I have a god given right to bring liquids on airplanes and I don't appreciate how it's been abridged

I checked my bag, I am not going to slow everyone else down, I should be off the plane first so I can go take a leak and then I'll go pick up my not-travel-sized toothpaste and leave

(I fly with a carryon-sized bag, not a big one, but I still don't want to deal with TSA any more than I must)

Plum Island has biological weapons

Happy Wednesday

Cars should not have screens

Knowing how to read a train/bus schedule is an essential life skill, and transportation providers that only provide point-to-point times are doing society a disservice

Unless you have a neuroprocessing issue that makes reading maps difficult for you, ditch the GPS and use a goddamn map. (Using online maps as maps is fine.)

You're actively degrading your brain by mindlessly obeying, and by reading a map, you learn about an area and find interesting things.

I don't want e-books. I don't want your fucking kindle pdf of your book.

I want a physical, paper scented, genuine book that I can flip the real pages of.

It's Swallover

A plate of brownish rice topped with long slices of carrot that are limp but whole, and a large piece of mutton

4 dishes of salads/pickles plus one with yogurt. They are an onion and tomato salad, a pickled onion that looks like garlic, a cucumber and onion salad, and a cabbage pickle that resembles northern kimchi

Folded dough pockets straight out of a tandoor

Some of the delicious foods I've had in Samarkand. Uzbek plov with side Korean salads and pickles, and chopped meat somsas from the bazaar

A small white truck that easily fits in a normal parking spot but has a bed large enough for a mattress (which it is carrying)

They have Kei trucks everywhere here

Didn't we stop making pennies in 2025 too?

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

I have lost
the mines
that were in
the Strait

and which
you were probably
hoping
would go away

Forgive me
there were many
so hidden
and so deep

Inside of a Soviet 717 metro, mostly unrenovated, though there are TV ads. There are fans in the ceiling, the train is mostly grey inside

Looking through the door at the front of a metro car to the next car, with the blue outside visible

A station with blue horizontal tiles and icons depicting cosmonauts

Exterior of a Soviet 717 metro train, which is blue and ribbed

Naturally it only took me a few hours in Tashkent to ride the metro and try to find one of the older trains

An Uzbekistan Airways plane.

New Airline for me

I guess this as good a time as any to re-pitch my HBO drama idea for a series about a split in the American Catholic Church with a far-right antipope in Trenton.

Call it Jersey See

This just increases my conviction in the correctness of 24 hour time

A sign in an airport announcing "Slim Chickens" and in smaller text "American fried chicken"

A picture of a guitar with the Turkish flag and the slogan "Born in Arkansas, raised in Istanbul"

I see what the did there

Ticket counter for Turkmenistan airlines. A person is purchasing a ticket

Oh hello old friend

An inflight map showing a path of an airplane landing in Istanbul

To quote a great man of letters, "the first stop is always Istanbul"

Indianòpolis is a neighborhood in São Paulo Brazil, named after Indianapolis Indiana.

It's hard to pin down exact numbers, but population is probably well above 100,000 and the population density is probably around 11,000 inhabitants/km².

I just want to know where the pope would sit. There's probably an Avignon, Pennsylvania (pronounced "Ay-Vig-None")

Can report at least that I didn't see any ICE at SeaTac, and I used the check in mostly used for international flights

in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive

Having been to Tehran I like it considerably more than Almaty.

I was supposed to visit Kabul this year but that's not happening for uh, reasons

You're a big fan of Almaty?

I would like to live in more boring times please