Bernie Lynch

[Bernie Lynch @BernieLynch3rd]

Thanks to @Uber_Support for resolving the aforementioned issue. It is much appreciated!

[Bernie Lynch @BernieLynch3rd]

@Uber_Support For over a month I've tried to correct the payment on my Uber Eats order from March 17, 2026 ($30.80). I had over $40 in Uber Cash but accidentally used my company credit card. Your support team acknowledged the error multiple times in April, gave me steps I followed, but the switch was never processed.

My requests have fallen on deaf ears. My only remaining option is disputing with my credit card company.

Please escalate and fully reverse the $30.80 charge to my credit card.

Screenshots attached.

[Bernie Lynch @BernieLynch3rd]

@CynicalPublius Word of the Day- Anathema

[Bernie Lynch @BernieLynch3rd]

@CynicalPublius The original Star Trek as well.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

At an aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes

[Bernie Lynch @BernieLynch3rd]

@CynicalPublius @aimtomisb3hav3 Man, if it’s not politics, religion, color, creed, etc. it has to be your age! The same divisive commentary just a different means. Usually, it’s the older generation criticizing the younger. Nice to see we’ve come full circle. Hilarious.

[Matthew Modine @MatthewModine]

On the set of FULL METAL JACKET with R. Lee Ermey in 1985. Since we shot the film in reverse (Vietnam in ’85 and Boot Camp in ’86), Lee was serving as technical advisor here. Actor Tim Colceri was originally cast to play Gunnery Sgt. Hartman. Fortunately for audiences (and unfortunately for Tim), Lee convinced Stanley that he was the real deal and replaced Colceri. Thankfully you can still see Tim as the helicopter door gunner in the “Get some” scene.

If you’d like to support the @FMJDiary project and exhibition (currently on display at the National Veterans Memorial and Museum in Columbus, Ohio), you can bid on some signed FMJ items here: https://t.co/1IS30wNjSG

[Margot Cleveland @ProfMJCleveland]

A thought on Cassidy’s defeat.  Donald Trump’s philosophy of practicing politics is simple: “If you hit me, I’ll hit you back 10 times harder.”  This is his way of imposing discipline so he can get things done.  Many Republicans mistake this for childish petulance.  The ironic thing is that when these oh-so-high-minded Republicans (Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Thom Tillis, etc.) get their comeuppance, they are the ones who react with truly childish petulance.  They are the ones willing to frustrate the advancement of the conservative agenda that they once claimed to support, simply because they didn’t get their way.  For all his supposed faults, Trump constantly tries to advance the agenda he has been pushing since before he was elected.  His Republican detractors, not so much.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is what the internet was invented for.

In 1996, a King Penguin called Lala became a local celebrity in Shibushi, Japan. After being rescued from a fishing net by the Nishimoto family, he refused to return to the wild.

He lived in an air-conditioned room in their home and was famous for walking alone to the fish market wearing a tiny backpack.

The fishmonger would feed him a fresh fish and place another in his bag for the trip home.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Arthur C. Clarke on BBC's Horizon in 1964, when he gave some astonishing predictions about the future.

[Bécquer 🇪🇸✒🔡 @GustavoAdolf_]

A los 30 años, borracho y sin trabajo, me senté en el borde de la cama y pensé: "Anthony, no puedes seguir así".
Había llegado a Londres desde Gales con un sueño: ser actor. Pero el sueño se convirtió en pesadilla. El alcohol me controlaba. Perdía papeles, mi mujer me dejó, mis amigos me abandonaron. Pasaba los días en bares oscuros y las noches en camerinos vacíos.
Una noche, en 1967, entré en una reunión de Alcohólicos Anónimos. Tenía miedo. No del alcohol, sino de mí mismo. De la debilidad que sentía al pedir ayuda.
No bebí un solo trago en 57 años.
Después llegó la sobriedad. Y con ella, el trabajo. "El hombre elefante", "Los restos del día", "El Silencio de los Corderos... un Oscar y muchos premios. Una carrera que todavía hoy continúa.
Pero la fama no curó las heridas. Tuve que aprender a vivir conmigo mismo a aceptar mi pasado y a perdonarme.
Hace unos años, durante la pandemia, grabé un video que se hizo viral. Hablaba de no rendirse. Hablaba de la vejez, de la soledad, del valor de seguir adelante. No lo hice por fama. Lo hice porque aquel chico de 30 años necesitaba oír esas palabras.
Si hoy te sientes perdido, si el alcohol o cualquier otra droga te está destruyendo, pide ayuda. Yo lo hice. Y aquí estoy, medio siglo después, sobrio y contándotelo.
No hay vergüenza en caer. La hay en no levantarse.

Anthony Hopkins🇬🇧

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Milton Friedman on responsibility to the poor.

[healthbot @thehealthb0t]

42 year old man took the Moderna shot and died right in front of doctors.

DR. MCCULLOUGH: "If this was any other new drug on the market that caused a fatality, it would have been pulled immediately."

But not the COVID vaccine!

[WORLD NEWS @_MAGA_NEWS_]

WATCH: In a jaw-dropping revelation that's sending shockwaves through Canada, Alberta separatist lawyer Jeff Rath CONFIRMS he has been meeting with high-level officials in the Trump administration. Rath claims US President Donald Trump will recognize Alberta as a sovereign state.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

A K9 appeared to be suspicious of White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting suspect Cole Allen but was pulled away just seconds before Allen charged through security.

The dog was seen following Allen through a doorway but was pulled back by its handler.

Immediately after the handler turned away with the dog, Allen was seen charging through security.

What a massive failure on every level.

