@drivenbyboredom Pileated woodpeckers have such a unique and strong pecking sound. Really cool.
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Ethan Shapiro
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Ethan Shapiro
@DJFrustration
Proud American, Dad of 3, Husband.
Miami Katılım Ağustos 2008
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Some new backyard wildlife photos for you guys... I think you should know Henri by now, our Great Blue Heron. He comes in the morning several times a week and hangs out in the pond for hours. Once I saw him in there at midnight.
Bernard is the newest edition to the crew. I have seen him nearly every day for the last week. He's always in the same exact spot where the shadow of the house can keep him half in the shade. He comes in the late afternoon when the sun is right. He's not at all afraid of me.
Bowser the snapping turtle lives under a tree that's half in the water but comes out to murder when it's warm. I've never seen him out of the water but I know he's always lurking ready to snap.
Lastly we have Woodward our pileated woodpecker. Easily the most insane animal I have ever encountered. He's just screaming constantly flying around crashing into things and then he goes to the exact same spot by the fence to dig for bugs in the dirt. I understand why he was the inspiration for Woody Woodpecker.
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The crews of two AH-64 Apache helicopters that hovered next to Kid Rock’s swimming pool while he clapped and saluted on Saturday have been suspended from flying pending a investigation of their actions. wsvn.com/news/us-world/…
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Something @Brad_L_Bowman has been talking about for years. How our defense industry is not producing at a fast enough pace for the current needs of our modern military.
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
BREAKING: Zelensky just landed in the UAE and signed a defence cooperation agreement with President MBZ. The deal on the table changes everything about this war. Ukraine is offering Gulf states 1,000 drone interceptors per day. Each Sting interceptor costs $2,100. Each Patriot missile it replaces costs $3.9 million. In exchange, Ukraine wants the Patriot missiles the Gulf states are burning through, because Kyiv cannot get enough of them to stop Russian missiles. Read that again. The country America refused to arm fast enough is now arming America’s allies with a weapon that costs 1,857 times less than the one America cannot produce fast enough. The National reported on March 27 that Zelensky told reporters: “We’d like to quietly receive the Patriot missiles we have a deficit of, and give them a corresponding number of interceptors.” AFP confirmed the UAE agreement on March 28. Eleven countries have formally requested Ukraine’s drone defence expertise per Zelensky’s own count. Over 200 Ukrainian military specialists are already deployed across the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Jordan. Here is the arithmetic that should terrify every Pentagon procurement officer on earth. The United States fired 943 Patriot interceptors in the first four days of the Iran war per a US Congressional study cited by the Jerusalem Post. That is eighteen months of Lockheed Martin’s annual production consumed in 96 hours. Each of those 943 shots cost $3.9 million. Total expenditure: $3.68 billion in four days on defensive interceptions alone. Iran produces 10,000 Shahed drones per month per Reuters. Each drone costs $20,000 to $50,000. The cost exchange ratio is 114 to 1 in Iran’s favour per Military Times. Ukraine’s Sting interceptor inverts this arithmetic entirely. At $2,100, the cost ratio flips from 114-to-1 against America to roughly 10-to-1 against Iran. Ukraine can supply 1,000 per day. That is 30,000 per month against Iran’s 10,000 Shaheds per month. For the first time in this war, the defender’s production rate exceeds the attacker’s production rate at a fraction of the cost. And the country that built this weapon is the same country that Trump publicly rejected. “No, they are not helping. We do not need their help. We know more about drones than anyone else” per Fox News. He doubled down: “The last person we need help from is Zelensky.” Meanwhile the Pentagon notified Congress of plans to redirect $750 million in Ukraine-bound Patriot missiles to Gulf states per House of Saud reporting. America is simultaneously refusing Ukraine’s cheap solution and cannibalising Ukraine’s expensive one. Zelensky framed this explicitly. He told The National: “No matter how many Patriots, THAADs, or other air-defence systems are in the Middle East, that alone is not enough for fully effective air defence.” He told the UK Parliament: “When it comes to shooting down massive Shahed attacks, only Ukrainian experience can really help with this today.” The Pentagon is spending $3.9 million per interception, raiding Swiss fighter jet accounts to cover shortfalls, and diverting Ukraine’s own Patriot supply to the Gulf. Zelensky is offering the same result for $2,100 and producing 1,000 units per day. The market has a word for this kind of disruption. The $2,100 drone is the most important weapon in this war. And the country that built it is the one America said it did not need. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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@AP Calling it ‘aggression on resistance fronts’ is a creative way to describe starting fights and then complaining about getting hit back.
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BREAKING: Yemen’s Houthis claim responsibility for a missile attack on Israel, their first since the war in the Mideast started. apnews.com/live/iran-war-…
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@Betar_USA @lorde Disgusting. She should go live and try to perform there if she loves them so much.
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@MorEdge_Insight Calling it ‘aggression on resistance fronts’ is a creative way to describe starting fights and then complaining about getting hit back.
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Yemen's Houthis confirm they have joined the Iran war.
In a statement, the Houthis' military leadership announced that it had carried out attacks on Israel and "Our operations will continue... until the aggression stops on all resistance fronts."
(OSINTtechnical)
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Calling it ‘aggression on resistance fronts’ is a creative way to describe starting fights and then complaining about getting hit back.
Mor Edge Insight@MorEdge_Insight
Yemen's Houthis confirm they have joined the Iran war. In a statement, the Houthis' military leadership announced that it had carried out attacks on Israel and "Our operations will continue... until the aggression stops on all resistance fronts." (OSINTtechnical)
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Heading to the bomb shelter 10 times today wasn't easy. But then I remembered that every asshole in this picture is dead. And there was much joy.
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Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war. wired.com/story/gaza-war…
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@StopAntisemites Good. There MUST be consequences for spewing hatred about race or religion.
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Update: antisemite Dylan Keuning is no longer employed with Sotheby’s Realty.
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@MarioNawfal You don't tell it like it is.
You have a strong anti-West bias.
You repeat a lot of obviously false Islamic propaganda.
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Anyone who follows me knows I tell it as it is.
Iran is currently winning this war, strategically (not militarily)
BUT
....that may be about to change
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The Israeli Ministry of Defense has announced that the 200th shipment of military equipment and munitions from the U.S. and other countries arrived in Israel, amidst the ongoing conflict between the U.S./Israel and Iran.
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@jimfornyc @NewSamawal People should register and then no show which is exactly what these losers deserve, no one to listen to their opinions. “Expert Briefing” my ass. Bit.ly/nycbriefing
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Look who is lecturing City Council tomorrow on Islamaphobia! Jew-hating, Hamas-loving, violence inciter, Mahmoud Khalil. I wonder whose idea this was!
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I must give credit to @PapaJohns. We ordered two large pizzas and they arrived in 16 minutes! Excellent job.
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BREAKING 🔴 Delta has cancelled flights to and from Israel until September
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@MOSSADil @visegrad24 Build a synagogue nearby and it’ll be headline news.
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Very few understand just how aggressively China is attacking the Philippines
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Brent D. Sadler@brentdsadler
@visegrad24 @GordianKnotRay Philippines is waging a maritime counter-insurgency…
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@nasdaily @Eve_Barlow So basically the same bullshit as the Gaza Flotilla. Who falls for this crap?
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This was Cuba yesterday. Every Western "liberator" stayed at a 5 star hotel with electricity. They also were just hanging at bars and restaurants or buying souvenirs.
This is not "solidarity". Just call it what it is: virtue signaling.
I was in Cuba by coincidence at the same time. I saw these people and knew it's trouble. So I left a day early.
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@DJFrustration I completely understand the concern, billing should always be clear and correct. To make sure we have all the right details to help you, could you send us a direct message? ~Pam
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So @VerizonSupport and @Verizon are committing fraud. We’ve canceled service two different times going back to January 24 and they continue to charge my 83-year-old mother for her Apple Watch. That’s already been ported to a different provider.
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They’ve continued to charge us even though we’ve spoken to Support multiple times and they claim the account has been closed. This is outrageous!
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