Mrs Fahrenheit 💋 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 @46Writer

Don’t worry, pray! 🙏 Current events, politics, history. “If you want to save the world go home and love your family” Mother Teresa USA Joined February 2020

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Glenn Reib @GlennReib

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Dear Sophie Cunningham, You absolute chaotic saint, thank you. While the rest of the WNBA was busy doing boring things like dribbling and scoring, you ascended Mount Petty and delivered the single greatest athletic achievement of the 21st century: the 22-second Point Heard ‘Round the World. DeWanna rolled up with big emotions; you just hit her with the slow, unblinking finger of doom like a disappointed Victorian ghost who’d had enough of everyone’s nonsense. No words. No touching. Just pure, concentrated shade channeled through one perfectly extended index finger. I haven’t been this proud since the invention of sarcasm itself. And now, right on schedule, I’m on the edge of my seat waiting for the left to have a full meltdown. Any second now some blue-check PhD in Grievance Studies will publish the groundbreaking essay “The Racialized Finger: How Sophie Cunningham’s Point Perpetuates White Supremacy in Women’s Sports.” They’ll claim your gesture was a “microaggression with macro consequences,” demand sensitivity training for all index fingers, and probably launch a Change.org petition to ban pointing unless it’s been pre-approved by a DEI consultant and performed only in the approved “non-threatening” direction. “This isn’t just a point,” they’ll sob on MSNBC, “this is violence. This is erasure. This finger is literally the new burning cross.” Bonus points if they somehow tie it to climate change or student loan debt. You turned a basketball game into performance art so powerful it broke the internet, launched a thousand memes, and made grown adults point at each other in grocery stores like it’s the new national greeting. The arena laughed until they cried. Your teammates looked like they wanted to give you a standing ovation. And somewhere right now a group of very serious people are writing strongly worded letters about how your finger is problematic, triggering, and needs to be canceled immediately for the good of democracy. Never change, Sophie. Keep wielding that lethal weapon of silent judgment. Keep protecting your squad with the world’s most elegant non-contact foul. And when the inevitable congressional hearing on “Toxic Pointing” begins, just walk in, look every senator dead in the eye, and give them the treatment they so richly deserve. We’re all out here practicing in the mirror like idiots, rewatching the clip on loop, and loving every glorious second of the mayhem you unleashed. This point didn’t just go viral, it went legendary. With breathless, slightly unhinged admiration and oceans of affectionate sarcasm.

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@whitesocksclips It actually works sooooo

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Rock History Live! @KTrain939913

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Random Song of the Day Bye Bye Love The Cars live -1978

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Kieran Drew @ItsKieranDrew

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Growth from self-loathing is hard, stressful, and unfulfilling. Growth from self-love is easy, fun, and full of joy. You pick the lane with the thoughts you choose to accept. Choose wisely.

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Álvaro J @jota_snchez

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Conor Neill, profesor de MBA, lo dice sin rodeos: la vida premia la acción, no la inteligencia. Y cuanto más listo eres, mejores excusas te inventas para no actuar. 8 ideas para dejar de pensar y empezar a moverte: 1/ Haz una sola cosa. Y luego otra. Y otra...

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Shawn G. Chittle @ShawnChittle

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Air conditioning has been part of American culture for nearly 200 years. Dr. John Gorrie, a medical doctor, invented air conditioning in 1837 in Florida. He sealed up a room and piped in hot air over ice buckets cooling the room down. He wanted to keep patients cool and comfortable as they suffered from malaria. They thought the air caused it, hence the Italian for bad air = "mala aria." Gorrie then patented a machine in 1845 that could bring air conditioning to any room, anywhere. It had a side effect: it also made ice. Here's a 5 min documentary on how Gorrie invented it, why, narrated and written by the great British historian James Burke from his TV show Connections — the greatest TV show ever made in my opinion.

Brian Callaci @brian_callaci

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Sort of amazing how the American response to a historic heat wave is not "holy shit climate change" but "omg the Europeans don't have AC yet"

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Phil Collins: I just want you to know Abacab was a lifeline for me at a very young age. Your songs lifted me up day to day. God bless you.

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Mike Netter @nettermike

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In 1884, Ulysses S. Grant was dying of throat cancer and was dead broke. His money was wiped out by a swindler who stole his fortune. Desperate to leave something for his wife, he agreed to write his Civil War memoirs and was close to signing a contract for a meager 10% royalty. Mark Twain stepped in, called the deal robbery and offered Grant 70% of the profits through his own publishing company. Grant raced death to finish the book, completing it just days before he died in July 1885. It became one of the greatest memoirs ever written. The royalties left his widow nearly half a million dollars, about $16 million today, and the book has never gone out of print.