#and for the hurricanes to be this intense

[iheartsophie]

THE ROYAL FAMILY OF F1 #3 | lewis hamilton

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^ྀི pairing: lewis hamilton x reader, dad!lewis x mum!reader

^ྀི genre: fluff, irl, parenting, established!relationship

^ྀི context: Lucas first karting practice

^ྀི warnings: none!

^ྀི sophie speaks!: i am in love with this series already 💋

The final weekend before the Belgian Grand Prix arrived, and the Hamilton household was buzzing with anticipation. But not because of the paddock.

Because today was Luca’s day.

Lewis had arranged everything in secret—well, sort of. Y/N had known something was up the moment Lewis started sneaking calls in the pantry and whispering words like “custom helmet” and “kid suit size chart” under his breath.

Now, as they pulled into a quiet, private karting track just outside the city—empty, rented out for the day—Luca was bouncing in his car seat like it was Christmas morning.

“Is this for me?” he gasped, peering out the window at the open track and the tiny kart waiting at the edge of the pit lane.

“All yours, champ,” Lewis said, unbuckling him with a grin. “You ready?”

“I’m gonna go SO FAST!” Luca yelled, bolting toward the kart with Roscoe barking behind him.

Y/N crossed her arms with a playful side-eye. “So… this is your version of a playdate?”

Lewis slipped his arm around her waist, smug. “Only the best for the little prince of speed.”

⸻

Luca’s karting experience was… spirited.

He drove like a hurricane. Wild corners. Heavy-footed on the throttle. No concept of apexes. And zero interest in braking.

But he was grinning. Giggling through his helmet. Shouting “WHEEEE!” every time he did a wobbly overtake on an orange cone.

Lewis squatted beside the kart during one of the breaks, gently adjusting Luca’s gloves. “You’re doing great, little man. But remember what I said—smooth is fast, yeah?”

“Like butter?”

“Exactly like butter.”

Y/N watched from under a sun umbrella, recording bits of video with a quiet smile on her lips. “He’s not exactly breaking lap records.”

“No,” Lewis said as he leaned back on his elbows in the grass beside her. “But he’s got the heart. That can’t be taught.”

⸻

They stayed until the sun dipped behind the trees.

Luca, sweaty and flushed, finally climbed out of the kart with a dramatic flop to the grass. “I’m gonna race better than Daddy one day.”

Lewis raised an eyebrow. “Better than me, huh?”

“Uh-huh. I’m gonna be really fast. Like… faster than Max. And Auntie Toto.”

Y/N snorted. “Baby, Toto’s not a driver.”

“Still gonna be faster,” Luca mumbled into the grass.

⸻

That night, after a bath and a very intense negotiation over bedtime (“One more story, please! Just ONE!”), Luca finally crashed.

Y/N tiptoed into their bedroom after checking on him, still towel-drying her hair. Lewis was already stretched across the bed, arms behind his head, lost in thought.

“You’re smiling,” she said, crawling in beside him.

“I’m planning,” he said dreamily.

Y/N narrowed her eyes. “Planning what.”

“Back garden.”

“Lewis…”

“I’m serious.”

She sat up slightly. “You want to build a track in our garden?”

Lewis turned to face her, eyes sparkling. “It doesn’t have to be huge. Just a few turns. A little straight. Somewhere he can practice without us having to book a facility every time.”

“Next thing I know, you’re putting in tire barriers and a mini pit wall,” she muttered, but her voice was full of amusement.

He reached over, curling a hand around her wrist, thumb stroking gently. “He’s got something in him, love. You saw it today. He’s not the best—not yet—but he’s passionate. That’s everything. If this is his dream… I’ll do whatever it takes to help him chase it.”

Y/N looked at him for a long moment—this man who had already conquered the racing world but was ready to start all over again for their son.

Her heart swelled.

“Fine,” she whispered. “But you are the one explaining to the landscaper why the roses are being replaced with a chicane.”

Lewis grinned, tugging her closer. “Deal.”

