show, and Russell T. Davies has been heavily involved in it for years.

There was supposed to be one final special of this run to wrap up the remaining story lines and try to take this era out on some semblance of a high note, and the audience was so disengaged and sentiment around the show in the Ncuti Gatwa era was so negative, the BBC has decided not to do it. The cliffhangers will be unresolved, the regeneration of the Fifteenth Doctor will not lead into a new era for the series, and when the show comes back, it will be a hard reboot with a new creative team.

It’s hard to overstate how far the show fell and how fast since the BBC and the Doctor Who creative team decided the character should no longer be a white man. But the last two seasons have really been a disaster.

Disney+ came in with a streaming deal for the show that should have dramatically increased the budget and Davies responded by making everything gay and alienating. A gay Doctor. Drag queen villains. Transgender supporting cast. The creatives exulted in the facts that they owned this sixty year old property and could just smear their genitals across the TARDIS, and they absolutely killed the franchise.

What happened to Doctor Who goes beyond “going woke and going broke.” This is a giant media company giving full creative control of a beloved, 60 year-old franchise and a Disney-funded, “Game of Thrones” budget to a bunch of disgusting weirdos, and those weirdos setting all of that on fire to turn the show into a celebration of their own weirdness and disgustingness.

[Liam Keen @LiamKeen_Star]

His medical is already complete and Jimenez will sign a two-year deal with the option of a third. #wwfc

[Lord Jason Guy 🐺 @wolvespremier]

Trippier ✅

Raul ❓

The Raul rumour mill has certainly reached fever pitch now with confirmation that Wolves have sent a party to Mexico to discuss a potential transfer.

Whatever the outcome, personally wit it this level of experience can only benefit the squad as it assembles. I’m not always one for ‘going back’ but with Raul he’d be coming from the EPL - he loves the club….and what an end to the legacy this would be.

Intersperse the squad with youth …. Mane, H Bueno, R Gomes et al and voila …..a recipe for a fantastic season!

[Adam | Faithful Messenger @Adam_FaithfulM]

There are four Gospels.

Matthew, Mark, and Luke share so much material that scholars call them the "Synoptics" — seen together.

Then there is John.

John omits 90% of what the other three include.
John includes 90% that none of them have.

It was written last, and it reads like someone who has spent 60 years thinking about what the others didn't say.

A thread on why the Gospel of John is unlike anything else in Scripture. 🧵

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

The European Union is making its next move. Fresh off compelling Apple to abandon its proprietary charging port in favor of USB-C, Brussels is now setting its sights on what’s inside your device. User-replaceable batteries are making a comeback, and the clock is ticking faster than most people realize.

The mandate takes effect on February 18, 2027. Any new smartphone or tablet hitting EU shelves from that date forward must allow everyday users to remove and replace the battery themselves, using nothing more than standard, widely available tools. On top of that, manufacturers will be required to keep spare batteries in stock for a minimum of five years after a model is discontinued.

The logic driving the policy is straightforward. The majority of people replace their phones not because the device has failed them, but because the battery has. EU projections suggest this shift could put roughly €20 billion back in consumers’ pockets by the end of the decade.

Apple, Samsung, and Google are already reworking their 2027 lineups to meet the requirement, and since none of them want to maintain entirely separate hardware for different markets, the redesigns are expected to roll out globally. The so-called “Brussels Effect” is doing what it does best: turning regional regulation into a worldwide industry standard.

There is one notable caveat: the regulation carves out an exemption for batteries that meet a high durability threshold, and Apple’s more recent iPhones may already clear that bar. Other manufacturers, however, have considerably more ground to cover.

The bottom line: by 2027, there’s a good chance your phone will outlast its original battery, wherever in the world you happen to buy it.

© Reddit

#archaeohistories

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

🤯 With Ruben Amorim's sacking earlier this season, and Michael Carrick's appointment, an infamous streak will continue:

🇳🇱 Matthijs de Ligt has had a new Head Coach at the start of every new season of his professional football career:

2016/17 — Peter Bosz (Ajax)
2017/18 — Marcel Keizer (Ajax)
2018/19 — Erik ten Hag (Ajax)
2019/20 — Maurizio Sarri (Juve)
2020/21 — Andrea Pirlo (Juve)
2021/22 — Max Allegri (Juve)
2022/23 — Julian Nagelsmann (Bayern)
2023/24 — Thomas Tuchel (Bayern)
2024/25 — Erik ten Hag (Man Utd)
2025/26 — Ruben Amorim (Man Utd)
2026/27 — Michael Carrick (Man Utd)

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

"Christians follow Paul, not Jesus."

That used to be my favorite argument as a Muslim.

Then I actually studied Paul.

And the argument fell apart.

Paul wasn't some random guy inventing theology. He was a Pharisee trained under Gamaliel, one of the most respected Jewish teachers of his generation.

He knew the Torah.

He knew the prophets.

And he hated Christianity.

He persecuted Christians, dragged them from their homes, and approved their executions.

Then something happened.

He encountered the risen Christ.

And overnight, the man hunting Christians became one.

Think about that.

If Paul invented Christianity, why did he spend his life pointing people to Jesus instead of himself?

