Nick Stupakis

just a simple man trying to make his way through the universe

[B/R Open Ice @BR_OpenIce]

Rod sneakily built in a 35 pound cinderblock lift into the Canes offseason workouts, called it “Blue Collar Presses”, and the boys never thought anything of it…

Turns out he was having them practice lifting the Cup all season long 🤯🔥

(via @Canes)

[Nick Stupakis @nickstupakis]

@emmitonair Thurman Thomas

[City of Pittsburgh @Pittsburgh]

In 1898, Christopher Lyman Magee donated $125K to establish the "Highland Park Zoo".

The @PghZoo is owned by the people, but operated by the nonprofit Zoological Society.

It grown & flourished in @CitiParks historic Highland Park under this partnership!

[Best of Star Wars @bestofstarwar]

The absolute chad Solo. He immediately realises it’s Vader and does not hesitate for one second.

[Nick Stupakis @nickstupakis]

@eurofounder You don’t pay a tip for tickets in America. Don’t lie about my country

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On June 13, 1777, a 19-year-old French teenager landed on a beach in South Carolina, uninvited, to fight in someone else's war. He would become one of the most important men in American history.

The Marquis de Lafayette was one of the richest young aristocrats in France. He had a beautiful wife, a fortune, and zero reason to risk any of it. But he believed in the American cause so fiercely that when the French king forbade him from going, Lafayette bought his own ship and sailed anyway. He literally went AWOL from a life of luxury to bleed for a country that didn't exist yet.

Congress was annoyed at first. Another foreign officer looking for a paycheck? Then Lafayette offered to serve for free and pay his own way. That got their attention.

He met Washington and the two formed one of the great father-son bonds in American history. Washington had no biological children. Lafayette named his only son George Washington Lafayette.

He took a bullet in the leg at Brandywine and kept rallying the retreat. He was instrumental at Yorktown, the battle that won the war. He went home a hero on two continents.

A foreign teenager believed in America before America did. 249 years ago today.

[Jesse Marshall @jmarshfof]

I spent all my time listening to Stan, Guy and Jay Caulfield on SportsNet. Throw in Mike and Staggy, too. Those are the people responsible for how much I love this game. Thanks, Stan, for everything. Will never forget you.

[Nick Stupakis @nickstupakis]

@TheStingisBack 1989 Gannon University my buddy is taking a marketing class and turns in Lexus marketing campaign for the United States since his dad was the head of Rohrich Lexus changed name of car. Got a D was told it wouldn’t sell.

[Nick Stupakis @nickstupakis]

@DevanaUkraine This guy is falling out a window by Thursday

[Nick Stupakis @nickstupakis]

Doing the Lord’s work

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

-Squatters took over his mom's house
-Didn't know how to get them out and discovered how difficult the legal process can be for homeowners
-Found a legal workaround where he could move into the house himself and essentially become the squatter's new roommate
-Realized this was a much bigger problem than most people knew
-Started making videos helping homeowners get their properties back
-Went viral
-Now has a reality TV show where he travels the country out-squatting squatters

[Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 @JasonJournoDC]

💥NEW: Stephen A. Smith: “I would give anything to be able to say something definitively in Karmelo Anthony’s defense. If there was a shred of innocence to the incident itself, I would say so. I don’t want to see another black young man going to jail.”

“But I don’t give a d*mn about what your race or ethnicity is. Just because you’re white and young doesn’t mean you deserve to be m*rdered. And just because you’re black and young … doesn’t give you a license to m*rder someone.”

“That’s what happened.”

[Nick Stupakis @nickstupakis]

@fOx1257067 @GenXTalks1 I did and I loved it

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.

[Epstein File Search @epsteinsearchin]

Rep. James Comer today: "I am going to ask Alan Dershowitz to come in. We will have questions for him. Questions that arose based on Ms. Groff's testimony."

Comer met privately with Epstein survivors after her testimony.

He now wants Dershowitz before Congress.

[Ryan Deto @RyanDeto]

The Clarks performed in Pittsburgh Mayor’s office today, and it was declared The Clarks Day in honor of the Southwestern PA bands’ 40th anniversary. Their song “Better Off Without You” was recently featured in The Pitt television show. They play at Stage AE on Saturday

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

This is how Rush introduced Tom Sawyer last night. This was their first show since 2015. Incredible. 😁

[Nick Stupakis @nickstupakis]

@giveashitnature I watched wasps diving into my kale last year so I got closer and took a look they were killing small green caterpillars off the plants and eating them.

[Tribune-Review Sports @TribSports]

Franklin Regional grad Spencer Lee continues quest toward Olympics return https://t.co/QVeyZWxrdE

[Nick Stupakis @nickstupakis]

Love this

[Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie]

Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.

One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??

The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.

Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!