Miria F.

Mom. Nerd w/glasses. Catholic convert. Big fan of "The Chosen". Conservative. Pro-life. I get paid to break things.

[ERICA 🤌🏼 @ZiaErica]

Sixty-nine years ago today, one of my best friends entered the world.
None of us knew then how many lives he'd change, how many laughs he'd create, or how many perspectives he'd reshape.
Today, we raise our cups a little higher for @ScottAdamsSays.

To Scott ☕️

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth.

It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter.
Less than a refrigerator light bulb.

The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed of light.

By the time it arrives, it's 20 billion times weaker than the power of a digital watch battery.

NASA's Deep Space Network picks it up using 70-meter dish antennas cooled to near absolute zero to reduce electronic noise.

The engineering required to hear a 23-watt signal from 24 billion km away is arguably more impressive than the spacecraft itself.

Launched 1977.
Still transmitting.
Still being heard.

We built something that works perfectly, 47 years later, in conditions no one has ever tested in.

That's what engineering for the long term looks like.

[Nick Searcy, Actor/Director/Producer/Author @yesnicksearcy]

From my book, JUSTIFY THIS, in the chapter about GOSNELL:

"We were filming the movie in Oklahoma, and there was one role that we still had not cast. I just had not seen anyone that struck me as right for the role.

On a Sunday after the second week of shooting, I went to a Waffle House (my favorite restaurant chain by the way) in Oklahoma City. The place was very busy, and the manager was going around apologizing to everybody for their meals being late.

I kept looking at her. There was something about her. She was very attractive, and she had a tattoo on her neck. There was a certain toughness about her, and she way she carried herself was so poised and competent. There was a strength and a wisdom to her that I thought would really read on camera.

I felt moved to go and talk to her. I waited until she had a free moment, and I said, “Look, I know this sounds like a crazy pickup line, but…um, have you ever done any acting?”

Obviously having never been asked that question, she predictably responded, “Um, no.”

I said, “Look, I know this might sound like a cliche pick-up line, but…I really am a director from Hollywood and I really am shooting a movie here in town, and there’s a part in it that you would be right for. Would you mind if I got the script and let you read it with me to see if it’s something you want to do?”

“Um, okay.”

I drove home and got the script and went back to the Waffle House and sat down with her in a booth to read the script together. I explained that the character only had three or four lines, but they were very important to the story. I said, “I think you could do this. Would you be willing?”

She was understandably skeptical of this guy who suddenly showed up at her job claiming to be a Hollywood director and offering her a role in a movie. “I don’t know. How much would it pay?” she asked.

I said, “Well, it’ll probably be at least two or three days of work—and it’ll pay about eight hundred and thirty dollars a day.”

She said, “Okay.”

Probably a little better than Waffle House.

The first day she came to work, she practically brought her entire family with her to make sure I wasn’t some sort of crazy serial killer. We shot with her a couple of days, and she did very well. She was a natural. I kept telling her, “Tessya, don’t try to be interesting. You’re interesting enough. Just tell the truth. Let the words do the work for you.” And she was terrific.

On the third day, one of the producers, Ann, came over to me and said, “You’re not going to believe this.”

I replied, “Oh no. What now?” I was sure someone had quit, or some location had fallen out, or some other low-budget-movie disaster had occurred.

She said, “The thing that happened to her character in the movie happened to her in real life.”

I said, “What are you talking about?”

“Tessya, in her real life, went to have an abortion, and when they let her listen to the heartbeat of the baby, she decided not to go through with the abortion. She had her baby, just like her character in the movie.”

I was floored. I felt the hand of God was at play here. I believe God led me to that Waffle House to find her. That something inside me, telling me, when I first saw her, “She can do it! She can do it!”—was Him.

She is now the proud mother of three boys, including her firstborn, whose heartbeat changed her life.

@sagesteele @WaffleHouse

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

Thomas Sowell turns 96 this month.

