Ned Fitzgerald 🌹

[Ned Fitzgerald 🌹 @nedfitzgerald_]

@egf713 @Jim_Jordan *You’re

[Ned Fitzgerald 🌹 @nedfitzgerald_]

@jasonachristian Chinatown?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The razor blade slot is one of the most quietly brilliant pieces of home engineering ever built, and the reason it looks insane is the exact reason it worked.

A 1903-style Gillette double-edge blade is carbon steel, weighs about a gram, and is thinner than a sheet of cardstock. It also stays sharp enough to open skin long after it's too dull to shave with. That made it almost impossible to throw out safely. It sliced through trash bags, cut the people sorting cans, and survived the backyard trash fires Americans used in the 1930s, then waited in the garden ash for a bare foot. Every disposal method lost to the blade.

So the wall became the container. Drop it in the slot, it falls into the stud bay, gone.

Here's the part that was actually smart. A cavity between two studs runs about 14 inches wide, 3.5 deep, 8 feet tall: roughly 4,800 cubic inches of dead space. A blade takes up around five-thousandths of that. Account for how blades pile instead of pack neatly and the void still swallows something like 80,000 of them. A man changing a blade every week or two fills it at a rate measured in centuries. He'd calculated, correctly, that he would die long before the wall did.

Then rust finished the job. Carbon steel blades oxidize and fuse into a single corroded mass on the bottom plate. Loose sharps turn into an inert brick. The pile actually gets safer as it ages.

It was the cheapest sharps disposal in America for fifty years. A free, effectively bottomless container whose contents rusted themselves harmless. The only failure mode was a future stranger with a sledgehammer.

Stainless steel ended it. Blades that lasted weeks meant far fewer to throw out, and by the 1970s the fully disposable plastic razor shoved the whole problem back into your trash can, where it sits unsolved today. The cartridge you tossed last month is in a landfill right now, still sharp.

The guy filling his wall with blades in 1955 had a better disposal system than you do.

[🏃🏻‍♀️ @bagelaureate]

5-4 decision for something written and enumerated plainly by the Constitution of the United States

[Con @_ConnorWard]

Me getting to the pub for 6 for a 9pm kick off just for it to be 0-0

[Andrew Woods @JimJarmuschHair]

I’m in an Uber and my driver is listening to audio only versions of GUNSMOKE episodes

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I wonder if any medieval peasants stayed awake at night replaying awkward conversations

Just lying there in the dark thinking, “I was weird at the well”

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

I’ve never seen anything more accurate

[Eoin Higgins @EoinHiggins_]

there's extensive historical research proving this untrue, particularly for Union soldiers who became radicalized after seeing conditions on plantations like the one of Robert E Lee's son

[Edgar Allen Poe @allenakinkunle]

📌

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“Do you, Sir John, feel yourself to be arbitrary and irrelevant?”

Sir John Betjeman, 28th August 1906 – 19th May 1984

[Ned Fitzgerald 🌹 @nedfitzgerald_]

@thinkwithmark At what point do you people stop trying to destroy the things that bind us together as humans?

[Daniel Wortel-London @dlondonwortel]

If Eisenhower delivered the Gettysburg address (published in 1957 by Oliver Jensen).

Hysterical stuff. They need to do this for every president.

[Teddy Roosevelt Voter-Dark Woke Bull Moose @GorillaHpn]

In 2028 I am voting for whichever candidate promises to put the South through a new round of reconstruction

[Mads @europemaxxed]

This is the real guide to not working

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

[Paul Schleifer @PaulSchleifer]

Please let this be real.

[Kathleen Winchell ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸🇺🇸 @KathleenWinche3]

If you’re from Boston you get this! He cracks me up 😂
New England vocabulary lessons! 💥

[a random pynchon character @zaaaarbi]

Movies used to have guys with real faces.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), Peter Yates