We keep telling them and they keep not listening: don't fuck with the mighty Hawg.

This fucking world, I swear to FSM. Albert Schweitzer said "There are two sources of refuge from the misery of the world: music and cats." *puts on headphones and grabs the floofs*

Some more pix from today's flight.

Cherokee 16412 cleared to land 7L. #avsky

I love KPAN, it's my favorite airport, but godDAMMIT I can NEVER get a good landing on runway 06. 24: butter every time. 06: *thud*.

Genius.

If I have to pay for companionship, then it's pretty clear that I don't actually deserve it.

#Owlkitty vs Golden Skull. Who's your pick?

#LookAndSee (Day 276) #MusicChallenge Godless Promise Mechanism - Look

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

I really need to get my glider add-on. #avsky

Peavey is trying to entice me to buy a Trace Elliot compressor and distortion pedal for my favorite bassist for Krissmiss. I don't think Justin Chancellor needs any help in that department. And it's not like I can justify spending $400 anyway.

The Hounds album METRO has made the album charts in Italy. Here's a track off the album. More Hounds music at the link below! 😁 🔗: open.spotify.com/playlist/6gX... youtu.be/4Atw6MkjvS8?...

TIL that GlaDOS's VA is married to Mundy's (TF2 Snoipah) VA and that strikes me as being supremely hi-larious. Imagine the crossover potential.

Maybe it's just me but if I owned a freaking ISLAND with a private airstrip I'd fly my own little birb to it then X out the runway and tell the rest of the world to stay away, not invite mobs of creeps, weirdos and rapists to join me.

Normally after a day filled end-to-end with abject stupidity, both online and in meatspace, I get Chinese takeout on the way home and snarf the whole thing in one sitting. Tonight, I only ate half and immediately put the rest in the fridge for lunch tomorrow. Please clap.

Figuring out how to update your carry permit after a name change shouldn't require a law degree or wading through hostile forums. Arm the Dolls: Clear firearm guidance for trans people by trans people. 8 states live. More coming. armthedolls.com

Really, Time? "Architects of AI" (sic)? How about you step aaaallll the way back from your POTY nonsense?

My most controversial dessert opinion:

So, did Rubio shitcan Calibri or Cambria? Yez need to get yer shit straight on this.

Kitters for @jhelora.bsky.social

New strings are installed and tuned. Gonna give them a day to settle in before thrashing the fuck out of them with "Acceleration" by Machines of Loving Grace, my favorite break-in track.

I may not be able to solve all (or any) of the world's ills, but I can, through judicious use of profanity and Command Voice, make a home warranty scammer regret his life choices. And I guess that's not nothin'.

Serious question: how do I score a six-figure windfall without being a psychotic piece of shit GFM grifter?

ELI5: why are we treating Polymarket as a legit news source?

Admit it, y'all envy my rig.

I've finally got round to doing a full setup on my bass. To my disappointment, all it needed was a slight intonation adjustment on the E string. Everything else is bang on. Which means any remaining tone issues are all on me.

I'll never fly this beautiful birb IRL, but at least there's this. Thanks, @julietbravofoxmedia.com.

I told my boss, a long-lapsed pilot, about this incident. The first thing he asked was "How widespread was the outage?" "100%," I said. "OK, and they didn't back out the update because?" Gann help us all when the DOD-driven FAA modernization program gets moving.

Chuck straight up spitting FIRE in this episode.

I once told a joke about Icarus and Daedalus but it just didn't land.

The older I get, the less I understand people, and the less I want to understand them.

Such a boi. Such a beeg boi. #catsky

You know what I do when an update doesn't go according to plan? I BACK OUT THE FUCKING UPDATE. Hey, Signature? If you guys need a sysadmin/change management guy who knows what the FUCK he's doing, I'm available. You can pay me $150K worth of 100LL per year.

If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.

Regarding the Signature QTPods card reader network outage: My sysadmin SWAG is that someone fuckered DNS. It's ALWAYS DNS. #avsky

Rat Bat Blue

Maybe the real FIFA Peace Prize was the friends we made along the way.

Now that my bass rig is more or less complete, I need a guitar, preferably a Tele. And then I need a synth. And then I need an electronic drum kit. And then I need a mixing board, a Mac running ProTools, and an SSD NAS for media storage. So what's stopping me? *checks bank balance* Oh. Right.

Yeah, guess who got to deal with this all morning. Guess whose devs screamed when the updates broke their shit.

*rubbing of temples, pinching of bridge of nose* Look, scammers, if you're going to try to scam me, at least make it somewhat believable and entertaining. I still won't fall for your bullshit, but I may be less inclined to eviscerate you if you put at least a little effort into it.

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

In other news, toward the end of my commute tonight, shuffle brought up "Dumb" by Envy Of None (if any of yez haven't heard of them, it's Alex Lifeson's post-Rush project) followed by Portishead's "Numb." I shudder to think what the next track would have been had I not arrived at home.

In Peter Benchley's 1986 novel "Q Clearance," the VPOTUS is described as being so rich that he's incorruptible, can't be bought. ...yeah, think about that. Take all the time you need.

I'm so gorram tired. I can't even work up the energy to enraged by the DC shitshow anymore. All I can do is roll my eyes at all the know-nothing idiots repeating their endless refrain of "THIS time he's going down, fershur fershur rilly!" and "MAGA is in revolt!" and "Mass GOP defections!"