Rush and Cinder Getting to Know Each Other! Cinder:... @loomhuh Rush: ME! Artist:Quaver_Orange COMMISSIONS CLOSED (10/10) #cute #protosonaze #protosonic #protoblaze #sonaze #SonicTheHedgehog #blazethecat #comic #comicdub #dub #voiceacting #soniccomicshow more

AND THERE’S THE STUPIDITY. GOD DAMNIT. THIS IS WHY... YOU ARE GOING TO BE FIRED Billy Napier. I know Tennessee has a good rush D, but you have a 6’3 239 lb QB. He can take the snap and fall forward for 6 inches 10 times out of 10. SO WHY TF ARE YOU GETTING CUTE OUT OF SHOTGUN???show more

I've already posted a pic of these two hot... teen girls puffing on their ciggies, but here's a cool video. They're clearly still beginners, but they've been practicing! If you look closely, you can already see the tar stains developing on their fingertips. Yeah, these young girls want to be cool, and don't mind giving themselves a lifelong addiction to smoking pleasure. And with each puff they're getting closer and closer. They're just so proud to show off their new habit; they really want us to know how mature they already are. And the nicotine rush makes them become so relaxed and confident. I just love how the righthand girl shows off her braces when she smiles at us. Yeah, they know they shouldn't be smoking at their age, but do it anyway. They may look all cute and innocent, but want to be bad. And being bad never felt so good! #smoking #smokingfetish #sexysmoker #sexysmoking #cigarette #girlsmoke #smokingwoman #smokinggirl #smokingbabe #smokingbeauty #cig #chainsmoker #heavysmoker #girlswhosmokecigarette #chainsmoking #girlswhosmoke #smokingmodel #smokinghot #smoker #smokergirl #cigarette #addicted #smokingaddiction #teensmoking #teensmoker #smokingteen #yellowfingers #smokersfingers #braces #hazyeyes #hotgirl #coolgirl #goodgirlsgonebadshow more

Multiple times a day for the last few weeks... my internet keeps getting reset mid stream and it's driving me fricking insane because it doesn't automatically turn the player back on. It will do the load wheel, maybe Error 2000, and then it stops the stream so if you're lurking in the background, you actually don't even know that the stream F'd for 5 seconds. People just think the stream ended and they leave. This has been a problem with Twitch for like 10 years and even Disconnect Protection (NotLikeThis) that they added doesn't fix it. It happens 2-3 times within every 24 hours, my ISP shows no loss of service, but it's happening to multiple PCs on my network. Is there anything else that I can try before I completely rip out my entire network in my house and install a bunch of new equipment? Ironically enough, this whole situation is why I left my house the other day to go to the computer store to look at network equipment before my car got fking smoked in the parking lot by random person driving off the road lmaoshow more

🔴IMPROVE YOUR SUPER COUNTER🔴 I will refer to you... the host as player 1 and friend as player 2 Step 1 - Invite friend to room and create a private match Step 2 - Make DP teams, equip Max health and ki recovery to all your character for this match. Step 3 - To initiate training player 1 should approach player 2 and charge melee attack (smash attack it’s called in game) As demonstrated on this video, also note you have 2 assault vanishing attacks not including lightning attack which would be (O on ps5) per assault combo string. Player 2 can try and super counter that first charged attack and if he fails he’s got another 2 chances at super counter after you follow up the next two vanishing assaults. Step 4 - Flick Up followed by rush attack (⬆️+🟪) so UP first than SQUARE almost simultaneously but fast! on hit. It sounds silly that it has to be on hit but it is literally how it is done so (same time you get hit is the time you input ⬆️+🟪) Step 5 - Never break this rule: you and your friend can only damage each other with successful Super counter. A little tip to reset the vanishing assaults mid vanishing assault combo sequence. - So say player 1 has connected a charged smash and a(1) vanishing assault, And player 2 did not succeed in executing super counters, what should happen next is player 2 should vanish the 2nd Vanishing Assault of player 1 by pressing (🔴) instead of attempting Super Counter (⬆️+🟪), and once player two knocks back player 1 with a successful 🔴 counter player 2 should now press 🔺to do 2 vanishing assault combos, whilst player 1 attempts doing (Super Counter), and if player 1 fails to super counter the first vanishing attack player 1 should press 🔴 on the 2nd attack, now making it so that player 2 has to attempt super counter.. 😭😂💀 I know complicated but it really isn’t. The entire battle can be of you two simply super countering each other! Me and my friend did this for a few hours to build muscle memory and reaction speed because what’ll notice is you have to be fast to react to super counters or else you will take tons of damage. Also I can’t tell you how satisfying it is to perform these. My friend Erci was like: Goku come on man you’re the MC this is cake for you DO IT!! I was like: I am the son of of the prince of all Saiyans you can’t touch me GOKU 😈😂😭 we were talking mad trash to each other. I love this game ❤️ Good luck labbing and see you all tomorrow for a fun dual stream on twitch and YouTube 🔥💪🏾show more

