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Brian Voiles retweeted
Martin Brundle dijo hace poco que Aston Martin debería de prescindir de Fernando Alonso para tener una dupla más joven (además de algún comentario subido de tono como en Jeddah 2025).
Como es habitual, Alonso no olvida 😉
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Did you know there's a type of anxiety specific to autism that isn't explained by any other existing anxiety disorder currently outlined in the DSM... and that it's often misdiagnosed as clinical anxiety?
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That towel move is a real physical therapy technique called a self SNAG, and the speed of the relief tells you something most people never learn about their own neck. Muscle tissue takes weeks of loading to actually lengthen. So when stiffness vanishes in a few seconds, the muscle was never what changed.
What changed is the signal your brain was sending to it.
The small facet joints stacked down the back of your neck sit at roughly a 45 degree angle. When one of them gets irritated or stops gliding smoothly, your brain protects it by clamping down the surrounding muscles. That clamp is the stiffness you feel. The tissue underneath is usually fine, it's just being held under orders.
The towel edge hooks under one vertebra. When you pull forward and up along that 45 degree joint plane while turning your head, you glide the joint through the exact motion it was refusing, with support the whole way. Your brain gets live evidence the movement is safe and drops the clamp. Physical therapists do the same glide with their thumbs and call it a SNAG, short for sustained natural apophyseal glide. Brian Mulligan, the New Zealand physio who developed the method in the 1980s, designed the towel version specifically so patients could run it on themselves at home.
Which is why years of stretching can lose to thirty seconds with a towel. A stretch tries to overpower the brain's grip. A glide convinces it to let go.
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I think one extra chapter would have made Harry’s “death” in Deathly Hallows hit completely differently.
When Voldemort hits Harry with Avada Kedavra in the forest, we barely have time to process it before we’re back inside Harry’s head at King’s Cross. As readers, we never really get the chance to believe he’s gone.
So imagine if, after the curse hits, we completely leave Harry’s perspective.
First, we follow Hagrid. He’s the first person to see Harry’s body, and when the Death Eaters order him to carry Harry back, he’s completely numb with grief. Voldemort hits him with Crucio, but Hagrid barely registers the pain because nothing could compare to what he’s feeling.
We’d think Harry was really dead.
Then Hagrid carries Harry’s body back to Hogwarts, just like he carried him from Godric’s Hollow and later to Privet Drive. It would be a perfect bookend, with Hagrid remembering everything he and Harry had been through.
Then we switch to Hermione.
Neville tells her about his strange conversation with Harry before he went into the forest, including Harry making sure they killed the snake. Hermione immediately puts it together. Harry went into that forest knowing exactly what he was doing.
And for once, Hermione has nothing she can do about it.
Then Voldemort summons everyone to the courtyard and announces that Harry Potter is dead. Ron refuses to believe it, but Hermione already knows it's true.
Then we switch to Ginny.
Her grief turns into anger. Seeing Hagrid carrying Harry’s body makes her think about the life they never got to have, and she reaches for her wand because she wants to fight.
Then Arthur puts a hand on her shoulder.
He knows exactly what she’s about to do. He knows his daughter is a fighter, but he has already lost one child that day.
Then we get Neville.
He thinks about Harry standing up for what was right from their first year, the DA, the Ministry, and everything they’ve been through. He thinks about his parents too.
And then we get Neville’s final stand: refusing Voldemort, declaring that Harry’s death won’t be in vain, putting on the Sorting Hat and watching it burn.
Then the chapter ends.
Only after all of that do we return to Harry at King’s Cross.
And after King’s Cross, we go back to the forest and finally return to Harry’s perspective.
That one chapter would let us actually grieve Harry before the book tells us he survived.
It would make his “death” feel real for the first time.
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Think what you think of Pete Rose. Everyone has a different opinion on him which is fine
That said, man, I could listed him talk baseball ALL DAY
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Pete Rose shares tons of baseball knowledge with A-Rod and Frank Thomas. It’s a 6 minute video, but I promise you, it’s the best thing you’ll see about Pete Rose today.
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In 2005, Oneida shut the flatware factory in Sherrill, New York.
A town that had made silverware for MORE THAN 100 YEARS was supposed to be finished.
Two men refused to let that happen.
Their names are Matt Roberts and Greg Owens.
Roberts had managed that factory. Owens was another former Oneida manufacturing manager. When the company ended U.S. production, they bought the plant and the equipment and reopened it the NEXT DAY as Sherrill Manufacturing.
They did not have a giant rescue fund.
They did not have a Hollywood ending waiting.
They had a building, some machines, and a workforce that knew how to make forks, knives, and spoons.
At first they kept making product for Oneida.
Then Oneida pulled the remaining American work and sent it overseas.
