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@mikehtrujillo Will the tapes reveal any misuse of other boiled vegetables? 😄

To all reporters trying to make Katie Porter happen, folks there are more tapes. Chill out.

@KristinFisher You must live for this stuff, Kristin! 🚀

The blackout begins. 6 minutes of breath-holding begins now. Good luck and god speed Integrity.

@MarthaQuinn @NASAArtemis I had to listen to Peter Schilling's "Major Tom" for this. Earth below us drifting, falling. Floating weightless calling, calling home...

Woohoo they did it. Welcome home @NASAArtemis!

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶 The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

@Telegraph I say this. I've heard some foul-mouthed Christians before. But they still are quite kind and generous people. I don't like it, and it's not what I would do, but is he less Christian that other high-level politicians, claiming the mantle of Christianity?

🗣️ “Open the f---ing strait, you crazy b-----rds, or you’ll be living in Hell...” Across America, Catholic and Protestant communities have been questioning whether Donald Trumps actions and rhetoric reflect the faith that he claims to uphold after his Easter posts 👇 telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/0…

@Nessakins_ That's two words. Also, uniquely female. 😏

Uniquely female

@CGasparino Is he the Pa in paternity, or the Ma in maternity? I don't know the rules anymore! 😄

Pete Buttigieg is the last public official who should be commenting on the vicissitudes of price stability. Didnt he go on paternity leave during Biden's inflation-induced supply chain crisis?

@GadSaad I mean, he's certainly professing something here.

This is a Canadian professor.

@aaronmring @BenSasse Sometimes, I dive into the comments section by mistake, and see that, on balance, the NYT readership are dicks. Same with the recent WSJ article about record low birthrates.

Every oncologist and cancer researcher should watch this interview with @BenSasse: nytimes.com/2026/04/09/opi… Daraxonrasib, a “super poison for cancer,” shrank his metastatic pancreatic tumors by 76%, even though he says his skin feels and looks “nuclear.” When I learned of his diagnosis, I wanted him to get this drug (oral RAS ON inhibitor), which is poised to become first-line therapy in pancreatic cancer. I hope his experience on a clinical trial encourages more patients to enroll in studies, and pushes clinicians and researchers to keep advancing new therapies.

@MCCCANM Maybe I'm misremembering, but I'm all civilian. In the McDonnell Douglas and Boeing jets, we always called 'em throttles, and in the Airbus the term thrust levers was beat into us.

This is a “Throttle Quadrant” on the “Control Stand” or “Pedestal” of a 737. The throttles are only called throttles in the military; the civilian world calls them “Thrust Levers” for…reasons, I guess. The levers aren’t connected to the engines in the conventional sense; instead, a computer detects the position of the levers & decides how much fuel to send to the engine. This is called a “Full Authority Electronic Engine Control” (they used to be called FADEC, but I guess we don’t use the word digital anymore). It’s usually just shortened to “EEC”. The EEC meters fuel from the fuel pumps to the engine, using inputs from the thrust levers as well as current atmospheric conditions & other limits programmed into the computers. The EEC can fail into a “soft” or “hard” mode, in which it will not be so precise. It has the authority to shut down an engine by itself under certain conditions, but only on the ground. The thrust levers have servo motors attached to them which move them forward & back when the “Autothrottle” system is engaged (note: it’s not the “auto thrust levers”…told you it’s weird). The autothrottle will command the needed thrust to achieve whatever speed or climb rate is set by the pilots, but it’s possible to command something it’s not capable of, so you must be cautious…it will sacrifice speed to achieve the commanded climb or descent rate. The autothrottles will go to idle power if needed, then “wake up” when the speed approaches the commanded speed…but only under certain conditions. They will also go to idle when they sense ground contact on landing, but that’s a little complicated. Some airlines allow that, others require the autothrottles be turned off below some altitude when landing, except when doing an “Auto Land”. The autothrottles can be turned off by pressing a button on the side of the thrust lever w/ your thumb. The thrust levers are not always perfectly aligned, even when producing the same thrust. This is acceptable up to a limit (I think it’s one knob width). Just out of the picture on the thrust levers is the “Take Off / Go Around” (TO/GA) button, about where your middle finger would be. If pressed, the flight directors command a pitch to get away from the ground. On the 737, this disconnects the autopilot, but the autothrottles will drive the thrust levers forward. They don’t go to full power (to help reduce workload), but if pressed a second time will move to full power. The TO/GA button is inhibited after touchdown, so if a go-around is initiated after touchdown or you touch down in the process, you’ll have to drive the levers forward yourself. On Takeoff, the autothrottle just remains “armed” & not doing anything until TO/GA is pushed, then commands takeoff thrust. The servo motors on the thrust levers can sometimes “slip” & not reach the desired position. This is more a problem on takeoff; if so, you just push them forward yourself. You can write it up in the maintenance log later. Visible in the picture just above the thrust levers are the reverser levers, which command reverse thrust. These are locked out in flight & won’t unlock until the thrust levers are at idle & the radio altimeter senses less than 10’ from the ground. They pull backward, toward you. There is a detent where they stop; this is “reverse idle”. They won’t unlock further until the thrust reversers have been hydraulically deployed. Once that’s done, the reverser levers unlock again & can be pulled further back to speed up the engines basically just like the thrust levers…the engines still spin the same way, the thrust is just redirected slightly forward by blocking panels inside the engine, exiting the “sleeves”. If reversers are unlocked, the thrust levers are locked at idle. You’re committed. You reverse the process at 80 knots, going to reverse idle. The engines spool down; when they achieve idle, you stow the reverse levers…but there is no lockout, don’t be too quick. That’s all my space, hope it helps!

