“Same reason, same points pero bakit nakikipagtawanan siya [Bianca]... kay Esnyr tapos masama yung loob sa atin” -Brent IKR??? Could be a good opportunity for Bianca to reflect tbh #PBBCollabSaloobinshow more

Bianca please.. " DEFEND DUSTIN!" WC: “Pag labas ni... Bianca, malalaman niya lahat ng pinaggagawa ni Dustin. Iiwanan niya ‘yan after eviction.” 🗓️ Sunday midnight (AFTER eviction): Bianca had a billboard date with Dustin. So much for “iiwanan.” 😭 WC: “Malalaman niya how manipulative Dustin is.” 💬 Bianca: “Alam namin kung ano ang totoo at kung ano ang hindi.” Translation: She already knows. You just… don’t. 💅 WC: “Hanggang collove na lang sila.” 📍 Bianca arrived AND left the event with Dustin. WC: “Tagged natin siya sa mga WillCa edits!” ➡️ Bianca: Still with Dustin. You tag. She tags along...with Dustin. 🫶 WC: “Makikita niya yung dating itsura ni Dustin.” 💘 Bianca to Dustin: “Ang pogi pogi mo.” WC: “Malalaman niya na bano umarte si Dustin.” 🎬 Bianca: “Wow, mata-mata acting! Ang galing mo pa lang umarte.” Imagine hyping the same guy you call “bano.” I cannot 😂 WC: Talentless si Dustin BIANCA :" MAGALING NAMAN TALAGA SUMAYAW YUN, PAHUMBLE LANG" shes even so giddy when he sings for her... WC: “Misogynist si Dustin.” 💖 Bianca: “He took care of me since Day 1.” Every time Bianca works with Will, she ends her day with Dustin. Every time the three of them are together, she goes home with Dustin.. even if it’s out of the way. She’s spent more of her free time with him than with any other housemate. Almost five months out, and Bianca is still with Dustin. Yet you still demand she “call out” the cults? For what... when her actions and words have already said it all and more? There’s no saving the CULTCATCHERS at this point. Not even Bianca can fix that kind of delusion...and honestly, it’s a waste of time to even try. #DUSTBIA #DUSTINYU #BIANCADEVERAshow more

When you have to relive a moment in your... life na di mo na version ngayon?? Tapos papanoorin mo pa?? wala ng nkakakilig dun, cringey at secondhand embarrassment ang tawag dun 🤷 The worst part? Katabi mo pa yung lalaking sinabihan mo? na obviously you know now na you're not on the same page that time? girl, that’s not nostalgia, that’s public humiliation.. literal na ginisa nyo si Bianca sa sarili nyang mantika.. Sana man lang sinali nyo yung "He's not man enough" para di nman mukang patay na patay at boy crazy si baby girl... nakakaloka kayo..🥺 kung pwede ko lang isama name ni Bianca filtered words ko dito sa X.. ng di ko nakikita yang mga.. eew nyong pakulo 🙄show more

Story time! 😭 I’m still shocked. Hindi pa rin... ako makapaniwala na nabigyan ako ng ganitong opportunity to perform on stage with the hitman, Mr. David Foster. So pag akyat ko ng stage dapat mag soundcheck na ako for my spot, pero nagulat ako Sir David is playing the piano. Then he ask me kung suot ko na inears ko kasi pwede daw namin itry yung song. Nagulat ako sabi ko sa utak ko “what song?” So na pa “huh” ako then sabi niya all by myself give it a try daw. Bilang lutang ako sa sobrang gulat kinanta ko lang siya kung pano ko siya kinakanta. After iplay yung arrangement nung song sabi niya “do you want to perform this song tonight?” nasabi ko nalang “if it’s ok with you sir” biglang BOOOM ayun na ang nangyare 😭 Para akong nag audition talaga. Namanifest ko yata. Grabe ‘yung kaba ko. Akala ko pinatry nya lang sa’kin. Syempre sino na naman ako para tumanggi diba? Minsan lang yung ganong pagkakataon kaya Binigay ko talaga yung best ko. Pagkatapos kong magperform, grabe din sigawan ng team and staff sa likod! Para kaming nanalo sa contest tapos talon kami ng talon. Grabe. Ayun lang. Ang haba ng kwento pero solid ang experience. Thank you sa lahat ng sumuporta. Thank you Sir David Foster and to the whole team. Sana nagustuhan niyo po yung performance ko. Thank you Lord kayo po talaga yung boses ko kagabi, Salamat po! #StellAtDavidandFriendsTourshow more

