Rob in AUS

I'm just this guy, OK?

[Rob in AUS @RobInAUS]

@turnintoabat @girldrawsghosts Dude comes across as being so far back in the closet that he's finding next year's Christmas presents.

Keep living your most joyous life, Taylor.

[Rob in AUS @RobInAUS]

@C_3C_3 Only because racists used to hide behind white sheets. Because racists used to fear public shaming.

Now? They embrace it. They got support from a handful of elected officials who pardoned them, struck down laws that curbed racism, told each other it was good to be racist.

[Rob in AUS @RobInAUS]

@runningatnight @MadelaineLucyH You sure do post a lot for someone who has never met an actual live human woman.

You and your lot fantasise about raping women constantly. Which is utterly depraved.

Log off, delete your account, apologise to your mother, and never go online again.

[Rob in AUS @RobInAUS]

@HunterBiden @jackduval So shall it be done.

[Rob in AUS @RobInAUS]

@MerriamWebster I am here for the propreantepenultimate and propreantepenultimate accessories.

[Rob in AUS @RobInAUS]

@JoeVargas You're right. But seven years of sobriety and a loving family have helped him become a more thoughtful, careful thinker than anyone in this current Administration.

[Rob in AUS @RobInAUS]

@OswaldsTopGuy @oncloud_e You should strive to be a man.

[Rob in AUS @RobInAUS]

@KateCornell You can buy Office 2024 here:

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[Rob in AUS @RobInAUS]

@matthewdmarsden @jemelehill @grok "Mooooooommmm! Someone disagreed with my opinion on Xitter, and started using faaaacts! Can you give me security AI blankie?"

[Rob in AUS @RobInAUS]

@AndrewZywiecMD

[Rob in AUS @RobInAUS]

@RichChurchil @RichieRich_68 @AllisonRFloyd In case your first one breaks? Good call, Brosephus.

[Rob in AUS @RobInAUS]

@DanielMike98890 The first post about your potential marriage is about gay people?

Which one of you is the beard?

[Rob in AUS @RobInAUS]

@ginamilan_ @BlGTRES From someone who has neither...

[Rob in AUS @RobInAUS]

@NancyMace You're only fighting any hold on reality.

[Rob in AUS @RobInAUS]

@samikshassotd Except stealing a person's phone number from a work database so you can stalk them is 100% harassment.

Tell you what - post your phone number here and let's see how many women ask you out without you feeling harassed.

[Rich "Corky" Erie @RSE_VB]

A compendium of Pilot Rules (Number 30 is Gospel in Fighters).

1. The only three things a wingman should ever say are:
“Two's up. “
“Lead, you're on fire.”
“I'll take the fat chick.”

2. In a multi-place aircraft, there are only three things the copilot should ever say:
“Nice landing, Sir.”
“I'll buy the first round.”
“I'll take the fat chick.”

3. As a new copilot on a bomber I was told to say these three things and to otherwise keep my mouth shut and not touch anything:
“Clear on the right.”
“Outer (marker) on the double (indicator).”
“I'll eat the chicken.” (Crew meals consisted of one steak and one chicken to avoid possible food poisoning of the cockpit crew).

4. As an aviator in flight you can do anything you want. As long as it's right. And we'll let you know if it's right after you land.

5. You can't fly forever without getting killed.

6. As a pilot only two bad things can happen to you and one of them will:
One day you will walk out to the aircraft knowing that it is your last flight in an airplane.
One day you will walk out to the airplane not knowing that it is your last flight in an airplane.

7. Any flight over water in a single engine airplane will absolutely guarantee abnormal engine noises and vibrations.

8. There are Rules and there are Laws. The rules are made by men who think that they know better how to fly your airplane than you; the Laws (of Physics) were made by God. You can, and sometimes should, suspend the Rules but you can never suspend the Laws.

9. More about Rules:
The rules are a good place to hide if you don't have a better idea and the talent to execute it.
If you deviate from a rule, it must be a flawless performance. (e.g., If you fly under a bridge, don't hit the bridge.)

