Ben Vass

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Billy Bob Thornton: "Politically, I call myself a radical moderate. I’m like very strong in my opinions but my opinions don’t belong to any political party. I just look at what makes sense and I think we need a common sense party in this country."

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Large-format additive manufacturing just crossed a strategic threshold.

Printing a twelve-metre hull in a single pass erases the traditional boundary between prototype lab and working vessel. A mouldless process collapses weeks of tooling into hours of deposition. Capital locked in slipways, scaffolding, and skilled laminators turns into software, filament, and robotic arms.

Three immediate ripples:

1. Shipyard economics

Small yards survive on repair and custom builds because mass production ties up too much floor space and cash. One-piece printing flips the ratio. Floor space stays fixed, inventory shrink wraps, labour shifts from manual layup to machine supervision. A yard that once delivered ten craft a year can spool dozens with the same headcount.

2. Rapid design cycles

Hydrodynamics, payload integration, sensor mounts - every tweak normally needs a new mould set. Now the CAD file changes, the slicer recalculates, the printer runs overnight. Defence contractors, coast guards, and research labs gain an agile hull platform. Iterate, test, iterate again inside a single budget cycle.

3. Supply chain dispersal

Printing cells travel easier than shipwright guilds. Emerging states or remote islands could field small patrol craft without importing complete hulls. Carbon fibre filament and robotic gantries move by container, not by dockside heavylift. That decentralises maritime capability the way CNC did for firearms components.

Strategic layer:

A navy that controls metal additive can already print mission modules and spare parts at sea. Add hull printing ashore and the logistic resilience jumps again. Swarm boats, unmanned surface vehicles, dummy decoys - all become software-defined assets manufactured near the theatre.

Limitations still bind. Surface finish requires post-processing for hydrodynamic efficiency. Composite bonding demands curing control. Regulatory codes lag behind printed structures. But the trend line is locked: hull fabrication is joining the rest of industry on a curve where iteration speed outpaces legacy capital.

Deep down this looks boring only if you stare at a single black hull. Zoom out and you see an entire sector about to experience the same disruption that fused desktop printing with aerospace tooling.

Plastics first, metals next, autonomy layered on top. The shipyard of the future is a feedstock rack, a print cell, and a row of technicians writing toolpaths.

[New England Patriots @Patriots]

going, going to cali, cali ✌️

[New England Patriots @Patriots]

ROAD. WARRIORS.

@budlight | #ForTheCelly

[New England Patriots @Patriots]

AFC CHAMPIONS‼️

[Julian Edelman @Edelman11]

New England vs Everybody #GoPats

[New England Patriots @Patriots]

FLYING AROUND 💪

[Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏 @TruthFairy131]

Labor’s ‘Hate Speech CENSORSHIP Bill’ applies to "conduct" that occurred BEFORE its commencement.

Labor wants to charge people for past speech & social media posts although speech was legal at the time.

This is truly insane…

[New England Patriots @Patriots]

MVP. MVP. @DrakeMaye2

[Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏 @TruthFairy131]

Get your Aussie Flags up Australia

All of them 🤍🇦🇺

[The Noticer @NoticerNews]

A senator has warned Australians rumours are circulating in Canberra that the government is in high-level talks to permanently ban X.

"The public backlash should be swift, fierce, and unmistakable"

https://t.co/OoCVI4dcLI

[Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏 @TruthFairy131]

All we can do is watch on helplessly 🔥😔

The Vic Labor Government cut major funding to our CFA, tried to over tax & bankrupt our CFA volunteers which lead to suicides.

Vic Labor expect our CFA volunteers to fight hellfire in 45+ degrees wild weather with old, outdated Fire Trucks & equipment that is not fit for use.

We are in the middle of a drought, everything is dry & the winds are starting to pick up.

There is an eerie familiar feeling in Victoria today.

Stay alert, stay safe, look out for your friends, family & neighbours & LEAVE if you are in a danger zone.

We are no match for nature.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

UPDATE: A far-left lawyer with a ''Diploma in Islamic Finance'' just hit both @PeteZogoulas and I with simultaneous cease and desist notices for reporting on an NDIS business in West Sydney with a $250,000 super car parked out front.

We have hours of footage, I think we're potentially sitting on the Australian version of @nickshirleyy's fraud investigation. We really want to show that these abuses are happening all across the West. But we really need help to protect ourselves legally.

NDIS fraudsters are incinerating up to $10 billion a year in tax payer money. But Australia's almost non-existent free speech protections mean we already face lawsuits before publication.

We really need support from patriots like @elonmusk

[Avi Yemini @OzraeliAvi]

The left is ABOUT to CANCEL Bondi hero Ahmed Al Ahmed after declaring his love for Trump.

Legend.

[FOX Sports: NFL @NFLonFOX]

Not bad, kid 👏

The @Patriots are once again Champions of the AFC East for the first time since 2019!

[Ben Vass @BenVass]

Merry Christmas!!! 🎄🎄🎄🎄

[Malcolm Roberts 🇦🇺 @MRobertsQLD]

The people of Australia are waking up to this PM who tries to look good, not do good

His government’s hollow pretence unmasked

[Kobie Thatcher @KobieThatcher]

Ray Hadley has UNLEASHED at Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi and PM Anthony Albanese at the Bondi vigil last night.

Sharri Markson: "How can you cop Mehreen Faruqi turning up here today?"

Ray Hadley: "Hide thicker than Jessie the Elephant. Hide thicker than a rhinoceros."

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

Hey, Time Magazine, AHMED AL AHMED should be the person of the year.

His heroic action saved lives

[BroBro🇦🇺🏇🏻 @realRick_AUS]

Weak men create hard times