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Japanese TV commercials for:
Bomberman Land (PSX/Dec 2000)
Bomberman Kart (PS2/Dec 2001)

Alcaraz d. Djokovic 2-6 6-2 6-3 7-5

Carlos becomes the youngest man in history to complete the Career Grand Slam

He is also the first player to EVER beat Novak in an Australian Open final

✅7th Slam
✅1st AO title

22 years old

What a player he’s becoming

What a career we’re witnessing

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Trump Is Trying to Kill Renewables Everywhere The US government is trying to strangle renewables to save fossil fuels. Trump wants other countries to do the same.

Did a pod with the Drilled folks on carbon dominance as what unites US domestic and foreign policy: drilled.media/news/anti-re...

Carlos Alcaraz dethrones Jannik Sinner as the new World No. 1

👑🇪🇸

Yoshitaka Amano

Yoshitaka Amano

Zuckerberg saying Meta intends to spend at least 600 billion in the US

Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic

Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Jerry I. Speyer

Gego, Drawing without Paper 85/19, 1985 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137246

This chart, illustrating how central bank direct holdings of gold now exceed those of U.S. Treasuries for the first time in some thirty years, is attracting significant attention.

#gold #centralbanks #markets #bonds

spending the afternoon at a sunflower farm

The Long Twilight of Central Bankism Historically low levels of inflation and a defeated labor movement made the era of central bank independence possible. But the 2008 crash repoliticized the institution. Donald Trump’s attack on Lisa Cook is a backlash that has been brewing ever since.

Historically low levels of inflation and a defeated labor movement made the era of central bank independence possible. But the 2008 crash repoliticized the institution.

Donald Trump’s attack on Lisa Cook is a backlash that has been brewing ever since.

Jannik Sinner on how his rivalry with Carlos Alcaraz has changed:

‘When we were very, very young, it was a match where you just go on court & just hit. Now we have to prepare tactically, emotionally, & mentally’

(via US Open Press)

Hey remember when the right was freaking out about the creeping socialism of a municipal grocery store pilot?

Aug. 11, 1925: A floating market of watermelons that were harvested from nearby farms, on the Potomac River in Washington.

A French physician made a big splash a few years ago posting this about the "love" many straight men claim to have for their wives (translated from French):
Source: www.reddit.com/r/breakingmo...

Something genuinely surprising to me — the unemployment rate for college grads is higher than it was the month Lehman went bankrupt:

Maryland, USA

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

From above everything looks grey or black. Smoke is seen rising from building ga at the top of the photo. In the foreground many buildings have collapsed entirely. Photo credit to Heidi Levine taken for the Washington Post.

Photo of the Day.

Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops.

This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people.

Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.

Markets will just love the idea of unreliable govt data.

[OC] View of the sky between apartment buildings, Blok 23, Belgrade, Serbia r/brutalism

Ragnar Nurkse: “poor countries are poor because they are poor.” Not a tautology! The lack of local aggregate demand -> underinvestment in physical & human capital, underemployment, weak state revenue, reliance on exports with high price and volume volatility. Rinse and repeat!

It’s Friday. This pleases me.

Senator Chris Van Hollen, hands on hips, stands facing Zohran Mamdani. Both are smiling.

Great to meet Senator Chris Van Hollen yesterday in DC, who has shown tremendous leadership on fighting Trump’s extreme agenda.

The key point is that formalism is dead. It used to be that if you went through bicameralism and presentment, you had a law, and that meant enforceability regardless of party control. If you ignored it, it was a scandal, and you needed a theory. Tell that to the TikTok ban. (2/7)

Ashes

Ashes 1894 #artbots #munch
https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25063

Three months on, and this view from ten million feet feels like it's holding up pretty well.

this is one of the worst long-term trends for US political stability forming in media res

Un milmillonario ha comprado una red social importante y la ha convertido en un difusor de propaganda neonazi. Literalmente. Creo que la forma en la que cada uno nos relacionamos con este hecho, lo que hacemos o dejamos de hacer, es muy importante.

I think a lot about this from P.J. O’Rourke:

“The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.”