C) for Secret santa gift for @/SebastianMkIII Requested by @/EmberKeeper

🗣️ Starbucks workers have been on strike FOR NEARLY AS LONG AS WE WERE SHUT DOWN I remember the stress I felt as the days wore on, yet I can only imagine how it must feel for these baristas! These workers deserve better pay and better hours. Period. Return to the table, corporate cowards!

MILP - man I love pickles

It feels like all too many people are still unaware 🗣️ STARBUCKS BARISTAS HAVE BEEN ON STRIKE FOR OVER A MONTH DO NOT BUY STARBUCKS "Yeah, but my store's not striking" "My stores non-union" DO NOT BUY A N Y STARBUCKS PRODUCT ALL STORES ARE A "STRIKING STORE"

GOD FUCKING DAMNIT GOD AYGH FUCKING

Can you 👈 believe 🌈 it guys 👨😇👍? Christmas 🔥🎄, just a week 📅📆🚫 away 😐. Christmas 👄🎅🎁 is in a week 📅! Woohoo! I 👁 am so happy 😊 about 💦 this information ℹ. Christmas 🌲🎅🏼🎁! Just a week 🗓 away 😂, oh 🙀 wow 🙀. Can you 👈 believe 🙏 it? Christmas 🎄🎅! Just in a week 📅! It got 🍸 here so fast 🏃🛬⚡! Christmas 🎄!

I am REALLY lost as to how a car ended up falling off a truck CROSSED A BRIDGE and landed on the BART tracks

"There's something missing...."

Solidarity to our striking baristas in Atlanta, GA! We're 15 days into our national ULP strike 💪 Baristas are on strike in over 65 cities, demanding: higher pay, better hours, & an end to union busting. Until Starbucks brings us NEW proposals, you’ll see us on the picket line. #NoContractNoCoffee

Hurricane Melissa, Oct. 2025. Breaking through the eyewall of one of the strongest Category 5 storms in history. 250+ mph winds, extreme turbulence, and dangerous g-forces — but this is the moment we’ve trained for. 🎨: @zorrito.bsky.social

There's two games my group does not play anymore Machi Koro and this

Rather than address how & why politics has infected the FAA, the WaPo suggests waving a magic wand with privatization & making it all go away. In this administration, where pardons are for sale, this is not a smart idea. Far cheaper to remove politics. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I have had an expensive bottle of SOMETHING WITH BUBBLES chilling since January for when IT HAPPENS.

Any pilot who allows this on board is a piece of shit.

They weren’t 18 or 19! They were GROWN men fucking 15 year olds.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Good grief. There were 23 stopgap funding bills for the FAA starting in 2008. Funding cuts have hit the agency for decades, including pauses on hiring of….wait for it….air traffic controllers. This committee will do nothing more than performative politicking about flight safety.

the government has reopened

The Federal Aviation Administration is completely in thrall to DOT. The FAA Admin is nothing more than Sean Duffy’s assistant at this point. He must be back in the office waiting for the boss to let him speak.

I can not stress enough how wrong it is to politicize flight safety. Last summer at OshKosh FAA Admin Bedford said no one in the Biden admin cared about aviation; now we have this from Duffy. This attitude turns safety into a concept to be owned for political gain. It’s dangerous & pathetic.

If you've got clear skies to the north tonight, you'll most likely be able to catch a glimpse of the aurora from most anywhere in the US! Really popping off tonight!

Why is Trump going after America's air traffic controllers, today of all days? It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."

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Not only do I never, ever want any of DJT's dirty money Making him mad is more happiness than $10,000 could ever get me

Okay, since I've seen similar questions about stuff like this multiple times in the last couple weeks, I'm going to make a thread explaining it. /1

(we see him)

Oh no, the gen Z airline pilots have arrived.

