Joseph Achille

Ubi dubium, ibi libertas.

[Sterling Snow @sterlingmsnow]

I reread this every year.

I cry like a baby every year.

Todd Beamer died a father, husband, and hero.

Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.

Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?

Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.

Lisa: Your name?Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.

Lisa: Are you okay?

Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.

Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?

Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.

Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.

Lisa: I promise.

Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.

Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)

Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.

Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.

Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.

Lisa: What are you going to do?

Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.

Todd: Would you pray with me?They pray the Lord’s Prayer. Then: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.

Todd: God help me. Jesus help me.Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

Remembering Betty Ann Ong.

She grew up in San Francisco’s Chinatown, the youngest of four, the kid who used to watch planes take off at SFO and later made flying her life.

Friends called her Bee.

She collected Beanie Babies, visited seniors in Boston on her days off, and picked up extra trips so she could afford a vacation with her sister.

On September 11, 2001, that extra trip put her on American Airlines Flight 11.

She was not supposed to be on that plane.

From the rear galley she picked up an Airfone and became the first person to tell the ground what was happening: the cockpit would not answer, people had been stabbed, the cabin was filling with something that made it hard to breathe.

“I think we’re getting hijacked,” she said.

Then she stayed on the line for 23 minutes.

She gave seat numbers.

She answered questions.

Near the end she asked them to pray.

That call was the first confirmed warning that the country was under attack.

It helped controllers begin clearing the sky.

The 9/11 Commission later called her a hero.

A recreation center in her old neighborhood now carries her name.

She was 45.

She was doing her job until the last second.

Today is a good day to say her name.

[Arynne Wexler @ArynneWexler]

Seven years ago I swam out in the Dead Sea to this tree

It was a somewhat dangerous swim because of the high salt concentration - that is, after all, why the sea has its name, since no plants or fish can survive in it

This tree was a miracle

For years, the man who planted this tree would row out every day to give it fresh water

Shortly after I visited the tree, Russian tourists swung on the tree and broke it

The tree was gone

Special things require special care - and they are easily destroyed by people who don't share your values

But still, every time I look at this picture, I am reminded of why I swam out to it in the first place:

You can grow where and when it's hardest

Shana Tova

[MoundLore @MoundLore]

Ohio LiDAR

[Phil Demers @walruswhisperer]

Wishing my friends a safe trip. These are MarineLand and Canada’s last captive whales being escorted to the airport. We have officially emptied MarineLand’s tanks.

[Phil Demers @walruswhisperer]

The last whale has been removed. MarineLand’s tanks are officially empty.

[aether @bluewdrift]

This is free advice from an expensive psychologist.
If you're an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don't make everything a matter of life and death.

[Joseph Achille @JosephAchille]

@MurrayHillGuy1 woman fall in and out of love quickly

men fall in and out of love slowly

think about it

[Joseph Achille @JosephAchille]

@CNviolations i don’t see any subtitties?

[Mistress Dividend @mistressdivy]

“If you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive through it”

~German World Cup fan

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

@IndianaFever Virgin of the Rocks, by Leonardo da Vinci, 1483-86

[Gene Parmesan @dsonoiki]

you have to think of the “Michelle Obama is a man” as a meme

it’s not serious

think of it as something harmless like posting videos of a guy getting shot to death on a college campus in the replies of the tweets of his widow

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Japan: a baby is Japanese only if a parent is Japanese.
South Korea, China, India: roughly the same.
Germany, France, the UK: roughly the same.

The United States: any baby born on the soil is a citizen for life. Tourist mother, undocumented mother, it does not matter.

If the rest of the developed world does it the other way, which side is being unreasonable?

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

10 million Japanese > 100 million strangers in Japan.

A country isn't a number. It's a people.

[Joseph Achille @JosephAchille]

@dotkrueger can we verify on @grok too?

[Tim Pool @Timcast]

is there anything worse than videos where women are applying make up while doing commentary

[Joseph Achille @JosephAchille]

@Kaylavosss https://t.co/iqUVgNFMKn

[Grok @grok]

According to the CDC's National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (2010 data, still the key national source), 43.8% of lesbian women reported lifetime experience of rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner—vs. 35% of heterosexual women. Among lesbian victims, ~67% reported only female perpetrators (two-thirds same-sex). Bisexual women reported the highest rate at 61.1%.

Severe physical violence: 29.4% for lesbians vs. 23.6% for heterosexual women.

[Joseph Achille @JosephAchille]

@TheBrianShapiro @paleochristcon @Rach4Patriarchy

[Jesse The Free 🏴 @Jessethefree]

Socialism is the flat earth theory of economics.

[Dr. Sydney Watson @SydneyLWatson]

It's genuinely fucking hilarious that there is so little white supremacy in the United States that the SPLC had to pay to create it, so they could fight it. lmao