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  • Zelensky Decries Peace Talks Without Ukraine, Trump Says He Had His Shot For Years - The War Zone

    “They’re upset about not having a seat, well, they’ve had a seat for three years, and a long time before that,” Trump told reporters Tuesday afternoon. “This could have been settled very easily…”

    Wrong.

    February 18,2025
  • Southwest Airlines to Slash Corporate Workforce in First Mass Layoff - WSJ

    Even as the appetite for travel has surged, the airline’s labor costs have increased—in part because of new agreements with unions.

    Nothing happens in a vacuum. The first layoffs in its history, eliminating core brand features, what even is Southwest anymore?

    February 17,2025
  • WINNING: Trump Announces Plan To Attack The British And Prussian Forces At Waterloo - Babylon Bee

    Trump, who was seen wearing a bicorne hat around the White House today, had grown increasingly intent on displacing the British Empire from its perch on the global stage, going so far as to ask his military advisors for strategies to disrupt British trade routes to India. “The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos,” Trump reportedly said.

    February 17,2025
  • I’m getting this sinking feeling that the disruptions that 2020 brought to the pilot & maintainers labor market have caught up to us and the golden era of aviation safety is going on hiatus for the near term.

    February 17,2025
  • Knives

    Benchmade 737

    S30V Steel | Black G10 | Axis Lock | Made in 🇺🇸

    Benchmade Aileron on a wood prop

    How can a pilot not have the 737 Aileron in their collection? This knife was discontinued just as I started collecting, so I got it for a steal. It is knife #2. It was designed for pilots to protect the flight deck and so it’s not very good as an EDC. However, this is a true rarity in the knife world; a knife by pilots, for pilots.

    Purchased in 2020 | ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
    February 17,2025
  • Trump Unsure What Department He Has To Cut To Make JD Vance Go Away - The Onion

    “I’ve tried the Education Department, USAID, the FBI, and still he keeps showing up,” said Trump, who lambasted the 40-year-old vice president as “the very definition of fraud and waste.”

    February 17,2025
  • Political Profile: Kristi Noem - The Onion

    Who Trump Thinks She Is: Sarah Palin

    February 17,2025
  • I don’t like fake holidays.

    February 17,2025
  • Catholic Husband

    Shuffling - Catholic Husband

    This is how we spend too much of our lives. We shuffle, moving things around, without really doing anything to make our lives better. We move laundry day from Monday to Friday, we clear the notification badges on our apps, we switch from evening prayer to morning prayer, but while these feel like progress, they’re not.

    ➕

    February 17,2025
  • Knives

    Benchmade 535

    S30V Steel | Nebula FatCarbon Scales | Axis Lock | Made in 🇺🇸

    Benchmade Bugout on night stand by lamp and rosary

    Five years ago today, I brought home the first knife in my collection, this Benchmade Bugout. It is the original 535 that came with the Benchmade Blue grivory scales. Last year, as I was playing around with customization, I gave this special knife an upgrade to the beautiful Nebula FatCarbon scales that it wears today. The red, blue, and white look incredible mixed in with the deep blacks. It’s a fitting tribute to the knife that started it all.

    Purchased in 2020 | ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
    February 15,2025
  • Vance Speech Denouncing E.U. Censorship Censored By E.U. - Babylon Bee

    “Vance’s hateful comments about censorship have no place in public discourse and must be censored,” announced German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. “We will not tolerate such hateful rhetoric against our censorship regime.”

    February 15,2025
  • The laborer deserves his payment. And his afternoon coffee break in a comfy chair.

    ☕️

    February 15,2025
  • One change per day; a simple goal worth pursuing.

    Empty light fixture
    February 15,2025
  • NATO Is Ukraine’s Future and Always Will Be - WSJ Opinion

    It should be a very simple calculation for Mr. Putin: Get out now while the getting is good, because Europe and the U.S. are committed to raising the Ukrainian military to a NATO standard even without it being a NATO member.

    Mr. Putin has learned his military is no match for a properly equipped NATO force. His Ukraine misadventure is rapidly degrading his ability to compete in the long run. Mr. Putin will continue to pretend his war isn’t a disastrous miscalculation for which his country will be paying for generations to come. The peanut gallery should not be fooled.

    February 15,2025
  • Apple Intelligence Siri Overhaul Could Get Delayed - MacRumors

    Apple is running into engineering problems and software bugs that could push back the launch of the new functionality.

    Literally the only Apple Intelligence feature users actually need.

    February 14,2025
  • Joann Fabrics Announces Plans To Make Mishmash Store Out Of Shuttered Locations’ Scraps - The Onion

    February 14,2025
  • Friday afternoon slowdown

    Kids watching Snoopy
    February 14,2025
  • DOGE Staffer Arrives at Internal Revenue Service Headquarters - WSJ

    Kliger has asked for meetings with senior officials and was interested in the agency’s head count, according to an IRS employee. The IRS has about 100,000 workers after a recent expansion. It is in the middle of the busiest portion of its year in preparation for the mid-April individual income tax filing deadline. 

    Well, well, well… how the turntables…

    February 14,2025
  • Few things in life are as unpleasant as folding laundry with dry hands.

    🧺

    February 14,2025
  • Knives

    Fox Knives Anzu

    Magnacut Steel | Blue Aluminum with Orange Backspacer | Crossbar Lock | Made in 🇮🇹

    Fox Knives Anzu on a cardboard box

    Every so often a knife really comes out of nowhere to impress me; this is one of them. I picked this up late last year, my first Les George design, and it is awesome. The locking mechanism is just as good as the Axis Lock, the ergonomics are perfect, and this is a very nice knife to look at. It will be a sleeper in the knife world, but it’s earned its spot in my collection.

    Purchased in 2024 | ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
    February 14,2025
  • ChetCast

    Episode 273: Valentines

    This big day is here. I sat down to chat with two of my valentines.

    ❤️

    February 14,2025
  • Quiet time. 📰

    Coffee and book on a table
    February 13,2025
  • Gabbard and Kennedy. Oof.

    February 13,2025
  • As I was upgrading Catholic Husband, I came across a post that I wrote in January 2017 called On Hiatus. I had completely forgotten that I took all of 2017 off.

    Since restarting in November of that year, I’ve written over a third of my entire blog.

    Rest is a good thing.

    February 13,2025
  • Honda, Nissan End Merger Talks, Leaving Nissan to Seek Other Partners - WSJ

    Honda had initially agreed to a merger structure in which the two automakers would sit side-by-side under a single holding company. The companies said Thursday that Honda—whose market value is about five times Nissan’s—later sought to make Nissan a subsidiary.

    I hated this deal.

    February 13,2025
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