Blue Mist Flower

Live a life of action governed by virtue. Strive for perfection.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

[Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts]

The paintings on the noses of WW2 aircraft were rarely just decoration.

To the men who flew behind them, they were luck. Protection. A charm against death.

The tradition was older and stranger than almost anyone realizes, and it runs from an Italian sea monster in 1913 to the Ferrari logo to Walt Disney.

This is the story of nose art..🧵1/7

[Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts]

They took a B-17 that had been left for scrap, rebuilt it by hand, and bolted on so many extra machine guns it became one of the most heavily armed bombers in the Pacific.

Then they volunteered for a solo mission over enemy territory that few crews wanted.

Its tail number was 666.

This is the story of the Eager Beavers..🧵1/7

[Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts]

They refused to bathe. They refused to salute. They poached deer from an English lord's estate and used their washing water ration to cook it.

The night before D-Day they shaved mohawks and painted their faces like warriors.

Then they jumped into Normandy on one of the deadliest missions of the invasion.

This is the story of the Filthy Thirteen..🧵1/7

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Get ready for a jaw-dropping cosmic spectacle! On July 17th, the sky is set to deliver one of the most stunning planetary parades of the decade. Six planets will line up in a breathtaking arc, creating a rare "planet parade" you'll remember for years.What you can see:Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn — shining bright and visible to the naked eye from almost anywhere with a clear view.
Uranus and Neptune — trickier, but possible with the naked eye from truly dark skies (binoculars or a small telescope will make them pop).

This isn't just any alignment — it's a spectacular lineup along the ecliptic, like nature's own cosmic highway lighting up the twilight. Mark your calendars now, set a reminder, and find a spot away from city lights for the best show. Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime sky event. Look up on July 17th — the universe is putting on a performance! (Pro tip: Check local weather and rise/set times for your area. Even a few days around the date should offer great views!)

[Philippe T @brain_stimulus]

🚨😱 LE GOUVERNEMENT AMÉRICAIN DÉTIENT UN BREVET POUR MANIPULER VOTRE SYSTÈME NERVEUX VIA LA TÉLÉ.

💥Brevet US 6,506,148 B2
Déposé le 14 janvier 2003

🤯Ce brevet officiel décrit comment générer des champs électromagnétiques pulsés à partir d’un écran de télévision ou d’ordinateur pour **manipuler le système nerveux humain**.

Même si vous ne regardez pas consciemment l’écran.

Le document explique comment induire des résonances sensorielles dans le cerveau à des fréquences très basses (0,5 Hz, 2,4 Hz…), en faisant pulser les images de façon subliminale.

C’est écrit noir sur blanc dans un brevet américain.

Et ce n’est pas une théorie.
C’est un document officiel de l’Office des brevets des États-Unis.

Vous continuez à croire que la télévision n’est qu’un divertissement ?

#Brevet #Manipulation #QuestionTout #Television #ControleMental

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

AN ELECTRONIC CAPACITOR: 5 SOCCER FIELDS BIG.

Imagine this: a capacitor so enormous it could cover nearly five soccer fields, over 31,700 square meters of raw, humming electrical potential!

That’s the scale of one of the largest single capacitors ever built by human hands. Not some modern supercapacitor in a lab or EV battery pack but a monstrous flat-plate air-dielectric beast engineered by the genius of Guglielmo Marconi and his team in the early days of wireless communication.

The Epic Purpose?

These giants powered Marconi’s legendary transatlantic spark transmitters, the pioneering technology that first bridged continents with radio waves, shattering the isolation of oceans and ushering in the age of global instant communication.

Picture Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (around 1902 to 1910 era): a transmitter site with these colossal capacitor arrays.

Massive parallel metal plates suspended in air, separated just enough to store and release jaw-dropping bursts of high-voltage energy. When the spark gap fired, it unleashed powerful radio pulses that carried Morse code signals across the Atlantic to Europe.

Why So Huge?

Early spark transmitters needed insane amounts of stored energy to generate the long, powerful electromagnetic waves capable of crossing thousands of miles.

Smaller capacitors simply could not cut it. The physics demanded scale. These air-dielectric designs (no fancy modern materials, just air as the insulator!) were the ultimate solution: simple, reliable, and capable of handling the extreme voltages without breaking down.

One standout example boasted a plate area rivaling four and a half soccer fields. Think about the engineering feat: erecting, aligning, and insulating structures that size in the rugged early-20th-century environment, all to crack the code of wireless empire-building!

While Marconi’s creations win for sheer physical size, today’s pulsed-power labs push boundaries in energy storage.

The Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory’s capacitor bank stores a staggering 50 megajoules, enough raw power, when discharged, to slam the brakes on a 58-ton train hurtling at 150 km/h. It creates magnetic fields up to 100 teslas, forces that dwarf anything found naturally on Earth, for cutting-edge materials research.

From Marconi’s world-changing radio sparks to today’s scientific firepower, capacitors remain unsung heroes of human ambition, quietly storing lightning so we can reshape reality. What a thrilling chapter in the story of electricity!

