Jack Bunce

[KC-10 Driver ✈️ 👨‍✈️ B-737 Wrangler @MCCCANM]

True story.

[Adam Johnston @adamkjohnston]

Saving America initially rests on five things:

1. A decades long immigration moratorium like we had from 1924 - 1965. (See chart)

2. Forced “Americanization” programs similar to those that existed 100+ years ago.

3. Ending Birthright Citizenship.

4. Mass deportations.

5. Remigration initiatives.

Though there are more, enacting these five will lay the necessary groundwork to reverse some of the damage from mass immigration, and then allow for a reforging of a cohesive nation.

[Tom Kratman @TKratman]

That map absolutely should be in there, so we can educate kids to the facts that, rather than being a single nation, the Indians were many different tribes, continuously at war with each other, that each tribe we cam up against couldn't control their young men, who raided us to rob, rape, murder, burn, and take slaves, that we came up against new tribes because we destroyed the previous border tribe because we were just a lot better at real war than they were.

One small suggestion, though; mark the site of the Crow Creek Massacre so we can put to rest the silly idea that we taught them about scalping.

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

Changes of planetary albedo prior to 2000 can be estimated/reconstructed from observed global surface temperature records.

We have shown in our 2024 paper (https://t.co/MyGQzXlsJe) that the best available albedo measurements since 2000 made by the NASA CERES Project completely explain the 21st-Century warming.

Therefore, prior albedo dynamics can be reconstructed from global temperature records by INVERTING our model and solving it for the albedo... See the attached slide for an explanation.

[Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. @NikolovScience]

Here is an update to Fig. 9a in our 2024 paper showing a comparison of measured and modeled global surface temperatures from March 2000 to Dec. 2025. Our model used CERES-observed time series of albedo and TSI to produce a global temperature record, which is then compared to INDEPENDENT official global temperature data.

The model (using albedo and TSI data) explains 100% of the warming trend and 88.6% of the interannual global temperature variations since 2000.
This is quite remarkable, if you think about it!

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Dmitri Mendeleev, creator of the Periodic Table, was nominated for the Nobel Prize 9 times but never won because a scientist he once criticized sat on the committee and blocked him every single time.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Today I discovered not only that there is such a thing as a quokka but also that my whole life I've been missing a quokka.

[John Ringo SF Author @Jringo1508]

I'm only going to comment on one of the comments.

I have a friend who is a TSA supervisor in Atlanta. They don't have 'a bunch of this stuff in the back.'

There are so many bottles being confiscated, they have a CRATES of them which they send to the local food bank which is in turn SENDING THEM TO FOOD BANKS ALL OVER GEORGIA there are so many bottles of ranch being confiscated. They are shipping multiple times daily.

That's what they do with the ranch. They send it to food banks.

[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

They permitted it.

Not in some distant, abstract sense.

They permitted the industrial rape of British children...girls as young as nine and ten, drugged, trafficked, gang-raped, and passed between networks of men while the institutions meant to protect them chose silence, career preservation, and ideological comfort instead.

Rotherham alone gave us a conservative estimate of 1,400 victims between 1997 and 2013.

The same pattern repeated across town after town. Recent inquiries place the true scale in the hundreds of thousands when decades and locales are accounted for.

This was not a failure of imagination.

It was a failure of nerve dressed in the language of sensitivity.

Police filed reports and looked away.

Councils weighed “community cohesion” against broken children and chose the former.

Social workers returned drugged girls to their abusers.

Mid-level functionaries and ideologues performed the ordinary administrative work of hell because confronting the truth threatened their status, their pensions, and the narrative they had sworn to protect.

Hannah Arendt named this long ago:

the terrifying normality of those who enable atrocity not through monstrous intent, but through the refusal to think from the standpoint of the violated.

The neurological and psychological wreckage inflicted on these girls is permanent.

Trauma rewires the nervous system.

It forges hypervigilance that never sleeps and attachment injuries that poison every subsequent relationship.

These were not “troubled teenagers.”

They were children the British state abandoned to packs of predators while lecturing the rest of us about racism and cohesion.

The men who raped them are animals.

But the greater monsters are the suited cowards who licensed it.

They are still among us. Some still hold positions of influence. And they should not be permitted the luxury of sleep.

This is not a story that ends with the first convictions or the latest inquiry announcement.

We are not letting this go.

