nicole

tryna find a balance reaching from my equilibrium

[nicole @nicolioliii]

I’m a mess but can you clean me up

[Astro Poets @poetastrologers]

Week of 10/25 in Aries: Nothing for nothing. But what about when you tried. Friendship is a way into the birds. Does it leave?

[𝖺 @r5nv_]

i wanna deactivate everything and disappear

[jaden @jadeuhn]

if im active on twitter thats how you know im not doing well mentally

[Mavoj @maeveoj]

Me coming to twitter to report everything in my life to no one who cares

[Cardinals Live @Cardinals_Live_]

I believe we have witnessed and are witnessing the biggest scandal in a North American major sport since the inception of legalized sports gambling.

The Tampa Bay Rays and Milwaukee Brewers have each never won a World Series. Both are the AL and NL standards for building competitive teams without financial resources.

What are the odds that, the season before a lockout amid financial competitiveness, two of MLB’s smallest markets make the World Series and are cited by players and media as proof you can compete without big-market spending? Both teams, of which each has never won one, have made it. We will have a first-time-ever World Series champion. It's all happening this season.

Major coincidence? Or ultimate collusion?

Baseball is a sport where if there’s a way to cheat, you will. The players’ union is one of the most unfair fighting mobs in any sports league. That's 'cause the sport of baseball is as dirty as it comes—always has been, always will be.

I’m not saying it’s odd the Brewers swept the Dodgers, whose stars looked like they phoned it in. I'm saying it's very unbelievable.

If you put on a tinfoil hat, you wonder if players pulled off the ultimate chess move.

Yes, I believe the 2026 playoffs were thrown by big-market players and teams to prove a point and gain ammo for off-season CBA talks.

There's many of you that will dismiss this already and think I'm crazy and that's fine—I don't think the average person understands how contentious discussions regarding a salary cap in this sport is and will be. This is Israel and Palestine. These players will never go down in history as the players that caved and gave a salary cap. The owners are prepared to lose multiple seasons in order to get one. If you think the world is very innocent, and this isn't something the players or the players' union would do, you do not have a true beat on what this moment is, and I have a bridge to sell you.

People will call me crazy and point to how good the Brewers and Rays were. Making the World Series isn’t unbelievable—that’s the beauty of what they pulled off.

When the CBA talks are in full force and the real shit starts to fly, I promise you that 2026 World Series will be exhibit A, B, and C.

No, public perception has not been on the owner side, and I still think a good amount still will be. I think fans and smaller markets want a salary cap—however, the tide has begun to turn on perception, and this World Series has helped.

Congratulations to the players and the players' union.

Fucking incredible move.

Respect.

[The Food Manufacturing Guy @TipOfTheBanana]

Most decaf coffee is made with methylene chloride. It's the solvent that used to be in paint stripper.

The green beans are steamed, then washed in methylene chloride, which pulls out the caffeine and not much else. The beans are steamed again to drive off the solvent and then roasted at over 400F. FDA allows up to 10 parts per million. When a lab tested 24 decaf brands in 2020 it found the solvent in 10 of them at about 0.05 to 0.1 ppm, around 100 times below the limit. The industry calls this the European method.

There are 3 other ways to do it. Ethyl acetate, a solvent that can be made from sugarcane, which the trade calls the natural method. Carbon dioxide under pressure. And the Swiss Water process, which uses hot water and carbon filters and no solvent at all. Peet's says all of its decaf is water process. Starbucks has told reporters most of its decaf is the direct contact method, meaning solvent.

EPA banned most uses of methylene chloride in 2024, but food is FDA's job, so decaf wasn't part of it. A petition to pull it from food has sat at FDA since December 2023. FDA reopened comments on it in May and hasn't decided. If the bag says Swiss Water or water process, no solvent touched it. If the bag says nothing, you don't know.

[Riley Schriefer @schrieferranch]

My wife & I are seriously considering dropping our health insurance for us & our 3 kids. What’s everyone else doing for alternative/preventative major injury/tragedy coverage? @MatthewCKrueger whats the one you suggested again? I had the wrong info on In-laws per our last convo.

[Astro Poets @poetastrologers]

Week of 10/11 in Aries: You have finally found it. It is not a way in. It is a road a long walk. You remember this place.

[Resko★ @Bloke_Baz]

whoever makes a browser extension that automatically blocks all ai content is gonna be a national hero.

[𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧★ @olivvrszn]

Can we please have the non-AI version of Google back? I do not want an AI summary. I do not want an AI overview. I do not want AI to read the internet for me. I want Google to show me the actual results. How do I turn this nonsense off?

[Heidi Montag @heidimontag]

Wake up. The takeover is happening.

[ຸ @fvckfemi_]

im starting to realize the life I want is gonna require me to become someone I've never been before

[b. @oc3ansluut]

A sweet girl like me was never supposed to be this fucked up and sad.

[Certified gayBob @certifiedgay69]

sorry i Can’t hangout my clothes look fucking stupid on me

[AGTG @BeenServin]

Every single commercial is for alcohol, glp-1, sports betting, or AI

[Henry @Henry404gd]

sometimes the only way to be seen is to leave.