Robert Westbrook, Aircraft & Accordion Repair
SJW. KHive. Citizen of US & Canada. Married, inexplicably. Astrophotographer & airplane whisperer. From rural Nebraska. Gun-free since 1997. I want to meet your cat. He/Him. Live on unceded Mi'kmaq land - Unama’ki, AKA Cape Breton Island.
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- Makes me think of this old ad, lol
- “We are heartbroken to announce we have to cancel our upcoming European tour,” wrote Texas psych-rockers Lord Buffalo. “Our drummer, Yamal Said, who is a Mexican citizen & lawful permanent resident of the US, was forcibly removed from our flight to Europe by CBP at Dallas/Fort Worth Int’l Airport.”
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- Probably would have saved his life if he'd lost that case, though. Mark Chapman goes after someone who's actually in the country instead.
- Notice that the *very last man forcibly removed* from that room was an older white man.
- How many, though, are getting falsely accused of AI plagiarism because they've taken care their whole lives to spell, learn a decent vocabulary, and structure their thoughts while committing them to paper (or email as it were)?
- For some reason Eliann got a tad upset at how I cut this cake 🍰🤷🏾
- LOL, reminds me of this clip!
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- Kitties are so appreciative of love if they're raised right!
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- I once looked up what the L/D ratio (glide ratio) of a wingsuit is, and was surprised to find it is as high as 3 (gliding will cover 3 feet forward for every 1 foot lost). The Apollo Command Module was 0.368, and a flying squirrel is 2! Airliners with dead engines are about 12.
- Sometime I get an urge to make an obscure math nerd joke during the playoffs.
- It will take a minimum of 5 years to strip, inspect, and retrofit that Qatari airplane to spec, by which time our native VC-25Bs will be ready. And for the record, white American voters like me *are* dumb.
- So, if he's gonna start using this "free" airplane from Qatar as AF1, it's going to be missing a lot of countermeasures. Matador radar missile jammer, IRCM jammers for IR missiles, DICM, and probably visual laser dazzlers to thwart collision attacks by a suicide jockey flying a stolen bizjet.
- Once a foreign government can openly give the president a half-billion-dollar plane as a personal gift, there’s no red line left between a democracy and a full-blown kleptocracy. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/corruption...
- This insult has been deployed against me once people learn I'm originally from the United States. Hard to argue with it, really.
- This is one of the reasons Google removed the option of showing 100 results per page, forcing you to view only 10 at a time, so they'll serve less results and more ads.
- Good grief.
- "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action." -- Ian Fleming Four times? Collaboration with the enemy.
- Soon they'll be coming up here to strip & steal the copper pipe.
- What "negotiation?" They can simply leave. russians don't do negotiation, those vile fucks only kill, or die.
- #GVerse #BreakingNews: 💥BOOM💥 European leaders have issued a ceasefire ULTIMATUM to #FuckPutin. Either he negotiates an end to the war, or Europe will unleash “massive” sanctions against Russia and supply Ukraine devastating weapons. #FuckPutin has 36 hours to respond.
- I'd love to know who's gonna arrest ICE agents for breaking the law. Spoiler: no one will.
- "They are all fanatical capitalists, a philosophy founded on the premise of infinite and eternal exponential growth, so of course they reject the science, or fall for twisted, perverse wish-fulfillment versions of the science."
- Just because someone has been critical of trump & vance doesn't necessarily mean they're on the side of the angels (which don't exist, btw).
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- The kerning on that next to last line makes me crazy.
- White people voted out everyone who could have stopped this: POTUS, House reps, Senators. Now we've got an Executive Branch that cares not a whit whether its citizens live or die. Griping that "Congress" does nothing shifts blame from Republicans to an amorphous entity, which is not helpful.
- BREAKING: Radar screens at Newark Airport went black early this morning. Air traffic controllers told a FedEx plane that their screens went dark around 3:55 a.m. They then asked the aircraft to tell their company to apply pressure to fix the problem. abcnews.go.com/US/radar-scr...
- Real time track of Kosmos-482, a failed Soviet Venus probe launched in 1972. It's gonna re-enter probably within the next 12 hours. Hopefully we won't need the Six Million Dollar man. www.n2yo.com?s=6073
- Art of the deal is raising the tariff to 145% then cutting it almost in half despite the fact that China has made no concessions and has completely ignored you. Xi just sits back at laughs at our orange clown.
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- This theatrical opening to the Edmonton/Vegas game is the most moronic, farcical shit I have ever seen in sports, and that includes the stupidity of pro wrestling.
