I'm fortunate to be pals with José as we've gotten our PPLs around the same time. I'm so impressed by his selflessness flying this mission, and grateful that he can push back on this nonsense with his first-hand experience.
Out of frustration with the narrative I’ve seen develop online, I wrote about my experience with the logistics of helping with the North Carolina recovery efforts. jmct.cc/opairdrop/#aviation#helene#disasterrelief
it's the NWS Area Forecast Discussion forecast.weather.gov/product.php?...@publichealth.bsky.social)
howdy, Jay! I'm not sure I could pick just one favorite plane, but I'm awfully fond of my flying club's Archer
instrument training is quite fun but hooboy I cannot wait to do it for real so I'm not trying to cram as many approaches as I can into 2 hours. just utterly exhausting
For more on this, once again, I've written about 45,000 words on this topic in this blog series: acoup.blog/2021/06/11/c... It comes complete with bibliography and ancient citations. Because as a historian, I rate ancient evidence more highly than modern bullshit ideology. /end
Who were the Romans? How did they understand themselves as a people and ‘Roman’ as an identity? And what were the implications of that understanding – and perhaps more importantly…
ah, I see now why this was worth some satellite time bsky.app/profile/whit...
OK...the NWS Bot collection is now fully populated and ready to go. I'm sure bugs will come up along the way, but I think it is 95%+ stable. There's an index page at nws-bot.us including a map (borrowed from NWS) to find the right bot for the area you want to follow.
I think a lot about someone's quip about the heat dome over Portland that was melting rubber off power lines (paraphrased): "What a beautiful infrastructure we built for a world that no longer exists."
Europa Universalis IV. only PDX grand strategy that (usually) doesn't become too much of a drag to see a campaign through fully