Chris Mottola

Philly native in LaLa Land. Best double hip replacement Dillon wearing goalie in the Valley. Morally objectionable in part for all.

[Jesse Singal @jessesingal]

This is a very crazy thing to believe and definitely shuldn't be the basis of ed policy decisions

https://t.co/MrktI2Psrr

[Chris Mottola @mottocto]

I’ll act shocked the LA people went along with the deal. They probably offered to blow the FIFA dude and validated his parking on the way out. 😅

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

One of my favorite anecdotes from the build-up to this World Cup, which reveals so much about the collision between FIFA and U.S. cities.

The day a FIFA exec told Los Angeles that LA needed to be “put on the map.”

@TheAthleticFC

[🤍✨Dipshit Usagi✨🤍 @420mercymain69]

My statement regarding Graham Platner

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

Seventeen years of college down the drain

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In 1903, the French government expelled the Carthusian monks from their monastery in the Alps and seized everything they owned.

The monastery. The distillery. The equipment. All of it. There was just one little problem.

Only two monks in the entire order knew the recipe for Chartreuse, and they had memorized it. There was nothing written down that the government could take.

The French government hired chemists to reverse-engineer it. They analyzed every bottle they could find. They ran every test available to early 20th Century science. They could not replicate it. The liqueur they produced under the Chartreuse name was so inferior that it destroyed the brand almost immediately. Sales collapsed. The company the government set up to produce it went bankrupt in 1929.

The monks, meanwhile, had relocated to Tarragona in Spain and were producing the real thing the entire time.

In 1929, the same year the French government's operation went under, the monks quietly bought back the rights to their own name and returned to their monastery.

The recipe is still known by exactly two monks at any given time. When one dies or becomes too ill to continue, he passes his portion to a successor. The full recipe has never been written down in a form that has left the order.

Chartreuse is made from 130 Alpine plants and herbs. The monks tend the distillery themselves. They take no outside employees into the production process. The 1605 manuscript that started all of this is still held in the monastery archive.

The French Third Republic lasted from 1870 to 1940. The monks are still there, still making Chartreuse.

© Eats History

#drthehistories

[Police Incidents @PoliceIncident]

Pasadena Officer Shot by Fellow Officer During "Horseplay," Chief Says

PASADENA, Calif. — The Pasadena Police Department has released a Critical Incident Video concerning an officer-involved shooting that occurred on September 7, 2025, inside the department's parking structure at 240 Ramona Street in Pasadena. The incident resulted in injuries to one Pasadena police officer, who has since recovered.

Pasadena Police Chief Gene Harris said the incident involved "unsafe, out-of-policy horseplay involving loaded firearms" between department personnel. Chief Harris stated that one officer was wounded as a result of the shooting and emphasized that the conduct depicted in the video did not reflect the department's standards or expectations.

The injured officer was transported for medical treatment and has since recovered from the injuries sustained during the incident. Pasadena police have not publicly identified the officers involved, and no members of the public were injured.

The case remains under investigation and review by the Pasadena Police Department and the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

Sources: Pasadena Police Department; City of Pasadena; Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

#police #cops #crime #policia #polizei #Police_Incidents #CrimeNews

[Chris Mottola @mottocto]

@weakysauce13 @TDChrisG It was a significant hit to head/neck in a vulnerable position. (In a down position, head extended over knees.) He’s had a series of them over his career and they accumulate.

[Ryan Hart @thisdudelikesAI]

10 WEBSITES THAT FEEL ILLEGAL TO KNOW ABOUT

Bookmark every single one. Free textbooks, full courses, and paywalled research most people pay hundreds for.

1. https://t.co/Jeku0H9ObG
MIT's entire curriculum online for free. Every lecture, every problem set, every exam from 2,500+ courses.

2. https://t.co/OJmX9qD3pm
Free peer-reviewed textbooks from Rice University. Math, science, business, social sciences. Used by 3 million students.

3. https://t.co/u7SNGHjNBU
Harvard's most famous course. Full lectures, problem sets, and a real certificate of completion for $0.

4. https://t.co/onFc8V0qms
Free access to 2.4 million research papers in physics, math, computer science, and biology. Updated daily.

5. https://t.co/C4ZsjSprP1
Catalogs 200,000+ free online courses from Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, and every major university.

6. https://t.co/V57ExBxD60
Mirror of Z-Library. 22 million books and 84 million research articles. Almost every textbook ever written.

7. https://t.co/Qp8DjB7RSv
Free K-12 through college courses. Math, science, economics, and test prep used by 150 million students globally.

8. https://t.co/XRN9jpDoLl
TU Delft's free engineering courses. The school that produces some of the best engineers in Europe.

9. https://t.co/v2QNvSXdX2
AI-powered search across 200 million academic papers. Pulls citations, summaries, and related work instantly.

10. https://t.co/T8z2raaHQW
Hidden filter on Coursera that shows every free course from Stanford, Yale, Princeton, and Google. Most people miss it.

A degree used to be the only way to access this knowledge. Now it costs $0 and an internet connection.

[0xDipper @Dipper_pol]

Daniel Kahneman - the psychologist who won a Nobel in economics - spent his life proving one thing: your confidence is lying to you

A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. The answer "10 cents" jumps to mind instantly. It's wrong (it's 5 cents) - and ~50% of students at Harvard, MIT and Princeton say it without checking.

That gap is his whole point: the fast, intuitive mind builds a clean story from almost nothing, and the feeling of certainty has nothing to do with being right.

"Confidence is a feeling, not a judgment."

"Stock pickers can't develop intuition - there isn't enough regularity for it to form."

"You can build a very coherent story out of very little information."

~45 min, free. how your mind fools you - from a man who studied it for 50 years ↓

[Chris Mottola @mottocto]

Tremendous

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

BTS footage of Siskel & Ebert recording a tv spot for an upcoming episode 😂 The petty annoyance between these two is really what made them so special

[Riccardo @Riccardo_Nero]

Do hotelu w Związku Radzieckim późną porą przybył podróżny:
- Poproszę o pokój na jedną noc.
- Niestety, mamy tylko wolne jedno miejsce w pokoju pięcioosobowym.
- Może być, w końcu to tylko jedna noc - odpowiedział podróżny i pomaszerował do wskazanego pokoju. Ułożył się wygodnie i zamierzał zasnąć, ale współtowarzysze grali w brydża, opowiadali sobie kawały i co chwila wybuchali głośnym śmiechem. Podróżny ubrał się i zszedł do recepcji:
- Poproszę 5 herbat na górę za jakieś 10 minut.
Wrócił do pokoju i mówi:
- Panowie tak swobodnie opowiadacie sobie dowcipy, a przecież tutaj może być założony podsłuch!
- Co pan! W hotelu?
- Możemy to łatwo sprawdzić
- Panie kapitanie! poproszę 5 herbat pod 14-stkę.
Rzeczywiście, w tym momencie przynoszą herbatę. Współtowarzysze z lekką obawą kładą się spać. Rano podróżny wstaje i widzi, że prócz niego w pokoju nie ma nikogo. Schodzi do recepcji:
- Co się stało z moimi współlokatorami?
- Rano zabrała ich milicja.
- A mnie dlaczego nie zabrali?
- Bo kapitanowi spodobał się ten dowcip z herbatą.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

What comes after GLP-1RAs make everyone skinny?

What comes after myostatin inhibitors make everyone buff?

One new candidate is:

Safe, cheap, and easily-administered injections that locally remove fat. A new drug that just passed through phase 2 seems to do just that🧵

[x - V @VictoriaEgreen]

Connor and Fraser went to visit him yesterday! I will link the families Facebook page below if y’all would like to learn more about Mavrik and his story or help out with their GoFundMe at all. They’re still collecting videos from players as well!

[Chris Mottola @mottocto]

@DarkoStateNews @Canes @SpartanTweetMSU So, what’s with his weirdo hair dye affectation?

[Chris Mottola @mottocto]

@GinoHard_ @PierreVLeBrun Doubt that. Carolina is committed philosophically to bargain basement goaltending. And Bob has a NT.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

FBI raids and executed 3 search warrants at the Contra Costa County Assessor’s Office in California

It was found The Assessor’s Office handled property valuations for taxes across 380,000 parcels and was full of corruption. They made improper assessments, favoritism and inside financial dealings

There’s also sexual harassment charges with an alleged $1 million dollar payoff

They would improperly lowering values for certain properties and an employee even raised concerns to try and stop the corruption

By the way, all Democrats involved and the county is Democrat

[Charlie Ledger @CharlieLedgerX]

Apparently “morning bitches!” is not a “team-oriented greeting” during a meeting

This place is a prison

[UNICORN⚡️🦄 @UnicornBitcoin]

梅西
这就是他妈的天赋

[Chris Mottola @mottocto]

@matthewstoller He will also be the only one with a Nazi tattoo.

[Degen CPA @DrewVento]

Day 3 of no caffeine and I’ve lost hearing in my right eye