This is the perfect time for all of us... to be UNITED ...not just for the FANCON, but for all the greater things waiting for Dustin and Bianca after this. SOBRANG DAMI.... ang tagal natin hinintay toooo dba???🥺 So let's give each other a little more grace, a little more understanding, and a little more room for tolerance. Every feeling is valid because, at the end of the day, it all comes from the same place...our LOVE for Dustin, Bianca, and our APPRECIATION for everyone going the extra mile to make this FanCon a success. It's all a matter of perspective. As long as no one's spreading hate, let's choose to scroll, skip, or even better... LIFT EACH OTHER UP.... A few words of encouragement can go a long way and might be exactly what someone needs today. Hugs, everyone! 🤍 Fighting!! ...not fighting each other, ha? 😂 Now, with that said... Mag-engage tayo sa TikTok ni Bianca! Let's show up, and make some noise. 💛 #DUSTBIA #DUSTINYU #BIANCADEVERAshow more

Wearing this school uniform again takes me back to... the little girl I once was—full of hope, ambition, and dreams. If I could speak to her today, I would promise that one day she would return, not just to remember, but to make a difference. Every girl deserves to learn with confidence, dignity, and pride. Menstruation should never be the reason a child misses class or loses hope. Giving back is more than charity; it is a commitment to ensuring that every girl has the opportunity to rise, just as others once made it possible for me. The strongest leaders never forget where they came from. They return to lift those who are walking the same path. #SupportTheGirlChild #MenstrualDignity #WomenLeadership #MamaNairobi #GivingBack #MamaMiradishow more

🆘🆘She has spent half of her life in the... shelter system.😭 Since 2022, Remy #A2061031 has been passed from one place to another, & returned again and again for the same reason…“too much energy.” Too much life, too much joy and too much dog for people who weren’t ready or a good match for her! So she kept losing everything over & over again. But today… we have a chance to finally change that 🙏🏻 We can give her what she needs to thrive. Remy is getting her shot, her real chance, but we can’t do it alone. We need help to bring her to safety, to cover her care, her transport, her supplies, her vet visit… and most importantly, we need a place for her to land. 🚨Just a temporary foster in SoCal for 2–3 weeks, somewhere calm where she can breathe & decompress after everything she’s been through. She is good with dogs, but like any dog from shelter, she needs a proper introduction after a slow decompression. 🚨Fostering is free, we cover all expenses. 🚨Please pledge for her care & share Today you could be part of the moment her life finally changes. Los Angeles Animal Services 14409 Vanowen St Van Nuys, CA 91405 🎥 Taylorshow more

