Shada67

[Shada67 @Shada67]

@w_terrence It's been over a year...what took you so long?

[Konsolum X 🎮 @KonsolumX]

Bu oyunlarla alakalı son zamanlarda izlediğim en iyi şey! 😅🎮

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Janitor almost got fired after CCTV caught him sneaking into a gorilla enclosure.

The gorilla had been brought in after poachers raided her home, leaving her injured and unconscious before locals found her and helped send her to a sanctuary to recover.

For weeks, she didn’t trust anyone.

She would take her food, go straight to the corner, and eat alone like every person near her was another threat.

But security cameras had been catching something for days.

The janitor had been going inside her enclosure, sitting with her, talking softly, and showing her kindness through small gestures. He wasn’t forcing anything. He was just trying to let her know not every human was there to hurt her.

Nobody really noticed until the board reviewed the surveillance footage to check on her progress.

That’s when they caught him.

At first, they were ready to fire him for breaking the rules. But as they kept watching the footage, they realized something.

The gorilla wasn’t healing because of the enclosure.
She wasn’t healing because of the food. She was healing because she had finally built a bond with someone.

And for now, that was all that mattered.

[Sal the Agorist @SallyMayweather]

22 yrs ago today, after a long zoning dispute with local officials that ruined his business, welder Marvin Heemeyer had enough & created the Killdozer.

He destroyed the mayor’s house, the judge’s house, town hall, the police station, & the bank - while avoiding hurting civilians or their property.

Happy Killdozer Day to those who celebrate 🎊

[Mr. Star Spangled MAGA @4thOfJuly365]

I've been on social media for over 15 years and I've never seen a video with a happy ending quite like this one.

Enjoy.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop.

I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls.

Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A man near me is eating a cold sandwich while wearing a jacket. In summer. Indoors.

In Japan we would simply turn it down. Americans do not turn it down. And now I understand them better than they understand themselves.

This cold is not an accident. This cold is a gift.

The owner has built, inside his shop, a second season. He invites you in from the brutal heat and hands you the one thing the sun has denied you all day: a reason to be cold. To endure it is to be tempered. You walk in soft and sweating. You walk out sharp and clear, a slightly stronger person than you were.

So I did not complain. I removed my outer layer and offered it to the woman at the next table, who was hugging herself. She said, "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you." She was not fine. Her lips were blue. But she, too, understood the training. She would not break first. I respected her deeply.

The owner asked if everything was okay.

"It is perfect," I said, through my teeth, which were chattering. "Thank you for the winter."

He said, "...I can turn the AC down if you want?"

I told him no. A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter.

I stayed two hours. I ordered a hot coffee to survive. Then a second one, to hold. By the end I could no longer feel my hands, but my spirit had never been clearer.

So now, on the hottest days, I seek out the coldest rooms. I sit. I shiver. I sharpen.

And when I finally step back out into the summer heat, and it wraps around me like a warm bath, I feel it.

Reborn.

A man who has survived the winter, in August, indoors, for the price of a sandwich.

[𝑸𝑼𝑬𝑬𝑵 𝑴𝑶𝑻𝑯𝑬𝑹 👑🌬️ @chinazaa14]

The flying tank scene in The A-Team is one of the most absurdly awesome action sequences ever put on screen 😭

No big-budget CGI movie today would have the confidence to do something that ridiculous and commit to the bit that hard

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

In 2014, while filming a movie, Jackie Chan discovered that a group of Mongolian locals knew every word to 'Rolling in the Deep' by heart... even though they didn’t speak English.
The beautiful moment was never part of the script.

[DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @1Nicdar]

Not something you see everyday. 🚂

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Spencer Pratt got 0 out of 24,000 votes in a late night LA ballot drop.

0/24,000

A guy getting around 30% support got 0 out of 24,000.

Astronomically small probability of happening.

Impossible.

California no longer even hides it.

Doors need to be kicked in.

[FUNNY DROPS @toondrops]

"The absolute peak of classic cartoon comedy."

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is the Mega Marvin, an instrument that gets used to make sounds in horror movies.

[📹 MetalWOlf]

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Amen. Touch grass. Move on!!

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Nobody asked them to do it. Nobody trained them for it. They were just two teenage boys — the kind you pass on the sidewalk and barely notice — leaning on their bikes in the summer heat when they saw something no child should ever have to experience.

A man walked away with 5-year-old Jocelyn Rojas. She was supposed to be playing outside. She was supposed to be safe.

And in that single, awful second — while most of us would have been paralyzed, reaching for a phone, waiting for someone with a uniform and a badge to show up — these two boys made a choice.

They got on their bikes and they went after him.

No hesitation. No waiting for permission. No "someone else will handle it." Just two pairs of legs pumping hard through the streets of Lancaster, eyes locked on a stranger who had a little girl that wasn't his.

