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@RiseAboveWithK He walked through hell & out the other side. An amplitude unfashionable to most.

He caught his wife cheating with his drug dealer..

@juleshorn01 Ascension

Most people don’t have a busy life. They have a busy mind. For 10 minutes, I sit in front of a candle and let my attention rest on the flame. Every time my mind wanders, I gently bring it back. Theo loves it too. That’s the practice. Not perfection. Just returning. Over time, I’ve noticed more calm, more clarity, and better sleep. This simple practice became one of the foundations that eventually led me to discover Zhan Zhuang (standing meditation) the practice that helped my body reorganize, regulate, and heal on a much deeper level. If you’re ready to experience that next step, drop a “ZHANG” and I’ll send you my guided Standing Meditation practice. #meditation #mindfulmovemend

@vrexec No idea y I’m reading this but yes ‘As an American, I was…’ u sound absolutely dreadful. Close the door on the way out. Clearly no possibility of rehab.

I'm going to say something that will befuddle some Europeans, anger others, and maybe inspire a few. Today I experienced one of the starkest differences between Dutch and American culture. And though it's Dutch, I think it's broadly European. Let me explain. I had an important conference call and took it while biking to a local package pickup point. You walk in, show your code and ID, they hand you your package. Basic. Not a big deal. I wasn't being loud or obnoxious… but yes, I was on the phone. As I was leaving with my package in hand, the other clerk… not the one helping me, the one across the room who wasn't serving anyone… chimed in loudly.. “Next time, finish your call before you come in here to get your package." As an American, I was stunned. As someone who thrives on verbal confrontation, I had all sorts of comebacks flowing through my head. But I was on a call, so I just gave a “WTF?” look and kept walking. Some of you will have no reaction to this. Some will think… sure, you were being rude, and that person had every right to say something. And yes… they do have that right. But… If that happened in the US, the likelihood of that employee being fired on the spot… depending on how the customer reacted or complained… is several orders of magnitude higher than here. In this country, it is nearly impossible to fire an employee. The protections are so vast and far-reaching that workers have no fear, and no reason to check their behavior toward customers. At no point did it even occur to this person that there could be a consequence to speaking to me in that manner… "The customer is always right" does not exist in these parts. It's partly why European waiters carry the stereotype of not really caring about you. They're not working for tips, it's just a job, and firing them is nearly impossible… so where's the incentive to be nice? Funny enough, many Europeans view American retail workers as friendly to an almost weird degree. Understand the incentives and it all makes sense. Net-net, being a customer in the US is a far better experience. But there’s an even deeper issue… America celebrates the individual, and that culture trickles all the way down through business into something like at-will employment. The individual has the right to get up and leave… the owner has the right to fire on the spot. The individual is put on a pedestal. It is our nature. It is our origin story, for better or worse. The Old World is about what I call deference to the institution. The institution above the individual. It's been this way forever, and in my opinion it will never change… for reasons very similar to Zelinsky's Doctrine of First Effective Settlement. Absent a clean slate, cultures don't change even across centuries. You might say…. but Europe empowered the individual in this very story… the clerk got to speak his mind to a customer. Not true. Employees of a company or institution are agents of that institution. So what EU employment protections actually do is not strengthen the individual. They empower the agents of institutions… giving them even more leverage over the actual individual… the customer. The person walking into an establishment acting on their own agency to receive a service. They don't want a lecture from the institution. Europeans should appreciate what they have here. It's easy to complain about low wages, but it's a real trade-off… you get to talk shit to a customer, and another Dutch customer might even nod along… we're a pragmatic society, we speak our minds, we're honest with each other. Who knows which path is the correct one. From a realpolitik, hard power, and innovation perspective… and social mobility… American culture wins every time. And there is a perspective that, regardless of your feelings, your ancient cultural dispositions, or your tolerances… hard power is all that matters in the modern world. Maybe from other perspectives, the EU way wins. I don't know.

