AmandaGT

WNC Native 🦄 Drum and Bass! Co-Founder: Elevate DNB & Antidote DNB. Mac Nerd, Gamer, Toy Collector, Go Braves & Steelers!

[Swedish Canary 🇺🇸🇸🇪 @SwedishCanary]

Jim Jones: I got 900 people to drink poisoned kool-aid.
Anthony Fauci: Hold my beer

[Speedy Pete🇺🇸 @TweetSpeedyPete]

RC is wearing shades because the sun never sets on a true American badass. @RCRracing @austindillon3 @tydillon

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

One of the most jarring things about adulthood is the realization of how many truly incompetent people are in the most important jobs. When I was a kid, I just assumed everyone “important” was smart or they wouldn’t be important. Boy, was that fucking wrong.

[jay @SadVikes]

Got the whole world rooting against us in a sport we don't even care about

Gentlemen, we made it 🇺🇸

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The US mows roughly 12 million acres of roadside every year. That's larger than the state of Maryland, maintained as mowed grass that feeds almost nothing, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

North Carolina figured out a better use for it in 1985. What started as 12 experimental acres of native wildflowers planted along roadsides has grown to 1,500 managed acres across the state, saving an estimated $200,000 a year in mowing costs while providing habitat for pollinators, birds, and the beneficial insects that control crop pests on nearby farms.

A 2024 BioScience review found something surprising to many: a mown safety strip immediately adjacent to the pavement, with native wildflowers planted in the wider verge beyond it, actually reduces insect mortality by keeping pollinators on one side of the road rather than crossing it.

12 million acres is an enormous amount of potential habitat that currently does almost nothing. The fix isn't complicated. It's mostly just stopping the mower in the right places.

Studies:

Doi 10.1093/biosci/biad111
Doi 10.1007/s10841-018-0051-2

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[William "Balloon Guy" Kim @TheKimulation]

There are two types of countries: those that can deploy a Tactical Burger King anywhere in the world and those that use the metric system

[AmandaGT @AmandaGT00]

@MLBRaleigh @SaxmanPictures @NC_Governor @JoshStein_ @ncspeakerhall @SenatorBerger @JanetCowell @RaleighGov @VisitNC @mitchell_silver @1stormie1 @visitRaleigh The entire southeast is #BravesCountry. Good luck with all that though.

[AmandaGT @AmandaGT00]

@Danielle_Stein9 NC is #bravescountry

[AmandaGT @AmandaGT00]

@NC_Governor You are so embarrassing

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

House doesn’t always win

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

Jim Valvano taught us to enjoy life and to cherish every moment.

As we continue this journey, we’re reminded that the Stanley Cup Final is about more than hockey. It’s about people, purpose, sacrifice, and appreciating the moments that bring us together.

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

WE’RE HEADING TO THE STANLEY CUP FINAL

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We're in a weird era where a guy gets publicly shamed for running his sprinklers on a Tuesday, while a data center the size of a Costco quietly drains a reservoir so AI can generate a picture of your cat as a medieval knight. And the data center gets a tax incentive for it.

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

WHO WANTS A BEER SKATE?!

RT for your chance to win the hottest drinking device in sports.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Someone said “Baby Boomers did that thing where you leave a single square of toilet paper on the roll and pretend it’s not your turn to change it, but with a whole society” and now I can’t stop thinking about it.

[Orry Lee Kennedy @cornbreadcowboi]

Growing up in the south there was only one man respected more than Dale Earnhardt. And that was Bobby Cox. Every dad in the 90s wanted to be Dale Earnhardt but all those men admired the true great leader of the South..Bobby Cox. Every summer as a kid you would spend outside playing ball pretending to be Chipper..Klesko..Gallaraga or whatever new ball player the Braves added to the lineup that you learned the batting stance of so you could unload a tennis ball into the trees behind your mom’s garden in the backyard. It was Bobby’s world. He was the general who commanded excellence in Atlanta and we all got to watch live on TBS. From rainouts and Andy Griffith to pennants and World Series the man with the 6 on the back of his Jersey ran a tight ship and that carried over from the tv screen to sandlots across Dixie. If crime dog didn’t let Bobby down then neither could the boys of Keith Circle where I grew up. We started using golf balls and wrapping them with duck tape to form a baseball. ‘Tape ball’ was what we called it. We’d take whatever we needed from Mr. Donnie’s shed as he always was the Bobby Cox of our neighborhood encouraging us to play ball. He’d have the Braves game on the radio at all times it felt like. From Fulton county stadium to my little neighborhood in Williston, South Carolina.. Braves baseball created magic that spread throughout the South that shaped the lives of many young men like myself and the boys of Keith Circle. Without Bobby Cox there was no magic. From the Braves dugout to all the TVs across Dixie.. his ‘take no crap’ aura and ‘play the game the right way’ attitude is the reason he was so beloved and respected. May his legacy be known and talked about in churches and in bars and pharmacies and diners. I know all the old men in Hardee’s for breakfast come Monday morning won’t forget Bobby and will have plenty to talk about as they read the paper and sip their coffee. The South won’t forget Bobby. And neither will I..

..now how bout them Braves

RIP Bobby Cox

[Leland @ItsLeland]

In honor of Bobby Cox, here’s almost 20 minutes of him getting ejected.

Legend.

[Atlanta Braves @Braves]

❤️

[AmandaGT @AmandaGT00]

@bobpockrass Why don’t they sue Carson for his Dega win and make him give it to TyBaby Gibbs? That’s how ridiculous this has gotten 😂