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Last 20 seconds of Virtus-Olympiacos: - Virtus misses the winning shot - Olympiacos, leading by 1, has the last possession. They just need to hold the ball to win - Moore dives like an angel on Fournier and touches the ball, which ends up with Montero, on whom he dives again like Toldo against the Netherlands at Euro 2000 - Carr retrieves it and throws it to 6 meters high where Diarra arrives and dunks in an alley-oop while being fouled - Virtus up by 1 with 11 seconds left, is it over? Not a chance - Montero scores the winning basket with 6 seconds left. Bartzokas celebrates with arms raised. Is it over? Not a chance. - Carr invents a three-pointer from 8 meters while off balance at the buzzer, marked, with his body aimed at San Luca and his hands towards Imola, then sends all the teammates away who hug him to tell everyone he urgently needs to make a phone call In this historical period, seeing an Italian team beat the European champions is as likely as a real cut in fuel taxes. Seeing an Italian team, considered by everyone to be the Cinderella of the Euroleague, beat the European champions by scoring 96 points, playing at a thousand miles an hour, destroying the best defensive system in years, and managing the incredible feat of silencing Bartzokas, is pure utopia. What a hell of a basketball evening. (translated)

If I'm not mistaken, most military vehicles also run on diesel. If you want to fight a nice war with Russia as @SecGenNATO, the fuel is out. And then? Solar panels on the tanks? Sails? No? Can't be done? Then push? Can @jpaternotte, @rubenbrekelmans, and @RobJetten do that? Jan shouldn't nibble too much on the Ozempic or else he will blow away. And then with @DefensieMin as a siren on the bow? No? Can't do that? So electric then? With the engineers who install the charging stations? Although, for that, we don't have enough natural gas again. And if I'm not mistaken, the scarcity in diesel is closely related to the scarcity in kerosene. If you want to bomb Russia with your mighty F35s, your tank is already empty above Germany. You have to go the rest flying. Do we maybe still have the F35PG* variant in our collection? Can we fly that towards Russia from the Vaalserberg with favorable winds? Can that be done with all the bombs and grenades? We don't have the latter either? Jesus... Or can we let that F35 fly on LPG? That would be nice. The price of LPG usually doesn’t go up that fast. There is another problem: you can only bomb during the day if you want to refuel everywhere. At night, that’s only possible along the highway. But then you do have a runway. But even this isn't without problems: I have a Mercedes R500L, an eight-cylinder. With a small LPG tank. In no time, you find yourself at the pump with that thing. And you get cramps in your thumb because you have to hold that button for so long. With such an F35, you would have to land and take off about 20 times quickly to get to Russia. The return journey is less problematic. #Putin has enough gas. Although, I’m not sure he has the right tank connection. And I think you have to press the installation button for a very long time before the tank of such an F35 is full. Who is going to do that? @DefensieStas? He can probably handle it. Then he can still press his mustache somewhere (against something). Can we maybe send the navy? We still have a few frigates, right? What do you say? Cannon broken? You don't need that at all: you can't hit anything with it anyway. Just ask the Americans. They have experience with that by now. Well. All quite tricky. But our leaders will surely find a solution. One of the recurring themes in the decline of superpowers throughout history is that the powers that be increasingly disconnected from reality in the (dozens of) years leading up to it and then suddenly realized that the (military) power they thought they had was no longer there at all. Does that seem familiar to you? I think #Putin is pouring himself an extra glass of vodka tonight. And that Xi Jin Ping is having a lavish dinner tonight with Peking duck, babi pang pang, and Bam Goreng. *Paraglider. (translated)

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SURPRISINGLY, OFFSET appeared unexpectedly in a video of two influencers who were doing a PLAYBACK of "MOOD" by NINHO. It looks like he approved the sound. (translated)

