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Catch the Breeze

[Adam Townsend @adamscrabble]

Can’t explain how fukcen cool the 70s and 80s and 90s and then the early part of the 00s was.
Impossible to explain what walking in nyc was like and the people and places.
Incomprehensible how optimistic the country once was and all the work and life opportunities.

If you didn’t live it you don’t know.
You missed so much, we lost it all

[Steven @Steven15486841]

@Bowtiedplayer Only place to start with is remorse and humility, without it there is no chance

[Tom Kratman @TKratman]

Comment from a Brit on Youtube:

"My biggest takeaway from being in America, as a Brit, is, 'It's like finding out my dad had a kid with another woman that I never met, and we meet for the first time and I am like, 'you're kinda me but you're not me. It's like he spent a bit more money on you; he made you believe in yourself, and your mom was clearly much nicer or kinder.'"

[Adam Townsend @adamscrabble]

I just saw The Odyssey, lots to say but I’ll keep it to about 300
words, best I could do and I’ve edited it to the max 🖊️

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey transforms Homer's epic into a haunting meditation on war's scars and the fragile pull of home.
Matt Damon delivers a career-highlight performance as Odysseus, a cunning survivor haunted by the Trojan War rather than glorified by it.
His resourcefulness masks deep trauma, softening the source's boastful hero into a pragmatic everyman.

Anne Hathaway brings quiet steel and aching vulnerability to Penelope, whose steadfast loyalty amid suitors anchors the emotional core.
Tom Holland matures convincingly as Telemachus, evolving from uncertain son to determined seeker, their father-son bond underscoring themes of legacy and reconciliation.

Nolan diverges smartly from Homer by foregrounding psychological depth.
The Trojan Horse sequence pulses with visceral consequence, seeding Odysseus's inner torment, while divine interventions feel more enigmatic than whimsical.

Zendaya's Athena and Robert Pattinson's menacing Antinous enrich the tapestry without diluting the intimate family drama.

🎶 Ludwig Göransson's score blends primal ancient textures with sweeping emotion, amplifying both perilous voyages and tender homecomings.

🎥 Shot entirely on IMAX film cameras, the first narrative feature to do so, the 70mm presentation is revelatory.
Nolan exploits the massive canvas for thunderous ocean vistas, towering practical set pieces, and intimate close-ups that make myth feel tactile and immediate.

The format turns the screen into an immersive portal, heightening every wave, battle, and longing glance.

The result stirs profound emotions of endurance, separation's ache, and redemptive return.
Nolan's bold choices fuse spectacle with introspection, crafting a mythic epic that feels timeless yet urgently human.

[Steven @Steven15486841]

@phxlogan Now that Ryder is in the system?

[Steven @Steven15486841]

@BowTiedBroke Scotty Kilmer on YT has had massive influence on this brand

[Steven @Steven15486841]

@CinemaTweets1 Just viewed it and was blown away. Epic

[unseen1 @unseen1_unseen]

I've felt for awhile now that the goal by the Trump admin is not to pass the Save act but to highlight those who refuse to pass it and the reasons they refuse.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

Was once introduced to her, or her equivalent, by two of her minders, who permitted us to hold a time-limited conversation in a private setting. Not long from now, I'll tell you all about it.

[Bennett's Phylactery @extradeadjcb]

Reasons states wind up on this list (not exaggerating)

1. Not enough abortions
2. Not gay enough
3. "food insecurity"
4. Not enough HR rules
5. Not enough gun laws
6. Not enough therapists
7. Not enough working moms
8. Not enough affirmative action

[MoundLore @MoundLore]

In 1988, the Hawley family began excavating a Kansas cornfield after old river maps, survey records, and local accounts placed the steamboat Arabia beneath it.

About 45 feet down, they reached the wreck.

The Arabia had struck a submerged cottonwood snag and sunk in the Missouri River in 1856. The boat still lay where it went down, but by the time the excavation began, the active river channel was nearly half a mile away.

The Missouri had shifted across its floodplain. Repeated floods buried the abandoned channel beneath sand, silt, and mud until the wreck sat below working farmland.

What came out of that old riverbed was more than a shipwreck.

The cargo was a large commercial shipment from one precisely dated voyage. It had been packed in St. Louis for merchants farther upriver and sank before it could be divided among stores and customers.

The shipment included commercial quantities of footwear, hardware, ceramics, textiles, medicines, preserved foods, tools, and household goods. Archaeologists were looking at merchandise before use, breakage, repair, reuse, and disposal altered the assemblage.

