captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Chatting with a retired United pilot before departure, he mentions that he started in the Air Force and was based at Beale. So I asked him if he flew the U-2. “Yeah I flew the U-2. And the other one.” And that is the unassailable coolness of a Blackbird pilot. Just a sly hint for those who know. 100
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Riding in a Lyft when Highway to the Danger Zone comes on the radio. “Hey man. Turn that up.” 000
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Trump supporters who say that they love liberty and the constitution are lying to you. 010
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captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 19/05/2025“The Cybertruck is just Fisher-Price brutalism.” @theromannick.bsky.social 🤌 Absolute poetry 000
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 04/03/2025I honestly can’t think of anything more helpful to the average American than a trade war that the plutocrats are completely insulted from. 🇺🇸 🦅 ✝️ 000
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Glad we’re finally firing all of those big government park rangers that we all hated and thought of as wasteful and a drag on our country. 🙄 000
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 12/02/2025New paradox unlocked: “You have to have enough situational awareness to know that you’ve lost it.” 000
Reposted by @captainphteven.bsky.socialAlex Cole @acnewsitics.com · 05/02/2025I have ZERO sympathy fof the Palestinian-Americans who stayed home or voted for Trump. You get what you deserve. 3940050
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 04/02/2025If, when you see an airline #pilot who is not a white man, you even wonder if they’re a #DEI hire who is not qualified, you are in fact a terrible and ignorant person. 020
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Prediction: The United States will be #Trump’s final bankruptcy. 010
Reposted by @captainphteven.bsky.socialAlex Cole @acnewsitics.com · 01/02/2025Bring back DEI. Fewer planes crashed before Trump ended it. 1348967
Reposted by @captainphteven.bsky.socialAlex Cole @acnewsitics.com · 31/01/2025If Trump were president during the Challenger disaster, he'd blame it on the fact that one of the astronauts was black. 1229041
Reposted by @captainphteven.bsky.socialPOLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 31/01/2025Denmark’s Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen once again rebuffed US President Donald Trump’s plan to acquire Greenland, saying that the Americans cannot simply take over the planet.politico.eu‘It will not happen’: Trump’s Greenland grab hits new Danish resistance“We have no interest in selling Greenland to the U.S.,” Denmark’s Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen says. 2343292
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Criticizing #DEI is just a dog whistle for “white men get to be skeptical of women and people of color in jobs they don’t think they deserve”. It really isn’t anything more than that. 000
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 30/01/2025While so many facts remain unknown, I can assure you that there will be no possible way to reasonably or objectively blame this on DEI. Donald #Trump is a monster for suggesting such an absurd notion. 010
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 30/01/2025I really don’t have any insight on what happened tonight other than to say that it’s a tragedy and I grieve the loss of our air crew family as well as the flying public who trusts us with their safety. #aviation #flying 230
Reposted by @captainphteven.bsky.socialNPR @npr.org · 28/01/2025President Trump fired National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo. In an unprecedented move, he also ousted Democratic board member Gwynne Wilcox, leaving the board with no quorum.npr.orgTrump fires labor board officials, setting up legal fightPresident Trump fired National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo. In an unprecedented move, he also ousted Democratic board member Gwynne Wilcox, leaving the board with no quorum. 71873324
Reposted by @captainphteven.bsky.socialPatton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 26/01/2025“The Democrats didn’t do enough on Gaza, so I withheld my vote to make a statement.” “Well, Trump won and now he’s gonna destroy Gaza.” “Yep. We’re paying the price for the Democrats’ incompetence.” “‘We?’ The Gazans are paying the price, not us” Pause. “I needed to make a statement.” 3196337084287
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 23/01/2025No-Nut Mike Johnson calling ideology of Jesus Christ “radical”. I desperately want to engage with a Christian conservative to hear them try to square this circle #trumpcult #mikejohnson #christianity 000
Reposted by @captainphteven.bsky.socialPOLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 22/01/2025The EU Aviation Safety Agency has watered down its previous openness to allowing one pilot to be alone in the cockpit when a passenger airplane is cruising. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/eu-r... 68815