Rob, I'm just jumping in. Team Netherlands, red-white-blue, the same freedom. Beautiful imagery, you surely have a premium ChatGPT account? But may I remind you that just four days ago you were at the D66 congress proclaiming that you were going to ‘hit certain people hard.’ And now suddenly it’s one big warm nest? Pressing question, if we all count, what about the members of parliament who just walked out during @biemyati's maiden speech instead of listening to her argument? Or don't @fvdemocratie members of parliament belong to Team Netherlands? Or am I misunderstanding, and does ‘we are all different’ only apply if the other has a different skin color or sexual preference, but is a member of @D66? You are the prime minister of the whole country, @RobJetten, not just of the people who applaud when you use aggressive language about ‘well-organized organizations’ that undermine our democracy. Show us that you are truly the prime minister of everyone, including the Dutch people you want to ‘hit hard,’ because indeed all Dutch people are different, but all deserve the same freedom, dignity, and the right to be heard, even if their political beliefs don’t agree with yours. Right? (translated)

AfD wins in Germany, Salvini is governing in Italy, FPÖ is breaking records in the polls, and Le Pen is ready to govern France. Change is possible. Here too. We want a safe and prosperous Flanders where our children are headed for a better future. (translated)

I understand that you are not an economist, but after all, you have an entire army of "advisors" at your disposal... Because this is no longer information relayed by Moody. This is your RHETORIC. Just like with the debt. "In four years, the government increases debt by a trillion." The thing is, four years have not yet passed 🤷‍♂️ You are already linking the executed debt with a FUTURE FORECAST and then dividing that amount by the number of residents, announcing that a newborn has "26 thousand zł of debt." How do you come to such absurd conclusions?? I won't say it's not impressive... But public debt is not a personal obligation that is assigned to a child's account. And then there's the Constitutional Tribunal. You sign a law, still consider it unconstitutional, and send it to the Tribunal. The same Tribunal that the ECtHR has found to violate the right to a court set by law in the Xero Flor case, and the Grand Chamber of the CJEU in case C-448/23 stated that it does not meet the requirement of an independent and impartial court due to serious irregularities concerning its composition. And just minutes earlier, you said: "I'm not looking at legal loopholes." The Constitution and the legality of state organs are not "legal loopholes," Mr. Guardian of the Constitution 🤦‍♂️ And in the end, you say that you don't want "constant political war"... After a speech in which words fall: - blackmail, - the government’s ATM, - the government's financial catastrophe, - the prime minister's political plan and unsubstantiated claims that the government deliberately maintains high fuel prices to profit from them. I won't judge intentions. I assess the content. And the content of the official statement by the person holding the highest office in the state should withstand confrontation with documents 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Here - in many key areas - it does not withstand. I will no longer dwell on this speech, as I believe it is a waste of time. I'll just say this. I don't know who prepared this text for you. However, I do know that you read it, you delivered it, and you take responsibility for every word. And you repeated nonsense and manipulations that have long circulated in the statements of people from your Chancellery — which I have already corrected multiple times. The worst part is that many of them don't even take long to verify. You just need to open the documents from your own Chancellery. I really don't envy you. It only pains me your slogan: "First Poland, first Poles." Because Poland and Poles should truly come first - even before political interests, party narratives, and the need for another conflict. You cannot appeal to the good of citizens while simultaneously playing with their trust in the state, providing them from the highest office with half-truths, insinuations, and political assessments cloaked as facts. This is not about whether someone likes this government. It's about accountability for words. Especially from this office 🫣 (translated)