I’m still here because this was the hardest fan... project we’ve faced in these six months. My patience and leadership were tested like never before to the point that I almost gave up in the middle of the preparation. There were nights I whispered to myself, “This will be my last.” I felt so pressured that sometimes I just wanted to hide and run away. On top of it all, I was carrying my own personal struggles, which made every step heavier. We took risks in almost every decision we made during this project. There were times when all we could say was, “Naniniwala kami sa Cheffies.” From tickets and props to the fan project and the fanzone everything was about risk and trust. Trusting the Cheffies that they would show up. Trusting the sponsors that they were only waiting for us to open our plan. Trusting Dustin and Bianca that they would see and hear our efforts. And above all, trusting each other as admins that no matter what happens, we would not give up on this. But it wasn’t just about risks. It was about sacrifices the sleepless nights, the drained wallets, the heavy emotions, and the constant balancing act between work life and fandom life. It was about choosing to fight even when we were tired, choosing to stay even when walking away seemed easier. Every small victory mattered, and every breakdown taught us something new. Looking back at these six months, I realized it’s not only about the events, the projects, or the milestones. It’s about the people who stood by me when I thought I couldn’t go on. The people I met along the way who turned into a second family. The laughter in between the stress, the comfort in the middle of the tears, and the bonds that were built in both the best and worst days. This is why, even when I wanted to let go so many times, I stayed. Because every hardship was matched with a reminder that I was not alone. Because this fandom has become more than just support for Dustin and Bianca it has become a home where friendships are nurtured, where trust is strengthened, and where love is felt. So this 6th monthsary is not just a celebration of Dustin and Bianca, though they remain the heart and reason for all of this. It is also a celebration of the Cheffies who never stopped believing, of the sponsors who trusted us, of the admins who fought side by side, and of the family we’ve built within Casa Dustbia. To Dustin Yu and Bianca De Vera, thank you for being the inspiration that started all of this. You may never fully know the weight of what we’ve gone through, but because of you, we learned to be braver, stronger, and more united. And to my Casa Dustbia family, thank you for reminding me that even in the hardest of our story, there is always something worth holding on to. Six months have passed, but this is just the beginning. More pages are waiting to be written with laughter, tears, risks, and victories. And as long as we continue to believe, to fight, and to love, we will keep turning those pahina together. Happy 6th monthsary, Dustin, Cheffies, Sponsors and Bianca. Mahal na mahal namin kayo today, tomorrow, and in every chapter that’s yet to come. 🫂💛show more

(Yes i know the movement is exaggerated, its just... to show the motion, it also doeant move like jello when in vr) -Left is before, Right is after- Ok wall of text time for the nerds Literally everything is the same on both sides except the position of 1 bone (made sure that even after adjusting, the collider would still be in the same spot) The reason for this change is because she wanted to be able to clap her ass in vr, and last time i did this all i did was add a toggle for a hidden bone that moved, and its angle would trigger the sound. Which was because that with my previous position, the cheeks could never really meet in the middle when in motion unless you just pushed them together with your hands, and i wanted to just have the sound actually be triggered by them colliding with each other This is also the first time ive used endbones to help drive the movement, so now thanks to that and all my previous experimenting with squishing as well, I can now get bones to move exactly how i want them to move when in natural motion. And i know a lot of people are gonna ask me to teach them how or explain my thought process but i literally just go off feeling lmao. Like, i just kinda visualize in my head how i want the motion to look, and then i just kinda know where to put everything, so im not even sure how to even start explaining rip. I have the things that artist want where they can just make the shit in their head exactly how they envisioned it lol I have a few more ideas i want to try, so we'll see if theyre good enough to get a tweet lol Thank you for coming to my ted talkshow more

We said goodbye to our beloved Odom last night... as it was his time to go. To say I am devastated would be an understatement because that dog has saved my life more times than I could even begin to fathom. To be with him at the end of his amazing life was an honor I do not take for granted. Most of my days and routines over the last few years were centered around him and ensuring that he received what he needed. Whether it was receiving insulin for his diabetes at the same times every day or planning walks and meals to accommodate what worked best for him, my schedule revolved around what he needed. To some, this might seem like a nuisance. For me, it made me better. I made his routines my routines. Walking him twice a day gave me time to reflect and appreciate all of the good in my life. Planning time for his exercise ensured I did the same for myself. Being immediately anchored by his weight on a walk because he wanted to appreciate something he had noticed taught me to slow down and take in moments in a way I wasn’t used to. His routine was my routine, and it made me better. When I first saw him at the Edmonton Humane Society Society, I wasn’t ready for a dog. My brother Alec was there, and he saw me with Odom, and he knew that I was in love immediately. I didn’t find Odom, but Odom found me. I left, not taking him home and immediately knew it was a mistake, and that he was meant to be in my life. I went to the Edmonton Humane Society the next day, 30 minutes before it opened, to ensure that I would be the first person to go through the doors. I headed straight for where Odom was, and he came home with me that day. With all of the ups and downs I have had in my life since, my love and pride in that dog were a constant. I am terribly sad, and I am taking solace in this quote from Andrew Garfield on grief: “This is all the unexpressed love, the grief that will remain with us until we pass because we never get enough time with each other, no matter if someone lives till 60, 15, or 99.” I love that dog because that dog loved me. Bye Odom…You will always be my best friend.show more

