FlyinGidget
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FlyinGidget
@flyingidget.bsky.social
· Feb 28
Oaths. Always.
The American World War II cemetery, Luxembourg.
The American World War II cemetery, Luxembourg.
✌🏻from California. You know where to find me.
November 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
✌🏻from California. You know where to find me.
Me to myself all the time: Your opinion is not relevant or value-add to most situations, you don’t need to share it.
Also me, a non-moron who’s been around the block a time or two and knows Some Stuff, every morning when I read what the admin & its’ allies are saying & doing:
Also me, a non-moron who’s been around the block a time or two and knows Some Stuff, every morning when I read what the admin & its’ allies are saying & doing:
What the fuck are you talking about, man?
YouTube video by Cantstandya
youtu.be
September 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Me to myself all the time: Your opinion is not relevant or value-add to most situations, you don’t need to share it.
Also me, a non-moron who’s been around the block a time or two and knows Some Stuff, every morning when I read what the admin & its’ allies are saying & doing:
Also me, a non-moron who’s been around the block a time or two and knows Some Stuff, every morning when I read what the admin & its’ allies are saying & doing:
When you know what you’re looking at, ground operations at a major international airport are an exquisitely choreographed ballet. Happy Labor Day and mad props to all my ATC friends who keep all that metal moving safely day after day!
September 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
When you know what you’re looking at, ground operations at a major international airport are an exquisitely choreographed ballet. Happy Labor Day and mad props to all my ATC friends who keep all that metal moving safely day after day!
It’s impossible to overstate how crucial Fed independence is to the economic security of American households, markets, and the global economy itself. Most people don’t seem to comprehend how badly a politicized Fed would harm their personal circumstances, but the cautionary tales are out there.
Janet Yellen in FT oped - Trump’s attack on the Fed threatens US credibility. History teaches us that chaos follows when leaders undermine the independence of central banks www.ft.com/content/d2ea...
August 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It’s impossible to overstate how crucial Fed independence is to the economic security of American households, markets, and the global economy itself. Most people don’t seem to comprehend how badly a politicized Fed would harm their personal circumstances, but the cautionary tales are out there.
Not as lean, not as mean (although maybe meaner?), but still pretty well-versed in psyops and maximizing asymmetric capabilities.
August 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Not as lean, not as mean (although maybe meaner?), but still pretty well-versed in psyops and maximizing asymmetric capabilities.
I think my dog might be running a protection racket. Backyard fauna status:
Lizards: fat, unbothered. Cut a deal?
Field mice: low life expectancy, occasionally brought to human servants as tip since she doesn’t pay for the maintenance of her lifestyle.
Rabbits: negotiations underway?
#DogCorleone
Lizards: fat, unbothered. Cut a deal?
Field mice: low life expectancy, occasionally brought to human servants as tip since she doesn’t pay for the maintenance of her lifestyle.
Rabbits: negotiations underway?
#DogCorleone
August 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I think my dog might be running a protection racket. Backyard fauna status:
Lizards: fat, unbothered. Cut a deal?
Field mice: low life expectancy, occasionally brought to human servants as tip since she doesn’t pay for the maintenance of her lifestyle.
Rabbits: negotiations underway?
#DogCorleone
Lizards: fat, unbothered. Cut a deal?
Field mice: low life expectancy, occasionally brought to human servants as tip since she doesn’t pay for the maintenance of her lifestyle.
Rabbits: negotiations underway?
#DogCorleone
Them: Why are you single?
Me: Can’t chat, helping 5th amazing AF friend the last few years whose husband decided Ashley Madison/hookers were worth torpedoing a 20+ year marriage.
Is keeping your word and not being shitty really so hard? I’m not enjoying all this stereotypical middle-aged bullshit.
Me: Can’t chat, helping 5th amazing AF friend the last few years whose husband decided Ashley Madison/hookers were worth torpedoing a 20+ year marriage.
Is keeping your word and not being shitty really so hard? I’m not enjoying all this stereotypical middle-aged bullshit.
a young man wearing sunglasses and a hat says " i am straight up not having a good time "
Alt: Johnny from Real Bros of Simi Valley wearing tank top, sunglasses & baseball cap saying “I am straight up not having a good time.”
media.tenor.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Them: Why are you single?
Me: Can’t chat, helping 5th amazing AF friend the last few years whose husband decided Ashley Madison/hookers were worth torpedoing a 20+ year marriage.
Is keeping your word and not being shitty really so hard? I’m not enjoying all this stereotypical middle-aged bullshit.
Me: Can’t chat, helping 5th amazing AF friend the last few years whose husband decided Ashley Madison/hookers were worth torpedoing a 20+ year marriage.
Is keeping your word and not being shitty really so hard? I’m not enjoying all this stereotypical middle-aged bullshit.
