Larry Fellows

A sweet Georgia guy.

[Music Jim 🎩🪄 @MusicJim2]

Boston Night Skyline 🌃 🎩🪄

Jimmy Page’s layered guitars and Robert Plant’s reflective vocals drift over the city lights perfectly.

One of Zeppelin’s most beautiful and underrated tracks. ✨🎸

#GoodNight🌹🌹🌹

[Alex Rosen @iFightForKids]

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[van Gogh Forever @vangoghforever]

The Sower

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this day in 1943, FDR signed a law that permanently changed your relationship with your own paycheck. You just never noticed, which was entirely the point.

Before the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943, Americans paid their income taxes in one lump sum. Every year, you calculated what you owed and wrote a single check to the government. You felt every dollar. You knew exactly how much the government was taking.

The 1942 wartime revenue act suddenly expanded the income tax to cover millions of working-class Americans who had never paid it before. The government desperately needed revenue. But they had a problem: how do you get people to pay a new, much larger tax without causing a revolt?

A Macy's executive named Beardsley Ruml came up with the answer. Withhold it before workers ever see it. Take it out of the paycheck automatically. Make the number on the check the only number that feels real.

It worked. The psychology was perfect. People don't grieve money they never held. The government went from collecting taxes from 7 million Americans to 60 million, almost overnight, with barely any public resistance.

They also quietly canceled 75% of what was owed from the prior year to smooth the transition. A one-time tax amnesty that almost no one remembers happened.

Economists and historians have noted for decades that withholding is a primary reason Americans never developed the visceral anti-tax anger common in countries where people write the check themselves.

You were supposed to notice. They made sure you wouldn't.

[Scott @Havenlust]

"There is peace even in the storm."

— Vincent van Gogh

[Larry Fellows @LarryFellows4]

@CumBunnyXXX @MilkyWayXX1 RIP Saya Song.

[Art @Art93539166]

Seine at Vetheuil 1879.
Claude Monet

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

In May 1944, 23-year-old Phyllis Latour jumped out of a US bomber and parachuted into occupied Normandy, France. Her mission was to gather information about Nazi positions in preparation for D-Day. Once on the ground, she quickly buried her parachute and clothes, and began a secret mission that would last four months, pretending to be a poor teenage French girl.

Phyllis had been trained by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). She learned how to send secret messages in Morse code, how to fix wireless radios, and how to spy without being caught. She also went through tough physical training in the Scottish highlands. Phyllis wanted to get revenge on the Nazis who had killed her godfather.

Phyllis said, “The men who had been sent before me were caught and killed. I was chosen because I would be less suspicious.” She would ride a bicycle through the region, pretending to sell soap, and secretly pass messages to the British about German locations. She acted like a country girl chatting with German soldiers to avoid raising suspicion. She moved from place to place to stay hidden and often slept in forests finding her own food.

Phyllis also came up with a clever way to hide her secret codes. She wrote them on a piece of silk and pricked it with a pin each time she used a code. She kept it hidden inside a hair tie. Once when the Germans briefly detained her and searched her she took out the hair tie and let her hair fall, showing she had nothing to hide. In the summer of 1944, Phyllis sent 135 coded messages helping Allied bombers find German targets.

After the war, Phyllis married and moved to New Zealand. Her children didn’t know about her wartime service until 2000, when her oldest son found out online. This hero passed on October 7, 2023. May she rest In peace.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

More driverless trucks are on our roads

These are by Gatik AI, the make 26 and 30 foot box trucks that drive 100% without a driver

They’ve already partnered with PepsiCo, Walmart, Kroger and other Fortune 50 grocers and retailers

According to data, these driverless trucks will put over 400,000 long haul truckers out of a job

And by 2030 drivers vehicles as a whole are expected to put 4.4 million drivers are of work

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

No auto tune needed … just wow.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is crazy

There are now dental practice management consultants who go to dentist offices throughout America and teach them how to increase profits by telling patients they need treatments they don’t need

Dentist offices are taught on “Finding” more issues during exams, through more aggressive diagnostics

These consulting firms charge as much as $2,000-$10,000 per month

They teach to recommend Crowns instead of fillings. Also to do Root canals and crowns on teeth that might only need a filling or could be watched

Yes, this is real and happening nationwide

I go over way more in the video recap

Our healthcare should not be a business model to increase profits. When will someone stand up and say no more. We need leaders to pass legislation against things like this or it’ll just get worse

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

There is a rule in Florence that has not been broken in over five hundred years: nothing in the city may be built taller than a dome finished in 1436.