@EvaLovesDesign No Gnews, is good Gnews. Bring back Gary Gnu!

Relatable No Gnews Show

@OldeWorldOrder @nikitabier @EFF It's remarkable that EFF lobbies for privacy protection as it relates to home camera systems, but wants to proliferate its message on places like Facebook and Instagram.

@nikitabier @EFF I honestly never even heard of EFF until today ... and I'm a big proponent of the digital rights campaign. X is doing more than any other platform to safeguard the rights of individuals online ... and the EFF is turning against it? Reminiscent of the ACLU's recent nosedive...

Whoever is advising @EFF on social strategy should be fired. Their reach on their X account is 13.3x larger than on their Instagram account—and on 228x larger than their TikTok account. If they want their foundation to have an impact on the global conversation, the only place is on X.

FAA’s abrupt closure of airspace over and around El Paso Airport in Texas cast a spotlight on the U.S. military’s apparent disregard for the rules that maintain the safety of America’s commercial airspace. aviationweek.com/air-transport/…

@MZHemingway @kylegriffin1 She's that idiot that concocted a story that DJT attempted to take over "The Beast" from the backseat, because he was so angry. 😅

@kylegriffin1 The woman lied to Congress repeatedly … caused many people harm. Any DOJ official obstructing or defending her for partisan reasons should be fired.

Breaking NYT: The Trump Justice Department is investigating Cassidy Hutchison, the star witness against Trump during the Jan. 6 Committee hearings. Pam Bondi opened the probe as she was trying to shore up her shaky standing. Some DOJ officials have questioned whether there's even a viable case against Hutchison. nytimes.com/2026/04/07/nyr…

@mattyglesias By the time you get to the crimes you cite, for which you want punished, it's probably too late for these degenerates and many like them. I blame the public school system as much as I blame the miscreants. People vote for this, and then seem surprised when they get it.

@mattyglesias The problem, that of lawlessness, begins when these violators are children. They watch their parents commit lawless acts in the absence of any real punishment. They start with truancy, misbehavior in school, then, petite larcenies, moving violations, and perhaps greater crimes.

I don't actually think this is that unsolvable of a problem. What you need to do is identify the people who are driving ATVs and dirt bikes, arrest them, and punish them.

is this a safe space to admit that I put a lithium ion battery in my checked bag one time, because it was in a hair curler, and the list of banned items only said "no laptops, battery packs, or vapes"? this is why they need more women in the aviation industry

@MCO 😅

The high‑res Moon images from Artemis II are out of this world. 🌕

@lynk0x My man is praying to upgrade his Hyundai Sonata to a Porsche 911 GT3.

Look closely, you’ll know why it’s $10K.

@weatherchannel Oh man. This will be the next cocktail hour channel. 🍸🥃

you’ve been asking. the retro era continues…here’s the official weather channel playlist! 🎷🎶 open.spotify.com/playlist/5KYRk…