#thirtay three

[emmasincenewyrk]

i’m a day late but happy birthday to this gorgeous gorgeous girl

#taylor swift #taylor swift birthday #thirtay three #happy birthday taylor #taylor swift pictures #taylor swift aesthetic #dr. taylor swift #taylor’s version #swifties #t swizzle #t swift #taylor swift fans #taylor swift lyrics #taylor swift songs #midnights era #posts

[sampagneprobs]

I cannot believe @taylorswift is celebrating her birthday in New Orleans 😭 Taylor if you see this, I live 2 hours away and get off work in half an hour and have supported you since 2010 😭😭😭 happy birthday sissy!

#taylornation #taylurking #happy birthday taylor #thirTAY-three

[darlingifancytaylorswift]

Happy Birth-TAY!!! @taylorswift

You’re thirtay-three now!

@taylorswift

@taylornation

#taylor swift #taylor nation #tay tay #i love you taylor #tswizzle #i love tswift #33 #Taylor nation #taylors version #swifities

[ellagreyswift]

Making the whole place shimmer since 1989.

You are thirtay-three now, @taylorswift. Happy birthday! Thank you for being you. We will always love and support you no matter what. 💖

#taylor swift

[midnightdiscoball]

#taylor swift #lover #christmas three farm #christmas #happy birthday taylor #taylor is thirty!!! #happy thirtay

[nevergettingoutofthewoods]

🎉🥂 HAPPY BIRTHTAYYY 🥂🎉

Three decades ago, the world was blessed with a beautiful, kind and wonderful human. I hope this decade is the most exciting time of your life and brings you so much joy and happiness. Thank you for always being an inspiration in my life

THIRTAY looks amazing on you @taylorswift 💗

[skin--slave]

Answer 21 questions then tag 21 people you would like to get to know a little better. Thanks for tagging me, @sanctifiedreznor !! 💚

Nickname: pretty much whatever.

Real name: Anda, as far as you know.

Zodiac: Aries with Pisces moon and Capricorn rising. (What does that mean? Idk. I'm a mess.)

Height: 5'1"

What time is it? Four-thirtay!! *Spin Doctors plays in the distance* Actually 12:50.

Favorite musician: Marilyn Mansonnnn but also my dad.

Favorite sports team:

Other blogs: yes. Uhm, @evals-niks is my human-ish blog, and I have @beardedmanson , and if you're into it I also have a trauma blog and a satire blog I'd share with good buds.

Do I get asks? yes, bc my buds are the best ever!!

How many blogs do I follow? 237

Any tumblr crushes? Uh, yeah.

Lucky number: Depends on the situation. Am I picking from 3 doors? Guessing a date? Looking for a combination? I need additional information.

What am I wearing right now? Jeans with a broken zipper, Three Sloth Moon t-shirt, mismatched men's tube socks, and the weight of all the good I didn't do.

Dream vacation: Iceland! They have this museum...

Dream car: Kinktomato. If it goes vroom when I want and stops when I want, I'm good.

Favorite food: chocolate and cheesecake and pumpkin spice and tacos and pizza and General Tso's

Drink of choice: whipped cream vodka or toasted marshmallow moonshine

Languages: American, a little Spanish, a little SEE

Instruments: I can play The Old Grey Mare on piano. 😁

Celebrity crushes: Manson, duh. Plus pretty much anyone who makes a gun or guitar look good.

Random fact: When I was a kid I had a white goldfish named Angel (back when goldfish were 3¢). She survived me petting her (bc child), ate a lot of tankmates, grew gigantic, went blind, and eventually died after 9 years. She was a badass fish.

Y'all have probably been tagged by someone else already, but here goes: @himynameiskitty , @dysphorie-dot-png , @tearstotundras , @lazerlust , @posthuman--dead-star , @saintbilliejoe , and whoever wants to play. 💚

#tag game #woohoo #thanks bud

[mirrorballbetty]

@taylorswift every year this decade:

- thirtay

- thirtay one

- thirtay two

- thirtay three

- thirtay four

- thirtay five

- thirtary six

- thirtay seven

- thirtay eight

- thirtay nine

And then so on with fourtay, fiftay, sixtay etc, it’s a never ending cycle from now on taylor.