The 7-year-old girl in the front row wouldn't stand... up. She held her backpack tight against her chest as if it could protect her. For 27 years, Mr. Carter has driven Route 56. He knows every child who steps onto his bus. He knows who forgot their lunch, who is excited about the weekend, and who is carrying something heavy inside. During the last few weeks, 7-year-old Amaya had changed. She used to laugh the loudest and sing along to every song on the radio. Now she sat in silence, wore long sleeves even on hot afternoons, and tensed whenever the bus hit a bump. Each day he watched her walk toward the house at 412 Pine Road. Something about that driveway always made his stomach tighten. That afternoon, he pulled up to her stop and opened the doors. Amaya didn't move. She kept staring through the window at the driveway. A truck was parked there. Mr. Carter set the brake and turned around in his seat. He didn't raise his voice. He simply looked at her. "Amaya," he said gently, "are you okay?" Her eyes were filled with fear. "He's home," she whispered. "He's angry again. I don't want to go inside." The bus grew quiet. "I know," she said, shaking. "I don't want to go back there." He stood up and walked toward her seat. "You're with me right now," he told her calmly. She looked up at him. "You gonna make me?" "Not today," he answered. Amaya stepped into his arms without hesitation. She pressed her face into his jacket and began to cry, her small body trembling. "We're staying right here until you feel okay," he said softly. "Just breathe with me." Mr. Carter closed the doors and secured the bus. He contacted dispatch and asked them to send help, keeping his voice steady while he stayed beside her. For that hour, the bus remained parked. He didn't rush her. He didn't let her face that driveway alone. Outside, the truck never moved. Inside, she finally felt safe.show more

Fear of ticks will not deter me from being... outdoors. No way! Here’s my go-to for tick (and flea and mosquito) repellent. 🍃❤️🍃 TICK BLOCK For Clothing/Gear (4 oz bottle) 3 oz distilled water 1–2 tsp food-grade vegetable glycerin (emulsifier) 50–60 drops total essential oils (for a solid ~2–3% blend): —12–15 drops Clove bud (one of the top performers for repellency) —12–15 drops Rose Geranium —10 drops Cedarwood —8–10 drops Lemongrass or Thyme —Optional: 3–5 drops Lavender for milder scent OIL AND WATER DON’T MIX! Mix Oils into glycerin first then add water. Shake hard before every use. Store cool/dark; make fresh batches every 1–2 weeks. Spray thoroughly on pant legs/cuffs, socks, inside shoes, uppers/laces, boot tops, shirts, backpacks, etc. Let dry a few minutes. Reapply every 1–2 hours or after dew/wet grass contact. Tuck pants into socks + wear light-colored clothing (easier to spot ticks). FOR SKIN APPLICATION: Same recipe, but decrease Clove Oil and Cedarwood oil to 6 drops each in the recipe and do a patch test on inner arm first. Clove and Cedarwood can be irritating to sensitive skin. PETS: Use cautiously with dogs. I DO NOT KNOW IF IT’S SAFE FOR CATS! (Cats are so weird!) OTHER ANTI-TICK TO-DO’S Extra Natural Layered Strategies Physical barriers: Long pants/sleeves, gaiters over shoes, tucking everything in. Light colors help you see ticks quickly. Tick checks: Thorough full-body (and clothing) checks immediately after outings, plus a shower with scrubbing. Yard/habitat tweaks (if applicable): Mow grass short, clear leaf litter/brush, create gravel or woodchip borders between lawn and woods. Some use food-grade diatomaceous earth or cedar oil sprays in yard edges. (reapply every 1-2 weeks and after a rain) Do you have a non-toxic anti-tick solution for us? Do share! 👇🏼show more

In light of the Cybercab event this week, here... are my expectations: Of course the first official Robotaxi rides in a Cybercab will happen. Good chance it's limited to a certain portion of the geofence, especially for the launch event to avoid any edge cases I think Elon will say a few words. Likely nothing we don't already know - thanking the teams and explaining the importance of and vision for Cybercab Frankly though what happens at the event doesn't matter. It's what the Cybercab service looks like the following day. I think best case scenario would be Tesla having ~25 active Cybercabs operating in Austin for a majority of the operating hours (6A - 10P). I think we all need to be prepared for somehwere around ~5-10 Cybercabs to be active for a week or so after the event and then a slow build from there While we don't know how many active Robotaxis Tesla has in Austin, we can guess it's ~50-75 on any given day. I think increasing that fleet by up to 50% is the most we should be hoping for. I think the survey going around where ~50% of people are expecting > 100 Cybercabs to be deployed is overly optimistic. Not that it can't happen, and I'd love to be wrong, it would just be a stark departure from everything we've seen/heard so far This event shouldn't be viewed as a scaling announcement, but rather a beginning of operations and celebration of the Cybercab. I know Elon said over the weekend Tesla is "about to" flood Austin with Cybercabs, but in his mind that could mean later this year with V15, not this week Given Ashok's recent commentary about why they're going broad instead of deep (more different cities instead of higher fleet volume in each), I'd be more impressed with Cybercab starting operations in the other active Robotaxi cities in the following week or two after the event. To me, that would be a great signal that the validation is going well with Cybercab more generally, not just in the Austin geofence where Tesla has extensive data So while this is a huge milestone (no wheel, no pedals, purpose built for autonomy, cost profile, attention-grabbing design etc.), I'm still not expecting to see hundreds of Robotaxis in Austin or other cities until later this year or early '27 $TSLAshow more

