Wade Eckert

Servant of the Heavenly King! 👑 Husband to a Proverbs 31 wife and father of 3 wonderful boys! Enjoys coffee , history , brisket, 3D Printing , fitness

[Wade Eckert @Protonimus]

My favorite painting The Triumph Of Christianity Over Paganism by Gustav Dore 1868.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Based on strong positive feedback from customers in our beta test program, @SpaceXAI will make Grok 4.5 available to the public tomorrow.

It is an Opus-class model, but faster, more token-efficient and lower cost.

[Wade Eckert @Protonimus]

@gregcello Haha same here we just watched that as well!!

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."

-Charles W. Eliot

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

My new favorite word: Bibliosmia

It is the pleasant, nostalgic smell of old books.

If you've ever wandered through a used bookshop or library, you know exactly what it means.

Do you enjoy the scent of old books?

[Wade Eckert @Protonimus]

@jajminton Exactly! Well said John! I started my reread of Malazan last month and I’ve enjoyed your Malazan discussions they have been such a blast to listen to. Your channel is like the chill local book club we all wish we could have with great discussions its so refreshing!

[Talking Story | J.A.J. Minton @jajminton]

Stop turning reading into a chore! Rediscover the magic of literature without the pressure. #Reading #BookTwitter #MentalHealth #Hobbies

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

The most influential immigrant group in American history is the one nobody argues about, because almost nobody remembers it was them.

Start at the beginning. The Continental Army was a half-trained mess until Baron von Steuben, a Prussian officer, showed up at Valley Forge and drilled it into a real fighting force. The freedom of the press you take for granted traces back to John Peter Zenger, a German immigrant printer whose 1735 trial established that you can't be jailed for printing the truth. German-Americans were shaping this country before there was a country.

Then look around your own life. Your Christmas tree is German. The hot dog (Frankfurt), the hamburger (Hamburg), the pretzel, the delicatessen, all German. Kindergarten is German, the word and the idea, brought over and opened by Margarethe Schurz. Blue jeans came from Levi Strauss of Bavaria. Heinz ketchup, Steinway pianos, Oscar Mayer, and the big four beers, Budweiser, Pabst, Miller and Schlitz, were every one founded by German immigrants.

The Brooklyn Bridge was engineered by John Roebling, born in Prussia. The Santa Claus you picture every December, plus the Republican elephant, were drawn by Thomas Nast, a German immigrant. Pfizer was founded by Charles Pfizer, who arrived from Germany in 1848. Boeing was built by the son of a German immigrant. John Jacob Astor showed up from Germany with next to nothing and became America's first multimillionaire. Charles Steinmetz, a disabled immigrant nearly turned away at the border, went on to make modern electrical power possible.

And it kept going. Wernher von Braun designed the rocket that put America on the moon. Einstein was German. Carl Schurz, a refugee, became a Union general and the first German-born US Senator. Eisenhower commanded D-Day and won the White House under a name once spelled Eisenhauer. Babe Ruth was a German-American kid from Baltimore.

Here is the kicker. German is the single largest ancestry group in the entire United States, around 44 million people, bigger than Irish, English or Italian. The biggest thread in the whole American fabric, and somehow the quietest.

They never asked for parades. They just trained the army, freed the press, engineered the bridges, founded the companies, built the rockets and lit up the Christmas mornings, then blended in so completely you forgot they were ever the "other." That might be the most American story there is.

[Give Me An Answer @askcliffe]

Happy Father’s Day!
(IG: stuart_knechtle for more!).

[War Times @wartirnes]

Patton, Bradley & Montgomery After D-Day (1944) 🇺🇸🇬🇧

Historic colorized footage captures three of the most influential Allied commanders of the Western Front together in France following the Normandy landings.

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery is seen awarding medals to American soldiers during a formal ceremony attended by Generals George S. Patton and Omar Bradley as Allied forces continued their advance through France.

[Michael Reeves @mike_reeves]

Happy Birthday, Charles Spurgeon! Here are his last ever words in the pulpit:

[Wade Eckert @Protonimus]

@TolkienWonder Awesome!