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Imagine being so talented you could make marble appear soft to the touch. Gian Lorenzo Bernini was only 23 years old when he created this breathtaking masterpiece in the 1600s.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini was just 23 years old when he finished The Abduction of Proserpina in 1622. Widely regarded as one of the greatest achievements of the Baroque era, the sculpture is celebrated for making solid Carrara marble appear remarkably soft and lifelike. Its most famous detail depicts Pluto’s fingers sinking into Proserpina’s thigh, creating the astonishing illusion of flesh yielding under pressure.

Through dramatic movement, deep shadows, and exquisitely polished surfaces, Bernini transformed rigid stone into what seems like flowing fabric, delicate skin, and even tears. Today, this extraordinary display of artistry and emotion can be seen at the Galleria Borghese in Rome.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Yep, the wind on Mars is moving this.

Artist David Bowen created an installation using 126 mechanical devices connected to tall dried grass stalks.

The movements are controlled by real wind data collected by NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars.

So when the wind blows on Mars, the grass moves here on Earth.

That's about as close as you'll get to feeling a Martian breeze.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

This guy's chickens kept getting targeted by hawks, so he started feeding local crows. Now he has an army of crows that patrols his property and chases the hawks away.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump signs an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act to SAVE 13 coal plants across 10 states

Biden tried his hardest to CLOSE these plants. Trump's rebuilding them better than ever.

"Today we're officially invoking the Defense Production Act to save 13 coal plants in West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Indiana, Tennessee, Arizona, Arkansas, Oklahoma, North Dakota and Wisconsin."

"Our action will allow these facilities to invest in upgrades that will extend their operational lives for decades into the future, reinforce the reliability of our electric grid, and most importantly, keep electricity prices VERY LOW for the American people."

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 NOW: An Assistant US Attorney is now INSIDE the Los Angeles ballot processing center, as @USAttyEssayli announces MULTIPLE federal investigations into voter fraud in California

Expose it ALL and prosecute!

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 JUST NOW: Tom Homan says even if rioters shut down Delaney Hall in Newark, ICE will simply take those detainees and fly them to places like Texas

Which means detainees LOSE the privilege of easy family visitation

Rioters CLEARLY haven’t thought this through😆

“If I can't detain them in that city where they're close to their families, then we'll have to move them someplace else. How does that benefit the migrant community?!”

“Because we're going to keep ARRESTING people. We're going to keep DETAINING people. We're going to keep REMOVING
people.”

“You’re NOT going to shut down ICE enforcement. You're certainly not going to abolish ICE. You're not going to stop us from doing our job.”

— @RealTomHoman

[Department of State @StateDept]

SECRETARY RUBIO: Cuba is actually not controlled by the government. Cuba is controlled by a military holding company named GAESA. GAESA owns virtually everything, and not a penny of that money translates over to the public treasury.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This disabled dog just got a brand new set of wheels: watch the happiness.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

The world's green leaf area—visible from space—has increased by around 5.5 million square kilometres in just over two decades.

This is a 5% global increase, equivalent to adding an entire Amazon Rainforest to the planet since 2000. NASA satellite research reveals this extra leaf cover also acts as its own natural air conditioner. At least 30% of the greened areas are experiencing measurable cooling due to the way plants manage water vapor and air turbulence.

Some early models predicted the growth might slow, but even in intensively farmed lands, food production (grains, vegetables and fruits) jumped by 35-40%. Around 70% of this regeneration is attributed to increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂), rising from 370 ppm to 426 ppm between 2000 and 2026.

As this expanding patina of green leaf cover and real-world cooling data forced their way into the climate equation, the extreme high-end models have begun to unravel. Mainstream projections have steadily downgraded the narrative, shifting away from catastrophic 5-degree predictions toward a far lower ceiling.

The planet is fighting back with its own biological feedback loop.

[🇺🇸 🦅Simple Man 🦅🇺🇸 @Soaringeagle45]

This is funny! 🤣

I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 60 years later. I don't have to go to school or work. I get an allowance every month. I have my own pad. I don't have a curfew. I have a driver's license and my own car. The people I hang around with are not scared of getting pregnant and I don't have acne.

Life is great. I changed my car horn to gunshot sounds. People get out of the way much faster now.

Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers. Now they drink like their fathers.

I didn't make it to the gym today. That makes five years in a row.

I decided to stop calling the bathroom "John" and renamed it the "Jim". I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.

When I was a child I thought "nap time" was a punishment. Now it feels like a small vacation.

The biggest lie I tell myself is... " I don't have to write that down, I'll remember it".

If God wanted me to touch my toes, He would've put them on my knees.

Last year I joined a support group for procrastinators. We haven't met yet.

Why do I have to press one for English when you're just going to transfer me to someone I can't understand anyway?

Of course, I talk to myself. Sometimes I need expert advice.

