Grumpy Pentecostal

I don't argue, I just explain why I am right.
Proudly South African.

[Grumpy Pentecostal @riaanpretorius]

@Julius_S_Malema Cigarette Man

[EWN Reporter @ewnreporter]

[WATCH] Undocumented Malawians have now turned Sherwood outside the Durban CBD into an active crime scene, they are attacking police officers as they refuse to go through a deportation process. @_NMabaso

[Sarah Salviander @sarahsalviander]

It is incredibly difficult to follow Jesus. What He asks of us is nearly impossible. Under our own power? Literally impossible.

When I read the Beatitudes, I'm often struck by a sinking feeling that I don't even come close to all these "blessed" people who live as He says we should. But maybe that's the point.

I read a story recently about Corrie ten Boom who, years after her liberation, was faced with one of her concentration camp tormentors. This man, along with many others, was responsible for the deaths of her father and sister. She could not forgive him - it was physically impossible for her in that moment - so she asked Jesus for His forgiveness to flow through her. It did, and to her surprise she began to feel love for this man.

This is why Christianity is so difficult. It's not just about being winsome, staying on your Bible-reading plan, praying dutifully every day, or serving the church on Sunday. It's about doing the impossible, which we can only do through Christ (Philippians 4:13).

The only power we have is to ask Him into our lives and for His power to carry out His will. How many of us would ask Jesus to let His forgiveness flow through us when faced with such a person instead of marinating in justified hatred? I tremble to think of how I would've reacted in the same situation.

This, I believe, is the true difficulty of being a follower of Jesus. Not just the denial of certain earthly pleasures - the "repression" most non-Christians focus on - but the denial of anger and unforgiveness. The latter is much harder. To walk with Him is to deny our own "power" and to accept humility and meekness, as He did. That is the narrow path.

[Grumpy Pentecostal @riaanpretorius]

@vermilionpixie 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this has to be clickbait

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Geologists confirmed that the Earth shook during the Crucifixion

[Magadze🇿🇦 @AdvMagadze]

South Africa lost 2:0
Tunisia lost 5:1
Senegal lost 3:1
Algeria lost 3:0

But according to media, South Africa is the worse performing African team😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Grumpy Pentecostal @riaanpretorius]

@RonaldLamola @DrTedros Tedros still hasn't apologized for his lies during covid

[Puter @HeyPuter]

A computer in your browser, free and open-source!

[Jokker @0xJokker]

AMD ACABA DE MATAR LAS SUSCRIPCIONES DE IA

La CEO de AMD Lisa Su presento oficialmente una PC del tamaño de una lonchera y ejecuto en vivo un modelo de 235 mil millones de parametros

Sin centro de datos. Sin nube. Sin GPU alquiladas

El chip en su interior es el AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395

Es el primer chip x86 en el que la CPU y la GPU comparten el mismo bloque de memoria

Hasta 128 GB de memoria unificada

Una RTX 5090 te ofrece 32 GB de memoria de video

Una 4090 te da 24 GB

Pero esta pequeña maquina te ofrece mas de tres veces la memoria de cualquiera de ellas

Y cabe en una mochila

En inferencia con DeepSeek R1 le gano a una RTX 5080 por 3x

Una desktop del tamaño de un libro grueso superando una tarjeta grafica de mas de mil dolares en una carga de trabajo real de IA

Ahora haz las cuentas de tus suscripciones

Claude Code Max: $200 al mes
ChatGPT Pro: $200
Cursor: $20
Gemini: $20

Son $5,280 al año antes de construir una sola cosa

La version de 128GB de esta maquina cuesta entre $1,800 y $2,500

A ese ritmo se paga sola en menos de un año

Y despues corre sin costes adicionales, GRATIS

> Instalas Ollama
> Bajas Qwen3 235B
> Apuntas Claude Code a localhost
> La misma interfaz que ya usas
> Nada sale de tu maquina
> Nada cuesta por request
> Sin limitaciones a las 3am cuando por fin tienes tiempo para construir

Los abogados dejan de preocuparse por lo que OpenAI hace con sus archivos

Los developers dejan de ver el contador de tokens

Los founders dejan de matar prototipos porque la factura de la nube los asusta

La IA local ya no es solo una opcion mas economica

Es la unica IA que nadie puede quitarte

Y la pregunta ya no es si la IA local es lo suficientemente buena

Esta claro que si lo es

La verdadera pregunta es por que seguir pagando suscripciones cada mes cuando puedes correrla tu mismo

[The Scientific Lens @LensScientific]

If you want to learn quantum mechanics, here is how to do it.