Why did Peter, James, and John endorse him?

Why did his teachings align with the apostles who actually walked with Christ?

And why would he willingly endure beatings, imprisonment, stoning, and eventually execution for a message he knew was false?

People may die for something they mistakenly believe is true.

But they do not willingly die for a lie they invented themselves.

Paul didn't create Christianity.

He met the risen Jesus and spent the rest of his life proclaiming Him.

If you've been told Paul invented Christianity, you've been handed a slogan, not an argument.

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

The Bible is not a book detached from history. It is rooted in real places, real rulers, real cities, and real events.

These 10 archaeological discoveries provide some of the strongest external evidence that the biblical authors were describing the world as it actually was.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I would argue & say we had the same prophets as Christians.

But this one broke me:

Surah 17:101: Allah gave Moses 9 clear signs.

I knew the list. The staff. The shining hand. The drought. The flood. The locusts. The lice. The frogs. The blood.

I held onto those 9 signs like proof I had the real story.

But bro, you know what shook me?

There’s a night missing.

After all nine signs, right before Israel walks out of Egypt, something happens that the Quran goes completely silent on.

A lamb is slaughtered.

Its blood painted on the doorposts.

And death passes over every house covered by that blood.

The Passover.

I grew up hearing the whole Exodus story. But nobody ever told me about the blood on the door.

Islam just skips it.

And here’s what wrecked me.

The Bible, the book I was taught was corrupted, mentions the Passover over 70 times.

Exodus. Leviticus. Numbers. Deuteronomy. The Psalms. The Prophets. The Gospels. Paul.

70 times.

So I had to ask myself the honest question:

If men corrupted this book, why would they obsess over the same story for 1500 years? Across dozens of authors who never met?

You don’t forge a document 70 times.

That’s just not corruption.

That to me is preservation.

And then I read the line that finished me off.

1 Corinthians 5:7.

“Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.”

That’s when it hit me.

The whole story was never just about Moses.

It was always pointing to a King.

The final lamb. Whose blood, when applied to your life, makes death pass over you.

Forever.

The Quran gave me 9 signs but hid the one night that explains why any of them happened.

Because the moment a Muslim understands the Passover…

he’s one step away from the cross.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Half the yachts in this photo are billionaires who got rejected.

The harbor only fits about 142 boats and over 200 apply every race. The ones that miss out anchor in open water and watch the most glamorous race on earth from a few hundred meters offshore.

Why fight that hard for a parking spot? Because a berth with a real view of the track runs $100K to $165K for the weekend. Kismet, the 400-footer tied up inside this year, pays around $165K just to dock, before its $3.3M weekly charter even starts.

That one week of dock space costs about what three months of normal mooring would. Four days on the water, priced like a quarter of the year.

And cash doesn't move you up the list. The best spots go to the same returning clients year after year. Max Verstappen waited two years to get his own yacht into that harbor, and he wins this race.

So the boats floating in the open are the people who can afford everything except the one thing this place actually rations: a parking spot with a view. That is the flex nobody can put on a credit card.

[Soccer Facts @Soccer_Stats]

All 48 Nations at the 2026 FIFA World Cup Finals in North America have now announced their 26-Man Playing Squads (total 1,248 Players)

207 Players are Affiliated to 43 Different English Clubs

#FIFAWorldCup
https://t.co/DzGfjZBfsF

[bet365 @bet365]

The World Cup group stage schedule:

11th June - 8pm
12th June - 3am, 8pm
13th June - 2am, 8pm, 11pm
14th June - 2am, 5am, 6pm, 9pm
15th June - 12am, 3am, 5pm, 8pm, 11pm
16th June - 2am, 8pm, 11pm
17th June - 2am, 5am, 6pm, 9pm
18th June - 12am, 3am, 5pm, 8pm, 11pm
19th June - 2am, 8pm, 11pm
20th June - 1.30am, 4am, 6pm, 9pm
21st June - 1am, 5am, 5pm, 8pm, 11pm
22nd June - 2am, 6pm, 10pm
23rd June - 1am, 4am, 6pm, 9pm
24th June - 12am, 3am, 8pm, 11pm
25th June - 2am, 9pm
26th June - 12am, 3am, 8pm
27th June - 1am, 4am, 10pm
28th June - 12.30am, 3am

🤩 𝟭𝟬. 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀. 𝗧𝗼. 𝗚𝗼.

[Museum of Jerseys @museumofjerseys]

The Champions, 1956-2026

Paris Saint-Germain are the first new winners to retain the title since Nottingham Forest in 1980

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I used to ask Christians:

“If Jesus was really God, why did He eat, sleep, and bleed like us?”

And honestly, I used to ask it with pride like it was some unbeatable argument.

But later I realized something:

That question was not exposing Christianity.

It was exposing my misunderstanding of what kind of God Jesus claimed to be.

Because the real question is not:

“Why would God become weak?”

The real question is:

“What kind of God would willingly step into human suffering at all?”

Islam taught me about a God who was distant and untouchable.

But Christianity introduced me to a God who stepped into hunger, exhaustion, grief, pain, betrayal, blood, and suffering with us.