#taylorswift #taylurking #thirtay

[mysticaltime13]

this is the decade for puns

Thirtay

Thirtay-one

Thirtay-two

Thirtay-three

Thirtay-four

Thirtay-five

Thirtay-six

Thirtay-seven

Thirtay-eight

Thirtay-nine

[tokeepyou-lookingatme]

taylor is thirtay today!!!!!!!! wow!!! only 30 and so successful i’m so lucky to stan the artist and woman of the decade wow so blessed to be alive at the same time as @taylorswift

thank you so much for everything you do, taylor. from writing and creating such relatable music that has helped me so much in the past two-three years, to standing up for smaller artists. i haven’t been a swiftie for long, but i’m so glad i became one! you have enriched my life so much, you make me so happy and proud and you make me feel empowered. hopefully one day i will be able to meet you and tell you how much i love you in person, but until then! i’ll see you in august at lover fest 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

happy thirtayth birthday @taylorswift @taylornation !!!!!!!!!!!!

#text #happybirthdaytaylor #taylor #taylorswift

[theoutsiderswiftie]

THREE YEAR OLD TAYLOR = THIRTAY YEAR OLD TAYLOR

[anaikaadorestaylor]

happy birthday to my favorite person on this planet!! there is no one I would rather plaster the walls of my room with pictures of. you’ve been my favorite singer since as long as I can remember and you’ve truly changed my life. thank you for teaching me so much about kindness, love, work ethic, the music industry, and most importantly: if a man talks shit, then I owe him nothing. you’re artist of the decade because you really really shaped this decade and all of our minds with the music YOU write and your fight for equal rights among creators and the world as a whole. thank you for advocating for all of the right things!! you deserve nothing but the best and I love you with all of my heart! you taught me how to stand up for myself, that i am irreplaceable, i can follow my dreams... but most importantly,,, you taught me what real love and compassion is. I can’t believe you’re turning 30! That’s so crazy to think of all of the massive success you’ve had only in your twenties! I can’t imagine the kind of success you’ll have this coming decade and the rest of time. Basically all of my money the past three years has gone towards you and your magic and I gotta say, I’m pretty happy about that hahah. I love you, you’re invincible, I’ll always be by your side supporting you. 💙✨🦋 #thirTAY #TaylorSwift #13 https://www.instagram.com/p/B6B-pSoHrUI/?igshid=1sknp362jt44c

#thirtay #taylorswift #13

[melswiftie84]

I just want to wish a happy birthday to the biggest pop stars in the world and the mother of three cats @taylorswift today is a big day!!! I hope you are going to create music again and do all you want to do and be happy because you deserve it. You are such an inspiration for millions of people. You say that the old Taylor was dead but she is not dead she s still here but STRONGER we know that no one or nothing is gonna stop you because you rose from the dead you do it all the time!!! ❤️❤️❤️ I love you and heres to the thirtay next years

#taylor swift #swifties

[fapangel]

In which a nice person makes a terrible mistake

So  @colonial-operations​ here asked me to weigh in on this ongoing discussion of the A-10, and since Tumblr is an atrocity in motion the only way to reply is to post on my own blog and just alert him (because tumblr won’t let me alert all the participants, because fuck you and everything you ever loved,) and I guess he can reblog it or whatever. Fuck this site. 

Anyway, I just want to say - I see where y’all are coming from, I get it, but if I have to listen to one more motherfucker spewing shit about how the F-35 is the biggest shitpile ever or how we should totes buy the Super Toucan I’m going to slap Pierre Sprey’s jizz out of your goddamn mouths. 

