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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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HAPPY IDES OF MARCH DAY for those of you that celebrate.

submitted 13 hours ago • 11 comments

Word of the day, for the umpteenth time, is ‘apricate’, the sister of ‘apricity’. It means to bask in the warmth of the sun, especially on a chilly day.

submitted 25 days ago • 104 comments

Anyway it’s so weird that all these end stage things are happening but all we still have to do regular chores and get dental care and stuff

submitted 5 days ago • 68 comments

Art by Emi Boz (and apparently inspired by me...)

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

This is what happens when we give free rein to the uneducated and hateful Americans who have been crying over DEI and paper straws, their latest fads. Previous fads included Starbucks Christmas cups. We handed over the govt to them. Reap the whirlwind. www.newsweek.com/elon-musks-d...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.” ― Bette Davis Happy International Women's Day

submitted 7 days ago • 327 comments

Sometimes neighborhood Facebook group posts are… good?

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

Looks like my peeps in Miami Center have a new bullet point for their emails: “vectored planes around Elon’s space garbage”

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Goodbye, sweet Broomfield. We love you 236 mph gust reported at Broomfield (KBJC) a few minutes ago (This is an error, duh)

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

🌪️ 🌧️ ☀️ ⛈️ 🌀

submitted 10 days ago • 370 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 10 days ago • 1579 comments

One time in the Australian parliament 18 MPs got ejected in 70 minutes. It was just like a random Thursday and they were feeling rowdy. Meanwhile only one Democrat is willing to disrupt proceedings and get kicked out during Trump's speech. Wild.

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

How God and good men hate so foul a liar.

submitted 10 days ago • 20 comments

No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”

submitted 13 days ago • 160 comments

Aulahrollur is my constant state, lately.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Needing more attention (IMO) is the impact to NWS and NOS systems maintenance. Radars, ASOS, upper air, ocean buoys, tide gauges and a myriad of other data collection efforts require frequent work just to stay functional. Outages and extended downtime will accumulate with cascading impacts. #NOAA

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

All federal employees must respond to an email from a Nigerian prince with their bank account number or risk being terminated.

submitted 14 days ago • 146 comments

#OTD 1910: Kelly Johnson was born www.airspacemag.com/history-of-f...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming. 1/11

submitted 16 days ago • 46 comments

Timely and accurate weather information is critical to aviation safety. This is heartbreaking to see.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I am not staying with the FAA even *one day* past my retirement eligibility date. Nobody I know wants to stay. Who on earth would come BACK? They'd be coming back to terrible staffing, a bunch of trolling and insults from the highest levels of government, and constant threats to their benefits.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment