Ian Matchett

@sjariwala9911 @Mishi_2210 Wow?

No word starts with w and ends with w !! Prove me wrong??

@SWCultureLive Matia Judden

What’d you get?

@aakashgupta Every system does exactly what it’s designed to do.

The air traffic controller cleared the fire truck onto the runway. Seconds later, the same controller screamed “stop, stop, stop.” The plane was doing 93 to 105 mph. Both pilots are dead. Everyone will frame this as controller error. One controller was simultaneously managing a United flight that aborted takeoff after an anti-ice warning, dispatching a fire truck across an active runway, and sequencing an inbound Air Canada landing at highway speed. At 11:40 PM. On a mandatory overtime shift at a facility that has been understaffed for years. A system that assigns one person that workload will produce exactly this outcome. The only variable is when. The FAA is short approximately 3,000 controllers. The headcount dropped 13% from 2010 to 2024 while flight volume rose 10%. Over 40% of the FAA’s 290 terminal facilities are understaffed. The New York TRACON, which manages the most congested airspace in America across LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, has been chronically below target. Newark was operating at 59% of its staffing goal. LaGuardia handles 900 flights a day. The hiring pipeline is broken at every stage. Only 2% of applicants complete the full process. Training takes up to 6 years. The FAA Academy in Oklahoma City is a bottleneck, with roughly 35% of trainees washing out. Congress blocked legislation to build a second academy. In one recent hiring cycle, the FAA brought on 1,512 candidates and lost 1,300 in the same window. Net gain: around 160 controllers for an entire country. Three things need to happen and everyone who can make them happen has known for years. Congress needs to fund and authorize a second FAA training academy. One facility in Oklahoma City cannot produce enough controllers for 900 million annual passengers. Members of Congress from Oklahoma have actively blocked this. That needs to end yesterday. The FAA needs to cut certification time. Six years from application to fully certified controller is absurd. The agency’s own data shows tower simulators reduce certification time by 27%. They’ve installed them at 95 facilities. That should be every facility, and the simulated hours should count toward more of the certification requirement. The FAA needs to stop plugging staffing gaps with mandatory overtime. Controllers at understaffed facilities are working six-day weeks rotating between morning, mid, and night shifts. The NTSB has flagged fatigue repeatedly. The controller last night was managing overlapping emergencies during a nighttime operation. Overtime is not a staffing plan. It’s a countdown to the next runway collision. The controller said “I messed up” to a Frontier pilot who watched the whole thing. The pilot responded “No man, you did the best you could.” One of them is right. The answer determines whether this happens again.

@DaddyWarpig It’s a Mad Lib

At no point did I know what the next word would be.

@adamhousley @PepperdineBASE Do we have a Housley sidearmer on the team?

Against @PepperdineBASE

@carterlewis @WhiteHouse Seriously eff these guys

@WhiteHouse What kind of insane propaganda is this shit?!

STRIKE. 💥🦅

There's an old idea that says a man is tested three times before he earns anything worth having. The first test takes what he loves. The second test takes his confidence. The third test makes him wait with no proof that it's coming. Most men fail the third one. Not because they're weak. Because patience with no guarantee is the hardest thing a human being can do. If you're in the waiting room right now, don't move. Don't panic. Just hold.

Talk about working in mysterious ways 😱😂🪽✨

This is absolutely mind blowing. 👏👏👏 The fact that humans exist and are able to create music like this makes me understand why people believe in a Creator.✨🙏✨ 🎶𝐉. 𝐒. 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐡, 𝐓𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐮𝐠𝐚 𝐃 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐖𝐕 𝟓𝟔𝟓 - 𝐉𝐞𝐚𝐧-𝐁𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐭💖💖

Someone made a 2025 College Football season montage to One Shining Moment and it’s amazing 😭

This SNL sketch still absolutely kills.

@tetraphidopsida I’m celebrating you. It’s been 30 years for me. Every day is sweeter. Go get ‘em!

I AM 21 AND BEAT CANCER, I AM IN REMISSION AS OF THIS MORNING

@ForestFire1122 @abreezeclayton My shirt is off waving around my head. I may be asked to leave this meeting.

@abreezeclayton I read that in Petey Pablo's voice

*yells* North Carolina

@macwfnz Fire EE

Damnit. Made it too damn easy for them to move it downfield. Ugh.

JC is my Savior @Panthers #KeepPounding

@1PantherPlace As poorly as they’ve played to be down 3 is amazing. Clean it up and let’s see what happens

Stafford throws a lower trajectory dime into the hands of Nacua, and he drops one. The breaks cut both ways in this league, Carolina was due. Panthers trail 17-14 at halftime, surviving a 14-0 Rams start

@roaringriot Followed by the “hold” on Ickey

Of course there wasn’t a flag on that blatant PI on the second play of the game. Started already.

@1PantherPlace Where was the hold?

Nijman in at LT, Ekwonu to tent. Sub-optimal start

NFL Refs vs Carolina Panthers week 18 Shoutout to @benlikessport for this banger 😂😂 #KeepPounding

@johnLeeHooker Like a bolt of lightning for me. Lifelong love of Blues sprung from that moment

In 1980, John Lee Hooker lit up the screen in The Blues Brothers, delivering an unforgettable performance of “Boom Boom” right on Maxwell Street. Surrounded by a live street band and a real Chicago crowd, The Hook brought authentic electric Blues to one of the film’s most iconic scenes. A true legend in a true Blues moment. #JohnLeeHooker