And that's record broken 42 Staffing Triggers #FAA #ATC #aviation #avgeek #shutdown

For reference, last week's was a new record (at least for during the shutdown) 39 facilities with staffing triggers No surprise, as it was Halloween

My smallest real complaint about AI? I am a fan of em and en dashes, and using then correctly over hyphens I even went as so far as to memorize the ALT code for them ALT + 150 ALT + 151 Now I can't use them — I'll be branded a slop-partaker! RIP dash usage 2017–2025

Again, for those that have the time to keep up. nasstatus.faa.gov It's real easy to make assumptions. I was a controller at ZTL (Atlanta Center) for 25 years and I can't tell you them implications of every detail. But I can point you towards the data the FAA releases. (More in the remarks)

In what is now the LONGEST shutdown in history, myself, along with controllers across the US, have been volunteering to make the public more aware of ATC'ers and our struggles If you see folks with yellow shirts at the airport, come talk to us, ask us questions, take a pamphlet, spread the word ♥️

You "ease pressure" by paying them and FINALLY staffing up to proper numbers. (Like - hire more controllers than you think you need so that there are plenty of students in training. And then keep hiring controllers for YEARS so that retirements don't cause perpetual staffing crises.)

The Speaker of the House is getting paid not to work while the NTSB team heading to the crash site in Kentucky is not. Mike Johnson needs to call the House back in session or get his ass down there and shift some wreckage. He needs to experience what dedicated federal employees do for a living.

It’s a tough day for all of aviation, but cargo pilots especially. I found out from my mom, who had endearing and supportive things to say. 💜

My thoughts are with my family, friends, and coworkers at UPS and Louisville tonight UPS2976 was a flight I've worked many times, and it fills me with sorrow to know I won't be talking to them on this mid Wishing my colleagues at the NTSB best of luck with their investigation

I worked hard on this one. It’s old school aviation writing; a deep dive into what happened in the last attempt at an ATC upgrade (NextGen) and why the FAA & DOT need to talk about it. I go all the way back to 60s in how we got here - no paywall! leehamnews.com/2025/11/04/a...

I mean, straight 4's is almost perfect but I think: Ham Au Gratin Stuffing Cranberries Carrot Cake Gravy Hawaiian Rolls I still got a buck leftover so I could swap Carrot Cake for Pecan Pie buttttt Carrot Cake secretly a goated offering

Opinion: Alaska Airlines Will Kill the Hawaiian Airlines Branding Within Two Years (And Why That Matters) avgeeks.aero/opinion-alas...

A key point I address in my latest newsletter is how the conversation on modernizing/upgrading Air Traffic Control has not changed in 60+ years. To prove that, I pulled headlines & excerpts from articles back to 1967. /1 colleenmondor.substack.com/p/34-we-need...

Good morning

Right now, the US has easily the most staffing triggers I have ever seen in one plan A whopping 39 separate facilities and areas have a below minimum number of staff available to operate normally and initiatives are being put in to mitigate that and ensure continuous safe operations #aviation #ATC

hope my costume isn’t TOO spooky, but went with the scariest thing to see on a train platform!!! 😱

Happy Halloween! 🎃

Streamers proclaim "No Politics!" and "We're here for the planes!" Frankly, you are not immune to the reality of a situation, and your participation is perpetuation. I ask #avgeeks, spotters, #aviation enthusiasts, when you see these planes, turn your cameras away, cover your lenses. No free ads.

They were already working mandatory overtime and now they are working unpaid as well. It is in unrealistic to not expect severe degradation in flight safety under these circumstances.

I am seeing more advertisements for Walther’s railroad-themed trading cards in model train videos on YouTube, and no thank you ❌ (Also I’m pretty sure the logo for this product is AI generated? Really adds to the overt cash grab vibe)

Chiitan started working on washing the plan✈️Going well. 飛行機を洗うお手伝いですっ☆向いてるかもしれませんっ☆

I'm working on an article for @leehamnews.com about why NextGen, the most recent ATC upgrade plan, failed after costing ~$15 billion. Important context: a string of upgrade failures preceded it, going all the way back to the 1970s. I'll talk about this in my next newsletter also - out this week.

Today is International Day of the Air Traffic Controller. Marking the anniversary of the founding of the International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Associations, we celebrate the hard work of tens of thousands of ATCOs ensuring the safety of the skies. #ATCODay