Emily Aston

I am a Christian, a wife, a mother, & a CPA. I love weather & use twitter to get all the latest insider info

[Power of Positivity @LIVEpositivity]

Yes! Claiming this today 🙏

[Evon @_evon3929]

If your iPhone has been hot and dying fast since late June, it's not your battery. It's update 26.5.2.

Here's how to fix it without waiting for Apple:👇

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Nobody has ever made the dark feel as real as old Disney did.

In these films the night isn't an absence of light. It's a color, and someone mixed it by hand…

Disney had its own paint laboratory, built by a woman named Mary Weiser, the first of its kind in animation. Its job was to invent shades that did not exist yet. In the early thirties, when the studio was still making shorts, there were around eighty shades on the shelves. By the time they finished Snow White there were fifteen hundred.

Every one of them went on by hand, cel by cel, and each cel needed hours to dry before it could be photographed.

The Ink and Paint department was almost entirely women. According to the Walt Disney Family Museum, the paints were sometimes named after them, and to have a color carry your name was considered an honour.

So the dark of Bambi's forest, the lamplight in Geppetto's workshop, the blue at Cinderella's attic window: none of it is a filter or a setting or a dimmer turned down. Each is a specific colour that a specific person mixed in a jar, and some of those jars had her name on the label.

That is why these scenes still feel more alive than anything made since. We went from hands, to computers, to AI, and at every step there is a little less of the person left in it…

The author Joanna Maciejewska said it better than anyone: "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."

[ronan 🌪️🏳️‍⚧️ @rrro_wx]

TRAINS ARE SO COOL

[Marlin @nostalgiafkninc]

The Day The Mountain Disappeared

Mount Saint Helens 1980

[PRRFanDoesTrainz @PRRFanDoesTrain]

On July 6th, 1976 the American Freedom Train perched on the apex of the World Famous Horseshoe Curve to pose for a National Geographic documentary. 50 years later almost to the day they did the exact thing again with Big Boy 4014. I will never forget the day the beast came east.

[JustJamie @OYourNameHereO]

When you think you’re the coolest guy in the parking lot and then this BASSET pulls in…😂😂😂

[Amazing Physics @amazing_physics]

Amazing Physics

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear." — Jack Canfield.

Face it.

[Pennsylvania Governor's Office @PAGovOffice]

SPOTTED: Union Pacific’s Big Boy 4014 rolls through Pennsylvania’s state capital.

[USGS Volcanoes🌋 @USGSVolcanoes]

Time for an aerial tour of Mount St. Helens!

Summer has arrived, and that means field work in the Cascades. On Wednesday, June 24, teams from the Cascades Volcano Observatory were at Mount St. Helens to swap batteries, upgrade GPS sites, solidify solar power systems, remove legacy equipment, and survey river channels for changes.

Along the way, one of the field crews captured this aerial video of the crater of Mount St. Helens. The helicopter flies up the western arm of the Crater Glacier, past the 1980-86 lava dome, and then swings to the left around the still-steaming 2004-08 lava dome to get a view to the north out of the crater at Johnston Ridge, Spirit Lake, and Mount Rainier in the distance.

Cascades Volcano Observatory update for Friday, June 19, 2026: All volcanoes in the Cascade Range of Oregon and Washington were at normal background levels of activity for the last week. Small earthquakes were detected at Mount Rainier and Mount St. Helens.

https://t.co/nN0ehwAaac

📽️: USGS video from helicopter flight into Mount St. Helens Crater by Marco Bagnardi, June 24, 2026.

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

Fear will trick you into living a boring life.

[Todd Yakoubian @ToddYakoubian]

⚠️Make sure you, your friends, and family have a way to receive warnings tonight into Monday morning. The main threats with a cluster of storms will be wind, frequent lightning, and locally heavy rainfall. We'll be there 4 you! #ARWX #ARStormTeam

[Union Pacific @UnionPacific]

🚂🚂 Two Big Boys. One historic moment.

Big Boy No. 4014 made a rare stop in Scranton, Pennsylvania, joining @steamtownnhs's No. 4012 — the first time two Big Boys have stood together since the early 1960s. Tens of thousands came out to see it.

Now through June 30, both steam locomotives remain on display as #UP4014 undergoes routine maintenance. The journey continues, honoring America’s 250th, with our commemorative Silver Spike in tow as #BigBoyHeadsEast.

See where Big Boy heads next: https://t.co/7lol4GP7Ln

[Ed Russo @EdRussoWX]

I filmed Big Boy by drone crossing the Tunkhannock Viaduct. From my spot at the base of the bridge, I never saw Big Boy w/ my own eyes. Hours later, my gf & I came upon a packed overpass in Pittston, PA… pulled over… and minutes later Big Boy rolled right thru! Total dumb luck!

[THE BOLD VOICE @TheBoldVoice25]

At the Oak Street railroad crossing in Pittston, the Reading and Northern Railroad and the Union Pacific Big Boy power through side by side—an impressive meeting of modern railroading and steam-era legend.

[Nick Krasznavolgyi @NickKrasz_Wx]

An array of solar panels destroyed by a powerful tornado in Washburn, Illinois yesterday. Completely granulated, and pretty narrow!

[Southern_Railman @SOU_railman]

Genuinely how do you even top this in steam railroading?

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