I did not vote for him...but I have to respect the skill and talent seen here:

Remember Yogi Berra, for example, who was shot through the hand as a boat pilot at Omaha Beach. He never applied for the Purple Heart as not to worry his mother. The next day he helped clear the beach of bodies. He was asked how this affected him. He replied, "Baseball ain't hard."

As it is D-Day Eve, I think it important to give attention to some of the unsung heroes of Neptune, the U.S. Coast Guard. Specifically, the men of the Coast Guard Rescue Flotilla. These men and others like them combined to pull over 1,400 men from the water on June 6, 1944.

www.stripes.com/history/2026... #NavalHistory

One function of the checklist is to ensure that you will not do anything that is not on the checklist.

I love this sort of deep dive into the arcana of a trade. Excellent 🧵:

This thread generates roughly equal parts of schadenfreude and terror.

If you will, on this Memorial Day join me in raising a glass to the memory of my uncle, T4 Edmund J. Peters, Jr. Eddie was an 11th ABDiv trooper who was KIA 2/17/1945, aged 21 years, in the assault on Ft. McKinley, Luzon, PI. He rests now in the Manila cemetery maintained so well by ABMC.

Ahoy, @dougmost.bsky.social, look what my fine county librarian has just lent to me. Really looking fwd to digging into it; will check back in a few days.

That's cold! 😅

"You know, I'm starting to think these super-wealthy totalitarian warmongering pedophiles might not have our best interests at heart." — Asher Perlman shop.ashermaxperlman.com

182.8 Meters xkcd.com/3248/

Four good chutes.👍

Shoutout to @korystamper.bsky.social as I've just finished reading her fine "Word by Word" about the art of dictionary construction. Kory, W by W's a delightful tour of lexicography. Now I'm even more looking fwd to your new "True Color"! (And on Pg 127 you had the Sentence of the Month ⬇️) (1/2)

Critical thinking and reflection require us to pause and slow down. Time pressure is an old sales and manipulation tactic. Very few things are truly urgent.

Ahoy, @korystamper.bsky.social, see what my excellent county librarian has lent me to fill the void while I await the popular "True Color" (for which my hold is 3rd in the queue). Last evening I was delighted by the 1st 100 pages of "W by W"; looking fwd to the rest. Will check back.

Visited the Kansas Aviation Museum in Wichita today and enjoyed seeing this Travel Air 4000 that Louise Thaden flew to victory in the 1929 Santa Monica-to-Cleveland air race for women often referred to as the Powder Puff Derby. Just one of a number of lovely aircraft with KS roots on display.

And 20 days later, JFK surprised NASA with the "in this decade" challenge. With a quarter hour in the log book.

And thanks for the correct spelling in the Alt...

So, on the road in Wichita, KS and look what has parked in front of our hotel. Very cool!

"What if you knew her and Found her dead on the ground? How can you run when you know?" Kent State massacre, on this day in 1970 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdVM...

"Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down." Pete Seeger, born on this day in 1919 youtu.be/uXnJVkEX8O4?...

Shoutout to @scottsolomon.bsky.social as I've just finished his awsomely INTELLIGENT book, "Becoming Martian". Scott, I loved how you followed varied threads critical to thinking about spacefaring then gathered them into a wholly rational way to think about the issue. (And, yep, AI may be our kids.)

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only. I, Claudius The Twilight Zone Victory at Sea Gunsmoke Star Trek: TNG The Dick Van Dyke Show Newhart All In the Family WKRP MASH The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour Hill Street Blues Mission: Impossible The Muppet Show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Credit to @kaine.senate.gov for asking CJCS Caine yesterday about the legal basis for the boat strikes. Caine offered no legal justification for the strikes but only referred to a classified legal opinion—presumably the OLC memo. Administration's refusal to release this OLC memo is very telling.

Ahoy, @scottsolomon.bsky.social, look what my excellent county librarian has lent to me. Just getting into it; it looks superb. Will check back in a couple days.

Yep. WACO.

The X-59 is back to the skies after a comprehensive round of maintenance and software upgrades following its first flight, officially entering the aircraft’s envelope expansion campaign where it is flying higher, faster and farther at a rapid pace. www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/f...

Marvel Crosson US aviator 1st woman pilot to earn commercial pilot license in Territory of Alaska. Flew in #California & #Alaska 1929 set 23,996ft altitude record in Travel Air Jet J5. d in crash in 1st Women's Air (Powder Puff) Derby b. #OTD 27 Apr 1900 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_...

40 years ago at this moment (1:23:45 AM local time, April 26), the poorly-designed Chernobyl Unit 4 nuclear reactor in Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded and partially melted down during an unapproved, poorly-conceived safety experiment, releasing at least 378,000,000 curies of dangerous radionuclides.

Yup.

Socrates: and what is the purpose of a screen? Gloucon: to look at S: just so. And where does one look when driving? G: at the road S: and does a man’s gaze best view object at a time, or two? G: surely just one S: indeed - thus it cannot be proper for a car to have a screen

True😉

happy bday journalist Edward R. Murrow, b.1908, Polecat Creek, NC. “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” “We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.” “Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.”

#OTD On April 24, 1916, Shackleton and 5 companions left Elephant Island in the tiny James Caird. They sailed 1,300km across the stormy southern ocean to South Georgia. This 16-day feat allowed them to rescue the entire Endurance crew without a single loss of life. #history #navalhistory

Old people: This will blow your mind. And if you're a Florida-lover (I hate the place), it might break your heart.

You can visit the orbiter Discovery, from which HST launched this day in 1990, at NASM's Udvar-Hazy Center adjacent to Dulles airport in Virginia. She's beautiful!

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

has anyone on #academicsky made this one yet?

A big deal, maybe?:

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For any who are, or have been, a museum docent...this is really outstanding:

The start of something big?

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

And on 11 June '61 Prof. Lowe would rise from the Mall in DC and send a telegram from the balloon to Pres. Lincoln. This led to establisment of the Union Balloon Corps., the first use of military air power in the US.

NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating The Low-energy Charged Particles experiment has been operating almost without interruption since Voyager 1 launched in 1977 - almost 49 years. 🧪🔭 #Voyager science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyage...

Ernie Pyle KIA this day in 1945:

Still unbelievable to me. (#OTD in 1942, 16 B-25s took off from USS Hornet to bomb Japan for the first time. Psychological blow to Japan and raising morale in the United States. #WW2 #HISTORY)

The Catechism of the Catholic Church on Just War Doctrine.

He spoke of cool trends of air, bending him down some 300 feet. /4