NEW: Emergency call released of 13-year-old Austin Appelbee telling authorities to get a helicopter after he swam for four hours to reach the shore.
Appelbee was heard calmly telling authorities that his mom and siblings were stranded at sea.
The boy was heard explaining that his mom told him to swim to shore after they had been swept out about 2.5 miles.
After four hours of swimming, Appelbee had to run about 1.25 miles to reach a phone.
"I’m sitting on the beach right now, and I have to also explain. I think I need an ambulance because I think I have hypothermia … I feel like I’m about to pass out."
Swims for four hours, sprints 1.25 miles, his body is failing, and he calmly instructs emergency responders to send out a helicopter.
Wild.
In 10,000 years, your country won’t exist. The borders will be dissolved, and your language will be extinct or unrecognizable.
Your digital footprint will be gone, and data will rot faster than stone. Most of what defined us today, money, politics, status and online lives, will vanish without context.
What survives will be fragments: misread, mythologized, guessed at, and wrong.
The uncomfortable truth is this: human certainty is an illusion built on missing data. We don’t know where we truly came from. We don’t know how many civilizations rose, advanced, and quietly reset before us.
As history shows us, it isn’t a straight line of progress, it’s a series of collapses, with survivors writing the story. And we don’t know if we’re evolving… or just approaching another reset.
I became a father in 2006 to a beautiful 3 pound preemie baby girl.
Her mother abandoned her and I raised her entirely on my own.
Nothing from mom.
No shoes. No clothes. No birthday gifts. No child support.
Not even a phone call.
She’s now 17 and I have had 4 more daughters since.
God couldn’t have given me a better life.
Happy Father’s Day, fellas. 🫡
So you are there, just lost on Twitter. No clique, no friendship mutuals, not interested in trending drama, you just come, scroll a few times, refresh, scroll again, switch to another app and switch back in 7 seconds.
Yeah, say hi 👋😄.