FlyinGidget
@flyingidget.bsky.social
Flying. Dogs. Surfing. Occasionally other stuff.
✌🏻from California. You know where to find me.
November 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
✌🏻from California. You know where to find me.
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!
As we deserve, frankly. America went into this one in full possession of the facts, said “haha, YOLO, he won’t hurt ME,” and shot ourselves in the dick anyway.
August 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
As we deserve, frankly. America went into this one in full possession of the facts, said “haha, YOLO, he won’t hurt ME,” and shot ourselves in the dick anyway.
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
#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.
Tonight is the 56th anniversary of the moon landing. Americans are capable of extraordinary daring and achievement. We’re capable of anything.
But also…we’re capable of anything.
/Fin
But also…we’re capable of anything.
/Fin
July 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Tonight is the 56th anniversary of the moon landing. Americans are capable of extraordinary daring and achievement. We’re capable of anything.
But also…we’re capable of anything.
/Fin
But also…we’re capable of anything.
/Fin
‘Heroes’ is my favorite David Bowie song because I’ve been there and seen with my own eyes that everyone has it in them to be a hero, even just for one day. We all like to think that, don’t we? That we’d stand up and do the right thing when history and humanity and the moment called for it. 9/x
July 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
‘Heroes’ is my favorite David Bowie song because I’ve been there and seen with my own eyes that everyone has it in them to be a hero, even just for one day. We all like to think that, don’t we? That we’d stand up and do the right thing when history and humanity and the moment called for it. 9/x
“Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place, they’re capable of anything.” 8/x
July 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
“Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place, they’re capable of anything.” 8/x
…so long that they’re not prepared for what they’d do’ that really keeps me up at night.
I don’t enjoy the movie Chinatown. It’s bleak. It’s also depressingly accurate about human nature. The last line is most famous, but it’s what Noah Cross says to Jake Gittes that I think about all the time: 7/x
I don’t enjoy the movie Chinatown. It’s bleak. It’s also depressingly accurate about human nature. The last line is most famous, but it’s what Noah Cross says to Jake Gittes that I think about all the time: 7/x
July 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
…so long that they’re not prepared for what they’d do’ that really keeps me up at night.
I don’t enjoy the movie Chinatown. It’s bleak. It’s also depressingly accurate about human nature. The last line is most famous, but it’s what Noah Cross says to Jake Gittes that I think about all the time: 7/x
I don’t enjoy the movie Chinatown. It’s bleak. It’s also depressingly accurate about human nature. The last line is most famous, but it’s what Noah Cross says to Jake Gittes that I think about all the time: 7/x
…this photo broke my heart. In my experience, people approach someone who looks that happy after an immigration hearing to offer them a little American flag and a heartfelt “Welcome home!” This time, some masked rando takes her away. WTF? (📸 @madisonswart.bsky.social) 2/x
July 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
…this photo broke my heart. In my experience, people approach someone who looks that happy after an immigration hearing to offer them a little American flag and a heartfelt “Welcome home!” This time, some masked rando takes her away. WTF? (📸 @madisonswart.bsky.social) 2/x
July 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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! 🍑❤️😎
July 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
My 64-lb baby saying Happy 4th and offering a present yesterday!
July 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
My 64-lb baby saying Happy 4th and offering a present yesterday!
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!
Tomorrow I grill burgers & hot dogs for fam/friends. We’ll have beans & potato salad & corn & ice cream sundaes & Jell-O shots, as one does for 4th of July. But today I had German beer and kimchi tacos for lunch, because for 249 years, amazing people have come here. What a country. 🍺 🌮 🍔 🌭 🇰🇷 🇩🇪 🇲🇽 🇺🇸
July 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Tomorrow I grill burgers & hot dogs for fam/friends. We’ll have beans & potato salad & corn & ice cream sundaes & Jell-O shots, as one does for 4th of July. But today I had German beer and kimchi tacos for lunch, because for 249 years, amazing people have come here. What a country. 🍺 🌮 🍔 🌭 🇰🇷 🇩🇪 🇲🇽 🇺🇸
Attention in the area, attention in the area: I will now be entering my annual 48-hour period of peak insufferability. Thank you for your understanding. 🇺🇸
July 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Attention in the area, attention in the area: I will now be entering my annual 48-hour period of peak insufferability. Thank you for your understanding. 🇺🇸
August is an absolutely fabulous time to be in Seattle. I’m just saying.
July 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
August is an absolutely fabulous time to be in Seattle. I’m just saying.
Cut this one out of the newspaper 20+ years ago & it’s been framed on my desk ever since. I can instantly tell how well I’ll get along with someone based on whether they recognize it when I say “some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don’t help.”
June 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Cut this one out of the newspaper 20+ years ago & it’s been framed on my desk ever since. I can instantly tell how well I’ll get along with someone based on whether they recognize it when I say “some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don’t help.”
Annoying my phone nuked my entire contact list, but rebuilding what I could by reading old text convos for context more productive than housing a 6-pack of DIPA while staring into the middle distance like I may otherwise have over the news. Anyway, here’s a pretty pic of my fave spot on Earth. ✌🏻
June 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Annoying my phone nuked my entire contact list, but rebuilding what I could by reading old text convos for context more productive than housing a 6-pack of DIPA while staring into the middle distance like I may otherwise have over the news. Anyway, here’s a pretty pic of my fave spot on Earth. ✌🏻