Start with the foundations:

• David J. Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
• David Tong, Quantum Mechanics lectures
• Feynman, as a companion, not a shortcut

Then learn it properly:

• R. Shankar, Principles of Quantum Mechanics
• John S. Townsend, A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics

Then go serious:

• Sakurai & Napolitano, Modern Quantum Mechanics
• Cohen-Tannoudji, Quantum Mechanics
• Landau & Lifshitz, Quantum Mechanics
• Steven Weinberg, Lectures on Quantum Mechanics

Also remember: there is a difference between consuming quantum mechanics and actually studying it.

[CRIME HATER @Joseph65557799]

You know why my guy doesn't want South Africans to own spaza shops? It's because that is where illicit cigarettes are being sold, and that's where Adriano Mazzotti benefits.

[Mustafa @oprydai]

4 skills to build almost anything in 2026:

not theory.
actual leverage.

• electrical engineering → power, sensors, circuits, embedded systems
• mechanical engineering → structure, motion, force, failure
• AI + agentic workflows → automate research, design, coding, iteration
• 3D modeling + printing → turn ideas into physical prototypes fast

this is the new builder stack.

hardware gives you reality.
software gives you intelligence.
AI gives you speed.
manufacturing gives you output.

learn these and you stop being a consumer of technology.
you become dangerous.

[Mustafa @oprydai]

study trigonometry before calculus.

otherwise you’re walking into motion blind.

• sine/cosine → waves, circles, oscillations
• tangent → slope before derivatives
• unit circle → angles become coordinates
• identities → algebra for rotating systems
• vectors → components, force, velocity, fields

calculus explains change.
trigonometry explains the geometry of that change.

without trig, calculus becomes symbol pushing.
with trig, you start seeing motion.

[Simon Sithole @Simon_Sithole20]

South Africans 🇿🇦 we need to stand together AND reject the abuse by @sarstax

Nothing justifies almost 50% of our salaries being stolen by these government with very little to show off in our communities!!
#TaxRevoltSA

[Hillbilly HODL @Shawan4Freedom]

Someone who founded PayPal, built a car company and sends rockets into space becoming a trillionaire isn’t weird. Public servants making $174k becoming millionaires is.
Change my mind.

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

This might be the CRAZIEST stat of the World Cup...

Cape Verde had more possession against Spain than Arsenal did against PSG in the Champions League final. 🤯🇨🇻

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Twenty-five years ago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology made a bold move that most universities would never dare.

Instead of locking its world-class course materials behind campus walls, MIT decided to put nearly its entire curriculum online, completely free for anyone with an internet connection.

That decision gave birth to MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW).

What began as a bold experiment in 2001 has become one of the most significant educational initiatives in history.

Today, OCW provides materials from more than 2,500 undergraduate and graduate courses across virtually every discipline: physics, engineering, artificial intelligence, economics, biology, mathematics, computer science, and many more.

Anyone can access lecture notes, problem sets, exams, syllabi, and a growing library of video lectures, with no tuition, no application, and no account required.

According to MIT, more than 500 million people worldwide have used these resources over the past 25 years.

The impact has been profound. Students use it to ace exams, explore new fields, and launch careers. Educators around the globe integrate the materials into their own teaching. Many learners credit OCW with helping them pass professional certifications and unlock new opportunities.

Beyond its direct benefits, OpenCourseWare helped spark the global open education movement, inspiring dozens of other universities to share their knowledge freely online.

Even more impressive: the project was originally planned as a 10-year initiative. A quarter-century later, it's still expanding.

MIT now aims to reach 1 billion learners in the coming decade, while enhancing the experience with powerful new AI-powered learning tools.

[SportsDokita (Odogwu ☝️) @Sports_Doctor2]

“I believe in God. I would like people to have a thing about Jesus Christ. It’s a wonderful guideline for life because life is a gift.”

- Liverpool legendary coach, Jurgen Klopp on his faith 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[GodLogic_GL @GodLogic_GL]

Another Muslim leaves Islam and accepts Christ as Lord live on the YouTube stream, glory to Jesus.

[Anchored Soul @anchoredso37497]

P1: The Quran affirms the Biblical Gospel as true and uncorrupted divine revelation (Surah 5:46-47, 5:68, 10:94)

P2: The Biblical Gospel contradicts core Islamic claims on crucifixion, Christ’s divinity, and Trinity.

P3: The tahrif (corruption) doctrine that Muslims use to escape this contradiction is ad hoc—absent from the Quran, systematized only centuries later by Ibn Hazm precisely to resolve the contradiction, and carrying no independent evidential weight.

C: Therefore, Islam is false.