10. The pilot is the highest form of life on earth.

11. The ideal pilot is the perfect blend of discipline and aggressiveness.

12. About check rides:
The only real objective of a check ride is to complete it and get the bastard out of your airplane.
It has never occurred to any flight examiner that the examinee couldn't care less what the examiner's opinion of his flying ability really is.

13. The medical profession is the natural enemy of the aviation profession.

14. The job of the Wing Commander is to worry incessantly that his career depends solely on the abilities of his aviators to fly their airplanes without mishap and that their only minuscule contribution to the effort is to bet their lives on it.

15. Ever notice that the only experts who decree that the “age of the manned flight” is over are people who have never flown anything? Also, in spite of the intensity of their feelings that the pilot's day is over I know of no such expert who has volunteered to be a passenger in a non-piloted aircraft.

16. It is absolutely imperative that the pilot be unpredictable. Rebelliousness is very predictable. In the end, conforming almost all the time is the best way to be unpredictable.

17. He who demands everything that his aircraft can give him is a pilot; he that demands one iota more is a fool.

18. If you're gonna fly low, do not fly slow! ASW pilots know this only too well. (Amen)

19. It is solely the pilot's responsibility to never let any other thing touch his aircraft.

20. If you can learn how to fly as a 2nd Lt and not forget how to fly by the time you're a Maj. you will have lived a happy life.

21. About night flying:
- Remember that the airplane doesn't know that it's dark.
- On a clear, moonless night, never fly between the tanker's lights.
- There are certain aircraft sounds that can only be heard at night.
- If you're going to night fly, it might as well be in the weather so you can double count your exposure to both hazards.
- Night formation is really an endless series of near misses in equilibrium with each other.
- You would have to pay a lot of money at a lot of amusement parks and perhaps add a few drugs, to get the same blend of psychedelic sensations as a single-engine night flight in weather.

22. One of the most important skills that a pilot must develop is the skill to ignore those things that were designed by non-pilots to get the pilot's attention.

23. At the end of the day, the controllers, ops supervisors, maintenance guys, weather guessers, and birds are all trying to kill you and your job is to not let them.

24. The concept of "controlling" airspace with radar is just a form of FAA sarcasm directed at pilots to see if they're gullible enough to swallow it. Or to put it another way, when's the last time the FAA ever shot anyone down?

25. Remember that the radio is only an electronic suggestion box for the pilot. Sometimes the only way to clear up a problem is to turn it off.

26. It is a tacit, yet profound admission of the preeminence of flying in the hierarchy of the human spirit, that those who seek to control aviators via threats always threaten to take one's wings and not one's life.

27. Remember when flying low and inverted that the rudder still works the same old way but hopefully your flight instructor never taught you "pull stick back, plane go up".

28. Mastering the prohibited maneuvers in the NATOPS Manual is one of the best forms of aviation life insurance you can get.

29. A tactic done twice is a procedure (refer to unpredictability discussion above).

30. The aircraft G-limits are only there in case there is another flight by that particular airplane. If subsequent flights do not appear likely, there are no G-limits.

31. One of the beautiful things about a single piloted aircraft is the quality of the social experience.

32. If a mother has the slightest suspicion that her infant might grow up to be a pilot, she had better teach him to put things back where he got them.

33. The ultimate responsibility of the pilot is to fulfill the dreams of the countless millions of earthbound ancestors who could only stare skyward ...and wish.

[Rob in AUS @RobInAUS]

@pancho_joe Imagine having so little imagination that you try to belittle someone else's creative efforts.

[Rob in AUS @RobInAUS]

@TotalSeasons You know who else fled to Argentina when their empire became unstable?

[Bo Erickson Reuters @BoKnowsNews]

WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has repeated his false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him at least 107 times in the last six months, keeping the grievance front and center even as he faces new political risks from the war with Iran and looming midterm elections.

Trump devotes near-daily attention to ​the issue, a Reuters review of his public events, interviews and online posts found, and his comments often come in waves. One Saturday in April, amid a fragile ceasefire with Iran, Trump posted allegations about the ‌2020 election - when he lost to his predecessor Joe Biden - seven times on his Truth Social account.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Fact check of some of President Trump’s comments at his Cabinet meeting today, including false or misleading claims about the economy, the Iran war, Social Security and the reflecting pool: https://t.co/T6ISfbbmZb