"How does it feel to be a loser, Mr. President?"
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h agoTrump now says the midterms were rigged.
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Semi-retired, but still kicking. MA/History. Lifelong Californian. Lifelong Democrat. Naval and Maritime History aficionado. Servant to two cats. Reasonably articulate, but becoming more acerbic as time goes on.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h agoOn this day in 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, recently opened in June of that year, collapsed due to aeroelastic flutter when wind speeds reached 42 mph (68 km/h).
I do a lot of cooking for myself, and made a nice pot of pinto beans with cornbread muffins for dinner last night. All I will say (this is a family site, after all) is that I'm glad that I don't have anything on the social calendar today.
Nicholas P. Roberts, A Sea of Wealth: The Omani Empire and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace. 2025. Image and Publisher👉https://www.ucpress.edu/books/a-sea-of-wealth/paper #MaritimeHistory #IndianOcean #EntangledHistory #BookSky
"Get this! Marco Rubio thinks he has a chance of being elected President!"
The change of the city's name from Constantinople to Istanbul is one of the most widespread inaccurate information. The Ottomans named it Ḳosṭanṭınīyye which is simply an Arabic translation of Constantinople meaning "the city of Constantine". 🧵1/ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Constantinople to Istanbul review – you won’t want to leave this lavish celebration of double imperial splendour
Treasures from the two world-defining cultures that somehow coexisted in one mighty city keep on dazzling in this gorgeous, unmissable show
theguardian.com
It's become, alas!, another Laundry Day! Starting the process is easy. As I get older, however, getting the motivation to get started is getting harder. But I'm now committed. First load in.
Got to sleep in until 3:45 this morning! Must have slept really well for some reason or other last night.
What was a "Black Inferno" (Ottoman Turkish: Kara Cehennem)? It was the name of a particular Maltese warship given by the Ottomans! A 🧵 Image: commons.wikimedia #MaritimeHistory
I looked at the election results from our County Elections Department. I live in a town of 144,000 people. There are about 28,000 students in our local school district. Two candidates got elected to our School Board with about 2,400 votes each. There's something wrong here
A few days from now all the hoopla will die down and we will be back to posting pictures of our cats. I thought I'd avoid the rush.
All this talk of "getting even" or payback or whatever. It's not "getting even". It's enforcing the law. Say that. Correct that. Don't fall into that trap. There's absolutely no reason to.
The Republicans only kept four seats of the 52 seats in the California Congressional delegation. The map speaks for itself. Map: Annetta Stogniew Source: NBC News
You know, I kinda like the idea of AOC being elected Speaker of the House in January. If something happened to Donald and J.D., she'd be next in the line of succession.
Has Flavio Bolsonaro called his travel agent yet?
It's still early in California, but it looks like David Valadao (R) CA 22nd) might be out of a job come January.
While a great number of us are celebrating this morning, the mundane tasks of cleaning the litter box and taking the trash out for pick up simply don't handle themselves.
This is from the Final Report of my County Elections Department. 27.11 percent turnout in a red California County.
In the wake of current events. Post a blue character!
I was just talking to my class about the mobility of Ottoman elites yesterday, and this map would've been useful!
Dr Gul Sen@guel-sen.bsky.social · 6d agoThis simple map demonstrates a typical mobility of an Ottoman bureaucrat in the 18th century across the Ottoman Empire: Naima Efendi , the bureaucrat and court chronicler had these stations born in Aleppo and died in Patras. #OttomanHistory #courtchronicler
I wonder how much drunk tweeting there will be on Elon's site tonight. Hey, at least they won't be out driving!
I've developed the habit of eating my dinner and going to bed early on any Election Night. I can wait until I get up to feed the cats early in the morning to see what happened. At least then there will be a fairly accurate tally.
Went to bed early last night and woke up at the chimes of midnight. Naturally the cats think it's feeding time.
I used to think that Ottoman historical names always the same (in the documents), until I read a list of Greek, Genoese/Venetian names in an 18th-c. Ottoman document. It's about individuals, most likely rowers, deployed either on the galleys or at the Naval Arsenal. #MaritimeHistory #oarsmen
On this day in 1947, Howard Hughes pilots the H-4 Hercules (known as the "Spruce Goose") on its first and only flight. The flight lasted about one minute at a top speed of 135 miles per hour at an altitude of about 70 feet. The plane is currently preserved at the North American Aerospace Museum.
It's bad enough getting hit by a car, but two? www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-n...
Man dies after being hit by 2 cars in Visalia, 1 is a police car
A man died after being struck by two vehicles, including a Visalia police patrol car, near the Visalia Mall early Sunday morning.
yourcentralvalley.com
Awakened by the chimes of two. Fired up the coffee pot, fed my two cats and started the day. So much for having my circadian rythms adjusted. On the othe hand, there's a beautiful crescent moon near Jupiter, it's cool outside and Fall has finally made its appearance. Nap later highly indicated.
Dinner served at the stroke of five, by the Seth-Thomas, visited by the Beggar Cat who just wanted to lie under the table tonight and not see what was for supper, put the leftovers away and washed up all within 20 minutes. "The Bounty is a tight ship, Mr. Christian!"