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Large, modern airports are busy industrial sites, and there’s a certain excitement working there. Small airports still evoke a more pastoral and charming side of aviation.

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There’s always white noise at large airports. The sound of turbine engines running. Then you can layer in the other vehicles driving around and all the beeping horns and alarms.

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The sound is different too. Little airplanes sound sorta like lawnmowers. When you hear a turbine engine at a small airport everyone is prairie-dogging to see what’s making the noise. But there are also moments of actual silence. Or just the noise of the wind and buzzing insects.

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Big airports have a much more industrial smell. Very sterile. Mostly kerosine.

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Sean was here @yyzbound.bsky.social · 13h

I like small airports. They have a whole different vibe. For one thing there’s the smell. In my part of the world the smell is seasonal (it snows here), but I always associate it with a mixture of freshly cut grass and a touch of gasoline. #avgeek

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The door-to-door charity solicitors simply won’t give you an one time payment option. If you go to the website for that exact same charity they have a single payment option. The door-to-door folks are legit, but whatever contract they’re on is hard wired for subscriptions. Maddening

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Sean was here @yyzbound.bsky.social · 17h

Sooooo many social/political/economic crises in the US today run right through Reagan.

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And she’s probably a terrible person who should never walk free again. But to torture her to near death, then provide her with more health care than most Americans can afford, only so she’s well enough to try to kill again… it’s Middle Ages stuff with a thin veneer of legal/medical legitimacy.

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Why has absolutely everything moved to a subscription model? The charity thing ticks me off. Instead of $ x.00/mo indefinitely why isn’t a one time donation even an option any more?

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The only way to know for sure is a taste test

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Christa Pike 'angry and confused' after botched lethal injection, her lawyers say | CBC

What a barbaric country “…it could be weeks or months before anyone knows exactly what her recovery might look like or whether her competency could be restored to a level that might enable the state to try to execute her again.” www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.

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I mean… the chief insurrectionist wasn’t only allowed to walk free, but he was elected president

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Some people have little maps in their heads and others are more a collection of landmarks. I tend to be a map person but there are some confusing places where only landmarks will do.

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A bit of music in the old town in Munich #travel

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Some traditional garb at #Oktoberfest … and some maybe a little less traditional

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Watching the fellas fall up the ramp on the Toboggan ride #oktoberfest

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You Disappoint Me Agent Smith

I’ll never forgive Jack Smith for being a sentient computer program trying to keep us all in the Matrix.

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ALT: You Disappoint Me Agent Smith

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Some musicians livening up the Marienplatz on a warm Saturday night in October. #music #travel

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What’s the parking situation like at YTZ nowadays? I used to go in there all the time… in the 90s. I suspect things have changed a bit.

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One of the more entertaining sights to see at Oktoberfest in Munich; men trying to get up the ramp on the Toboggan ride (women and children are more likely to just accept help from the yellow-shirts) #oktoberfest

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Some nice views over Greenland the other day. #avgeek

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There are a lot of visitors from a land of giants… and a big and tall shop that sells lederhosen

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I was definitely a puny celt amongst Vikings when I was in Sweden earlier in the year

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I had to look it up. Apparently I’m just slightly taller than the average male height in Germany… and I can’t believe it. I’ve been wandering around Oktoberfest in Munich and I feel tiny. Big dudes everywhere.

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Also, I suspect that this guy (older, white, and suggesting the post office lady move to “communist China”) would be absolutely furious if the Post Office announced they were going to stay open on Christmas. I suspect that he opposes Truth and Reconciliation as part of his grievance.

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Union Proud Poster with Fists

When I suggested that he stop harassing the clerk and write his Member of Parliament if he didn’t like federal holidays he demanded my position on unions. I told him and he stormed off. 1 - I’m at least 3 generations union. 2 - front line workers don’t set federal holidays or post office hours

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ALT: Union Proud Poster with Fists

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The post office closed early a few days ago for a national holiday. The old man ahead of me in the queue today was quite incensed. He kept haranguing the lady working at the desk. Thought it was a plot by unions (she wasn’t unionized).

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Pictures of the Hallgrímskirkja church in Reykjavik make it look like it stands alone on an isolated hill. In truth, while it sits on a slight rise, it’s in the middle of the city. There aren’t many tall building around and you can’t see ANY other building when you shoot from a low angle. #travel

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When people want to pick a fight with strangers on the internet then a plain statement of fact is as good an excuse as any to throw down, I guess. Threads just sucks, much of the time.

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Some precarious knife juggling in Covent Garden #travel

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Growing tired of regular crimes, the U.S. regime is now toying with switching the focus to crimes against humanity.

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Decline in tourism hits US economy

The head of the US Travel Association finds this “mind-boggling.” Really? The US shits on its allies and masked police are assaulting people in the street, yet his mind is boggled. I have no intention of spending any of my free time or money in the US. #ElbowsUp www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Overseas visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year.

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I’ve been in severe in a Cessna 310. Do not recommend

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Same for icing PIREPS… since the ice protection systems of a Pa28 can’t keep up with anything beyond “trace” it was severe for them, but I’m probably gonna be ok

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An #avgeek explainer. There are technical categories of turbulence. There’s light, moderate, severe and extreme. Around the boundaries of any two categories it’s a judgement call. With severe turbulence the aircraft is momentarily out of control.

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