A photo out of an airplane window, showing sunrise over the Atlantic ocean. The entire horizon is lit up with orange fading to red, the sky above a narrow strip of blue fading to black. Below is a solid and surprisingly flat layer of clouds, still gray in the dim light.
Unrelated to seating policy or revenue strategy, it was also a very pretty flight.
I was on a Southwest flight with assigned seats today. Truly the end of an era.
Also the end of one of the major reasons to fly Southwest. I kinda hate that selling seat upgrades will probably make them more.
At least they still have a ton of direct flights (which is why I was flying them today).
Important question: was it an inline skate with all four wheels in a row, or a regular one with four wheels arranged like a car?
Impressive either way, but if he can balance on a single inline skate then that's truly next level.
Artemis II splashdown confirmed! The whole thing went pretty flawlessly. Congrats to all involved!
Success Artemis II launch! Wild that it went off first attempt with no delays. Weather was cloudy all day so I wasn't sure I'd be able to see much, but things cleared up with perfect timing.
Well, that's obviously not right, because 2021 was two years ago and 2016 was twenty years ago.
A pair of protestors with a pair of dogs
A protestor getting her dog a drink of water
A protestor standing in the shade of a tree with two dogs
Two protestors, one holding a sign that says "I love democracy, no kings" and the other holding a little dog
A protestor at No Kings Orlando City Hall holding a sign with a stylized image of Trump and Putin making out, with the words No Kings, No Fascists
A shot of the crowd at No Kings Orlando City Hall. One of the protestors is holding a sign with the logo of the Rebellion from Star Wars with the words I Have Friends Everywhere
Pro-Trump counter-protestors holding a big banner that says Trump Loves You. They are almost entirely blocked by protestors in front of them with an even bigger sign that says No ICE In Our Streets.
A protestor holding a sign that says End Neocon Don's Unprovoked Unjust Unpopular Unsuccessful Unconstitutional War
A protestor at No Kings Orlando City Hall holding up a sign of the famous comic page where Captain America is punching Hitler in the face, except it's Trump instead of Hitler.
Two protestors at No Kings Orlando City Hall holding a rainbow Pride flag and a transgender Pride flag
A protestor in an inflatable dinosaur costume at No Kings Orlando City Hall holding a sign that says "Freedom isn't extinct, kings are".
A line of 20 or so cops standing across the street from No Kings Orlando City Hall, doing nothing in particular
A crowd of protestors at No Kings at Orlando City Hall. One of them is holding a sign that says "Hell is empty and all the devils are in the White House".
A crowd of protestors at No Kings at Orlando City Hall. Someone is holding a One Piece Star Hat Pirates skull and bones flag.
Someone in the crowd of No Kings protestors at Orlando City Hall holding a Pride flag with the Gadsen flag rattlesnake and "don't tread on me" superimposed over the rainbow.
Someone holding a small cardboard sign saying "the only monarchs we want" with a drawing in a monarch butterfly.
A panoramic photo of the plaza in front or Orlando City Hall filled with thousands of No Kings protesters
Huge crowd at #NoKings Orlando City Hall!
I just landed in Orlando at 10 PM. I checked out of morbid curiosity and my original flight departed as advertised as of when I rebooked, and landed in Orlando at 6:30 PM.
Well, shit. You win some, you lose some.
My flight home from DC was repeatedly delayed, adding up to almost four and a half hours, so I eventually rebooked on a different flight connecting through Dallas. I was running out of alternatives and didn't want to get stuck in DC overnight if we got delayed a few more times and then canceled.
Order now arriving 8:15 - 8:17 PM. Original arrival time 7:41 - 7:56 PM.
Once again slowly dying inside, standing in the lobby of my hotel while the Doordash estimated arrival is [2-5 minutes from current time] for 15 minutes
Whyyyyyyy
A photo of the same section of wall from before. To the left the wall is cinderblock, to the right is drywall.
Wow that really looks like a camera glitch in the background, but it's just where the wall transitions from drywall to cinderblock.
A photo of a sheet metal wireway mounted in an engineering space in the basement of a large building, as seen from below. It has "THE TECH" printed on it upside down and backwards.
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although understanding the context that we're talking about a walking orchid does make the phrase "Meganium demands blood" considerably more metal.
What in the actual goddamn is Pokemon up to these days. I did not recognize Meganium as a pokemon name and it took me a half dozen replies to realize this wasn't about Cyberpunk 2077 or something. Damn.
A screenshot of an anime. A young woman is sitting in a city alleyway with an acoustic guitar, looking up at a man in Three Kingdoms robes standing above her, his arm outstretched to offer assistance.
Yeah, he's the Three Kingdoms guy who got reincarnated in modern Tokyo and decided to manage a girl's music career.
I just saw a "measles is out there! know the symptoms!" PSA in Philadelphia airport and it might be the most depressing thing I've ever seen.
Man, I will take being compared to GQux Challia over any version of Scirocco as a compliment.
I am really and literally from Jupiter.
I would play this campaign.
And also the sequel campaign where the post-feudal socialist society built by compromise between the capitalist and communist factions have to fight fascism.
An alternate art version of Mikazuki's pilot card from the Gundam Card Game. Mika has his hand raised to the right, about to fistbump Orga (who is out of frame)
An alternate art version of the With Iron And Blood command card from the Gundam Card Game, featuring Orga with his hand raised to the left, about to fistbump Mika (who is out of frame)
The people in charge of the Gundam Card Game continue to understand the assignment
A close up of where the protective yellow plastic meets the baseboard at the bottom of the wall. A blank white plastic key card is wedged between the plastic sheeting and the wall.
Computer, enhance.
A photo of a hallway in a building under construction, lined with doors on both sides and the floor covered with translucent yellow plastic for protection.
Just spent legitimately ten minutes looking for a key card I dropped in this hallway
I'm thinking either south or southeast Asia? India, maybe Vietnam or Thailand. But I'd bet India if I had to narrow it down to one guess.
What's your favorite game from every Nintendo console you owned?
NES: Kirby's Adventure
GBC: Link's Awakening DX
SNES: Yoshi's Island
N64: Star Fox 64
GCN: Wind Waker
GBA: Fire Emblem
DS: Lost in Blue 2
Wii: FFCC: Crystal Bearers
3DS: FE Awakening
WiiU: Splatoon
Switch: Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion
Reading the rest of that thread, apparently Stewart has been on the "vaccines cause autism" train since 2005, so I guess he had some crank views even at the height of his cultural relevance.
I thought he was great 20 years ago, then his first episode back on the Daily Show in 2024 was almost entirely "omg look how old Biden is".
I don't know if he lost the plot over the years or he's always been this way and it just wasn't obvious before, but he's certainly not worth listening to now.
