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let the good times roll

[daffa @sanityvacancy]

I should once again be reminded that this account is intended to be a medium of self-expression, a safe space to confess whatever the fuck I want to without the fear of repercussions and social pressure.

[daffa @sanityvacancy]

@petaldom setuju

[daffa @sanityvacancy]

if anyone’s reading this, I hate how today went after 12 pm

[daffa @sanityvacancy]

at this rate I don’t deserve anyone’s pity, but I really hate how today went

[Magical Spain @Magicalspain]

Is Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo the most based man in history?

>from a Navarrese, Carlist, aristocratic family with claimed ties to El Cid

>1.90 m tall; 96 kg of pure strength

>inspired by the life of Saint Francis Xavier

>ran with the bulls in Pamplona

>Olympic athlete

>set a javelin world record using a revolutionary throwing style — banned for being too dangerous

>worked as a whaler; hunted 44 sperm whales

>sailed down the Amazon

>caught an anaconda with his bare hands

>gold prospector in Brazil

>ethnobotanist in Colombia

>parachuted into the Congo to bury martyred Dominican nuns and recover the consecrated hosts; in gratitude, Dominican convents worldwide offered him food and lodging for life

>war correspondent — witnessed Vietnam, Israel, Eritrea, Cambodia, Bolivia and Chile firsthand

>TV personality

>lion tamer

>wounded countless times in the field

>travelled to almost every country on Earth

>founded Ruta Quetzal to train new generations of adventurers

>devout Catholic; enjoyer of the Traditional Latin Mass

>owned an 8,000-volume library; obsessed with Spanish conquistadors, Jules Verne, and Homer

>his national ID literally listed his profession as “wandering traveler” (giróvago)

>received countless medals and state honors

The definition of a legend

[BowTiedPassport 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 @BowTiedPassport]

Had this exact Asian dude in my unit.

Chillest dude you ever met.

Wondered why he came off as a shitbag in garrison.

Pulled his file.
4 deployments.
Airborne, Air assault, Pathfinder.
Golden knight, air assault school instructor.

Would show up at 4am, run an 11:40 two mile, then smoke a cigarette and drink a monster before the sun was up.

Retired to Texas

[Melian Refugee @escapefrommelos]

this image has more artistic merit than the entire filmography of Christopher Nolan

[Lord Miles @Lordmiles]

Saw someone in the Argentinian crowd at the game…..

[daffa @sanityvacancy]

@kalog4but mana feenya kadang lebih gede drpd psikolog 🫩

[Forrest 🇧🇷 @MagoUltraSecret]

For the remainder of this world cup I am now Spain's strongest soldier. I live for Spain. I fight for Spain. I breathe for Spain. I die for Spain.
THE ARGENTINE TETRA WILL NOT COME
¡VIVA ESPAÑA!

[V. @vathyera]

Author yang setidaknya dijauhi dan bukunya tidak dibeli.
1. George Orwell
2. Marukami
3. Eka Kurniawan
4. Goenawan Mohamad/Muhammad
5. Tere Liye
6. Panji Sukma
7. Sitok Srengenge
8. Ayu Utami
9. Dian Purnomo

[txt boy @ceritaboyyy]

Gue dulu QC di pabrik sosis. Gue pikir kerjaan gue cuma ngecek tanggal kadaluarsa.
Waktu itu gue dipanggil senior. "Lo ke freezer, ada 200 pack daging beku udah 2-3 tahun. Cek satu-satu."
Gue kaget. "2-3 tahun Pak? Buat apa?"
"Buat campuran produksi"
Gue kira tinggal liat tanggal kadaluarsa. Ehh gak gitu ternyata.
"Cium baunya," kata senior gue. "Kalo masih bagus, pisahin."
Gue buka satu per satu. 200 pack. Gue cium, gue perhatiin tekstur.
Dari 200 pack, cuma 50 yg masih layak. Sisanya bau asem, tekstur hancur, warnanya berubah. Gue mual, pusing, hampir muntah. Tapi yaudah ini kerjaan.
Gue lapor ke senior. " Pak dari 200 cuma 50 yang layak."
Dia langsung masang muka gak terima. "Masa cuma 50? Lo yakin?"
Gue jawab, "Yakin Pak."
Dia agak kesel. "Sini gue cek sendiri."
Gue cuma bisa liat dia mulai buka pack satu per satu.
Gue kaget. Dengan percaya diri, dia bilang, "Ini masih bagus. Ini juga. Ini juga."
Padahal dari samping, gue udah liat teksturnya hancur dan baunya busuk.
Gue coba nyeletuk pelan, "Pak itu udah bau asem."
Gue sadar satu hal: di pabrik, uang lebih penting daripada kualitas. Daging beku 2-3 tahun yg udah bau dan hancur, tetep dipaksa buat diolah ulang. Demi untung.Gue gak tau daging itu akhirnya dipake atau engga. Tapi sejak saat itu, gue mulai mikir dua kali sblm beli produk olahan.Sosis, nugget, bakso. Apapun yang termasuk UPF. Di balik kemasan yang rapi, kadang ada cerita yg gak pernah kita tau.Gue udah gak pernah makan sosis lagi. Bukan karena gue vegan. Tapi karena gue tau apa yang ada di baliknya.Kalo lo bisa, mending masak sendiri atau beli produk yg lebih jelas asal usulnya. Kalo gak, setidaknya perhatiin label dan tanggal produksi.
cc: fimaa_id

