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O'Hare at night from above

Today was the first day of early in-person voting in my county. When I got there mid-afternoon, most of the machines were taken but there was no line. The poll workers said they had waits up to 15 minutes earlier in the day. Great to see the energy for voting.

All Elon's video is missing is the slide whistle

Historically those who have tried to design flying cars typically have succeeded in designing both a crappy aircraft and a crappy car all in one go.

A Milwaukee-Cleveland Series would be the best thing for baseball in some time.

This is so bad.

My profession today can see as far as it does because its practitioners stand on Margaret Hamilton's shoulders. May her memory be a blessing. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

I can only assume the cabin crew were unsuccessful in negotiating with the cat

Incredibly thorough, detailed, and nuanced reporting on 737 Max FMS software issues and the complexity involved in fielding updates

A perfect half moon hung just over the tower as we waited for our gate last night

I'd wager Tommy Tuberville would fail each and every one of the written and practical tests that every single airline pilot, flight attendant and air traffic controller has passed.

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No magic tool can make up for a chronic lack of qualified air traffic controllers. No magic tool makes it possible to fly through a line of thunderstorms that is hammering an entire region. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/f...

"Most aren't fundamentally AI failures. They're management, architecture and security failures with a GPU attached."

To channel my mother, "it couldn't have happened to a nicer company"

Sage advice from the airplane mechanic: "if it moves, squirt it with something"

Roger Marshall is, and has been, the worst.

On the New Mexico medevac crash last May and that recent article in Wired. colleenmondor.substack.com/p/55-the-new...

Buying the airplane is always the cheap part.

Fernando Tatis Jr. with the coldest grand slam robbery I have ever seen in my life

Archer to acquire rival Wisk as Boeing broadens its asset sales theaircurrent.com/industry-str... (via @elanhead.com & @juliejohnsson.bsky.social) #staycurrent

Baseball is a team game, but that generally doesn't include outfielders helping an opposing batter get a home run

Tell us how you really feel about both EWR and ORD

This. Is. So. Cool.

Roger Marshall is the worst, example number 73,214.

Sat down to write about the Hugging Face/AI incident. Ended up drawing this instead.

Hit the flight attendant call button, complain that the person is disrupting the flight, say you feel their behavior is causing a hazard that could become serious if the a/c encounters turbulence. Say they are inhibiting your ability to pay attention to directions from the cabin crew or cockpit.

Incredible cross, incredible finish

I had a joke about Theseus, but I replaced the whole thing.

On Pensacola and what came before in SC, DC, TN and TX. For the record, I am no longer certain the FAA has full control of the NAS. There is some history here, from 1958, especially on the crashes that year of UAL flight 736 & Capital Airlines flight 300. colleenmondor.substack.com/p/52-the-nat...

Let’s get ready to Ooooooosssshhhhhhhkosshhhhhhhh! For about a week each year, OSH becomes the busiest airport in the world with tens of thousands of aircraft and hundreds of thousands of people descending on the Wisconsin town for EAA Airventure. Are you headed to Oshkosh this year, let us know!

Investigators have released their preliminary report on the crash involving a LEGO 747 and Space Shuttle earlier this week. flightradar24.com/blog/flight-...

I found the answer to twice-yearly time changes. That Saturday evening, just take a redeye to Europe. Then, head home before the Europeans make their change. The gain or loss of one hour gets lost in the shuffle. On second thought, this might not be scalable.

District court judges continue doing the hard work, and Trump's teams take Ls. Judge Williams saw exactly what was happening, used the procedural tools she had, and dropped the hammer.

This is just gross. Hopefully KU Athletics at least made sure the contract says they get paid in US dollars and not whatever Dunning-Krugerands this company is hawking. www2.kusports.com/sports/colle...

For those pilots who love the #Garmin 3X Touch flight deck, the latest from their avionics and user interface engineers. Introducing the Garmin Axis. @avbrief.bsky.social deployed #avionics guru Larry Anglisano to fly with Garmin’s Jessica Koss last week in the Baron. avbrief.com/garmin-axis-...

I've seen games that bad before, but they've been in my local over 40 league

You're laughing... I can't withdraw my Bonk from Kraken and you're laughing?