JONATHAN BRATT

Electronic Engineer

[John Hannam @JohnHann04]

Universally hated…..has any nation ever managed to make itself loathed all over the planet simply through sport. Argentina have managed that in the last 6 weeks at the World Cup. The entire planet celebrated when they lost last night. And Messi, the great god of football also took a hammering. I for one was delighted to see his tears after he tried to get Cucurella sent off for no reason and walked around the pitch like he was owed the result for 120 minutes. The GOAT my arse, Maradona was FAR better. And the Argies even managed to prove it’s not just on the football pitch because when England beat them at Rugby on Saturday they did the same thing, scuffling, fighting, surrounding the ref, behaving like spoilt toddlers, it’s clearly a national trait. Cheats and bad losers. Spain won last night, but Argentina didn’t just lost the match, they lost ALL respect from the entire world.

[Dr House 🇪🇦🇺🇦🗽✝️ @mcelpmqop]

Lo de la @Argentina (@AFA) es la definición de antifútbol y mal perder. No supieron ganar en el campo y han demostrado una falta de dignidad absoluta fuera de él. Dar la espalda y negar el aplauso a la @SEFutbol es una actitud marrullera, tosca e inaceptable para profesionales.

[𝐌𝐚𝐝 𝐋𝐚𝐝 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🔜 EF30 🇩🇪 @mad_lad_VR]

I immediately lost my respect for the Argentinians this World Cup.

They’re a bunch of nasty, cheating, corrupt and fucking outright childish bunch of children!

Now i’m not saying that All Argentinians are like this but these cunts lost my respect…

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just proved every sighted person on Earth is blind.

Your eye captures 0.0035% of the electromagnetic spectrum.

You are not seeing the universe. You are seeing the sliver your biology decided was enough to keep you alive.

That was never vision. That was a survival filter bolted onto your perception four hundred million years ago.

No one has ever removed it.

Musk: “Blindsight will enable those who have total loss of vision to be able to see again. Including if they have lost their eyes, or the optic nerve.”

No eyes. No nerve. The entire optical system physically absent from the skull.

Neuralink does not rebuild what broke.

It routes around biology entirely. It streams synthetic signal straight into the visual cortex.

Your eye never saw anything.

Your brain did.

Your brain sits in total darkness inside a vault of bone.

It has never seen the sun. It has never seen anything.

It builds reality out of whatever electrical signal the eye allows through.

The eye is the bottleneck between your mind and the universe.

Neuralink removes the bottleneck.

Musk: “Maybe have never seen, were even blind from birth.”

A human who has never perceived a single photon of light.

Given sight for the first time.

Not through medicine. Through engineering.

Musk: “You can see in radar, you can see in infrared, ultraviolet.”

Infrared is pouring off every surface in the room around you.

Radio waves are passing through your body right now.

Ultraviolet is painting patterns across everything you have ever looked at.

You cannot see any of it.

Your biology locked you out before you were born.

Musk: “Superhuman capabilities.”

The person born blind would not be restored to human sight.

They would see more of the universe than any sighted person who has ever lived.

The blind would out-see the sighted.

You will not pity them.

You will envy them.

Musk: “Cybernetic enhancement.”

Every human sense is a sensor converting the world into electrical signal.

Replace the sensor and the brain does not care where the signal came from.

It just processes.

Your senses were never built to show you reality. They were built to show you just enough of it to survive.

Evolution built a keyhole. We called it sight.

Elon Musk is not fixing blindness.

He is fixing sight.

[Rod D. Martin @RodDMartin]

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: "Trump often applies pressure through a very forceful approach.

"The last American presidents politely asked us, "Please, finally do a little more for your own defense," but across Europe those requests largely fell on deaf ears.

"Now there is an American president who says, rather bluntly, "Enough is enough."

"And I cannot blame him. Just look at the numbers: the United States spends around 80 percent of NATO's defense resources, while Europe accounts for only about 20 percent.

"That is unacceptable. It has always been unacceptable."

Yes. It always has been.

I never cease to marvel at how Europe's (and Canada's) leaders act as though they believe that they are somehow the side "indulging" the President of the United States.

The sheer arrogance.

I'm a lifelong Atlanticist, but if Europe doesn't step up and soon, even I'm for pulling out of NATO.

Explain to me the downside to the U.S. Now, explain to me the downside to a bunch of freeloading European "powers" that use our defense budget to subsidize their welfare programs. And this is particularly galling coming from a country (the UK) that has nearly twice as many admirals as warships. It's a joke.

They keep threatening to "go it alone" on defense. What, with a Boy Scout troop? Puh-lease. And if they did, in what possible respect would that hurt us?

It is no different from a small child threatening to hold his breath until he turns blue.

Our European friends would do well to take stock of who they have actually become and how far they've actually fallen. Their richest country is poorer per capita than our poorest state. And after that impossible feat, perhaps they will actually begin to understand why Presidents since Bush have been telling them these exact same things. They're just at the end of the 25-year-long line now, and Trump is saying the quiet parts out loud.

It's the Pacific Century, folks. NATO can partners, or not. But they no longer get to be dependents. And we no longer care about their pathetic, unearned condescension.

It's good to see that Chancellor Merz -- leader of a country that sometimes shows up to NATO exercises with broomsticks because it doesn't have enough rifles, despite having the world's third largest economy -- has finally realized that.

May others follow. Quickly.

[بهاء خليل Bahaa khaleel @rosemag_3]

هذا الهدف المصري الملغى
سيبقى شاهدأ على فساد الفيفا
الى الابد

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Muchos de los miembros de nuestra misión ya se encuentran exhaustos. Por ello, hemos decidido enviar un séptimo avión con 120 especialistas para relevar a quienes más lo necesitan. Los otros 180 integrantes del contingente original continuarán en el terreno, por lo que mantendremos en todo momento un equipo de 300 rescatistas, médicos, paramédicos, psicólogos, veterinarios, bomberos y otros especialistas, muchos de ellos preparados específicamente para esta nueva fase de la misión.

