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Tim Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 2h

I didn’t know there had been an explosion there till husband told me. Nasty shit. The Tennessean has more complete coverage than the NYT

19 missing in explosion at Hickman County plant, officials say — everything we know

Everything we know after the Hickman County Sheriff's Office said an explosion occurred at an explosives manufacturing plant.

www.tennessean.com

Tim Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 3h

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Vision Jet

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Tim Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 3h

Their single props certainly did. Need to read more

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Tim Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 4h

It’s a Cirrus Jet. Looked up the tail number

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Tim Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 5h

Sunset over tarmac

Photo of the setting sun over the pavement at Liberal, Kansas. The horizon is high in the photo. The red sun is setting right in front of an aircraft wing visible from the right of the photo

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Tim Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 5h

What is this plane?

Photo of a funky low wing vee-tail aircraft on the tarmac. It’s white on the belly and wing and red on the upper. The single jet engine is on top!

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Tim Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 5h

Off to the (gay) rodeo

A photo of two guys in pink shirts on a smaller jet (CRJ200)

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Tim Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 5h

“Reclaiming the frog”

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words @words.bsky.social · 11h

get in loser we are building five story apartments within a half a mile of public transit stops in california cities larger than 35,000 people

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Tim Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 11h

My kinda eats :-)

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Tim Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 11h

Looks really good

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Tim Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 12h

Bucksnort, Only, Spot, Primm Springs, Aetna, Brushy, Beaverdam, Little Lot, Bon Aqua, Dodd Hollow, Hickman Hollow, all the Bends {Shipp’s, Totty’s, Gray’s, Thompson’s, . . .}

Duck River, Piney River, Lick Creek (“I took a leek in Lick Creek”), Raleigh’s Chapel (swimming hole on Swan Creek)

Names

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Tim Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 12h

aka Duck River. (The community is Little Lot; the post office is Duck River. My brother and his wife just moved from there

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Tim Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 12h

Bucksnort, Only, Spot, Primm Springs, Aetna, Brushy, Beaverdam, Little Lot, Bon Aqua, Dodd Hollow, Hickman Hollow, all the Bends {Shipp’s, Totty’s, Gray’s, Thompson’s, . . .}

Duck River, Piney River, Lick Creek (“I took a leek in Lick Creek”), Raleigh’s Chapel (swimming hole on Swan Creek)

Names

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I Heart Noise @iheartnoise.bsky.social · 12h

TIL - there's a town called Bucksnort in TN

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Tim Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 12h

Hey hey! That’s my home county!

The old road to Bucksnort was twisty, and my brother and his buddies would drive it so fast, probably drunk, and try to scare each other to death. It was a fun road to drive :-)

Also in Hickman County, Minnie Pearl’s Grinder’s Switch (a legit railroad crossing)

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Tim Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 12h

I love a good screed

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Tim Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 12h

I love a good screed

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Tim Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 13h

Don’t give them ideas

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 13h

Accepting “incremental small victories accompanied by optimism” while taking a pass on “moral purity and doomerism” today, friends.

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Tim Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 14h

Nonetheless, they get a cookie for being good

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 14h

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
AUGUST 24,1946

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
P1- NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE STANDING OUTSIDE A STORE

SIGN IN STORE WINDOW- FOUNTAIN PENS

THE STORE HAS A GIANT FOUNTAIN PEN HANGING ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE STORE

SLUGGO : OH. BOY.-LOOK AT DAT BIG FOUNTAIN PEN

NANCY: WOW

P2- THE OWNER OF THE STORE COMES OUTSIDE AND YELLS AT NANCY AND SLUGGO

OWNER: STOP HANGIN' AROUND MY STORE.-SCRAM!

P3- SLUGGO: I'LL SHOW DAT OLD GROUCH

P4- SLUGGO POURS INK UNDER THE GIANT FOUNTAIN PEN DISPLAY AND PLACES A SIGN THAT READS- THEY LEAK.

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Tim Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 15h

Tempo di Belushi

You coulda told DeSantis no. You could’ve raised the money the state was holding hostage through good publicity alone and not treated faculty “colleagues” like dirt. You could’ve been a *leader* but nooooooo, yoooooou had to be a *tooooooaaaaaady*

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Tim Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 15h

A reminder that what MIT and its leadership is doing is what all universities should do when handed a notice to toady. DON’T TOADY should be the norm, not some GOLD STAR action

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Tim Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 15h

“dumber and lazier than a low-cost composting toilet” is one for the books