At my age "Getting Lucky" means walking into a room and remembering what I came In there for.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

UNDERWATER DATA CENTERS

China has achieved what it calls the world’s first fully operational, commercially running underwater AI data center off the coast of Shanghai.

The facility, developed in partnership with HiCloud Technology (also referred to as Hailanyun), features nearly 2,000 servers housed in sealed, submarine-grade capsules submerged in the ocean.

By leveraging the natural cooling power of seawater, it dramatically reduces energy demands cutting cooling costs by up to 90% compared to traditional land-based data centers. The entire system is powered by nearby offshore wind farms, making it highly renewable and energy-efficient.

The $226 million project was officially launched in June 2025, with construction completed later that year and full commercial operations beginning in recent weeks. It supports high-performance AI workloads, including GPU clusters from partners like China Telecom.

For context, the U.S. explored similar concepts through Microsoft’s Project Natick but quietly shelved the initiative in 2024 after successful trials, opting not to pursue large-scale commercial deployment.

This development highlights China’s aggressive push to address the massive energy and cooling challenges of scaling AI infrastructure.

This is an interesting engineering achievement in the AI infrastructure race, though scaling, maintenance, and long-term reliability in a marine environment will be key factors to watch.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

162 years ago today, in a soaking rain along the banks of the Chickahominy River, 50,000 Union soldiers spent the entire afternoon tearing scraps of paper into rectangles and pinning them to the insides of their uniform coats.

On each scrap they wrote, in pencil, their own name, their regiment, and their hometown.

There were no military dog tags in 1864. There would not be any for another half century. The reason every Federal soldier within sight of the Confederate works at Cold Harbor was writing his name on his coat that afternoon is preserved in the memoirs of Grant's aide, Lieutenant Colonel Horace Porter, who walked among them and asked one veteran what he was doing.

The man did not look up. "So my body can be identified."

The attack had been scheduled for dawn. Hancock's II Corps had gotten lost in the dark on its night march and stumbled into position six hours late, exhausted and out of water. Grant pushed the assault to 5 p.m. Then the sky opened up and a hard summer rain swept the line. He pushed it to dawn on June 3.

The pause was a gift to Robert E. Lee.

For 24 hours, Confederate engineers worked in the rain with shovels, axes, and entrenching tools. They deepened trenches. They cut interlocking fields of fire. They built traverses to protect against enfilade. They laid in artillery so that no part of the front did not have at least two batteries aimed at it. By dusk on June 2, the Confederate position at Cold Harbor was, according to one engineer who walked it after the war, the strongest field fortification ever built in North America up to that date.

Union soldiers across the muddy open ground could hear it being built. The chock of axes. The thud of logs. Officers walking the parapet shouting orders. The men in the Federal trenches did not need a written order to know what was coming.

So they wrote.

Some men wrote their parents' addresses. Some wrote their wife's name. Some wrote nothing but a single sentence, a request, a goodbye. One captain in a New York regiment wrote in his diary that night, in the last entry he ever made: "June 3. Cold Harbor. I was killed."

He had finished the entry the night before, and dated it for the morning.

At 4:30 a.m. on June 3, the assault went forward. Seven thousand of those name tags became the only way to identify the bodies.

The grim ritual that the dog tags of every American soldier since the First World War quietly continues, every time a young person clips a small metal plate around their neck, was invented in the mud of Virginia by men who knew exactly what their generals were about to do to them.

And went forward anyway.

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

A recent study found nicotine patches fully RESOLVED long COVID symptoms in some patients within DAYS.

Spike protein hijacks nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. Nicotine blocks spike from binding to them, restoring normal signaling.

This likely also applies to long VACCINE.

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

Here is:

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud confirms that Trump is cleaning up the mess that Barack Obama, the world’s number one sponsor of terror, created.

He gave Iran $150 billion in cash, and the IRGC ‘didn't even build a single street, housing complex, or industrial zone in Iran.’

Instead, Iran used the money to make missiles and drones, finance proxies, and arm terrorist organizations like Hamas, Ansar Allah, and Hezbollah. With these funds, Iran offered safe harbor to al-Qaeda leaders, including one of Osama bin Laden’s sons, who was indoctrinated into jihadism.

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Barack Obama was responsible for the Arab Spring in 2010, which led to the rise of ISIS, the toppling of the Libyan government in 2011, and the emergence of a nuclear-capable Iran. The Obama syndicate, including his chief of staff, John Brennan, a devout Muslim, Hillary Clinton, Valerie Jarrett, Victoria Nuland, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power, did so deliberately in order to keep the region destabilized and use Iran as a buffer to prevent the Gulf states and Israel from amassing too much power. (Now Iran attacking the very states Barack Obama stabbed in the back) Now, President Trump is undoing everything Barack Obama touched, both foreign and domestic.

One man has managed to do all of that while orchestrating the single greatest conspiracy in U.S. history here at home for the overthrow of the United States government—and not a single investigation or prosecution has followed.