Ann W. Parks 🇺🇸🌻🇺🇦

@neal_katyal FYI, I just saw this tweet from Neal Katyal retweeted by Mark Hamill before I saw it from Neal.

Wow. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissent.

@Cryptoprofeta1 I can see how in this day and age, people are lulled into believing that submersibles are now normal and safe. But I wouldn’t do it, especially not if I knew you were bolted in with no way out on the surface, not certified by experts in the field, not made of contiguous material

@_AnnParks_ Thanks for verify that, would you get into it?

Can Someone tell me if this was a Test ride? #Titanic #OceanGateTitan #OceanGateExpeditions #OceanGateSub #OceansGate #OCEANGATE

@usappa00 @krassenstein I was reminded of those amateur guys who bragged about building a giant water slide in an amusement park. Everyone with professional knowledge said it broke the rules of physics, and a child was decapitated. Doing things that engineers say can’t be done isn’t always a good idea.

@krassenstein Never trust an engineer who is proud of breaking the rules.

James Cameron: “I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field." It’s incredibly sad what happened today. I see people blaming other people and even politicizing things. That’s sad as well.

@Sonny49589277 A sailor would know better. My dad had a little 24-foot sailboat. I shuddered when I read this thing was 22 feet. Someone who knows boats would probably not trust their life to a 22-foot, homemade, unregulated TicTac of a vehicle that drops 2 miles beneath the Atlantic Ocean.

@MrStigsby I am a sailing enthusiast. I pray for those lost at sea...but the more I investigate this, there is a sense of anger...this voyage was nothing short of reckless, with a dose of hubris. You just don't challenge the ocean like this...the vessell was not prepared for the risks.

Stockton Rush, the CEO of the company responsible for the lost Titan submarine, stating the sub is invulnerable 6 years ago. Oh the irony. #Titanic #TitanicRescue #titanicsubmarine #invulnerable #irony

@jessicamisrael I saw an interview with one person who went on one of these dives, and the current two miles down almost rammed that submersible into one of the Titanic’s massive propellers resting on the ocean floor. They were lucky to get away.

@MrStigsby This man’s hubris boggles my mind. Even assuming that it was the safest vehicle ever built by man, it is no match for the ocean and definitely not two miles down with the cold and the pressure. These guys learned nothing from Titanic and just repeated it on a much smaller scale.

@EmmaSamms1 @rhda8386 @finolahughes I was in high school when all this happened in 1985 and I had the best of it on VCR tapes. We just had our 35th reunion. Hard to believe, but yes!

@rhda8386 @finolahughes OMG, 38 years ago?!

This ending is sad AF & I do not accept that RnH are ever over, but the pairing I didn't know I needed was #Hanna. Loved all the @EmmaSamms1 & @finolahughes scenes; my two fave #GH leads since the 80s! The proper tea was a throwback to their first scenes together, 38 years ago💗

@EmmaSamms1 Do they prefer coffee?! I bet those (wonderful!) horses would like a nice cup of tea too!

Congratulations to King Charles, Queen Camilla and the thousands of members of the armed forces (and their horses) for such a SPECTACULAR occasion today. Hopefully they can all get a nice cup of tea now. (Not the horses)

@AKBrews And here I worry that my cat is going to get out in the car on the way to the vet.

I'm losing it over here about this guy throwing a 9 foot alligator into the back of his Civic.

@thejackhopkins My dad grew up on a farm and had zero interest in guns. I saw him get the shotgun exactly once in my life to kill a sick groundhog that he was afraid would hurt our dog & cat. He played lacrosse, went to UVA and became a banker. Shotguns from the farm gathered dust in the attic.

