The Incurable Bookwyrm

runwayrunway:

I’m going to interrupt my normal posting schedule briefly to discuss naming airplanes. Don’t worry, I’ll post the regularly scheduled Friday review after this, but first I’m going to talk about naming airplanes.

When I say that I don’t mean naming types of airplanes. I mean giving the airplanes names. A lot of airlines do it. Back in the day you had your Clipper This, Flagship That, Star of the Whatsit, so on. Lots of airlines name theirs after places. Aer Lingus names theirs after Irish saints. SAS names their Vikings. FedEx Express gives theirs human names, like Gabriel, Richard, JobEdokat, and Meredith.

The year is 2023 at time of writing. Clipper This, Flagship That, and Star of the Whatsit are now all relics of a distant past where a plane ticket cost more than some cars and airports sold life insurance at kiosks. That age is long past. Delta, United, American…all cowards, their airplanes long unnamed. Though the practice is alive and well elsewhere, for some reason it has largely gone dormant in the United States. There are few exceptions, but there are exceptions, and there is one in particular which stands out from the rest. Just one carrier on a mission and their 289 individually named flying machines.

I would like to present you with a curated selection of things which jetBlue has named their airplanes. There are many more - 289, to be specific. Take a look through them all if you care to. But this is a list of my favorites. Just a bit of appreciation for a true titan of aircraft-naming in an era where the art seems all but lost.

• Roses Are Red, This Plane is Blue (N3104J)
• Aruba, Jamaica, Blue I Wanna Take Ya (N2016J)
• Blue’s That Girl? (N997JL)
• Don’t Hate Me ‘Cause I’m Bluetiful (N996JL)
• Don’t Mind If I Blue (N971JL)
• Blue Kid On The Block (N913JB)
• 1. Fly JetBlue 2. Repeat Step 1 (N807JB)
• Shantay, Blue Stay (N794JB)
• #Follow @JetBlue (N334JB)
• Enough about me…let’s talk about blue (N712JB)
• Big blue people seater (N705JB)
• Bippity, Boppity, Blue (N565JB)
• Blue-yah! (N187JB)
• Badda Bing Badda Blue (N534JB)
• FuhgeddaBlueDit (N3113J)
• Boogie Woogie Bluegle Boy (N3062J)
• My Other Ride is a JetBlue A320 (N329JB, an Embraer E190)
• My Other Ride is a JetBlue E190 (N793JB, an Airbus A320)

And, my personal favorite:

• How’s My Flying? Call 1-800-JETBLUE (N715JB)

(Although if you can read that, you’re probably too close. Incidentally, 'If You Can Read This, You’re Blue Close’ is an A320-200 with the registration N729JB.)

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animentality:

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aprillikesthings:

soberscientistlife:

Compare paychecks with you co-workers. It is the best way to get equality.

In the USA it is illegal for them to even ASK you not to talk about your wages

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liberalsarecool:

Protecting children?

Kids used to perish, so we made labor laws to protect them.

These asshole Republicans pretend the labor laws were made for no reason.

The GOP are absolute demons and will legislate so children suffer to protect the most advantaged and privileged.

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theblackknightofworcestershire:

thestuffedalligator:

Rewatching Truman Show for the first time in a long time, and the detail that’s stuck with me this time is the set design.

The characters drive modern cars and hock modern products, but it’s all presented with a veneer of 1950s wholesome applecheeked Americana. Truman’s life is presented as an escape for the audience from the drudgery of the modern day, and the aesthetic they’ve chosen for this is the post-war economic boom. This is the simple time, the movie says. This is the good time. Doesn’t the modern day suck? Let’s go back and see our friends from the days when life was good.

And it’s a lie. Truman’s life is a lie, and the image of white picket fenced suburbia they’ve presented is a lie. It’s an elaborate construction to recreate a false memory that’s comfortable for advertisers. The movie is a satire, but it’s also a very blatant statement against the nostalgia for a golden age which never existed. It’s a lie. It doesn’t exist.

I don’t know. I’m spitballing. I’m biased because I despise mid-20th century Americana and I naturally treat it with hostility, but it’s very gratifying to see a movie kind of agree with me.