Can you beat the top score? Get the top... score on Swipe the cat and win an Apple Gift Card (link on my profile) 🥇 Get top score: $300 Apple Gift Card Best video submission: $200 Apple Gift Card Funniest submission: $100 Apple Gift Card Rules: 1) Post your score to X with an attached screenshot (required) or video (optional) of your best score (NOT the leaderboard). See example. To be eligible you must either tag me in your post or reply to this post. Reposts are optional for visibility and do not affect eligibility 2) Entries must be posted to X before December 10, 2025 @ 11:59pm AEDT (Australian Eastern Daylight time). 3) Your score must be listed on the ranked leaderboard. You may be asked to validate your score by providing your Game Center username. Be sure your profile is public, that you are playing on the latest version of the game and are logged into Game Center. 4) The highest score posted wins the top score prize. In the event that multiple winners get the same top score the winnings will be divided amongst them. So 2 people getting the same top score means prize will be $150 each. 5) Best video submission will be judged by me and my decision will be final. Criteria: I will be looking for creativity, entertainment value, style and originality. The entry that stands out the most from other video submissions. 6) Best funniest submission will be judged by me and my decision will be final. You may include an optional video for extra visibility. Criteria will be: what makes me laugh the most. Only age appropriate entries will be considered (no crude humour). 7) Gift cards are in USD. Gift card value may be subject to currency conversion for my local currency (Australia) and your local currency. Depending on the arrangement we find to send you the Gift card. Apple Gift Cards must be redeemable in your region. If not we will arrange an alternative of equivalent value. 8) Winners will be notified by direct message on X and publicly on my X profile on or before December 15. Winners must respond within 7 days to claim their prize. 9) You may enter the competition as many times as you like. Only your highest valid score will be considered for the Top Score prize. 10) You must be 13+ or meet your region’s minimum age for using X and participating in online competitions. 11) I reserve the right to disqualify suspicious or unverifiable scores at my discretion (e.g., if I suspect hacked/modded devices/assisting devices). Important disclaimers: This competition is not affiliated with Apple or X By entering into this competition you give me permission to use the contents of your post (name, text, image, video) for use in promotional material for the game. This content will be used on my YouTube channel and to promote my game not only on X but on other platforms too. If you do not wish to give permission to use your post text, images and/or video please opt-out on your submitted post. "I do not give permission for my post to be used in promotional material". Opting out of promotional use does not disqualify you from winning.show more

My contribution to this conversation is simple: the CFA... program will humble you. You will cry. You will lament. You will question your life choices. You will bargain with God and start planning the thanksgiving service you intend to hold if you somehow make it to the other side. All these videos were taken during my Level II preparation, but the third one stands out. I remember being in a hotel room during an engagement. We had spent the entire day with the client, from about 8 a.m. until almost 10 p.m. By the time I got back, I was completely exhausted. Any reasonable person would have gone straight to bed. Instead, I took a shower, opened my CFA materials, and continued studying because the exam was approaching and CFA does not care that you’ve already worked a full day. There were days I was running on pure stubbornness. The kind of period where your prayer points become very specific: “God, if I pass this exam, the thanksgiving will be massive.” Level II showed me real pepper. You will read a concept today, understand it perfectly, solve questions on it, and feel on top of the world. By next week, you have forgotten everything and you’re starting from scratch again. You keep reading. You keep forgetting. You read it again. You forget it again. The cycle continues. CFA Level II will have you asking yourself if your brain is still functioning properly, jare. 😂 As for Level III, I am currently in the stage of fear and mental preparation. I know what it represents, so I am respectfully giving myself time to breathe before I enter that arena. For now, the books and I are just looking at each other from a safe distance. 😭 P.S. don’t mind my reading style. I almost always have music playing in the background while studying. It’s basically my coping mechanism.show more

This wallet did not exist yesterday. At 3 AM,... I could not sleep. I was scrolling through the leaderboard and stumbled upon an anomaly that made me rub my eyes. It started with $213. That is the price of dinner for two. One day later, it had $54,871 on its balance. In just 36 hours, it earned enough to buy a car. I clicked on the transaction history, expecting to see a lucky all-in on some piece of news. Instead, I saw a machine gun burst. > 869 positions in a day and a half. > One trade every 2.5 minutes. > No breaks for sleep, food, or the bathroom. At 4:30 AM, while you were deep in your tenth dream, this address closed a $1,899 profit. That was when I realized I was not looking at a human. I was looking at a predator. This bot hunts on 15-minute BTC and ETH markets. Where most people see a casino and flip a coin on up or down, it sees flaws in your thinking. Here is how it works: > When Bitcoin drops 0.5%, the crowd panics. > The price of NO skyrockets to 75 cents. You sell out of fear. > But the bot knows the math. After such a drop, the actual probability of the trend continuing is only around 52%, not 75%. It buys your fear for 25 cents, when it is actually worth 45. It does not need to know the future. It just needs to buy dollars for 50 cents. But you know what scared me the most? There is a single trade in its history with a $3,213 loss. A normal person would freeze. Light a cigarette. Start doubting. This wallet opened its next position 54 seconds later. It has no ego. No tilt. No I need to win it back. Only an algorithm: if the probability is 55%, and the market pays as if it is 40%, press the button. This is the new form of mining. In 2017, you bought GPUs. In 2026, you write code that mines liquidity from other people’s emotions. Before you rush to search for scripts on GitHub, stop. The $213 starting point is an illusion. Behind it are servers next to the exchange, 50-millisecond latency, and a team of engineers. You will not beat them manually. You are not a player at this table. You are the food. While you were reading this post, it made another $50. Just watch.show more

Strength work for Leadville 100 💪 Over the years,... I have felt judged by the research--my strength routines were limited to a few minutes at a time, while everyone was screaming at me from their Abstracts that I needed to do way more. I noticed two big problems whenever I committed to more resistance training: 1. I'd carry around soreness even after the initial adaptation window, likely corresponding to high CK levels and some background inflammation. Either way, it would reduce running economy on subsequent running training days, and every training day counts. Split squats are the ultimate offender--an exercise that I know I should be doing, but I can't without feeling like Forrest Gump after he was shot in the butt. 2. I just wouldn't do it. Oops. With lots of guessing and testing, I developed this routine, which I'd do after my easy run on Sunday (before a Monday rest day), and sometimes after my workout on Wednesday (if I felt like it): 1. Three Minute Mountain Legs, working up to 100 single-leg step-ups (I think step-ups in particular are a magic exercise for running uphill. But remember, magic is not equal to science): 2. Back squats, 2 sets of 10 (135 pounds for me, which I make look like 800 pounds in this video. The 17-year old me who played football would laugh so hard) 3. Back extensions, 2 sets of 30, engaging glutes and hamstrings 4. Single-leg calf raises, 1 set of 100 on each leg, with a 35 pound dumbbell 5. Every day, I do the 2-minute Core Snack routine 1-3 times. My core strength is one of my best attributes for ultras, and I can do the Core Snack with our toddler Leo. I also do daily band work before running (bandz a make me dance): That's it! I also foam roll and stretch daily (don't tell the researchers, but I am a tight boi and as soon as I stop stretching, I get hurt). The lesson is not to do this particular routine, but that strength training for runners can be based on individual needs. And I personally think that routines should be short and efficient for both performance (limiting breakdown) and adherence (limiting me from being a lazy little punk). Find what works for you, do it 1-2 times per week year round (on top of some daily supportive work), and don't feel the need to pursue progressive overload. It's not about getting stronger and stronger (unless you're into that sort of thing for its own sake, which I think will sacrifice some running growth). It's about supporting performance and health 🧡show more

