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A few folks I have learned from have decided to follow me recently. Fair warning, I get cranky occasionally. Please forgive me, and don't hesitate to disagree with me or even chew me out. I don't mind. Also, I have varied interests, ignore what bores you
Cheers.
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When a family in Vermont reached out to Baltimore restaurant owner Steve Chu asking for the recipe of a favorite dish enjoyed by their terminally ill loved one, they expected instructions.
Instead, they received something far more meaningful.
Steve Chu, co-owner of Ekiben, loaded his truck with ingredients and drove nearly six hours from Baltimore to Vermont.
Along with his team, he set up a makeshift kitchen outside the woman's home and prepared her beloved meal fresh on-site.
They refused payment and simply wanted to bring comfort and happiness during a difficult time.
What began as a request for a recipe became an unforgettable act of compassion, proving that kindness often travels much farther than anyone expects.
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Scenes that I never thought I would see, a Dance off between the Scottish and Haitians fans 🇭🇹🏴
This is what soccer is about, bringing people together and forgetting our differences. Love this!
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Jun 14
Can I just say I have never cared for soccer, but this year it has been the greatest thing to watch.
Jun 13
Scotsmen in kilts playing the bagpipes at 6am in Boston. The residents of Lawrence, Kansas learning the Algerian national anthem and crowding every practice, South Korean supporters sharing their tequila with Mexican fans before the match, Brazilians taking over Times Square. Bosnian and Canadian fans high fiving before their big match.
The World Cup is humanity's biggest party, and continually reminds us of how amazing we can be!
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I am watching The Shack again and it's a wonderful comfort to me. It's a reminder.
I hurt, I grieve, I rage and I sulk. Bitterness poisons my heart
Sometimes I need and get a divine boot in the rear, and sometimes Heaven says....
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You can tell what a censorious hellhole Musk has turned Twitter into by the number of people running around openly insulting him on the platform, decrying him as evil and demanding that his money be taken away and redistributed, who aren’t being punished in any way. 1984 stuff
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“What’s your favorite thing about America?”
“Absolutely the people.”
Guys, this should white pill every American. 🇺🇸
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A wise man once said, if you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive across it.
These European World Cup tourists are experiencing the REAL America for the first time: not New York City or LA, but middle America and all its hospitality. 🇺🇸
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This is pretty cool.
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FINALLY museums giving the people what they want: reproductions of the artifacts
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Hello Nutty Bar
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Jun 12
You raise over 5 trillion dollars a year in federal taxation and you literally haven’t paid for free college or trade school for every American yet. Why in the hell should anyone believe that’s what you’ll put the 5% of his trillion toward?
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Watching people complain about Musk becoming a trillionaire while using his app.
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Hey Hunter, be sure to give a shout out to your benefactor, Elon Musk, who graciously allows you to collect some cash from your supporters here.
This despite all the crap I suspect your supporters have dumped on him over the past few years
Jun 12
To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:
Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.
You won’t.
You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.
That is not who we are.
My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.
For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.
I no longer believe that.
Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.
And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.
That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.
Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.
Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.
Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?
We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.
So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.
You won’t.
The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.
That is the only definition that matters.
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Worth the read
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I still like watching this about once a year
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Released in 1975, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was an animated television special directed by legendary animator Chuck Jones and based on the classic story by Rudyard Kipling.
The story follows a brave mongoose who takes on two deadly cobras to protect the family that rescued him. For a generation of kids, it was one of those rare animated films that felt genuinely intense. The stakes were real, the villains were terrifying, and you couldn't help but root for Rikki-Tikki every step of the way.
More than 50 years later, it's still remembered as one of the finest animated adaptations ever put on television.
Did you watch Rikki-Tikki-Tavi growing up?
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On a completely different unrelated note, I just drove by a "Vietnamese Cajun" restaurant.
In Dallas, Tx.
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This needs to be read. There should have been extensive efforts and preparation for sentencing by the defense attorney. Karmelo should have had his story told by his friends, at the very least.
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I’ve been in this case from the first filing. The full breakdown of the sentencing phase, what mitigation actually looks like, what was missing, and what this means beyond this one case is up on Substack.
This is the piece nobody else is writing right now.
[docketdiva.substack.com]
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He had no time to think. He just opened his arms. 🙏
This past Saturday morning in Jersey City, a man stood on a second-floor balcony on Rose Avenue. In his arms, a baby. Just one month old. Four weeks on this earth.
And he was threatening to drop her.
Officers rushed to the scene. Negotiators talked. Everyone prayed. But one officer, Eduardo Matute, quietly moved toward the building and positioned himself directly beneath that balcony.
He looked up. He focused. He waited.
Then the man let go.
"The baby fell two stories. Officer Matute caught her. She was completely unharmed. Not a single scratch."
He didn't give a speech afterward. He didn't seek cameras. He just walked to the hospital, held that tiny baby in a white blanket, and went back to work.
When a reporter asked him about it later, he shrugged and said it was just what he was trained to do.
That baby is going to grow up one day. She's going to walk, and laugh, and dream, and somewhere in this world, there's a police officer who made sure she got the chance.
Share this. Some stories deserves to go viral
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The story in the Bible that rattled me before I converted to Christianity from Islam:
The two thieves crucified next to Jesus. I never knew about them. Bro. They’re the whole Gospel in one scene.
Two men. Same sin. Same cross. Same dying breath. Same distance from Jesus — mere feet away on either side.
One mocks Him. One turns to Him and says, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
And Jesus tells the second man: “Today you will be with Me in paradise.” Luke 23:43.
That man did ZERO good works. He couldn’t. His hands were nailed down. He never prayed five times. Never fasted. Never gave to the poor. Never got baptized. He had nothing to offer but a dying glance toward Jesus.
And Jesus saved him... on the spot.
In Islam, that man was doomed. No time to balance the scale. No deeds to weigh. Game over. A horrible life with a horrible punishment ahead.
I wonder if that would be me…
Yet in the Gospel, that man was in paradise the same day — because salvation was never about his works. It was about WHO he turned to in his last moment.
Two criminals. Same cross. One simple difference: which one turned to Jesus.
That’s why the Gospel is offensive.
And Jesus asks everyone: who do you say I am?
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Can you name a movie sequel that was better than the original?
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