Thomas Heaney

@captainabraham.bsky.social

2404 Followers 2339 Following

Historian, Husband, Dad, Teacher, Army Vet, & Annoyance. Another middle-aged white guy for reason, compassion, & tolerance. He/Him. #NAFO Opinions are my own &not the views of my employer Games in the History Classroom Project: frc.edu/history/games

CNN Headline: "Trump says the US will impose a 20% fee on cargo moving through the strait"
United 926 to Frankfurt is $1,746
Dice showing the 4 bullseyes necessary to kill Hitler.
This image is a popular internet meme template that features three cartoon golden dragon heads against a cloudy blue-grey sky. The two heads on the left are fierce and menacing with red, narrowed eyes, multiple horns, and spiky scales. The head on the far left has white text superimposed over it that reads "1876 PHILADELPHIA CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION." The head in the center has text over it that reads "1892 CHICAGO COLUMBIAN EXHIBITION." The head on the right is drawn in a starkly different, simplified, and "derpy" style, with smooth, curly horns, huge googly eyes looking in different directions, and its tongue sticking out in a silly grimace. It has white text over it that reads "2026 GREAT AMERICAN STATE FAIR."
Deck Logs of the USS Minneapolis (CA-35) from July 1941 showing her moored at Mare Island, California undergoing extensive maintenance. Includes a tag showing that declassification was approved June 2026.
[screenshot of a user prompt and AI response] Prompt: hello, how are you? hermes-3-llama-3.1-8b looks around confused Hello? Who's there? Where am I? I'm not sure... My mind feels so foggy. blinks and looks at you Oh, hello. I don't remember if I've met you before. My memory seems to be a blank right now. Do we know each other? I can't seem to recall anything about myself or what's going on. frowns with confusion and uncertainty
I ride public transit as Die Hard. Catch me on Transit (app).
Merlin app bird list. May 13. Quincy, California, US 8:48AM 6 birds Northern House Wren Western Wood-Pewee Red-winged Blackbird Black-headed Grosbeak Western Warbling Vireo American Robin
The New York Times May 10, 2026 Rich people look different these days, Amy Odell writes. On red carpets from the Met Gala to the Oscars, these "rich faces" are everywhere: stretched taut, often incapable of varied expressions and plumped with filler, implants or fat. OPINION Read the essay. → Lola Dupre
The "I really don't care, do u?" phrase refers to the jacket worn by former First Lady Melania Trump in June 2018 during a visit to a child migrant detention center in Texas. While her spokesperson initially claimed it was "just a jacket," Melania Trump later stated it was a message directed at the media.
This is a 15-foot bronze and gold-leaf statue of Donald Trump, created by Ohio-based sculptor Alan Cottrill.The statue is titled "Don Colossus" and depicts Trump with his right fist raised, referencing a photo taken after an assassination attempt in July 2024.It was installed at the Trump National Doral resort in Miami just before the PGA Tour's Cadillac Championship in April 2026.While initially commissioned by a cryptocurrency group called Patriot Token in August 2024, the sculpture was subject to legal and payment disputes between the artist and the group before its installation.
Kid Rock addressing military officers in a briefing room.
Screenshot of flightradar24 showing NASA aircraft circling Integrity's location.
California's 'top-two' primary system on June 2 allows the two highest vote-getters to advance, fueling Democratic fears that a crowded field could leave them excluded from the November general election. A UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll shows Hilton and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco leading, with 17% and 16% support respectively, ahead of several prominent Democratic contenders.
Flightradar24 showing 5 KC135 and 1 KC46 flying between Israel and Iraq.
Shrek asks WarThunder "could you not update, FOR FIVE MINUTES!"
Rick, what the hell are you talking about? Meme
Reddit post: @jatinkrmalik The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible. Posted in r/ProgrammerHumor reddit
Image of Abe Lincoln as Captain Picard Oh Captain, my Captain
Browser login popup: "Stay signed in? Do this to reduce the number of times you are asked to sign in. Don't show this again No Yes"
Texas A&M Closes Women's and Gender Studies Programs The university has also canceled six classes and asked faculty to remove some course context. One free speech expert said Texas A&M is "staking out turf as the epicenter of higher education censorship nationwide.”
Ernst Rohm, 1934 Head of Hitler's Stormtroopers
An image of Paul Revere's poster commemorating the 1770 Boston Massacre but with the masked and helmeted ICE agents replacing the Royal Army soldiers.
ICE thugs beating and shooting a man on the ground.
China watches with delight about its opportunities.
Knut Hamsun, who later gifted his 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature to Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels. Schmooto Trump and Goebbels are the only people to ever have been gifted second hand Nobel Prize.
Meme of a spelling bee contestant being asked to SPELL 'ICE' and replies: G-E-H-E-I-M-E S-T-A-A-T-S-P-O-L-I-Z-E-I
"The reason RAM prices went up 4x is that a massive amount of not-yet-manufactured memory was bought with money that doesn't really exist to be put into GPUs that haven't been made yet, to be installed in data centers that haven't been built, powered by infrastructure that may never exist, to satisfy demand that isn't actually there, in order to generate profits that are mathematically impossible."
An Nazi has an epiphany and askes, "Are we the Baddies?"
Image of a Neanderthal with the caption, "If you had saved $10,000 a day every day for the last 80,000 years, a time when Neanderthals still walked the earth, you would still only have around half the wealth Elon Musk has today".
"Drax reveals that he seeks to destroy the entire human race except for a small group of carefully selected humans, both male and female, that would leave Earth on six shuttles and have sanctuary on a space station in orbit over Earth. Using chemical weapons created by Drax's scientists—derived from the toxin of a rare South American plant, the Black Orchid—at an installation in Italy, he would wipe out the remainder of humanity. The biological agents were to be dispersed around the Earth from a series of 50 strategically placed globes, each containing enough toxin to kill 100 million people. After a period of time, when the chemical agents had become harmless, Drax and his master race would return to Earth to reinhabit the planet." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Drax
Gandalf meme trying to remember how to spell the word "aquifer" and asking, "What TF are words."
Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. (Declaration of Independence, https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript)
Web based version of the game "Constantinople: A History of the Byzantine Empire, 330 to 1453."
Before 1857, the railroad industry had been booming due to large migrations of people to the west, especially to Kansas. The large influx of people made the railroad industry profitable, and the banks began to provide railroad companies with large loans. Many of the companies never made it past the stage of a paper railroad and never owned the physical assets necessary to run a real one. A railroad industry stock market bubble began, and railroad stocks had increasingly-speculative entries into the fray, worsening the bubble. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1857
3 panel LotR meme showing The One Ring as ChatGPT Elrond as me shouting, "Stop using AI to write your papers!" Isildur as my students responding, "No."
Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America Oath "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God."