1️⃣ I did everything I could for Ritual I... made all kinds of contributions. For 8 months, I contributed to Ritual, but I am extremely disappointed with their system. I made 181 contributions on X, bought Canva Premium to design infographics, and sent almost 17,000 messages. Despite all this, I have been permanently ignored for 8 months. Two of my friends, Ashish.Base.eth (❖,❖) (230 contributions) and KUNDAN (150 contributions), are facing the same treatment. Because of this unfair and favoritism based system, I decided to post on Twitter to expose it. When we raised our voice after 6 months of hard work and 150+ contributions, the so called Indian community handlers and famous team members labeled it as FUD and continued ignoring us. 2️⃣ When we asked the Indian community handlers why we were not given roles after 8 months, they said: “We can’t do anything, the team decides.” But when we contacted the team or mods, they said: “Go back to the Indian community handlers, they will help you.” If these handlers and big mods really can’t do anything, then why are they even here? They are here to build connections This system has been making fun of me and other hard working contributors. 3️⃣ Now look at the people who received roles based on “quality contributions.” Everything is available with proof. One person (Yaneul) got a role with only 15 very low quality contributions (mostly food and event screenshots). He even got Ritualist with just 25 contributions. This clearly shows either connections were used or it could be a mod’s second account. Another person (placboeffect) got a role with just 9 contributions. Many people received roles at 35, 40, 50, 55, 60 contributions, while I had 181 contributions. This is what they call “quality contributions.” 4️⃣ Now decide yourself: Who contributed more? Who worked harder? People contributing for 8 months to 1 year are ignored, while others get roles at 9 or 25 contributions. Yes, we may have wasted our time, but we did work hard. 5️⃣ I didn’t want to come to X. but after contributing like a mad person and getting ignored, I don’t want to waste my time anymore. 6️⃣ I don’t know if the Josh (❖,❖) admin is aware of how mods and team are damaging this project Claire (❖,❖) she just help her country mates doesn't care about other people. 7️⃣ What’s the worst that can happen? They will ban me, and my 8 months of contributions will be wasted. There was never respect for real contributors anyway. If I had good connections with mods, I wouldn’t have struggled this much. It’s not like Ritual is my life, or Web3 has only Ritual, or they gave me any role to take back. Now I will openly speak on X without fear. 8️⃣ Some fearful people will read this post. They know everything that’s happening, but they won’t comment because they are scared. I understand their fear. --- 9️⃣ Best of luck to those who keep working blindly despite seeing all this. And special luck to those who have roles because of good connections with mods. --- 🔟 Last The so called Indian community handlers are only mods by name. One of them is a paid event manager, doing the job only for money. Another handler sends one message after 10 days. These are the people leading us in Ritual, who don’t even know what they’re doing. Jez ritual/acc (❖,❖) dunken(ritual/acc) (❖,❖) Stefan | Mad Scientist (❖,❖) Hinata Sir W A R D E N you are mod in Donut and Dhillon saab π² you are mod at data haven, Choudhary (Ø,G) ꧁IP꧂ you are mod at Capx and sir Botsan (capx arc) you are Admin of Capx You should learn from ritual mods how to ignore real contributors and how to promote favourtismshow more

Unpopular opinion about El Salvador. A TON of workers... here are lazy as hell and i do hope this message reaches many Salvadoreños in the United States. You leave the job site, little will get done and yes tools and materials will disappear. I said it. If you’re going to build a home, start a business, or just hire a few helping hands for that side project, get ready to fire fast. Put in systems of checks and balances, hire solid management, use cameras, and lock up materials. If you have the time or money you or someone you really trust must manage the project on SITE. I’ve hired thousands of people throughout the last few 6 years while personally living in 9 Latin countries and El Salvador has been one of the hardest to work in. El Salvador also happens to be my favorite country at the moment with my favorite people. It’s beautiful, small, has a Chuck E cheese for my daughter but most important, it’s safe for my family. So why is it so damn hard to work with people here? I think it’s because of the civil war. This is going to sound crazy coming from a president of a non profit but free money destroys people. It enables them. It ruins their will to work ultimately creating a lazy and slothful person Over 2.5 million people from El Salvador live in the United States. MANY of them send money every 2 weeks to their aunts, uncles, brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews to “help” them. This has turned into dependency. It has created a cycle of entitlement rather than self-sufficiency. “Why would I work for 10 hours in the sun when I can tell my aunt that I need money for medicine?” There are kids here with no desire to self educate, no desire to work, because they’re sucking the tit of their families in the United States or Canada. 2 of my hardest workers who show up early, never miss a day are these two men in this video. No arms, and an elderly who just wants to work. Their speed compared to a young healthy man is slow in comparison but their will and desire to work is unwavering. They’re inspiring. They are happy at work. They don’t complain. They’re not rich working for me but they are ok. I believe they are hard workers because they were never a part of a welfare system given to them from family in the states. I also believe that the civil war has created a massive divide between the wealthy and the poor. Maybe this already existed but chatting with enough people you can put 2 and 2 together. The socioeconomic divides between the wealthy and the poor. Certain families growing incredibly rich over the suffering of the lower class. People have lost trust, they’ve lost hope. Their views on money and rich people are shaped by past experiences of being taken advantage of. People are sick and tired of making $75 per pay period in the farms of El Salvador. I know that’s a whole other discussion. How do we fix this? I don’t know but I know my mission with casa conejo is to inspire others to work their asses off and to get paid by the sweat of their brows. I want to create a micro economy that allows the poor of the poor to grow! To break the cycle of poverty. To shatter the idea of “we can’t make it in El Salvador” We can and we will by working our asses off and getting paid what we deserve. Once we’re open a percentage of profits will go towards these workers. The rest back into our projects of building schools, running our women’s shelters, feeding the elderly. Let’s do thisshow more

