Melissa Ball

Translating my life into small, gentle posts. 🕊️
From Japan to England | On longing, laughter, and learning to belong twice.

[Melissa Ball @tk090108]

Not here to prove anything. Just here to enjoy my life and maybe meet a few kind souls along the way.

[Out of Context Football Manager @nocontextfm1]

I was NOT ready for the eyebrow raise. 10/10 tweet... 🤣

[British Intel @TheBritishIntel]

🇬🇧 WATCH: Rupert Lowe is absolutely right.... again

"If we don't get control by 2029, I don't think the prospects for this country are very good. I think the British people can see that now."

After just four months, Restore Britain has already forced its way into the national conversation. While the establishment parties offer more of the same, Rupert Lowe is saying what millions of Britons are thinking.

The clock is ticking for this country. The public knows it.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: UK police are REFUSING to release the identity of the 30-year-old man who THREW A 3-YEAR-OLD INTO A CROCODILE ENCLOSURE, only to get mauled

What kind of ANIMAL just walks up and THROWS a kid to his would-be death?!

The scum was arrested for attempted murder.

RELEASE THE NAME! The people must know!

[(fan) Frank 🧠🇾🇪 @FrankEra_]

Just read somewhere that Rashford has FOUR World Cup goals in 148 minutes???

[Janty @CFC_Janty]

“Sithole and Igor Thiago have produced the worst performance in the World Cup”

Ismaila Sarr:

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

BREAKING: Starlink has now partnered with 41 airlines worldwide, covering more than 7,000 aircraft under installation or contract.

[jimmah @jamesdouma]

This is the best general article that I’ve read on the topic of SpaceX.

[Tesla @Tesla]

Not sure who needs to hear this but your Tesla can parallel park for you

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Tesla Robotaxi has recorded zero at-fault incidents since February, according to newly released NHTSA data.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Aged like wine 🍷

[Anna Schneider @a_nnaschneider]

Das ZDF hat reagiert, in der Beschreibung der Sendung steht nun, die Formulierung zu Beginn (Musk habe zur Jagd auf Migranten aufgerufen) sei "unpräzise und deshalb missverständlich". Immer diese Missverständnisse, kennt man ja noch von Charlie Kirk

[Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger]

In the ancient world, the way many people gained great wealth was by forming gangs of strong men, beating up their neighbors, and taking their stuff.

People still speak with admiration of men like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, but they were little better than gangsters who enriched themselves through armed robbery.

This was a negative sum game, and assured that people remained poor and unhappy for thousands of years.

Eventually, however, we figured out that respecting each other’s rights, building things, and trading meant that we could play positive sum games instead. We could increase the amount of wealth, and all would benefit. As a result, we moved from living in unheated shacks to living in what our ancestors would’ve thought of as paradise in only a few hundred years.

However, there are still people out there who think that beating someone up and taking their stuff is a really great idea.

It is the great task of our civilization to shun such people, as they are not fit to be part of society.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

BREAKING: Starlink is delivering faster download speeds than other terrestrial ISPs in 22 out of 23 markets in Africa, per Ookla.

• Upload speeds doubled in Central & East Africa and nearly tripled in Southern Africa.

• Now serving ~500,000 users across rapidly expanding markets.

• Latency reduced by over 80% in Southern & Eastern Africa since 2024.

• 5 to 6 times faster than local providers in Botswana and Guinea Bissau

Starlink is helping connect schools, businesses, homes and remote communities that were ignored for decades. It is becoming Africa’s internet lifeline.

Meanwhile, South Africa continues to block it because of its racist BEE laws, denying its own citizens access to fast reliable internet.

[Jason Ginsberg @JasonBud]

if you tried the Grok Build beta at launch a month ago but found the experience too early, check out the changelog: https://t.co/KWwIv2NRL1

we’ve shipped 177 improvements since launch. if the issues you encountered still aren’t fixed, let us know. we’d love to keep improving

[Laila Cunningham @policylaila]

My 17-year-old daughter:
“I’m confused. We’ve always been taught not to share personal information or anything that identifies us online because it isn’t safe. Now they want us to do exactly that to access social media.”

[Andrew Milich @milichab]

Use your SuperGrok or X @premium subscription inside Warp

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

The welfare state has been more destructive to the black family than slavery just by restructuring the incentives.

In 1960, nearly a century after emancipation, only about 22% of black children grew up in single-parent households.

By 1990, after the Great Society welfare expansions, that number had more than tripled.

Thomas Sowell has long shown this wasn’t the lingering shadow of slavery or some vague “legacy.”
The destruction of the black family was the direct result of welfare policies that subsidized single motherhood and penalized marriage.

The incentives changed, and family structure collapsed accordingly.