🇯🇵 A brainless blob reproduced the Tokyo rail network... in 26 hours. It was not trying to solve a transport problem. It was trying to eat oat flakes. Physarum polycephalum is, to be generous, a blob. Pale, damp, the size of a thumbnail, it has no brain, no nervous system, and no cells that could reasonably be accused of thinking. Scientists had studied it for years without feeling particularly threatened by it. Then someone put it in a maze. Within hours, Physarum had found the shortest route between entrance and exit. Not by wandering randomly. Not by luck. By something that had no name, because everyone had assumed it required a brain. This was interesting enough. What happened next was embarrassing. In 2010, a researcher named Toshiyuki Nakagaki and his team placed a piece of slime mold at the centre of a damp map of greater Tokyo. Around it, at the locations of 36 surrounding cities, they put small piles of oat flakes. Then they left the room. The organism did what it always does. It explored. Thin tendrils pushed outward in every direction, feeling for food. When a tendril found an oat flake, that connection strengthened. When a path led nowhere useful, it was quietly dismantled. The slime mold was not planning. It was simply following local chemistry, the same way it had been doing for 500 million years. After 26 hours, the exploration was over. What remained was a sparse, elegant network of tubes connecting all 36 cities to each other. Not a tangle. Not a web covering everything. A clean, efficient system with strong main corridors between the busiest points and lighter connections branching where they were needed. The team held it up next to the actual Tokyo rail map. The corridors matched. The branch lines matched. Even the redundant connections, the backup routes engineers had added so the system could survive a single failure, appeared in nearly the same places. The slime mold had not just found the cities. It had independently arrived at the same logic that Japanese railway engineers had spent decades refining. By some measures, its network was more robust than the one humans had built. There is no headquarters inside Physarum, no moment where anyone decides anything. The intelligence, if that is even the right word, lives entirely in one simple rule repeated across millions of connections: strengthen what works, abandon what doesn’t. That rule, applied blindly and without awareness, produces something that looks unnervingly like wisdom. The slime mold was not trying to redesign the Tokyo rail network. It was trying to eat breakfast. It just turns out that the most efficient way to eat breakfast, when your breakfast is scattered across a map of greater Tokyo, looks a great deal like good urban planning 😅 Gandalv / Gandalvshow more

On the leg between Guam (PGUM) and Kalaeloa (PHJR)... we experienced a fault with one of our 2 AC packs. This left us a single point of failure away from de-pressurization, which would require a descent to an altitude where we could breathe without supplemental O2. Keep in mind, a lower altitude drastically increases fuel consumption. Of course a single pack can maintain cabin pressure all the way up to the aircraft’s service ceiling, but if that pack fails, the aircraft cannot be pressurized. The situation required that Bob Allen & I make a plan as to how to handle the potential loss of our remaining pack. This plan would be dynamic, as the action taken would depend where we were at the time of de-pressurization. Past the ETP (Equal Time Point) turning back to GUM was not an option; and continuing to JRF at a low cabin altitude was ALSO not an option - as we’d be short on fuel. PKMJ was a bit too far south to be of use, but PWAK (Wake Island) and PMDY (Midway) were valid alternates that we could use for diversion and still land with the engines turning. Even though we did have ETOPS planning info on our flight plan, we can’t always rely on it 100% because ferry flying creates some unique challenges due to the fact that we don’t operate the same aircraft all the time, and we have no operational history to set the burn bias. We need to be proactive in the cockpit so on the secondary FPL page of the MCDU, Bob and I played out a few scenarios at different points and compared fuel burns. We decided on a boundary where once crossed, the diversion alternate switched from WAK to MDY. In either case - we’d land with fuel, but it would be pretty minimal. Passing 170W would be the most critical point. The options would be MDY or LIH from there and both would land with under 800 KG of fuel. Because that didn’t inspire much confidence, we took some additional measures and brought 2 POBs (portable O2 bottles) up to the flight deck. This way, we’d have both the crew O2 from the pressure demand bottle (about 30-40 mins estimated) plus the O2 from POBs available to remain a bit higher longer in the event of a depress. Staying higher meant saving fuel and having more options - always a good thing. Anyway, the operational pack remained working, and we were able to get the aircraft to JRF before getting the bad pack back online for the next leg - so crisis averted, but the moral of the story is: you always need to have a plan! Especially when flying over remote areas of the planet..show more