They tracked him. They stayed close. They didn't let him disappear into the afternoon like something that was never going to be found.

And then they confronted him.

Two teenagers. On bikes. Against a grown man who had already done the unthinkable. They forced him to stop.

He let Jocelyn go.

"The entire thing lasted only minutes." — Lancaster Police
Minutes. Because two boys closed the distance fast enough to interrupt it. Because they were raised — by someone, somehow — to believe that other people's emergencies are your business too.

When reporters asked one of them afterward why they did it, he gave the most deflating, most beautiful, most teenage answer imaginable.

He shrugged.

"I just felt like it was the right thing to do."
No speech. No GoFundMe. No press conference. Just a kid who saw a little girl in danger and couldn't make himself look away.

Jocelyn went home. She was reunited with her family. She got to grow up.

Because of two boys on bikes who hadn't been asked, hadn't been trained, hadn't been paid — and did it anyway.

[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.

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

82 years ago today, eight American sailors jumped onto a sinking Nazi submarine in the middle of the Atlantic.

What they pulled out of it changed the war. And the Navy buried the whole story for years.

First, you need to know that U-505 was already cursed. German sailors called her the unluckiest boat in the fleet. In October 1943, during a brutal British depth-charge attack, her own captain shot himself in the head in the control room, in front of his crew. He remains the only submarine commander in history known to have killed himself underwater in combat. His second-in-command calmly took over, rode out the attack, and sailed her home.

Eight months later, her luck ran out completely.

June 4, 1944. Two days before D-Day. Captain Daniel Gallery's hunter-killer group, built around the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal, had been stalking U-boats off West Africa. Gallery had an idea his superiors considered borderline insane: don't sink the next one. Capture it. No US Navy crew had boarded and taken an enemy warship on the high seas since 1815.

The destroyer escort USS Chatelain caught U-505 on sonar and fired a salvo of hedgehog bombs. The U-boat broke the surface 700 yards away. Gunfire raked the conning tower, wounding her captain. He gave the order to abandon ship.

The Germans rushed out so fast they botched the scuttling. The sub was flooding, but her engines were still running. She was circling the battle at six knots, empty, sinking, and very possibly rigged with demolition charges.

So Lt. Albert David and eight men from USS Pillsbury chased her down in a whaleboat, leaped aboard, and climbed down the hatch into a dark, flooding submarine that could explode or go under at any second. They shut the scuttling valves, disarmed the charges, and stopped the flooding.

Down there they found the prize: Enigma cipher machines and roughly 900 pounds of codebooks and charts. Current settings. The keys to the German navy's secret communications.

But here's the catch. The treasure was only valuable if Germany never found out. One leak and Berlin changes every code overnight.

So the Navy ran one of the great cover-ups of the war. The sub was towed 1,700 miles to Bermuda and given a fake American name: USS Nemo. Around 3,000 sailors were sworn to total silence. The 58 captured German crewmen vanished into a POW camp in rural Louisiana, hidden even from the Red Cross. Germany declared U-505 lost with all hands and notified the families. The dead men were alive in Louisiana, and their boat was working for the US Navy.

The secret held until the war ended.

Lt. David received the Medal of Honor, the only one awarded in the Atlantic Fleet in all of WWII.

And the submarine? In 1954, Chicagoans raised $250,000 to bring her home. She was towed across Lake Michigan and dragged through the streets of Chicago to the Museum of Science and Industry.

She's still sitting there right now. You can walk through her.

[Bx Wood @populusaigeiros]

It really is this simple

[Bennie🕊️ @Bennieeexyz]

We started feeding the crows in our area a few weeks ago.

Nothing fancy.

Just scraps, leftover food, the usual stuff.

At first it was just a couple of them showing up.

Then it became a routine.

Same time every day.

They’d land near the back window and start making noise if we were late.

We honestly started expecting them.

Then something weird happened.

We found a small pile of coins on our back porch.

Mostly pennies.

Right around where we usually toss food out.

My first thought was that neighborhood kids were messing with us.

Like some kind of joke.

We brushed it off.

Until it happened again.

Another small pile.

Same spot.

And this time… we actually saw it happen.

One of the crows dropped a penny onto the pile.

Just landed, looked around, and left it there like it had business to attend to.

We just stood there staring.

Me: Did that crow just… pay us?

Her: I think it just paid us.

Since then it’s happened a few more times.

We’re up to 39 cents now.

Which sounds ridiculous to say out loud.

But every time I go out there now, I can’t help but wonder if we’ve accidentally started some kind of weird trade agreement with the local crow economy.

Either that…

or they’ve decided we’re easy to scam.

[Shada67 @Shada67]

@ZeekArkham Tell him to look at Israel. Jews are hated far more than black folks.

[癒される動物 @cutest_animal1]

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