#IAD 2023

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Happy International Asexuality Day!! 🖤♠️🩶💜

April 6th, 2023

[dinxie]

Happy International Asexuality Day!!! No matter where you are in the world, you are seen, recognized, and loved!

[acesincomics]

Happy International Asexuality Day from Aces in Comics!

Aces in Comics is a project to highlight the growing representation of asexual / ace spectrum characters, creators, and stories in all types of comics, including: comic books, webcomics, graphic novels, manga, minicomics, and more!

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Since 2021, I've been sharing comics with canon ace characters. Every character posted here is confirmed acespec either in-text or by their creator. These Twitter threads list over 120 characters from 90+ comics. Please go to the last post in the thread to see more! Part 1 | Part 2

As more characters are also posted here on Tumblr, you can find these posts under Canon Ace Character List. There's only a few for now but more will be posted soon!

#Acespec Comic Share is a hashtag for ace spectrum (acespec) comic creators to share their comics. Twice a month, usually on the 1st and 3rd Sunday, Aces in Comics holds a comic share on Twitter and Tumblr. (More details and FAQ)

Today is a special comic share for International Asexuality Day. Check out the creators participating and support their work!

If you're on Twitter, you can also follow this list of acespec comic creators! Please DM @acesincomics if you'd like to be added.

[seraphic-sapphic-safehaven]

A special shout-out to autistic aces today! I hope y'all have a great International Asexuality Day and a wonderful Autism Acceptance Month!! 💜🤍🩶🖤

[acesplayingatattraction]

It's International Asexuality Day! IAD 2023 and a day, but hey, we are still ace today, and so are our SPECIAL GUESTS for today, The Ace Couple! And we're still celebrating, so let's get started on this VIDEOVERSE demo by Games By Kinmoku!

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Friday April 7.

International Asexuality Day (Director's Cut)

Well, better late than never.

We have a confession to make. The worldwide celebration of International Asexuality Day was April 6, 2023. The observant among you will notice that today is, in fact, April 7, 2023—one day off the mark. We hold our hands up here: we f*cked up. In any case, there's no time like the present, so we are going right on ahead with a one-day-late extravaganza here on Tumblr to celebrate the wonderful #asexual world, and pay our own little tribute to asexuality of all stripes under its umbrella, including demisexual, grey-asexual, and other ace identities. The glass-half-full among you will simply view it as a 24-hour bonus round which stretches IAD to an indulgent 48 hours of commemoration. This one is for you—if you will accept our apologies.

For now, however as we mark the day's events (the next day, admittedly) on Tumblr, the community continues to do what it does best: by providing us all with an all-hues-of-purple celebration of all things ace with thoughtfulness and humor. See for yourself over at #asexual.

[intersex-support]

It is October 26th, intersex awareness day! Intersex friends, today is for us. I'd like to share this quote from Sean Saifa Wall:

"By connecting with other intersex people, it literally saved my life, because we had the constant script that we are alone, that we are rare. I think intersex activism, and intersex justice actually lets people know that we are not alone” -Liberating All Bodies: Disability Justice and Intersex Justice in Conversation.

We are not alone. We are valuable, and our intersex identity is worth celebrating. Our community knowledge, care for each other, and solidarity is worth celebrating. Our intersex joy is worth celebrating.

When so many of us experience trauma, violence, and isolation, awareness days can bring all sorts of emotion to us. There is room for all of the messiness--whatever being intersex means to you is important, and you deserve the space to express yourself.

Feel free to add on this post and tell us how you're celebrating intersex awareness day today--whatever that looks like for you.

For anyone who wants to learn more about intersex, check out this post and our resources.

[eopederson]

IAD, Loudon County, 2023.

Taken from a plane gaining altitude after take-off from DCA.

[napoftustar]

alDIm....!! şimdi bekleyip göreceğiz dkwlqşxşxçöslw

[mattie24601]

With the third International Asexuality Day (IAD) coming up on April 6 I wanted to write fanfic to celebrate. And while looking through AO3 saw that there didn’t seem to be any collections from previous years so I wanted to make one for this year. You can find it Here. Even though it’s open now please only add works you make for IAD 2023. I don’t have a huge reach so please share this if you see it!

[usafphantom2]

F-22 USAF Raptors start exercises to prevent aggression in the Baltic skies

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 05/12/23 - 11:01 PM in Military

USAF F-22 Raptor fighters are prepared to take off. (Photo: U.S. Air Force / Staff Sgt. Carlin Leslie)

The fifth-generation F-22 fighters of the U.S. Air Force that support the NATO Allied Air Command air armor mission along the eastern flank performed an Agile Combat Employment deployment at Ämari Air Base, Estonia, on May 8, 2023, to prevent aggression in the Baltic Sea region.

In early April, the 94º Expeditionary Fighter Squadron of the Langley-Eustis Joint Base unfolded 12 F-22 Raptors to Powidz Air Base in Poland, in support of the critical mission, which increases Integrated Air Defense and Missiles (IAMD) and the System Capabilities Alliance Counter-Integrated Air Defense (C-IADS) to protect the nearly

By quickly placing forces on the side of the NATO Allies in the Baltic Sea region, the U.S. Air Forces in Europe highlight the operational readiness of coalition forces throughout the European theater and their ability to respond to defend NATO territory.

U.S. Army Engineering Corps spokesman Chris Bailey spoke about the improvements made to the Ämari base in recent years, with the help of U.S. investment.

“We provide accommodation for people to carry out Baltic air policing, so we provide a dormitory so they can reside at the base,” Bailey said.

"We built a maintenance hangar so that they can keep the aircraft out of the elements in Estonia, we built two parking yards - one is a dangerous cargo parking yard, allowing them to unload dangerous goods without being close to the personnel, and we built a tactical hunting yard, with 12 parking spaces for fighters," he continued.

This work began in 2015 and will be completed soon, at a cost of more than 32 million euros. The final installation to be built will be a fuel tank of 2,000 cubic meters.

The spokesman for the Estonian Air Force, Siim Verner Teder, said earlier this week that the arrival of the F-22s: "It allows the rehearsal of cooperation with the allied and Estonian air forces already based in Ämari and the familiarization with the airspace of the eastern flank of NATO".

The Baltic nations - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - are located in a critical corridor of air, land and sea, which requires a coordinated approach between the Allies to maintain and sustain international freedom of manoeuvre throughout the region.

A Spanish NASAMS air defense system currently deployed in Latvia provides ground air defense capabilities in close coordination with the Latvian Control and Reporting Center. Also deployed in Estonia, the Royal Air Force Typhoons are conducting the NATO air policing mission in peacetime. The U.S. ability to rapidly increase other units deployed with fifth-generation fighters expands the Alliance's ability to integrate into all domains.

An effective IAMD structure incorporates air, land, maritime, space and cyber domains to provide full spectrum airspace reconnaissance in the face of complex adversarial threats. As a highly maneuverable stealth aircraft, the fifth-generation F-22 fighter was designed to quickly project the domain, penetrate evolving threats and achieve air superiority.

Tags: Military AviationF-22 RaptorNATO Baltic Air Policing MissionUSAF - United States Air Force / U.S. Air Force

Fernando Valduga

Fernando Valduga

Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Daytona Airshow and FIDAE. He has works published in specialized aviation magazines in Brazil and abroad. Uses Canon equipment during his photographic work around the world of aviation.

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15/08/2023

Bhuel, anois nílim ag déanamh tada, tá a lán rudaí agam le dhéanamh ach gach uair ba mhaith liom iad a dhéanamh, bím gafa le rudaí eile. Is dócha gur cheart dom To Do list a dhéanamh- (╥﹏╥) Ach pé scéal é, táim ag díriú arís ar m'fhreastalaí, tá 's agam gur cheart dom an físeán sin a dhéanamh fós, ach ceapaim gur cheart dom físeán eile a dhéanamh ag an bpionte seo.... bhuel, ugh más rud é nach mbeidh sé seo críochnaithe sula dtosóidh scoil, ní bheidh sé críochnaithe riamh. ( ￣ω￣) Mothúchán anois: CGL, ag smaoineamh faoina rudaí le dhéanamh agam sula dtosóidh mo scoil.

[acesincomics]

International Asexuality Day edition!

A comic share for asexual / ace spectrum comic creators

Introduce yourself

Share your comic(s)

Tag another ace comic creator

Reblog & follow creators

Share your comics with #Acespec Comic Share and tag @acesincomics and/or DM your post!

*Please make sure to use #Acespec Comic Share on an original post, not a reblog.*

WIPs ok 

SFW images only please (linking to NSFW comics is ok though!)

No cryptocomics, nfts, or AI-generated comics 

Full FAQ | Also on Twitter

[klausie]

this is the only queued post im making. iade this post at 9:01 am monday, july 24th, 2023 and i am currently at a summer camp with no phone. i am having a good time

[bobbinacrosstheequator]

April 1-2, 2023 Epilogue (or SJO-MIA-CLT-IAD)

We hope that in short order, we’ll look back fondly on our trip and not think about the agonizing journey home. It was a full - seriously long, FULL – two days of travel starting with a pleasant, early drive from Monteverde to San Jose, with Olgar, from our drive to Monteverde, and Juan Carlos. We even had a stop on the side of the road to observe a howler monkey family.

We checked-in for our American Airlines flight from San Jose to Charlotte, where we’d connect to DC. Only once checked-in, we learned that the flight was delayed. It wound up being the first of four delays on day 1 of our return. Because most people had connections they would miss, every passenger on the plane wound up clambering to be rescheduled, at first individually at various AA desks, then all together at a gate assigned to the task. We had our turn at the desk – were minutes from being rescheduled (!) on a different airline – only to have the AA attendants shut down the process and direct us all to reenter Costa Rica through immigration/customs, pick up our bags (note to selves — only duffels with wheels next time), get in line to rebook our connecting flights for day 2, retrieve hotel/food vouchers from AA, and proceed to the Crowne Plaza on shuttle busses for the night. Turns out the incoming flight was arriving the next day, so our flight was going to be delayed until the next day. Good Grief!! We divided and conquered – Sebbie collecting luggage and Jillebob heading up to the ticketing desk to get in line for re-booking. By the time she got to the front of the line, Seb joined her. We successfully (we thought successfully - more on that to come) re-booked the Charlotte-DC connections for our morning flight on day 2. We sprung for a taxi – finding what turned out to be a decent “official” driver in the sea of aggressive sheisters we’d been warned about. We got to the hotel before yet another line formed for check-in by everyone on the flight who took a shuttle. Dinner – a buffet – was marginal — a real let down after 2 ½ weeks of food that ranged from quite good to excellent. Sometime in the evening, Seb realized from an AA email that the attendant had only re-booked Jillebob’s connecting flight for day 2, even though he looked us in the eye and told us that we were rebooked together. Seb spent ages in the hotel in an online chat with AA customer support. The rep was courteous enough, but a response of “sorry for the inconvenience” is more than inadequate for having been lied to!!!! In the end, there was nothing the rep could do: all flights/all airlines from Charlotte to DC were reportedly full at that point. At least the hotel managed the large, last-minute influx of patrons well, even giving us a wake-up call (not requested). We were already up, and again took a taxi back to the airport to beat the masses from our flight and get our situation resolved before the agents were worn down by what promised to be a long morning of dealing with irate people.

Back at SJO on day 2, the first rep was super nice, checked us in and managed to get Seb on a United flight that got in later than Jill, but at least before the midnight arrival she was slated for. Oops, then when flight delays started again and it wasn’t clear she’d make the sweet booking she’d landed the day before, Jill had to rebook to a later Charlotte to DC flight. Then, several delays later, Seb had to re-book because she’d miss her re-booked United flight. United couldn’t do it, so another on-line chat with AA resulted in us being back on the same Charlotte to DC flight. In the end, we lost track of how many delays there were: an hour here, 90 minutes there…. Finally, the plane for the flight out of San Jose arrived, with added chaos of two AA 1248 flights: one on-time for April 2 and another one delayed from April 1, also leaving on April 2 — both listed on the departure board within minutes of each other. There’s humor in here somewhere. We lined up – again - and once on-board, doors closed, they announced that our destination was Miami. It almost felt like being kidnapped. It wasn’t clear whether the same plane would continue to Charlotte or whether we’d go through immigration/customs in Miami and have to figure out getting to Charlotte. On touchdown, one flight attendant welcomed us to Miami and wished us well for our connecting flights. SERIOUSLY!?!?!? Finally sorted by the airline, while we were still on the plane, we all put our bags back in the overhead bins; they brought on a fresh crew (we had to land in Miami because the last crew had reached the FAA’s flying duration limit); and shortly after, we took off again. All things considered, as grumpy as many of us were, we and our fellow passengers were pretty calm about the outrageous situation. Well, all but the few who had gone ahead and rebooked to Miami connections only to not be let off the plane.

Passing through immigration/customs in Charlotte was remarkably quick and easy. We were both a little disappointed that we did not get to use our Global Entry, just a quick wave through by a border agent. A short wait to board in Charlotte and 55 minutes later, we landed at Dulles. The events of these two days will fade and we’ll be left with memories of tortoises, sea turtles, sloths, tarantulas, an array of birds, among others and great experiences across the equator and back.

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we're sorry we are one day late to IAD, 2023