Ron LeMaster

Primary care MD (10+ yrs), former pastor &). Love travel content on YouTube & planning adventures via Electric Travel—esp. cruises!

[ʙʏ ᴍᴏʀᴛᴀʟ ʜᴀɴᴅ @bymortalhand]

One of the best things to happen in 2026 was the completion of La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain, after 144 years of construction

The Catholic church continues to give the world extraordinary beauty

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On June 13, 1777, a 19-year-old French teenager landed on a beach in South Carolina, uninvited, to fight in someone else's war. He would become one of the most important men in American history.

The Marquis de Lafayette was one of the richest young aristocrats in France. He had a beautiful wife, a fortune, and zero reason to risk any of it. But he believed in the American cause so fiercely that when the French king forbade him from going, Lafayette bought his own ship and sailed anyway. He literally went AWOL from a life of luxury to bleed for a country that didn't exist yet.

Congress was annoyed at first. Another foreign officer looking for a paycheck? Then Lafayette offered to serve for free and pay his own way. That got their attention.

He met Washington and the two formed one of the great father-son bonds in American history. Washington had no biological children. Lafayette named his only son George Washington Lafayette.

He took a bullet in the leg at Brandywine and kept rallying the retreat. He was instrumental at Yorktown, the battle that won the war. He went home a hero on two continents.

A foreign teenager believed in America before America did. 249 years ago today.

[Become A Saint @BeSaintly]

We do still build beautiful things

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Google hid a fully working flight simulator inside Google Earth back in 2007 and never told anyone.

You unlocked it with a secret keystroke: Ctrl+Alt+A. No menu, no announcement. One user stumbled onto it, the combo spread, and it got popular enough that Google made it official the next year. Two planes, an F-16 and a Cirrus SR22, flying over real satellite imagery of the entire planet.

Then it stayed locked inside the downloadable desktop app for 18 years. The browser version was a stripped-down viewer that couldn't run it. Today that changed.

Here is the part that makes it impressive. A flight simulator is the single hardest thing you can ask a 3D map to do. Panning is easy, the software has all the time it wants to load the terrain ahead of you. Flying low and fast strips that away, forcing it to fetch, decompress, and render the world faster than you are crossing it. The hardest possible job for every part of the system at once.

So "just for fun" is carrying a lot of weight in that sentence. Getting this to run in a browser tab is the cleanest proof that the web version finally matches what used to need a desktop app.

The toy is the benchmark.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[Ron LeMaster @RonLeMaster]

This needs to stop

[Ron LeMaster @RonLeMaster]

The most beautiful church that I have ever been to.

[La Sagrada Família @sagradafamilia]

We see the tower of Jesus Christ illuminated for the first time!
The light show, starting from the base up to the illumination of the cross, culminated with a composition of lights guided by drones that traced the figure of Gaudí and the phrase “first love, then technique”.

[Josh Kale @JoshKale]

This New Glenn rocket explosion released 20% of the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb and that wasn't even the bad part:

→ The pad: LC-36 is the only pad on Earth that launches New Glenn and now it's gone. Over $1B to build. SpaceX needed 7 months to rebuild after a similar hit.

→ The deadline: Amazon needs 1,618 satellites up by July 30 to keep its FCC license. It has ~300. The rocket that was supposed to help fix that just blew up twice in a row

SpaceX made us believe that landing rockets on barges was a normal expectation. Turns out rocket science is hard after all. Wishing the team a speedy recovery 🚀

[Ron LeMaster @RonLeMaster]

A song to honor the soldiers who died for our freedom and the Savior who died for our sins.

https://t.co/JmcByAOby4

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Happy Pentecost! On this day, one of my favorite traditions is the dropping of rose pedals through the dome of the Pantheon 🙌🏼

[Ron LeMaster @RonLeMaster]

Beautiful

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Starship's twelfth flight test https://t.co/caRB1thMlg

[Ron LeMaster @RonLeMaster]

We need 2 amendments to the constitution. Term limits and the ability to vote no confidence and throw them all out at once. Id 2/3 of the states would ratify it, it becomes laws. Quit waiting for congress to give up their gravy train

[illuminatibot @iluminatibot]

Chip Roy said maybe it’s time to dump all 435 in the House, all 100 in the Senate, and start from scratch -Because Congress is failing Americans.

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

We all agree here?

[The Disrespected Trucker @DisrespectedThe]

If the population of the United States (340 million) people each paid $1 a day to pay off the 39 trillion dollars that we're in debt, it would take 314 years.

It's time to remove every politician and relieve them from their duties.

This is unacceptable!!!

[Hunter Eagleman™ @Hunter_Eagleman]

Who's in favor of replacing every single congressman and Senator and starting completely over?

I mean an approval rating hovering around 10% is NOT acceptable!

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Jumping The Shark: 'The Chosen' Criticized For Planning To Kill Off Main Character Only To Resurrect Him Next Episode https://t.co/el3MZLN4se

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

https://t.co/jn3ganMSpJ

[Bill Mitchell @mitchellvii]

High gas prices under Trump have lasted for weeks due to a war with Iran. High gas prices under Biden lasted for years due to a war with basic economics.