A couple years ago I found a bicycle brooch at a thrift store and recently I found another of the same at a different thrift store, so now it’s like two invisible friends going for a little bike ride on my jacket.
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So glad I’m not the only person who didn’t pick up on this!!
That’s just Mr. Fibreglass.
He used to work at the same clothing store I work at, but then he and his brothers all got replaced so now he’s unemployed.
Broadcaster Derek Cooper of the BBC science show Tomorrow’s World visited industrial consultant Rex Malik at his London home to learn more about SCAN, the very first home computer in Europe. While Malik was still getting used to the computer, his young son was captivated.
From his bed in Highgate, London, industrial consultant Rex Malik has the world at his fingertips…Rex is the lucky owner of a home computer terminal, and while he is still figuring out the best way to use it, his four-year old son has enthusiastically embraced the new technology.
In this clip, which was originally broadcast in September of 1967, Cooper made a prophetic statement that eventually came true.
One day, it’s thought, we might all have a computer terminal in our homes.
Rondò Veneziano, a Venetian electronic chamber orchestra from the 1980s that seamlessly combines classical music with modern pop, played their original song “La Serenissima” while dressed as Baroque robots.
Rondo Veneziano performing “La Serenissima” at Sunday Sunday
The Makah Cultural & Research Center Museum celebrates the history and legacy of the Makah Tribe of the lands that are now NW Washington state.Â
After a storm in the winter of 1969 gave light to a number of wooden artifacts on the coast of Neah Bay, an excavation project was launched. The 11-year excavation of the Ozette Archeological Site uncovered around 55,000 wooden artifacts, including six intact longhouses and their contents, which are estimated to be pre-contact (around 500 years old).
The local tribe was given custody of the artifacts and in 1979 opened the Museum to interpret and share these artifacts with others. The museum displays around 500 objects from the site, as well as full-size replicas of Makah longhouses and canoes.Â
The Museum is dedicated to preserving and protecting the Makah culture and language and the center runs many education programs such as the Makah Language Program which aims to restore the Makah language to spoken fluency and conducts language lessons in local schools. The Center is also home to the Makah Tribal Historic Preservation Office.Â
Sometime this summer, I rediscovered my fic writing muse. Which has been great, but has unfortunately also meant that I’ve fallen quite behind on writing up my monthly albums - I have several months of backlog! Fortunately, I have still actually been listening to the albums and noting them down, so I’ve been able to look back at my list and write them up.
First up, we’re all the way back to the summer, for my August album, which was Fable by Ainsley Hamil. (I really thought I’d at least started this post, I definitely remember sitting down in the days after the gig with the album on and the intent to write about it. I suspect I probably started writing it into the ‘create entries’ page and lost the draft.) I mostly know Ainsley Hamil as a Gaelic singer - competed for the Gold Medal at the Mod a couple of time - and this album is split pretty evenly between songs in Gaelic and English, with a Burns number thrown in for good measure. Personally I think if we’re talking traditional Gaelic modes, she’s better suited to puirt-a-beul than the strictures of the Gold Medal - I’ve seen her do puirt live and she’s very good, it’s not easy to keep up that level of articulation at that speed especially not in the middle of a gig! She has such a rich, warm singing voice, it’s a pleasure to listen to her sing, and always so tempting when the album finishes, to just stick it on again for another play through!
Unusually, I was listening to this album extensively because I was going to a gig, rather than going to the gig because I’d been listening to the album a lot. My local art centre hosts a folk music festival in a tent on it’s lawn every summer. (Not in one intense weekend but two bands per session, two sessions a night, five nights a week across two months.) Living near by and being a regular gig go-er, I go to a lot of these sessions, sometimes with friends, sometimes alone, sometimes pre-planned, others spur of the moment because I walked past and thought ‘oh they’re good’ and stayed. The Ainsley Hamil gig was planned fairly far in advance, as a friend texted me just after the programme came out and asked if I fancied it, and as I did and it was a day I was on a helpful shift, we booked it and went. As it was her idea, and I’d agreed on the basis that I remembered what I’d heard of Hamil’s latest album being good, I thought I better swat up beforehand.
(It’s a lovely album, but gosh, live really is her forte, she was such a compelling and warm presence on stage, making her music come alive. In both Gaelic and Scots, her delivery on the album is more precise and probably more technically correct, but live she was so much more natural and felt much less constrained.)
In the hamlet of Knowlesville, N.Y. - just outside the village of Albion in Orleans County - is a pie pan that was once the home of the world's largest apple pie.
Orleans County previously boasted being the home of the world's largest apple pie when the record was first set with a 6,000 pound sweet treat in 1928. However, the world of competitive large pie-baking waits for no one, and that record was swiftly broken by other colossal crumbly delights (it's unclear whether all were apple).Â
Orleans County locals set out to reclaim their title in the 1970s. The first attempt to do so, on August 2, 1977 at the Orleans County Fairgrounds, ended in disaster when the tin that held the 17,985lbs. pie broke mid-bake and the half-baked pie covered the fairgrounds' parking lot.