I get, guys. I really do. When they first announced the F-35 I took them at their word - it’s a ~joint strike fighter~ i.e. the next-gen web 2.0 to the cloooud 100$ airlandinnawoods battle acronym for “multi-role fighter.” In air-to-ground roles that makes it a strike fighter; (the F-15E Strike Eagle being an example of a purpose-built one,) a plane that gets in fast, blows up important shit, and gets out again. It’s the successor and replacement of dedicated slow bombers like the A-6 and A-7; completing a trend started with droop-snoot P-38s and dive-bombing modified F4U Corsairs in WWII; capable against strategic targets (bridges, power stations) and point/tactical targets (swatting individual tanks), and it’s fast and fighter-y so it can zoom around in contested airspace with enemy fighters and SAMs plugging away at it. Cool shit, very nice, etc. But I was upset when they said it’d replace the A-10, because the point of CAS aircraft’s existence is to keep the fancy, expensive planes like the F-35 out of the murderous shooting gallery of the low-altitude SHORAD envelope. 

Check it - the IL-2 was the most produced aircraft in history because so goddamn many of them got shot down. The A-10 itself was expected to be wiped out entirely within the first few weeks of WWIII in Western Europe - they called the pilots “speed bumps.” That’s because down low, every motherfucker with a rifle is shooting at you - even after building a flying tank, you’re guaranteed to take horrible losses. That’s why CAS aircraft - like the A-10 and attack helicopters - are cheap. They must be, to be cost-effective. And they’re kept around because you have to send something into that low-alt shooting gallery because a lot of things you just can’t spot from altitude. I thought the F-35 was the ChairFarce just abandoning the low-alt weedbeating job to the Army, because they had the Apaches and they were better suited for it anyway than a fixed-wing A-10 (which was designed specifically for Cold War Western Europe.) “We’ll still bomb shit with our strike fighters, but we ain’t doing that bird-dog shit no more.”

I was wrong. They meant it when they said they’d keep the mission role, and since flying expensive speedy planes down low is insane, that means they had to do the heretofore impossible, and find the targets from high altitude. So they designed and built a terrifying witch-eye that can see through fucking clouds and hunt down one poor motherfucker from 30,000 feet through overcast skies. Who did this? Lockheed fuckin Martin. Same people that built the F-35.

It’s hard to overstate that this shit works. It can, in fact, actually find shit from high altitude. And then, since it’s an electro-optical targeting system, it can pass that targeting data - electronically - directly to weapons to engage. This isn’t some A-10 shit where the pilot has to twiddle his wee thumbstick to put the crosshairs of the IR Maverick on the tank before he pushes butan - it’s just “camera finds tonk, plane kills tonk.” Technology has fucking evolved since the 90s. The ChairFarce spent about a hojillion fucking dollars to solve this problem, for a reason. And best of all, Lockmart’s next trick was to cram the terrifying, all-seeing witch-eye into the F-35 so it can provide air support anywhere it fucking wants to. The F-15E? it can load the witch-eye, but it can’t do that. Look at Operation Allied Force, and how the fucking road-mobile SA-6s evaded destruction constantly until they finally got lucky and shot down an F-16 - with a 30+ year old obsolete SAM system. You can either play that game, and watch your airstrikes vanish as your JTAC weeps because airspace too dangerous zomg or you can send in the F-15E with proper defenses, which include other Strike Eagles ripple-firing HARMs to suppress the SAMs (at a million bucks a pop), Compass Call jamming aircraft, fighters with missiles to protect all of them from possible enemy air intercept, an AWACS to spot said fighters, fighters to protect the AWACs, and a partridge in a pear tree, and after all that, you have to go home after one or two strikes because you can only suppress the SAM sites for so long. Unless you kill them, in which case do the above three fucking times first, and then do the CAS mission, if the grunts are still alive by then. 

OR YOU COULD JUST SEND A FUCKING F-35. 

So yes, bills-bastards, the anime icon’d fuck was right. The F-35 does do what its supposed to, and the A-10 can’t hack it anymore. Silverfaggot was right-on when he said the fucking things are worn the fuck out and the production line doesn’t exist anymore - hell, we can’t even upgrade them because the pilot-armor bathtub has a single hole in it for cabling, and we’re running so much new cabling through it that it’s causing EM interference. If we want to keep the A-10, we’ll need a next-gen replacement. 

