I had decided early on that I would never use a real picture of myself on X, but some friends said to at least use an avatar, so I had Google make one. Wish my eyes really were this big!
@Texas_jeep__guy That looks absolutely disgusting! Carbs stacked on more carbs and mashed together. Bleh!! DIL and I were debating one day if the reason the Brits have such notoriously bad teeth is because everything they eat is soft. Hmmm.... this might explain it!
Understand how this works for many in NYC: perp gets a SNAP card, presents to bodega cashier; cashier rings up $100 for bread, milk, etc; no goods exchange hands; bodega keeps $50; perp keeps $50, buys drugs. Perp has a dozen cards in different names.
🚨 Just announced: The United States Mint will produce 250,000 Semiquincentennial 2026 Declaration of Independence Quarters featuring a special “July 4” privy mark in celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. 🇺🇸
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NYT headline yesterday:
A driver in a Tesla vehicle that was engaged in automated driver-assistance mode crashed into a house in Texas and killed a woman.
Today: Tesla logs confirm the driver manually overrode the self-driving system and had the accelerator floored the entire time.
The first headline (lie) gets all the clicks.
The facts get overlooked.
And the NYT doesn't bother with a correction because it doesn't fit their narrative.
I spent time with a Vietnam veteran, a fellow Airman. There’s nothing like the camaraderie in our military community.
But too many of our brothers and sisters are still struggling — homelessness, financial crisis, isolation.
That’s why we’re back and rebuilding stronger. We take care of our own. One vet at a time.
Donate: https://t.co/nUVfTaFEVY
#CodeOfVets
@hormonedietdoc Buy groceries only on the outside aisles unless absolutely necessary. And read every label if you do buy something in a box or container. Sugar and other "natural" sweeteners are everywhere!
There's a bird that spends almost its entire life airborne, eats thousands of flying insects a day, and has lost more than 70 percent of its population since 1966. The reason is specific and fixable, and you can fix part of it this weekend.
The chimney swift originally nested in the tall hollow trees of old-growth forest. When European settlement cleared those forests, the swifts made a pretty sensible switch: chimneys.
By 1672, people were already documenting swifts using chimneys. The birds followed the settlers west into the treeless plains, expanding their range on the back of human habitation. It was one of the few times a species benefited from European land clearing.
Then the chimneys started disappearing. Modern construction moved to metal flues, which swifts can't use. Old masonry chimneys, the ones that work, get capped by homeowners worried about rain, pests, and liability.
The Chimney Swift Conservation Association estimates that the loss of suitable nest sites is among the primary drivers of the decline. 70% in sixty years.
A swift tower replaces what was lost. The design is standardized: a wooden or concrete shaft roughly 12 inches square on the interior and at least 6 feet tall, mounted on a post in an open area away from trees.
The interior needs to be rough enough to cling to. One breeding pair will claim it. They'll glue a small twig nest to the inside wall with their saliva, raise their chicks, and come back to the same tower next year and the year after that.
A single swift eats thousands of flying insects daily. Flies, beetles, ants, fleas, the airborne pests of summer. A nesting pair feeding chicks is removing insects from your yard at a rate no pesticide can match and at zero cost to you or anything else in the food web.
The Chimney Swift Nest Site Research Project has free tower plans at chimneyswifts dot org. The build takes a weekend. The swifts may take a season or two to find it.
When they do, you'll hear them, a chittering, chattering spiral of birds dropping into the shaft at dusk, and you'll understand immediately why people who know chimney swifts tend to become people who can't stop talking about them.
This morning I had the pleasure of mowing Mr. Walkers lawn . He’s recently recovering at home after having surgery . Please have him in your prayers . Making a difference , one lawn at a time
The Education System is Broken, Time to Fix It with Real Skills! 🇺🇸
The education system is broken. We’re cramming kids with useless stuff like valence electrons, photosynthesis, and iambic pentameter while skipping the hands-on trades that actually build America. Plumbing, electrical, carpentry, construction, these jobs pay serious money, need no college debt, and lead to real freedom and entrepreneurship. Big thanks to the mentors showing the way. Time to get kids building again! 💪
Carbohydrates and sugar before bedtime can blunt growth hormone, which is needed for fat burning and tissue repair. They may also trigger blood sugar ups and downs that impair sleep and cause grogginess the next day.
Dr. Eric Berg, DC, not MD; information only
In 2014, 300 scientists warned Anthony Fauci would start a global pandemic.
Following the high-profile escape of three bugs from U.S. labs, these 300 scientists sent a letter to President Obama, urging him to shut down Anthony Fauci's gain-of-function research.
Obama issued a moratorium and shut down 18 of the worst projects by Anthony Fauci. In the end, he really didn't shut them down. Instead, Obama moved the research offshore to places like Ukraine, the former Soviet State of Georgia, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China.
Now, it is widely accepted that COVID-19 originated from that very lab in Wuhan, China.
Those 300 scientists were right about Fauci…
But the big question is, why are people like him so obsessed with creating dangerous pathogens in the first place? 🧵