Let me tell you a story.

Earlier in the summer, I went to Florida with my friend. We decided to visit a town nearish to where we were staying called Seaside, as we had heard it was a cute place. What I did not know at the time was that Seaside is the place where they filmed The Truman Show. It was a “master-planned community,” constructed in the 80s to be the perfect beach town.

Seaside, FL

Seahaven

And yes, it really does look Like That. Not just in their tourist-agency photos, in real life it looks like that. Arguably the irl Seaside is even prettier than movie Seahaven, because the the office buildings where Truman works don’t exist; the town is 100% cutesy homes and little shops.

Keep reading

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ariel-s-awesome:

chase-prairie:

thinking about what is and what isn’t allowed in frame with reference ecosystems in prairie restoration

Explanation from OP in the replies

restoration ecology tends to want to restore to a past state of an ecosystem, but magically that past state never involved people! Harvest, reciprocity, etc are all ignored because we pretend there’s such a thing as prairie without people. Turns out, that imagined prairie never existed, there were always people here and there should people involved in restored prairie too!

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wordsmith30:

You know what makes me the most upset about the use of AI in our culture? It’s not just removing artists from art or devaluing human creativity – it’s treating people like they’re disposable.

Oh, you’re not that special. We have computers to do that now. If you died tomorrow, we have your image. We have your voice. We have your biometric data. We can just duplicate you, it’s no problem. Who needs flesh and blood? Who needs agency and free thought? Who needs the human soul? You’re just a tool. And when we’re done with you, we’ll just toss you aside and find someone else.

Creatives, listen to me, and listen to me good: you have a voice and it matters. There is no one in the history of the world who is exactly like you, in this time or this place. There is no one who thinks like you, acts like you, speaks like you, moves like you. There is nobody else built like you. Nobody else with your unique experiences and outlook of the world. You are a product of history, of culture, of art, of love, of pain, of possibility. Don’t let them take that from you.

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internetslice:

chaoticneutralcunt:

if i was a little kitty and you were a little kitty would you touch noses with me to say hi

rb to touch prevs kitty nose to say hi

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aspiringbelle:

mysharona1987:

This sounds like something from The Handmaid’s Tale, ffs.

This was an ad in the early 90’s. I first saw it in a textbook in the late 90’s, used as an example of the “slippery slope” fallacy.

Now it’s over 20 years later. It’s happening.

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jcrewguy:

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everythingeverywhereallatonce:

Grindr Staff Launch Union Drive, Fueled by Tech Layoffs and Anti-LGBTQ Threats

Employees at the LGBTQ dating company Grindr Inc. are petitioning to unionize, extending a wave of organizing among tech workers.

Bloomberg.com

OMG GRINDR UNIONIZING TOO????????

(link to bypass paywall)

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bunjywunjy:

yeahhh I lied.

one more time, HAPPY MOON LANDING DAY!

aaand gooodnight.

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thelastundeadbraincell:

Triple A game devs really out there showing their asses, huh?

“BaLdUr’S gAtE 3 sHoUlDn’T bE tHe StAnDaRd”

And why the hell not? Why shouldn’t players expect more than half-finished, bug-filled games with tons of microtransactions? Why should they settle for playing regurgitated copies of whatever games have been popular for the past ten years when they could be playing games that the devs were actually passionate about making?

When you have access to a bigger budget and more resources than Larian did when they made BG3, what’s your excuse for shipping a broken, half-assed mess of a game?

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clairelutra:

okay listen. listen. listen to me. if you’re going to write a romance novel, you have to be at least a little gay about it. ideally very gay about it. if you cannot look at both of your characters and know what would make their love interest get giddy at the mention of their name and/or want to hit the deck and eat them like a last meal, something is wrong. you need to fix that. i don’t care if you’re writing m/f, f/f, m/m, nb/nb, Whatever. if you cannot confidently wax poetic on what exactly about your character would drive their love interest wild, get gayer. that is an order.

clairelutra:

jcrewguy:

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the incredible part? the mayor is a member of SAG-AFTRA himself

my mans saw an opportunity and he’s here to fuckin take it

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