Undeterred, local pie-enthusiasts made another attempt to bake their name in history the following year. After 5 hours and 58 minutes of baking, Orleans County's apple pie glory was finally restored with a 21,210 pounds pie filled with around 300 bushels of apples, as well as 3,500 pounds of sugar, 76 pounds of salt, 600 pounds of apple juice and water, 1,144 pounds of spices and stabilizer, and 600 pounds of French pastry crust.
Unfortunately, that record was broken in the 1980s by a group from England, and is now held by the town of Wenatchee, WA, whose 40,000lbs. effort baked in 1997 still holds the title.Â
But Orleans County was the only record-setter to preserve the tin in which their pie was baked, and that tin is still proudly displayed. The pan received a new paint job and updated signage in 2022 as part of the 75th Orleans County Fair. Today, you can view the pan along with a sign of the pie's recipe with the tin's dimensions next to the Lartz Commercial Exhibit Building. With a diameter of over 16 feet, the pan is the world's largest apple pie tin - try bringing that to Thanksgiving!
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I hope everyone is having a lovely day, especially those of us in the U.S. where it is Thanksgiving. I just took my gluten-free dairy-free pumpkin pie bars out of the oven and they're cooling in the microwave where the kitten can't get at them.
If you have a second, or more than one, come share your Thanksgiving menu or a favorite fall dish in the comments!
The View from T'Khut (5776 words) by Laura JV Chapters: 1/8 Fandom: Star Trek, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Spock/Nyota Uhura, James T. Kirk/Spock, Sarek & Spock (Star Trek), Spock & Spock Prime Characters: Spock (Star Trek), Spock Prime, James T. Kirk, Nyota Uhura, T'Pau (Star Trek), Sarek (Star Trek), Vulcan Characters (Star Trek), Crew of the Starship Enterprise Additional Tags: Vulcan Culture (Star Trek), Vulcan Mind Melds (Star Trek), Vulcan Language (Star Trek), jj abrams should be ashamed of himself, Vulcan history, Vulcan mythology, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, symbiotic red algae Series: Part 1 of The View from T'Khut Summary:
Part I: The Absent World. The planet vanishes, but her people go on.
Part II: An Archaeology of Loss. The world-death left a scar in spacetime, and a void in the heart of the Federation.
Part III: Time and Darkness. In which Ambassador Spock fires unexpected shots.
This story was a very long time coming. I have had the title for it for over a decade, and this summer I realized what story went with that title. It is complete but being posted in parts over the next few weeks and runs about 50K words all told.
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Mapped: Thanksgiving Travel by Airport in 2025
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Key Takeaways
Long Beach (LGB) and Oakland (OAK) show the sharpest increases in Thanksgiving week arrivals, rising 111% and 84%, respectively, year-over-year.
Major hubs like San Francisco International (SFO) and Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta (ATL) expect declines in Thanksgiving arrivals, highlighting 2025 travelers’ preference for smaller airports.
Thanksgiving remains one of the busiest travel periods in the United States, with millions of passengers moving through airports nationwide.
This visualization uses data from Amadeus to map out where air traffic is rising the most—and where it is falling—across 100 airports for Thanksgiving week 2025 compared to 2024.
Thanksgiving Air Travel Across the U.S. in 2025
The key trend in Thanksgiving air travel for 2025 is that smaller regional airports are experiencing surges in arrivals while major hubs are seeing notable pullbacks.
The data table below shows the year-over-year change in scheduled Thanksgiving week arrivals for 100 U.S. airports. Thanksgiving week is defined as the period from November 25th to December 2nd.
