Derek Zarban

Going into the new year with a bang: 593 Pizza Hut Rewards points.

@BattleByrd I find it fascinating that it's 40 years old & hardly looks dated. Imagine such a thing having been made 10 years earlier. It would be dressed in a leisure suit or bell-bottom jeans & paisley shirt.

Weird so called "art" at the Orlando airport. Thought this dude was real until I realized he was in a glass case...

@TeamTalaricoHQ @jamestalarico I'm an early Gen Xer. I stay up way past midnight. My joints don't ache. What is wrong with Millennials that they always want to pretend they're put-upon?

.@JamesTalarico: I’m an elderly millennial. I can’t stay up past 10pm, my joints ache, and my younger cousins call me cringe. They also call me ‘unc,’ whatever that means. But Gen Z — freed from illusions — is uniquely suited to lead us at this moment. Many of you grew up on the For You Page. The endless scroll is emblematic of what humans have been doing for hundreds of thousands of years: searching. If we scroll past one more tweet, one more TikTok, maybe we’ll find what we’re looking for — the one that will make us feel something. But what you’re looking for can’t be found on artificial platforms run by billionaires. It’s within you.

@Maxin_check @allenanalysis Should be phrased in the positive. "X days since last injury", not "X days since someone was not injured".

🇺🇸🚨BREAKING: MAGA influencer Craig Long — “MAGA to the core,” 560K TikTok followers, photographed with Trump — was just arrested in a human trafficking sting. He’s married. He frequently posted videos praising the sheriff who just arrested him. Sheriff Judd’s response at the press conference: “Well, there you go. You got arrested in a human trafficking sting. Influence that for a while.” Never stop connecting the dots.

@anniedufour99 Here's how someone like Putin blackmails someone: You tell them someone else has the videos but you'll stop them from making them public, because they're afraid of you. You're the hero, the friend, the ally; you just need a couple of favors or you might lose your power.

Canada : you wonder why Trump is acting the way it does? Constantly making the decision that benefits Russia, even to the detriment of the USA and -always- to the detriment of its allies like Canada? This Guardian exclusive explains it all : "Vladimir Putin personally authorised a secret spy agency operation to support a “mentally unstable” Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election... according to what are assessed to be leaked Kremlin documents." "There is also apparent confirmation that the Kremlin possesses kompromat, or potentially compromising material, on the future president, collected – the document says – from Trump’s earlier “non-official visits to Russian Federation territory”." "There is a brief psychological assessment of Trump, who is described as an “impulsive, mentally unstable and unbalanced individual who suffers from an inferiority complex”." TRUMP, TO THIS DAY, WHO SUES EVERYBODY AND THEIR MOTHER, HAS NEVER SUED THE GUARDIAN. #Trump #Russia #cdnpoli #euronews theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…

@JamesSurowiecki After taxes, a mill is about 650k. Invested in index funds, you could safely take about 40k a year, merely a supplementary income, which you'd then have to pay taxes on AGAIN. But 50 push-ups a day would earn you 500 bucks or 182k. You just need to be sure about what counts.

Take the million, because it would be too annoying to get in arguments every day with the entity who offered you the bet about whether a push-up counted as real or not.

@PulpLibrarian My friend's mom read those mags in the 80s. Even as a kid I was like, "Okay, so she's kind of kinky."

"Satan's Disciples Demanded Human Sacrifices." Official Detective, January 1990.

@JimsTweets I've seen homeschooling forum captures where parents ask why their child isn't just naturally learning to read on their own.

Do Homeschool kids just like, not have to take tests or exams or get grades? How does the government know if the child is actually getting an education and not just like, being neglected

@duo_mobile @raggabrash119 @PanAmCD POS troll

@raggabrash119 @PanAmCD common misconception, Charlotte's Web was written by Ebenezer Balthazar White, while Elements of style was written by his uncle-in-law Edmund Baudelaire White

E.B. White sharing a list of slang terms that will have surely been forgotten by time.

@PanAmCD It was 1975 before "clue" became accepted over "clew".

@Variety I tried watching it once for the heck of it & noped out after 10 minutes. It's very bad.