It’s time to award Sowell the Presidential Medal of Freedom—a fitting tribute to one of America’s greatest champions of freedom! 💪

@WhiteHouse @realDonaldTrump

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[Miria F. @miriaf]

@ericdugan9 Prayers up

[Miria F. @miriaf]

@CyborgPeds I've lived in the South all my life, and there's certain Southern accents that still elude me. Almost got into a fight with an Arkansan saying he wanted some ass, until we figured out he was saying "ice".

[Dave Limp @davill]

Some LC-36 updates. Now that we’ve had access to the pad and integration facility we can share a bit of good news. The propellant farm, oxygen, liquid hydrogen and LNG tanks are all in good shape. This is good luck because these are very long lead items. The water tower is also good. The big support tower is damaged, but it can be repaired in place rather than torn down and replaced. The booster “Never Tell Me The Odds” and the three GS-2s that were onsite in the integration facility also look good.

I’ve seen some speculation that we might move directly to the 9x4 configuration, but we won’t do that. Rate manufacturing of 7x2 is going well, and we’re going to continue that at pace as planned and store the stages for use. In addition, we had already been working for some time on eliminating our transporter-erector in favor of an alternative vertical conop, and we’ll now go directly to that; so we don’t need a new transporter-erector.

We will fly again before the end of this year. Gradatim Ferociter.

[Miria F. @miriaf]

@bryanhdaniels Prayers up.

[Miria F. @miriaf]

@japan_nobunaga Good thoughts, but that's an AI photo, not real. The telescope shown is the James Webb Space Telescope, not the Nancy Roman telescope, and no one is going to be welding near a telescope like that. Also no clean room suits shown.

[Brad R. Torgersen @BradRTorgersen]

Since everyone is talking about it, I will re-share the montage of failures from the movie The Right Stuff. Actual footage of actual tests gone wrong, not movie props. The public have forgotten how tough it is even to get one of these machines off the pad, much less successfully to space. Manned or unmanned. And the complexity and risk has never changed, even if our technology and the reliability thereof have gotten better. Accidents still happen.

[Miria F. @miriaf]

@Ruffin_Shot @lorifrank1 @BeksWineWhiskey The churches would have VBS different weeks, so we'd go to the Baptist church one week, the Presbyterian church the next week, and the Methodist church the week after. They all had orange drinks donated by McDonalds and sugar cookies.

[Miria F. @miriaf]

@grangolden @lorifrank1 At Myrtle Beach, it was a jingle, "It's time to turnnnnn, so you don't burnnnn."

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Vice Admiral Mike Franken just proved exactly why so many Americans despise retired flag officers who chase politics: he smeared a combat veteran as a “Bot which never did or ever will serve.”

In essence, this DEI baby with his rank in his handle, just falsely accused a retired Army Colonel of “Stolen Valor.” The ultimate insult to a vet. That “bot” is a retired Army Colonel with multiple combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne. Real boots, real blood, real service.

I know, CP, he’s legit Army. I know people like Franken, too, he’s just another Perfumed Prince who made his career on the backs of better me.

Franken, you worthless POS, you impugned the honor of a fellow veteran without a shred of due diligence.

That’s not leadership—it’s disgraceful, lazy hackery from a man who once wore the uniform. You owe Colonel @CynicalPublius a public apology.

But we both know admirals like you rarely have the integrity to give one.
#StolenValorAdjacent

[Gary Sinise @GarySinise]

Today is our nations Memorial Day. Enjoy your day and take a moment to remember the true meaning of this day. A day to pay our respects to all those who have given their lives in our country's defense. God bless these brave heroes and their families.

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

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[Miria F. @miriaf]

@tenryugumi_21 Congratulations!

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Italian photographer Valerio Minato waited six years to capture the perfect alignment of the moon, a mountain, and a basilica

This image earned NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, recognizing Valerio Minato’s years of planning and precision.

[Miria F. @miriaf]

@castlehillmom There's a reason why we call it Whole Paycheck, and it's why I shop at Aldi's instead.

[Miria F. @miriaf]

@TheStingisBack I was just singing "Eastbound and Down" to my husband in the car yesterday, heh.