Jay Blake

Either wandering the face of the Earth or wheeling through the galaxy. Always hopeful yet discontent. Mercer alum. Atlanta sports fan. Romans 10:9

[Alysa Carsley @WSAVAlysaC]

TOASTY BURNT THURSDAY

Afternoon temperatures will be around 100°. Weather Aware Day - Extreme Heat Warning where the heat index could reach 116°. This type of humidity will make it very difficult for your body to cool itself down naturally. Spend more time inside than outside.

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 🇺🇸 @creation247]

Fahrenheit is superior to Celsius and I’m tired of pretending this is a debate.

Fahrenheit feels like temperature was designed by an human being who walks outside, feels the air, and says, “Yeah, that makes sense.”

Zero is freezing. 100 is brutally hot.
70 is comfortable. 80 is warm.

The numbers feel like what they are describing.

Celsius feels like it was designed by a committee of people who hate joy and want every conversation about the weather to sound like a chemistry lab.

“It’s 22 degrees outside.”

What does that even mean to a normal person? Am I wearing shorts? Am I grabbing a jacket?

Nobody knows. You need a conversion chart and a government employee standing next to you explaining the vibes.

Fahrenheit gives you range. That’s the point. It gives you more numbers for the temperatures human beings actually live in. You can feel the difference between 68, 72, 76, and 80. Those numbers matter. Fahrenheit lets you describe the world with more precision without having to break into decimals like a lunatic.

And here’s the other thing...

Celsius is connected to the metric cult energy that came out of the French Revolution. And the French Revolution was evil. Both of the Revolution were to rip out tradition, faith, monarchy, hierarchy, the Church, the calendar, the clock, and anything that reminded man he was not God.

CELSIUS IS INHERENTLY EVIL

So yes, Celsius may be useful if you’re boiling water in a lab. Congratulations. But Fahrenheit is for living LIFE because Fahrenheit is for walking outside and instantly knowing what kind of day you’re about to have.

100 means hot. 70 means beautiful. Zero means don’t go outside unless you have a death wish.

That’s a real system.

[ًًً @_captainpulisic]

after everything he went through for doing absolutely nothing wrong, he still went over and did something he didn’t have to at all AFTER just being eliminated. what a player but more importantly, what a person

[ATL Falcons UK 🇬🇧 @ATLFalconsUK]

The Falcons... the Falcons say no...

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Notice the pattern between Biden and Platner, because it is the whole story. In both cases, the primary voters made a choice. In both cases, the party decided, after the fact, that the voters had chosen wrong. And in both cases, the same institution that lectures America about authoritarianism and “threats to democracy” moved heaven and earth to override the expressed will of its own electorate the moment that will became inconvenient. The people who cannot stop saying democracy is on the ballot keep discovering, at the decisive moment, that they trust themselves more than the demos.

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[Alysa Carsley @WSAVAlysaC]

NOT YOUR TYPICAL HEAT 🥵

Weather Aware Day - coastal areas under an Extreme Heat Warning. Heat index: 112-116°. Spend more time inside than outside today. This type of heat easily wear your body down. Humidity makes it very difficult for your body to cool itself down naturally

[NWS Charleston, SC @NWSCharlestonSC]

An Extreme Heat Warning and a Heat Advisory have been issued for portions of GA & SC from 11 AM to 7 PM EDT. High temperatures are expected to reach the mid- to upper 90s, with peak heat index values between 108°F and 116°F.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On July 6, 1747, the man who would become the father of the American Navy was born, and he wasn't even American. He was Scottish.

John Paul Jones was born a poor gardener's son in Scotland, went to sea as a boy, and eventually made his way to America just in time for the Revolution. When the colonies needed a navy to take on the greatest fleet on earth, he became its fiercest fighter.

His most famous moment came in a brawl at sea against a British warship. His own ship was shot to pieces and literally sinking under him. The British captain called over and asked if he was ready to surrender.

Jones yelled back the line they still teach in the Navy today. I have not yet begun to fight.

Then he did the impossible. His ship went down, but not before he boarded and captured the British one instead. He climbed off his own sinking vessel onto the enemy's deck as the winner.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

The French, the Russians, and the Chinese all believed they could perfect human nature if they just broke enough eggs. Our founders believed the opposite. They believed man was fallen, that power corrupts, that no one — no king, no assembly, no vanguard of the proletariat — could be trusted with unchecked authority. So they built a system that assumes the worst about us and protects us from each other and from ourselves. They didn’t dedicate the nation to a perfect man. They dedicated it to a proposition. That all men are created equal. Endowed by their Creator. Not by the state, not by the party, not by the revolution — by their Creator, which means no revolution can take those rights away, because no revolution granted them in the first place.

That is why people are willing to die to get here — and I mean die. They cross deserts. They pile into boats that have no business on open water. They wait years in line for a piece of paper. Nobody, and I mean nobody, is dying to break into Russia. Nobody is stacking themselves into a shipping container to reach the People’s Republic of China. The traffic runs in one direction, and it has for two hundred and fifty years, and that one fact tells you everything the propagandists on the left and the isolationists on the right don’t want you to know. The poor of the earth, the persecuted of the earth, the ambitious of the earth — they vote with their feet, and they vote for us. A refugee understands what a tenured professor cannot: that this is the best there is, because he has seen the alternatives up close, and the professor has only read about them in a book he misunderstood.