The dome belongs to the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, and it is the work of Filippo Brunelleschi.

When you look at a photograph of Florence and notice that its skyline seems strangely, impossibly intact, you are not imagining it...

The city has protected that view, by custom and by law, since the Renaissance. To this day, no building in Florence is permitted to rise higher than the cupola.

What it guards is one of the most astonishing structures ever built. When Brunelleschi began in 1420, no one in Europe knew how to raise a dome that wide. The technology had been lost with the Romans. The cathedral had stood for decades with a hole in its roof, because the span was considered impossible to cover, and the city had essentially gambled that someone would one day work out how.

Brunelleschi built it without the wooden scaffolding everyone assumed was necessary, laying over four million bricks in a self-supporting double shell, one dome inside another, in a herringbone pattern that let each ring hold itself up as it rose.

Six centuries later, it remains the largest masonry dome in the world. Nothing built since, in brick and stone, has surpassed it.

The Italian director Franco Zeffirelli, who was born in Florence, once explained what that means to him. "When I feel depression creeping in," he said, "I return to Florence to gaze at Brunelleschi's dome. If human genius was able to achieve something so great, then I too can and must try to create, to act, to live."

That is what a skyline can be when a city decides that beauty is worth protecting...

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[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Every Major Leaguer were once a kid having fun playing baseball.

Paul Skenes was driving by Little League baseball fields last night and saw the lights on and decided to stop and throw the ball

He was there over 2 hours signing, chatting and playing

[WTF @mrwtffacts]

In California, a 17-year-old transgender female (biological male) athlete dominated a high school girls’ track meet.

She won GOLD in long jump, high jump & triple jump.

Up to 60cm over 2nd place.

Faced with backlash over the physical advantage, organizers came up with an unprecedented solution:

They awarded duplicate gold medals to the biological girls who finished in 2nd place and made them share the 1st-place podium.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

254 years ago today, an 18-year-old tavern-keeper's son borrowed his friend's gun, shot a British naval officer in the stomach, and shouted "I have killed the rascal."

Three years before Lexington and Concord.

Some Rhode Islanders say THAT was the first shot of the American Revolution.

It was June 9, 1772. The HMS Gaspee was a British customs schooner patrolling Narragansett Bay, and her commander, Lieutenant William Dudingston, had made himself the most hated man in Rhode Island.

Every day, his crew boarded merchant ships without warning. Seized cargoes. Confiscated goods with no charges and no recourse. The crew had a financial incentive to collect as much as possible because they shared in the customs revenue. They insulted sailors to their faces. Even the Governor of Rhode Island had written to London complaining about him.

Nobody in London cared.

On the afternoon of June 9, Dudingston made a mistake. While chasing a small packet boat named the Hannah across the bay, the Gaspee ran aground on a sandbar off Warwick. She was stuck until the tide came in, well after midnight.

The captain of the Hannah sailed straight to Providence and found John Brown, the wealthiest merchant in Rhode Island.

Brown didn't waste a minute.

He had eight longboats brought to the wharf, their oars wrapped in cloth so they wouldn't make a sound. Then he sent a town crier through the streets of Providence banging a drum, announcing that the Gaspee was grounded. Anyone who wanted to settle things with her should come to James Sabin's house by the water.

More than 100 men showed up.

Among them: a 19-year-old named Ephraim Bowen, who grabbed his father's gun and ammunition. His friend, 18-year-old Joseph Bucklin, a tavern-keeper's son with nothing to lose.

On a moonless night, they rowed out in silence across the bay.

When they reached the Gaspee, Dudingston leaned over the gunwale in his white shirt and demanded: "Who goes there?"

