Sears Revenge @SearsReloaded

In Irish mythology, the hurl was a heroic weapon and training tool as well as a sporting instrument. One of its first appearances is in the boyhood deeds of Sétanta, where he uses his hurl to kill Culann’s hound, after which he receives the name Cú Chulainn, "Culann’s hound." Cú Chulainn’s use of the hurl fits a wider Indo-European heroic pattern where a young warrior proves himself through a dangerous trial before entering fully into adult martial society. The hurl symbolises youthful prowess, martial discipline, and the ancient Irish fusion of play and combat. It is the boy’s version of the spear or club – a sporting object that foreshadows the weapons of war. When Irish nationalist Michael Cusack founded the Gaelic Athletic Association, he argued that a revival in Gaelic games like hurling would rekindle the strength and martial spirit of the Irish, for they were "invented by the most sublimely energetic and warlike race the world has ever known."

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As someone who partially grew up among European elite kids like him, this reminds me just how incredibly hollow some of them are. For a quick background, I went to one of the poshest high schools in France (Janson de Sailly, for those who know) and, afterwards, to what was at the time - and probably still is - the most expensive undergraduate school in Europe (EHL in Lausanne, Switzerland). Needless to say, many of my classmates were from unbelievably privileged backgrounds. Just in my classroom in Lausanne I had the son of a (very famous) Russian oligarch, the son of Italy's largest real estate developer and the son of Spain's largest real estate developer (funnily, the latter two were flat mates). Another classmate of mine came from the richest family in Naples, Italy and - while we were at school - his father (known in Naples under the nickname "Il Sultano") got arrested for having bribed half of Naples's city council - which, if you know Naples, ought to tell you something. These were the kids I was doing group projects on business ethics with (literally) 😅 Anyhow, my story, and probably my luck, was that - before going to high school in Paris - I was raised in very normal public schools in the South of France where my friends were anything but wealthy. Their parents were farmers and everyday workers. Which means - and I'd come to realize this was very important in life - that it was easy for me to understand how big a mistake it is to see money as identity and meaning - and to confuse someone's net worth with their actual worth. What really struck me at the time was the contrast with my "poor" classmates of earlier in my life. They couldn't define themselves by what they had - by definition - and this forced them to reach deeper for their identity: their skills, knowledge, humor, etc. Rich kids can skip that entire process, and the tragedy is that most of them do: they reach for the readymade identity that money provides. I remember being incredibly frustrated by many of my classmates, like "ok, I get it, your dad is rich and you own a lot of nice things but who are YOU, what else is there?" The answer, more often than not, was nothing. To be fair, there were exceptions. One of my classmates I was most impressed by came from one of Zurich's wealthiest families (which, if you know Zurich, means insanely wealthy) yet he was almost OCD in not showing he had money: driving the shittiest car imaginable, living in a small studio, etc. He was very intellectual, very contrarian, and clearly at war with the idea that his family's wealth ought to define who he was. I only discovered who he actually was when I started my first company and he approached me to invest: to discuss the investment I went to one of his family homes, which it turned out was a literal palatial castle on the shores of Geneva lake. The guy had decided to live in a small rundown studio when he literally had a castle sitting empty a 5-min drive away. THAT I was impressed by: it's easy to see that money isn't meaning when you don't have any. To see it when you have more than almost anyone - when everyone around you is organized around the opposite assumption - is much harder. But to actually live it, to choose the studio when you have the castle keys in your pockets - with no audience to applaud you for that - that shows real depth. At the end of the day, I think, the real distinction isn't between rich and poor but between people who exist from the inside out and people who exist from the outside in. Wealth just happens to make it incredibly easy to be the latter, to skip the work of becoming someone and settle for a borrowed identity that glitters from the outside but is hollow all the way through. A Potemkin village identity. This is actually a real societal issue, and magnified by social media (with idiotic posts like this one 👇): the more "outside in" folks out there, the less people with genuine internal anchors, the more fragile everything becomes. When you think about it, everything that genuinely matters in a society is built by people who think for themselves: they take the world in, pass it through something genuinely their own, and give back something that didn't exist before: an idea, a conviction, a stand. Every reform, every invention, every act of moral courage in history came from someone with an internal anchor strong enough to resist the current. Remove those people and all you have left is the current. This isn't new, by the way. Most ancient traditions warn against exactly this, from the Bible (the golden calf story) to Confucius, who built his entire ethics around the distinction between the exemplary person (the Junzi, 君子) - oriented around internal cultivation and righteousness - and the petty person (Xiaoren, 小人), oriented around profit and gain. The junzi builds himself from the inside, the xiaoren chases what's outside. So please, do not make the mistake of being impressed by wealthy people flaunting their wealth. Don't focus on the glitter, focus on the hollowness it's trying to hide.