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[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

Let me gather up all the English who spent America’s 250th birthday in my mentions, and send you home in one trip.

We need to talk about your track record.

You fought us for this country and lost. You came back in 1812 and burned our capital, and you love telling that part.

Here is the part you leave out.
We had already burned yours. York, the capital of your Canada, torched the year before. That is why you came for Washington in the first place.

And after Washington you sailed to Baltimore feeling brave, and we stopped you dead at Fort McHenry and wrote a national anthem while you rowed away.

We even picked up Florida before that decade was done, which, full disclosure, is exactly where I am moving.

That is not a rivalry. That is a man who keeps losing the same bar fight and calling it heritage.

Then twice the world caught fire, and both times you held on until the Americans crossed the ocean to help you finish it. You are welcome for the Germans. Twice.

And the excuses. Oh, the excuses.
“The French fleet kept our navy busy at Yorktown.” You were the most powerful navy that had ever floated, and your official story is that the French distracted you. That is not the flex you think it is.

Then came the birthday flexes, and I wrote them all down.
We are older. Congratulations, so is a tortoise.

Our smartest people left and did amazing things in America. Yes. They did. Nobody ever fled Boston to go invent something in Birmingham. Talent only runs one direction.

We invented the lightbulb, the telephone, the atom. A Brit who dabbled, a Scot who left, and a New Zealander. Every one of them finished the job here.

So here we are. To the victor go the spoils.

We got a continent, the moon, and the reserve currency of Earth.

You got a Royal Family you cannot afford and a soap opera you cannot switch off.

Even King Arthur bailed. The once and future king, promised to return in Britain’s darkest hour. He woke up, took one look around modern England, and caught the first boat to America he could find. The man wanted a round table and you handed him a reality show.

A small personal note, since you keep speaking for the whole island.

We prefer the Scots. They gave us Carnegie, the telephone, and better whisky, and they did it without whining.

Now. About that navy.

The fleet that once ruled every ocean is down to about 62 ships. Five working frigates. Your own First Sea Lord admits you will not be ready for a war until 2030.

And let us pray that war is against someone with no navy and no guns, because at this point I am fairly sure Panama could take you, and
Panama does not even have an army.

This spring you had to borrow a frigate. From Germany.

The country you needed us to help you beat is now loaning you boats.

Sit with that one, and enjoy our birthday.
🥃🦋

[The🐰FOO @PolitiBunny]

Notice you didn’t post this in German.

You’re welcome.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Canada, keep your head high.

You may have lost the gold to America in both men's and women's ice hockey and just now gotten whooped in soccer by Morocco, but you can always be proud of that gold medal in curling that you cheated to get.

[4nt1p4tt3rn 🏴‍☠ Appalachistan Wolf Lodge #47 @4nt1p4tt3rn]

when it was Carroll's turn to sign the Declaration of Independence, he rose, went to John Hancock's desk where the document rested, signed his name "Charles Carroll" and returned to his seat. At this point another member of the Continental Congress, who was prejudiced against Carroll because of his Catholicism, commented that Carroll risked nothing in signing the document, as there must be many men named Charles Carroll in the colonies, and so the King would be unlikely to order Carroll's arrest without clear proof that he was the same Charles Carroll who had signed the Declaration.

Carroll immediately returned to Hancock's desk, seized the pen again, and added "of Carrollton" to his name.

[Jay Blake @jblakeiii]

@SkylarSkye3 I am not. I would probably support them over Canadians at this point, but that’s about it.

[Jeff 🔴⚫️🔴 @JMC9787]

Why do Canadian teams have this thing of saying they are the better team when they lose? The hockey team did it when they lost in the Olympics. The soccer team is doing it after losing 3-0 to Morocco.

Sore-ass losers.

[Kuang Xu @ProfKuang]

My first Independence Day as a US citizen. I came here 2005 an awkward non-English speaking teenager. I naturalized exactly 20 years later.

Thank you to so many amazing Americans that helped me on the way, of all colors and accents. On this July 4th, I’m reminded that this is a country that rewards hardwork, merit, bold imagination and the enterprising spirit. No matter your color and no matter your accents.

I’m also reminded that such values are not to be taken for granted, but to be treasured and fought for.

Happy birthday 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Continental Congress HAS SIGNED A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE! 

The UNITED STATES are OFFICIALLY INDEPENDENT from BRITAIN.

LIBERTY BELLS ring out throughout Philadelphia; the streets ERUPT IN ECSTASY.

[Jim Craig @JimCraigUSA]

I'm forever grateful to have worn the USA across my chest and to represent a country built on courage, sacrifice, and opportunity.
Today, we honor those who made our freedom possible and celebrate what unites us.
Happy Fourth of July. 🇺🇸