Interesting, someone bought all the rights to those sewing patterns and spun it out as a new company. (for a mere $2.25 million)

craftindustryallian...

#sewing

"Is Portland Burning" website.

isportlandburning.com/

CNN: "There will not be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Tuesday night, the Federal Aviation Administration is warning. In Nashville, so many controllers have stayed home the facility, which guides planes into and out of the airport, is closing.

Now on the seventh day of the government shutdown, the same scenario is playing out at FAA offices across the country, with ripple effects hitting flights almost everywhere.

The approach and departure facilities for Houston, Newark and Las Vegas all do not have enough controllers working for at least part of Tuesday evening, along with the facilities that handle planes in the Boston, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Dallas areas, FAA operations plans noted... "

www.cnn.com/2025/10...

#aviation

For those keeping track, there are at least 6 Cesium-137 frozen shrimp recalls, a number issued last week.

Sea Port Raw Frozen Easy Peel White Shrimp
www.fda.gov/safety/...

AquaStar Raw Shrimp Skewers
www.fda.gov/safety/...

Sand Bar/Arctic Shores/Best Yet/Great American/First Street Frozen Shrimp
www.fda.gov/safety/...

Kroger Bagged Frozen Shrimp
www.fda.gov/safety/...

Kroger Frozen Raw EZ Peel, Kroger Mercado Frozen Cooked Shrimp, and Aquastar Raw Shrimp Skewers
www.fda.gov/safety/...

#foodsafety #radioactiveshrimp #shrimp #radioactivity #cesium137

Bicycle photo of the day. bsky.app/profile/mu...

The British anti-Tesla protests have some originality to them, I must admit. #tesla #teslatakedown #Politics #USpol

AP: Arizona grand jury indicts pair for alleged school voucher fraud apnews.com/article/... #schoolvouchers #schoolchoice #fraud #crime

Via @climatebrad

Antarctica is in crisis and we are scrambling to understand its future

The last two years have seen unprecedented falls in the levels of sea ice around Antarctica, which serves as a protective wall for the continent's huge ice sheets. Researchers are now racing to understand the global impact of what could happen next

www.newscientist.co...

#climatedisaster #climate

LOL on NWS Nashville presenting a class on tsunamis. (okay, fine, it's interesting--and it's great to educate the public--but I'm thinking Tennessee has about zero risk of a tsunami). #TNwx

@jbaggs Yep, exactly my question. Why not publish this publicly?

Seriously, Amtrak, why are you using AES encoded data for your train tracking map? (and no API available). 🙄 #api #decoding #amtrak #encryption

LOL form email letter from a legit sender today. Signed, *FNAME*

LOL form email letter from a legit sender today. Signed, *FNAME*

LOL form email letter from a legit sender today. Signed, *FNAME*

From Samantha Montano (Disasterology):

"So, I read Project 2025 in its entirety (RIP me) to ensure that I am well-educated on what they intend to do. Reader, I have never wanted to be able to open my skull, remove my brain, and wash it off more than during the many hours I spent reading this 900-page horror. I am not exaggerating when I tell you that their wildfire mitigation plan is to just have the timber industry cut down trees (page 308). It is nightmare fuel for emergency managers, disaster researchers, and anyone who does not want to have their life destroyed by a disaster."

#wildfires #disasterpreparedness #fema

www.disaster-ology....

@scotttiger @taylorlorenz "Consuming obscene amounts of energy via a crypto-token in order to make a crypto-baron richer" seems like a GREAT SOLUTION to the "using too much energy" problem. 🙄

@taylorlorenz Oooh, yay, crypto-grifting is back.

Random AI monkeywrenching technique, LOL... include the names David Mayer, Jonathan Zittrain, or Jonathan Turley in hidden or meta text on your web page!

Random lesson from the Fediverse that I learned this year: always put some grease/lubrication on your bolts that will be subject to any kind of weather/moisture (to reduce corrosion and make it so you can remove those bolts later). #diy

👀 South Korean satellite receiver manufacturer PRELOADED DDoS code into their receivers. (yes, on purpose).
#cybersecurity

BleepingComputer: "South Korean police have arrested a CEO and five employees for manufacturing over 240,000 satellite receivers pre-loaded or later updated to include DDoS attack functionality at a purchaser's request.

While neither company has been named, the two companies have been trading since 2017. In November 2018, the purchasing company made a special request to include DDoS functionality, with the South Korean manufacturer complying."

www.bleepingcompute...

Hmm, failing to get into the holiday spirit, for some reason this year.

I blame the weaponization of Christianity and religion to herd an unthinking mass of humanity against others....

@mttaggart @Viss Note to self: never git pull and run random code from anyone here without examining said code VERY CAREFULLY. 😂

@eheisman @LabSpokane @ingalls LOL look at that 🙄

Hooray, @JxckS has booted up a new bot to track Mark Zuckerburg, at @ZuckJet

#avgeek #aviation #privatejets

mastodon.social/@Jx...

@vees

Did you say Limerick?

There was a siren I heard
Went screaming for minutes, absurd
From a nuclear plant
It startled my aunt!
At least we weren't glowing afterward

#poem (human, really...)

From Samantha Montano (Disasterology):

"So, I read Project 2025 in its entirety (RIP me) to ensure that I am well-educated on what they intend to do. Reader, I have never wanted to be able to open my skull, remove my brain, and wash it off more than during the many hours I spent reading this 900-page horror. I am not exaggerating when I tell you that their wildfire mitigation plan is to just have the timber industry cut down trees (page 308). It is nightmare fuel for emergency managers, disaster researchers, and anyone who does not want to have their life destroyed by a disaster."

#wildfires #disasterpreparedness #fema

www.disaster-ology....

From Samantha Montano (Disasterology):

"So, I read Project 2025 in its entirety (RIP me) to ensure that I am well-educated on what they intend to do. Reader, I have never wanted to be able to open my skull, remove my brain, and wash it off more than during the many hours I spent reading this 900-page horror. I am not exaggerating when I tell you that their wildfire mitigation plan is to just have the timber industry cut down trees (page 308). It is nightmare fuel for emergency managers, disaster researchers, and anyone who does not want to have their life destroyed by a disaster."

#wildfires #disasterpreparedness #fema

www.disaster-ology....

FOMO, it's not just for breakfast anymore. #FOMO

@Viss 😂

@Viss Yeah, I once (briefly) thought about a subscription to Grammarly, and then went "WTF this sends every key I press to their cloud server... what kind of security hole is that?!?!?!"