Connor Fergusson

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

USAF A-10 Warthog returning to the UK from the Middle East, sporting multiple kill marks, including what appears to be a pair of Iranian IRGC-N fast attack boats.

📸Jess Pietschmann

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Incredible. Scotland puts a wind turbine near Trump’s golf course in Aberdeen 20 years ago. He sues and loses. Then his resulting hatred of wind turbines now ends up with the US Secretaries of Defense & Interior fabricating absurd lies to justify killing wind energy in the US.

[ElBuni @therealbuni]

El loco re feliz que le pasaban los aviones de combate por arriba y no entendia que lo estan usando de práctica de tiro jsjs
(Igual re piola)

[Breaking Aviation News & Videos @aviationbrk]

WATCH: U.S Air Force Thunderbirds and U.S. Navy Blue Angels practice a flyover this morning before the UFC Freedom 250 event this weekend at The White House.

Video: danaiiiwhite

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: LOL! Trump's big "renovations" to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool fall FLAT ON THEIR FACE as algae immediately blooms along the edges, destroying the entire point of his work.

This is beyond humiliating...

Just a day after the pool was filled following the completion of the renovations, CNN reported that there is already "quite a bit of algae visible" if one stands on the edge of the water. A worker was spotted attempting to clear the growth away, making it apparent that the administration is aware of the problem.

The Interior Department is desperately trying to downplay the failure of one of the President's signature initiative, with a spokesperson insisting that the algae is simply "residual." Of course, even "residual" algae can quickly multiply and spread. That's what algae does.

"It’s part of the normal startup process. We are removing the algae, and the nanobubblers will maintain the pool and keep it algae free,” claimed communications director Kate Martin.

“President Donald J. Trump is an expert builder who has fixed the Reflecting Pool for good unlike the failed and extremely costly attempt by Obama and Biden,” she pathetically added.

Invoking Obama and Biden in the context of Trump's sad obsession with renovating landmarks and building ballrooms is a self-inflicted PR wound from Martin. Obama and Biden didn't waste time or political discourse oxygen fixating on such petty things. They were too busy steering the economy, keeping us out of foreign wars, and strengthening our alliances. Trump talks incessantly about these pointless things because he realizes that he is a failure in all other domains and is hoping to carve out a physical legacy for himself in lieu of a historic one.

The wasteful project has cost the American people $14.2 million, a particularly bitter pill to swallow as inflation hits a 3-year high and grocery prices skyrocket thanks to Trump's illegal Iran War. The working class is struggling to survive under his leadership, and he's blowing our money on vanity projects.

Now it turns out, he can't even get the pool right.

Please ❤️ and share if you think that Trump is bad at everything!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A bomb squad was checking a suspicious backpack, and this dude got fed up with waiting

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨DONALD TRUMP JUST LOST THE MIDTERMS FOR REPUBLICANS:

Reporter: Are you concerned, Mr. President, about the latest inflation number which came out this morning?

Trump: No, I love it. I love the inflation.

America #CantAffordTrump.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

John Lasseter took time off from Pixar in 2000, packed his family into a car, and drove the old Route 66. The towns he passed had died the day the interstate bypassed them. That drive became Cars.

Back at the studio, he called Michael Wallis, the historian who literally wrote a book about Route 66, and asked for a tour. Wallis loaded eleven Pixar animators into rented Cadillacs and took them down the old road twice. They ate in diners that were barely hanging on and talked to people who had watched their main streets empty out after Interstate 40 bypassed the old route. Radiator Springs is built from those towns. The movie's whole idea, slow down and matter to someone, came from places the country forgot, not a writers' room.

The animation was the harder problem. Lasseter wanted reflections that actually bent across the paint, because a shiny car shows you the entire world around it. Every Pixar film before this had faked reflections by pasting on flat images. Cars couldn't cheat. So Pixar rebuilt its software to follow each ray of light the way light really bounces around a room. One frame took 17 hours to finish. Even with about 3,000 computers running nonstop, a single second of the movie could take days.

Joe Ranft co-directed Cars, had led Pixar's story team since Toy Story, and drew the first sketches of Mater. In August 2005, with the film nearly done, he died in a car accident at 45. He had already recorded his lines. The movie is dedicated to him.

Cars cost $120 million and made $462 million in theaters, sixth-biggest of 2006. Then the toys showed up. The merchandise sold more than $10 billion in five years, and over 200 million die-cast versions of the cars have sold. Pixar made a story about a racer who learns the finish line matters less than the road to it, and the toys from that story have outsold the movie more than twenty times over.

[Aviation @xAviation]

Super Constellation engine exhaust flames.
This NEVER gets old.
📹: m171562(Youtube)

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Trump says he didn’t promise no new wars….here’s a compilation of Trump campaigning on no new wars

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

That is some wild, unhinged stuff from the President.

Welker is a good person and honest journalist and didn’t deserve that but more importantly we have a president who constantly pushes conspiracy theories with zero evidence and can’t respond when politely challenged on that.

[Thenewarea51 @thenewarea51]

Cropped version of the “new” Area 51 test article flying footage.

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Remember when they said Zelensky desecrated the sanctity of the White House by not wearing a suit

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In 1954, a U.S. Air Force B-57B Canberra captured footage of Castle Bravo — the most powerful nuclear test ever conducted by the United States.

The detonation at Bikini Atoll yielded 15 megatons, 1,000× stronger than Hiroshima.

[Thenewarea51 @thenewarea51]

This is not a want, this is a need for me. 😎

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

We Are Living in the Dumbest Timeline

Donald Trump just posted a photo of a wind turbine next to birds and captioned it “Killing birds by the millions!”

He posted this without irony.

For every single bird killed by a wind turbine, nuclear and fossil fuel plants kill 2,118 birds. Coal alone kills roughly 7.9 million birds a year in the United States. Wind turbines? Between 140,000 and 328,000. That is not a defence of wind turbines.

We are living in genuinely, historically stupid times. Only rivalled, frankly, by the medieval peasants who blamed the Black Death on cats and promptly killed all the cats, which meant the rats multiplied, which meant more plague.

At least the peasants had the excuse of having no access to information whatsoever.

Trump has the internet. He chose this.

[Breaking Aviation News & Videos @aviationbrk]

NEW: World's longest-range aircraft, the Airbus A350-1000ULR has taken to the skies for the first time, completing a three hour 43 minute flight at an altitude of 41,000 feet.

The A350-1000ULR is being developed for Qantas Airways to enable non-stop flights between Sydney and London for the first time ever - a distance of almost 10,000 nautical miles, with flight times of up to 22 hours. This is made possible primarily by the integration into the aircraft structure of an additional rear centre tank (RCT), enhancing further the aircraft performance and increasing the range of the aircraft by 1,000 nautical miles.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Riding a space shuttle's solid rocket booster to space. Sound on 🔊

[Breaking Aviation News & Videos @aviationbrk]

WATCH: Pilot of Spirit Airlines Airbus A320 N652NK did a wing wave while departing from Las Vegas to Marana for long-term storage on Friday.

Video: @MatthewMel71455