And that’d work! The F-35 will be able to do CAS but that doesn’t mean low/slow weedbeaters are obsolete - you don’t see the Army ditching their Apaches, do you? Fixed-wing CAS can’t hide behind hills, but it can move faster, carry a lot more boom and survive more damage. Plus a new plane could carry the GAU-8, and the gun is awesome. Guns are still awesome. Even with all these ultra-badass smart bombs that can fly loop-de-loops before plowing up some goatherders ass, guns are still more flexible, weight/payload efficient (more strikes in the same weight/volume,) and reliable. Look at the new Harvest Hawk gunships - despite being PGM bombtrucks, they still slapped a 30mm cannon on there for a reason. Or watch some guncam footage of Apaches hunting down Hajis one at at time with their 30mms. Guns rule.

And the GAU-8 rules even more. It doesn’t need to fucking kill tanks - even when it was brand-new, it could only kill some tanks, and from some angles (mainly the rear.) It still kicks ass, because it still kills anything below a tank that’d shrug off most low-velocity 30mm rounds - APCs, IFVs, etc. And in CAS, the high-velocity AP rounds of a GAU-8 fuck their way right through hard cover on point targets, like light bunkers and shit. It also gives the gun impressive (1km+) standoff distance, and an A-10 successor would be built to survive high-threat environments so it could bring that gunfire in close where other gunships don’t dare (like the ACU-130, which is so vulnerable we only fly it at night even against fucking goatherders.)

And you know what? The Air Force sees the wisdom of this - they’re investigating an A-10 replacement after all, because the A-10 has worked so damn well in counter-insurgency roles that they’re like, god damn, if it’s THIS good at the job, imagine a plane like this that ISN’T FIFTY FUCKING YEARS OLD AND DESIGNED FOR A WAR THAT PREDATES THE LAST TWO GAME-CHANGING TECHNOLOGICAL PARADIGM SHIFTS. We have the technology. 

So good on y’alls, keep fighting the good fight and keep on pushing for the THUNDERBOLT III “RAZORBACK” - SON OF JUGG, because what a beautiful beast it’d be. But for the love of fuck, for the love of all that is sweet and holy, STOP spewin the fuckin “eff-thirtay-foive is shee-it it uses dem new-fangled computarz n’ sheeit dun trust’em” before getting indignant over someone calling you out out for being a fucking knuckle-dragging rocking-chair dwelling fudd telling the new platforms to get offer yer lawn. AND STOP DEMANDING WE BUY SOME GLORIFIED FUCKING CESSNA WITH SHITTY PAYLOAD THAT DOES *NOTHING* OUR *VAST FLEET OF ARMED FUCKING DRONES* DOESN’T DO BETTER, FASTER, FOR LONGER, MUCH MORE EFFICIENTLY, WITH NO RISK TO A HUMAN CREW. 

[celebritylive]

Taylor Swift‘s birthday celebrations continue!

The musician, who turned 30 on Friday, was treated to a surprised birthday party from friends and songwriting collaborators Jack Antonoff and Laura Sisk when she joined them for a studio session on Wednesday.

“Walked into the studio to a surprise birthday party from these two @jackantonoff & @sharp_stick – it’s equally wild and cozy to think it was the three of us in a room making a song called Lover here last year.

,” Swift wrote in the caption for a pair of photos from the surprise.

In one photo, Swift sits on a couch in between Antonoff, 35, and Sisk, who each hold a big pink balloon. Swift holds a cake with the words “Happy Birthday” written in icing on top — at least her third birthday cake, as Elvis Duran surprised her with a giant cake at Jingle Ball, and she had another at her holiday-themed birthday party with the faces of her three cats.

The “Lover” singer tagged her brother Austin Swift in the second photo, which showed massive balloons that read “Happy Birthday” crowding the studio space.

Swift celebrated turning “THIRTAY” on the day of her birthday after she performed at Z100’s Jingle Ball at Madison Square Garden with a bash at the Oscar Wilde restaurant in New York City.

View this post on Instagram Walked into the studio to a surprise birthday party from these two @jackantonoff & @sharp_stick – it’s equally wild and cozy to think it was the three of us in a room making a song called Lover here last year.

