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Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 37m

“This series has really been about…baseball.”

-Rick Monday on the Dodgers radio broadcast

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Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 2h

My reaction to the Anglicans doing another schism

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 3h

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 2h

Bastiat updating the story of the broken windows to be about Brazilian and aces and synthetic pubes

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 19h

the year is 2030. a doctor solemnly informs you that you have plastic in your testicles bc millions of people persuaded by celebrity marketing bought synthetic pubic hairs that were eventually consumed by fish that you ate

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Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 3h

Am I right to assume Individuals 1 and 2 are his wife and daughter?

Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 4h

Excellent news @dctrojan.bsky.social @hulcricket.bsky.social

USC rejects Trump education compact aimed at shifting the university to the right

The University of Southern California had rejected the controversial education compact the Trump administration offered it and eight other schools.

www.latimes.com

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Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 4h

Penn State should hire proven top-level winner Bill Belichick

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

lol.

LMAO, even.

Case 1:25-cr-00244-SLS
Document 69 Filed 10/16/25 Page 1 of 2
CO 109A - Rev. 3/2010
UNITED STATES DISTRICT AND BANKRUPTCY COURTS
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
VS.
Civil/Criminal No.:
25CR244-SLS
SYDNEY LORI REID
NOTE FROM JURY
Judge,
We have reached a verdiet.
Date: 10-16-2025
Time: Q1: 35 pm

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
:
:
:
Case No. 25-CR-244 (SLS)
....
VERDICT FORM
As to the charge of Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers, we, the jury in the
above-captioned case, unanimously find the defendant, Sydney Reid:
X
_Not Guilty

Guilty
Foreperson Signature
10-16-2025
Date

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Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 5h

Rex Ryan’s new favorite site

SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 5h

Sorry to report there is a website that takes an image of a woman and uses AI to expand it so you can see her feet.

Original: AI edit:

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Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 6h

AYFKM? Benioff doesn’t even live in San Francisco (or California!) any more and he’s pulling this crap?

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Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 7h

10 years? Wow

Chris Perfett @perfett.bsky.social · 7h

Happy tenth anniversary to all those who celebrate

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Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 7h

How filthy is it possible for a minivan used by a family of 6 to get? VERY filthy when you forget to clean it for weeks, it turns out

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Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 9h

Insanity. Sheer insanity. www.latimes.com/california/s...

72 peaks. 31 days. One mountaineering legend: Kilian Jornet's mind-blowing mountain marathon

Even the most experienced mountaineers are stunned that Kilian Jornet could climb so many 14,000-foot peaks in such a short time.

www.latimes.com

Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 9h

Did Marshall and Akron write this

Henry Bushnell @henrybushnell.bsky.social · 10h

News: a U.S. Soccer-led committee proposes a shake-up of college soccer.

The recommended men's model would override current conferences, include an element of pro/rel, and extend the season fall-spring.

Spoke with Cindy Parlow Cone, JT Batson + others, and dove in @theathletic.com:

With college soccer ‘at risk,’ U.S. Soccer pushes for overhaul – but not without resistance

Promotion and relegation could be part of radical plans to overhaul American college soccer

www.nytimes.com

Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 9h

Reason commenters, never clearing even the lowest bar

Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 10h

An ICE agent argued that taking upskirt photos of a flight attendant wasn’t a crime because he was sneaky. Um, no, says the 11th Circuit, which upheld his conviction reason.com/2025/10/16/i...

ICE agent who took upskirt photos of flight attendant says it wasn’t a crime because he was sneaky

Billy Olvera's "clandestine video voyeurism," as his lawyer would later describe it, took place while he was on duty as a deportation officer.

reason.com

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Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 9h

MFer tried to overthrow the government because he saw a brown person behind the gates in Covenant Hills who wasn’t a gardener or nanny

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Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 9h

lol OF COURSE Russ Taylor of all freaking people is like “how did everything become political”

James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 12h

incredible stuff

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Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 16h

For understandable reasons you might not be on Facebook. But I would be remiss if I didn’t share this FB reel of Vin Scully from 2020 talking about Kirk Gibson in the 1988 World Series. ALWAYS watch/listen to Vin. www.facebook.com/reel/8333995...

29K views · 1K reactions | The great Vin Scully tells a story about the night Kirk Gibson hit his historic World Series HR on this day in 1988! #MLB #Dodgers #Postseason | Baseball by BSmile

The great Vin Scully tells a story about the night Kirk Gibson hit his historic World Series HR on this day in 1988! #MLB #Dodgers #Postseason

www.facebook.com

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Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 18h

Suddenly remembered the time my group mercilessly heckled Lake Superior State defenseman Ryan Reid at a game at the old Goggin. Why did LSSU’s roster website list their players’ biggest fears? And why were their players honest about it? I’ll never know.

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Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 19h

They’ve already blocked you

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Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 20h

/screams READ ANOTHER BOOK at Harry Potter stans back in like 2005
//monkey’s paw curls

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 20h

My super modern regulatory plan is that any entity named for a thing from Tolkien has to publicly explain why Tolkien wouldn’t immediately throw it into Mount Doom

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 1d

Tolkein continues to resonate. The new bank being set up by Palmer Luckey and backed by Peter Thiel is named Erebor after the “lonely mountain” in The Hobbit. This was also an interesting line in this rpt on the new bank by @tabbykinder.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/202d...

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Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 20h

I have important news bsky.app/profile/shit...

falco @shitrock.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe I’m saying/typing this but Ella just informed me that her mother is a ball point pen thief

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Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 20h

Is it really that hot to say James Worthy was better?

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Mike Ensminger Fan Account @laplanck.bsky.social · 21h

Never letting my daughter pick the music on the way back from her acting class again

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