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...

pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:

rented an absurd 150-600mm zoom lens for the week and it is already worth every penny

leaf

Bojangles, my partner's dad's therapy cat

christ, what the fuck is happening down at ICE? it's a weekday, i have work to do! imagine you're using Jira but also: * you can hear screaming from the protesters at the gate * you can see a phalanx of federal troops protecting the gate * you can see a convoy of black cars moving into the gate

fresh off a C-17 from Los Alamitos globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=ae0808&...

Randy's glad that I'm home

i actually prefer it when the mods actively hate the user base and vice versa, that’s how every great message board worked for years and i think we should give it a whirl

apparently ya boy's hospital stay is likely to last into the weekend, so apologies in advance for liking an uncomfortable number of your posts at inappropriate hours

I was hoping it wouldn't come to this, we were willing to bargain all day and all night in order to prevent this but management wants to hold on to power “just because”

hi, Randy

Gutted today to see a small memorial for this guy where his bed would have been. He was always so happy to see me, even though he was so thin that I figured he was much older. Rest in peace Django, I'm sorry I misheard your name.

live from war-ravaged Portland

man this looks like shit. what the fuck

hi, Ralphie

hi, Ralphie

a fine harvest today

a fine harvest today

flew an approach with actual IMC under my own ticket today! I'd done a couple with my CFII but it definitely hits different alone

uhhhhh that's cool. be on the lookout for fake ATC in central Oregon I guess

I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity. "What service is Microsoft providing?" Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

I have enjoyed reading @flyingmagazine.bsky.social for years, but will never be giving another dollar to a company run by this petulant dipshit www.freightwaves.com/news/the-ai-...

first (powered) tailwheel time and first grass ops last night in a lovely J-5! the beautiful skies unfortunately courtesy of wildfire smoke

Peter Watts, call your office

had to confess in work Slack that I'm an Emacs user in order to ask for help solving a problem, which turned out to be occurring because I was also trying to use zsh. how many of my own petards can I be hoisted by today?

hi, Randy

I guess I've been aviating long enough now to see pictures of airplanes I've flown before now upside down and in flames. very glad it sounds like everyone's okay asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/526...

is it good when the power and most of the cell service goes out the first afternoon of a three+ day heat wave?