Saturday - Adam Friedland This musical intro was the... best part of the show. The rest of his act just made me miss Nick Mullen. Unlike every other show this week, there were girls there. They seem to love this guy. I used him as bait, to get the girl from Wednesday to go out with me again. She loves Red Scare Podcast and this Jewish twink is a staple of the Red Scare Extended Universe and I wanted to fuck her and so let's go see Adam Friedland. The problem with Adam is that he has no conviction. He does not own the room, he's just filling space. He announced that his father was there, in the crowd, which is great, let's hear something that might make your father uncomfortable. No such thing was said. He stared at the floor for half the set, as if he was sorry for being there. I saw Mulaney the night before; the difference was stark. Mulaney can get away with being a sheepish pushover twink Sometimes because he also has balls. He can accelerate from "Aw shucks" to "SHUCK YOU MOTHERSHUCKER" and both versions of himself feel true. Look, I get it, being a sad sorry pushover is his schtick and it works with the voice and it's very relatable for sensitive young men who didn't do sports in high school but to carry a room for a full hour you also need to be able to fight back. I could hear Nick's intonations in his voice. But it's clear that Mulldog spent all his creative energy this week ghostwriting the white guys' lines for the Roast of Kevin Hart and so Friedland was left to fend for himself, comedically. The mark of whether a comedian is delivering or not, for me, is whether I hold my piss in to keep hearing them. This was not the case on Saturday night. I recall stepping out and getting a good look at the crowd, and Friedland bumbling through his completely forgettable material, and thinking: this makes me feel like I could start stand up comedy today and dominate the genre. I have this instinct to say: Adam's young! He'll get better! But he's not. He won't. He's 39. He doesn't have the neuroplasticity. He crossed the Sensitive Young Man threshold ten years ago. Mulaney at 43 could be his father now. He's a "much better interviewer" apparently. I tuned out after Cumtown ended because frankly I don't give a shit about the middle east, and that's 90% of what he talks about. Different strokes. I asked some guy in the bathroom, mid-piss: "what would you rate this show, out of 10?" He said: ehh, like a 6. He's a much better interviewer. I don't hate Adam Friedland, I just wish there was anybody to be excited about in stand up comedy. Between this mens' magazine giving me a $500 stipend to "report" on all these shows and the $474 ticket to Gillis and the $432 ticket to Chappelle and the $741 ticket to Mulaney and all the drinks they make you buy at these things I'm feeling like a huge sunk cost leech on the world. Just taking people's money and using it to complain. At least my date seemed to be having a good time. I wrapped my hand around her low back and leaned into her head, wanting her but not sure how to say it. It's much easier to express that kind of thing on blow. Later that night I K-holed in public. Erica and I took way too much in the front seat of the van. We were outside a rave at 3 AM, they asked me to produce a QR code on my phone, I could barely stand. I felt like I was moving in 2D. The fat security guard barely flinched as I walked past him in slow heavy steps, like a penguin, marching into this densely fogged room with colorful lights and loud bumping trance music where all I could stand to do was lean against the heavily breathing walls. I tried to dance with the girl but it probably looked retarded. I didn't try to interact with anyone, I was too far gone. I thought of Karen, as I do every time I take K. The girl led me through the venue, as I worried I would fall over or walk straight into a wall. I worried about how bad this must look, how retarded I must look, wearing this huge XXL t-shirt tucked in to my pants that don't even fit that well because I have anterior pelvic tilt and no ass. I looked and felt like a clown. A failed clown. I was smiling painfully at Erica, looking down at her, and she was doing the same to me. We found a bathroom and I forced my way in. The ketamine was NOT wearing off. I felt my heart beating hard and my head spinning like I could have thrown up but there was nothing in my stomach besides liquid—no food all day besides a croissant at 2PM. I had downed some random person's red wine glass at the last bar. I worried it might have been spiked. I leaned with my head against the wall, sweating, wishing it would end, brutally aware that Erica's out there waiting for me, my friends are out there waiting for me, wondering if I'm okay, thinking he's too fucked up, he can't handle himself, I thought Thomas was always okay and always in control no matter what, they're losing confidence in me, they're losing confidence in themselves for associating with me, what is this big colorful retarded clown shirt I'm wearing I must look like such a fool right now I can't face these people, I can never face them ever again, my face must look so evil ugly and strained, I splash my face with water but it doesn't help, run it through my hair but it doesn't help, get the water all over my shirt but then it just looks like I threw up on myself or pissed myself or something, and I don't have another shirt, should I go out there shirtless, no that's worse, how am I ever going to leave this bathroom, why won't this K wear off, now Erica's calling me, texting me, are you okay, eventually they're just gonna bust in here I know, fine, I can do it, I'm opening the door, yes, I come out, she's still there, good, good girl. She leads me outside. I feel 10% better. I lead her straight to the van. We get in. I tell her to lay with me. Just like on the first night we met. Head spinning, chest heaving, completely exhausted, just lay with me. She asks are you okay and I say for the first time, no. No, I am actually not okay. I blame Adam Friedland. Overall rating: 4/10. Have Nick write your jokes or just stick to interviews.show more