@_badreputatio_n U might want to check in w W Orbit on this. She literally phoned it in but was all in shit movies & expensive toiletries. Poor lil M is a bizarre take

What Interscope did with these three albums was truly awful. Instead of giving Madonna the creative freedom she thrives on, they locked her in rooms full of songwriters and turned the process into a committee driven class project. Rather than letting her work closely with a select group of producers per album, they made songwriting a collaborative free-for-all. It’s completely understandable why so many people are skeptical of these records. When fans call them some of her weakest work, it often makes sense, because Madonna herself wasn’t fully in control. The label’s heavy-handed approach held her back.

@robj3d3 @AnthropicAI ‘Foreigner’ 😎

I'm done with them fucking with us. Ended up in hospital today from stress. Stayed up all night pushing my limits too hard, thinking it would be removed. Health comes first. Do better @AnthropicAI

@Sxxcott A new persona & some moist buns thanks

Fui na padaria agora de tarde aqui perto de casa, o atendente olhou pra mim e me perguntou, "Sabrina?", eu retruquei com outra pergunta, "Madonna?". A padaria virou uma pista de dança onde o movimento substitui a linguagem, provando que a dance music não é superficial

@TwinkTheory ‘Oh she’d do anything for attention, that girl’

He was hot what would he have to be sad about

@fuglibetty Safety in no.s?

When a young hoe tells me the Dancefloor is Liberation and the Club is Community I find it trite. But when a beautiful 67-year old woman sings it four decades into her career……I FEEL FREE

@_The_Prophet__ ‘Discipline without horizon becomes punishment’ Neva misses 🔫

⚡️This is a man experiencing his life as non-participation. The pasta is just the object the despair attached to. The actual pain is that every domain that is supposed to make adulthood feel real has failed at once: work, money, food, sex, romance, status, independence, pride, future. He is not only saying “my food tastes bad.” He is saying, “My life has no reward loop.” That is the deepest pattern. He tried to do the responsible thing and it still felt degrading. Meal prep is supposed to symbolize agency: planning, discipline, health, money control. But in his case it becomes proof that even self-improvement has been reduced to prison behavior. Make cheap slop, go to bad job, come home alone, eat it again, repeat. Discipline without horizon becomes punishment. A lot of Gen Z men are caught there. They are told to optimize themselves inside a world that gives them no compelling reason to believe the optimization will convert into life. Lift. Budget. meal prep. stop complaining. learn skills. be confident. But confidence usually grows from wins, not lectures. If the external world keeps returning rejection, low wages, loneliness, and humiliation, self-improvement starts to feel like decorating a cell. The “never kissed a girl” line is the real detonation. That is not just sexual frustration. That is social non-recognition. For men, romantic exclusion often gets interpreted as existential exclusion: nobody chose me, nobody wanted me, nobody confirmed that my existence has magnetism. Add low-status labor and economic stagnation, and the psyche compresses it into one verdict: “I am losing at being alive.” That is why ironic despair has become the native language. If he says it as a joke, he can survive saying it. The humor is a pressure valve over real humiliation. The deepest pattern of all is uninitiated male adulthood. A grown body, no adult station. A job, no dignity. Food, no pleasure. Discipline, no pride. Sex drive, no intimacy. Time passing, no progress. That combination is spiritually corrosive. The civilizational danger is that millions of men in this condition do not become harmless forever. Some numb out. Some disappear into porn and games. Some become bitter. Some radicalize. Some become addicted. Some become permanently low-agency. Some eventually snap into discipline and rebuild themselves. But a society should not be producing this many men whose first honest description of adulthood is slavery without reward. The hard truth: sympathy is not enough. He has to get out of the loop. Better food is not the solution, but it is the first clue. A man in that state needs small wins that restore agency immediately: learn to cook one good meal, build physical strength, get around men who are not losers, move toward a trade or higher-income path, cut isolation, stop narrating himself as doomed, stack proof that his actions change reality. But the broader read remains: this is not an individual meme. This is what happens when the old masculine bargain breaks. Hard work no longer reliably gives status. Responsibility no longer reliably gives dignity. Cheap survival replaces adulthood. That is the signal

@celestialbe1ng Quite literally on board a captured market. Next time: tuck shop & up n down the aisles