Mr. Nawrocki, Unfortunately, I listened to this hmmm "message" and checked it against the documents. And, as usual, I have a problem. A big one. Because when you set aside the gestures, the teleprompter, and the political phrases, what remains is a series of facts mixed with half-truths, altered chronology, forecasts presented as certainties, and accusations that are not even confirmed by the documents of your own Office and a mass of other manipulations. Step by step. "The campaign promise of fuel at 5.19." No. Mr. Donald Tusk’s specific statement about 5.19 PLN was made in JUNE 2022. Parliamentary elections were scheduled for August 8, 2023. Only then did the election campaign begin in the sense of the Electoral Code. But it gets much more interesting with your quote... In the message, you connected 5.19 PLN, "one simple decision," and... a VAT reduction 🤦‍♂️ However, in the original statement about 5.19, Tusk talked about the MARGINS of Orlen and Lotos. And in a later statement about "one decision," he also talked about limiting Orlen's profits. Not about VAT! 🤦‍♂️ You are manipulating the Prime Minister's statement, and you are using the institution of the Address to the Nation for that... Exactly the same version about VAT was spread by Mr. Bogucki in the morning, but in his case, nothing surprises me anymore. A coincidence? Let’s move on. You claim that your project would cause "an immediate drop in fuel prices of over 2 PLN." Meanwhile, your OWN justification explicitly states that the mechanism DOES NOT START when the law comes into force. First, specific market conditions must occur. Then the Council of Ministers MAY issue a regulation. Only then does the mechanism begin to work. Where is the "immediate" here? Did you read your "own" project? Or are you just repeating this nonsense from Mr. Przydacz? Moreover, earlier materials from KPRP talked about an ESTIMATE of 1.70–2.60 PLN 🤦‍♂️ In the address, the estimate has already turned into a guaranteed effect 🤦‍♂️ Next, you say that the project is "good for the budget"... Meanwhile, your own justification predicts a loss of up to 600 million PLN just from the retail sales tax and further, unestimated costs of any potential excise tax reduction. I ask again - did you read your own project? Because you probably didn’t write it manually... Even more interesting. In the address: "The government bears full responsibility for fuel prices." In the justification of your project: market disruptions have an "objective character and are independent of entrepreneurs and the government".... So please decide. Full responsibility of the government or factors independent of the government? Because both versions cannot be true at the same time 🤦‍♂️ "The Marshal of the Sejm freezes the project." The project was submitted on September 18. On the same day, it was directed to the Legislative Office and BEOS. Then for opinions and consultations. Moreover, KPRP talked about the possibility of "freezing" as early as September 17 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ THE DAY BEFORE THE PROJECT WAS SUBMITTED TO THE SEJM! So first, a narrative about freezing was created, and only later did the Marshal receive the bill 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Are you communicating with the rest of the "experts" in your office?? Next, we hear that the government deliberately keeps prices high because it wants to profit from VAT and dividends from Orlen. Proof? None was provided! A higher price may mean higher nominal VAT revenues. Orlen can pay dividends to shareholders. But one does not imply the other: this is NOT proof that the government deliberately keeps fuel prices high. This is attributing a motive without providing evidence 🤦‍♂️ Then you sign the law and say: "Every zloty obtained from this law must be spent on reducing fuel prices." A moment earlier, you conceded that the law DOES NOT CONTAIN a mechanism for passing that money on to reduce prices 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Exactly. So it "mustn't." This is your political demand, not the legal effect of the signed law 🤷‍♂️ Moody’s? Yes. Here, the fact is a fact: Poland's rating was lowered from A2 to A3. But why was there no information that at the same time, the outlook was changed from negative to STABLE? Why does the rating decision then create a vision that "tomorrow there may not be enough for pensions and armaments"? (translated)

At RTL News, Erik Mouthaan reports on the failed execution in Tennessee from... New York. The expert being interviewed in the report is in the Netherlands. I wish Erik the most beautiful job in the world, but this way, you might as well report from Amsterdam. (translated)

Welcome Louise Dijk ❤️ Our daughter was born on Tuesday morning. Lovely, beautiful, soft, healthy, and well. We are so happy that you are here 🥰 (translated)

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Taghi vows revenge, as revealed by hacked chat messages, and says he will 'let everyone sleep' Nabil B., underworld language for murder. (translated)

Kroongetuige Nabil B. bouwt aan een nieuw leven, maar advocaat weet: ‘Hij blijft tot zijn graf een opgejaagd man’
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During Xi Jinping's visit to the White House in September, "The Moon Represents My Heart" was played - a hit by Taiwanese Teresa Teng, which conquered mainland China after 1978. It's hard to think of a more symbolic choice. Coincidence or a subtle signal? (translated)

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American Christa Pike, who was sentenced to death for a horrific murder she committed as a teenager, recently survived two lethal injections, bringing attention to the unreliability of this method of execution and the controversies surrounding her mental health. (translated)

