Joshua Todd

Father, Division Chief, Cop, Paramedic, FP-C, FireFighter, CBRNE Specialist, Disaster Scientist

[Joshua Todd @NinjaMedic]

We took an oath.

[Joel Montfort @jmontforttx]

In the 1950s and 60's, screwworm was devastating in Texas, costing billions ( adjusted for inflation) annually. In 1935, 180K livestock were lost to the fly. 50% of deer fawns died, and the fly decimated deer populations. We have to get on top of this urgently.

[Joshua Todd @NinjaMedic]

@mercoglianos @cdrsalamander Indeed, this was tongue in cheek, my point being distributed damage control is integral to every ship and installation and still falls spectacularly short. Close in air defense is simply absent in most areas.

[Pernicious Propaganda @natsecboogie]

This is a depiction based on our geolocations of both sides of the tunnel underneath the US-MEX border below.

We estimate that depending on where the tunnels were in the structures & if it was a straight line it was roughly between 575-690 meters in total length between sites.

[Joshua Todd @NinjaMedic]

@mercoglianos @cdrsalamander Nah, we have fire hoses

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

🚨 Ukraine is breaking daily records for vehicles & fuel tankers destroyed, with a focus on the land corridor to Crimea.
524 in 24 hours.
In one day, 0.5% (1/200th) of all vehicles destroyed over 1,557 days since Feb 24 2022.
One Russian fascist eliminated every 53 seconds - 1560

[Avery Tomasco @averytomascowx]

I'd also like to give a very special shoutout to the KGRK radar site in Williamson county.

Through all of the change that has happened in the last few years, KGRK maintained tradition by going down the minute storms approached.

The consistency is truly a spectacle #atxwx

[Joshua Todd @NinjaMedic]

The irony that I was looking at KGRk’s status and this apropos post from Ashley is the first thing that came up. We are long past due for a phased array replacement radar network.

[Disaster Diva ✨️💅🦺🌪📝 @MissAshes92]

KGRK letting us down again. Shocker hahaha

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

Very concerned about Big Almond

[Tim @TimurNegru]

Someone is selling an entire hill in Tuscany. 45 hectares, for €1.3M ($1.5M).

That's 111 acres of southern Tuscan countryside with a 500m² stone farmhouse on top, 9 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, a pool, and an outdoor wood-burning oven.

The estate sits at 400m altitude on a privately owned hill near Saturnia, 8 km from the famous thermal baths and 50 km from the Tyrrhenian Sea. The farmhouse was built in the early 1800s by the Piccolomini Counts as the steward's residence for what was once a much larger estate. The current 45 hectares break down as 37 ha of woodland, 7 ha of arable land, and 1 ha of olive grove with 50 trees. It borders a nature park and the Albenga River.

What makes the price interesting is the land. 45 hectares fully consolidated and bordering a protected park is rare at this level in Tuscany. Most farmhouses in this price range come with 1-3 hectares of land. Here you're buying the hill itself.

The trade-off is access. You're 160 km from Rome airport and 200 km from Pisa, so this isn't a fly-in-for-the-weekend kind of place. Then again, if you're buying a hill in Tuscany, being hard to reach is probably the point.

How much would something like this cost where you live?

[Joshua Todd @NinjaMedic]

@_danielbarcelo Excited to see this come to fruition, this is how we bring supply chains back to America, not simply more distribution nodes…

[Daniel Barcelo @_danielbarcelo]

Everyone talks about America needing more power. Fewer people are actually building it. G2_Austin.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

Navy ships have hundreds of crew, so there’s usually a trained barber—or at least one guy who can run clippers without creating a war crime.

Merchant ships have 25 people.

So you get TERRIBLE haircuts.

But I’ve never before seen one bad enough to trigger NATO Article 5.

[Commodity Wx Group @commoditywx]

Impressive two weeks of rain ahead for Texas.

[Chris Powers @fortworthchris]

Texas’ current grid capacity is ~85 GW.

Current interconnection requests statewide? Over 400 GW.

[Rahul Sidhu @rahul]

Last year, the city of Austin turned off their Flock cameras as the result of a targeted misinformation campaign.

This weekend, for nearly 24 hours, three suspects drove around Austin in stolen vehicles, undetected, conducting a shooting spree at 12 separate locations. They shot multiple people, houses, apartment buildings, businesses, and fire stations. They committed multiple robberies and car thefts during the spree. Despite a full manhunt involving 200 officers, with helicopter and K9 support, they weren't able to locate the suspects, and the spree continued.

Luckily, the suspects drove into the Flock-supported city of Manor, TX. Manor is a small city with ~20k residents, and a fraction of Austin's budget. What they do have is modern technology and the ability not to fall victim to misinformation campaigns.

After the suspects drove into Manor to continue their shooting spree, Manor PD located them almost immediately. The residents of Manor stayed safe.

This is a tale of two cities.

I love Austin. I have plenty of friends who live there. I myself almost moved there years ago. I'm glad that the shooting spree is over, but I just wish it never happened.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

One of the biggest dogpiles I ever got on X was for saying long deployments are no excuse for returning to port looking like a Russian trawler with tetanus.

I was told large rust stains were unavoidable.

Well, wither Trump has magic fairy dust or it ain’t impossible 👇

[Austin Police Department @Austin_Police]

UPDATE: The shelter in place for the south Austin area has been lifted, and two suspects are in custody. One remains at large in the Manor area. More information to follow.

[Tony Plohetski @tplohetski]

UPDATE: Authorities have issued a shelter in place for a large swath of South Austin as they search for a shooter or shooters responsible for four injuries.

[Joshua Todd @NinjaMedic]

@TomcatJunkie We will never again match the aesthetics of the HGU-33 helmets…

[Austin Statesman @statesman]

A shelter-in-place notice is being issued for a large swath of South Austin as officials try to find the shooter or shooters. https://t.co/YsAWJzqAOX