“We can be heroes, just for one day.” —David Bowie
Everyone has it in them. You have it in you. 👇🏻
Everyone has it in them. You have it in you. 👇🏻
The actions of Lieutenant Robert Adrian Marks illustrate how ordinary officers and sailors can perform acts of valor to save their fellow sailors. bit.ly/45oc8Sm
The Forgotten Hero of the Indianapolis Disaster | Naval History - August 2025, Volume 39, Number 4
The actions of Lieutenant Robert Adrian Marks illustrate how ordinary officers and sailors can perform acts of valor to save their fellow sailors.
bit.ly
August 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“We can be heroes, just for one day.” —David Bowie
Everyone has it in them. You have it in you. 👇🏻
Everyone has it in them. You have it in you. 👇🏻
#FollowUpFriday
The Household Sovereign surveys her domain. Since she pays her staff only in snuggles and slobber, we must regularly depart the realm to earn ducats elsewhere. This displeases her. Staff periodically considers a union drive, but then Sovereign does something adorable and we don’t.
The Household Sovereign surveys her domain. Since she pays her staff only in snuggles and slobber, we must regularly depart the realm to earn ducats elsewhere. This displeases her. Staff periodically considers a union drive, but then Sovereign does something adorable and we don’t.
August 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
#FollowUpFriday
The Household Sovereign surveys her domain. Since she pays her staff only in snuggles and slobber, we must regularly depart the realm to earn ducats elsewhere. This displeases her. Staff periodically considers a union drive, but then Sovereign does something adorable and we don’t.
The Household Sovereign surveys her domain. Since she pays her staff only in snuggles and slobber, we must regularly depart the realm to earn ducats elsewhere. This displeases her. Staff periodically considers a union drive, but then Sovereign does something adorable and we don’t.
Passionfruit cucumber jalapeño mezcal margarita from fresh produce. Am culinary genius.
July 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Passionfruit cucumber jalapeño mezcal margarita from fresh produce. Am culinary genius.
@gidgetfuentes.bsky.social Small world. I was the Pilot-in-Command for this repatriation flight. It was our honor to be part of it; one of the things in my mil career I actually feel good about.
Article from 2019 about sticking by your allies no matter how long it takes:
Article from 2019 about sticking by your allies no matter how long it takes:
SECNAV Spencer, Jim Webb Honor Lost South Vietnamese Soldiers in California Ceremony - USNI News
WESTMINSTER, Calif. – Following a final prayer by a Navy chaplain, pallbearers lifted a casket containing the remains of 81 unidentified South Vietnamese soldiers and walked to a waiting white hearse....
news.usni.org
July 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
@gidgetfuentes.bsky.social Small world. I was the Pilot-in-Command for this repatriation flight. It was our honor to be part of it; one of the things in my mil career I actually feel good about.
Article from 2019 about sticking by your allies no matter how long it takes:
Article from 2019 about sticking by your allies no matter how long it takes:
Military women have plenty of experience dealing with sexist clowns. But these are America’s elected leaders, so it’s also our country telling us: “Your service doesn’t matter, because you were never good enough.”
@radiofreetom.bsky.social Thanks to your mom for running so my sisters & I could fly.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social Thanks to your mom for running so my sisters & I could fly.
The Administration Wants Military Women to Know Their Place
Pete Hegseth seems to be on a mission to erase women from the top ranks of the U.S. armed forces.
www.theatlantic.com
July 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Military women have plenty of experience dealing with sexist clowns. But these are America’s elected leaders, so it’s also our country telling us: “Your service doesn’t matter, because you were never good enough.”
@radiofreetom.bsky.social Thanks to your mom for running so my sisters & I could fly.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social Thanks to your mom for running so my sisters & I could fly.
@fpwellman.bsky.social and I share the benefit and curse of similar background and experiences, and this piece gets at something that’s long gnawed at me. So I’m going to write about some things that may not seem related, but are. Long 🧵👇🏻
First, like the journalist who took it (Madison Swart), 1/x
First, like the journalist who took it (Madison Swart), 1/x
I know how this ends. Do you? Are going to not see it? My latest is an angry screed at the hate that goes into masked men taking immigrants from their hearings to meet their evil quotas. Please share. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
It's happening here
How a single conversation with an Iraqi sheik in 2003 foretold what I would see in my own country two decades later
open.substack.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
@fpwellman.bsky.social and I share the benefit and curse of similar background and experiences, and this piece gets at something that’s long gnawed at me. So I’m going to write about some things that may not seem related, but are. Long 🧵👇🏻
First, like the journalist who took it (Madison Swart), 1/x
First, like the journalist who took it (Madison Swart), 1/x
To this day, my friends and cousins and I (high-school kids in SoCal in the early 90’s) can and do conduct entire conversations using only lines from this movie. Clueless is both far more brilliant and decent than it ever got credit for and deserves a place in the pantheon of American classics.