[Wade Eckert @Protonimus]

@girdley Great job with this video! I loved Toonami as a kid!!

[Michael Girdley @girdley]

NEW LONG FORM VIDEO: Why Cartoon Network went from 100 million homes to off the air

Back in 2011, Cartoon Network was in more than 100 million homes. It was one of the most sought-after places to work in entertainment and routinely outperformed competitors like Nickelodeon and Disney Channel. For an entire generation, it was the home of some of the most beloved animated shows ever made.

But by 2024, its audience had collapsed. Daily viewership had fallen to just 74,000 people, and the network as most people knew it effectively disappeared from the air.

And while it’s easy to blame the internet, Netflix, or YouTube for Cartoon Network’s downfall, the truth is much more complicated. The seeds of its decline were planted years before streaming ever took over.

This is the rise and fall of Cartoon Network.

[The King’s Chapel @kingschapelnc]

The battle for the Christian life is often fought in the mind.

Scripture calls us not to be conformed to this world, but to be transformed by the renewal of our minds. As believers, we must continually fill our minds with God's truth, rejecting what is false and dwelling on what is good, pure, and pleasing to the Lord.

This is why daily time in God's Word matters.

#TheKingsChapel #Scripture #Discipleship

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

A founding father signed the Declaration of Independence, watched the British seize his home for SEVEN years, lost his wife while living as a refugee, and then at age 69 walked away from it all to start over on the frontier. Meet William Floyd. Buckle up.

He never asked for any of this. His father died when he was a teenager, so Floyd dropped whatever education he might have had and took over the family farm on Long Island. He became wealthy, comfortable, established. His family had worked that same land for generations.

Then he was sent to the Continental Congress, and in July 1776 he became the first man of the New York delegation to sign the Declaration of Independence.

The punishment was almost immediate. Weeks later the British crushed the American army at the Battle of Long Island and took his entire estate. Then they did something extra: they turned his home into a barracks for their cavalry and occupied it for SEVEN straight years. His family fled across the water to Connecticut with essentially nothing.

For those seven years a wealthy landowner and his children lived as refugees, surviving on the charity of relatives and friends, while enemy soldiers ate his food and slept in his beds.

It got worse. In 1781, before the war was even won, his wife Hannah died in exile. She never saw home again.

When Floyd finally returned in 1783, the estate was wrecked. The home his family had held for generations was a ruin left behind by foreign cavalry.

Most men would have spent the rest of their lives quietly rebuilding what they lost. Floyd rebuilt it, remarried, served in the very first United States Congress, and then did the most surprising thing of all.

At nearly 70 years old, an age when most Founders were writing memoirs and posing for portraits, Floyd sold his comfortable life, packed up, and moved to raw frontier land near the headwaters of the Mohawk River in central New York. He cleared wilderness and built a new homestead from scratch.

He lived there until he died in 1821 at 87, a Founding Father who ended his life not in a mansion full of relics, but on the edge of the map, still building.

Some men signed the Declaration and lost everything. William Floyd lost everything, got it back, and then chose to start over anyway.

[Give Me An Answer @askcliffe]

Jesus, it’s been a good day.
(IG: stuart_knechtle for more).

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Putting up a few pounds of broccoli from the garden today. Cut, soak, steam blanch, ice bath, shake off the water, flash freeze, bag, and put in the freezer with the last batch of meat chickens, last year’s peaches, and strategic raw milk reserves).

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Still She Glows: A 125 Year Old Lightbulb That Has Been On Since Before The Wright Brothers Took Flight.

This week she turns 125 Years old and defies just about all planned obsolescence plans.

The list filament says it all ironically:

NO.

I will not go dark.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

A new report shows that video gaming remains one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the United States and is no longer just a hobby for kids and teens.

- Nearly 70% of Americans play video games for at least one hour every week.
- More than 200 million Americans play video games regularly.

- The average gamer is around 37 years old, showing that gaming is popular among adults as well as younger players.

- Mobile gaming has made video games more accessible, allowing people to play anytime and anywhere.

- Many people play games not only for entertainment but also to connect with friends and reduce stress.

Gaming has become one of the most popular forms of entertainment in America today.