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Fred Again's Boiler Room set - wow oh wow

There is a video circulating on the internet that is difficult to watch. A woman sits on a pavement in Louisville, Kentucky. She is wearing a hospital gown. It is 36 degrees outside. Her belongings, everything she apparently owns, are in a plastic bag on the concrete beside her. Behind her, through the glass doors she has just been escorted through, the hospital hums along as normal. The security guards who brought her here have already gone back inside. She couldn’t afford her bill. This is not a scene from a developing nation or a history book. This is the United States of America. The country in which it happens has spent decades telling the rest of the world that it has the highest GDP on earth. Which is a bit like a restaurant proudly displaying its bill on the wall. Enormous number. Terrible meal. The lobster was frozen, the wine came from a box. Europe, by comparison, has spent the better part of a century building something rather different. The food, for a start, is extraordinary. Not in a showy way, but in the way that a simple lunch in Lyon or a glass of wine on a terrace in Lisbon reminds you that eating is one of the genuinely good things about being alive. The wine is the wine that the rest of the world has spent generations attempting to replicate, mostly without success. Roughly 35 percent of Europeans live with a chronic illness. In America, that number is 76 percent. The difference is not genetic. It is architectural. It is the slow accumulation of decent food, walkable cities, actual holidays, and a healthcare system that does not require you to crowdfund your own appendix. Europeans work fewer hours. They have more purchasing power on a smaller salary once you subtract the cost of health insurance, medical debt, and the private school their child needs because the local public one has a metal detector at the entrance. They live, on average, about ten years longer. Not ten years of decline and doctor visits, but ten years of being a person in the world. In the first quarter of 2025, the number of Americans leaving the United States doubled compared to the previous quarter.  Europe was their top destination. Not for a sabbatical or a gap year. Permanently. These are not people who failed. These are people who did the maths. There is a man somewhere in America right now who has worked fifty-hour weeks for forty years, taken one week off when his employer permitted it, and will, statistically, be dead before he sees seventy. And there is another man, not very far away on a map but an entire civilisation removed in practice, sitting on a terrace in the afternoon sun with a glass of something cold and no particular place to be. He has had six weeks off every summer since 1987. He knows his neighbours by name. The first man’s country has the higher GDP. The first man’s country tops the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) index. The second man tops the Quality of Life Index (QLI). The better health. The longer life. The afternoon. MAGA America calls that losing. Ask anyone. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Here is this weeks Spurs Show opening monologue. Keen to know if you agree with anything I say?! #THFC #COYS

@ChrisCowlin Full faith in Kinsky, great opportunity to prove everyone wrong

Guglielmo Vicario is "not ready" for the Sunderland game after his hernia surgery. Rodrigo Bentancur is training with the team but remains unavailable. #COYS #THFC

@Knewyouweregone @Billie_T And Romero, but your point still stands. Lamela to Gill?

@Billie_T Paratici was an absolute poison to us. Other than his panic buys of Kulu and Bentancar nothing he did benefited us.

Paratici manager ID may be the worst in the history of the game ffs

Respectfully, nobody has forgotten what is what like before. That’s why the EFL is superior. A goal is a goal, a penalty is a penalty. Wrong decisions happen but that’s part of the beauty. Nothing can take away that jubilation when the ball hits the back of the net.

VAR is no good. It's just not. It doesn't need tweaking or resetting - it's just no good for football. Referees make bad errors every now and but so does this billion pound tech overlord bullshit. What have we gained? Nothing. What have we lost? Live football.

@SVG__Collection A masterpiece

“Sign o’ the Times” by Prince was released 39 years ago today.

Here's the (poss drug-addled) thing. NOBODY is coming to "save" Spurs. Managers aren't wizards. There's no time. They can put out cones, scrawl on tablets, shake the odd fist. But in the end, for better or worse, Spurs' fate is now in the hands (feet, minds) of the players.#COYS

🇧🇪🤯 who remembers the craziest moment in Belgian league history... Toby Alderweireld's 94th minute goal to secure Royal Antwerp their first league title since 1957.

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@thdxr Agree. If your foundations are good, trust the model

everyone made a big commotion about skills, a bunch of secondary tooling got built, standards got established and the majority of users have never installed a skill i wish everyone would chill out, most ideas are bad, restraint is more important than ever

The last ex player to get on the board. We need ex player representation.. people who get it

please shut the fuck up i don't even care about the specific thing you're saying i'm just so tired of hearing predictions one after the other telling me what the future is going to be like just please shut the fuck up

This was last season. LAST SEASON. I feel sick to my stomach every time I realise the reality of what we're facing. It shouldn't be this way.

Dead Man’s Shoes (2004) is a revenge film with the air stripped out of it. Shane Meadows shoots it like a wound that never closes, and Paddy Considine gives one of the most devastating performances in British cinema.

2 teams in entire English league have no wins in 2026; Tottenham Hotspur- 9th richest club in world, £585m revenue. £1.2bn stadium. Champions league team this season. Sheffield Wednesday- in administration. On -6 points in championship. Incompetence of highest measure.

3 straight months of no league wins, a transfer window went on during it and they sat there with a straight face, looked into a camera and told us it wasn’t easy to get more bodies in and the club published that to the world. It’s honestly like it’s deliberate at this point.

40 minutes until the bus arrives and we are already filling the streets. We are massive.

Tottenham High Road locked off 🔐