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@wvEsquiress … and he did the same for my youngest. She also persevered. They both didn’t let that awful man take away something they loved to do. I lit him up, but it didn’t matter really except for making me feel better that I let him know how awful he was to my kids and others. Shameful…

High school baseball is testing me 😑. My son is a JV freshman and when they announce the players, they do JV in ascending numerical order by jersey number… except my son, who is announced last despite having the lowest number. Tonight, he was skipped entirely, until my husband yelled up to the press box. They said they go by the list they’re given by the coach and he wasn’t on it. WTAF??? It feels too petty to bitch to the coach about but seriously, what the hell?

@wvEsquiress I bit my tongue with a lousy basketball coach. In retrospect, I should’ve lit him up alot sooner than I ended up doing after putting up with his shit for 7 yrs. When my oldest played her last game, she cried. She told me not cause it was over, cause HE didn’t make her quit💪

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶 The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

@JohnFolt2 @trumwill IPTV? I can get KDKA, WPXI and WTAE thru apps on YTTV but it’s not a live broadcast. It’s just news. The Steelers are shown here a lot but not every game & my 1st yr here they went into OT & the station cut to the start of the Panther game. Thats when I got Sunday Ticket..

@BIG_DWD @trumwill I've an IPTV subscription. Costs a LOT less than YTTV or whomever has NFL Sunday Ticket. I get the equivalent of Sunday Ticket in being able to watch all the games, and I can watch the game on KDKA or WPGH as a backup option.

For all of the complaints, the old model (DirecTV plus Sunday Ticket) was actually just about as expensive as signing up for multiple streaming services.

@joeybagovdonuts It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity

What’s an opinion that instantly says you’re over 30?

@chutneylife They also have a “do not open” sign on the doors of jets… like the no smoking signs, these signs aren’t meant for everyone, just a certain kind of everyone.

Smoking has never been allowed on the planes yet every plane has a no smoking sign on every row. Seems like a waste of money.

@four4thefire After he pretty much tanked the USFL gambling on trying to force a merger with the NFL—no wonder they iced him out.

A reminder that Donald Trump has a 40+ year well-documented grudge against the NFL for them not wanting him in ownership

@RockFeedNet 💪

Matt Pinfield, legendary MTV host and longtime radio DJ, has been profiled in the New York Times for his remarkable recovery after suffering a stroke in January 2025. Doctors warned he might never speak again, but Pinfield proved them wrong. At the Hollywood Bowl last summer, while introducing John Fogerty, he shouted: “Oh my God, I can clap again!” He told the New York Times: “There were nights where the depression was intense… But I surrounded myself with music and positive people.” Now back on the air and hitting shows again, Pinfield says: “I always believe there’ll be something else to be excited about.” 📸 - RickBeato / YouTube

@Tyre_94 A building in downtown Winston-Salem🤔🤔

I can tell exactly how old you are by whether you know what Wachovia is or not

THE PENGUINS ARE PLAYOFFS BOUND‼️

@noradominick Fuck Parkinson’s

I NEED EVERYONE TO LOCK IN AND GIVE HARRISON FORD A DAMN EMMY AWARD FOR PLAYING MY LOVABLE HARD ASS DR PAUL RHOADES IN SHRINKING BECAUSE ITS ONE OF THE BEST PERFORMANCES OF THE YEAR SORRY IM YELLING BUT ITS THAT IMPORTANT THANK YOU

Joe Allen held a 1,285-pound satellite over his head for 90 minutes, in a spacesuit, 225 miles above Earth. No tether connecting him to the shuttle behind him. The clamp that was supposed to lock onto the satellite had failed because a piece of metal, one-eighth of an inch, stuck out further than the blueprints showed. There was no backup plan until the crew made one up on the spot. This was November 12, 1984, and Allen was in the middle of history's only space repo mission. Nine months earlier, two communications satellites, Westar 6 owned by Western Union and Palapa B2 owned by Indonesia, had both launched from the shuttle Challenger. Both had the same booster rocket failure. Both ended up stuck in useless orbits about 200 miles up instead of the 22,300 miles they needed to actually work. $180 million in hardware, circling the planet, doing nothing. Lloyd's of London and a group of insurers paid out the claims. $105 million to Western Union. $75 million to Indonesia. Then they spent another $5.5 million and asked NASA to send astronauts to go get the satellites back. The tool for the job was the Manned Maneuvering Unit, a 326-pound nitrogen-powered backpack with 24 tiny gas jets. No tether or safety line. An autopilot could hold your position so you wouldn't drift off while you worked. Only six astronauts ever flew one. Allen went first, flying the backpack across 35 feet of open vacuum to reach Palapa B2. He jammed a capture tool called the Stinger into the satellite's dead engine nozzle and stopped the spin. Then the clamp failed. Allen grabbed the satellite and held it steady, arms locked, while his crewmate Dale Gardner and Anna Fisher (the first mother in space, running the shuttle's 50-foot robotic arm from the cockpit) spent five hours figuring out how to muscle it into the cargo bay by hand. The satellite was weightless, sure, but 1,285 pounds of mass doesn't vanish just because gravity does. Mission Control relayed a message from Allen's wife Bonnie: "Make sure there are no pigeons on your shoulders." Two days later, Gardner took his turn. Same backpack, same Stinger, different satellite. They skipped the broken clamp entirely, went straight to the manual technique, and finished Westar 6 an hour ahead of schedule. Gardner held up a handwritten "For Sale" sign when they were done. The joke came true. Westar 6 was sold to a Hong Kong company called AsiaSat, repaired, and launched on a Chinese rocket in April 1990. Palapa B2 went back to Indonesia the same week. Lloyd's rang a bell at their London office and gave the crew silver medals for saving the insured property. The backpack flew 10 hours and 22 minutes across three missions, all in 1984. After Challenger exploded in January 1986, NASA's safety review killed it. Since then, every astronaut who has stepped outside a spacecraft has been tethered to it. Gardner died in 2014 at 65. The backpack he flew still sits at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Allen's hangs in the Smithsonian, directly above the shuttle Discovery.

@four4thefire ….and you have a large former West Virginian/girl dad not that far south of you that will make a tent stake out of anyone who brings their BS your way✊

For the threatening DMing accounts who magically all manage to say the same things about this tweet with frequency & repetition...let me reiterate👇 Im a WVian, 4x girl dad, veteran, and I frequently eat at the low counter at Waffle House at odd hours. You dont scare me none

"Ramble On" is 56 years old and Robert Plant just walked onto The Late Show and made it sound like he wrote it this morning.

These astronauts are just a balm: impossibly cheery, down to earth, committed, decent. They are clearly extraordinary people, and yet reassuringly normal. At a time when the news is dominated by people who are either cruel or corrupt or insane or incompetent or all of the above, they remind us not all is lost.

The line of "In the meantime our great Military is Loading Up and Resting, looking forward, actually, to its next Conquest" is on the short list of the most offensive & ignorant things President Trump has ever put out.

@wheredamoon @TheCinesthetic

@BIG_DWD @TheCinesthetic Wow. Thanks to your father for his service. ...It's a bit hilarious that they issued driver licenses on a small island they had fought to occupy. I wonder if he'd have needed another license for say, Guadalcanal? Okinawa? Iwo Jima?

The Pacific (2010) doesn’t get the same love as Band of Brothers, but it goes for something heavier, more brutal, less heroic, and that shift in perspective makes it hit in a completely different way.

@wheredamoon @TheCinesthetic He was my grandfather and I’m not sure about the other islands he was on. I’m guessing they didn’t want just anyone hopping into equipment there and that’s why the license. So much I never got to ask him about. I found the license in my dad’s stuff after he passed 6 yrs ago.

The reason why people have reacted emotionally to all the profound statements made by the astronauts and the photographs is because we are not seeing science, basic human decency, intelligence, humanity being center stage absolutely nowhere in the world atm. Even a pandemic failed to make us realize how beautiful our planet is, what a gift it is to be born on this planet and how cruel we have become as a species. The Artemis II mission has made people feel connected to the universe, to the earth, to the moon. This planet doesn't just belong to the rich and powerful billionaires and politicians. It belongs to us, the people who want to do good by our children, our families, our communities and our planet. What are the odds that we and all our ancestors were born and get to experience life on one of the dots in this picture of the Milky Way? Make it count.