And suddenly His humanity stopped feeling like weakness to me.

It became proof of love.

If Jesus ate, it means He came close enough to experience hunger beside us.

If He slept, it means He embraced the exhaustion we carry.

If He bled, it means He did not stand above suffering watching us from a distance.

He entered it Himself.

Philippians 2 says Christ emptied Himself and took on flesh.

Not because He stopped being God, but because He wanted humanity to finally see what God is actually like.

And it turns out God is willing to suffer for the people He loves.

That changed everything for me.

Because every other religion demanded sacrifice from humanity.

Jesus became the sacrifice Himself.

And no prophet in history ever claimed that.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Yes, the tweet is right. Germany really does have more castles than the US has McDonald's, about 25,000 of them versus roughly 13,800. But look at the map again. The biggest red blaze sits over France, and France has almost twice as many castles as Germany does.

France has around 45,000 castles, the most of any country on Earth. In some areas they sit so thick you get more than one per town. One river valley alone holds about 3,000. A rural patch in the southwest is nicknamed the land of a thousand and one castles, and that's barely a stretch. Even the official protected list runs to about 11,000.

The reason this corner of the world is so stuffed with stone forts comes down to one thing. For most of the last thousand years, it ran on landlords. Hundreds of them, each holding his own scrap of ground.

Germany only became a single country in 1871. Before that, it was part of the Holy Roman Empire, which, despite the grand name, was really just a loose heap of hundreds of small territories. Each had its own ruler, its own laws, its own taxes, even its own little army. In the 1700s there were about 300 of them. Count the truly tiny ones, the estates that were basically one castle and a few fields owned by a single knight, and you get closer to 1,800. Every duke, bishop and count wanted a stronghold to rule from, so every one of them built one. The Germans even have a word for that era of pocket-sized kingdoms. They call it Kleinstaaterei, which roughly means tiny-state-itis.

France got there by a different route. Its first castles were rough wooden forts, thrown up fast to survive Viking raids. Later they were rebuilt in stone. Then, once the fighting died down, they became show-off palaces, with wealthy families competing to out-build the family down the road.

You can still see how crammed it got. One stretch of the Rhine river in Germany, about 40 miles long, has roughly 40 castles lined up along it. That's about one every mile. Most were built to guard the river and squeeze a toll from every boat that passed. Strip away the fairy tale, and a castle was mostly a wealthy man's way of saying this land is mine, and you'll pay to cross it.

Then Napoleon showed up. Starting around 1803 he swallowed the little territories into bigger ones, the thousand-year-old empire was dissolved in 1806, and within a generation the hundreds of mini-states had shrunk to a few dozen.

So those red dots tell a bigger story. They're a picture of how chopped-up this part of the world used to be. Every dot marks a spot where some duke or knight or bishop once decided he was boss of his patch of Europe, and built a wall to prove it.

[İspanya’dan Futbol 🇪🇸 @ispanyafutbol]

Şöyle bir şeye denk geldim :)

2010 - İspanya H grubundaydı
2026 - İspanya H grubunda

2010 - Dünya Kupası 11 Haziran'da Meksika-Güney Afrika maçıyla başladı
2026 - Dünya Kupası 11 Haziran'da Meksika-Güney Afrika maçıyla başlıyor.

2010 - Mourinho Real Madrid'e transfer oldu
2026 - Mourinho Real Madrid'e transfer olacak

2010 - Atleti kupa finalini kaybetti
2026 - Atleti kupa finalini kaybetti

2010 - İspanya bir Avrupa şampiyonluğundan geliyordu
2026 - İspanya bir Avrupa şampiyonluğundan geliyor

2010 - Dünya Kupası'nı İspanya kazandı
2026 - ...

@Nanosecso

[Talk Church @churchtalkative]

Countries in the Bible and what they are called today:

Persia — Iran

Babylon — Iraq

Assyria — Iraq, Syria, Turkey

Canaan — Israel, Palestine, Lebanon

Aram — Syria

Moab — Jordan

Ammon — Jordan

Edom — Jordan

Philistia — Palestine (Gaza region)

Cush — Sudan / Ethiopia

Media — Iran

Mesopotamia — Iraq

Phoenicia — Lebanon

Asia Minor — Turkey

Macedonia — North Macedonia / Greece

Rome — Italy

Tarshish — Possibly Spain

The Bible was written in real places, among real nations, throughout real history.

These weren’t fictional lands. They were kingdoms, empires, and nations where God revealed Himself, judged rulers, raised prophets, delivered His people, and fulfilled His promises.

[Jose Morales Ros @geekdegafas]

En Inglaterra tienen ya todo listo y decidido en su fútbol.

Se saben los 20 equipos que jugarán Premier League, los 24 de Championship, League One y League Two…

Tienen dos copas (en España, una). Y han acabado antes. Otra vez.

En España no se sabe cuál es el tercer equipo que asciende a LaLiga, que sale de un play-off (es más, queda una jornada de la liga regular), tampoco dos de los cuatro equipos de LaLiga 2 y muchísimos de 1ª y 2ª RFEF pendientes de dónde jugarán la próxima campaña.

Cada año lo mismo. Menudo desastre.