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Robert Durand

@NavyAustin

Retired Rear Admiral, US Navy, former Vice Chief of Information, now Lone Star Mission Critical Communication - Failure is not an option!

Austin, TX Katılım Mayıs 2010
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Robert Durand@NavyAustin·
My heart is full, my spirit renewed, and my faith is stronger than ever after being part of the #NationalEucharisticCongress. For almost a week, 60,000 people gathered in downtown Indianapolis to experience liturgies, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, musical and dramatic performances, panel discussions, a procession, and individual presentations on various topics related to the Eucharist. Life-giving and life-changing! relevantradio.com/national-eucha…
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Robert Durand@NavyAustin·
@awstar11 @crampell I got carded at Home Depot to buy a can of Bondo this weekend. Didn't feel like a civil rights issue.
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@RobertMSterling Praying for his healing, the skill for all who are caring for him, and strength to all who love him.
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Robert Sterling
Robert Sterling@RobertMSterling·
My dad is at the hospital for a 96-hour round of chemo this weekend He is going to BEAT CANCER LET’S GO DAD! YOU GOT THIS!
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Robert Durand@NavyAustin·
@cdrsalamander Diggin' the suicide rear doors on the SUV - must be an option package, along with the disappearing front door.
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Chad Thomas
Chad Thomas@TheCAThomas·
@wil_da_beast630 Can't continue to raise money off a problem if you admit it's largely been solved.
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Wilfred Reilly
Wilfred Reilly@wil_da_beast630·
The stuff Black activists say is dumb and measurably not true.
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Bishop Talbert Swan@TalbertSwan

White Americans in 2026 are every bit as racist as their predecessors were 1n 1960. They love quoting Martin Luther King Jr. when it’s safe, sanitized, and stripped of its sting. They post his lines about unity, peace, dreams, and being judged by the content of your character, while ignoring that the fact that King was arrested, surveilled, hated, and ultimately killed for confronting the very systems they now defend. They celebrate his words but reject his work. Because the same movement that marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, facing clubs, tear gas, and bloodshed, forced this nation to pass the Voting Rights Act. And now, as that very law is being dismantled piece by piece, the same people quoting King are applauding the rollback. They praise the man while betraying the mission. They honor the quote while opposing the cause. They invoke Selma but side with the forces that made Selma necessary. The racism didn’t disappear, it just learned how to dress itself in court opinions and talking points. In 2026 it’s no different in substance than it was in the 1960s. The hypocrisy is as clear as ever. They don’t want King the agitator, they want King the ornament. We must now summon the strength of our ancestors, lean on the God of our weary years, and continue the fight they started, because quitting was never an option, and freedom has never been given, only won.

