Charles Bayless

Casual observer

[Josh Rainer @JoshRainerGold]

Every single one of these guys suffer from John Cleese syndrome

[Trent Telenko @TrentTelenko]

...that warned everyone near planned 'protest areas' before hand to turn off door and shop video surveillance.

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https://t.co/U3KXg5lQLA

[Trent Telenko @TrentTelenko]

...and Liverpool in England.

The P.M. Starmer/Labour government has yet again arrested Tommy Robinson for the "crime" of being a effective public critic of both unlimited migration & the British political elite's indifference to migrant crime.

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https://t.co/pqDVyEglCV

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

🚨 Can you see we are being played?

Labour BLOCKED age verification for illegal migrants claiming to be children.

Yet now wants British citizens to verify their age to prove they’re not children.

Oh …

[James Bradley @JamesBradleyCA]

🚨 CNN Just Broke: California Is Collapsing

Even CNN’s Fareed Zakaria is now admitting it. California is a failing state after decades of one-party Democrat control.

They spend more and more, billions on homelessness alone, yet deliver less and less. Streets in chaos, businesses fleeing, people suffering.

This isn’t an accident.

The same party that created these crises keeps getting rewarded with votes. That’s not loyalty, that’s Stockholm Syndrome. They’ve been lied to, they keep buying the lie, and they defend the very machine destroying their lives.

The propaganda is cracking. The truth is in plain sight.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Leonardo da Vinci sketched a bridge that gets stronger under weight. Pull one plank, and it collapses in a second. Both features were designed on purpose, for a warlord who needed to cross rivers and then deny them to enemies.

The warlord was Cesare Borgia. In 1502, Borgia appointed the fifty-year-old Leonardo as his senior military architect and general engineer, handing him authority over every fortification in the Papal States. Borgia was the model Niccolò Machiavelli used for "The Prince," his guide on how rulers seize and hold power through force, cunning, and fear. His tactical problem was rivers. Italian campaigns meant constantly crossing waterways with enemies on both flanks, and any bridge left standing was a bridge the enemy could use to follow.

The design holds together without fasteners, held by wood pressing against wood and the grip between surfaces as weight pushes down. Wooden beams are laid in a crisscross pattern, each wedging against the others where they cross. Press down and the beams squeeze tighter. The harder they squeeze, the more stable it gets. An army crossing makes the bridge stronger with every soldier.

The collapse feature is equally precise. Each beam holds every other beam in balance through the forces pressing on it. Remove one, and you break that balance across all of them at once. The entire structure comes apart in a single pull. Borgia's troops could cross a river, pull one plank from the far bank, and leave enemies staring at scattered timber. The instant disassembly was a deliberate security feature.

The sketch lives in the Codex Atlanticus, da Vinci's personal engineering notebook, held today at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan. He never built it in his lifetime. Five centuries later, anyone with a pile of logs can prove his geometry was right.

[Everybody is Insane @colorblindk1d]

Up until ~30 years ago this was literally impossible since it was just universally believed that immigrants shouldn't be able up be on welfare.

[ARINZE @arinzechukwum_]

AT&T Stadium: Another Architectural Engineering Marvel by the Americans

​America keeps proving why they are the absolute best in the world when it comes to sports entertainment. It’s genuinely hilarious how they rebranded and reconstructed a massive American football dome in under six months just to meet strict FIFA standards for the World Cup.

​AT&T Stadium (temporarily renamed "Dallas Stadium" due to FIFA’s strict anti-sponsor rules) is an absolute titan of modern engineering. Built for a staggering $1.3 billion by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, this 3-million-square-foot monster in Texas is officially the largest roofed stadium on earth.

​While it comfortably seats 80,000 fans, its flexible design allows it to expand to over 100,000 capacity. The arena is structurally supported by two of the longest single-span steel arches on the planet, features retractable glass walls, and is famous for its legendary, 1.2-million-pound Mitsubishi HD video board hanging directly over the center circle.

​But what makes it truly fascinating right now is how it completely transformed its identity to host elite international football, like the Netherlands vs. Japan match tonight.

​Because the stadium permanently uses artificial turf for the NFL and FIFA strictly demands real grass, engineers spent over 45,000 intense man-hours executing a high-tech pitch overhaul. They hauled in 15,000 tons of material, starting with subsurface ventilation and irrigation networks laid right over the concrete floor, followed by layers of specialized sand.

​They then brought in 24 refrigerated trucks carrying massive rolls of premium hybrid Kentucky bluegrass and ryegrass grown in Colorado. To make the pitch sturdy enough to survive nine grueling World Cup matches, specialized machinery literally stitched millions of synthetic nylon fibers directly into the natural sod.

​The absolute coolest piece of wizardry here is how they keep the grass alive inside a closed dome. Because the roof blocks vital sunlight, they installed a groundbreaking, automated grow-light system suspended directly from the ceiling.

​When turned on, these massive overhead rigs bathe the pitch in a vibrant, glowing pink hue to power photosynthesis. On match days, the entire light system is hoisted 290 feet into the rafters completely out of the fans' sightlines, and once the final whistle blows, they are lowered back down to nurse the grass.

​Just like SoFi, this entire engineering feat is temporary. Once the World Cup wraps up, the hybrid grass will be entirely recycled, and the stadium will shift right back to its standard synthetic turf just in time for the NFL season. The sheer level of flexibility and execution is unreal.

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

My comment about the decline of nuns was not a joke.

We used to have ~200,000 women - and almost 100,000 men - who declared themselves to be unsuited to deal with mere worldly sexual and financial concerns, and became spiritual teachers.

Today, these folX are all on X.

[Dux @DuxVul]

Elon Musk does not own a yacht

Gavin Newsom does

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

listen up, we have to vote for the man with the nazi tattoo so he can stop the man landing rockets and curing the blind from making any more money, otherwise we’ll get fascism

you see how stupid you sound, yes?

[Rich @RichEvans0601]

@SkylarSkye3 You can drive for 12 hours in London and still be in London it’s that fucking conjested

[Skylar Skye @SkylarSkye3]

I’ve just learnt that you can drive for 12 hours in Texas and still be in Texas 🇺🇸

Meanwhile in England you can drive the length of the whole island in 6 hours 😭

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

Absolutely shocked that the woman who thought the decision to play football in 2020 was worse than Jerry Sandusky is now expressing bewilderment that the South doesn’t stone visitors to death

[helen warlow @HWarlow]

‘Harold Harvey (1874-1941)
‘In the Kitchen’
Newlyn School of Artists
Stylish ladies in a bohemian way
Think I’ve see this as a VIrago book cover
These shoes love

[Paula Wright 🦚 @PaulaWright]

I don't know who made this meme but it's correct. Anarcho tyranny generally aligns with the middle-to-late phases of societal collapse, tied to a breakdown of moral consensus, bureaucratic bloat, and the failure of basic public duties (like public safety).

[Logan Dobson @LoganDobson]

Then surely the $7 trillion the government spent last year solved all the problems

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

If there’s anything I hate more than hippies it’s fucking space hippies

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

In case you thought sexism was a thing of the past

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Two hundred years after Mohammed's death, a Muslim army got half way up France before it was defeated

Islamic armies had already invaded North Africa and Spain and large swathes of the Middle East

Do you really think that was achieved by friendly persuasion ?