3/3 NB: The image in the first post I put in to get webtraction. The IMPORTANT SUBJECT LINK to the IACO survey in the second post.
(The source of the image, here: newsroom.bne.com.au/historic-fli... )
2/3 "...The study is not limited to technical roles so if you're involved in the aviation sector in any way, and have a few minutes to spare, here is the link to the survey." LINK: www.icao.int/gender-equal...
One for women in aviation. This survey was brought to my attention by a female aviation colleague. She wrote:
"Women in aviation, this one is for you - ICAO have been circulating a landmark global study on women in aviation, conducted as part of ICAO’s Gender Equality Programme. ... 1/3
Words fail me.
(And them.)
Evident from the start. AI support is, at best problematic and can be lethal.
That's not a bug, it's a feature: "OpenAI ... admitted (based on its own study) there’s no way to stop false information being presented as truth due to the way generative AI works."
theconversation.com/using-your-a...
I think you'd find both groups interesting, I certainly did!
Lovely stuff! Are you familiar with Canada's 'Group of 7', which I was surprised to find mapped in approach and era to Australia's 'Heidelberg School'. Mentioned because all plein air on small boards - allegedly cigar box tops. (That's a LOT of cigars!) Anyway, a good heritage you're in, clearly.
Seems legit.
Interesting one on the speedo vs GPS readings (in Aus). Actually answers something I was wondering about, for once!
rac.com.au/horizons/car...
Thumbnail of a life of pretty damn good non-conformity. ATAgirl.
I REALLY don't think that's the article's concept. And 'Always do your own verification' is too general and useless without a 'how'. (We all learn who to trust for what, for instance.) Maj news agencies are a lot less problematic than influencer info.
All that said, 25+ kids is most impressive! Ha!
Long read. Here's a critical 2024 piece on the choke-hold Orbán had on news media in Hungary. It shows, encouragingly, that even with “an almost Orwellian environment” of state control over media, alternate routes enabled his government's overthrow.
apnews.com/article/hung...
today in my 19thC European history class we will be discussing the papacy's relationship with modern nationalism, which I didn't expect to be quite so topical when I planned my syllabus
The young and future news media landscape. It's not your dad's radiogram. It's also not YOUR news sources either. A complex, thought provoking and structural assumption challenging report, with a lot of data to engage with.
(A LOT.)
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/understandin...
Since the #histscalemodels feed recently had some hiccups, here's a reminder that our group build #BastilleBuild is starting in a little under 3 weeks!
Today's bizarre and sort-of-amusing long read from my random long-term open internet tabs: "I tried to buy a Rolex and fell into a grey market for luxe watches" - Jeff Maysh, 2022.
www.ft.com/content/a7cb...
“Those who drafted the First Amendment believed that the nation’s security requires a free press and an informed people and that such security is endangered by governmental suppression of political speech. ...” - U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman
AP, 10 April, 2026.
apnews.com/article/pent...
An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. It depicts an apple orchard in bloom in the centre, allotments to the left and sheep in their field at the bottom. Train tracks go past the top of the orchard and allotment.
Sewn train tracks past an apple orchard (to the left).
An angled view of a sewn vegetable allotment surrounded by rough land, trees and with train tracks to the left.
An angled view of embroidered bushes and paths going through them leading to an orchard, allotment and fields.
'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done!
Concept art by Hayao Miyazaki for The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), dir. Hayao Miyazaki, Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Nothing about pigeons in my 2009 English language guidebook, Erin.
Worth picking up, if you're still there, if only to have a take-away record of their whitewashing stuff like the Rape of Nanking.
Maxine "Blossom" Miles. One of too many female aviation pioneers obscured in aviation HIStory, being rediscovered and given righteous provenance.
I’m loving your analogy.
I wish to quote you, if you don’t mind. What credit / byline would you like?
I thought that idea was a sauce you got free with academic rigour?
Viz 355
I'm lucky to know Kelowna well. A great place, the heritage aviation content HUGELY boosted with the new KF Centre for Excellence. We'll have @avculturesconf.bsky.social Mk VIII Conference there in partnership with the CAHS. It's going to be a very special, one-off event. Hope we can join us!
The good thing is one will, if justice is served, end up in prison, and the other is rather like the last, whiney noise from a terrible, left over balloon, desperate for attention it’s not going to get.
What ARE 'War Crimes'? UN definition. below. It's a legal concept, not a personal or national opinion, and the idea is to make a safer world for everyone. www.un.org/en/genocide-...
