True confession: In the mobile game Sky Cards, I have a personal.goal of catching the DeHavilland Canada aircraft. All of them, if I can manage it. Why? Because in X-Men / Alpha Flight issue 1, Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) flies a DeHavilland aircraft up to where Loki placed the Fire Fountain.

This week!! CHEETAH & CHESHIRE ROB THE JUSTICE LEAGUE #3! Heisting ensues!!

Okay, this is just my day to be freaked out by the news, I guess. I hope you have keywords muted if you don't want to see this shit. #Trump Trump's NSPM-7 directs existing Joint Terrorism Task Forces around the country to pre-crime people who disagree with him. open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...

I just want to grab Hegseth and scream "HAVE YOU NEVER PLAYED A WARGAME!!!" Have, have these buffoons - do these poltroons - I, I, --- apnews.com/article/trum...

Sometimes it looks like the youth are gonna be alright. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Reasonably certain that any aviation information clearly available in the Sky Cards game is no longer classified. Yet, for all that, I still *feel* bound by my oath to not talk about any of it publicly.

I guess you could say the Silver Surfer is Galactus's Renfield.

45 minutes ago at the Broadview, IL, ICE facility. (Video is about 30 min.) I am posting this to give us all hope. Everywhere in this country people, ordinary people just like you, are resisting the secret police who are vanishing people. Folks just like you. www.youtube.com/live/MWTa5r9...

I am reasonably certain that the entire premise of the country I live in is opposed to fascism. Thomas Jefferson said, "When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty." Pretty sure Mr. Jefferson was against fascism.

Hey, use caution: "Federal health officials are warning consumers not to eat certain heat-and-eat beef meatball pasta meals sold at Walmart stores because they may be contaminated with listeria bacteria previously linked to a deadly outbreak.' apnews.com/article/walm...

Oh, hey, happy Stanislav Petrov Day! Never doubt that every single person makes a difference.

I keep forgetting that The 13th Warrior is an adaptation of Eaters of the Dead, until I get to the line in the movie where they SAY "eaters of the dead" and then I remember. Also, I know a LOT more about Ahmed ibn Fadlan now than when I first read that book or watched this movie.

They've lost the 9yos

I started to re-read Cameron Reed's The Fortunate Fall last week and needed to stop because it was too current-events for me. Oof. It is an amazing novel, btw. I highly recommend it. I just found the "post the fall of the post-industrial global civilization" setting to be too real.

On the intersection of "theory of change" and what YOU are good at. (Thematically related to jacobian.org/2023/may/15/... by @jacobian.org .)

Recently I asked someone what actions he's taking to help with an issue he cares about a lot. He said he didn't know what to do -- what he could do that would actually make a difference. What I said helped him, so I wrote it down for others too. harihareswara.net/posts/2025/i...

sorry to be annoying but I would love for this anthology I’m a part of to FUND … and we have 72 hours to reach our goal!! if you like comics and want to see more original slice of life, autobio, and queer comics in the world, sharing + supporting helps!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pow...

Day ten after getting a concussion. I still have a giant painful lump on my head, still have constant headaches, still randomly nauseous, still constantly exhausted. Y'all, I do not recommend bruising your brain, it kinda sucks.

So, mistakes were made. Last night I started watching Threads, the 1980s British film about a nuclear attack on Britain and its impact on Sheffield. I thought, "wow, I haven't seen this one (film about nuclear war) yet! It will be really sociologically interesting, to look back at this time!"

The sum total of my "incipient Rapture" thought was to mentally double-check that my beloved ENT surgeon who keeps me alive is not evangelical. (He is Jewish!)

When playing the mobile game Sky Cards you can see tail numbers and altitudes for aircraft flying over your house and neighborhood. Curious folks can then use the FAA registry to look up the owner. And here is the FAA complaints page. registry.faa.gov/aircraftinqu... www.faa.gov/noise/inquir...

Cheating History kickstarter is live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/che...

a reminder ! also I still have so many of these :)! your support helps me scrap by and also be able to support mutual aid efforts when and where I can ! michiums.bigcartel.com

So, I kept hearing people talk about "The Fourth Turning" theory of history. So I read the dude's book. And .... And it sounds like a cherry-picked dataset designed to support a theory of belief? Anybody actually KNOW whether the data supports this framework??? Smells like pseudoscience to me...

My mother, who is visiting us, just tested positive for covid. Drat.

The 2025 IgNobles are out!!! Need a bit of joy in your life? A bit of hope in humanity? Try the IgNobles! (The IgNobles are a series of humorous prizes awarded each year to real research that sounds silly but actually brodens our understanding of the world.) apnews.com/article/ig-n...

"It not only forbids you to express — even to think — certain thoughts, but it dictates what you shall think, it creates an ideology for you, it tries to govern your emotional life as well as setting up a code of conduct..." -George Orwell, "Literature and Totalitarianism"

"Might as well pay attention because you can't afford free speech" -- Parliament "Think! It ain't illegal yet." -- Funkadelic

Michi is a real person, a friend of mine, and really needs a hand. Anything is appreciated.

Jason is a real person, who I know, and this is a real situation and request for help.

I spent another 7 hours at the pet ER yesterday and Bruno is now hospitalized and very likely in need of surgery (ultrasound to confirm is happening this morning). Please donate if you can and share if you can’t. gofund.me/0afc9bf00

I feel a lot worse today than I did yesterday, why can't injury recovery be a linear process???

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I have been introduced to the YouTube channel Alexander the Okay, who largely discusses engineering successes and failures. I am truly enjoying it! Also, the tripropellant rocket (never used!) is a *nightmare*, holy shit.

A fine is a price. (Credit to @johnrogers.bsky.social for the phrase.) Sooooooo, now we know that if you are willing to pay $3 million dollars per incident, you can massively save money in design and testing by using shitty panels that will blowout in flight. apnews.com/article/boei...

1) I am home from the emergency department. 2) I do not have a brain bleed or skull fracture. 3) I have a massive concussion. 4) Which I got while test-riding a *mobility scooter*, how's that for irony. 5) Three-wheeled vehicles are not very stable, and can flip over.

Last night I watched The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, the 1965 movie. (It's free on YouTube.) And, my goodness, the twisty paranoia of the Cold War felt so familiar to me in ways I'd forgotten. Ways of living that I had internalized as a child and then let go. Claire Bloom is great in it, btw!

Very kind pharmacist is trying to help me fill out the paperwork correctly so I can qualify for the RSV vaccine. I dunno, man, my trachea is 60% open at the BEST of times, going down to 25% open right before surgery - I kinda don't want to get any respiratory bullshit if I can help it.

workerorganizing.org/support/ "We support and train any non-union worker in any industry who wants power and agency at work."

Detailed findings: apnews.com/article/chin... You can collectively organize with your colleagues to tell your employer: "we don't do that here." In the US, the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee gets you in touch with a workplace organizer:

If you work for IBM, Dell, HP, Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Nvidia, Seagate, Intel, Motorola, Amazon Web Services, Western Digital, Esri, Broadcom (VMWare & Pivotal), Hitachi, Sony, Toshiba, or Samsung: what your work got sold to do, what your bosses knew, & when they knew it.

From prev: Always check the back seat Never look into a mirror in a dark room Both of which I follow. Also: Give sewer grates a wide berth Do not split the party Do not sound out the Latin/Greek/whatever Do not insult the doll/picture/statue I watch a lot of horror movies.

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Yep. All were lovely, not a bad experience among them. Also, some of my favorite people have turned out to be among my favorite authors!

Mm, thoughts and prayers.

A primer on what happened in Poland last night: apnews.com/article/russ...

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