Rob

Fogey, sometime physicist, skydiver, teacher, psychologist, CBRN adviser, RCO, CFR & advocate. RTs, likes & follows are NOT endorsements. My comments my own.

[Rob @RobWestRiding]

@PoliceMutual @DyfedPowys Raw courage.

[Rob @RobWestRiding]

@mndassoc @JasonMcCartney A hugely deserved award.

[Rob @RobWestRiding]

@InspGadgetBlogs May she rest in peace. This is very sad.

[Mike Yardley @YardleyShooting]

Amazing. This post was removed by FB. They say it breaks community standards on spam. I tried to ask for a review but the feature has "a technical problem" - so no review possible. It's 1984 stuff.

[Police Federation of England and Wales @PFEW_HQ]

Four @DC_Police officers who entered freezing floodwater and risked their own safety in a desperate attempt to save a woman trapped beneath a bridge have been nominated for the #PoliceBravery Awards sponsored by @PoliceMutual.

Read their story👇

https://t.co/DQtUrWJdEi

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

For 20 years, students at a strict Catholic school in Los Angeles feared their calculus teacher.

Then they discovered where he spent three nights every week.

His name was Jim O’Connor.

Former Navy veteran.
Math teacher.
Relentlessly demanding in the classroom.

At St. Francis High School, students knew him as the teacher who never accepted excuses.

Discipline mattered.
Effort mattered.
Precision mattered.

Nobody would have described him as soft.

Then one day in 1989, a friend asked Jim to donate blood at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

He had Type O-negative blood �� the universal donor type.

He gave once.

Then he kept coming back.

Over time, hospital staff noticed something else about him.

After donating blood, Jim would stay.

He learned about a small volunteer group that cared for infants who were sick, abandoned, withdrawing from drugs, or simply alone for long stretches of time.

Babies who needed to be held.

So Jim signed up.

Three days a week.
For 20 years.

After finishing work at school, he’d drive to the hospital, walk into the neonatal ward, pick up whichever baby needed comfort most, and quietly rock them to sleep.

He fed them.
Walked the halls with them late at night.
Sang softly to them.
Held them against his chest for hours.

Nurses said he could calm even the fussiest infants.

And he never told anyone at school.

Not coworkers.
Not students.
Nobody.

For two decades, the toughest teacher on campus spent his evenings comforting fragile newborns in dark hospital rooms.

Then a group of students organizing a blood drive visited the hospital.

The moment they mentioned St. Francis High School, hospital staff lit up.

“Do you know Jim O’Connor?”

The students were confused.

Then they saw the plaque listing the hospital’s top blood donors.

At the very top was their calculus teacher’s name.

Jim O’Connor had donated 72 gallons of blood.

And volunteered with infants for 20 years without ever mentioning it.

When reporters later asked why he kept it secret for so long, Jim looked genuinely confused by the question.

“I wasn’t hiding it,” he said.

“I just didn’t think it was anybody else’s business.”

That’s probably why the story still moves people.

Because real kindness rarely announces itself.

Sometimes the people who seem hardest on the outside are carrying the softest hearts in complete silence.

And sometimes the most extraordinary things a person does are the things they never felt the need to tell anyone about.

[Rob @RobWestRiding]

@Brick_Cop @remmy_308 @ukhomeoffice A brave man, may he rest in peace.

[Rob @RobWestRiding]

@PoliceMutual Outstanding stuff.

[h and n @neilh32]

44 years ago today we were liberated by 2 Para. We had been locked up for 29 days , boy we were all pleased to see them ! Please retweet so that this message is seen.

[Mike Yardley @YardleyShooting]

PLS RT and ask what's going on? Why is our free speech being attacked here?

[Rob @RobWestRiding]

@MrPitbull07 Truly outstanding stuff.

[Rob @RobWestRiding]

@YardleyShooting I see this Mike

[Rob @RobWestRiding]

@tpmt_org @WMPolice @westmidspolfed May he rest in peace.

[Mike Yardley @YardleyShooting]

More followers removed overnight. The account cannot grow at all anymore. It gets continually knocked back as it approaches 83.4K followers. Many report difficulties seeing the account now.

[ꪝe @_wej01]

"I’m deaf. I thought YOU didn’t like ME." 11 years. Two good people. Both completely wrong about each other. Most hatred is just misunderstanding with no conversation.

[Mike Yardley @YardleyShooting]

Trying to RT this but it is showing to me as deleted, I've got it back, but it's hardly being seen. PLS RT if you can.

[Mike Yardley @YardleyShooting]

More followers removed overnight. I'm really fed up with this 1984 censorship - much reduced reach combined with daily follower removal and false deletion notices.

[Mike Yardley @YardleyShooting]

Don't think you're correct. The account is being limited because of who it is challenging. This is what Grok says of it's own platform: "in essence, pro-Musk/MAGA conservatives (echoing his favored issues) get amplified, while independent, libertarian, or skeptical conservatives (especially on vaccines, endless wars, or deep-state critiques) face lingering suppression—often via report abuse or residual algorithmic caution on controversial topics. It's not uniform anti-conservative bias anymore, but a hierarchy favoring voices closest to Musk's orbit. Many affected users speculate holdover mechanisms or topic-specific filters persist, undermining full "free speech" promises".

[Mike Yardley @YardleyShooting]

And almost no-one will see this. #Limited

[Mike Yardley @YardleyShooting]

More followers removed overnight on this repressed account. Who or what is suppressing this account? Grok said to me: "in essence, pro-Musk/MAGA conservatives (echoing his favored issues) get amplified, while independent, libertarian, or skeptical conservatives (especially on vaccines, endless wars, or deep-state critiques) face lingering suppression—often via report abuse or residual algorithmic caution on controversial topics.".