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Sports fan, bon vivant, pop culture, working in customer experience in startupland, based in Paris (🇫🇷) 🤘 Talk to me about Man City, AS Monaco, Paris Basketball, Racing 92, Baltimore Ravens & Orioles, or Washington Wizards ⚽️🏀🏈⚾️🏉
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You can take the woman out of the US, but you can’t take the US outta the woman: "“The first time I had a blood orange was in a can of San Pellegrino”" 😅 fun lunchtime conversation with my wife!

There’s a first time for everything! Won my first NYT Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle #154 🟢🟣🟣🟣 🟣🟣🟣🟣 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟢🟢🟢🟢 🟡🟡🟡🟡

Absolutely stoked to read a story on my old neighborhood basketball court in the New York Times (by way of The Athletic) I used to play about 1.5 to 2 hours there every Sunday mornings back when we used to live in Montmartre/Pigalle!

Unsurprising but insane god-complex coming out of… you guessed it, Silicon Valley: "Zayner wants to create the next generation of pets. “I think, as a human species, it’s kind of our moral prerogative to level up animals”" [≠]

@ariellecastillo.bsky.social 👋 Hi there :)

Basketball has made some rich. It delivered lifelong friends. It forged camaraderie and rivalry. It brought one of the best basketball players of all time to tears. More on Kevin Durant: http://dlvr.it/TJ4Sm7

Huge game tonight! Come on City! #RMAMCI @mancity @championsleague We’re trailing by one goal but this is a return game in Madrid. Great lineup and hoping for a dominant 3-1 display to go through 🤞⚽️💪 🩵🤍

Absolute insanity from the US, unsurprisingly: "This executive order instructs federal employees of the federal government to ignore Supreme Court rulings and congressional actions if the President or Attorney General tell them ... https://www.tibz.blog/2025/02/19/absolute-insanity-from-the-us.html

John Gruber diving deep into the changes from Gulf of Mexico to the other name: "…until Trump’s executive action, there was no controversy, zero, none, nada, anywhere in the world, amongst any group of people, regarding the name ... https://www.tibz.blog/2025/02/18/john-gruber-diving-deep-into.html

Bref 2: un éclair de génie ⚡️ ❤️‍🩹

Coffee & Complexity: climate change is here and affecting our coffee prices: https://www.tibz.blog/2025/02/17/coffee-complexity-climate-change-is.html

Wrapping up our yearly Birthdays-and-Anniversaire week with a long family walk and an unbelievable dinner

🎥 🍿 The Gorge ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A cool concept let down by a final act that went a bit too fast in terms of pacing in contrast with the exposition of the beginning of the movie. Think Resident Evil x Annihilation x a RomCom

We don’t deserve @reckless.bsky.social

These dummies could have had a compliant corporate Dem with literal Uber lobbyists on her staff and instead they did school shootings and measles

A lovely walk today to reset and reconnect with my wife and daughter. Also, some miscellaneous scenes at home :)

Finishing #Silo season 2 tonight. That article last year on the Verge was right: Apple TV+ definitely is the best place to watch great and unique Sci-fi

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

@ahsannaeem.bsky.social The kids will be alright, eh?! I know this is only Newcastle, but the team seems to be playing much more freely and reinvigorated today

Omar Marmoush.

Omar Marmoush, what a guy! #MCINEW

Major FOMO on the newly launched Topps Series 1 but we’re trying to save money over the next few months, so… 🤷‍♂️

Perfect timing — I guess they were waiting for the AI Summit but French startup Mistral behind the French/European AI (Mistral) just updated and upgraded their platform. Much faster and more powerful. Gonna give it a try for work and play 😊 [≠]

I hate that the Substack notes feed is such a better microblogging feed, but a closed system en that is probablyy never coming to the open web

Paris Basketball v JDA Dijon (Coupe de France - Quarter finals): https://www.tibz.blog/2025/02/11/paris-basketball-v-jda-dijon.html

Finally took some time to update my /now page :)

Good news for those of us using GenAI on the regular ⚡️🔌🔋

Cette équipe du Réal me fatigue, mais d’une force 😩

This Real Madrid team is so fucking exhausting I swear

This is a fantastic idea. White conservatives should definitely pick a fight with Kendrick Lamar

"The revolution will be televised... but you picked the wrong guy." Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar's Superbowl performance is why funding arts and humanities matters. We have Kendrick because his teacher introduced him to poetry and writing.

Congratulations to Super Bowl LIX champion Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick’s set was My Super Bowl. Incredible set and performance with many clever layers! For anyone who’s curious or wanting to discover more about it, there’s (already) a Dissect podcast episode ready to go. www.tibz.blog

Birthday weekend 3️⃣4️⃣ 🎁 Decided to go to our local German pub for luck today — I realized I haven’t had a delicious currywurst since 2013 (!)

Watching powerless from Europe how democracy is crumbling in the US, reminds me of those movies where someone is mind-controlled by an alien or ghost. I want to yell: "America, we know you are still in there. If you can hear us, you must fight. YOU CAN DO IT. FIGHT THIS!"

The end of the British Empire as a superpower can be pretty easily marked in history; the Suez Crisis, 1956. An act of imperial arrogance and despotism that the world, rightly, railed against. The jump from aggressor to pariah is a short one.

🏀 An update on my Washington Oui-OuiZards: "There will be more misery in the months ahead. But that’s reason to be hopeful. In the NBA, short-term misery can lead to long-term elation." [≠]

Exciting game but tough #Euroleague defeat at home againstst the most in-form team of the 2025 calendar year.