Escape Velocity... AKA Matthew 🇺🇦

To folks liking or following my tweets I am humbled. Just expect me to get rattled now & then. I don't suffer fools very well & well they seem to be abundant.

[Escape Velocity... AKA Matthew 🇺🇦 @EscapVelocity]

Likes mean a tweet may be interesting, Follows mean you may be interesting. Sometimes more so, sometimes less. Love or hate will be explicit.

PS: I got my notice my "I reckon so... Rocket" account is no more 😢.

Viva Vertis
Wabi Sabi
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[Wall Street Memes @wallstmemes]

Billionaire CEO's burning $3k a second in fuel yacht racing after laying off 20% of the company to 'cut back on costs'

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Election Day is the deadline to vote, not the deadline for election workers to finish counting millions of ballots.

How are people this fucking stupid?

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

In recovery we learn the whole point is service.

Showing up for somebody besides yourself.

That’s leadership too.
Setting the tone.

Right now the tone is vengeance and yeah, I get the anger.

But anger isn’t leadership. It’s tyranny.

We can and should reach for each other. Demand better.

[WORLD NEWS @_MAGA_NEWS_]

Elina Valtonen, Foreign Minister of Finland:

“NATO is not a threat to Russia. Russia is a threat to world peace. We would like nothing more than a peaceful relationship with Russia. We demand that Russia return to respecting international law & withdraw its troops from Ukraine.”

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

Lost in Trump's temper tantrum walkout from his interview w/ Welker “If it was up to me, I'd pay them the kind of money that they deserve... Lives have been destroyed. Many suicides, think of it,”

Uh, the 4 suicides were police officers.

https://t.co/CB8OzcsdMJ

[Ms. M @msmalarkey24.bsky @MsMalarkey24]

My god. Sickeningly unethical.

Email directive from Bari Weiss to 60 Minutes executive producer Tanya Simon:

“Can we make the protesters look more violent? […]

The other thing was, Renee Good’s car. You need to describe her as driving toward the officer.”

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

What happens when an ammunition warehouse blows up.
Footage from Russia’s Belgorod region on the Ukrainian border this morning. All this stuff won’t kill Ukrainian civilians anymore.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

the face of a person who is never challenged, his world-view never questioned, literally never hears a syllable of opposition unless a journalist, usually a woman, questions him, & then he is astonished & infuriated.

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Here's my position on Platner. Im not here to defend him. Im not here to stick my neck out for him. Maine will make their decision. But for me it comes down to basically one thing. The supreme court.

Alito and Thomas are on their way out and more than likely will retire while trump is still president. If republicans control the senate trump will be able to put 2 more 40 something year old, hard line right wing judges and we will have a conservative majority court for the next 2-3 generations. Any major progress dems will try to implement can and will be stopped. Including trying to restore voting rights for ppl and workers rights as this court is the most corporate friendly court we've had in the last 100 years.

That's the whole ball game for me when it comes to maine's senate race.

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Kyle Clark asked Colorado GOP candidate for governor Victor Marx whether voters should believe he’s lived "one of the most extraordinary lives in human history," or whether he’s "a liar and a fraud."

John Oliver: “That might be the first event in history won by the moderator.”

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Whose stupid idea was it to send a guy who would’ve been on Hitler side to give a D-Day speech?

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Do not doubt that if a major pandemic hits, millions of Americans will die because of this grotesque man. And not a single person better say that we didn’t know it was coming. Alarm bells have been ringing *nonstop* that this sick buffoon will kill people. https://t.co/PUXZBHP2h2

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

This man is a troll who says that any election won by Democrats is "stolen." He also oversees national election security for Homeland Security.

He's been pushing the ridiculous "California fraud" narrative.

He studied at Moscow State University. 1/

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The USA have blocked the Somali Referee Omar Artan from entering the USA, the Referee who is rated the best in Africa was blocked at entry, so he got the Somalian embassy to give him a Diplomatic Passport.

But the USA still refuses to let him in.

The USA need to be disqualified

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

Mormons propped up and supported an Evangelical Political Cult but Mike Lee is somehow surprised

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

I had to double check that this wasn’t fake. Is there a single person in the world (other than Axios) who takes this utter nonsense seriously at this point?

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

That bread you're tossing to the ducks malnourishes the adults and can leave the babies unable to fly for the rest of their lives.

Bread is junk food for a duck. It fills them up so they quit foraging for the bugs, plants, and seeds that actually feed them.

In a growing duckling, a diet that heavy in empty carbs makes the wing grow too fast and twist at the joint. The feathers jut out sideways, the wing never works right, and the bird is grounded for good. It's called angel wing, and in an adult it can't be undone.

It doesn't stop at the birds. A pond where people dump bread gets crowded and aggressive, ducklings never learn to find their own food, and the soggy leftovers rot into algae blooms and draw rats.

If you want to feed them, give them food, not filler: cracked corn, oats, halved grapes, chopped lettuce, a handful of thawed peas.

Better yet, just watch them. A healthy pond already feeds its ducks. They were doing fine before the bread showed up.

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

https://t.co/gYNgARJojg

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

BREAKING: Ken Paxton’s own lawyer just endorsed James Talarico:

“I defended Ken Paxton for years in the impeachment trial and in state criminal cases. But in my view, I think Ken has lost sight of his core mission, which is to represent the people of Texas. 

And unlike Ken, I believe that you, James, believe in unity over division and that you know how to assemble not only Democrats but Independents and Republicans and we need that right now. 

We need unity, we don't need any more division and that's why I'm supporting you.”

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

5,000 tons of Russia’s Navy ammunition near St. Petersburg is gone.

Eight Ukrainian deep strike drones got through air defenses and triggered a massive secondary detonation — United24. 1/