Polymarket introduced fees 3% to crush automated trading. A... week ago in a Discord with developers we spent an hour doing the math: is it even possible to squeeze $250 a day on 15-minute markets with the new fees? The consensus: margin is dead. One developer didn't let that stop him from quietly making $98K a week. He automated the full pipeline: data parsing, entry calculation, trade execution. While everyone was counting fees, he was collecting money. Second place on the Polymarket leaderboard. I stared at his chart and couldn't figure it out: either I'm missing something, or the entire Discord was wrong. I found him by accident. Scrolling through top wallets and stumbled on numbers that didn't compute. $313 to start. Now $912K. Two months. I recalculated three times: $12-24K per day, and these aren't peak days, this is every day. The profit curve looks like someone drew it with a ruler. Not a single serious drawdown. Not one. For three weeks I watched this wallet. Entry timing. Position sizes. Which markets. What time of day. Looking for what separates him from hundreds of other automated traders. Then I noticed a pattern that made me uncomfortable. There's a 30-second window. Thirty seconds where Polymarket and reality don't match. BTC moves on Binance. The price already changed. But Polymarket odds are still frozen. Old numbers. Outdated prices. The world already shifted, but the prediction market is still asleep. Imagine an auction. You're standing in the room and hear the hammer drop. The lot sold for $50,000. But the other bidders are sitting in the next room watching a delayed broadcast. For them the bidding is still going. They're still raising their paddles trying to outbid. You know the lot already sold. They don't. This wallet is the one standing in the room. Every 15 minutes. Entry while odds are frozen. Wait. Window closes. Pays 30 cents, takes a dollar. No manual intervention. The developer automated the entire process and now just watches. The system only enters after a confirmed impulse on Binance and Coinbase, when Polymarket hasn't caught up to reality yet. The mechanics are laughably simple: Calculates fair value based on the last 10 trades. Price above FV, accumulate YES. Below, accumulate NO. No magic. Just basic math that takes money from people trading on emotions. And here's what got me. When Polymarket introduced fees, everyone wrote: end of automation. Now it'll be a fair game. Know what actually happened? Small players died. The ones with thin margins. The ones who couldn't afford to pay fees on every trade. And this titan? He just knocked off competitors. Less competition in the queue, more liquidity for him. Fees? Just a cost of doing business. At $98K a week it's a rounding error. Polymarket thought they were crushing freeloaders. In reality they cleared the field for one predator. $889K profit. Largest single win $28K. 723 thousand profile views. Profit curve goes straight up without a single serious drop. A human without automation can't even come close to this result. We blink. Think. Hesitate. While your finger reaches for the mouse, his system already closed the position. A week ago I decided to test it. Not analyze. Not build theories. Just copy. He entered a position, I followed. BTC market, 15-minute window. Nothing complicated. I didn't even understand what was happening, just copied. Four hours later I closed. +$247. It didn't change my life. But it changed how I see money working on this market. I spent three years drawing lines in TradingView. Reading analysis. Watching streams. $247 in 4 hours copying someone else's trade blindly. Know what I felt? Not joy. Anger. At myself. For all those years trying to be smarter than the market instead of just standing behind someone who already is. Here he is: Most traders try to predict the future. This one just watches the present arrive 30 seconds early. Right now somewhere BTC is moving on Binance. Polymarket is still asleep. You have 30 seconds. Will you be the one selling to him at old prices? Or the one standing beside him?show more