Airport code
Destination airport
Annual change in Thanksgiving week (2025) arrivals
LGB
Long Beach Airport (Daugherty Field)
111%
OAK
San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport
84%
BUR
Hollywood Burbank Airport
39%
PVD
Theodore Francis Green State Airport
35%
SAC
Sacramento Executive Airport
31%
SAN
San Diego International Airport
31%
ELP
El Paso International Airport
27%
PIT
Pittsburgh International Airport
27%
MSY
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
23%
BZN
Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport
22%
PWM
Portland International Jetport
22%
TUL
Tulsa International Airport
22%
SJC
Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport
21%
AUS
Austin Bergstrom International Airport
19%
ECP
Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport
19%
COS
City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport
18%
ROC
Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport
18%
BOI
Boise Air Terminal/Gowen Field
18%
SNA
John Wayne Orange County International Airport
17%
LIH
Lihue Airport
17%
RNO
Reno Tahoe International Airport
16%
ICT
Wichita Eisenhower National Airport
16%
ALB
Albany International Airport
16%
CMH
John Glenn Columbus International Airport
15%
IND
Indianapolis International Airport
15%
MKC
Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport
15%
OMA
Eppley Airfield
15%
BHM
Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport
14%
OGG
Kahului International Airport
14%
ABQ
Albuquerque International Sunport
14%
SAT
San Antonio International Airport
13%
STL
St. Louis Lambert International Airport
12%
TUS
Tucson International Airport / Morris Air National Guard Base
12%
BNA
Nashville International Airport
12%
FAT
Fresno Yosemite International Airport
11%
EUG
Mahlon Sweet Field
11%
GRR
Gerald R. Ford International Airport
11%
KOA
Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keahole
11%
HFD
Hartford Brainard Airport
10%
OKC
Will Rogers World Airport
8%
MYR
Myrtle Beach International Airport
7%
MSN
Dane County Regional Truax Field
7%
PHX
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
7%
CHS
Charleston International Airport
7%
HAR
Capital City Airport
7%
LIT
Bill & Hillary Clinton National Airport/Adams Field
6%
PBI
Palm Beach International Airport
6%
RIC
Richmond International Airport
6%
SRQ
Sarasota Bradenton International Airport
6%
DSM
Des Moines International Airport
6%
FMY
Page Field
6%
HNL
Daniel K. Inouye International Airport
5%
FLL
Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport
5%
ORF
Norfolk International Airport
5%
DTW
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
5%
BOS
Logan International Airport
4%
MEM
Memphis International Airport
4%
SBA
Santa Barbara Municipal Airport
4%
JFK
John F. Kennedy International Airport
3%
SLC
Salt Lake City International Airport
3%
TPA
Tampa International Airport
2%
PSC
Tri Cities Airport
2%
GSP
Greenville Spartanburg International Airport
2%
FYV
Drake Field
2%
MSP
Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport / Wold‚ Chamberlain Field
2%
MKE
General Mitchell International Airport
1%
LAX
Los Angeles International Airport
1%
ORD
Chicago O'Hare International Airport
1%
MIA
Miami International Airport
1%
PSP
Palm Springs International Airport
1%
GEG
Spokane International Airport
0%
FSD
Sioux Falls Regional Airport / Joe Foss Field
0%
SAV
Savannah Hilton Head International Airport
0%
LAS
Harry Reid International Airport
0%
HOU
William P Hobby Airport
0%
JAX
Jacksonville International Airport
-1%
ORL
Orlando Executive Airport
-1%
JAN
Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport
-2%
VPS
Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport
-2%
SFO
San Francisco International Airport
-2%
DFW
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
-2%
SEA
Seattle‚ Tacoma International Airport
-2%
BUF
Buffalo Niagara International Airport
-3%
RDU
Raleigh Durham International Airport
-4%
SDF
Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport
-5%
IAD
Washington Dulles International Airport
-5%
ATL
Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport
-6%
PNS
Pensacola International Airport
-6%
HSV
Huntsville International Carl T. Jones Field
-8%
PDX
Portland International Airport
-9%
DEN
Denver International Airport
-11%
ANC
Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport
-12%
CLE
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
-12%
PHL
Philadelphia International Airport
-13%
CVG
Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport
-13%
CLT
Charlotte Douglas International Airport
-14%
TYS
McGhee Tyson Airport
-15%
SYR
Syracuse Hancock International Airport
-15%
GSO
Piedmont Triad International Airport
-24%
CAE
Columbia Metropolitan Airport
-26%
Across the dataset, changes range from a 111% surge at Long Beach Airport (LGB) to a 26% decline at Columbia Metropolitan Airport (CAE).
While Thanksgiving week air bookings in 2025 have increased 4% compared to last year, mid-sized and secondary airports have seen 9% growth, suggesting travelers are being more deliberate about their destinations as they try to avoid congestion.
West Coast Airports Lead Thanksgiving Arrivals Growth
The strongest growth appears at several California airports. Long Beach (111%), Oakland (84%), and Burbank (39%) rank as the top three increases in Thanksgiving airport destinations in 2025.
These gains suggest that travelers are favoring secondary West Coast airports, especially as San Francisco International Airport sees a 2% decline.
Sacramento Executive Airport (SAC) and San Diego International Airport also both feature a notable 31% rise in 2025 compared to last year’s Thanksgiving week.
Providence’s Theodore Francis Green Memorial State Airport (PVD) posts a 35% increase—one of the stronger gains outside the West Coast.
Thanksgiving Travel Declines Concentrated in the Southeast
The steepest declines in Thanksgiving arrivals in 2025 compared to last year are primarily across Southern airports.
Columbia (CAE) sees a 26% decline, followed closely by Greensboro’s Piedmont Triad (GSO) at -24%.
Other airports such as McGhee Tyson (TYS) in Tennessee, Syracuse Hancock (SYR) in New York, and Charlotte Douglas (CLT) in North Carolina also show double-digit decreases.
Overall, some of the country’s largest airports are seeing significant declines, like Atlanta International Airport (the world’s busiest airport in 2024) expecting 6% fewer arrivals compared to last year.
Other major airports with declines include Dallas/Fort Worth (-2%), Denver International (-11%), and Philadelphia International (-13%), all of which expect significant drops in Thanksgiving travel in 2025.
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