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apparently it’s time for a #newprofilepic

Happy 50th, @wmata 🥳 One of my fav pieces on the system from over the years, @ggwash's station architecture type classification. I'm a waffle and Gull I fan. ggwash.org/view/68565/met…

One of the many highlights from that movie. Rest in peace, James Tolkan. For us Top Gun fans, you´ll always be Commander Tom "Stinger" Jardian

It’s cool how the DC and NYC subways kept their founding character. DC Metro feels very All the President’s Men/Helvetica/70s bureaucrat noir. In NYC, the turn-of-the-century lamp posts and mosaics and wooden benches all feel very brownstones/newsies/Rhapsody in Blue.

Celebrating 50 years … ✨ More than 15 billion trips … ✨ And even more memories! Thank you to all who made our anniversary ride unforgettable. What Metro means to you means the world to us! You keep us moving!

Turning 50 today has us feeling a bit nostalgic. 🥹🤎 It’s been an honor of a lifetime being America’s Metro system. 🚇🚍🚐 Here’s to the next 50 years! 🥳

Breaking: We saw more than ONE MILLION trips yesterday across bus and rail! 🎉 Metro’s come a long way from our humble beginnings on this day 50 years ago when we started rail service with just 5 stations. Since then, those 5 original stations have moved 1.1 billion trips!

WOW. Democrats won. That's a first.

Washington’s hottest club is the Metro 50th anniversary party

One significant factor here is FIFA already sacrificed one of its prior principles when it allowed US cities to not free public transport to tournament games (was free in Qatar and Russia, plus Germany for Euros) but *nobody* imagined financial ask would become this big.

Mrs. Met is Puerto Rican and Jewish, grew up in Woodside, worked at a bakery as a teen and went to a large public HS whereas Mr. Met is canonically Irish and Italian, grew up in Ozone Park and went to multiple Catholic schools, it's wild some of you are trying to debate this

I confess I am obsessed with World War Two movies about non front line people who worked their asses off in support areas and never touched a gun but were so vital regardless that without them Hitler would have never blown his brains out

This MLB Opening Day edit to the Moneyball music is incredible >>>

found the most incredible gif of all time

The first trailer for ‘Pressure’ is here, the film which tells the story of the most important weather forecast; the D-Day forecast. Andrew Scott stars as Group Captain James Stagg – the Met Office meteorologist tasked with delivering the weather forecast and helping shape D-Day's plans. In cinemas 9 September. #pressuremovie @StudiocanalUK

These beeps started in 1924. Back then, people could get "astronomical time" by telescopes looking at the stars. You knew when it was 12am by the exact time when a certain star appeared overhead. The Greenwich Observatory would calculate this time daily, and have a ball drop at a precise time, so ships could easily calibrate their clock. In 1852, they'd distribute this time across the telegraph network that had been strung throughout Britain. With the invention of the radio, and people buying radios for their homes, the BBC. would broadcast these 6 "pips" before the hour, so everyone could easily synchronize their mechanical clocks. The British Empire covered 24% of the world's surface (and roughly same percent of population). While it wasn't too difficult for anybody to setup their own telescope to tell precise time, the spread of the BBC World Surface across the empire became the standard by which people would set their mechanical watches and clocks. Remember: mechanical devices drifted and needed resetting every few days. Back in those days, your watch and your friend's would be off by around 5 minutes. Nobody really knew precisely what time it was. The rise of the robust power grid changed things. The power grid has a steady 50 Hz (60 Hz in America). Wall clocks stopped being mechanical but were electrical instead, simply turning in time with the power grid. As long as the power grid didn't drift, neither did they electric clocks. They were only reset because of power outages or daylight saving changes. Nonetheless, the BBC pips had become an iconic feature of the BBC news service. In 1990, they added music and video to this. But still, this isn't for effect that happens at any time. They still mark the hour, you can still set your clocks by them. Of course, nowadays, all your clocks are set by the Internet via the NTP protocol. Your Apple Watch always has the correct time and you aren't sure why. You and your friend always have the phone and watch show the identical time.

@flex_nihilo Could you provide the link to this

incredible

TIL Delta Airlines owns an oil refinery that saves it costs on jet fuel: ▫️in 2012, bought Pennsylvania-based refiner from ConocoPhillips for $150m (and spent $100m to upgrade) ▫️fuel is 20-30% of operating cost and the investment paid back within 5 years (Delta’s subsidiary is called Monroe Energy) ▫️only airline in America to own a refinery ▫️as of 2026, none of the major US airlines are hedging oil prices…had been unprofitable to do so and now just pass prices on to customers ▫️refines 200k barrels a day…half for jet fuel (rest is gas and diesel, which it then sells to buy or trades for more jet fuel) ▫️supplies 75%+ of Delta’s domestic fuel needs ▫️refinery business is still cyclical and Delta bet has taken some Ls (eg. during COVID, it lost $140m just in Q2 2020) ▫️Delta briefly considered selling operation ▫️Refinery booming again in recent years: sales of $5B in 2025 (~8% of Delta’s total sales) and saved 4 cents a gallon on jet fuel (~$100m cost savings) ▫️of refined products, jet fuel is highest margin and year round demand (gas in most demand summer driving season; diesel in fall and winter) ▫️ now, crack spread on jet fuel (price difference oil vs. refined products) has shot up since Iran war and refining operation in solid position on that front for foreseeable future *** AJC: ajc.com/business/2026/… NYT article from 2020: nytimes.com/2020/08/10/bus…

50 YEARS OF METRO! 🎉 We can’t wait to see you on our 50th anniversary this Friday for a special ride at 4:30 pm! Tell us what Metro means to you (comment or DM) for a chance to join us. We’ll have giveaways, music, and more! Enter by March 24 at 12 pm

there are people who will look you dead in the eye and tell you their TV can match this experience

The C-17 landing at LAX. As seen from the In N Out off of 24R.