Renny Harlin says that Michael Douglas was supposed to have the lead role in "Cutthroat Island" but “dropped out right before production for personal reasons.” "I was left there with my then-wife Geena Davis. We were both attached to the movie and tried to get out. The part went to the great actor Matthew Modine, and all due respect to him, but he wasn’t at the level of Michael Douglas. All signs said we were doomed. I spent $800,000 of my own money having the script rewritten by Marc Norman ('Shakespeare in Love'). Some things don’t work out." variety.com/2026/film/news…

@mj_lee @NickyGRobertson I don't like Blaine, but I've said it before: Epstein ingratiated himself with as many rich & powerful people as he could specifically to be able to call in favors later. Only SOME were interested in human trafficking, & we don't know which without seeing all the files.

New: In 2013, magician David Blaine filmed this part of his magic special inside of Jeffrey Epstein’s NYC townhouse. From my story w/ @NickyGRobertson on Blaine and David Copperfield in the Epstein files. cnn.com/2026/04/27/pol…

@archpng Serious question: why one gigantic park and a few little ones? Why not a few large parks all over the city?

Manhattan, 1931 — before the skyline became a forest of towers. In this aerial view, Central Park cuts through a dense city of mostly low- and mid-rise buildings, while only a few skyscrapers rise above the grid — including the newly completed Empire State Building. What makes the image even more striking: Manhattan had more residents in the early 20th century than it does today. Its population peaked in 1910 at over 2.3 million, compared with about 1.69 million in the 2020 census. Photo: John Victor Dallin / Hagley Museum and Library.

@AlexSJacquez Why did you let them in? Did you also let tobacco lobbyists present?

When I worked at USDA and we mildly suggested that maybe children shouldn’t drink energy drinks in the nutrition guidelines the Monster Energy lobbyists came in with a presentation on how Monster wasn’t just fine for kids, it was actually beneficial.

@PoeticEdamame @devintoshea I know in my heart this is what I should be carrying.

@devintoshea What no knife guy wants to admit is that 95% of the time this is arguably the best EDC. But we'll still pay the butterfly/spider tax.

no knife guy wants to admit that a pair of scissors is a way more useful daily carry. why are there no scissors guys

@cojobrien I know an older guy who owns a music venue who is kind of obsessive about turning off all the lights every evening, & I often help him to mollify him. Meanwhile, I own an arts workshop where the parking lot lights are on all night, bc it costs pennies a day.

This was shocking to me. Lighting has gone from the largest residential use of electricity to the sixth-largest in my lifetime. Clothes dryers alone now use more aggregate electricity than lighting in people's homes.

@Niwrax @realBigBrainAI Because it doesn't know anything. It just goes into its database of discussions about timing runs & finds references to 10-minute miles.

@realBigBrainAI How about AI can just be honest and say “i dont know how to do that yet”

Sam Altman reacts to a viral video showing ChatGPT confidently gaslighting a user about a 10-minute mile run:

@myloveishigher The sun is a miasma/ Of incandescent plasma

A surprising amount of people don’t understand that the sun is not on fire

@burner1693878 @cheaptrickrules I see that with people engaging with role-playing games, passionately arguing that orcs are people too & implying that not treating them like humans is racist.

@cheaptrickrules There’s this one comic artist on IG where the whole gimmick is that the characters are all kinda shitty people and at some point he blew up with zoomers and now every post is people acting like they’re real people, incredibly bizarre way of engaging with art.

you see it more on actual youtube, which is drowning in them, but i'm vaguely fascinated by these clip farming accounts where people engage with movies as if they were real things that happened to real people

@anvyrd In the US, a condominium is an apartment or house you own within a property owned & maintained by, typically, a condo association. You don't mow the grass, & there might be a pool you share with others.

I still don't really understand what a condo is

@DiscussingFilm The ending of the first one had her buying a double bed for her apartment. Everyone in the neighborhood would have known in a couple of days & assumed she was a prostitute.

First look at ‘ENOLA HOLMES 3’. Releasing July 1 on Netflix.