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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

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

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

submitted 8 days ago • 34 comments

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...

submitted 8 days ago • 25 comments

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

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

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

submitted 19 days ago • 12 comments

“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

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 21 days ago • 509 comments

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.

submitted 21 days ago • 15 comments

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

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 24 days ago • 145 comments

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

submitted 24 days ago • 75 comments

...fuck cancer.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

This is good.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 26 days ago • 381 comments

Post your friend shapes 🐾🐾 #Caturday

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 29 days ago • 27 comments

Ah yes, the two genders.

submitted 29 days ago • 15 comments

is this the mirror universe

submitted 29 days ago • 20 comments

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

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

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.

submitted 29 days ago • 113 comments

...this ain't it.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 30 days ago • 9 comments

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

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 33 days ago • 70 comments

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

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 35 days ago • 176 comments

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.

submitted 35 days ago • 27 comments

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

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 37 days ago • 735 comments