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[Ricardo @RichardOfAragon]

@theforum @ladygaga Take me back to better times

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.

The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.

Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.

To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.

[Ricardo @RichardOfAragon]

@nurse_mdt @califan71 @VoteMarsha A fetus isn’t a baby. Y’all don’t even care about kids who are starving in America. Get fucking real.

[Ricardo @RichardOfAragon]

@yonosayway @amalaekpunobi You despise her because she has different opinions than you?

[Ricardo @RichardOfAragon]

@qqy201010 As if those punches would hurt Superman lol

[Parker Butler @parkerpbutler]

They had to film this with a green screen because the gas budget alone would’ve been four figures

[Ricardo @RichardOfAragon]

@PamelaHensley22 You’re not even from NY. Stfu lol

[men only ♂️solo hombres ♂️ @men29625]

Henry Cavill - Royal Ascot 2026

[Ricardo @RichardOfAragon]

@neoagrarian @politics_watch1 And you’d still jerk off to it.

[Alex Boge @alexboge]

I find these World Trade Center simulations by Kostack Studio fascinating because they remove the smoke and let you see the collapse much more clearly.

In the real footage, so much is hidden by fire, dust, debris, distance, and chaos that many people come away with the impression that the towers simply dropped straight down into their own footprints.

But that is not really what happened.

These simulations make it much easier to see that the collapse begins in the heavily damaged and fire-weakened region, the upper section starts moving and tilting, and the destruction then propagates downward through the structure.

The towers do not simply disappear vertically into their own footprints. Large portions of the upper structure and exterior are moving outward and to the side as the collapse develops. Much of that motion is simply obscured in the real videos once the enormous debris cloud forms.

And this is also why I find these simulations useful when people describe the collapses as looking like “controlled demolition.”

Strip away the smoke and dust and the resemblance becomes much less convincing.

What you see is a highly asymmetric structural failure beginning around the aircraft-damaged and fire-affected floors, followed by an enormous moving mass progressively overwhelming the structure beneath it. There is tilting, rotation, exterior columns peeling away, debris being thrown far outside the building footprint, and structural failure occurring chaotically as the collapse moves downward.

That is very different from the neat mental image usually implied by “controlled demolition,” where structural supports are deliberately severed in a carefully timed sequence to produce a predetermined collapse.

And importantly, we already know what preceded these collapses.

Both towers suffered massive aircraft-impact damage. Fireproofing was stripped from portions of the structure. Large, uncontrolled fires then burned across multiple floors - for about 56 minutes in the South Tower and about 102 minutes in the North Tower - heating and weakening structural components until collapse initiated.

Once that upper mass began moving, the loads imposed on the floors and structure beneath became vastly greater than anything they had been designed to carry.

The result was progressive collapse.

No, an animation is not proof simply because it looks convincing, and these are not official NIST simulations. They are visualizations built under particular assumptions.

But as visualizations, I think they are extremely useful.

They let you see something the original footage often cannot show clearly: beneath that enormous cloud of smoke and debris was a complicated, violent, asymmetric structural failure - not two buildings neatly dropping straight down into their own footprints.

A note on the simulation: this is not intended to reproduce the collapse down to the exact motion of every beam, floor panel, and fragment of debris. No practical simulation could do that. Its value is in modeling the large-scale structural behavior - how the major sections deform, move, tilt, separate, and progressively fail. Think of it as a visualization of the mechanics and overall collapse behavior, not a frame-by-frame reconstruction of where every piece of steel ultimately landed.

[AMERICANDREAM09 🇺🇸 Jack Media ~DREAM @JackMedia7]

The South Tower: Video footage shows a stream of glowing, silvery-orange liquid pouring from the northeast corner of the South Tower (around the 80th floor) shortly before it fell.

THERMITE? In short, thermite does not “eat” steel chemically; it delivers enough heat and molten iron to melt, mix with, and fuse steel, which is why it is valued for field welding of large steel sections and ➡️ can also be used to cut metal when applied in a focused way.

The mixture is hard to start (it needs a high-temperature igniter such as a magnesium strip or special starter powder) but once running it is self-sustaining and difficult to extinguish.

Effect on steel
Steel melts at roughly 1,370–1,540 °C depending on composition. Thermite easily exceeds that, so it can both melt steel and deposit new molten iron that fuses with it.

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[Ricardo @RichardOfAragon]

@Bluecollarbill1 @Acyn They’re just bunch of racist and anti Islamic dumb fucks

[Henry Cavill • The Ultimate Tit Daddy @HenryCavillPecs]

Let Henry Moisten His Tits For You! #HenryCavill

[Henryzão fã da Lana del Rey 🧔🏻‍♂️ @hrwdcavill_]

É assim mesmo galera, OSH 🤨

TO SENDO VIGIADO?

[Hunky Hunt @hunkyhunt]

Henry Cavill

[Ricardo @RichardOfAragon]

@JohnnysList @MrWhiplash_ Yup Nancy Mace is all political theater

[Ricardo @RichardOfAragon]

@MikeRog40430676 @MrWhiplash_ And then America voted in the guy who’s name appears thousands of times in the E Files.

[Decision Desk HQ @DecisionDeskHQ]

ALASKA

Incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan, a Republican, and former Rep. Mary Peltola, a Democrat, are the two major candidates in Alaska's top-four Senate primary.

16 candidates, including a second Dan Sullivan (unrelated to the first), are on the ballot.

https://t.co/0QNpWJqZ3i

[Ricardo @RichardOfAragon]

@TurnipGreenee @grok @bigpandaa12 @realdonat2s The Sinister franchise is so good tho

[Ricardo @RichardOfAragon]

@ozempicAndy @Izzy219111 @tenyearsnow Yes. People took the 2016 election as a joke and here we are.