James Collins 🌻

Reader/Adventurer in the QC

[James Collins 🌻 @jamescollins]

I’m at https://t.co/1JzXxHo3SF for the foreseeable future.

The lights are much brighter there… you can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares

[James Collins 🌻 @jamescollins]

@LionTowerShield @shelly What a fun and enlightening interview. Thank you.

[James Collins 🌻 @jamescollins]

https://t.co/fmAJdsBLuk

[British Embassy Washington @UKinUSA]

Wait, America... you were serious??

[Melissa Navia 🚀 @melissaCnavia]

Gorn babies. That’s all I see.

[david D. @secretsqrl123]

the largest city captured in the war so far..... rostov.

[Alec Luhn @AlecLuhn]

Good thing Prigozhin didn’t hold up a “No war” sign or he would have been jailed for 7 years

[James Collins 🌻 @jamescollins]

@TheOnion “The study also proved conclusively that armadillos are the only mammals who totally rule.” So true.

[Shelley Duvall Archive @shelleyduvallxo]

[THREAD 🧵] It seems to be of popular internet belief that Shelley Duvall was traumatized for life because of Stanley Kubrick/The Shining. Here’s a thread, by me a Shelley connoisseur, explaining why her life and career was NOT ruined.

[ABC News @ABC]

New York City was buzzing as a swarm of bees flew around a Manhattan block. The NYPD and beekeepers arrived and were able to contain them. 🐝 https://t.co/uvX1jdieFw

[Jesse McLaren @McJesse]

Wow. Disney+ changed the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark...

[Room Rater @ratemyskyperoom]

Marble. Chandelier and matching sconce. National security secrets and a Walmart shower curtain. Of course. 0/10 or perhaps 10 to 20 years. @realDonaldTrump

[UkrARMY cats & dogs @UAarmy_animals]

Woman: “I am not a volunteer. I just love animals too much. We are rescuing anyone we can. There are so many of them trapped over there”
Kherson.

Ukrainians.
Video: @suspilne_news

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

This photograph, captured at the turn of the 20th century, depicts Jack Daniel, recognizable in the white hat, seated alongside George Green, son of Nathan "Nearest" Green, the pioneering African American master distiller in the United States. For a long time, it was believed that Daniel had been taught the art of whiskey-making by a prosperous landowner and Lutheran preacher named Dan Call. However, it was actually Nathan Green who served as his true mentor, having been rented out by his owners to assist Call. Green took Daniel under his wing and continued working for his whiskey enterprise after the conclusion of the Civil War.

The significance of Green's role was an open secret, passed down through generations. After over 150 years, Brown-Forman, the company that owns Jack Daniel's, officially acknowledged Green as the first master distiller, with Jack himself being recognized as the second. While the history of American whiskey has predominantly revolved around Scottish-Irish and other European distilling traditions, it's crucial to acknowledge the substantial involvement of enslaved individuals in the distillation process. They not only provided physical labor but also possessed extensive knowledge of alcohol production techniques originating from West Africa.

Nathan Green's contribution is now formally acknowledged on the official Jack Daniel's website and highlighted during distillery tours in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Interestingly, the distillery itself is situated in a dry county where the sale of liquor is prohibited. To circumvent this restriction, they legally sell commemorative Jack Daniel's bottles that coincidentally contain whiskey.

[Matina Stevis-Gridneff @MatinaStevis]

I reluctantly agreed, and on the same day I spoke to @FayadMulla. What he showed me floored me.
12 people, mostly women & children, taken off a van by masked men on Lesbos, put on a speedboat, taken to a coastguard boat, dropped in a raft in the Aegean. In the middle of the day.

[Alex @bergerwfries]

@jbouie Somehow Shin Godzilla has both "guys (and girls) in meetings" and "giant monster attacks" and it's incredible

[McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins]

Without wading too far into the Tump/CNN thing... The idea of a news organization holding a "town hall" is kind of weird on its own when you start to think about it. Should an interview between a reporter and a presidential candidate have a live studio audience?