Another Day In Paradise.

GEN X, husband, father, grandfather. Disabled Veteran, IT guy, just trying to rebuild after being screwed over. I do not endorse any crypto.

[Another Day In Paradise. @OutsideChai]

Timeline test. I'm missing pictures from my media. Curious to see if this "vanishes" too.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

A father built this for his daughter and her friends.

[Chicago Bob @real_chicagobob]

@CWBChicago

[Creepy.org @creepydotorg]

Morgan Freeman has said he wears gold earrings because they are worth enough to pay for his coffin if he ever dies in a strange place.

The idea comes from an old sailor tradition, where men wore valuable earrings so their body could still be buried properly if they died far from home.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

The famous STAR WARS Pepsi ad from the 1990s is pure nostalgia. A perfect snapshot of an era when movie marketing felt like an event all on its own.

[End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸 @end3of6days9]

This guy turned every single text his HOA president sent him into a song.

Over the past year and a half, she’s been texting him nonstop about fines, videos he’s posting, eggs in the yard, signs on his lawn, his driveway, and even threatening to put a lien on his house. So instead of arguing with her, he had AI turn all her messages into a full song.

It’s honestly one of the most creative ways I’ve seen someone get back at an over-the-top HOA.

Be honest… would you turn your HOA president’s texts into a song?

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

Someone replaced the dinosaurs in JURASSIC PARK with PEE-WEE HERMAN and I love it even more now 😂🔥 (not created with AI btw)

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

Keith David has officially received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame ⭐️

David’s work:
- 140+ Movies
- 130+ TV Shows
- 25+ Video Games

[Woodz 🇺🇸 @Nibiru1000]

An Asian woman was chinking out on a NYC train. She told two Black women to go back to their country, but she was quickly reminded that she’s the one who needs to go back. One of the Black women replied, “This is what Donald Trump was talking about.” 🤣🤣🤣

[BroWire @BroWire_]

Even after her 13 year old son passed away, his friends never left the family behind.
They still visit and help look after his little brothers. Loyalty like this is rare.

[Retro Recall (☥𝐃𝐁) @RetroMoviesDB]

Ok, who can identify this movie....

Any fans?

[Cartoon Base @TheCartoonBase]

Keith David has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on his 70th birthday.

[Variety @Variety]

Keith David gets emotional and says he’s “living his dream” while accepting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

“I started out as a singer, then I wanted to be a preacher, and I wanted to be a lawyer and a bank president. Then I discovered I could be an actor and be all those things.”

https://t.co/3ZYYSgVgW6

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

Her name was Betty Ong.

And for 23 minutes on September 11, 2001, she became the calmest voice in America.

Betty was 45 years old.
A flight attendant from San Francisco.
Known to coworkers simply as “Bee.”

That morning, she was working aboard American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles.

She had picked up the trip because she planned to continue home to San Francisco afterward and then fly to Hawaii for a vacation with her sister.

At 7:59 a.m., the plane took off.

Twenty minutes later, Betty picked up a phone at the back of the aircraft and called American Airlines operations.

The reservations agent who answered heard a calm voice say:

“I think we’re getting hijacked.”

Nobody had ever made a call like that before.

Betty stayed on the line for the next 23 minutes.

While chaos unfolded around her, she remained composed and methodical.

She reported that the cockpit wasn’t responding.
That flight attendants had been stabbed.
That passengers were struggling to breathe after something resembling Mace had been sprayed.

She even gave seat numbers for the suspected hijackers.

Everything she observed was passed from American Airlines to the FAA and air traffic control in real time.

Her call helped authorities understand something horrifying:

This wasn’t an accident.

This was coordinated.

This was an attack.

People later falsely described Betty as hysterical during the call.

The woman who spoke with her directly said the opposite was true.

“She was calm, professional, and poised.”

Betty never stopped doing her job.

Even in the final minutes of her life.

At 8:46 a.m., Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

The line suddenly went silent.

The agent on the other end waited a moment and quietly asked:

“Betty… are you there?”

No answer came back.

Months later, Betty’s family fought to obtain the recording of her final call.

When they finally heard it, her brother explained something that stayed with many people afterward:

Betty never called home.

Not because she didn’t love her family.

Because in that moment, she believed her responsibility was to the passengers and crew around her.

That’s who she was.

Today, Betty Ong’s name is memorialized at Ground Zero and throughout San Francisco’s Chinatown.

But what makes her unforgettable isn’t only the tragedy.

It’s the extraordinary calm she showed while facing unimaginable fear.

She was heading to Hawaii.

Instead, she picked up a phone and helped the world understand what was happening while there was still time to warn others.

That is what courage sometimes looks like.

Not loud.
Not dramatic.

Just a steady voice doing its job until the very end.

[Cigar Aficionado @CigarAficMag]

If you don’t know the story of Richard A. Overton, you ought to.⁠
⁠
The world lost this legendary cigar smoker in 2018, at the age of 112. ⁠Overton was an unapologetic cigar smoker, a World War II veteran and was, at one time, the oldest man in the U.S. https://t.co/S88R6xkNi8

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