Brian Lynch

Artist by heart, fabricator by trade. Do no harm, but do not take any shit.

[Uche is a girl 🇻🇦 @UcheMaryOkoli]

Many Catholics think that St Peter was the first Catholic Church that was built, but it wasn’t.

St. John Luteran is the very first Catholic church that was built.

It has the skulls of St. Peter and St. Paul above the altar and also a piece of wood from the actual table where Jesus had his last supper with his disciples.

The Catholic Church knows how to keep history.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

An exec turned whistle blower says Palantir plans on taking over the US government.
Looks like they've almost accomplished just that.

[Aesthetic.Guyy @Aestheticswallz]

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee;

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

People started noticing a lot of vehicles in LA with license plates from Mexico so they started watching where these vehicles went and realized that they were all ICE vehicles and they all had normally illegal tint on them also.They also don’t have front tags which is illegal.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump: Spirit Airlines was going to merge with People Express

(People Express ceased operations in 1987, 5 years before Spirit even existed)

[brandon s. @b_cuse_]

We don’t have $736 million for our National Parks but we have $500 million to bail out Spirit Airlines?

[Ken Layne @KenLayne]

Regarding “banned books,” I was encouraging a buddy to open an old-fashioned clubby bookshop with lots of classics, history & philosophy. One of the first things that came up was the need for full-time burly security guards. Never heard of any trouble at the B&N banned display.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump had another mental health episode and spiraled out of control on social media last night:

12:18am - Demands Chuck Schumer resign
12:19am - Posts a tweet saying Obama tried to “overthrow the government in 2016.”
12:22am - Reposts a statement from Sen. Mike Lee calling for the filibuster to be removed
12:27am - Posts a conspiracy video alleging Obama and Hillary Clinton committed treason
12:27am - Posts a tweet from a MAGA account calling for Obama and Clinton to be arrested for treason
12:28am - Another post calling for treason charges against Obama and Clinton
12:28am - Yet another post demanding treason charges for Obama and Clinton
12:29am - Posts an AI image of a man holding a sign
1:13am - Demands the 2020 election be “wiped from the books and be of no further force or effect.”
2:43am - Posts about Clint Eastwood complimenting him
2:44am - Posts about Elon Musk calling the Southern Poverty Law Center a “scam”
2:45am - Posts about a far-right podcast

This man is not well. He is a demented lunatic who is spiraling out of control. He must be impeached and removed from office.

[Cuckturd @CattardSlim]

Trump is paying himself $9 million as the Ballroom "Contractor"

Republicans can STFU about fraud for eternity!

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Eric Trump went on FOX to brag about winning ANOTHER multimillion-dollar contract from the Trump administration.

I've been sounding the alarm and pushing for answers.

Is the Pentagon just a cash machine for Trump’s kids now?

This looks like corruption in plain sight.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Hegseth is blaming Biden for military vaccine mandates.

The flu shot’s been required since 1945.

Joe Biden was 2.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

A reporter completely breaks FBI Director Kash Patel. After Patel screams and calls the journalist a liar, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche literally has to step in like a babysitter to scold the press for being rude. Washington officials are terrified of basic questions.

[Cuckturd @CattardSlim]

I would have won Vietnam very quickly.

Donald J. Trump.

[MrCasey @MrCasey62]

LOL! Someone obviously doesn’t even know what “gaslighting” IS.

Some Councils. Note the dates:

• Rome, 382: 73 books
• Hippo, 393: 73 books
• Carthage, 397: 73 books
• 2nd Carthage, 419: 73 books
• Florence, 1442: 73 books
→ MARTIN LUTHER, 1517
• Trent, 1546: 73 books

[𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ @sonnysehra]

in 1974, a japanese pharmacist in tokyo released a dreamlike psychedelic acid-folk album. it was the only record he ever released and it was lost for DECADES, until being rediscovered in 2024. he passed away in 2021, never living to see people listen to his music again.

