Post B4Y80sU6gUYSyb6l6m by caitp@mstdn.social
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(DIR) Post #B4Y7iaqvV70P4z3yEq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-03-23T12:48:03Z
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I do not enjoy worrying "is it terrorism" when there is an accident at the airport. This was something that I think many people in NYC would think for years after 2001, and now it feels the same again. Anyway there was an accident on the tarmac at LaGuardia, a plane crashed into a fire truck. They canceled all the flights. I noticed because normally I hear more planes at this hour and the quiet was unsettling. When I saw a photo of a crushed plane I had a little panic attack.
(DIR) Post #B4Y7vnhL3MyIgPsNV2 by musiciankate@hcommons.social
2026-03-23T12:50:23Z
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@futurebird I’ve been hearing about that, it sounds like it was an air traffic control error.
(DIR) Post #B4Y7yUVOrpeO1kZhZo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-03-23T12:50:55Z
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The panic is a mix of the fear of the actual danger of such an attack ... but also how it would make this country even more crazy and dangerous. Then my imagination starts spiring and it's the kind of war no one wants to see. All over nothing. This all needs to stop. We don't need to live like this.
(DIR) Post #B4Y80sU6gUYSyb6l6m by caitp@mstdn.social
2026-03-23T12:51:21Z
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@futurebird not going to prejudge the situation but it my instinct says "another control tower mixup"
(DIR) Post #B4Y81rWhjRsUIJnC7s by aprilfollies@mastodon.online
2026-03-23T12:51:27Z
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@futurebird 💔
(DIR) Post #B4Y83JBuMSieNskrCq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-03-23T12:51:48Z
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@musiciankate Yes, to be clear it seems like it was just some kind of gross error in routing the planes around the tarmac, which is overbooked and everyone knows it so ... this kind of thing happening isn't out of the realm of the expected.
(DIR) Post #B4Y8ajeF12Wrzlwk2C by MedeaVanamonde@beige.party
2026-03-23T12:57:49Z
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@futurebird just pulled the news on this
(DIR) Post #B4Y9PCzMCbcJTMtHrU by ligasser@social.epfl.ch
2026-03-23T13:06:53Z
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@futurebird you know what happens if you stop worrying about terrorist attacks: people start looking at what is actually going on, and asking to change things for the better of their lives.Wouldn't want to have these woke people trying to improve live quality - that's so Swedish!
(DIR) Post #B4YCN4R9KHw0EWYwG8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-03-23T13:40:11Z
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@ligasser I know I shouldn't worry but I still do, and I think that means a lot of people must.
(DIR) Post #B4YCxtFjs4KGGFmYvw by Mazdak@twit.social
2026-03-23T13:46:48Z
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@futurebird I sympathize with your worries. My house is a couple of miles from the Pentagon, and I still get a little nervous when the jets and helicopters fly over.
(DIR) Post #B4YGhdr5kbQ1gplGvw by musiciankate@hcommons.social
2026-03-23T14:28:38Z
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@futurebird It should be out of the realm of the expected, at least I would hope it would be. Two vehicles (one plane, one firetruck) were cleared to be crossing at the same place at the same time. I have only seen it through this YouTube link so far, so that’s what I’m sharing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbm-QJAAzNY It shows diagrams of where the objects were along with the radio audio tracks from air traffic control. The two Air Canada pilots are dead and passengers are hospitalized, I don’t know if there are any more updates on casualties since that.
(DIR) Post #B4YHfRBpy9eDmeygQi by DavidM_yeg@beige.party
2026-03-23T14:39:29Z
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@futurebird It was an error in air traffic control, which makes it a result of a different kind of terrorism: the systematic starving or dismantling of all kinds of important systems that people rely of for safety. We’ve been hearing how dire the situation is in air travel after a decade of backsliding, so after the incredibly destabilizing last year on top of that, the news is sad but hardly surprising. The terrorists are in Washington.
(DIR) Post #B4YLJffDsH9o7UbCWu by count_01@mastodon.social
2026-03-23T15:20:23Z
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@futurebird It's not nothing; the kleptomaniac at the top of the kleptocracy gotta get paid, along with all the other grasping little fingers on the way up the mountain of graft.
(DIR) Post #B4YSZvj0cvNuFF4P8y by lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net
2026-03-23T16:41:24Z
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@futurebird You're better at maths than me I guess, but apparently the cost of the war in Iran already surpassed what it would have cost to give full free college education to all the US families earning less than 125 000 $ a year...I suppose that you can picture better than me what it means for your students ?This has to stop indeed.https://xcancel.com/joshua_landis/status/2035466206115705276#m
(DIR) Post #B4YSeerIlL75NoCfFQ by lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net
2026-03-23T16:42:35Z
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@futurebird You're better at maths than me I guess, but apparently the cost of the war in Iran already surpassed what it would have cost to give full free college education to all the US families earning less than 125 000 $ a year...I suppose that you can picture better than me what it means for your students ?We indeed don't have to live like this.https://xcancel.com/joshua_landis/status/2035466206115705276#m
(DIR) Post #B4YaZf65FR2cJ9FJhI by ligasser@social.epfl.ch
2026-03-23T18:11:21Z
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@futurebird please don't stop worrying. Just know that you have the God creator on your side. And keep calm under his wings...