🩷💛🩵A BEAUTIFUL STORY 😭 Did you know that a... Hobi-biased ARMY made the 3-tier cake seen on j-hope's photo from his channel ( Lime St. Bakery) 😭😭 She also made custom cookies for #teamjhope! All these were requested to her by Frost Bank Center. "These were gifted alongside the custom cake in addition to a custom Spurs jersey, custom belt buckle, & custom cowboy boots." She said hobi was super spoiled in San Antonio & taken care of by Frost Bank staff. 🥹 Juliet Mendez has been making desserts for some of music's hottest acts, like Kid Cudi , TXT. Kendrick Lamar and Olivia Rodrigo to name a few. But I guess, making a cake for hobi will truly be something special to her 😊 She shared something on her post : "If you have a dream, please don't give up! I never in this lifetime would think I could have the opportunity to make a cake for a BTS member, but especially my bias! I see a lot of j-hope in myself with the way he's so passionate about his art. I feel the same way about my cakes. He's an unbelievable performer and never fails to amaze me with his talent. On days when things feel heavy, your music reminds me to keep going, to find hope even in the smallest moments. You are a true artist, a true inspiration, and a soul that shines so brightly. Thank you for helping me become a better artist 🎂" "Some lyrics that really motivated me from Neuron Look at ya, mad like, how she get the best spot 'Cause you can learn to flow But passion it can't be taught I got a passion for the game Hustle, never stop Music and family, that's what it's all about They keep me going like day in and day out Music and family, that's what it's all about You keep me motivated on the days I hate it Reminded that God created something special Look at me, I made it! " So happy for her and it's amazing how GOOD MUSIC like j-hope's can inspire people to create. Congrats to this lovely ARMY, that is one stunning cake & Im sure hobi loved it, it even made it his hope to channel photo🥳 🥰 #HOPE_ON_THE_STAGE_TOUR_SAN_ANTONIO #jhopewrittenwordshow more

Backing Off on Attacks Against Iran At the request... of Arab countries and Israel, the US has decided to indefinitely postpone plans to attack Iran. There are three points in this equation: 1 - Missiles would fly toward Israel without the country having prepared for it; 2 - The Strait of Hormuz would be closed, causing immense losses to oil-producing countries; 3 - American assets in the region would not be sufficient. I’ve said it several times here: Iran is a big player. In the 12-day war, the Iranian navy stayed out of the conflict, but today, knowing that the attack would be aimed at regime change, the Iranians would use everything they have. In those 12 days they practically lost nothing of their arsenal; not even long-range defense systems were destroyed. They hid everything, from aircraft to long range batteries. But today they would fight with everything they have. And that mainly means their three primary anti-ship missiles: Abu Mahdi, Talaiyeh, and Ghadr-380 (Qadr-380). All three with a range of 1,000–1,700 km. That is power not only to close the Strait of Hormuz, but to do the same in the Gulf of Aden and the part of Arabian Sea, causing chaos in the markets. How to take the opportunity and support the riots, without risking the main global trade route? A country of 90 million inhabitants that is as well-armed as Iran is not one that external agents can decide overnight to attack and change its government. For more than 50 years, the CIA and Mossad have been trying to overthrow the Iranian government without success. Now the regime is in a fragile moment, under popular pressure, but when we talk about Iran, nothing is so clear. The US options are limited to selective strikes, far from anything that could implode the regime. The truth is that anything of greater magnitude would put the regime in survival mode, attacking Israel, American bases, closing ship transit, and halting global markets. But I don’t think the US and Israel will let this opportunity pass so easily. New chapters will follow.show more