The tree of liberty grows hungry, and those who fed it the blood of Britain’s daughters have forfeited the right to pretend the reckoning will pass them by.

Read it. Share it. Remember their names.

https://t.co/1GsKGFyniI

[KC-10 Driver ✈️ 👨‍✈️ B-737 Wrangler @MCCCANM]

This is what’s known as an “FBO” (Fixed Base Operator). It’s kind of like dropping into a gas station for airplanes.

They sell fuel, but offer many other services as well. Some are very simple; just a shack you can get out of the rain w/ a bathroom. Others are elaborate…they may have showers, rest facilities, a kitchen or attached restaurant, gift shop, etc..

They often have a “crew car” available for you to drive into town. Some of those are nice, others are retired police cars bought at auction with 200k miles. Just depends.

Some have hangar space & will put your jet to bed overnight instead of just tying it down outside. Then they’ll pull it out in the morning at whatever time you tell them.

At Ellington Field in Houston, we got free beer & rooms if we dropped in & bought fuel. At Grand Junction, we got free pizza. Alexandria would let you pre-order a Shrimp Po’Boy over the radio for $1.50 as you got on approach.

Alliance Fort Worth staffed the FBO with pretty, flirty young women & you got a free rental car if you filled up. There were always a bunch of military jets there on the weekend.

In Bangor, you could order live Lobster to take home & they’d bring it to the jet.

Prestwick Scotland was famous for giving you good Scotch at a deep discount if you purchased fuel. Sometimes free if you purchased a lot of fuel.

Anyway, the point is the FBOs are competing for business & often distinguish themselves by the amenities they offer. It’s fun to drop in to one the first time. The really good ones get a reputation & when you flight plan, you pick them for a fuel stop.

I’ve got quite a few pilot followers, so I’d like to ask them to describe their memorable FBO experiences & amenities in the comments. Maybe share a picture of the crew car. I think the sum of these comments will help you get a better idea of FBOs than I can offer in a post.

[Shawn Ryan @ShawnRyan762]

Hells Angel Boss Reveals the Rule They Never Should’ve Broken

“There was always an unwritten rule: no homes and no families. They beat up one of our guys’ girlfriends that was a bartender. She was behind the bar, and they busted her nose. We did that exactly back to them. Not something I’m proud of. Not something I wanted to do. But where were we going next? To the homes? To the mothers and fathers? Now we were a real street gang. I look back now, and I think, bro, I couldn’t do that again for all the money in the world.”

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🚨🧵 MAJOR BREAKING: German government has been grooming DSA leaders for over a decade, and nobody noticed? 🇩🇪

Last night, Darializa Avila Chevalier — endorsed by NYC-DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) — beat a five-term incumbent to win New York's 13th congressional district.

@AsraNomani has been reporting on their ties to Cuba and the China/Singham network. But what’s not known is DSA’s deep ties to the German government.

The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS) is the political foundation of Die Linke — the German parliamentary party formed from the merger of the Party of Democratic Socialism, itself the legal successor to East Germany's ruling Marxist party, the SED.

Under German law, every party in the Bundestag gets a taxpayer-funded foundation. Die Linke's share is approximately EUR70MM annually.

Most German party foundations sponsor conferences, publish research, and fund exchange programs. What RLS-NYC did was put its own staff inside DSA's organizational leadership — concurrently — for over a decade.

In 2012, RLS opened a New York office. EIN 45-3658022. Their own annual report states: "With the help of funds from the BMZ and the Foreign Office, the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung maintains a network of international relationships. This includes financing its foreign offices."

Over the last 13 years, Berlin has sent millions to this office.

Despite these ties, no FARA registration for the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung was identified in the Department of Justice database.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread.👇

[Dave Rubin @RubinReport]

This pretty much explains it all…

[European Space Agency @esa]

Today, our Euclid mission revealed the largest, most detailed photo ever taken of our galaxy's centre in visible light.

🔗 https://t.co/JFEIkHuraz

[Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt]

Some thoughts after last night’s Hammer and Sickle wave in NYC:

1. The base of the Democrat Party is now post-American, in their ideals and in their voters. Primary winners ran on "ending the American Empire" and blamed American capitalism for 9/11. Why do you think they're fighting so hard to stop the SAVE America Act?

2. Chuck Schumer, the Great Arsonist of the Senate, is not a viable candidate for reelection in 2028. He sacrificed his career on the altar of mass migration. Now mass migration will cannibalize him.