"Cher and her father Mel are both kooks who think they’re the baseline for determining normalcy—like everyone else in the movie, really. All great comedies have this in common, and Clueless is one of them."— I got to write about a movie that I absolutely adore
www.rogerebert.com/features/eve...
www.rogerebert.com/features/eve...
Everywhere You Go Has Valet: "Clueless" at 30 (Or Whatever) | Features | Roger Ebert
On the classic teen comedy, that's still leaving us totally buggin' three decades on.
www.rogerebert.com
July 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
To this day, my friends and cousins and I (high-school kids in SoCal in the early 90’s) can and do conduct entire conversations using only lines from this movie. Clueless is both far more brilliant and decent than it ever got credit for and deserves a place in the pantheon of American classics.
July 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
When I was growing up, my grandparents had an apple 🍎 farm. It was their retirement project; not a large-scale agricultural concern by any means. Our family could handle the entire harvest in a long weekend. For 15 years, every Columbus Day weekend my parents would pull us out of school… 🧵👇🏻 1/10
When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.
www.npr.org
July 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
When I was growing up, my grandparents had an apple 🍎 farm. It was their retirement project; not a large-scale agricultural concern by any means. Our family could handle the entire harvest in a long weekend. For 15 years, every Columbus Day weekend my parents would pull us out of school… 🧵👇🏻 1/10
You guys I don’t want to scare it but uh, I think…I THINK peach season is here? Glory, glory hallelujah! 🍑❤️😎
July 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
You guys I don’t want to scare it but uh, I think…I THINK peach season is here? Glory, glory hallelujah! 🍑❤️😎
Age verification? I died of dysentery just shy of the Willamette River (and also can use a slide rule).
Age verification? I can use a slide rule.
Age verification? I’ve been to East Germany and Yugoslavia.
July 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Age verification? I died of dysentery just shy of the Willamette River (and also can use a slide rule).
July 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Reposted by FlyinGidget
This is Oatie. He’s making sure you’re doing alright. There’s a lot going on right now so if you’d like a hug or maybe a snuggle he’s available. 12/10 (IG: blueoatie)
July 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This is Oatie. He’s making sure you’re doing alright. There’s a lot going on right now so if you’d like a hug or maybe a snuggle he’s available. 12/10 (IG: blueoatie)
Yesterday my family and friends and I, along with millions of our fellow Americans, celebrated our Independence Day as John Adams prescribed, with “bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.” Today the fight for a more perfect union continues. See you out on the line.
July 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Yesterday my family and friends and I, along with millions of our fellow Americans, celebrated our Independence Day as John Adams prescribed, with “bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.” Today the fight for a more perfect union continues. See you out on the line.
“I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States.” —John Adams, July 3, 1776
My friends who did not survive our service. This list was outdated within a month of being framed in July 2022. Here’s a toast…
My friends who did not survive our service. This list was outdated within a month of being framed in July 2022. Here’s a toast…
July 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
“I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States.” —John Adams, July 3, 1776
My friends who did not survive our service. This list was outdated within a month of being framed in July 2022. Here’s a toast…
My friends who did not survive our service. This list was outdated within a month of being framed in July 2022. Here’s a toast…
Little FlyinGidget (L) with younger sib. July 4, 1984, Los Angeles, California. The Olympic summer!
July 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Little FlyinGidget (L) with younger sib. July 4, 1984, Los Angeles, California. The Olympic summer!
@rexhuppke.bsky.social and I share a 4th of July attitude this year…”My America fights back against tyranny and indecency with ridicule, peaceful protest, and voting…I’m not going to look at the flag and feel ashamed. That flag still represents a country I believe to be well worth fighting for.”
This July Fourth, my patriotism looks like two middle fingers – and that's OK | Opinion
As America enters the Fourth of July with a president behaving in un-American ways, it's worth wondering what patriotism should look like.
www.usatoday.com
July 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
@rexhuppke.bsky.social and I share a 4th of July attitude this year…”My America fights back against tyranny and indecency with ridicule, peaceful protest, and voting…I’m not going to look at the flag and feel ashamed. That flag still represents a country I believe to be well worth fighting for.”
Not me rockin’ out to Fleetwood Mac while I cook up a storm in preparation for America’s “Go Your Own Way” day… 🎸 🤘🏻 🇺🇸
a man in a cowboy hat is holding a large american flag
Alt: Guy in tank top, shorts, and cowboy hat holding a giant American flag in a storm. He might get electrocuted.
media.tenor.com
July 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Not me rockin’ out to Fleetwood Mac while I cook up a storm in preparation for America’s “Go Your Own Way” day… 🎸 🤘🏻 🇺🇸