When I was in high school, I'd say 30-40%...or more...of the pickup trucks in the high school parking lot, had a gun rack in the back window, with at least one of the two available spots holding a bolt action rifle or a shot gun. This was in 79-80. My freshman year. No one in the community thought a thing about it. In this area of the nation, people hunted. In the fall and early winter, if you didn't play a sport, you were likely out trying your best to bring home some game for the freezer, within 15 minutes of the last school bell ringing. Mostly males, but many guys had a girlfriend that tagged along for many hunting outings. I know I did. After graduation, when I started getting beyond the boundaries of where I had grown up, I was often stunned to find out that not everyone had not grown up having their mother prepare meals of rabbit, squirrel, quail, pheasant, duck, goose and venison, or kept a shotgun, a duck call and a box of shotgun shells in their bedroom as a teenager. They also likely didn't have a mother who frequently said "PLEASE...stop hanging your shirts on your shotgun. Put them where they belong!" Why do I tell you this? I tell you this, because...even in 2023, in many of the rural areas of our country....this mindset-minus the gunracks in the high school parking lot-is still woven in as part of the tapestry, just as it had been in the decades that came before my time. The threads that run through it are strong, and resist fraying or breaking. They sometimes do, but not easily. There are also other, newer threads woven into the tapestry; the threads of the more recent amplification of what we call "Gun Culture." These are the threads that have taken firearms from something these folks associated with hunting, and "country life", to something to be worshipped & tools of warfare that are no longer thought of in terms of how well they would take down a Whitetail deer, but...in terms of how effective they would be in rapidly killing another human being. Killing. Another. Human. Being. Killing, now, is an act that many are literally itching to engage in. Many actually admit that they hope someone will break in their front door one night, just so they can have the experience of firing a hot piece of blazing lead into the body of another person. As much as I would like to think otherwise, these are "my people." I know how they think, and how they feel. I grew up in this culture. I moved on. Many of them....did/have not. My mind evolved and matured as I was exposed to experiences, places and people around the world. It's not that I'm smarter, or "above" them. I simply introduced myself to the rest of the world...and my beliefs changed. What's my point? My point is this. Our short term efforts to have effective gun legislation put in place have run into one road block after another. When I experience that in my personal life, with other things, I step back and also work up a longer term plan. Sometimes, a much longer term plan. Clearly, time is of the essence with gun legislation. However, a significant change, in 5-10 years, is much better than a change that never happens. For longer term plans to come to fruition, longer term plans have to be established in the first place. If you've read this far, you may be peeved to discover that I don't have the "answer" to this problem. However, I hope you may find the following to make some sense, when it comes to a long term plan. Putting a think tank together of some of the best thinkers on the planet-the best of the best when it comes to understanding human behavior, cultural norms, changing long held beliefs, effective marketing campaigns and the like....should be among the highest of priorities for our elected leaders, and those with the power and means to launch massive campaigns for social change. The gun problem, is a social problem. A social problem, is a people problem, and, most people problems, involve belief & identity problems. Do this, we must.

@Disc_light I honestly can’t choose one. They are both spectacular.

@AnnieStaley6 @AKBrews No concern whatsoever for them, no helping them in the car or anything. Total narcissist.

@AKBrews I see the man gets into the car and quickly closes the door as the female carrying the child is left to fend for herself.

A group of tourists getting out of their car and strolling around a safari...

@AKBrews I had to watch that three times to believe that the person holding the child was really all the way up in the center of the field with the animals ready to get between her and the car. Imagine your parents being dumb enough to do this when you are four years old.

@disabledtrans @AKBrews I guarantee you that this sheriff’s deputy was not hearing impaired, just stupid. If he was hearing impaired, he would have felt the vibrations and would have been paying close attention to the lights. I’m disabled too. Go correct someone else.

@_AnnParks_ @AKBrews Deaf people drive. It's why the flashing lights!

I thought it was common knowledge not to cross train tracks when the lights are still flashing...

@KaylaChowShow That pitcher says red Kool-Aid to me. Red cup.

What are we drinking and which cup are you?

@mattxiv What people don’t understand about persons w/ disabilities—we have dreams too. We may want to dance in a school play or on Broadway, because inside our bodies we don’t feel any different than you. If that makes you uncomfortable—well, we’re not going to sit home because of you…

i can’t imagine seeing a disabled person just existing and being like, “you know what? i’m gonna mock them online.” some of you use twitter to live out your middle school bully fantasy and it’s embarrassing

@HistoryMuppet Hey. Everyone my age knows Crocodile Rock from The Muppet Show…

@amockingbird I remember being so young that I understood absolutely nothing about the opening theme song, even though I loved the song and the show. My Dad had to explain that they worked in a beer bottling place and that those were bottles of beer. I guess I only knew about beer in cans?!