[Laocoon of Troy @LaocoonofTroy]

The first successful and unassisted, shipboard takeoff from the wooden deck of the USS Birmingham, by American aviator, Eugene Burton Ely, 1910.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

https://t.co/hAfivVC22i

[Laocoon of Troy @LaocoonofTroy]

A Corsair and Landing Signal Officer (LSO) on the USS Essex. WW2, vic Luzon, Philippines, 1944.

[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

Trump to Fox just gut-punched the Iranian regime with surgical finality:

“We have all the cards. They can call us anytime they want, but you’re not going to be making any more 18-hour flights to sit around talking about nothing!”

The message is ice-cold, venom-laced clarity:

the era of performative diplomacy is fucking over.

The mullahs’ pathological theocracy...rotted by apocalyptic eschatology and a death-cult psychology that mistakes tactical patience for strategic genius...has spent decades fucking around through proxies, nuclear brinkmanship, and ritualistic chants of “Death to America” while their economy hemorrhages under the weight of their own corruption and sanctions.

They don’t negotiate; they perform grievance theater for their Revolutionary Guard kleptocrats and their Russian-Chinese enablers, convinced that American will is as soft and fleeting as the last administration’s.

Trump understands the pathology at a bone-deep level.

This isn’t mere bluster...it’s the Clausewitzian recognition that war is politics by other means, and endless talks without credible coercion are just subsidized Iranian stall tactics.

Militarily, the ledger is merciless:

we own the Persian Gulf with carrier strike groups, fifth-generation air dominance, and precision munitions that can turn Natanz or Fordow into smoking craters in minutes.

Their asymmetric toys...drones, missiles, Hezbollah foot soldiers...are kindergarten threats against layered U.S.-Israeli kill chains.

Geopolitically, they’re encircled and isolated; even their “axis of resistance” is bleeding out in real time.

Sun Tzu would call it suicidal hubris:

they know neither themselves nor their enemy. They’ve mistaken restraint for weakness for so long they’ve internalized the delusion that America will always blink first.

Trump’s line is pure lethal philosophy...maximum pressure without apology.

Call when you’re ready to fold on our terms.

Keep testing the line, and the Iranian regime is about to discover, in the most final and unforgettable way, exactly what “find out” feels like when the sleeping giant stops pretending to sleep.

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[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

No British government ever imagined an American president might finally tell the truth about the “special relationship.”

Until now.

Spare me the pearl-clutching obituary from The Economist, that decaying salon of transatlantic nostalgia where the ghost of Churchill is still being pimped out like a rent-boy for Davos subscriptions.

Your precious bunting of flags in the bin isn’t some tragic metaphor for Trump’s “betrayal.”

It’s the autopsy photo of a one-way parasitic bargain that America has carried on its back like a drunk uncle for eighty goddamn years.

And the drunk finally woke up, looked around, and said: Fuck this.

This isn’t “turning his back.”

This is a sovereign nation refusing to keep subsidizing a continent of strategic eunuchs who have spent decades castrating their own militaries, hollowing out their industrial bases, and importing the very pathologies that make them security liabilities rather than allies.

You want the special relationship?

Earn it. Reciprocate it. Stop treating the United States like an ATM with nuclear weapons.

Geopolitically and militarily, the numbers don’t lie and they never have.

The United States still shoulders roughly sixty percent of total NATO defense spending...$845 billion out of a collective $1.4 trillion last year.

Most of your European “partners” couldn’t hit the 2% GDP target even after Russia parked tanks on Ukraine’s border and started lobbing missiles at civilian infrastructure.

Britain under Starmer talks a big game about “global Britain” while quietly slashing capability, courting CCP-linked cash, and letting its own streets burn under the weight of demographic transformation and speech codes that make the old East German Stasi look libertarian.

You lecture us about values while your own government criminalizes tweets and turns Rotherham into a cautionary tale the media still refuses to fully autopsy.

Historically, the ledger is even more damning. We bled for you in 1917 and 1941 when your empires were on the ropes.

We bankrolled your reconstruction, anchored your defense for the entire Cold War, and let you punch above your weight on the world stage because sentimental Anglosphere nostalgia still meant something.

In return? Suez 1956, where you expected us to back imperial nostalgia while we were trying to contain Soviet expansion.

Vietnam, where you sat it out. Iraq, where you half-assed it and then spent the next twenty years sneering at us in your broadsheets. And every single time an American president dared put America First, your commentariat wailed like Victorian widows about the death of the alliance...as if the alliance was ever meant to be a suicide pact.

You’ve internalized a victimhood narrative so profound it borders on the clinical...projecting your own national decline, your own loss of agency, your own self-inflicted castration onto the one country that still possesses the will to act like a great power.

Trump doesn’t “deprioritize” the relationship; he simply refuses to indulge the delusion any longer.

He sees what you refuse to admit:

the United Kingdom of 2026 is no longer the reliable offshore balancer of 1945.

It’s a mid-tier European power wrestling with internal entropy, elite disconnect, and a demographic trajectory that makes long-term strategic partnership… let’s just say, complicated.

We are sick of it. Sick of the free ride. Sick of the lectures from people whose capitals are turning into no-go zones while their defense ministers beg Washington for more F-35s and more carrier groups to patrol waters they can no longer secure themselves.

Sick of the pomp, the pageantry, the royal visits, and the hand-wringing editorials that treat American self-interest as some kind of moral failing.

The special relationship isn’t dead. It’s being stress-tested by reality.

And reality, Mr. Economist, is a vicious bitch with a ledger in one hand and a mirror in the other.

Look into it.

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