Abraham Whipple, a Providence seafarer who was also somehow the sheriff of Kent County, answered him.

"I am the sheriff of the county of Kent, G-d d-mn you. I have got a warrant to apprehend you, G-d d-mn you; so surrender, G-d d-mn you."

Bucklin turned to Bowen and said: "Ephe, reach me your gun and I can kill that fellow."

Bowen handed it over.

Bucklin fired. Dudingston took a ball in the arm and lower abdomen and collapsed on the deck, convinced he was dying.

The men swarmed aboard. The crew was captured, Dudingston was carried off the ship, and then they burned the Gaspee to the waterline.

The British launched a full royal commission to find and prosecute the perpetrators.

They couldn't get a single person in Rhode Island to testify against anyone.

Not one.

Nobody was ever charged.

Lexington and Concord happened three years later. Paul Revere got a poem. Joseph Bucklin got a footnote.

Most Americans have never heard his name.

[Slime🐍 @ItsKingSlime]

D1 Volleyball athlete Naija Gadis prank-calls her Dad, Indiana basketball hall of famer David Gadis, to ask him about stats of the guy she’s “dating,” but they were her Dad’s college stats all along 😭💀👀

“He’s not gonna play in the NBA. He’s gotta get an education”

[Art @Art93539166]

Vincent Van Gogh

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Jeff Dunham performed for 4,000 Muslims in Abu Dhabi. Two nights later, he performed for 4,000 Jewish people in Tel Aviv without changing a word of the show.

After hearing what happened, Bill Maher was so astonished he told him he should do a documentary on it.

DUNHAM: “Doing a show there for 4,000 Muslims, and all in the front rows were the guys in the white dishdashas and the women in the black… And I did the same show with Achmed, the dead terrorist, and that was their favorite character.”

MAHER: “It’s my favorite, too.”

DUNHAM: “Thanks! Well, two nights later, I’m in the middle of Tel Aviv, Israel, doing the exact same show for 4,000 Jewish people. Didn’t change a word of the show. And they all loved it equally the same. So my big thing is I truly feel this world is filled with good people that all want the same things… And it takes a handful of idiots to f*ck it up for everybody else.”

MAHER: “You know what you should do? … You should do that as a documentary special.”

DUNHAM: “Oh…”

MAHER: “The same show in both those cities. Put stuff in the middle. Little interviews here and there… But show the same material, from that character working in both those cities. I think that would be very powerful. A lot of people would watch that. I would definitely watch that.”

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

Genetically Modified Mayo: Hellmann's 'Real' Mayonnaise now requires a bioengineered label on its jars.

Less than 2% of each jar is egg...98% is chemicals, oils, corn starch, EDTA & thickened with gums.

This isn’t food anymore — it’s a Frankenstein experiment in a jar. GMO corn, seed oils that inflame your arteries and disrupt hormones, EDTA that leaches minerals from your body, and synthetic gums that wreck your gut lining. Every spoonful is quietly feeding chronic disease, autoimmune chaos, and the slow poisoning of America’s families.

They slapped a “bioengineered” warning on it like it’s no big deal — because they know most people won’t read it. Hellmann’s sold its soul for profit while we were busy trusting the brand our grandparents used.

STOP FEEDING THIS TO YOUR KIDS.
Boycott it. Throw it out. Make your own in 60 seconds with real ingredients. Your body will thank you.

Quick Homemade Butter Mayo (Immersion Blender – makes about 1 cup)
Ingredients:
- 1 large egg (room temperature)
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard (or prepared mustard)
- ¼ teaspoon salt (or to taste; use ½ tsp if butter is unsalted)
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, melted and cooled slightly to warm (not hot)

Directions:
1. Place the egg, lemon juice, mustard, and salt in a tall narrow jar or container that just fits your immersion blender head.
2. Insert the immersion blender to the bottom and blend for a few seconds until combined.
3. With the blender running, slowly pour in the melted butter. Move the blender up and down gently as it thickens into creamy mayo (about 30-60 seconds total).
4. Taste and adjust salt or lemon if needed.

Store in a glass jar in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.

[Larry Fellows @LarryFellows4]

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