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Michael Dell 🇺🇸
Michael Dell 🇺🇸@MichaelDell·
This is where it started. 42 years ago: a dorm room at @UTAustin, $1,000, and a belief that technology should be personal, powerful, and accessible. FY26: $113.5B in revenue — an all-time record. The world has changed. The mission hasn’t. AI is the biggest platform shift of our lifetime, and @DellTech is built for this moment. To our customers, partners, and the Dell team: thank you! 🙏 We'll keep building what’s next. Onward 🚀 #PlayNiceButWin
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Robert Durand@NavyAustin·
@MichaelDell Big thinking for sure! 25 years ago (April 2001), I was the OptiPlex PR guy & Dell was making headlines with the 1503FP - first flat-panel under $500 - big milestone, down from $1000 only months before. Here's to your big thinking & relentless innovation! wsj.com/articles/SB987…
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@skylarromines Welcome back & well done! Having been in my own "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" whirlwind, know: -those who know & love you still do; -those hating on you hardest don't know you at all. You will live with joy, they'll remain in their miserable lives, looking for a new target
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Skylar Romines
Skylar Romines@skylarromines·
Sorry for being so offline today. For some reason, I got inundated with flower deliveries. People must have thought it was my birthday or something! Jokes aside, I posted a tweet - *you know* which one - that majorly bombed. Maybe I could have phrased it better, but I didn’t. Now it’s out there... Everywhere. I don’t have a strategy for posting & there’s certainly not a team of people here. It’s just me, Skylar. I promised you pure, unadulterated human [no AI] slop, and I meant it. I don’t pre plan posts. I don’t reread & edit posts. I post what’s on my mind in the moment. Authentic, direct, real. Many say mildly autistic. Good or bad idk. Probably both. But it’s the only Skylar I know how to be. A lot of the time, that works pretty well. Some people like her. I’ve been beyond blessed with great friends here and I try to contribute as much value & love as I get [even though that would be impossible, given how much I get from this community] But sometimes my life is unrelatable to a lot of people on this site & that seems to make it easy to judge me in a certain light. Much more harshly than I’m used to being judged in the real world. It’s easy to forget that people here aren’t reading my words through the lens of actually knowing me. That’s the cost of being a real person on social media, instead of hiding behind copy editing, filtered thoughts, and contrived bullshit like most people do online. I understand that that won’t work for everyone & that’s totally fine. You don’t have to follow me. I’m frequently amazed so many of you choose to tbh For the real friends I’ve made along the way, I’m glad you’re here, and I’m looking forward to more growth, success & fun together. If that’s not you - hey, I get it. I don’t find me funny some days either. But I’m still wishing you all the best. Let me know where I can send you flowers 🫶🏼
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Robert Durand@NavyAustin·
@Jessdistrict11 @SawyerMerritt ... or the camera! "Voice call clarity was excellent, on par with the much less expensive Alcatel Go. Both phones have cameras and can run apps."
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Jess@Jessdistrict11·
@SawyerMerritt Reviewing a Model Y without showing FSD is like reviewing an iPhone and ignoring the apps 😂
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Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt·
I've been watching some recent 2026 Model Y reviews, and it blows my mind that some of these car reviewers don't even test/talk about FSD in their videos. Like, the car can drive itself pretty much anywhere, and somehow that's not worth mentioning or showing? lol
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@JTLonsdale @mattyglesias Career advice: Oil bidness can be wildly cyclic. Petroleum engineering & chemical engineering have major overlap - chemical engineers can readily find work in petroleum when times are good in oil, petroleum engineers have a harder time working outside of energy in a downturn.
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Joe Lonsdale
Joe Lonsdale@JTLonsdale·
@mattyglesias Median is better to show than mean for this context, which is only 95-100K even a decade out of the ivies - way behind petroleum engineers. AND let’s be honest, it’s more often those who are both poor and resentful voting for the crazy left like Mamdani. The point is valid.
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Robert Durand@NavyAustin·
@awstar11 Exhibit A: Filet-O-Fish, 1962. Lou Groen's Cincinnati McD franchise in a predominantly Roman Catholic neighborhood saw lower Friday sales. He convinced McDonald’s to test a fish sandwich for customers who abstained from eating meat on Fridays. 'Merica! corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpmcd/our-st…
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cdrsalamander
cdrsalamander@cdrsalamander·
@Georgesantos Obama almost looks as good in a tan suit as I do. I looked even better in khaki. IYKYK
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Robert Durand@NavyAustin·
America was very rural not to long ago. My grandfather in NW Wisconsin built WPA outhouses during the depression; at his small farm, he'd fab the walls & roof per plan, pour a slab with 1 or 2 holes, dig up the slab and deliver it on a cut-down Model T flatbed. The farmer receiving it was responsible for digging the hole to spec so the slab could drop over it & the outhouse assembled onsite. In the late 40s/early 50s, my dad was an "outside plant" construction foreman for Mountain Bell, climbing poles and digging holes, bringing phone lines to rural Idaho, Utah & Montana. Even odds phone service was arriving before electrical service in some of the places his crew went. historycolorado.org/wpa-privy-1935…
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cdrsalamander@cdrsalamander·
My mother did not even have electricity until the end of WWII…and our family was one of the most well off in our southern Mississippi county. The second and third order economic effects of the US Civil War were not insignificant, even eight decades later. You can see that on the map. Heck, we’ve only caught up this century, mostly (though my ancestral homeland still #50 of 50 states, but still higher than the UK, France, Italy and Spain...and almost on par with Germany…so…we’re OK.
Chelsea Olivia Follett@chellivia

Nearly half of American homes lacked basic plumbing in 1940. (Map via @vpostrel).

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Robert Durand@NavyAustin·
@akafaceUS Clever - I like the @StopBoxUSA - lockable, secured to the wall with a tactile combo. Easy to open, no batteries or keys. x.com/NavyAustin/sta…
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@BlueBoxDave For a house gun, I highly recommend a @StopBoxUSA Ward (wall-mounted). Far more secure/safe than a drawer, w/quick access in the dark & under stress. No electronics to fail. Slide gun on barrel rod & close. Open, it tips out, presented for easy grasp. stopboxusa.com/products/stopb…

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These pictures just scream America! Really cool, I'll take 10.
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