ryan mcmackin

songwriter. digital content creator. ron swanson and @mcconaughey are my heroes. as rizzo said i’m just here for the food.

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@saradietschy almost always. it's not necessarily a struggle to create something in and of itself, but extracting what is in your head and getting it accurately out into the world is messy, painful and frustrating.

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@Jimmy_C_Hoops @All_Things_Mavs How would his fit work with Flagg? (Not that I’m expecting us to get him, but hypothetically.)

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@MavsMuse You’re forgetting Elton Brand.

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@KirkSeriousFace Stop making up words.

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@KerryLofton Hahaha you’re not wrong. 🤣

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@grayzoneintel I’ve started videoing people like your great aunt with the hope of keeping those stories alive and adding context to the pictures left behind. Recently filmed my great uncle who told me all kinds of stories about my grandfather in WWII, how he was at Guadalcanal and Leyte Gulf.

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@Atticus59914029 @polapetit Not a lawyer, but I have that dream about college at least once a month, for the last twenty years. 🤣

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@KerryLofton No, you do not. 😉

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@ToadWetSprocket “I spend too much time raiding windmills”

[The Free Press @TheFP]

After years of defiant atheism, Paul Kingsnorth went searching for “a truth I would surrender to.”

The once proud nonbeliever tells The Free Press how he found Buddhism, witchcraft, and—eventually, much to his surprise—settled on Orthodox Christianity. https://t.co/u0JNxvuyJi

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@KerryLofton Next they’ll tell us he likes fish sticks and Jeopardy.

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@KerryLofton That’s what I’m wondering, too. Don’t like the look of coaches showing up their players.

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@KerryLofton Me starting Skyy Moore in fantasy tonight because Kelce was out turned out to be a great decision. 🙄

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@JeremyWingert79 @Ineverglow There are four covers, no? Dancing Queen, Don’t Dream It’s Over, There She Goes and I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times?

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@young_weather @JeremyWingert79 One of my favorite all-time songs.

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@young_weather @realmartypeercy Tornado: if you get in my way I won’t hesitate to put you down.

Paxton: 😐

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@timeforjeffrey @Nick_Herrera34 Same for me. Doc said I could get an MRI if I wanted, but it would be a waste of time because it’s torn. I never got the MRI, just went to surgery. He was right.

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@KerryLofton Same.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Nobuo Fujita, a Japanese pilot, holds the unique distinction of being the only foreign individual to have bombed the contiguous US. Following the war's conclusion, he was extended an unexpected invitation to revisit the very town he had bombed, Brookings, Oregon. Upon his return, Fujita humbly offered the mayor his family's cherished katana as a symbol of remorse.

In September 1942, under the cover of darkness off the Oregon coast, a Japanese submarine witnessed activity as a team of sailors hastily assembled a seaplane on deck. This mission sought retaliation for the 'Doolittle raids,' an earlier attack on Tokyo. While Fujita, a 30-year-old fighter pilot, had initially desired to bomb larger cities like LA or San Francisco, he was ordered by his superiors to target Brookings, Oregon.

Fujita's mission aimed to ignite a forest fire, disrupting the region's resources and spreading fear along the West Coast. However, the wet conditions of Oregon's woods caused the bombs to fizzle, thwarting their destructive plan. The disappointed crew had to abandon the mission and return West.

Two decades later, a group of Brookings businessmen surprisingly extended an invitation to Fujita for the town's Memorial Day celebrations. During his visit, he made a heartfelt gesture by presenting his family's cherished 400-year-old samurai sword as a gift to the town.

This remarkable event sparked an enduring bond between Brookings and Fujita that would last for the next three decades. In 1997, the town honored him with honorary citizenship. Tragically, just days after this heartfelt tribute, Fujita passed away at the age of 85. To commemorate his fateful actions, a tree was planted at the site where he had dropped the bombs, and his daughter scattered his ashes there, believing his soul would forever soar over the forest.

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@Marcus_Mosher @HarrisonNFL said it best at the very end - their careers are eerily similar.