Además, aprovechamos este vuelo para enviar cinco toneladas adicionales de ayuda humanitaria, con medicamentos, alimentos, insumos y equipo para reforzar las labores que continúan en la zona.

Nuestros equipos de rescate siguen trabajando al 100%. Muchos de los nuevos integrantes se incorporarán directamente a esas labores, aunque sabemos que cada vez es más difícil.

Fuerza Venezuela 🇸🇻🇻🇪

[World Cup 2026 @ofootball__]

𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐊 𝐘𝐎𝐔, 𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐑 🇨🇻💔

[Berneese @theberneese]

The Cape Verde coach deserves his flowers too. He has built an incredible team without a single global football star.👏

[World Cup 2026 @ofootball__]

Thank You VOZINHA 🫡

[World Cup 2026 @ofootball__]

Thank you Cape Verde! 🇨🇻❤️

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

I’d never heard of Cape Verde before this World Cup, now I will never forget them. Congrats to the whole squad, and especially the 40yr-old goalkeeper @vozinhapr whose heroics earned him 20m followers on Instagram. Fabulous story. 👏👏

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Durante estos días les he compartido principalmente las labores de búsqueda y rescate, porque cada vida salvada representa una enorme esperanza.

Pero nuestra misión en Venezuela va mucho más allá. Nuestros equipos también trabajan sin descanso llevando ayuda humanitaria a quienes más lo necesitan, con alimentos, agua potable, medicamentos, insumos médicos y todo lo necesario para fortalecer la respuesta a esta emergencia.

Al mismo tiempo, médicos y personal especializado brindan atención directa en hospitales y comunidades, así como atención veterinaria para los animales afectados.

Fuerza Venezuela 🇸🇻🇻🇪

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

¡FINALMENTE LOGRAMOS RESCATAR A HERNÁN!

Después de más de 72 horas de trabajo y tras enfrentar una estructura sumamente inestable, réplicas, derrumbes y la necesidad de abrir una nueva vía de acceso para poder llegar hasta él, rescatamos con vida a Hernán Alberto Gil Flores, de 44 años, quien permaneció más de 7 días atrapado bajo los escombros del centro comercial Galerías Playa Grande.

Este rescate fue posible gracias al esfuerzo conjunto de los equipos de Chile, Estados Unidos, Portugal, México, Costa Rica, Venezuela y El Salvador, que trabajaron sin descanso para remover escombros, estabilizar la estructura y abrir paso hasta llegar a Hernán.

Nuestra admiración y reconocimiento para todos los rescatistas que participaron en esta operación, así como para Hernán, cuya fortaleza y resiliencia durante más de 7 días fueron extraordinarias.

En este momento, los médicos están evaluando su condición para que pueda ser trasladado a un centro hospitalario y continúe recibiendo la atención que necesita.

Gracias a Dios por permitir este milagro.

Fuerza Venezuela 🇸🇻🇻🇪

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

It’s impossible to defend this call. Impossible. Ref should be fired and investigated for corruption.

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

En el último avance que publiqué sobre el rescate de Hernán, llevábamos 28 horas de trabajo. Ahora ya son 58 horas y aún no hemos logrado sacarlo.

La dificultad es que Hernán se encuentra atrapado dentro de una estructura de nueve pisos sumamente inestable, y el túnel que habíamos excavado ha sufrido varios derrumbes.

Equipos de rescate de varios países han estado trabajando juntos sin descanso para estabilizar el túnel, apuntalándolo, reforzándolo y aislándolo, pero no ha sido posible sostenerlo.

Por lo que se ha tomado la decisión de abrir, de forma paralela, un nuevo túnel desde otro punto, donde podría haber una mayor posibilidad de avanzar con seguridad. Sin embargo, toda la estructura sigue corriendo el riesgo de colapsar, y no descartamos retomar el túnel original en el que nuestros equipos han trabajado durante estas 58 horas, si las condiciones lo permiten.

A pesar de todo, no hemos perdido la comunicación con Hernán y continuamos suministrándole líquidos para mantenerlo hidratado.

Hernán sigue luchando, y nosotros también.

Primero Dios, lograremos rescatarlo.

[Fanbrizio Rovaldo @FabrizioRomaxno]

🚨BREAKING: Cristiano Ronaldo has just sent two private planes full of medication equipment and supplies to the earthquake victims in Venezuela.

[U.S. Southern Command @Southcom]

Delivering critically needed earthquake assistance in Venezuela:
U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 8 and Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 365 (Reinforced), Littoral Combat Force-24, offload water from an MV-22B Osprey and load it onto vehicles for distribution to the hardest-hit communities in Venezuela.

At the direction of #SOUTHCOM, assigned U.S. military forces are supporting @StateDept-led U.S. disaster assistance to the people of Venezuela.

@DeptofWar @SecWar @USMC @The24MEU @WHAAsstSecty @USForeignAssist @USAenEspanol @usembassyve

[Department of State @StateDept]

Answering the call when it matters most.

@MiamiDadeFire is on the ground in Venezuela, demonstrating the dedication and professionalism that define America's emergency responders.

[Poirot @Argenpoirot]

Cuando el Estado es socialista te salva el privado y no el Estado.

Este TIPAZO va con su antena de Starlink y le va dando señal a la gente en Venezuela para que pueda avisar a su familia que esta bien.

"Hola hija, estoy bien" 🥹

Gracias a Elon Musk y este gran hombre 🙏🏻