Nobody’s perfect. This week I’ve been exploring attachment, a... deep emotional bond between infants and their parents. In prior posts we’ve discussed four different attachment styles, with an emphasis on the most desirable and healthy of them all: secure attachment. Yesterday I emphasized that attachment styles result not from how you interact with your child SOME of the time, but how you interact ALL of the time - by which I mean that the totality of your interactions and the consistent and predictable patterns you establish with your child are what determines these outcomes. For this reason, your default mode should be warm and responsive. But today I want to insert a small, but important, caveat. Or at least a little more nuance. Nobody’s perfect. Nobody. As a well-intentioned parent it’s easy to hold yourself to an impossibly high standard. And that’s a recipe for fueling your own anxiety and ill health. The truth is that you can’t be instantly responsive 24/7 to your child’s every possible need. This isn’t an excuse to slack off. But it is a reminder to be kind to yourself. Parents are human. And we all have our lesser moments. We can be moody, stressed, exhausted... Sometimes we’re upset. Or distracted. And sometimes you need to take a shower. Or answer a knock on the door. Life happens. And the last thing I want you to take away from this conversation is a sense that any missed opportunity - or even the occasional boneheaded mistake - will cause your child irreparable harm. Instead think of attachment kind of like a jury might in a civil trial: what does the preponderance of the evidence suggest? Are you ALMOST always meeting your mark? If so, take this post as a little peace of mind. Secure attachment doesn’t require a perfect report card. If it did, secure attachments likely wouldn’t exist. The late pediatrician Donald Winnicot is credited with the concept of “good enough parenting” - which I’ve always found to be a really useful frame. This same concept holds true for lots of other advice that I’ve offered, by the way. Do you want to plop your baby in front of a screen all day? Absolutely not. Is it realistic to think they’ll never be exposed to one? Also probably not. Parenting isn’t an all or nothing proposition. So aim high… but give yourself a little grace. As instructed in this video posted to IG by digitalmumincome, I’m sharing it to let you know you’re doing an amazing job. (If you read regularly you’ll know this child is actually in active sleep - which sometimes includes eye opening… and most likely smiling reflexively…but it’s cute and its other message fits today’s post. So just enjoy!)show more

Before I even say this just know GOD IS... THE GREATEST 🤲🏽 For YEAAAAAARS I mean NOBODY w/ 2 feet has spent the amount of $ I have supporting and pushing a brand I’ve loved since I could remember, I sat front row at EVERY BIG SHOW literally, all the good times it brought to my life to the point when I started making music i incorporated in everything like WU TANG did karate, I made ppl who hated the product watch it again I made it look kool, when at the time ppl thought it was nerdy, I’ve watched that same company sit countless of ppl next to me who’s not even fans fr and act like I didn’t exist, I was threatened to take everything out of my music which I only did to pay homage or my whole catalog would be demolished and everybody knows how hard I worked coming from Buffalo for me to get that threat for just supporting and being a real fan hurted me but I stayed quiet and still like a krazy man sat front row bc I loved the culture, I even just went viral for spending 50k on suites.. on my soul I’ve only been respectful, I tried having conversations with 1 individual bc he’s causing all of these unnecessary cases and tbh he hates seeing a young black successful entrepreneur that could afford those seats and have to watch those chains dance across that screen to the point Monday night raw starts at 8pm I was kicked out by 803 after spending 5k for a seat plus travel, hotel etc…. in my own city for absolutely NOTHING!!!! No lie the kid in me heart broke that day… I put the billboard up that MILLION DOLLAR MAN billboard up which he loves and I wanted to push him in the culture bc he deserves it and to shOW VIRGIL love for the culture I get a letter saying ………: so I said u know what I’m a show love only to the ppl that show love to me from now on… so u don’t have to worry about me pushing that product over there again, and it’s sad bc i still love them but I have my own company 4THROPE and yea we’re the underdogs but we love this shit, it’s not about money, we’re gonna keep pushing culture and I’m honored to have @joshbishop187 on the trilogy cover bc he deserves it for believing in me from day one as my first official wrestler… 🤘🏽🦂❤️🌹 #HEELSHAVEEYES #SUPPORTARTshow more