🚨🚨CHARLIE KIRK CRIME SCENE PART 2 Candace Owens ELIZABETH... LANE The Dan Merrell Interview: Yesterday, as many of you saw, I posted after interviewing several people involved in the crime scene cleanup. I learned the cleanup was treated as a biohazard, which explained why the University handled it the way they did. I shared receipts and questioned whether Dan Merrell had even been there. I was quickly corrected by Sup Citizen who provided proof that Dan was indeed on site. Dan is the contractor whose interview sparked many conspiracy theories about who ordered the cleanup and how quickly it was done. This led to a lot of speculation about the speed of the work. Today I had an extensive interview with him. I found Dan to be honest, sincere, and clearly devastated by Charlie Kirk’s murder. Before getting into the details, here’s some context: During our conversation, Dan said a few things that I realized could cause him problems. I interrupted and asked, “Dan, we are on the record here — would you like me to keep that off the record?” He immediately said yes, and I respected that. Those comments may have materially changed the tone of this interview even more. For those who doubt my integrity, I have had private conversations with Buckley Carlson and others. I’ve even received recordings I could have posted, but I deleted them when asked. I don’t burn sources. In the interview, I asked Dan point blank: Did the FBI or the Governor call you or contact you in any way? He replied: “No.” Do you have direct knowledge that the FBI or Governor called anyone involved at the scene? He again said: "No." Dan then told me: “My words are being twisted so badly. The shit I’m enduring — my wife and I — this is insane.” He expressed deep regret for getting involved and especially for an emotional video he made right after the assassination. “You’ve probably seen it. I wish I hadn’t. It was such an emotional time.” (I have never seen the video) He described the constant harassment he and his family have faced. When I asked about the person who claimed the FBI and Governor ordered the rushed cleanup, Dan said, “I think he was really trying to make himself look like a big shot. He was a strange guy… a few things he did, I don’t know why.” (I would later come to the same conclusion after more interviews) Dan confirmed he was only a small part of the cleanup. The job was minor — he wasn’t even sure how much they billed. When I told him I had the invoice (roughly $6k), he verified it was accurate. He was contacted on September 14 — four days after the assassination — via text from a University employee. None of the messages mentioned the FBI or Governor. (Dan read me the text messages aloud) I asked if the FBI took any soil as evidence. He said no. An uncle of one of the crew members hauled the biohazard soil to an approved disposal site. (Dan did not witness this personally he described a 550? as hauling away the soil, again, he could not state as fact) When I asked if FBI or investigators were present while he worked, he said, “I’m not sure. There were some guys up there — security — but I don’t know for sure.” Dan is very aware his name is now tied to the “exploding mic” theory and other conspiracies. He feels his words have been distorted and manipulated. He asked me directly if he came across as misleading in the Jimmy Rex podcast. I told him no — he never stated as fact that the Governor or FBI ordered a rushed cleanup. I proceeded to tell him that people seem to draw their own conclusions. We proceeded to talk about how his words were being portrayed with certain podcasters. On Candace Owens, Dan said: “Candace has a way of… putting out a theory, then changing… you know…” (He agreed when I said she avoids painting herself into a corner.) During our discussion, Dan advised that Most people in his area believe Tyler Robinson did it. Dan’s personal view: “I don’t think a .30-06 did that damage. I just don’t think it’s possible.” We had a detailed discussion about the wound and the exact area where Charlie fell. Dan confirmed Charlie was under a pop-up tent on the grass — not on a raised platform. The paving work was done just outside the main blood-soaked area. (some people thought Charlie was on stage/platform and therefore the blood-soaked scene was exaggerated) He expressed amazement that someone could get into that shooting position without being noticed. We agreed on this point. We both agreed that this shot was straight-on, and a genuine point of concern. (How was he NOT spotted?) We mulled the possibilities. (I would get an answer later) I asked Dan if anyone had reached out to him, any of the current investigators, podcasters, journalists to ask him anything since he has come back into the focus of the investigation again. He replied, "All of these idiots saying things, you are the FIRST person to actually call me to verify any of this." At this point, I expressed shock, surely someone would have reached out to him, I repeated my question, he said adamantly "no, nobody has reached out, you are the first and only, I regret the entire thing." "We were coming together as a community for Charlie; this has been hard." This interview made one thing clear to me: Charlie was killed on September 10. The FBI had the scene for approximately three full days and eight hours before releasing it. The University was closed through at least that Sunday. (Although it appears some people did get access) Dan strikes me as an honest, hard-working man. Nothing about his answers felt rehearsed. He should not be harassed, accused, or made fun of. I’ve attached a clip of the ground crew cleaning the area. I cannot make out the words in the video, but this video seems is claimed to have been taken while the University was closed. It is not the greatest quality, but it seems genuine. I will continue releasing more interviews with witnesses, UVU police, and additional crew members. Today was long and productive. But the important thing to take away--I would learn in an interview later, that the FBI/Governor making any calls is based on a single source, who when pressed, would not show any evidence. My UVU Campus Police interview was abruptly cut short. I will detail this soon. My fear is that it will feed into the conspiracy theorists more, but I have to report what I am told accurately. No matter where this goes, I’m here for it. I appreciate respectful discourse even from those who disagree. When I make opinion posts, they are pretty clear. But when I do interview posts, I stick to the facts. Dan and I agreed to talk again. Feel Free to drop any questions you may want asked, I will let you know with a reply.show more