3. Import the third-world. Become the third-world. Half of NYC residents have a language other than English as their primary language. Zohran got 62% of the foreign-born votes and only 31% of the American-born votes. I bet that trend continued for the Leftist winners of these primaries.

4. To those who say Twitter isn't real life, I'm not sure Bluesky/TikTok are either. Online darlings of the left George Conway and Jack Schlossberg got creamed.

5. "We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western Civilization" was the stated goal of a group founded by a soon-to-be congresswoman. If you still don't know what time it is...

6. It is becoming more and more clear that the Left is rallying around explicitly anti-Western views as it loses ground on the trans/DEI front, just as the Left has done in Europe. Watch this space in the 2028 Democrat Presidential primaries. Communists winning elections is not a "win for the right." This will do great damage to our country and to the political outlook of many Americans.

7. We can still win, but the coalition is changing. The battleline is increasingly about the view of America: are we a nation daring to be great again or is America a mistake and a sin worthy only of eradication?

This isn't an arbitrary game or some meaningless competition. Our nation is on the line.

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Pennsylvania has declared INDEPENDENCE from Great Britain.

Pennsylvania is the fourth colony to unilaterally declare itself as independent from the crown.

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

The Largest Machine Ever Built: The Large Hadron Collider at CERNIt’s not just a machine. It’s a 27-kilometre ring of pure engineering ambition buried beneath the Swiss-French countryside — the biggest, most complex device humans have ever constructed.Weighing in at 10,000 tonnes of superconducting magnets, the LHC operates at an astonishing -271.3°C — colder than the vacuum of outer space itself. In fact, it is the coldest extended region anywhere in the known universe.This extreme chill is non-negotiable. The superconducting magnets must hover just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero to completely eliminate electrical resistance. Even the slightest warming, and the entire system fails in a spectacular “quench” — a runaway release of stored energy powerful enough to melt the magnets https://t.co/E7OPBINxTB 2008, one such quench caused $40 million in damage and kept the collider offline for 14 months. A brutal reminder of just how unforgiving this technology is.Yet when the LHC is firing on all cylinders, the numbers become almost unbelievable:Protons race around the ring at 99.9999991% the speed of light
They complete 11,245 laps every single second
Up to 600 million collisions occur each second inside the detectors
The experiments generate 15 petabytes of data every year
Keeping a 27-kilometre machine at near-absolute zero, year after year, while orchestrating hundreds of millions of particle collisions per second is an engineering triumph that borders on the miraculous.The physics discoveries are legendary.But the sheer audacity and precision required to make it all work might be the most impressive achievement of all.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Hunga Tonga is still affecting the atmosphere.

On Jan 15, 2022, the underwater volcano erupted in the South Pacific. It blasted roughly 160 million metric tons of water vapor into the stratosphere, increasing levels by an unprecedented 10%.

Most major eruptions cool the planet by injecting reflective aerosols. Hunga Tonga erupted underwater and punched seawater high into the atmosphere.

Water vapor is the most dominant greenhouse gas.

NASA warned the eruption could have a temporary warming effect.

Then global temperatures spiked in 2023 and 2024. Predictably, the spike was sold as proof of accelerating CO2-driven warming, with activist-scientists downplayed any influence from the record Hunga Tonga eruption.

But now comes the next test. The excess water vapor is now declining, slowly, and with it, global temperatures are also falling. The accelerating crisis looks a lot like a temporary atmospheric pulse, now fading on schedule.

Here again, we have a natural driver dominating Earth's climate.

[Sam Mathverse @Sam_Axiom]

Physics Series (Basics)

Thermodynamics

Part - 1

Concept Notes Theory and Formula Sheet

📌 Save this post now.
You'll thank yourself later when you need a quick revision.

[Mathematica @mathemetica]

Quadric surfaces reveal key 3D geometries through their equations and traces.

- The elliptic cone x^2/a^2 + y^2/b^2 - z^2/c^2 = 0 has elliptical traces at fixed z and intersecting lines in planes along its axis.
- The elliptic paraboloid z = x^2/a^2 + y^2/b^2 has elliptical sections at constant z and parabolic ones otherwise.
- The hyperbolic paraboloid z = x^2/a^2 - y^2/b^2 forms a saddle with hyperbolas at fixed z and parabolas in vertical planes.

Engineers use the hyperbolic paraboloid to design efficient saddle roofs and cooling towers.