Just offered the obese Albanian business mogul sitting next to me on my international flight some of my organic coconut oil potato crisps. Lectured him about seed oils and Ray Peat. He skipped his carcinogenic airplane food, said the crisps were beyond delicious, offered to introduce me to his „handsome” son if I accept his invitation to visit his house in Greece later this summer and is now ordering a 12 pack from @sinacrisps as I write this. What do I do. I am not interested in meeting his son obvs (I’ve found my love) but we’ve got 5 hrs to Frankfurt and I’m determined to sell as many crisp packets as I can to make America (and the world) healthy again and be in Sprouts and Whole Foods by next year. Pls advise x

@PicturesFoIder Absolutely golden 🏆 This is supreme behaviour

England fan spends $13,000 saved for his first home to take his grandad to the World Cup instead

@Ruraidh_Stewart @Conservatives @CllrIsabelleMac @CPhilpOfficial We can all see what you are

The @Conservatives opposed this from the beginning. We were told the decision had been made. We were told resistance was futile. We disagreed. Alongside @CllrIsabelleMac and with support from @CPhilpOfficial , we stood with the people of the Highlands.

1 may well be such a lonely number but that’s the exact amount of tixs I need for @Madonna s show tomorrow night at Magazine. So now what….🙏

@ThePCCLondon Sign me ⬆️

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@madonnalogy CSI Marylebone. 🔍🕵️

This is the KYLIE COLLAB coming I’m like 80% convinced. Kylie made the drink, it was that tabasco vodka cocktail which is the Absolut partnership. Madonna then said “you should go to a bartender SCHOOL” to Kylie. Their collab is School and it’s coming on Monday!

@LVMH_Presse A sassy& belligerent tone is certainly a bold choice in these circumstances…

La vague présente sur le défilé Louis Vuitton de mardi soir a fait visiblement couler beaucoup d’encre… mais peu d’eau. Parce qu’il est très facile de critiquer sans connaître la réalité des choses, nous tenons à rappeler certains faits et expliquer ce qui a réellement eu lieu : - Cette vague était évidemment alimentée en circuit fermé, elle fonctionnait donc comme une fontaine. L'eau utilisée provenait des eaux de Paris avant d’être ensuite réacheminée par un système de pompes vers les égouts pour y être retraitée comme n’importe quelles eaux usées qui sont ensuite de nouveau disponibles pour la consommation. - Le sable sera réutilisé à la Cité Universitaire pour la création de terrains de beach-volley, en accord avec la direction des lieux qui trouvait intéressante l’idée d’offrir un nouvel équipement aux résidents. Le reste, une quantité marginale, sera retraité par Artstock, une ressourcerie installée en France. - À noter également, le mobilier provenait d’un précédent défilé et, par ailleurs, tous les éléments de décor sont ensuite réutilisés pour d'autres usages (défilés, boutiques, événements, etc.). - Pour continuer sur le thème du défilé, la maison Louis Vuitton soutient l’association Coral Gardeners afin de restaurer des récifs coralliens en Polynésie française. Cette initiative - sur laquelle personne ne surfe - permettra la plantation de 1 000 coraux sur le site protégé de Tiaia et contribuera à restaurer l'habitat récifal en 2026. - Enfin et si nous déplorons évidemment les conséquences de la canicule sur ceux qui en souffrent le plus, nous rappelons que la scénographie éco-conçue était validée et fabriquée depuis plusieurs mois et qu’elle ne pouvait être changée en toute dernière minute. Et la prochaine fois, espérons que tout cela fasse moins de vagues !

@itsrapha83 Idk, the torso looks v large. Ripped JC 😬

Next month I’ll be headed to Siena and Florence to photograph this painter’s incredible work You won’t want to miss out👀

@TwinkTheory The unintentional ‘stay’….kinda works. Started right ⬇️

Fine I’ll stay it. Hot fit “gym” gay guys are actually extremely kind, they just don’t want to fuck you which actually isn’t mean, but as friends? Generally extremely kind, like happy golden retrievers that will come install a shelf at your house or get you into a fun event if they think you’re funny and I’m a fat unc

@TheNorfolkLion ⬇️, head 1st

Finally found him! This is the thug in the video! Share, make him famous!

@DrownedMadonna Feed the hungry… dm a code, just the 1 🙏

Join Madonna (yes, she'll be there!) to launch CONFESSIONS Il at CLUB CONFESSIONS: LONDON next Thursday 2 July.