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?

my god, I've nearly made it to the 1%

The future. Interactive virtual realities are commonplace and widespread. The most popular programs are called Generative Adaptive Mechanisms for Entertainment Simulation (GAMES). People from all walks of life can be found playing GAMES.

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I love living in super-lefty southeast Portland, where our state senator [checks notes] is trying to destroy universal preschool passed by a majority of voters because she loves means-testing

Very cool that this is allowed!

no single event radicalized me quite so much as getting tear gassed at a peaceful, normie march in 2017. cheers to the LAPD for minting so many new comrades

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Cops-- pathetic. Fuck off. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bu...

applying for jobs again

first day at new job! I'm going to be building genomics software in Rust with an amazing team at St. Jude Children's Research. after focusing so much on aviation between jobs, I'm ready to switch firehose flavors to biology

making up a soup to get hungry at

"in light of changes in staffing, administration priorities, and other factors", the FAA is discontinuing the Aeronautical Chart Users' Guide, *the* document pilots use to learn and understand aeronautical charts www.faa.gov/air_traffic/...

acting natural