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Aerospace dinosaur from the era of steam gauges, 16-bit fixed point processors, and gimballed gyros. Failed politician, pilot, and author. Let's gab here or on Substack. No broligarchs, no mas! https://substack.com/@flavoursofquarks
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Eat poop #Elon. #Starship is little more than a monument to your outsized ego. #GaryLarson called it years ago.

Summertimes in #Montreal are very cool. Block off the streets, turn them over to the people. This is how a city should live. #urbanPlanners babeee.

Help. The #UnitedStates is being run by a bunch of greedy, incompetent, racist lunatics.

Never in the history of the United States has a President defied an order of the #SupremeCourt - Until now. John Coates, professor of law and economics at #Harvard University, discusses the consequences of the current administration's failure to adhere to the #RuleOfLaw. tinyurl.com/muby6bu5

Radio interview with retired US #Congress member John Yarmuth, in which he reflects on his 16 years in the US Congress, working with the likes of #MattGaetz, #LaurenBoebert, and #ChipRoy, his experiences on #January6th 2021, and the current state of American politics. soundcloud.com/wfmp-forward...

Radio interview with Tyler Allen, co-founder of the urban planning group 8664, about the future of #Louisville as well as #urbanplanning initiatives around the world. soundcloud.com/wfmp-forward...

The beginning of a chat with my buddy in #Kyiv this morning. When I get up in the morning and read about an attack in the capital, I always ask her if she’s OK. Her response this morning says it all. Slava #Ukraini. Please help us defend #Ukraine.

Gift-sharing The Atlantic article from my subscription 'cuz everyone should read it. But of course, Trump voters won't. Hats off to them; the moron they elected to be POTUS brought a clown bus full of knuckleheads with him. But we knew that would happen. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

"I am sorry. It seems zat your papers are not in order. I am afraid zat you vill half to come wiz us.." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

My own version of Moore's Law: "Humans, when left to their own devices, will always fuck things up, either due to incompetence, indifference, stupidity, greed, malicious intent, or any combination of those traits." www.bbc.com/news/live/cl...

#slavaukraini

Are we surprised?

Everyone ought to read this. At least it'll depress you in a different way than the rest of the news. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

#maga, babee.

Please sign? chng.it/tsMKTjfNsH #gulfofmexico

Brave New World, annotated.

Brave New World (Vierte Reich kommt gleich). #truckfump #muckfusk

This isn't the United States I grew up with. It isn't the United States that I loved. It isn't the United States that I knew. And it's not the United States where I'm going to grow old.

Worth a read. #louisville #kentucky #truckfump Why These Companies in Louisville, Ky., Fear Trump’s Tariffs www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/b...

I have no words. Please, somebody say something. Do something. We knew that this thing was gonna get ugly; now it's getting scary ugly. #trump #musk #maga #truckfump

Four flags that belong together, because they represent countries that are under attack by megalomaniacs, and humanity is suffering as a result.

It's time for us to start some USA shaming. Kudos to the Ottawa Senators hockey fans for booing the US national anthem. #truckfump

#Truckfump

Mark Carney's a great guy, and with a bit of luck, Canada's next PM. Remember his name, people. www.bbc.com/news/article...

How not to write a #book. Or, life after #booktok. open.substack.com/pub/flavours...

My little act of defiance against both Vladimir Putin and the spray-tanned psychopath.

Radio interview with @lessig.bsky.social ... substack.com/@flavoursofq...

open.substack.com/pub/flavours... #JimmyCarter #JoeBiden #Carter #Biden

Let's please start writing #PresidentMusk every chance we get. That'll be especially galling to the spray-tanned psychopath. #maga babe.

December 17th,1903: For the first time in recorded history, citizens in Kitty Hawk North Carolina reported seeing #drones in the sky.

Gonna do my part to foment a precipitous drop of xTwitter users on Jan 20 by deleting my account that day - Help us spread the word? #DeleteXOnJan20

@nytimes.com: "What's one word that describes how you see Donald Trump today?" "Change," "Common Sense," "Patriotism," "blah blah blah." The Rest of Us: "What's one word that describes how you see Donald #Trump voters today?" "Morons." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Remembering #JFK