Joe Vogel

Words you say
Never seem to live up to
The ones inside your head
The lives we make
Never seem to ever get us
Anywhere but dead

[Kristina Wong 🇺🇸 @Kristinawong]

101-year-old World War II veteran doing pull-ups in the center of Sainte-Mère-Eglise, France, on the anniversary of D-Day, as the crowd cheers. ☺️

[Garrett Exner @Exner_Garrett]

Ray’s Rock - Omaha Beach

On the morning of June 6, 1944, 23 year old Staff Sergeant Arnold “Ray” Lambert came ashore with the first wave of the 1st Infantry Division on the eastern side of Omaha Beach. At this small patch of concrete he saved nearly 20 lives:

The division came under intense fire from several German bunkers surrounding the entrance to the Colville Draw (one of two exits off Omaha Beach). Ray, a medic, immediately went to work.

He was shot in the arm. Moments later he was hit by shrapnel in the leg, but Ray kept pulling men to safety. He pulled nearly 20 wounded soldiers to cover behind this 8ft wide obstacle, treating each soldier before going out in search of others.

After several hours under fire, while pulling a wounded soldier from the ocean, he was struck by a landing craft. It dropped its ramp on top of him, breaking his back. He fell face down in the water, drowning. The craft backed up and nearby soldiers pulled an unconscious Ray to safety, eventually evacuating him off the beach.

Remarkably, Ray had already earned two Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts in Sicily and North Africa, prior to landing in France. But here in Normandy his war would end.

He awoke in a hospital back in England a day later. In the next bed over was his brother, who had also been wounded at Omaha.

When asked about his work on D-Day, Ray simply said, “I did what I was called to do.”

Ray Lambert passed in 2021 at 100 years old. He exemplified the best of American grit and why remembering this day is so important.

[Joe Vogel @iqmutant]

@dotsonc I think they've done a good job developing pitching? Look at the starters, how quickly they're able to get them to the majors, and make use of them. Even the bullpen arms. I think there's a massive problem acquiring bullpen arms, and I don't think that's a DJ problem

[Joe Vogel @iqmutant]

I remember a time at 18 when White Castle was the only thing open past midnight, and then a shift to everything being open 24 hours.
Now I've been up at 11 baking for a kid's birthday and need something and it becomes a rush to get to Kroger before they close. It kinda sucks

[Sonny Bunch @SonnyBunch]

This is why Gen Z craves movies about liminal spaces: They’ve lost the ability to roam a near-abandoned Walmart at 3:37 AM but the inherited impulse remains.

[Sonny Bunch @SonnyBunch]

This is why Gen Z craves movies about liminal spaces: They’ve lost the ability to roam a near-abandoned Walmart at 3:37 AM but the inherited impulse remains.

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

This moral issue is terribly nuanced, fiendishly complex and achingly difficult. Alas, I must soberly, even regretfully inform you that my gut-level instinct is correct.

[Ken Gardner @KenGardner11]

One of many things that Blue MAGA has in common with Red MAGA: they positively revel in finding the very worst people that they can find as a giant fuck you against "the establishment" -- and against every standard and norm of of good human beings. They're nihilists.

[Magills @magills_]

Everyday for the Platner campaign

[Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD]

Norm Macdonald

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

Why did leftists decide that manifestly low conscientiousness is a mark of "authenticity"? They did it with Fetterman, it blew up in their face, and now they've done it again with Platner: falling in love with an obviously unreliable underemployed weirdo. https://t.co/cid5VoEtsW

[(((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe]

People are begging for sports to stay politics free but I think politicians interacting with sporting events as if they're normal people and not messaging robots captured and sent to view alien proceedings is a good thing for America.

[Joe Vogel @iqmutant]

@KelseyTuoc My goodness he's adorable. Congratulations to you and your family

[Joe Vogel @iqmutant]

That's not to say I don't love a good $10 rougelike that I can sink mindless hours into (shout out Balatro) but I'll probably not remember a singular run the way I remember something like Half-Life 2

[Joe Vogel @iqmutant]

I will gladly pay $70 for a AAA game that has a fantastic story, visuals, and gameplay that I beat in 10 hours. I want something that I'm going to remember like a blockbuster movie

[Noam Blum @neontaster]

Love it when a game has 25 boring hours of padding just so that my dollars-per-hour math sounds nice.

[Noam Blum @neontaster]

Love it when a game has 25 boring hours of padding just so that my dollars-per-hour math sounds nice.

[Cheese For Everyone! @CheeseForEvery1]

I think one issue in politics, especially today, is that winners too often take their victory as affirmation of their stupid ideas rather than a rejection of their opponents’ stupid ideas

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Like honestly "it's going to take us several weeks to tell you who won the election" is failed state shit and should be much more stigmatized.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

The fact that California elections often can't be resolved for weeks is kind of insane and not common in other electoral systems around the world.

[The Steampunk Gentleman Gamer ⚙️🚂🎩 @quirked_up_anzu]

Right before Porkins is shot down, Biggs yells "Eject!" at him as if they aren't all wearing open helmets and wouldn't just die anyway in the vacuum of space

[Frank J. Fleming @IMAO_]

LucasArts was a big part of keeping the love of Star Wars going a decade after Return of the Jedi had been in theaters.