I would like to explain the latest batch of... viral videos I'm working on to the bemused brainrot-curious reader who is not familiar with "the culture". Why are these characters, mixed with this song, going viral? It's all about connecting infinite referential mirrors. What makes this video interesting are not its individual parts but the signifier links it draws. Let's look at the individual parts: ONE: The song is a Brazilian funk or "pancadão" song called MC Lan e MC WM - Sua Amiga Vou Pegar, these days part of what's broadly referred as Brazilian phonk or just phonk (not to be confused with the original phonk, a Memphis-derived genre from the early 2010s built around chopped Three 6 Mafia samples, cowbells and lo-fi tape hiss and etc. The Brazilian version comes an entirely different lineage and got its name adapted from “funk” to “phonk” exclusively because the names sounded similar. It has a similarly menacing posture but swaps the rap cadence for funk's 4/4 with kicks on 1 and 3 rhythm and a much heavier, distorted 808 synth sound). Phonk is often used for its exaggerated reverb feeling bass lines to signify power, style or simply "aura", which you can take as a shorthand for poise, coolness, being de-bon-air and a general detached positive feeling of high status. Aura. Because most users cannot understand the Portuguese lyrics (which are often quite vulgar and sexual), the singing takes the characteristic of a chant, something to be appreciated entirely for its sound, texture and gravitas. The vocals are just another instrument where you can appreciate the menace and swagger of the delivery directly without the cognitive friction of meaning. Non-Portuguese-speaking audiences are not missing anything they were supposed to get, they get “the vibe” that matters, which is not lyrical. These songs are often paired with (male) characters that are taken to display these traits like American Psycho's Patrick Bateman (yes, yes I know that’s the opposite of what you should feel about the character), Peaky Blinder's Thomas Shelby and a menagerie of anime characters like Satoru Gojo (Jujutsu Kaisen), Yujiro Hanma (Baki) and Goku and, really, any male character that is just a little bit cool. TWO: The man in the suit is a minor Family Guy character called Tom Tucker. The reference comes from a scene where Meg sees him walking through her school and says "It's Tom Tucker from the news!” We then cut to her POV, where he is walking in slow motion with soft romantic music swelling and birds chirping, the whole love-at-first-sight trope. Then a camera crew member off-screen yells "hurry up Mr. Tucker," and we get to see he is not walking in slow motion because Meg is infatuated, he is just walking that slowly in real life. Only the music and the birds were in her head. The gag is built on the viewer recognizing the romantic-slow-motion trope, briefly accepting it as the scene's reality, and then being shown that we (and Meg) projected the trope onto what is actually just a man walking very slowly. HA! The original gag is already about projection: a neutral image (slow walk) being assigned an external meaning (romance) by a viewer's pattern-recognition. This is what makes the edit-culture appropriation work so well. The clip got stripped of its context, paired with phonk and text overlays (AURA or “Me and the boys going to detention”), and retroactively assigned a new meaning, only this time it’s the cinematic nonchalant walk, the slow deliberate gait that signifies a man who knows he's the most important thing in the frame (ta la any 1980s Schwazerneggerian action movie hero walking away from an explosion without looking back, every yakuza boss entering a room, every western gunslinger approaching the duel). The edit is ostensibly projecting a trope onto a neutral image. The first projection was romance; the second projection is aura. Family Guy clips and gifs are easy to access and repost, which makes it a readily available and easy to use building block. The show has, through sheer volume of output and over two decades of YouTube and cable TV saturation, become a kind of public-domain visual library, a default vocabulary that any editor can pull from knowing the audience will recognize the source without having to be told, and we can just keep loading meaning onto it. THREE: The character in the background is Tom, from Tom and Jerry, doing a pose made famous by an iShowSpeed fan who encountered him during a livestream. By quickly and correctly identifying Speed by his full legal name ("Darren Jason Watkins Jr"), she showcased herself to be a true fan, which he responded to with his characteristic exaggerated reactions. The pose the girl hit, with the knowing look to the camera, produced a perfect “aura moment” complete commitment, zero irony, the unshakeable conviction that what she was doing was the coolest possible thing to do. As a result, the clip then got endlessly edited with "aura 🥶🥶🥶" captions to canonize it. Aura, in this lexicon, is not granted by the universe; it is summoned by the person's own belief that they have it and by displaying the correct attitude. Tom is also dressed as the previously mentioned Thomas Shelby from Peaky Blinders, which is itself a double signifier. The name match (“Thomas”, get it?) and the suit-and-flat-cap costume turn the cartoon cat into a stand-in for the perhaps most used "high-aura" male character of the past decade, the brooding gangster patriarch whose every cigarette drag has been set to phonk, cinematic scores and electronic music a thousand times over. On top of that, he is made entirely out of chrome, a popular trope of asking ChatGPT (one of the few AI tools people have easy and broad access to) to render things out of very high quality materials to indicate "rarity" or "status" like diamonds, platinum and etc. A sign that itself descends from a longer lineage of in-game cosmetic rarity tiers (League of Legends, MMOs, various skin economy freemium game, the Fortnite battle pass, the Pokémon shiny, dacha games and etc) where material finish is the visual shorthand of value. So "chrome" or "platinum" Tom on top of all previous signifiers signals a “maximized” or “maxxd” version. The image is suppose to invoke the superlative highest possible tier, rarest-drop, legendary-rarity version of aura, the way a kid in a playground would describe their dad as not just strong but the strongest in the world. FOUR: Finally, the background black hole calls back to the original Tom image, where he is surrounded by the universe itself, having ascended. The character has transcended the diegetic frame of his own cartoon and now exists at a cosmological scale, with the black hole standing in for the kind of unmotivated, vibes-based "cosmic" imagery that has become the default background for any video trying to signify that something Big is happening (the same visual motif that has powered comic book characters, anime transformations, video game power ups and anything wants to feel grandiose or “epic” without specifying what about). The black hole means significance in the abstract. At this point I think you understand the mechanism at play here. None of these references resolve to a stable meaning on their own. Tom Tucker is “cool” only in the very short context in which his image served as a substrate; he was convenient footage to pair with a song, and the absurdity of doing an "aura edit" on such a minor, strange character scene makes it all funnier and easier to share. Tom-the-cat is doing the aura pose > the aura pose comes from the iShowSpeed girl > the iShowSpeed girl was cool because she correctly played her part in an established bit of a large streamer with the correct timing and theatrical flair > the bit was cool because it was a shared convention unified by a popular central streamer figure > the convention existed because phonk edits had already trained this exact scenario to be read as confidence-plus-detachment as aura > the chrome finish points to AI image generation quirks > the AI image generation style can be mapped to gaming visual rarity shorthands; the gaming rarity tiers point to a much older logic of precious-metal-as-status. Each step on the referential chain is propped by the one behind it, and the one behind it is propped up by the one behind that, so on and so forth. There is no natural endpoint, the entire structure functions more akin to a network than a linked list. If you stop at any single point and ask "but why is particular signifier cool or funny or interesting”, the answer is always "because of the thing behind it.” It’s hyper-citation, Here, what matters is the structure of the whole rather than the content. This is structure is what I mean by infinite referential mirrors. The rate at which a concept is referencing, remixing and calling back to another is what’s interesting. In other words, It’s the velocity that matters. The chain of recognitions, each "I get that reference," and the cumulative effect of getting six references stacked on top of each other a short span of time gives you the feeling that you are participating in something dense and alive, because it allows you to recognize the shared meme ecosystem of the platform that you are participating in, even if only a glimpse of it. You are inside the culture rather than outside it. The brainrot-curious reader who watches this video and feels nothing, has “failed” to understand the joke because they are outside the hall of mirrors I am describing. You can only get the magic if you step in and start counting the reflections: the song, the suit, the cat, the chrome, the black hole, the transitions the video uses. You are looking at connected parts of this network of symbols and at the speed at which one image hands you off to the next. The entire thirteen-second clip is functioning as a single compressed referential payload that decompresses in the viewer's head into a small private essay exactly like this one. The video allows you to recognize yourself as someone capable of decoding it, and that recognition is the reward. That’s why media like this goes viral.show more