Not just saying this coz cr7's stans are hilariously... triggered and running maliciously edited agendas on here - this is just a pure truth nuke: When you actually watch them both play across dozens of full games, Henry in his prime years was generally more unstoppable, more unpredictable, more dominant, more threatening, and more capable of carrying lesser teammates. It's fairly obvious too tbh Cr7 is clearly an all timer of course (nowhere near goat tho), has his own advantages (technical consistency in certain actions/areas, predatory goal-scoring), and deserves a bigger legacy due to immense longevity, skillset, adaptability, records - but he has also benefited massively from selfish main character syndrome + spending his prime stat-padding in two of the most expensive, dominant super teams ever - not to mention the 2 biggest global brands. After Penaldo (+Tevez) left and were replaced inadequately, Utd got a bit worse. Yet they still won more leagues, and got to another CL final shortly after. Real Madrid kept churning big titles no problem. After Henry left, Arsenal went 20+ years without sniffing the same heights. Of course Henry leaving is not the only, or even biggest reason for that - but it is indicative of the environments they operated in. Henry carried Arsenal to their 2 biggest milestones - the invincibles+06 CL final run - far more than Ronaldo has ever carried anything Both at their best, Henry makes you a bit more likely to win football matches in most scenarios. Virtually every defender who played against both around their primes, says Henry was better/tougher, and the tape backs it up. While Henry gets slated by his countrymen, he was better for France than Ronaldo was for Portugal. You can throw all the cherry picked out of context stats and all the ballon d'ors and all the dishonest edited fail comps - or you can extensively watch the actual tape. Henry has bullied and spanked every goat level defender multiple times - not sure Cristiano on his own wud make Carragher sweat much. As a pure individual, a good defender generally locks him up more easily, he's more reliant on elite service (this is all relative, and a matter of degrees ofc) It's also hilarious that Henry legit eats more negative, lazy narratives than cr7 does, despite Cristiano having a much bigger profile, much greater longevity - and still having equivalent black marks (forget world cup or euros record, dont look at his record vs Chelsea or liverpool, especially away, never mind his actual performances which his stats usually inflate) - people seem to lowkey understand in the back of their minds who should be held to higher standards + Henry is hit with bad faith agendas by every modern PL fan cuz they think he's 'gettable' (salah, kdb, cr7, even the odd hazard/drogba stan) Henry was legit a big part of Arsenal becoming a global superbrand, big part of why they have a cultural stranglehold. In his prime, rivals across England would regularly chant his name as he destroyed their teams, just coz of how outrageously good he was. Nothing manufactured. Despite all that he adjusted his role and deferred to Zidane for France and Messi for Barcelona, for the good of the team. Pendu on the other hand got botox, fillers and does buttlicking sycophantic interviews with Piers Morgan for the same reason he fouls his own teammates to statpad another tap in, shamelessly takes his shirt off for the cameras after an invisible performance + penalty to make it 4-1 in a CL final, performatively 'coaches' in euro 2016 (the players who actually won the game didn't notice), and tanked every team for the last 5+ years with his burdening presence: to bolster his own brand/legacy no matter what. Homelander is an unfair comparison, he cannot compete with CRkelly Google 'Cristiano Ronaldo Las Vegas' for more infoshow more

