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The Free State
Joined April 2007
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LIVE RADAR: I just got a message from a follower that told me she had her Jetblue flight from Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale diverted due to this mess over Southern Florida. The pilot tried, doing several circles over the Everglades, but no luck. She also experienced severe turbulence, with people throwing up on the plane. These storms are no joke, from above (and on the ground). Multiple flash flood warnings are in effect.
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This is what it looks like flying into a 51kt headwind at about FL030 yesterday....just about hovering.... #SkyHawkSunday
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i've fucking found this, the one time i go to visit my family i see shit like this, genuinely cool idea tho
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Abdul forgot to set his clock back an hour, and blew up an hour early. Don’t be like Abdul.
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Florida has more feet of beer snake than they do points tonight
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This pilot wins Best Halloween costume ever… 😆
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I'll be sad to leave Florida tomorrow... If I had daily access to a place like this i'd be a lot happier in general, that's for sure. What a beautiful slice of the world you guys have ❤️
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This maneuver never ceases to blow my mind 🤯
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The sun is out today with the Vice City blimp cruising the skies of Miami🌴
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Wild police chase on the water today!🛥️🌊😳| #ONLYinDADE
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Half of Miami is living off generational wealth. The other half is trying to fuck its way into it.
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Story to disappear from legacy media in 5 ... 4 ... 3 .......
This is who just shot 11 people at the A&M University's homecoming on Saturday in Tallahassee Anthony Rivers is only 15 years old Lock away his parents
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No matter the weather we landing it
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Replying to @shaunvlog_
Dallas Stars had a player die in a game, get revived off the bench, and try to get back in the game. Doesn't get tougher than Texas.
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Florida roads have a new sub-apex predator, and it's not the gator. It's the two-wheeled turbo tweaker on a stolen e-bike, doing forty on a sidewalk with a Busch Light in one hand and a glass pipe in the other, teeth flapping in the wind like tiny white flags defying gravity. 🦷 You used to hear the old-school meth bicycle coming. That sad, creaky, one-speed death trap with the bent rim and the missing pedal. You had thirty feet of warning. Now? Silent... Subsonic... A blur of sweatpants and regret that materializes out of a Publix parking lot like it was beamed in from a parallel dimension where physics is just a suggestion and the DMV gave up years ago. And the trail... Oh, the trail... Not exhaust, not smoke. Just a faint shimmer in the air behind them, like heat rising off asphalt, except it's not heat. It's the collective dreams of everyone who ever trusted them with anything. They don't signal. They don't look. They don't even appear to be in the same reality as the rest of us. One guy nearly took out a whole family of tourists near a theme park last week. The dad said it looked like Hunter Biden pedal tweaking towards a paint supply store. These guys have the impulse control of a toddler who found the candy drawer. They treat crosswalks like decorative suggestions and pedestrians like NPCs in a video game they downloaded off a sketchy website. There should be a law. No person under the influence of anything stronger than sunscreen should be allowed to operate a vehicle that exceeds five miles per hour. Make it a felony. Make it a state holiday. Call it Turbo Tweaker Awareness Day and give everybody a free t-shirt that says "I survived the sidewalk." 👕 Because at this point, the only thing standing between Florida and total anarchy is a guy in a lifted truck who happens to be paying attention. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is not a safety plan. That's a prayer. 🙏🤦🏻
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That crab isn't waving.... He's pointing northeast with the big claw and telling that tourist the same thing the rest of us have been saying since the first plane landed in mid-October! "Get the hell out. Take your sandwich, your slides, and that orange shirt and go back where you came from. Right now." 👉 Guy's sitting there waving like he just made a friend. Crab's over there doing the claw equivalent of exit only, that way, immediately. No smile. No greeting. Just clear directions back to the rental car and the airport... Florida crabs don't do meet-and-greets with people who treat the beach like a picnic table. They just point. 🦀➡️
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How slow can an F-16 fly? About this slow, and why not smoke bomb the blues while we're at it 🤣
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Polish jokes just don’t seem right anymore. They’re smarter than all of us 🤷🏻‍♀️
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We have robot dog walkers now🤖🐕💀| #ONLYinDADE
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I'm glad the sun finally came out because this skinny ass cracker right here was freezing!
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