LMD (Arc.) @Layemie001

4 days ago

16yo billionaire kid in Monaco. $100,000,000 secrete car garage. People don’t pay income taxes in Monaco?

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Memento Mori ya dumb bitch

It’s not just social media posts. They naked short prior to the short and distort report. Trade settlement is not enforced and we have billions of counterfeit shares sent overseas. The SEC does not monitor them once they leave the U.S. Small public companies are forced to dilute and RS after being attacked by naked shorts. American innovation is being destroyed.

NEW: @Bullish CEO @ThomasFarley predicts US equities, global equities, and fixed income will all migrate to blockchain rails.

Jeff Bezos’ old haunt

kristen shaughnessy @kshaughnessy2

a week ago

Big Hedge Fund Slams the Door on Quick Cash Withdrawals Bloomberg reports D.E. Shaw is making it much harder for investors to pull their money out of its two largest funds. Up to four years to fully exit. They’re also closing two smaller funds. Like other big players

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“We’ve kind of gotten used to white-collar crime being completely normalized, so any prosecution for violation of securities law feels like selective enforcement,” said Brown” Maybe because the financial media doesn’t talk about the need for trade settlement. The media also doesn’t question big spikes in FTD’s, even when it has happened before a short and distort piece comes out (see @Hamnakedshorts post below) The media also doesn’t dive into Left’s relationship with Anson Funds and ask questions about messages sent between the two. But @stockmannnbroo does 👇 September 2025 A recap of Andrew Left's alleged involvement with Anson Fund's Moez Kassam - as Left tries to get the DOJ to drop his criminal case x.com/kshaughnessy2/… @FlyEaglesFly529

G @Hamnakedshorts

a week ago

Hey FBI here is proof of how Left works. The pick tgt and then NAKED SHORT before report as you can see The FTD’s of 7.2MILLION shares. Then they attack looks to ,me like they made $10 X7= $70M on this crime add in real shorts $100-150M stolen

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@sneedweb @PenisWilson88 Okay dumb tin but one of their goofy ass press releases had the store x402 in there. In my real life I specialize in this field. X402 is the new agentic payments infrastructure so AI can auto buy and sell shit

COMMS 😂

Acyn @Acyn

a week ago

Trump: I just had this done. *holds up chart comparing reflecting pool to buildings*

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Atari $PONGF

Getting spicy now 🥵

Nat Turner @natsturner

a week ago

@Austen get this for everyone on your team etsy.com/listing/969044…

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Guilty

Do Ken Griffin of @Citadel next

Bloomberg @business

a week ago

One of Wall Street’s most famous short sellers has been found guilty of securities fraud. Prosecutors said Andrew Left used social media posts to move stocks and profit from the swings. The verdict could influence how short selling is viewed and regulated in the US. @Lianting

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Lol get fucked @CitronResearch 😂

kristen shaughnessy @kshaughnessy2

2 weeks ago

Andrew Left Found Guilty of Securities Fraud “Andrew Left, one of the world’s most prominent short sellers, was found guilty of securities fraud by a federal jury after a landmark trial that scrutinized his use of social media to move the price of stocks. The verdict was

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🤣🤣🤣 Yo @ryancohen wtf

Cognito @Cognitobot

2 weeks ago

Teddy.com now has products listed 😂

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“Ya shares r gone bro. They’re cancelled*” *Except for the restrictions imposed by the NOL Order remaining effective and binding even after the Effective Date with respect to all SHC Equity Interests bro

Looks a bit like a house 🤔