- Fetterman's always been trash (he held an innocent Black jogger at gunpoint when he was mayor), but it's terrifying to know that a stroke could turn a person into a monster, altering your personality in an instant.
- It's official! Pope Leo XIV has his own Topps trading card. Available now until May 11th. Don't be reposting this, we wouldn't want to upset that Treasonous Traitor the Tinted Toddler in the Whitehouse & his trumpette puppet chucklefucks.
- I have often thought of creating a set of Pope trading cards; it'd be a big project, but of course Topps is way ahead of me.
- I fixed the Winnipeg Jets logo so it has an Avro Arrow instead of an American-made CF-18 Hornet.
- I thought everyone was kidding
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- This looks like the galley of every private jet I've had to work on, before it gets cleaned out for maintenance/inspection. I assume it all gets put into a locker somewhere, because it wouldn't last long lying around in the hangar.
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- Difficult to view any reported development in a positive light when the admin has the attention span and follow-through of a squirrel on meth.
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- ACAB
- I'm fucking dying of laughter here
- They crowned him the king of despair, A tyrant with spray in his hair. He shattered the truth, And groomed the uncouth Then sued the Woke Marxist pope.
- This would be a great name for a rock band of students attending seminary.
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- He was excommunicated by a bull, which is very painful.
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- As an atheist I must admit this is a good point. All highly rigid male-dominated, patriarchal hierarchies have had abuse problems - churches, police departments, the military, universities, medical schools. But you don't see widespread blanket condemnation of cops, soldiers, and doctors, do you?
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- Not sure what this buys them when everyone is carrying a radio emitter that transmits whether cell towers are working in the city or not.
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- Hope you check out to be tip-top!
- Optical Coherence Tomography? I have some experience with that, and Eylea injections.
- Remembering this TV series today.
- Safer on the ground anyway than flying on that trash Sukhoi Superjet along with the drunkard russian flight crews.
- If I were a crazed enemy of the United States in the government, I'd discourage vaccination (while getting vaccinated myself), and destroy large supplies of stockpiled smallpox vaccines the U.S. has ready for emergency use.
- More than 1,000 measles cases have been reported in the United States in 2025, according to a CNN tally. Details: cnn.it/4daNRCL
- Only a matter of time before smallpox is taken out of labs and spread by RFK jr., because he wants to claim it's better to get smallpox than have the disease eradicated by safe and effective vaccines.
- More than 1,000 measles cases have been reported in the United States in 2025, according to a CNN tally. Details: cnn.it/4daNRCL
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- That Sim was fantastic, such a realistic flight model! The first Sim I'd tried that behaved like a real plane. The sequel, A-10 Cuba, did you have that as well? Really great too.
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- And you can bet the above dude would have voted Nader, or perhaps did if they're old enough. And have zero remorse for the subsequent destruction that vote caused.
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- These crackpots always bring up HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program) when spreading their lies, so I wrote this up a number of years ago:
- How was it strategic? Can I ask that you pls be specific answering and try to avoid these principled-sounding moral terms that don't have any actual, political significance? Now's your chance. Explain it to me like I'm 6: How was you helping a racist felon rapist get reelected "actually strategic?"
- How are self-serving logical fallacies helping if you really want to understand the thinking? No one who sat out wanted Trump POTUS, but people want a better Dem Party, one that stands up to billionaires and massive corps, not sucks up to them. But the big issue was the genocide.
- >But the big issue was the genocide. So, we have evil committed by Netanyahu half a world away, which Biden/Harris tried to deal with responsibly as adults in the room, and you 'Genocide Joe' clowns chose to tantrum your way into a second trump term, causing, for Americans:
- The open fighting between India and Pakistan looks as bad as it's been in a long long time. India claiming to have hit nine targets inside Pakistan, Pakistan claiming to have downed two jets and hit an airbase. Every possibility things get worse from here.
- First nuke fired since ww2??
- Around 2000 detonated since then including 525 above ground. Last above ground nuclear test was 1980, by China, one megaton.
- Here’s a template - 1. To Whom It May Still Concern, There is a genocide unfolding before our eyes in Gaza. Not a metaphor, not a tragedy in the abstract—a genocide. Carried out in real time, in front of satellites, smartphones, and sanitized press conferences.
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- Conveniently trump was absent.
- Too bad y'all helped elect him.
- They don't let protesters near him
- Such courage.
- They are not silent. You are ignoring them
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View full threadYou are such a disappointment to me, Robert.
- I'll take that as a "no."
