Henry T Kirk

Sr. Eng Manager @  Apple | Former SWE / Manager @ Google, Amazon, Studio.init() | Proud 🇺🇸. Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱.

[Henry T Kirk @henrytkirk]

I love Black Friday deals on Amazon. Merchants jack up prices the week before so you’re paying the same price as always.

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@spotandtango Too many steps to see the pricing and plans. And requiring my email as one of the steps is a non starter.

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Everything is just way overly choreographed - nothing looks natural anymore.

[WWE @WWE]

Zack Ryder was pulling out all the stops for the Last Time is Now Tournament Match 😮‍💨

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@TannerBuilds I just ran a really long sprayer from my sink faucet. I can even reach the fridge to clean it out.

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@GEICO_Service All I got was an auto reply to begin a chat on the website.

For a $7,000 premium, someone should call me.

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I can’t believe my @GEICO renewal after being with them 25 years has nearly tripled since adding my son as a driver.

- Wasn’t so bad when he turned 16 with a permit: $2600 a year total
- Added a car: $1400 a year added when he turned 17.
- Turned 18, they jacked it up $1800 a year. Nothing else changed.

No accidents. No tickets. Good student discounts.

Now my renewal is at $7000 a year.

I also have homeowner and an umbrella with them.

I’ll be quoting other companies. This is madness.

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@Osint613 I live nearby and watched this. I don’t recall seeing anyone mentioning he was there or seeing anyone running prior to the collapse. Seems a little fishy to me. I’d bet this was staged the day before with a bit of movie magic.

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@DudespostingWs Rigged? That’s actually an option in settings.

[Proton @ProtonPrivacy]

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

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@left2reigns The feet are too big to be Jericho. I’m sure it’s likely Gunther but really was hoping it’s the return of Vince.

The stories lately have been bland and the matchups have been spotty.

I really don’t get the appeal of Gunther.

[Fil Aronshtein @FilArons]

My mom narrowly survived 9/11. Several of her friends and coworkers were tragically killed. I don’t normally share this level of detail on Twitter, but given what’s I’m seeing, I feel compelled to share her story (with her permission).

My mom, a Jewish immigrant from the Soviet Union who came to New York in 1976, came to this country to escape persecution and for a better life. As it turns out, Socialists and Communists hate Jews. Shocker.

My mom started working at the World Trade Center as a Mainframe Programmer at Morgan Stanley in 1987 (Morgan Stanley Dean Witter on 9/11).

My mom was working on the 67th floor of the 2nd Building during the 1993 WTC bombing. Thankfully, she survived, though it left a lasting mark on her.

My mom was working on the 56th floor of the 2nd Building during 9/11. They had just moved her team to that floor a few weeks prior. She had finished a meeting and was working when she looked out the 56th floor window and saw that the 1st Building had been hit. She thought it was an electrical explosion or something since they were always doing some work in the buildings. She saw paper and debris flying everywhere, and thick smoke pouring out. No one really knew what was going on, but remembering the 1993 bombing, her gut instinct was to get out of there.

My mom grabbed her small pouch that had some spare cash in it, grabbed a few of her coworkers, and they started going down the building. When they had reached the 22nd floor, the 2nd plane hit the 2nd Building. She knew she was on the 22nd floor because of a massive column in the center of the building, and they felt the whole building shake. Her and the people with her began sprinting down the stairs to get out.

My mom didn’t know what was going on, but seeing the smoke and knowing that it was toxic to breathe in, wanted to get as far away as possible. She just started walking, trying to get to Queens. She made her way through Chinatown, and out of a gut instinct, went into a store and bought a disposable camera with the emergency money in her pouch. She took many photos of the buildings, and was able to get them developed. I don’t know think any documentaries have ever gotten ahold of them, but I’ll share a few here.

My mom kept walking. Walking to Queens. By the time she had made it to the 59th St Bridge, someone she was passing by told her that The Twin Towers had collapsed. “What do you mean? I was just at work a second ago — that doesn’t make any sense.”

My mom was ironically, in 2006, one of many laid off as Morgan Stanley offshored many of their programming jobs to India.

My mom, every year on 9/11, remembers. Every year on 9/11, my dad would tell me: “wish your mother a Happy 2nd Birthday”. As a kid, I never really understood, but my dad would say, “it’s a day to celebrate that she survived, to be here with us.”

My mom survived. Not one, but two terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I am forever blessed and count myself as one truly lucky New Yorker. Many were not. Everyone knows someone.

9/11, for New York City, was a New Founding. A transformative moment. This tragedy, and our subsequent grit and tenacity, is woven into the DNA of every real New Yorker.

For someone running for MAYOR of New York City to have such little understanding of this core truth, to go as far as to try to leverage it in a POLITICAL COUNTER-MESSAGE OF SHAMING AND RALLYING, is to admit that they are fundamentally disconnected from the reality of what it means to be a New Yorker and thus, be Mayor of New York City.

If you’re a New Yorker, you know this to be true. You know we cannot have Mamdani in office. If we want our city to continue to survive and thrive, we simply cannot.

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@blader Refreshing approach. Love it.

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@humphrey4thewin Welcome to Apple 🍎

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@Bugatti Sweet - does it have Apple CarPlay?

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@landlawyerbrian How is it that title insurance kicks in? Is it because the deed noted the survey definitions?

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@nodqdotcom The surprise was the Cena Brock match was absolutely awful.

2025 has been pretty awful.

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@jayceee0715 @WWE @espn Lately the women’s matches have been way better. Put more of them on the card.

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@WrestleOps I can’t believe I subscribed to espn for this trash.

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@WWE @espn Disappointing. Tyson v Paul was better than this slop. I’d like my ten minutes back please.