That is rare.

Many nineteenth century sites are built from refuse, loss, demolition, and repeated occupation. The Arabia preserved a shipment before it entered any of those processes.

Waterlogged, low oxygen sediment slowed the decay of leather, wood, textiles, seeds, and food that normally survive poorly at dry sites. The result was an unusually large, tightly dated collection of mid nineteenth century goods from the Missouri River trade.

People remember the Arabia because someone found a steamboat beneath a cornfield.

I remember it because the field used to be the Missouri River.

[Adam Townsend @adamscrabble]

You can’t blame people for “falling for it”
Humans are biological creatures and all that entails

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

What if everything you were taught about the Vietnam War is wrong?

What if the domino theory was not wrong?

What if America’s strategic objective wasn’t simply winning battles in Vietnam, but containing the spread of communism across Asia?

What if I told you the communists lost that war?

What if I told you America won?

What if the United States achieved its broader strategic goal?

What if the 58,220 Americans who gave their lives, including my father, whose death was linked to Agent Orange, did not die in vain?

What if that sacrifice was the essential prerequisite for decades of unprecedented security, prosperity, and economic growth across the world?

What if millions of people, especially in Asia and Europe, owe a debt of gratitude to those who fought that war?

What if the story of an American “defeat” became politically useful because it absolved allies of any obligation to carry more of the burden?

What if I told you recognizing America’s victory in that war would strengthen the case for asking prosperous allies to do more for their own defense, allowing the United States to focus our resources on rebuilding at home?

What if I told you that ending socialist spending overseas and lowering the tax burden while rebuilding America is the essential prerequisite for defeating socialism here?

And what if the debate over Vietnam isn’t really about the past but about how we prepare for the next great struggle against authoritarianism?

What if everything you were taught about the Vietnam War is wrong?

What if I told you Vietnam today looks nothing like the communist utopia of Ho Chi Minh dreams?

What if I told you America won the Vietnam War?

[Steven @Steven15486841]

@ArunaNambiar A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving

[Michael Redd @MichaelRedd_]

Everybody's arguing about youth sports right now, whether it's too expensive, whether pay-to-play is killing our development. I can't speak on soccer, don't know that world. But I know hoops. Lived it as a player, lived it as a dad, and I run a program too.

And here's what I know. The "it's too expensive to develop talent" argument doesn't hold up the way people think, at least not in hoop.

Yeah, most parents are getting bled dry on team fees and tournament costs and hotels. No doubt. But the kids who actually make it? The real 1%? They're not paying a dime. A lot of them, in fact, are getting paid, under the table or over it.

Many of the great ones get ID'd early and everything flips. The sneaker brands come. The grassroots circuit takes care of them. Wealthy folks who just love hoops want them at their prep school, their AAU team, their college. The bill disappears.

So yeah. The 99% are getting killed out here. But the 1%, the ones who actually land as DI starters and NBA players, never see that bill.

Maybe that's good, maybe it's bad. I'm just telling you what I've seen.

[Adam Townsend @adamscrabble]

🚨 🇺🇲 Space Force: new industries;
Space-based internet, in-space transportation, in-space propellant manufacture, lunar and asteroid mining, space-based solar power-beaming, orbital and lunar tourism.
Millions of new jobs, cheap energy beamed to earth. It's either us...or China

[Scottie Pippen @ScottiePippen]

Slowly... then all at once...

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

From an 1884 article in the London Spectator: ‘An Englishman fears poverty excessively, and a Frenchman shoots himself to avoid it; but an American with a million will speculate to win ten, and if he loses he takes a clerkship without thinking much about it…The peculiarity makes them the most dangerous gamesters in the world.’

This appetite for risk also shows up in our relatively permissive bankruptcy laws (which have been tightened up re credit cards and student loans, however).

[Steven @Steven15486841]

@BowTiedYukon 8 hrs would be dreamy

[TheLastRefuge @TheLastRefuge2]

I watch this video with a smile; in part because I have watched hundreds of videos of European regulars saying they cannot believe how wonderful their experience in America has been.

The larger sense, the biggest picture, is how each of these voices are declaring themselves free from the proximity of EU propaganda, and when that moment is reached these realities can never be unseen.

At the same time, I think of the EU bureaucrats standing jaw-agape wondering if things will ever be the same again.....

My friends, the need for control is a reaction to fear. The control mechanisms have weakened with every cheer and drumbeat. It is a good day for freedom 😀