Christopher Thomas

A long, cathartic thread: Today marks 10 years since our son’s death. He was stillborn. The medical term they used was Intrauterine Fetal Demise. It sounds so clinical and detached. We'd spent the previous several weeks struggling with incredibly tough decisions about what to do.

@OleTimeHardball Not a chance. Giamatti banned that bum, and he should stay banned - dead or alive. No other commissioner has revered and respected the unique place of baseball in the fabric of American life more than Giamatti. I trust his decision to uphold the integrity of our great game.

You hold the deciding vote in the Hall of Fame case of Pete Rose. Does he get in?

@80s_channel 20 D Energizers D motherfucker D . . . learn to speak English

@dstark86 Agreed. I love it STL, it has been a great place for my family, and I am locked in here for at least 4 more years, but after that I'm looking for move somewhere with more inspiring natural beauty. Used to have a plan for Montana, but that got way too expensive in the past decade.

Everywhere is more beautiful than the Midwest, I love St. Louis but I gotta get outta here

@landofthe80s Although I love it, it has to be Galaxian. Get rid of it, and you still have Galaga, which is fundamentally the same game - plus it has the coding flaw that allows the enemies to run out of ammunition and you can play the rest of the game with no enemy fire.

Pick one game to kick off the list forever.

Name a movie you've seen more than 7 times with just a GIF

@Jason_M_Lopez @ericristow Good drivers sometimes miss their exits; bad drivers never do.

@ericristow Oh, I missed my exit. I'll just swerve across all the lanes, I can still make it.

New video captured on an ODOT camera shows the moment a corvette crashed into a guardrail on I-90 at West 117th. Cleveland EMS says the driver was killed.

@dieworkwear @Acyn Who wore it better, Derek?

@Acyn How disingenuous.

Reporter: Did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus Christ? Trump: It wasn't a depiction. I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor. And had to do with red cross as a red cross worker, which we support and only the fake news could come up with that one.

@exQUIZitely I still remember my first Sega Genesis Flashback play through with my buddy Jimmy. Got back from the mall, ordered some pizza, cracked open a few beers and had at it. First time I ever broke down and called the paid hint line-near the final stage, something about a windup mouse.

Prince of Persia (1989), Another World (1991), and Flashback (1992) - over a timespan of just 4 years, we were given some of the best platformers in gaming history. I wish they'd still make games like this. But then again, you can always replay the old masterpieces...

@bronzeageshawty @DeathMetalV 401ks are not stupid, but they were never intended to be the main retirement funding vehicle for all workers. They are named for the obscure section in the tax code that allowed this particular type of investment that was created as a tax shelter for high earning execs.

401ks are stupid. "Wow, I can't wait to finally have 600 thousand dollars at age 65 to last me the next 20 years. I'm glad I spent 40 years as a slave."

@BellaBeautyVibe I’m not even a foot person, but that arch is 🔥

Happy Weekend Everyone

@lovelimtx @angel_0f_deathx My money is on those black peep-toe pumps she wears that drive me absolutely crazy, or the T-straps.

@angel_0f_deathx Yes, and now I need to know what heels you’d pair with it

should i buy this dress??

@QueenIvyMae Congratulations on reaching that point of mental well-being. So many struggle for years and never get there. It's a blessing, and I hope you continue to feel like this. Plus, you are absolutely captivating in both photos, the real difference is whichever one makes you happier

A 6 month difference from left to right and honestly, I feel like a completely new version of myself - and I am. No longer working at a boring, corporate job that was draining me & I’m the healthiest, wealthiest, and happiest I’ve ever been.

@dstark86 Great idea, just one clarification- are the White Sox required to bring out the weekend softball league sliding shorts look at least twice during those two weeks

I was thinking this earlier. If I’m the commissioner I’m scrapping the city connects and two weeks out of every season (one before and one after the all-star break) everyone wears their throwbacks.

@Stephanie273278 @factpostnews The beauty of this sign is it absolutely pisses off MAGA, but they can’t complain. They know the intent of the message is that it would harm Trump, but criticizing it requires an outright admission that RFK is full of shit and his policies are dangerous. So, they must stay silent

New reporting reveals the CDC suppressed a report showing the COVID vaccine cut hospitalizations for healthy adults by more than half.