Big news! Today we are announcing that Shopify is... acquiring the Threads team. There are a million feelings and thoughts from this journey, but nothing more than gratitude to all of our users and customers for building with us, my colleagues (both current and former) for making all of this possible, our investors, especially Mike Vernal, Elad Gil, Avichal Garg - Electric ϟ Capital, and Jessica Verrilli for their unwavering support and guidance, and all of our friends and family who put up with the late nights, canceled plans, and the general roller coaster that is startup life. To our customers and users who have been asking, here’s how we got here: The past several months have been some of the most interesting and intense of my life. It all started with the rise of Instagram Threads, which presented us with the opportunity to sell our domains. Around the same time, a handful of companies approached us, wondering if we would be open to an acquisition. When this happened in the past, we would politely decline. However, this time, things were different. We weren't that excited about the time it would take to invest in a rebrand, and with mind-warping technological advances now being a commodity, we were excited about joining a place where we could tinker at scale. Each company we chatted with was incredible. However, what ultimately led us to choose Shopify over others was their culture; two distinct things in particular: 1) Craft-obsessed. Their obsession with not just building the right thing, but also building it the right way is inspiring. Sacrifice shows priority, and hearing stories about some of the hard decisions they made to ensure that what they ship is robust, scalable, and trustworthy, even at the cost of short-term metric gains, really proved that their obsession with craft was much more than a feel-good slogan. Their discussions and decisions have me truly believing they're going to be around for 100 years. 2) For entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. Just about every product and engineering leader I met was an ex-founder who grinded for years to turn nothing into something. They all still had that air of resilience, obsession with the details at every part of the stack, and a compelling vision of the future for whatever they were working on. Threads leadership is also made up of ex-founders, so the entrepreneurial focus at Shopify made it clear that it would be the best environment for us to grow and thrive. Very excited for this next chapter with the team and grateful for all of the support we’ve received over the years from those who believed in us. As always, thanks for (th) reading.show more

Expose Taliban Lies! Drugs Rehabilitation Center in Kabul was... not hit by air strike, but destroyed by fire caused by burning explosives in nearby drone workshop. Pakistani jets took out a drone manufacturing facility in Kabul, causing explosives stored in the workshop to catch fire. Kicked up explosive sparks triggered fire in Drugs Rehab Center located 200 M from the depot. 📌Taliban made good use of this opportunity to play victim and claim 400 casualties. A closer look at the incident debunks Taliban claims. 📍Video clips taken by locals when strikes were ongoing, show a huge sparkling fire plume over the struck target. This is very much emblematic of explosives or highly inflammable fuel burning after being struck by bombs. 📍On night 16/ 17 Mar, immediately after Pakistani strikes, few journalists were reporting standing outside Rehab Center, which could be seen engulfed in flames. Pattern of fire in those videos is inconsistent with a bomb strike and more familiar to a large outbreak of fire. 📍Video clips aired by journalists taken to facility on 17 Mar show that all walls of barracks of the Rehab Center are intact. There are no blood stains, no body parts and no collapsed structures. This is not how a bomb destroys a building which causes 400 casualties. 📍Main sign board on Rehab Center was intact and undisturbed after the strikes. Bomb strike should have uprooted it in very first instance. 📍An injured patient evacuated from Rehab Center gave a statement in hospital soon after the incident, where he said that explosion occurred 200 M from Rehab Center. It perfectly matches layout of the target area, where struck workshop is located at same distance from the Rehab Center. 📍How can 400 male adults be killed from fire breaking out in single storey barracks, with windows and multiple exits available in each barrack. In-fact barracks were occupied only by few dozen people, not 2000 as Taliban would like the world to believe. All were able to escape, except few who were directly hit by burning explosives falling from the sky. 📍Taliban were using same compound for storing explosives, ammunition, manufacturing armed drones and running a Drugs Rehab Center. 📍Taliban Regime either lacked capacity to put out the fire or intentionally allowed the fire to rage to accrue propaganda benefits. Similar, preposterous claims were made during Lal Masjid operation in Islamabad in 2007, where terrorists spread propaganda that 1500 girls students had been killed. Due to slow response by the state, it was only after many months when facts were revealed that not a single girl had been killed during the operation. Pakistan struck total six targets during air raid. Interestingly, Taliban have not said a word about other five sites. #ExposeTalibanLiesshow more