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RELATED: Taylor Swift Celebrates Her 30th Birthday by Throwing the ‘Most Aggressive Holiday Party’

A source told PEOPLE the following day that Swift was excited about hitting the milestone year.

“Taylor has been very excited about turning 30. She sees it as something positive. She had a dinner bash with friends last night and she had the best time,” the source said.

The “You Need to Calm Down” singer was joined with several of her famous friends for the fete, including fellow Jingle Ball performers Halsey, 5 Seconds of Summer and Camila Cabello, as well as Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, Queer Eye stars Antoni Porowski and Jonathan Van Ness and supermodel Gigi Hadid.

“Honestly spending my 30th with the fans who have made my life what it is at jingle ball, then throwing the most aggressive holiday party known to womankind… I just.. seriously feel so lucky for you all and will spend forever trying to find ways to say thank you. *cries in Christmas tree*,” Swift wrote on Instagram alongside several photos from the bash.

View this post on Instagram Honestly spending my 30th with the fans who have made my life what it is at jingle ball, then throwing the most aggressive holiday party known to womankind… I just.. seriously feel so lucky for you all and will spend forever trying to find ways to say thank you. *cries in Christmas tree*

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RELATED: Taylor Swift Announces She’ll Headline the 2020 Glastonbury Festival for Its 50th Anniversary

The Grammy winner has had a busy start to her 30th year.

She announced just two days after her birthday that she will be headlining the iconic Glastonbury Festival for the event’s 50th anniversary.

“I’m ecstatic to tell you that I’ll be headlining Glastonbury on its 50th anniversary – See you there!

,” she wrote in the Instagram announcement.

Then on Monday, swift walked the red carpet at the premiere for Cats in New York — and she was also spotted walking hand-in-hand with boyfriend Joe Alwyn afterwards. The pair began secretly dating in the fall of 2016.

from PEOPLE.com https://ift.tt/2Z6Xoom

#Celebrity

[delicateparadise]

Dear Taylor,

It feels like just yesterday you were turning twenty years old. Time constantly feels like it’s racing by and keeps going faster and faster. I remember listening to Tim McGraw and Teardrops On My Guitar on the radio and wondering who it was that was singing. Some time later and ten year old me was going with my family to see you at your own concert in ‘07 at a school gymnasium. I couldn’t believe the girl I had listened to on the radio and grown to love and be inspired by was going to be there right in front of my eyes in person. You were amazing and I was having the best time of my life singing and dancing the whole night. After the concert when it was announced you were going to be staying around to meet as many people as you could I was so excited at the thought that I was going to get to meet you! Those almost three hours waiting excitedly was some of the most exciting and nerve wracking times of my life. You were literally (and still to this day) one of the nicest people I’ve ever met in my life💗 The person that had come to be such a big inspiration in my life was standing right there saying hi to me and giving me a hug! To this day I’ve never forgot any of it and it’s still one of the best days in my life💗 I can’t believe it’s already been thirteen years since your debut album and that you’re turning thirtay😉💕 I’m so proud of the woman you’ve become and I’m so lucky to have had you as an inspiration growing up! You inspired me to keep singing and to learn to play the piano with my grandmother! You also inspired me to be a good person. To always give back and be kind. To never let anything anybody may say to you that brings you down get to you. That I can be strong and mean something to people. You’ve been someone that has given me so many great memories with my best friend in the whole world my mom💗 Going to concerts (especially the speech before Clean at the 1989 tour that made my mom and I emotional), listening to your music, and watching your tv appearances and award show performances together!!

You’ve never once strayed from who you are and have always been authentic and true to who you are. You’ve stuck up for other artists and also you’ve stuck up for yourself through difficult times and shown women that, that is something we can do is stick up for ourselves loudly and proudly. You are an amazing person and I’m so excited for your birthday💗🎉💗 @taylorswift

Also congrats on Woman of the Decade!! You deserve it so much and I’m so happy for you💗

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAYLOR🎉🎉💗💗💗💗

-Lauren💕

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