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@awkwardgoogle The dude has no idea, that baboon could literally rip his head off

The arm flex was the last straw💀

@SGTWipper1Each Now do army vs space force

Army food vs Air Force food. Any questions?

@DjCheshier Maybe we should train the beavers 🦫 to clean up the forests

Canada’s boreal forest — the source of much of the wildfire smoke drifting into the U.S. — isn’t like our managed forests in the lower 48. It’s the largest intact forest ecosystem on Earth: roughly 1.3 billion acres (about 78 times larger than Alaska’s Tongass, our biggest national forest, and 7 times larger than all 154 U.S. National Forests combined). It stretches in an almost continuous belt from the Yukon to Newfoundland. Why can’t they just do controlled burns like we do here? Because most of it is remote, roadless wilderness. • Less than 9% of Canada’s population lives in the boreal region. • Less than 1% of the forest itself is developed. • Vast areas have no roads and are only accessible by aircraft or winter roads. You can’t send crews in to do prescribed burns across a billion+ acres of inaccessible terrain the way we can in populated areas near roads and communities in the U.S. Wildfire has been nature’s primary management tool in these ecosystems for thousands of years. Smoke reaching the Northeast isn’t new either. It happened in 1950, 1988, 1995, 2002, 2017, 2021, 2023, 2025, and now 2026. Weather (especially upper-level wind patterns) determines where the smoke goes, not just where the fires are burning. Blaming Canada’s government for “not controlling” these fires is political theater. The scale and inaccessibility make large-scale suppression or prevention across that wilderness fundamentally different — and in many places, practically impossible — from managing forests near U.S. population centers. Nature runs that forest. Politicians don’t. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.

@QTarantino_news The guy on the right is most sheriff looking sheriff ever lol

Quentin Tarantino's genius in a single scene. This scene about acting layers stories within stories: a cop playing a criminal, rehearsing a fiction so well the film shows it as real. And the fake story mirrors his reality: his invented criminal stays calm surrounded by cops, exactly as Orange stays calm surrounded by criminals. Tim Roth's brilliance is that Orange performs the anxiety of the fake lie while hiding the true one beneath it. Via @TarantinoWorld

@GuGi263 Bonding? , claws are out, ears are back

Rescued or orphaned baby leopards often develop strong bonds with their caregivers during rehabilitation, especially when they are too young to survive on their own in the wild.

@miles_commodore I’m your huckleberry

I went 30 plus years without ever seeing this movie. I have now watched it four times just this year.

@AllEmeraldCoast It’s all fun, until it’s not

Florida State Representative Michelle Salzman shared in a social media post tonight that she had the opportunity to speak “heart to heart” with the Blue Angels pilot at the center of this week’s flyover. She wrote that she expected “a conversation about aviation,” but instead found “something much more human.” According to Rep. Salzman, the pilot “didn’t make excuses” or “try to shift blame.” Instead, he spoke about the “weight he’s been carrying” since the miscalculated turn and shared that he was “shaken by what happened” and deeply disappointed. Rep. Salzman wrote that what impressed her most was not the mistake itself, but “the humility, accountability, and professionalism” with which he has responded, adding that the Blue Angels “strive for perfection, but they’re still human.” I hope he knows he has an incredible fan base behind him. The Blue Angels mean so much to Pensacola and to people across the country. I think it’s safe to say there are a lot of people rooting for him and the entire Blue Angels team 💙✈️

@anindanet I can see the cuffs are too loose

ABD’de ters kelepçe takılması halinde nasıl kurtulacağını New York polislerine gösteren şahıs.

@Cobro23 @scottiebateman Then you hear on the radio “ oh fuck”

@scottiebateman Did you hear the words, “Watch this!”?

This is what professional accountability looks like. Hands held up… lessons learned. Move on. There’s been lots of jaw wagging about pilots calling out the original ‘cool’ flyover as unsafe and how our comments are all woke or politically motivated. All of that is entirely rubbish. A frankly shows a misunderstanding of the culture that exists in aviation. In aviation we have an open and just culture, which means we say things as we see them, no varnish, no ego, just our assessment of the job… good or bad. This is ingrained in us all, particularly those who started in the military, where debriefing a flight can be brutal. But in the end, it isn’t done out of malice, it is done so the pilot can learn and grow from each sortie and become a little bit better every day. Nothing more than that. If this seems odd to others… I hope this explains why many pilots have the same opinion and others don’t see it the same way.

@scottiebateman It’s all fun, until it isn’t

This week's news summed up in one picture 😁

@zotzer Until it all goes wrong

I trust the guys who can do this to fly over a damn beach. Love our Blue Angels!

@Axaxia88 The bear 🐻 was well behaved Until it ate all the campers

The bear sat there thinking to himself: “I wonder if they’ve figured out I’m a bear yet?” ☺️ Meanwhile, he was still sitting up straight in the middle of the picnic table, pretending to be just another guest… who just happens to have a slightly “impressive” build 🐻🍴

Woman gets heat exhaustion only 2 miles into a hike at Yosemite and has to be AIRLIFTED out. The group she was hiking with may be responsible for the $70,000 helicopter bill. Insanity. lol

@Hound_7 Luckily there are only about 50 rounds in a M1 Abrams, less if it’s a 120 mm gun

装填手が弾を装填する所を見ると、やはり腰を壊しそうで怖くなる。 鍛えているから大丈夫なのかもだけど、105mmや120mmの擬製弾持たせて貰ったとき「こんなのを何発も扱うのか」と装填手の大変さを少しだけ垣間見ました。

@rorotrader @RMC19861987 @TimSheehyMT You have no idea what you’re talking about USA and Canada have a mutual aid agreement with CIFFC, same with Mexico and Australia Canada hoes to the USA to fight fires same as USA comes to Canada I have worked with many USA IMT BLM and hot shot crews over the last 20 years

Quoting @TimSheehyMT Montana's US Senator As a former waterbomber pilot who used to lead an aerial firefighting fleet, I can tell you “send help” is an extremely dishonest framing by the Canadian government. The Canadian government routinely blocks U.S. firefighting companies from attacking fires in Canada, while aggressively sending their government-subsidized aircraft to the U.S. to earn commercial rates from the U.S. taxpayer. It’s big business for them and they run it like a Chinese protectionist racket.

🇺🇸 Ambassador to 🇨🇦 Pete Hoekstra on the wildfire situation. 1⃣ The FIFA World Cup final may have to be postponed. Businesses are closing due to the smoke. There's an impact on the 🇺🇸 economy. 2⃣ There is a high level of frustration as this could have been addressed. 4 years in a row is too much. 3⃣ The 🇺🇸 wants to work on a plan to avoid a repeat. They are asking for 🇨🇦 officials to explain the complexity of the problem to state & federal legislatures. 🪓The tariff threat is being used to spark action. It remains to be seen if Carney will take this seriously.

@CenturionXXVIII @trip_to_valkiri He’s getting the job done

@trip_to_valkiri makes me feel a little better about our fat NCOs if even the South Africans in the 80s had them

South African trooper armed with L4 7.62x51mm automatic rifle during the 1980s Border War.

@RemigiuszWilk @trip_to_valkiri Why no 30 round magazine?

@trip_to_valkiri It is not the L4, it is local South African Bren conversion. The embargo in 1970. prevented purchase of more FN MAGs, so the 7.7-mm WW2 Bren guns in storage were converted to 7.62 mm x 51 NATO incl. new LEW barrels, extractors, and magazine catch blocks for 20/30-round R1A1 mags.

@mc46228375 @hmcrem The pattern is set

@hmcrem Life closing in on art

Boom.

@hmcrem You need to add the little kid with his fingers in his ears