Ralphie, you alright bud?

Caves of Qud

Ralphie, you alright bud?

Think it will happen?

Tailwheel and spin endorsements both secured on the same flight! Thank you, Citabria. Lots more practice to do before I'd want to show these landings to anyone though...

she is free at last

I'm not naming names, but someone in this picture is now on a total of *four* sedatives/painkillers because she refuses to enjoy a chill, relaxed recovery

@postoctobrist.bsky.social finished your T. Dan Smith episode just now and had to preempt the subsequent podcast to wallow in Instrument of Surrender. amazing work thank you

the biggest tell a project has delegated their documentation to an LLM is that reading it feels like trying to climb a cliff of polished granite. mind uselessly slipping off the words until I just decide to use something else

he's a half-flat of premium berries

i think my favourite version of anscombe's quarter is the "data dinosaur" all thirteen of these graphs have the same mean, variance, and correlation when people graph an average value, and nothing else, they're lying to you

how are cats so effortlessly cool

I've always liked the idea of being a tabletop person, but at my pace of approximately one session per decade I've made peace with the fact that it's not really my thing. However. I backed this for the hardcover in an instant, and can't wait to see what Austin and these amazing artists have made.

Completely wiped out after setting some personal records yesterday. Tied my best altitude gain at 5000ft, made my furthest solo excursion from the gliderport, and logged my longest single flight ever at 3.6 hours. www.weglide.org/flight/1021840

TGIF (thank goodness (i)she’s fluffy)

I did it. I am finally free of this damn app

brave bb lynx in tiger stripes

jaws

... and yet she is trusted to nest amidst the lenses

🥺

ok it turns out that a Citabria is in fact a very fun airplane to fly. especially when it's really orange

just an ordinary box of cup noodles

keep thinking of this face

oh hello!

looking very tough, Bridget

wide-angle kitten

yes, cats, it's almost time for the weekend fun desk

@katecrane.bsky.social good news from the library today

well. time to do it a second time I guess. thank you @localthunk.com for an all-timer of a game

ForeFlight, the application that I and thousands of other pilots depend upon for safety-critical information, was sold to private equity last year. They've now laid off half their staff without any knowledge transfer plan, citing offshoring and AI www.reddit.com/r/Foreflight...

My first day at Veeva Systems is in the books! Fourth job in a row doing async Rust... there must be something to this stuff

the predator wakes

Finally had a birthday with weather compatible with flying. December in the PNW makes that difficult, and the instrument rating was absolutely required. Clouds are cool.

Had the fun type of bad flight today. Big wave day at 4S2, but cloudy; didn't want to try for a sucker hole, so committed to whatever I could get below cloud bases: lots of of sink and turbulence, turns out. Had to release early after huge bumps left us with the slackest tow rope I'd ever seen.

earlier,,

today was one of those magically clear, cool, and rare PNW winter flying days. so nice that even the skydivers made the most of the daylight 🛩️

meet Bridget, everyone

he has no idea we're about to bring him home a new sister

“lazy use of unwrap blew up a process and took out the internet” bzzt. wrong. judicious use of unwrap blew up a process instead of allowing an Extremely Named CVE to happen and spraying your bank account credentials all over the public internet

thank you @ccshan.woof.group.ap.brid.gy and also I am sorry

I miss her dearly 💜

my Europa Universalis V launch day: 3.2 hours played, one in-game month elapsed (begrudgingly; required by the tutorial)

[sickos voice] join ussss

good morning

this is one of my neighborhood shops that I go to at least once a week. the scene today was wild

ongoing horror of a record-breaking hurricane got me wondering just how they estimate sea-level pressure with satellites. this is an incredible review of the techniques we use to take all kinds of atmospheric measurements www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The family is now saying things like “Someone needs to perambulate the beast” and “has the canine been given sustenance?” because the dog knows too many words.

@edzitron.com uhh were you also a tween tying up the phone line to hang out on Stratics IRC? I knew there was something familiar about the way you post

New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not www.404media.co/how-to-disab...