Steve Ziomek

[Per Bylund @PerBylund]

If you are troubled by #poverty and #inequality, then your best bet for a solution in our lifetimes is to advocate for radical deregulation of markets. That so many believe the opposite, despite centuries of experience, indicates the sad state of people's economic understanding.

[Steve Ziomek @stevez80]

@jevicah @Nevermore0711 @BosniaNTBall Interesting. Tim Howard had 397 Premier League starts. Most ever by a Bosnian player is 250. Seems Bosnia football lacks the pedigree that Tim Howard had

[Colin Millar @Millar_Colin]

None of the World Cup winners from 2006 (Italy), 2010 (Spain) and 2014 (Germany) have won a knockout match since winning the competition. A combined 11 World Cups since for them.

[Shaun 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸 @shaunvlog_]

I can’t put into words how amazing the past two weeks in America have been. Life changing. I need to work some things out but I need to make sure I can spend more time here. Truly, life changing. Thank you all 🇺🇸

[Steve Ziomek @stevez80]

@FAmmiranteTFJ And if so the U.S. will be proud of its team for a great run. Nothing wrong with being overly optimistic before a match as long as you are realistic about the result after. Not sure why the rest of the world has an issue with U.S. pre-game optimism. Most nations do this as well

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Britain now arrests more people for social media posts than China, Russia, and Turkey combined nearly matching the rest of the top 10 countries combined

Britain really leads the world on these thought crimes

Insane how the UK, which used to be a free country, turned out to be so totalitarian

[Steve Ziomek @stevez80]

@FAmmiranteTFJ Not true of us all though! More dedicated fans than ever before at least. It’s a start…

[Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132]

"It was the time sheets that made people look into him...."

I wish people could see what the Army finance office will do when a soldier gets overpaid $20.00. Then I would like to show them the oversight that our Travel System (DTS) has for a soldier to get paid for spending one night in a hotel. Next I would show them the weekly Battalion meeting where every leader can see the names of every soldier in their unit who owes money for travel cards/DTS/paychecks. Finally I will show them the withdrawal and clearing process for the various OPFUNDS that are used during overseas operations.

The army will crush a soldier for owing a single penny and this dude signs for $40 Million in Gold bars and puts them in his house....and the ONLY reason they found them was because he cheated on his time sheets.

We have soldiers and their families living in trailers and we will go through their finances with a fine tooth comb.

We have Illegals, Child care center operators, and senior executive band people bilking the Government for MILLIONS/BILLIONS and people seem to discover it by "chance".

Every last fraudster caught with over a million dollars should be dropped from a space shuttle and allowed to re-enter the earth's atmosphere so we can watch them turn into a ball of flame for our entertainment.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[Steve Ziomek @stevez80]

@DaleJohnsonBBC It has to be clear and obvious to overrule on field decision. If it takes that long and that many looks at it then it is not clear and obvious. Arsenal wins a title because of VAR. congrats

[Steve Ziomek @stevez80]

@804Slim___ @SteveR324 @WadexFlash Haha these guys are so fucking soft. We spent our whole childhoods up here playing hoops in the bitter cold and ice all over the driveway, fingers feeling like they’re falling off. We were ten years old lol. Typical weak ass modern NBA player.

[Steve Ziomek @stevez80]

@KnickWitDaKnack @ByJayKing Probably worry about your own team that hasn’t won a title in over 50 years

[Mr. Smith 👑 @BadChoiceBurner]

Top 5 All-Time #UConn vs Duke

1. March 1999 (National Championship)

The single greatest victory in Huskies history. Ricky Moore saved the best game of his career for the last one. Rip was unguardable, Freeman was a monster & El-Amin was captain clutch

[Avi Mayer אבי מאיר @AviMayer]

It is important to reflect on this moment in American politics.

An individual with a Nazi tattoo on his chest, who has expressed admiration for Hamas, promoted antisemites and white supremacists, and told an antisemitic conspiracy theorist he is a “longtime fan”—alongside a series of homophobic, misogynistic, and ableist statements and slurs, as well as comments justifying sexual assault and blaming the victims thereof—is the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in the great state of Maine.

How scary. And how sad.

[Steve Ziomek @stevez80]

@PhillipDEEZ69 @FAmmiranteTFJ *since trading Mookie Betts and no longer being interested in a fielding a contending roster

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

It’s amazing that this even needs to be said in 2026, but the collapse of communism was a good thing:

[Tom Elliott @tomselliott]

That it’ll take him at least 3 years & $30 million to build a grocery already disproves his claim that govt can operate more efficiently than private enterprise.

[Ian Turner @IanTurner_]

Best team I’ll ever see.

97 points,European Cup, 99 Points

62 league wins out of 78 games, including a run where they took 103 points from a possible 105.

Undefeated in the league at Anfield (35 wins, 3 draws)

119+ Goal Difference.

[Spion Kop 1906 @SpionKop1906]

Listen to the heartbeat.

NO TO TICKET PRICE INCREASES

[Steve Ziomek @stevez80]

@mobcaponerule @danorlovsky7 You shot FTs to a title by flopping congrats