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Air traffic controller, cat lady (she/her/that bitch), hockey fan (#GoAvsGo), weather geek, reader, writer. Missing my dad. Colorado isn't bad, but I'd rather be in Las Vegas...or on a cold-weather cruise.
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The 1939 Hatch Act prohibits government employees from using their position to engage in partisan activity. The Trump White House is bringing loyalty oaths back. https://trib.al/fUwPy73

my depression is bad today so emergency caturday has been declared. here is a cartoon of my gay cats for pride

Hiring meteorologists because you laid off too many of them… Guess they were pretty essential? This chaos is dangerous. www.cnn.com/2025/06/02/w...

I always thought, if we were taken over, it would be by a more intelligent life form.

OMG THERE'S VIDEO MY HEART 🥰🥰 www.wfla.com/top-videos/w...

“We're overstretched, we're understaffed, we're all stressed out. Our equipment doesn't work. It's just not sustainable,” an unnamed Newark air traffic controller told @npr.org

AOC: When you wake up in the morning, you will realize that you voted to defund planned parenthood and take away health care from 13.7 million Americans and when this country wakes up there will be consequences to pay for this

The situation in the weather world is bad right now. -Large private sector company badgering NWS -NWS under direct assault by current government -GOP members of Congress in high weather risk areas believing AI and apps work better than NWS. All of this makes us less safe. Full stop.

And the Goodland, Kansas NWS office is still looking for adequate staffing to issue the Tornado Warning.

If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.

Seems really bad. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

...fuck cancer.

This is good.

When Elon Musk set his DOGE goons loose to gut NOAA, experts warned it would mean delays and gaps in forecasting extreme weather events... Which is exactly what happened when deadly storms swept through Kentucky. And it threatens every American. #teslatakedown www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...

Trump Republicanism in action. What could possibly go wrong? www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

Post your friend shapes 🐾🐾 #Caturday

presented without comment, as I wasn't at work on Monday: #airtrafficcontrol #ATC #arewegreatyet

early focus group results are promising for the Grass Defender 5000™️

Ah yes, the two genders.

is this the mirror universe

This absolute fucking walnut, I swear. I never claimed to be a patriot, anyway.

Trump just casually meeting with MBS, another friend of Jeffrey Epstein, who chopped up a US citizen and everyone just sits around pretending that’s normal behaviour.

...this ain't it.

This country is like 50% Cassandra Complex, 30% Viking berserker, and 20% Mrs. O’Leary’s cow.

READ VIVIAN'S THREAD 🔊 #airtrafficcontrol #ATC #EWR

I don’t care what Ozturk wrote. It doesn’t matter. This is America. We’re fucking free to have opinions of all sorts. It doesn’t matter. You don’t get to lock up people for bad thought. That’s against the fucking law and morals and fuck every last person arguing that this is a crime. Fuck all of em

Happy 99th to the best of what our species has to offer

Not to be too pro technocrat, but it is astounding how much this country depended on the selflessness of like a few hundred thousand highly educated public servants who, for peanuts, made sure our food and medicine and environment etc were safe. And in return these servants were demonized.

I don’t think you can be too pro technocrat. But if it is an offense, I guess I’ll cop to it. The US population had a good thing and discarded it for (generously) a pack of snake oil salesmen.

as clear-cut a case of suppression of political speech as we’ve ever seen

How's the air traffic control system doing today, anyway? Oh.

When the President of the United States says he doesn’t know if he should uphold the Constitution, it should be a searing red line for every American. If you let him ignore ANY aspect of the Constitution you embolden him to ignore more of it, including the parts that secure YOUR freedoms & rights.