[Cinephile🍿 @plotwistpro]

@zaydante He is not from this era

[People's Art of War @pplsartofwar]

@zaydante Passes all the English era tests.

[Strootsy @strootsys]

Today’s POTM (Plenger of the Matches) 😭

[🍍NaNazh🍍 @Del_Paijo]

Choose your fighter..

Yang ngatain Yang dikat2ain

[daffa @sanityvacancy]

gw temenan sm atlet tinju yang irl biasa aja kl ngomongin LGBT (malah kayak curious) tapi di medsos koar koar kayak pengen nge-genosida

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

EVANGELICALISM AND THE DECLINE OF BRAZILIAN FOOTBALL 🇧🇷

After yet another World Cup defeat Brazil is again soul searching - “Why has Brazil become so bad at one of the only things it still used to be good at?”

One of the most popular explanations among Brazilians this time is the rise of evangelicalism in Brazil, especially Pentecostalism. The argument goes that this has ‘spiritually’ undermined the Brazilian team. At the 2022 census about 27% of Brazil’s population over 10 identified as evangelical Protestants. In 2000 the percentage was 15.4% and in 1980 6.6%. A common explanation for this growth is that Pentecostal and evangelical churches were able to expand so rapidly over the past half century because they offered a new version of Christianity that prioritised close-knit local communities, energetic worship and a ‘message of personal transformation’ (and some also say in a derisive sense more ‘accessible’ ‘lower barrier to entry’ version of Christianity, with everything that entails) that especially resonated with ‘urban and lower-income’ Brazilians during Brazil’s comparatively economically and culturally stagnant recent history. In particular, with the kinds of demographics who lived in or adjacent to Brazilian favelas that football wunderkinds used to be drawn from

This is a kind of version of the other main explanation I have heard for Brazil’s decline; that it lost its swag, its samba, its Latin flair - or ‘duende’. You can’t really empirically prove these claims of course and both arguments (see more of this other argument below) make different root claims but the commonality they share is that Brazilian football used to have a kind of playful Latin - maybe you could say Catholic - magic to it. It was very flashy and improvised but it was also a sort of highly skilled dance that you ‘flowed’ with, it was almost liturgical. (Argentina for instance a team that still has a bit more of this)

The Evangelical argument extends into how it has affected social dynamics in the favelas too. I can’t really speak on how accurate these claims are but apparently it has made families more cautious and less communal, less inclined to ‘let kids go out and play’ ie play football with other favela kids - the focus is instead on ‘staying safe’ and ‘individual hard work at school’. For the players from this new milieu that still do get selected for top-flight football then the effect is it makes them more individualistic, less inclined to cooperate, less likely to see it as ‘a group dance’ and more inclined instead to ‘just charge in’ etc

This is what they say! You are free to buy into that however much you want. Possibly a lot of this is just ‘cope’ so-called from a country that maybe too much ties its entire identity to football. Does seem to me that part of the finger-pointing too is you can spin it as a kind of neo-colonialism, in a cultural sense. That it comes from America, from the West. You can see quite extreme left wing Brazilian accounts repeating this claim so you do have reason to be a little sceptical in that

In any case the decline is obviously multi-causal - you can also point to the rise of European football, lack of money, bad tactics or coaching, changing tactics worldwide that no longer favour Brazil, everybody else is just that good now etc. On the right, you will hear too that the decline is related to the decline of the Brazilian nation generally ie greater incompetence all round. It isn’t just that lost their Latin - or Catholic - flair, it is that they became more ‘Third World’. Evangelicalism in this sense then would be less a problem of Calvinist Predestination Teutonic Weberian Protestant Work Ethic Protestantism - more a problem of, in the extreme, Sub-Saharan African village church with a corrugated iron roof Evangelicalism

Either way there is a general feeling that the death of Brazil football represents the loss of a version of the national soul - that Brazil has now somehow changed for the worse

[daffa @sanityvacancy]

@4VIATR1X pahe?

[Savey 🇮🇩 @TheSopranoob]

Normfags : ANJIR JAHAT BANGET ISTRINYA SAMPE LAKI SENDIRI DIINJAK-INJAK GITU KAYAK GAADA HARGA DIRI AJA 😭💔

Real niggas : aduh ngaceng