This is Torque. He was bitten by a rattlesnake. Just wanted to make a new friend, but it turns out the rattlesnake was more of an introvert. 12/10 (we're happy to report he's doing better now)

Another thing: a lot of explanations for bad economic sentiment are along the lines of 'Voters accurately perceive the world, but care about different things than economists!'

Polls like this show that argument is WRONG: voters are just INCORRECT x.com/carlquintanill…

This is not a 'media' problem; no one in so-called 'mainstream media' is reporting things like this.

For example: apnews.com/article/stock-…

Washington Post CEO Will Lewis is introing the paper’s new “Build It” plan today. In a meeting with staff, he noted that the paper lost $77 million over the past year, and saw a 50% drop off in audience since 2020: “To be direct, we are in a hole, and we have been for some time.'

SEC Charges ICE and Nine Affiliates Including the NYSE with Failing to Inform the Commission of a Cyber Intrusion

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Yesterday was the lowest full day $SPY volume since 2017 -- and today is much worse!
Bloomberg is currently projecting only 26.5 mil shares - we are running 69% the average daily volume of the past 100 sessions
kind of wild

This is what 38 year olds looked like in 2005.

Let’s have a Pet Photo Challenge

I’ll pick a winner later

The theme is your Pet sleeping

I’ll start 👇

Hey Austin folks, any suggestions on vegetarian friendly restaurants that can seat 30 people?

You probably follow me for helping street dogs like OREO. Today something very different that I hope might help even one person.

I suffer from depression and on Monday had one of the worst panic attacks I’ve had in years.

A look into that world (1/8) 🧵

The IP has to be worth something but not sure they’ll get anywhere near the $750M-$1B they are looking for.

Who do you think would buy it?

had nothing to do tn so i bought a platform ticket to see the caledonian sleeper off. ticket office happily sold it but ticket machines wouldn’t - so i asked guards what to do after office closes; they said “we don’t sell platform tickets” & were incredulous when i showed mine

A team of workers were on a job in Edmonton, Canada, when they saw through a window a library’s public piano. “I’d told my co-workers for years I played piano,” said Archie Gould of Venger Electrostatic Coating, “but never had an opportunity to show them”:

Circle K Announces Nationwide 'Fuel Day' Offering Up To 40 Cents Per Gallon Savings on May 23

businesswire.com/news/home/2024…

Getting things for lunch. Let me show you around my Arabic supermarket. This is my favourite cuisine in the world, so I have tonnes to recommend for you! Let’s go!

We should normalize eating appetizers on a random Tuesday night.

Spent the last 6 months (in my spare time) renovating a knackered 50 ft narrowboat into a floating Air BnB as a side #hustle . Finally finished it 👇🏼

It didn't even last a day.
I am devastated. Someone tried to steal the plane and in the process snapped the acrylic rods and damaging the wires and support structure.
At least it wasn't stolen, but can no longer be displayed.
Going to have a cry. Absolute bastards.

The view and the food from the Rusty Pelican in Miami are pretty cool.