Anthony Close ☀️

I started a new blog, I'll share it in a few days when I finish creating it :)

Florida's win over Prairie View A&M was the second-largest margin of victory in men's NCAA tournament history 😳

"We need some help from the lord" Prairie View coach Byron Smith told @AJRoss_TV they need some help against Florida

🚨U.S. to allow Iran to get ~14 billion dollars (!!!) in oil revenue 🚨This is a huge financial concession to Iran by the U.S. 🚨It is the first time U.S. is buying Iranian oil since 1996 🚨It's all happening in the middle of a war against...Iran

@LightningNole Love the Mach E! They look great.

@AnthonyClose Loving my Mustang Mach-E a little more these last few weeks

My EV costs $9-11 to charge.

@PeterSchorschFL @RonDeSantis @RaysBaseball Hillsborough can have him.

I’m giving 10-1 odds @RonDeSantis goes to work for @RaysBaseball post-Mansion. Still more likely he goes a conservative institute but there’s been a lot of chatter about him doing something w/ Rays in 2027.

New wine bar, Delicious, opens at the Morean Center for Clay in the Warehouse Arts District 🍷 stpeterising.com/home/new-wine-…

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@Yimbymanatee @dixon_lathan Agreed and the software is unmatched for other domestics IMO

@AnthonyClose @dixon_lathan Teslas are still the best we can buy here unless we started to import the Chinese electric cars

A new wine bar has opened inside the Morean Center for Clay, taking over the space previously occupied by Lolita’s Wine Market, which relocated back to its original 18th Street location last summer. 🍷 stpeterising.com/home/new-wine-…

@dixon_lathan Model Y (I know I know)

@AnthonyClose Nissan leaf or ???

A country music festival is planned for St. Pete Beach (10,000 attendees)… and there's no onsite parking so organizers are renting 10 motorcoaches to shuttle people from Tropicana Field. Um HELLO? We already have a bus that does exactly that. tampabay.com/life-culture/m…

St. Pete launches feasibility study for downtown convention center stpeterising.com/home/st-pete-s…

It is difficult to reconcile the city funding construction of a mixed-use building so a tenant (Urban League) can lease just 10% of the space at below-market rates, all while the city-owned Manhattan Casino sits vacant across the street. I have questions! stpeterising.com/home/pinellas-…

Breaking from @halbritz @OrenCNN : A US F-35 fighter jet made an emergency landing at US air base in the Middle East after it was struck by what is believed to be Iranian fire, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Capt. Tim Hawkins, a spokesman for US Central Command, said the fifth-generation stealth jet was “flying a combat mission over Iran” when it was forced to make an emergency landing. Hawkins said the aircraft landed safely, and the incident is under investigation “The aircraft landed safely, and the pilot is in stable condition,” Hawkins added. The incident would be the first time Iran has hit a US aircraft in the war started in late February. Both the US and Israel are flying F-35s in the conflict; the aircraft costs upwards of $100 million.

"A downtown St. Pete apartment complex has traded hands in a nine-figure deal. Beacon 430, a four-story, 327-unit luxury apartment community at 430 3rd Avenue South, sold for $131 million, or just over $400,000 per unit..." stpeterising.com/home/downtown-…

QatarEnergy CEO says the Iranian attack overnight damaged ~17% of its LNG production capacity, and it would take 3-5 years to repair the damage. reuters.com/business/energ…

Imagine if the Gators were to lose to a 16 seed… and then, on top of it, I have to sit through a cold sales presentation Absolute nightmare fuel

I'm going to make some obvious points. (1) Blowing up all the oil infrastructure in the Middle East is an insane idea, and may well result in a global economic crash and humanitarian crisis unrivaled in the lives of those now living. We're talking about the price of everything everywhere rising, from food to gas, at a moment when inflation was already high. All of that will be laid at the feet of the authors of this war. (2) The antebellum status quo of Feb 27, 2026 was just not that bad, but we're unlikely to return to it. Expect indefinite, long-term, ongoing disruptions to everything out of the Middle East. (3) Also assume tech financing crashes for the indefinite future. The genius plan to get the Gulf states caught in the crossfire has incinerated much of the funding for LPs, for datacenters, and for IPOs. Anyone in tech who supported this war may soon learn the meaning of "force majeure" as funding gets yanked. (4) Many capital allocators will instead be allocating much further down Maslow's hierarchy of needs, towards useful basic things like food and energy. (5) It's fortunate that all those progressives yelled about the "climate crisis." Yes, their reasoning about timelines was wrong, and much of the money was wasted in graft, but the result was right: we all need energy independence from the Middle East, pronto. It's also fortunate that Elon and China autistically took climate seriously. Now they're going to need to ship a billion solar panels, electric vehicles, batteries, nuclear power plants, and the like to get everyone off oil, immediately. (6) It's not just an oil and gas problem, of course. It's also a fertilizer problem, and a chemical precursor problem. Maybe some new sources will come online at the new prices, but it takes time to dial stuff up, particularly at this scale, so shortages are almost a certainty. That said, China has actually scaled up coal-to-chemicals[a,c] (C2C), and there's also something more sci-fi called Power-to-X[b] which turns arbitrary power + water + air into hydrocarbons. But all of that will need to get accelerated. I have a background in chemical engineering so may start funding things in this area. (7) Ultimately, this war is going to result in tremendous blame for anyone associated with it. It's a no-win scenario to blow up this much infrastructure for so many people. Simply not worth it for whatever objective they thought they were going to attain. But unless you're actually in a position to stop the madness, the pragmatic thing to do is: scramble to mitigate the fallout to yourself, your business, and your people. [a]: reuters.com/business/energ… [b]: alfalaval.com/industries/ene… [c]: reuters.com/sustainability…

You cannot be serious lmao