[T.E. Jentzen @Faithful2Pray]

Let nothing disturb you, 
Let nothing frighten you, 
All things are passing away: 
God never changes. 
Patience obtains all things
Whoever has God lacks nothing; 
God alone suffices.
Amen.

- Saint Teresa of Avila

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

Every time a German Messerschmitt pilot wanted to escape a Spitfire on his tail, he did the same thing.
He pushed the nose down.
In a dive, the German engine kept running — it used fuel injection. The British Spitfire's engine cut out. For one and a half seconds the Merlin went dead, the aircraft shuddered, and by the time it caught again the German was gone. Worse: if a German was behind a British pilot and the British pilot dove to escape, the German could follow and keep shooting while the British engine was silent.
Pilots were dying because of a carburetor.
The engineers at Farnborough knew about the problem. They were working on a long-term solution — a redesigned carburetor that would take years to perfect and manufacture.
A woman named Beatrice Shilling fixed it with a washer.

She was born in Hampshire in 1909 and was the kind of child who spent her pocket money on Meccano sets and tools. At fourteen she bought her first motorbike. Her mother, with the inspired instinct of someone who understood what her daughter actually was, found the Women's Engineering Society and arranged an apprenticeship at an electrical firm.
She went to Manchester University — one of the first two women ever to study engineering there — graduated with a degree in electrical engineering, stayed another year for a master's in mechanical engineering, and in 1936 joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough as a scientific officer.
By the late 1930s she was one of the best carburetor engineers in Britain. She was also one of only three women to hold the British Motorcycle Racing Club's Gold Star — awarded for lapping the Brooklands racing circuit at over 100 miles per hour on a motorcycle.
She had reportedly told her future husband, an engineer named George Naylor, that she wouldn't marry him until he earned his own Brooklands Gold Star first.
He earned it. They married in 1938.

The problem with the Merlin was specific and lethal. The SU carburetor used a float chamber to regulate fuel flow. Under negative g-forces — the forces experienced in a sudden dive — the fuel flooded to the top of the float chamber and starved the engine for 1.5 seconds. Just enough time for a German pilot to turn the tables entirely.
The RAF had known about this since the Battle of France. The formal solution — a redesigned pressure carburetor — was in development but wouldn't be ready for years.
Shilling was thirty-one years old, working in carburetor research, and she designed a fix in weeks.
A brass thimble with a precisely calibrated hole in the center — later simplified to a flat washer — fitted inline in the fuel line just before the carburetor. It restricted maximum fuel flow to just enough to prevent flooding without cutting off power. The key breakthrough: it could be fitted without taking the aircraft out of service. No downtime. No factory return.
The old guard at the RAE looked at it and called it a plumbing fix. They called her a plumber. The first batch of 5,000 units was made by a Birmingham firm that normally manufactured plumbing fixtures, which they found embarrassing.
The RAF pilots who flew Spitfires with Messerschmitts on their tails called it something else.
They called it Miss Shilling's Orifice. With deep affection.

By March 1941 she had organized a small team and was personally touring RAF fighter stations across England — traveling between bases on her old racing motorcycle — fitting the device to every Merlin engine they could reach. Squadron leaders all over the country were demanding installations. The word spread faster than the official channels could keep up with.
The Germans noticed. They couldn't explain why British fighter pilots had suddenly started following them into dives. They were baffled by the new aggression. They didn't know about the washer.

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[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more.

Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged.

Here's what happened:

Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it."

And the exact emails are now PUBLIC.

Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem.

The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately."

Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call.

Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price.

Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed.

Same playbook with Hanes:

Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased."

Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins.

But it gets even worse...

Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site.

Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing.

They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS.

The mechanism is simple but terrifying:

If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers.

Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings."

Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products.

Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform.

So turns out, you were never comparison shopping.

You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors.

"Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable."

3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on.

This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat.

And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE.

"Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

This photo was from this week in Hungary. The man with JD circled in yellow is Paolo Zampolli. He’s the former owner of the NYC KitKat Club and was major supplier of little girls (including Melania Trump) to Epstein. He had his own wife deported by ICE! This makes me WANT TO PUKE! Via~~~Mike McKee