Reposted by @captainphteven.bsky.socialOSINTtechnical @osinttechnical.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Nighttime cockpit view from a Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 Fulcrum on a combat air patrol earlier this month. The Ukrainian MiG sits above the moonlit clouds while hunting Russian drones and missiles. 659160
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 20/01/2025#Elon Musk bursting at the seams today 010
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 20/01/2025The richest man in the world who ostensibly bought an election and will have an office in the White House (while also having time to be a CEO of 3 different companies, online gaming, and pretending to be a family man) just gave a Nazi salute to a #MAGA crowd and nobody is bothered by any of it. 100
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Can you IMAGINE the hysteria if Obama hadn’t placed his hand on the Bible during the oath of office? Yes you can, because the right was hysterical for far less during the Obama years. #trumpcult 010
Reposted by @captainphteven.bsky.socialMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Melania looks like a combination of the Babadook and the Quaker Oats man 2166140051019
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 20/01/2025“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” -Martin Luther King Jr I feel like it’s bending away from justice today, but damnit I’m trying to stay positive. #mlk 000
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captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Trump is presumably going to pardon the January 6 terrorists, yet the right told us it was all FBI and antifa. Their lies are so lazy and nobody holds them accountable. #trumpcult #january6 000
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Credit to the Rams for making a game of it in those conditions. That was an impressive game all around. #nfl 010
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 14/01/2025New anxiety dream unlocked: a dress shirt that won’t stay tucked in and everyone thinks I’m a slob. 000
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captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 13/01/2025This is a very good technical explanation of how the FDR and CVR are powered on NG 737s and it gives a clue as to a likely scenario (not definitive cause) for the Jeju Air crash. #aviation #flying youtu.be/1TKoCI9kVtc?...youtu.be737 CVR FDR PowerYouTube video by The Boeing 737 Technical Channel 000
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 12/01/2025I’m convinced that there’s an X-Files Smoking Man somewhere who has been sabotaging the #Steelers postseason efforts for the last decade. 000
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 11/01/2025laist.com/news/water-d... Hope they catch themlaist.comWater-dropping Super Scooper aircraft is grounded after colliding with a civilian droneThe drone was flying illegally over the Palisades Fire Thursday, taking a vital firefighting resource out of commission for repairs. 000
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Wake up, babe! Vinyl Rewind just dropped the 10 best albums of 2024! youtu.be/6mmfnzyXwR0?...youtu.beTop Ten Album of 2024 | Vinyl RewindYouTube video by Vinyl Rewind 000
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 10/01/2025I fail at least one Connections puzzle a week, but this is my second day in a row of getting a perfect puzzle in the hardest-to-easiest order. So I will bask in my triumph before Wyna Liu inevitably murders my confidence again. Connections Puzzle #579 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 #connections 010
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Una doppietta nella freddissima città di Seul. 🤌 #espresso 000
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Walking into the shopping center near my hotel, looking for lunch- what’s this restaurant that’s packed with locals eating lunch? Shake Shack 😂 #korea #travel 000
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 08/01/2025If we are in fact facing the territorial expansion phase of Trump’s Hitler-fantasy, the light at the end of the tunnel will be when he inevitably unalives himself in bunker somewhere as his enemies close in. I mean, for those of us fortunate enough to survive that long. 🤞 #TrumpCult 000
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 07/01/2025One song I will NEVER skip and often repeat a few times: Mirror in the Bathroom #music 000
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 05/01/2025A pleasant memory from my old job: cloud surfing the 747 into Honolulu at sunset. #aviation #flying 050
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 26/12/2024I’m in an English speaking country but everything is closed for some alien holiday that I don’t comprehend AND the entire country is hypnotized by a cricket match on tv. I’m ready to go home. #commonwealth 020
captainphteven.bsky.social @captainphteven.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Thinking about getting a succulent Chinese meal at the infamous “Democracy Manifest” restaurant in Brisbane. The thing is, that restaurant, China Sea, has moved locations. Apparently another Chinese restaurant has taken its place at the same location. Which experience would be more authentic? 200
