Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
civilian drone mapping technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, sometimes journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. minors DNI
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The USA Bans Foreign-Made Drones, in Trump's Grand Idiot Tradition
It's December 23rd, and the USA has officially banned the import of all foreign made drones and "critical components."
Here's a very quick and dirty run-down of my thoughts.
Although if you'd like t...
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
My quick and dirty thoughts on Trump's short-sighted, stupid, and self-defeating ban on foreign made drones.
Banning foreign drones won't make us safer. Instead, it'll encourage people to build their own drones - which are way harder to track and to control.
Banning foreign drones won't make us safer. Instead, it'll encourage people to build their own drones - which are way harder to track and to control.
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i know how stupid this is but if official dem accounts decided to make these assholes internet famous by calling them perverted freaks it would end this daycare harassment campaign and im telling you i know how stupid that is…
January 1, 2026 at 3:39 PM
i know how stupid this is but if official dem accounts decided to make these assholes internet famous by calling them perverted freaks it would end this daycare harassment campaign and im telling you i know how stupid that is…
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like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”
uhhh yeah I can see why these childcare properties weren't eager to let in some rando dudes asking "where are the kids?"
January 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”
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Breakfast will be summonable by the press of a button
January 1, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Breakfast will be summonable by the press of a button
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Marriages will be easy to cancel
January 1, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Marriages will be easy to cancel
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The world will be standing room only
![THE WORLD IN 2026 -- STANDING ROOM ONLY
[cartoon of a busy planet]
This earth is going to have a lot more people living on it a hundred years from now. And while conditions never may be quite as bad as this sketch would indicate, they'll be bad enough, David Dietz says, if scientists fail to solve the problems of fuel, transportation and food.
--Times Colonist, 17 July 1926](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uuwcnr32gcm7iuzfysuwjvop/bafkreiffvkmp4i32zkji3ywkeuzdwbx6cx7i4jbztmxynjeexftowqbepu@jpeg)
January 1, 2026 at 5:39 PM
The world will be standing room only
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Crime will be treated by doctors
January 1, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Crime will be treated by doctors
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A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026
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January 1, 2026 at 5:13 PM
A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026
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The old ways are the best
January 1, 2026 at 5:38 PM
The old ways are the best
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A few months ago I got the story of a duck who aspires to curling greatness stuck in my brain and simply couldn't get it out until I did this
January 1, 2026 at 5:12 PM
A few months ago I got the story of a duck who aspires to curling greatness stuck in my brain and simply couldn't get it out until I did this
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The average American has three friends.
May 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The average American has three friends.
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He asked me what I would say to the 4th graders who suggested the name if I met them. Good times!
“People aren’t going to like everything you do even if it’s successful, and it’s legitimate for them not to like it and you should get used to it” is what I said. 2/2
“People aren’t going to like everything you do even if it’s successful, and it’s legitimate for them not to like it and you should get used to it” is what I said. 2/2
January 1, 2026 at 5:35 PM
He asked me what I would say to the 4th graders who suggested the name if I met them. Good times!
“People aren’t going to like everything you do even if it’s successful, and it’s legitimate for them not to like it and you should get used to it” is what I said. 2/2
“People aren’t going to like everything you do even if it’s successful, and it’s legitimate for them not to like it and you should get used to it” is what I said. 2/2
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The results of the naming contest for the GRAIL probes were announced at a meeting in 2012. I noted on Twitter that I thought the winning names were dumb.
During a lunch break the NASA PSD director ran into me on the street and said “I hear you don’t like the names?”
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During a lunch break the NASA PSD director ran into me on the street and said “I hear you don’t like the names?”
1/2
January 1, 2026 at 5:33 PM
The results of the naming contest for the GRAIL probes were announced at a meeting in 2012. I noted on Twitter that I thought the winning names were dumb.
During a lunch break the NASA PSD director ran into me on the street and said “I hear you don’t like the names?”
1/2
During a lunch break the NASA PSD director ran into me on the street and said “I hear you don’t like the names?”
1/2
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been a long time since ive seen this label
January 1, 2026 at 5:33 PM
been a long time since ive seen this label
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AI is not only incapable of "seeing" most languages since they are not digitized, it is hastening their disappearance as young people abandon them in favor of languages that offer chatbots and other such resources.
December 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
AI is not only incapable of "seeing" most languages since they are not digitized, it is hastening their disappearance as young people abandon them in favor of languages that offer chatbots and other such resources.
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A language is endangered when it has less than 100 users, and extinct when there are less than 10, mostly elderly, and basically nobody willing to learn it.
When a language no longer has users, the culture of that community - history, poems, science, songs...- is gone. We are all poorer for it.
When a language no longer has users, the culture of that community - history, poems, science, songs...- is gone. We are all poorer for it.
