Variegated fritillary in my garden today

you know, there isnt much id say i love about living in alabama. But one thing i would say i love is that my backyard is becoming an alive place with birds overhead and a corner with a natural umbrella (sweet gum tree), thats centerpieced by two long leaf pine trees.

Reports from amateur radio (7143.00)- couple of good ole boys talking about how there won't be anything on the shelves in a week, and praying that food prices don't skyrocket.

In the midst of a mild existential crisis of how i can do security, while *gestures wildly* is happening. I discovered the one native tea that grows in america and has caffeine, yaopon holly. So what did I do? I went out back and harvested some and made my own tea w/ it. cc @elcannibal.bsky.social

someone at work today had the gall to suggest to me that "citizens united was a red herring"

Pearl crescent

Had a radical idea for a project today, going to focus on getting a horse trough bog to plant pitcher plants in.

Great thread on this hearing. The level of catch 22 BS from the DOJ is astonishing. If I’m getting this right their position is that individual habeas cases have to be filed in right jurisdiction for each person. But they don’t have to tell us where anyone is held, so good luck with that.

This is a story about naked ambition disguising itself as incompetence.Hegseth made sure that there was a story beyond just the boring story of bombing houthis- he's making sure that he gets screen time,which is ultimately all that this administration cares about. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This is my pride and joy right now, and its a damn good place to work.

Trying to figure out if ive rebuilt the echo chamber of twitter enough that im comfortable with, or if trump is really that much of a constitutional conundrum. Lets be honest, its a little column a and a whole lot of column b.

***UPDATE*** I hate being right about things. #OSINT What looks like the first photos of China’s ‘invasion barges’ we first reported in naval news recently www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2... The front barge (self propelled) is the smallest type, some are twice this size

intercepted a message for an airline- "THIS IS INTERESTING... I ASKED 862 WHERE OFFSET TOOK PLACE .. IT WAS BETWEEN TAIWAN AND JAPAN AND.... ATC SAID: THE CHINESE NAVY AND JAPAN NAVY WERE GOING AFTER EACH OTHER ON GUARD (AS AN EXERCISE, OF COURSE)"

The story of a dipshit named dudek, elevated to acting head of the SSA and how he gave away access to the highest bidder. (Musk) democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

Musk has years of Kompramat in the form of DMS over the entire republican party.

'how quickly they forget' the trump motto

The list includes the headquarters of the FBI, the DOJ, the USDA, HUD, HHS, DOL, DOE, FAA, GSA, FTC, State, ACF, and the VA. It also includes the Court of Military Appeals, the building housing the DC Public Defender Service, the Diplomacy Museum, and the literal goddamn steam tunnels.

I;m waiting for the call for executions

Bulletproof windows, but not against the might of some plastic beads

hmmm...

NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.

Let it be

Just watched a lady straight up steal several pieces of cutlery from the amex lounge in Atlanta. The hell is wrong with people?

Amateur Radio Listening: On the shitshow at the whitehouse today: "At least the democrats are upset. Hehehehe."

new orleans boos the department of homeland security

why don't you wear a suit?

It's time to call it. AI is built on a house of cards of intellectual property violations starting with Facebook which is starting to look a lot like a crime scene as held back discovery documents begin to be compelled and unsealed in court. /1

There's a chinese warship that's live firing off the coast of australia, apparently. AES:C81D80 GES:50 2 .ZK-OKN FLIGHT NZ133 M52ANZ0133ALOG/----/ 0001NZAAYMMLANZ133 HI LOTS OF CHATTER ON 121.5 INCLUDING CHINESE NAVY. SAME POS AND HT/RADIUS AS YOU ADVISED. CHEERS JOHN, 40547/

Amateur Radio on Trump's Muskrat Social Security Revelations: In the same breath, talking about how the government took back the social security because she died. Some folks are allegedly hiding dead bodies to get the checks. "I'm not a smart man" Yeah bud, You didn't have to tell me.

Our parents parents would be rolling in their graves

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

water.noaa.gov#@=-87.629294... If your in Kentucky , TN, or MS be aware of flood waters rising overnight.

Nat No2 callsign on a stratotanker. If youll pardon the speculation, I think this is and others are an example of slipping standards when it comes to callsigns

Wow. Schoolyard bully indeed.

This baby is veritably transparent he's so thin skinned.

Privacy of mental Health information is important, more now than ever.

"my niece is smoking hot" also amateur radio

7188 hole in the wall net- Lots of dudes just ragchewing.

jesus, overheard on amateur radio. "I've started trying to ween myself off asthma and replacing it with ivermectin." This guy was clearly weezing, and suffering from it.

Compliment dudes out in the wild with zero regard if youre a guy. Did you notice what someone is wearing? Compliment them. Does a lot to stir up conversations and bridge the communication deficiency as a single dude.

Before web.archive.org/web/20241221... After web.archive.org/web/20250210...

Large portions of the EPA ecoregions maps have just straight up been removed.

Listening to a pleasant little thursday check in for the baldwin county EOC net. Damn right pleasant.

Guys on Amateur Radio: Calling for summary executions for anyone seeking to limit or restrict their dear leaders and dear elon's power. I wish I could talk to these clowns.

still boggles my mind that this information is just out there. This is a weatherfax over the air 4235

A gentleman on the amateur radio bands was unironically talking about how his daughter (who was a wildlife biologist) was worried to tears about being fired from USWS by trump officials and in the same breath he was praising the take over of USAID, but they wont dare touch The medicare, he's sure.