That should have been the end.
It wasn’t.
They took government flatware contracts to keep the lights on. In 2010 they filed Chapter 11. They sold unused equipment. They sold space they could no longer fill. They leased back only the part of the factory they could still run.
They came out of bankruptcy in 2013.
Then they did the thing that saved the company.
They built their own brand: Liberty Tabletop.
They sold 18/10 stainless flatware straight to customers who wanted tableware MADE IN THE UNITED STATES.
Not through a department store that could drop them overnight.
Direct.
Today Liberty Tabletop is the only company still manufacturing stainless steel flatware in America.
Same town.
Same trade.
U.S. steel.
About 70 jobs.
They did not bring back 2,000 workers. Nobody did.
What they saved was the last line.
If you want American-made forks and spoons, this is the factory that still makes them.
Support Liberty Tabletop.
THIS is what keeping manufacturing in America actually looks like. 🇺🇸
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Rickey Henderson shares what he looked at from the pitcher when he established a lead and about to take off. Some good stuff. He also confirms the Harold Reynolds story.
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The New Jersey Devils are selling a popcorn bucket with a playable rink on top that you can play hockey with the popcorn on 🍿🏒
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Good stuff….
On hitting: "I will go to my grave vowing that my theory is better than they’re teaching now.”
George Brett with @jonmorosi on "The Road to Cooperstown"
FOR MORE 🔗 apple.co/3zfpDHB
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Millions of 3-year-old laptops get blamed for being "slow" when the hardware is barely the problem — it's almost always what's silently running underneath.
A student was about to spend $900 on a brand new laptop because hers took 4 minutes to boot and constantly froze mid-assignment, right when deadlines mattered most.
Her older brother, who builds PCs on the side and has fixed dozens of laptops for friends, sat down with her laptop for 8 minutes on a Sunday afternoon.
He didn't reinstall Windows.
Didn't add RAM.
Didn't recommend an SSD upgrade.
Didn't suggest buying anything at all.
He changed 8 settings.
Boot time dropped from 4 minutes to 20 seconds. Chrome stopped eating 90% of her CPU in the background. Word stopped freezing mid-sentence while she typed.
Same laptop. Same specs. Same age. Same everything.
"Your laptop was never actually slow. It was just never cleaned up past the day you bought it — and nobody, not the store, not Microsoft, not tech support, was ever going to tell you the fix was free."
🧵 Here are the 8 settings he changed:
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Pete Rose was never shy about the mechanics, be aggressive early in the count, choke up once you're down two strikes, and stop trying to lift every ball.
That unglamorous, spray it everywhere approach is exactly how a guy with modest power ended up collecting more hits than anybody who's ever played the game.
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A guy watched every Marvel movie on Disney+ over 3 years. All 26. Some of them twice. He thought he'd seen everything.
Then his friend a home theater installer came over, grabbed the remote, and typed 4 letters into the Disney+ search bar.
I-M-A-X.
The screen changed. The same movie he'd watched last week looked completely different. The black bars at the top and bottom of the screen shrank. The image expanded. 26% more picture. More sky. More action. More of every frame. The version he'd been watching for 3 years was cropped. The full image had been sitting on Disney+ the entire time.
He stared at the screen and said: "Why didn't it show me this version?"
His friend said: "Because you never asked. And Disney+ will never offer."
Then his friend started opening tabs, changing settings, and showing him things that had been hiding on the platform since the day he subscribed.
R-rated movies his account couldn't see because one setting was blocking the entire adult library. Deleted scenes and behind-the-scenes documentaries sitting behind a tab he'd never tapped. Sing-along versions of every major animated film. Timeline-ordered viewing for the entire MCU. Curated collections organized by decade that the homepage never shows. A download feature that saves movies in full quality for flights. And a GroupWatch feature that lets 7 people watch simultaneously from different locations.
"Disney+ is designed for a 3-year-old by default. That means it's hiding everything that isn't safe for a toddler from every adult subscriber who never changes the settings."
Here are 10 Disney+ features most subscribers have never found:
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🚨 Everything you need to know about Max Verstappen’s karting race tomorrow:
🏁 Event: Max vs 100
👥 Who: Max Verstappen vs 100 karters from around the world
📍 Where: Silverstone, UK
⏰ Race start: 18:00 CEST, with coverage starting at 17:00
📺 Where to watch: Disney+ and ESPN Watch (Premium subscription)
The format is simple:
• Max starts P101, dead last
• He has to overtake all 100 drivers to win
• All karts are identical, including the weight
• 30 laps
• Around 60 minutes of racing
P101 to P1. Full send 🔥
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La felicidad del banderillero por haberle dado la bandera a Colapinto 🥹
Somos todos él