December 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
A language is endangered when it has less than 100 users, and extinct when there are less than 10, mostly elderly, and basically nobody willing to learn it.
When a language no longer has users, the culture of that community - history, poems, science, songs...- is gone. We are all poorer for it.
When a language no longer has users, the culture of that community - history, poems, science, songs...- is gone. We are all poorer for it.
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in Ancient Rome, you’d chill with the homies at the public bathroom, sharing the single ass-wiping sponge on a stick (Xylospongium) amongst yourselves
it was a more noble era
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-...
it was a more noble era
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-...
January 1, 2026 at 5:17 PM
in Ancient Rome, you’d chill with the homies at the public bathroom, sharing the single ass-wiping sponge on a stick (Xylospongium) amongst yourselves
it was a more noble era
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-...
it was a more noble era
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-...
got all the way to my metro stop in DC once before I realized I had two live cave crickets in my boot
(I grew up in the West so am accustomed to checking my boots for interlopers, but foolishly did not assume I had to do so in DC)
(I grew up in the West so am accustomed to checking my boots for interlopers, but foolishly did not assume I had to do so in DC)
Check for scorpions in your boots, too!
January 1, 2026 at 5:14 PM
got all the way to my metro stop in DC once before I realized I had two live cave crickets in my boot
(I grew up in the West so am accustomed to checking my boots for interlopers, but foolishly did not assume I had to do so in DC)
(I grew up in the West so am accustomed to checking my boots for interlopers, but foolishly did not assume I had to do so in DC)
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the most surreal bathroom I’ve ever visited was definitely the World’s Biggest Public Restroom at the Meixin Foreigner Street theme park in Chongqing:
roadsandkingdoms.com/2015/its-a-w...
roadsandkingdoms.com/2015/its-a-w...
It’s a Weird World After All
It may not be Epcot, but Meixin Foreigner Street—featuring Christ the Redeemer’s smaller twin and the world’s largest public bathroom—hints at what China thinks of the rest of us.
roadsandkingdoms.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:46 AM
the most surreal bathroom I’ve ever visited was definitely the World’s Biggest Public Restroom at the Meixin Foreigner Street theme park in Chongqing:
roadsandkingdoms.com/2015/its-a-w...
roadsandkingdoms.com/2015/its-a-w...
that’s just the social shitter, as was the custom for the ancients (no, really)
Came across this cursèd arrangement in a cafe bathroom in Olympia about a decade ago.
January 1, 2026 at 5:12 PM
that’s just the social shitter, as was the custom for the ancients (no, really)
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I will tell my kids (I don't have any) that this is Simpsons composer Alf Clausen
January 1, 2026 at 8:44 AM
I will tell my kids (I don't have any) that this is Simpsons composer Alf Clausen
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A few people cheered
January 1, 2026 at 9:08 AM
A few people cheered
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One time, I got giardia and had to leap from a moving bus and find shelter behind a wispy thorn scrub
once I used a outhouse in Mexico with a rattlesnake in it
Y’all ever walk into a public restroom and immediately whisper “Jesus Christ”
January 1, 2026 at 9:03 AM
One time, I got giardia and had to leap from a moving bus and find shelter behind a wispy thorn scrub
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May not be surreal, but a memorable one had transparent glass in the cubicle doors that presumably was meant to turn opaque when locked. Except it wasn't fully working and instead just dimmed...
the most surreal bathroom I’ve ever visited was definitely the World’s Biggest Public Restroom at the Meixin Foreigner Street theme park in Chongqing:
roadsandkingdoms.com/2015/its-a-w...
roadsandkingdoms.com/2015/its-a-w...
It’s a Weird World After All
It may not be Epcot, but Meixin Foreigner Street—featuring Christ the Redeemer’s smaller twin and the world’s largest public bathroom—hints at what China thinks of the rest of us.
roadsandkingdoms.com
January 1, 2026 at 9:32 AM
May not be surreal, but a memorable one had transparent glass in the cubicle doors that presumably was meant to turn opaque when locked. Except it wasn't fully working and instead just dimmed...
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Like everything the UAE does, it's technically incredible, and has no sense of pacing, dynamics, subtlety, or indeed any aesthetic beyond "impressive".
somehow it’s not surprising that the UAE just pulled off a drone show that is both the coolest and the most dystopian-future menacing that I’ve ever seen
www.youtube.com/live/S8g0lsl...
www.youtube.com/live/S8g0lsl...
New Year 2026 | Ras al-Khaimah in UAE attempts 'record-breaking fireworks and drone display'
YouTube video by Sky News
www.youtube.com
January 1, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Like everything the UAE does, it's technically incredible, and has no sense of pacing, dynamics, subtlety, or indeed any aesthetic beyond "impressive".