Matthew May

@SharpFootball Wait til you find out what us Aussies have to do for the Super Bowl every year

we watch it on TV Thursday night but they play it Friday morning gonna tell the grandkids about this one day thanks Roger!!

It’s unhealthy how many times I’ve watched this 😂

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.

I slowed down the footage of the Air Canada plane hitting the fire truck 😳 You can see how hard that impact was. It is a miracle that more were not killed.

I will vote for anyone who has a legitimate plan to successfully imprison social media influencers. I don't even care about their other politics at this point. I'll be a single issue voter.

Jobs report was a disaster. Gas prices are skyrocketing. Crypto falling. Dow worst week in a year. Just fired DHS Secretary for incompetence and corruption. But hey look at this cool sports video our intern created overlayed with us bombing Iran!

My best friend group from college is in wildly different stages of life right now: Friend 1 — married, 3 kids. Never hear from him but twice a year he pops out and blacks out like he did in college. Great father I’m sure. Lives in suburbs. Friend 2 — most single person alive. 30 years old, slept with a 21 year old last weekend. Low key depressed. He still lives in nyc in a shoebox studio. Friend 3 — he’s in long term relationship. You can tell marriage is coming… you can also tell they hate each other. Friend 4 — moved to California, does mushrooms daily and drops into the group chat once a week to say the most unhinged philosophical take imaginable. Friend 5 — full passport bro. With a girl who barely speaks English every night somewhere in Southeast Asia. Friend 6 — might literally be in jail. Haven’t heard from him in 5 years. No social media. Honestly… might text him tonight.

@DEvanAltman Also known as every Dan Clark comment

Total douchebag comment.

@jdrohrlach Giggsy ya Welsh bastard!!!

Hey look, a heroin addict who sniffs coke off of toilet seats and eats roadkill and a convicted rapist who chewed off a man's ear are telling you what to eat.

American's are the weirdest. I was just listening to an NFL podcast and the hosts were going on and on about the upcoming NFL game in Melbourne. They were opining that the teams may not be able to stay close to the ground, there may not be ovals for the teams to practice on and whether the city even has big enough hotels with enough rooms for the teams to work out of. Not even an acknowledgement the city hosts a grand slam tennis even and an F1 Grand Prix each year. Americans truly have absolutely no idea of the world outside of their country.

James Pearce Jr’s character concerns are allegedly causing his draft stock to plummet. A playoff team’s director of player personnel said he’s “in danger of getting dropped off our board” and that there are “a lot of [character] concerns” 🤔 Pearce has an elite analytical profile, elite film, SEC pedigree, and will destroy athletic testing. He was left off of the most recent @MoveTheSticks mock draft despite these facts. One has to assume these concerns are shared around the league… he will have to do will in interviews if so. Just PLEASE don’t let him fall to the Eagles 🙏 (via @walterfootball)

TMZ can find video of you taking a shit inside your house from 30 years ago but they can't find out the redacted names from the Epstein Files.

Well, that’s a first. Hit so hard your hair gets knocked off in a boxing match

@ESPNAusNZ And your scoreboard shows the 36ers winning

Good idea for Paul Skenes to add a new weapon given the regression we saw from year 1 (1.96 ERA) to year 2 (1.97 ERA).

QBs to win the AFC Championship since 2000

That’s now 542 straight fourth-down decisions where Troy Aikman would “take the points”

kid head, father torso, mom legs

@Benjamin_J_X @sydontheroad Bumbling Brett…..

@sydontheroad Daniel Jensen still dominant?