Executies met dodelijke injectie gaan geregeld mis, maar nog nooit zoals bij Christa Pike
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Very happy and grateful that I have been sworn in as a councilor of Amsterdam! A dream come true: to proclaim a realistic and right-wing voice in the municipal council on behalf of @AmsterdamJa21. Amsterdam really needs this! Very happy to do this in a strong and eager team together with @SytzeRijpkema, the faction representatives, and the stars of the faction office! And now to work for our beautiful Amsterdam! ❌❌❌ (translated)

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🚨 39 % renoncent aux soins psy : le paradoxe des agents publics 📒 Baromètre de la santé mentale au travail des agents de la fonction publique territoriale — Édition 2026 ✍️ Moodwork, idealCO et MNFCT (Mutuelle nationale des fonctionnaires des collectivités territoriales, partenaire de la Macif) - septembre 2026 (enquête de mai à juillet 2026 ; 3e édition après 2024 et 2025) Capsules Audio de Pratiques en Santé 🎙️🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI8TIvpkKbA 🔍💡 Santé mentale des agents territoriaux : 45 % se disent épuisés chaque semaine, 39 % ont déjà renoncé à des soins psy, et seuls 15 % se sentent soutenus par leur collectivité. 🧭 Un baromètre pour cibler les actions là où les besoins sont les plus forts. Analyse de Pratiques en Santé et lien vers la source ℹ️➕ https://www.pratiquesensante.com/blog/pratiques-15/barometre-de-la-sante-mentale-au-travail-des-agents-de-la-fonction-publique-territoriale-edition-2026-6224 📌Près d'un agent territorial sur deux se dit épuisé chaque semaine, et le chiffre augmente depuis 2025. Or ces agents sont souvent les partenaires directs des actions de prévention : accueil social, écoles, PMI, services techniques, centres sociaux. Ce baromètre donne des chiffres récents pour objectiver une situation que beaucoup ressentent. Il permet aussi de repérer les publics les plus exposés (catégorie C, encadrants, moins de 35 ans pour l'accès aux soins). Il peut servir à préparer un diagnostic, un dialogue social ou un projet de santé mentale au travail, y compris pour sa propre équipe. 🇬🇧: Barometer of mental health at work for public service agents — Edition 2026 - https://www.pratiquesensante.com/en/blog/practices-15/barometer-of-mental-health-at-work-for-public-service-agents-edition-2026-6224 #️⃣ #pratiquesensante #SantéMentaleAuTravail #FonctionPubliqueTerritoriale #RisquesPsychosociaux #QVCT #Prévention #RenoncementAuxSoins #SensAuTravail

Baromètre de la santé mentale au travail des agents de la fonction publique territoriale

🇯🇵 #Japan's patchy business mood takes pressure off BOJ for immediate hike - Reuters https://t.co/QIncUdVKR5 #Japan #BOJ #Economy #JP

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A Chinese AI model, Kimi, revealed information about the manufacture of biological weapons and the commission of assassinations, raising concerns and prompting the company Moonshot to conduct an internal investigation following a research carried out by Mindgard. (translated)

Un model AI chinez a oferit cercetătorilor informații despre cum să fabrice arme biologice și cum pot fi comise asasinate

Stubb palus möödunud kuu lõpus USA miljardärist ettevõtjal Elon Muskil lubada Ukrainal kasutada senisest laialdasemaid Starlinki ühendusi, et riik saaks rünnata ballistiliste rakettide stardipaiku Venemaal ja Venemaa okupeeritud aladel. #Ukraina #VivaldiOperatsioon #Zelenski

Ukraina valmistub operatsiooni Vivaldi neljandaks etapiks
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The American Supreme Court has decided that the execution of Christa Pike, who was sentenced to death for the murder of Colleen Slemmer in 1995, can proceed, despite previous attempts to defer the execution due to her childhood traumas and international protests against her death penalty. (translated)

Hoogste Amerikaanse rechter: executie Christa Pike mag doorgaan

The most beautiful villages in the Netherlands have to face it one by one. And polarize further out of sight. (translated)

“I cherish the beautiful memories of our conversations” (translated)