Troy J Whyte

@jondelarroz @StephenFleming Do you wear wigs? Have you worn wigs? Will you wear wigs? When will you wear wigs?

Disney's gonna remake the original Star Wars trilogy once they get desperate enough, aren't they?

This American band formed in 1981 in Marietta, GA. ‘Watusi Rodeo’ was released in 1983. It never charted. They got the band’s name from a 1943 war memoir. 👉🏻 Name the band.

@AlecStapp Krusty: Good evening. Tonight my guest is AFL/CIO chairman George Meany, who will be discussing collective bargaining agreements George Meaney: It's a pleasure to be here, Krusty Krusty: Let me be blunt: is there a labor crisis in America today? George Meaney: Well that depends..

Private-sector unionization in the US was a temporary mid-20th century phenomenon:

@AlecStapp Surely @USChamber knows the appropriate amount of rope to sell to the PRC.

Mythos also highlights why it’s insane that we’re allowing NVIDIA to sell chips to China. US labs need all the chips they can get and our compute advantage has been the main thing keeping us in the lead on AI. Why on earth would we voluntarily hand that over to China?

@JimPethokoukis @WSJ

"Starship will make it possible to use low Earth orbit as a parking lot for a giant space-based arsenal. This would allow the U.S. to pre-position conventional munitions with ablation shields and inertial guidance systems to strike anywhere on Earth within minutes." @WSJ

"Welcome to my old neighborhood." Our @NASAArtemis II astronauts woke up on the sixth day of their mission to a special message recorded in 2025 by astronaut Jim Lovell, the pilot of Apollo 8.

We're going farther than ever before 🚀 Today, the Artemis II crew will break the record for how far humans have traveled from Earth as they fly around the far side of the Moon. Coverage begins at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 UTC). Watch Artemis II make history: nasa.gov/ways-to-watch/

@captgouda24 @timurkuran

@timurkuran imma be real with you i don’t think people fake liking it now people are absolutely doing it wrong! because it’s about bloodflow, or even just the suggestion of control, not airflow but it is emphatically something people do cause it’s fun

In her new book Sextinction, Debra Soh describes a form of sexual preference falsification common among Gen-Z men and women: choking during intercourse. Half of all US college women have experienced it. Women pretend they like being choked, to please men. Men choke to avoid disappointing their female partners. Yet, few men or women actually enjoy this dangerous practice, which may cause permanent damage, especially when drugs and alcohol are involved. This choking norm has spread through pornography and perverted social media influencers. It makes men and women jointly degrade their experience under false understandings of what their partner wants. Each side falsifies its sexual preferences because the other side is itself engaged in sexual preference falsification. Men’s preference falsification feeds on women’s preference falsification, and vice versa.

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet. The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy. There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one. That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure. 📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

That's us! 🌍 The Artemis II crew captured beautiful, high-resolution images of our home planet during their journey to the Moon. As @Astro_Christina put it: "You guys look great."

Old Hollywood had a way of doing more with less, and The Big Sleep (1946) nails it in that bookstore scene, the tension building line by line, and the moment she shuts the door and pulls the shade down… you already know.

That was impressive 😂 @GTBaseball | @GTAthletics | #StingEm

April Fool (1924)

🚀 Artemis II will be the first crewed mission to travel toward the Moon in more than 50 years, and its crew is set to make history... 🎖️ A mission commander leading us back to lunar orbit 👨🏽‍🚀 A pioneer set to become the first black astronaut beyond low Earth orbit 👩🏼‍🚀 A record breaker who will be the first woman to circle the Moon 🇨🇦 A Canadian astronaut making national history 🎧 Don’t miss our Artemis II podcast as we track this once in a generation mission bbc.in/4sMo36O

Regarding recent press coverage

@RestrictedDaily True Grit. As others have mentioned wildly low dollar amounts back then. But the biggest difference was Alex Trebek himself. This was the Trebek I imagine of “High Rollers” not the Trebek of Jeopardy that we remember.

Final Jeopardy just came up… I’ve got my answer locked in. Curious what everyone else is thinking on this one.

Buster Keaton in Hard Luck (1921)

I know Henry VIII had 6 wives - There was Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr but I can't for the life of me remember the surname of the one called Jane....See More