Matthew Nelson

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Steel is approximately 99% iron.

The remaining 0.02–2% is carbon, and that tiny fraction is what separates a material that bends from one that can hold up a skyscraper.

More carbon: harder and stronger, but more brittle.
Less carbon: softer and more ductile, but weaker.

The entire history of metallurgy is the story of humans learning to control that 1%.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Swedish warship Vasa sank to the bottom of the Baltic Sea in 1628.

In 1961 it was salvaged and the wood was still strong enough to be able to walk the decks.

Today is the world's best-preserved XVII century ship.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

In his free time James Madison, fourth President of the United States and the man who basically wrote the Constitution, was a hardcore chess addict. This was his real passion. He played against people like Benjamin Franklin, who thought so highly of his game that Franklin gifted him a chess set carved from ivory. Madison treated chess as his escape from the stress of running a country.

Here's the part people forget: Madison was tiny. He is the smallest President in American history, standing about 5 foot 4 and weighing around 100 pounds. So picture the physically smallest man to ever hold the office, quietly out-thinking everyone across a chessboard.

He was also low-key obsessed with ice cream. Madison loved it so much he had a two-story ice house built underneath a temple on his Montpelier estate just so he could keep eating ice cream all summer long. His wife Dolley made it the hit dessert of White House parties, and she was so beloved she inspired the term "first lady" that we still use today.

And when he finally retired, his big hobby was nerdy experimental farming. He was inventing crop and soil methods so far ahead of his time that they didn't catch on for another hundred years.

So the real James Madison: the smallest man to ever be President, crushing people at chess with a gifted ivory set, secretly building an underground ice cream vault, and quietly farming a century into the future.

That's a founding father.

[erika @yeeeerika]

the human spirit was not designed for this many passwords

[Firearm Videos @firearmvideos]

Slugs for the win

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.

A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.

It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:

56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.

More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.

343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.

That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.

The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:

The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.

Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.

Now look at the individual leaderboard:

- Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
- Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
- Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
- Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade

And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.

She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.

The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.

The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.

And the cruelest part is this:

A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.

But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.

They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.

The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

[GENO ™️ @Roadhore520]

🍠 “My 87-year-old neighbor just dropped potato wisdom that saved me $200 this year…”
She pulled out a plain cardboard box, sprinkled a handful of baking soda like it was gold dust, and whispered, “This is how we kept potatoes through the whole winter back home — no fridge, no chemicals, no sprouting.”
I thought she was joking… until I tried it.
Old-world potato preservation hack:
1. Place your potatoes in a cardboard box (breathable = key)
2. Generously dust them with baking soda
3. Tuck the box away in a cool, dark place (closet, pantry, under the bed)
4. Watch them stay firm and sprout-free for months
No more mushy potatoes. No more throwing away half the bag. Just simple, forgotten knowledge from a generation that didn’t waste a single thing.
Who else is bringing back grandma’s tricks in 2026? Drop a 🥔 if you’re trying this!
Save this before your next grocery run. Your wallet (and your potatoes) will thank you. ❤️

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Tumbleweeds start out as tiny seedlings; by summer the plant has a round shape. They grow flowers and fruits. By fall they dry and detach from their roots, so they spread their seeds.

[Sal the Agorist @SallyMayweather]

22 yrs ago today, after a long zoning dispute with local officials that ruined his business, welder Marvin Heemeyer had enough & created the Killdozer.

He destroyed the mayor’s house, the judge’s house, town hall, the police station, & the bank - while avoiding hurting civilians or their property.

Happy Killdozer Day to those who celebrate 🎊

[Philippe T @brain_stimulus]

🤯 IN 1981, ANDRE GREGORY PREDICTED EXACTLY WHERE WE’RE GOING

In the cult film “My Dinner with Andre”, he delivers this chilling monologue to Wallace Shawn:

“We’re living in some kind of Orwellian nightmare created by a world totalitarian government based on money. Everything you hear now turns you into a robot.

New Yorkers exist in a state of schizophrenia — they’re both guards and prisoners. They’ve been lobotomized and can no longer even see the prison they’ve made.

The 1960s were the last burst of the human being before he was extinguished. From now on there’ll simply be robots walking around, feeling nothing, thinking nothing… and soon nobody will remember that there once was a species called a human being.”

45 years later… we’re living it.

Was this just fiction… or a prophecy?

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿InsideLucysHead🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿© @InsideLucysHead]

You better believe it...

1. IN the 1400s, a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb, hence we have 'The rule of thumb'.

2. Many years ago, in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled 'Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden', and thus the word GOLF entered the English language.

3 Each King in a deck of playing cards, represents a great 'King' in history;

Spades - King David

Hearts, Charlemagne

Clubs, Alexander the Great

Diamonds, Julius Caesar

4. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bedframes by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress support tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on, hence, the phrase 'Goodnight, sleep tight'.

5. It was accepted practice in Babylon 4000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son in law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the 'Honey month', which we know of today as the 'Honeymoon'.

6. Since 1966, English fans have said they are going to win the cup at the start of every football competition, hence the phrase, 'Deluded twats'.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Swedish warship Vasa sank to the bottom of the Baltic Sea in 1628.

In 1961 it was salvaged and the wood was still strong enough to be able to walk the decks.

Today is the world's best-preserved XVII century ship.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Woke is a death cult that executes common sense and devours anyone who tells the truth

It spreads insanity like a plague and turns mental illness into the new standard

Worst of all, it has turned pure evil into a religion and demands we worship it

[💥Texas Girl💥 @Ilegvm]

Ronald Reagan nailed it🎯

The 2nd Amendment is crystal clear—the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.🔥

[AlphaFox @alphafox]

How to remove a tick (from existence): 🙌

[Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead]

This man is so greasy. He has a problem when democrats are held accountable.

So now’s he’s out trying to manipulate the public into being outraged.

[Taya Bass @travelingflying]

Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.

Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.

Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”

[Dr. Jebra Faushay @JebraFaushay]

Remember when Mr. T sang this Mother’s Day song? No? Let me refresh your memory. 🎶🎶🎶

[Steve @UberSteve]

"You want one hundred and eleven beers??"

[il Donaldo Trumpo @PapiTrumpo]

YUUUUUUUGE WIN FROM THE SUPREME COURT!!!😎🇺🇸🥳🥳🥳 —NO MORE RACE-BASED CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS!!!