Trash Mountain

While as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

Trams are cool.

On this date in 1946, Harold Dahl claimed a man in a dark suit warned him not to discuss his Maury Island UFO incident from the previous day, creating the foundations of the Men in Black mythos.

So cool to see the business end of a heavy icebreaker when it is out of the water! - USCGC Polar Star in Seattle

It could be that the entire purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.

Cuck Fuckerburgs's yacht in Seattle, with cruise ship for scale.

Russia hit the Pechersk Lavra monastery last night. Built in 1051, the Eastern Orthodox monastery is a UNESCO world heritage site. Firefighters put out the blaze this morning and discovered the remains of a shahed drone engine on the roof.

Safeguard also controlled 4 Remote Sprint Launch sites. Designed to intercept ICBMs coming over the North Pole, the Sprint was a 2nd-to-last line of defense to protect North Dakota's Minuteman missile fields. Sprint carrier a 1-kt neutron warhead and accelerated to Mach 10 in about 5 seconds.

I'm a pretty lucky guy to get to see weird things I never thought I'd get to see with amazing people I never could have imagined I'd get to meet.

The Tiger I was the best tank of World War 2 and other jokes you can tell yourself

Real Stonehenge vs PNW Stonehenge

Did you know I have a youtube channel?

80 years ago today, physicist Louis Slotin triggered a deadly radiation burst by hand while experimenting with a plutonium sphere at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The core was part of two fatal criticality accidents and was eventually dubbed the "Demon Core."

Straight out of SimCity, one of the coolest buildings I've ever seen. The Waste Thermal Treatment Plant ZTPO is the largest waste-to-energy in Poland, handling 220,000 tons of waste annually, producing 65k MWh of electricity and 280k MWh of district heating. Waste ash is used to build roads.

At long last.

Snaking through banded hills of green and gold is the village of Sułoszowa. The 1st historical mention dates to 1315. In the 14th century, King Casimir III built a castle called Pieskowa Skała on the edge of the village, along with fortifications to protect a trade route from Kraków to Silesia.

A year ago, I was cruising down across Poland in a RHD diesel Jeep when this spacey-looking building appeared out of the fog. I cannot begin to articulate the level of agony my ADHD-addled brain endured by being exposed to so many oddities and curiosities, without any time to investigate.

Afternoon in Rynek Główny

"It's not a war."

"Jet Kiss" Two A-4 Skyhawks underground in Cap Hill.

He's still there.

Loafin' around in my буханка. Encountered this guy while I was dodging trams in a rental car, only to come across him parked near Nowa Huta. Of course only now do I learn that it is owned by a guy who guides tours of Soviet architecture.

I love bridges. There is a particular thrill to discovering an interesting bridge I didn't know existed simply as it comes up on the roadway. Really wishing the skies hadn't immediately closed up as soon as I discovered this bridge that carries the S7 roadway over the River Vistula.

The English Electric Lightning was designed for one task: kill Soviet bombers before they reached Britain. It had a unique, ungainly, appearance, but the British have always demonstrated a knack for beautifully gonzo and strikingly grotesque-looking aircraft that performed mightily.

Imagine a city where the transit corridor is also an urban meadow, or a lush tunnel of greenery. We could do cool stuff, we just choose not to.

Goddamn wikipedia nerds keep deleting my photo lol

The McBarge was a floating McDonald’s built for Expo 86 in Vancouver. Designed as a futuristic, floating attraction, it served visitors during the fair but was abandoned afterward. It became a curiosity known for its decaying, retro appearance. Eventually it sank into the Fraser River in 2025.

TODAY IS THE DAY! The cross-lake Link connection is finally open!

Only one more day until the 2 Line opens in its entirety, linking Seattle and Bellevue. World's first train over a floating bridge!

This 747 is being reassembled between twin apartment towers in Seattle. When it's completed, I am going to have to make walking underneath it a weekly activity!

This door inside Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant still gives me the creeps.

Post-snow clarity and the most beautiful city in the United States

It never ceases to amaze me how quick a vessel the size of a skyscraper can be.

It's an ugly planet. A 𝙗𝙪𝙜 planet. A planet hostile to life as we...

Concorde G-BOAD flew more hours than any other Concorde, 23,397 hours in total. It also set the record for the fastest transatlantic flight: JFK → Heathrow in 2h 52m 59s. Supersonic travel at its peak. ✈️🔥

USS Nimitz steaming out of Puget Sound for the last time and into history as she departed for decommissioning today

USS Nimitz aircraft carrier set to depart Puget Sound for the last time ever tomorrow. For those interested, the ship is headed out to the east coast for deactivation and eventual scrapping. Carriers usually come and go at high tide so it'll likely be around 7am.

US Department of Transportation GP-9 005, put out to pasture at the Pueblo test track while Pikes Peak rises in the distance

Many of you know exactly this feeling. Filled with regret for not staying longer or returning sooner. Forever grateful for the time spent and the incredible friends made through the connection to this place. Heartache most for those who lost their livelihoods and passions here.

Hospital ship USNS Mercy is currently headed to Portland, Oregon for another 6 month overhaul at Vigor Shipyards, which has an $89 million contract for work from March 20 to late September. Hope I can catch her passing through Astoria!

Some of my favorites from the Northwest Scale Modelers Show in Seattle... M-21 TAGBOARD (just like the real deal above it), the NSEA Protector from Galaxy Quest...

Wreck of the MV Olympic ferry, abandoned on the north end of Ketron Island.

Tupolev Tu-142 Bear F, the anti-submarine warfare variant of the Soviet Union's iconic long-range Tu-95 strategic bomber.

A Legend arrives in Seattle USCGC Waesche (WMSL-751) large National Security Cutter entering Elliott Bay. This is the first Legend-class I've seen visit the city!

INCREDIBLE working recreation of a Chernobyl control panel by my friend Alex, who painstakingly researched, beautifully built, and artfully captured on video the entire construction from start to finish www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDlr... - amazingly done in darkness with bombs going off!!!

The MiG-21 Project is an art exhibition by South African-born artist Ralph Ziman. It consists of a former Polish Air Force MiG-21 fighter entirely covered (inside and out) with tens of millions of glass beads, currently on display at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington.

She'll do .5 past lightspeed.

January sunsets in Seattle

Antonov An-124 near Seattle today - Kherson is the name of a Ukrainian city where russians currently hunt civilians with weaponized drones