@AZ_Brittney Yes, but as an American I’m more ashamed that number isn’t 💯

Yes or No? ✋

@CryptoMikli I swear, his face is slowly transforming into Jack Frost from Santa Clause 3

Joel Osteen says he doesn’t buy expensive things, just owns a “nice” house “No, nothing like that. I have a nice house here that we built, but I made that money through real estate. I’ve got a pool, a workout room, and about two acres of land”

@thecurioustales @Kasparov63 For the Alabama fans out there, this is like leading your receiver in football, just on a cosmic scale.

🚨SHOCKING: Artemis II mission isn’t “going to the Moon.” It’s aiming for a precise point in space where the Moon will be. 252,706 miles away . The human brain cannot process what this actually means. Every space mission you’ve ever seen depicted gets this fundamentally wrong. Movies show rockets flying toward a destination like an airplane flying toward an airport. Point at target, fire engines, arrive. Reality operates under completely different physics. When NASA launched Artemis II on April 1, 2026 , the Moon was somewhere entirely different than where the spacecraft will intercept it on April 6 . The rocket launched toward empty space, betting everything on a mathematical prediction of where a target traveling 67,000 miles per hour would position itself five days  in the future. Space travel is not transportation. It’s temporal ballistics. The Moon orbits Earth every 27.3 days, covering roughly 1.5 million miles of distance. During the ten day journey of Artemis II  , the Moon moves approximately 370,000 miles along its orbital path. The spacecraft launched in a direction that looks completely wrong to every human instinct, following a free-return trajectory that intercepts the Moon’s future position  , not its current one. This requires predicting exactly where an object the size of a continent will be located, down to mile precision, five days before the meeting happens. Any error in orbital calculation, any miscalculation in the Moon’s gravitational influences from Earth and Sun, any slight deviation in spacecraft velocity, and the crew of Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen  sails past their target into the infinite void of space. NASA engineers call this a “free return trajectory,”   but the name obscures the cognitive breakthrough required to make it work. You cannot think about space travel the way you think about any form of transportation that exists on Earth. Destinations don’t exist in space. Only intercepts exist. You’re never going somewhere. You’re always going somewhen. The mathematics behind orbital rendezvous calculations treats time and space as completely integrated variables. The spacecraft’s translunar injection burn on April 2  lasted exactly six minutes. Miss that window by even minutes, and the geometric relationship between Earth’s rotation, the Moon’s orbital position, and the spacecraft’s trajectory becomes unsolvable. The destination literally disappears from the realm of possibility until celestial mechanics realign. The Artemis II crew spent five days flying through vacuum toward coordinates   that would contain nothing but empty space if they had launched 24 hours earlier or later. They bet their lives on humanity’s ability to predict the future position of celestial objects with mathematical precision that exceeds anything we do on Earth. Today, April 6, they’ll pass within 4,070 miles of the lunar surface , reaching their maximum distance from Earth. But they launched toward empty space and intercepted a moving target with pinpoint accuracy across a quarter million mile void. Space doesn’t contain destinations. It contains equations.

@NickHames1 @TomJChicago @kylegriffin1 @mrbigg450 Agreed, but Vance doesn’t have that deity-like following that Trump does, and doesn’t hold sway over the entire party. The current Republicans kowtow to Trump at every opportunity. I don’t see that being the case with Vance. But, he is truly as evil.

@TomJChicago @kylegriffin1 @mrbigg450 Except that his replacement Vance is just as scary.

Real quote just now from Trump: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will."

@BBGreatMoments The statistically-deserving who are part of the PED gang is challenging. There are, without a doubt, existing HOF members who were PED users. So, their exclusion seems equivocal. But, the easiest part to answer is that Pete Rose should never be on the ballot. Giamati banned him

Which two get in?

@donaldrusso994 Let’s try this very slowly . . . If. It. Was. Classified. Information. Then. Someone. With. Access. To. Classified. Information. From. Within. The. Administration. Shared. It. With. A. Reporter. Making. Them. Not. Her. The. Leaker. She. Just. Reported. It.

CBS’s Eleanor Watson et al. leaked the classified details on the Iran F-15E rescue — one pilot saved, one still missing — citing U.S. officials while the op was active. This endangered our troops. Federal statutes covering such leaks: Espionage Act of 1917 (18 U.S.C. §§ 793 & 794) — unauthorized disclosure of national defense information is a felony. Time to prosecute. #NationalSecurity