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Life Enjoyer™️ | Head of Production at Slum Bubba Ent. | Executive Associate at No Limits Entertainment | Matthew 10:16 | SC: @kevlang12.

[blondegotti.eth @KevLang12]

Wishing you the warmest of tidings this Christmas season...

[Travis Chapman @Travispaints]

I painted a happy ending to the bison story

[WILD SPICY🔥 @OhFuckYeahBud82]

If it was me out there #different

[アメリカ大使館 @usembassytokyo]

In Tokyo tomorrow? Celebrate America’s 250th birthday by watching the Tokyo Tower, Rainbow Bridge, and Tokyo Aqua Symphony illuminated! Snap a photo or video of Red, White, and Blue lighting up the night sky. We’d love to share your photos!
Simply use #A250inJapan

Light-up Times:
🇺🇸🇯🇵Tokyo Tower: Friday, July 3, 2026 7:00 PM – midnight
🇺🇸🇯🇵Rainbow Bridge: Friday, July 3, 2026 7:00 PM – midnight
🇺🇸🇯🇵Tokyo Aqua Symphony: Friday, July 3, 2026 6:30PM – 9:30 PM

[Matt Grimm @mttgrmm]

Most founder and VC types love to publicly celebrate the wins, the product launches, the major milestones... And fair enough! Building new hard tech is indeed incredibly rewarding when things work. Anduril does plenty of celebrating!

But what doesn't get talked about nearly enough is how often things *don't* work. Every company building rockets, aircraft, engines, missiles, drones, or any other difficult tech has LOTS of days where something doesn’t work, when a test goes badly, when you thought you got it juuuuust right but womp, not so much. Those days suck, but they are also inevitable on the path to success.

Well, Friday was one of those days for Anduril.

A solid rocket motor exploded during a test fire at our factory in Mississippi. Most importantly, no one was hurt. The safety systems worked exactly as designed. The team responded exactly the way they've trained to, and damages to our test stand were minimal. By the end of the day everyone was already focused on understanding what went wrong and getting ready for the next test. There's a reason for the cliché "not rocket science" -- because rocket science is actually quite difficult! Friday's test failure is just one example of why.

Development testing exists to answer difficult questions before the design goes into production. Obviously we aim and hope for successful tests, but just as obvious, every test failure gives us data. Every anomaly improves the next design. Every test, in the long run, makes the program stronger. Even if Friday sucked (and it did), we take a deep breath and move onto the next one. We'll be back to test firing rockets within weeks.

Anduril is continuing to build and test rocket motors weekly, and the production facility remains on schedule. Disciplined iteration begets steady progress, and we're already putting the pieces of our test stand back together for the next test.

Onwards.

[Leaf @loveyleaf0000]

how did homer have time to write the odyssey between looking after lisa and bart and maggie

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

C.S. Lewis, what a line

[Dr. Ben Braddock @GraduatedBen]

President Trump condemns LED light bulbs, says “the light is no good”, praises incandescent light bulbs as superior choice.

[josh @joshypooper]

you’re laughing. i told you a joke and you’re laughing. i love you

[wiwi @wiwipilled]

has anyone done this yet

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

🇺🇸

[Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson @NASADepAdmin]

Not a bad way to spend day two on the job.

Thanks for the flight, @NASAAdmin, and best of luck to @SpaceX on Starship Flight 12!

[Kurt Steiner @Kurt_Steiner]

Once upon a time the NYT may have featured American factory workers cleaned out by global trade policies (“sad but ‘inevitable’”), but now we are supposed to feel bad for senior VPs at non-profits having to join the ranks of the commoners to make ends meet.

[Nate @dodgernate]

Proud of my country for destroying the Giants

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

"The Pentagon isn’t asking you to help build Skynet. They’re asking you to not have veto power over how a democratically accountable military uses a tool it purchased. Their point about “all lawful purposes” is actually the correct institutional boundary: the military operates under law, under civilian control, under congressional oversight"

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

I dunno man seems like wars are super easy when the objective is to win and not launder a trillion dollars to your friends in the DC-VA-MD area for decades

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

Total Victory. No Retreat.

America Is Back.

[Corey Miller @corey_miller5]

"Hockey's our game. It's the United States of America's game. It's the greatest country in the world."

I caught up with Matthew and Brady Tkachuk right after they won gold with #TeamUSA.

On the moment they've dreamed about forever, and their appreciation for St. Louis: