Tim D @TimDomDimTom

So many small cool details everywhere in the trilogy. Here, the Orc army is chanting: “Katmûda!” — Death to Men! “Gorosh!” — Louder! “Katmûda!” — Death to Men! “Gorosh Chadar!” — Loud enough! Thousands of Orcs move as one, screaming for the extermination of mankind, then catapult the heads of fallen soldiers at the free peoples. Can't make an army more evil than that. (Repost because last one got content restricted)

Benjamin Franklin, what a line

this may be one of the funniest videos I’ve ever seen

Robert Skvarla @RobertSkvarla

4 days ago

America 250 is going well

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Any great civilization of ancient history would have seen a blood red sky on the night of their sacred founding as an omen of unconquerable power and divine victory.

RT @RT_com

4 days ago

NYC sky turns blood red at 250th anniversary celebration in 'bad omen'

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@shaydug @LNGFrankie @BGatesIsaPyscho @grok There’s nothing in the vacuum of space to stop the light . A billion miles is nothing to light

Richard Feynman on the one idea that explains almost everything around you: 1. heat isn't a substance. it's motion. when something feels hot, its atoms are jiggling fast. when it's cold, they're jiggling slow. that's all temperature is... speed. 2. when a warm cup heats your hand, nothing actually flows into you. the fast atoms just bump the slow ones and speed them up. heat "spreading" is only jiggling passed along by touch. 3. atoms never lose energy. a bouncing ball slows and stops... but the motion doesn't disappear. it leaked into the floor. the ball goes still, the floor gets a little warmer. the motion is still there. just scrambled. 4. hammer a piece of metal long enough and it gets hot. you added no heat. you just jiggled it harder. pounding is heating. 5. a drop of water pulls into a ball because the atoms want partners on every side. the ones at the surface only have them below. so they keep clawing inward, trying to get in. that's what rounds the drop. 6. that same drop is slowly vanishing. atoms at the surface keep breaking free into the air, one by one, until none are left. you're watching them leave. 7. ice, water, and steam are the same atoms at different speeds. slow, and they lock in place like oranges in a crate... ice. faster, and they roll over each other... water. faster still, and they fly apart... steam. 8. pump up a bike tire and the pump gets hot. squeezing the air speeds the atoms up. let the air expand and it cools, because the atoms hit a piston that gives way and lose speed. heat and cold are hiding in a bicycle pump.

250 years ago today, on June 29, 1776, New Yorkers looked out at the water and saw a nightmare on the horizon. The British fleet had arrived, and so many ships filled the bay that witnesses said the masts looked like "a forest of pine trees" growing out of the sea. The timing could not have been more brutal. This was the empire's answer to the rebellion, and it was overwhelming. The first wave of around 45 warships and transports dropped anchor off Sandy Hook and Staten Island carrying General William Howe and roughly 10,000 troops. Within days it kept growing. Then his brother Admiral Richard Howe arrived with more. It would eventually swell into one of the largest seaborne invasion forces of the entire 18th century, hundreds of ships and tens of thousands of professional soldiers and German mercenaries, aimed at one city. Now sit with the timing. While that forest of masts was filling the harbor, delegates down in Philadelphia were in the final days of debating whether to declare independence. They voted for it on July 2 and signed off on the wording on July 4. So at the exact moment America was being born on paper, the most powerful military on earth was already anchored off its coast, getting ready to strangle it in the cradle. The people of New York understood exactly what they were seeing. Alarm bells rang, panic spread through the streets, and soldiers sprinted to their posts to stare at a force they had almost no hope of matching. Washington's army was outnumbered, outgunned, and about to get badly beaten in the battles for New York that followed. That's the part that gets lost in the fireworks every Fourth of July. Independence wasn't declared from a position of strength. It was declared with an enemy armada already sitting on the doorstep, knowing full well what was coming. They signed their names anyway.

This account tweets news from 1776 like it’s currently breaking. One of my favorite follows.

1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive

a week ago

Thomas Paine publishes an open letter in the Pennsylvania Evening Post, under the name “Republicus,” which advocates for the name “United States of America” for the new nation now emerging. This is the first time such a term has been used.

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@leevalueroach If I didn’t know what drinking will do to my bowel movements the next day I’d be drunk right now

@AdaEverly_ It’s agonizing😩I need a hit, cmon just a little touch…

@luv2read13 Don’t be so voluntarily cold, logical, and imperturbable. You’re alive. You’re warm soft and alive. Live for Chrissakes! Feel! Alcohol just numbs. I would know. All I consumed yesterday was 1,000 calories of malt liquor and what it did to my bowel movements is just shameful 💩

@bb_apes My bitch takin' off her trousers every time I get around her😉 I'm nasty, I never shower, go sleep on a bed of flowers🍑 Not into this conversation I’ve been in my head for hours, I’m out😘

@TheeBebecita What is it that you do be? Anything extraordinary?

@bb_apes Indubitably

@RealDianeYap God I love malt liquor #broke #numb

@vibeslillian_ I have whiplash on blu ray in a steelbook

@okgrumpytits @tillyofrivia The famous Greek myth of Narcissus centers on a handsome hunter who rejected the love of everyone around him. To punish his arrogance, the gods cursed him to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool of water, an obsession that ultimately led to his tragic death.

@okgrumpytits @tillyofrivia The myth of Narcissus is Greek… not biblical, babe

@okgrumpytits @tillyofrivia Didn’t Narcissus fall in love with his reflection?