⸻

Two Weeks Later – Post-Belgium GP

Luca was tearing around the newly laid garden kart track in a helmet three sizes too cute, Roscoe barking from the sidelines like the world’s most committed race engineer.

Y/N watched from the kitchen window, iced coffee in hand.

“He’s never coming inside again, is he?”

Lewis stood beside her, arms folded, a proud smile spreading across his face. “Nope.”

They watched their son skid wide on a turn, then immediately try again with twice the determination.

“He wants to be like you,” she said softly. “Wants to be better than you, even.”

Lewis looked out the window, eyes locked on his son. “That’s the goal, isn’t it? To build something so strong, they don’t just follow—they pass you.”

Y/N leaned into him, head on his shoulder. “He’s lucky to have you.”

Lewis wrapped his arm around her, watching the tiny kart fly past again. “Nah,” he murmured. “I’m the lucky one.”

[mariacallous]

On Sunday afternoon, Michael Meyer, the founder of anti-government extremist group Veterans on Patrol, posted a warning on his Telegram channel.

“Due to the recent weather weapon deployed against Texas, which resulted in a high number of child murders, efforts to eliminate this military treason are being escalated,” Meyer, who is commonly known as Lewis Arthur, wrote.

Hours later, a man broke into an enclosure containing the NextGen Live Radar system operated by News 9 in Oklahoma City, damaging its power supply and briefly knocking it offline. The man also damaged CCTV cameras monitoring the site, but footage shared by News 9 shows the cameras captured a clear image of his face before they were destroyed.

Captain Valerie Littlejohn of the Oklahoma City Police Department tells WIRED that no arrests have been made but that the department is “aware of the Veterans on Patrol group.”

Meyer, who declined to tell WIRED whether he knew the identity of the perpetrator, says the attack was part of what he calls Operation Lone Wolf, adding that he’s in discussion online with over a dozen people who are willing to carry out similar attacks.

“Anyone that's going out to eliminate a Nexrad, if they haven't harmed life, and they're doing it according to the videos that we're providing, they are part of our group,” Meyer tells WIRED. “We're going to have to take out every single media's capabilities of lying to the American people. Mainstream media is the biggest threat right now.”

Nexrads refer to Next Generation Weather Radar systems used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to detect precipitation, wind, tornadoes, and thunderstorms. Meyer says that his group wants to disable these as well as satellite systems used by media outlets to broadcast weather updates.

The attack on the News 9 weather radar system comes amid a sustained disinformation campaign on social media platforms including everyone from extremist figures like Meyer to elected GOP lawmakers.

What united these disparate figures is that they were all promoting the debunked conspiracy theory that the devastating flooding in Texas last weekend was caused not by a month’s worth of rain falling in the space of just a few hours—the intensity of which, meteorologists say, was difficult to predict ahead of time—but by a targeted attack on American citizens using directed energy weapons or cloud seeding technology to manipulate the weather. The result has not only been possible damage to a radar system but death threats against those who are being wrongly blamed for causing the floods.

“I think that we've probably received in excess of 100 explicit death threats on either email or X, [with] probably about one order of magnitude more calls for my incarceration,” Augustus Doricko, the founder of cloud seeding company Rainmaker, tells WIRED.

“NOAA is aware of recent threats against NEXRAD weather radar sites and is working with local and other authorities in monitoring the situation closely,” NOAA spokesperson Erica Grow Cei tells WIRED.

Over 100 people have now been confirmed to have lost their lives in the flash flooding that hit homes and camps along the edge of the Guadalupe River in the early hours of Friday morning. Meteorologists who spoke to WIRED dismissed claims that the National Weather Service failed to accurately predict the risk of flooding in Texas. But within hours of the tragedy happening, conspiracy theorists, right-wing influencers, and lawmakers were pushing wild claims on social media that the floods were somehow geoengineered.

“Fake weather. Fake hurricanes. Fake flooding. Fake. Fake. Fake,” Kandiss Taylor, who intends to run as a GOP candidate to represent Georgia’s 1st congressional district in the House of Representatives, wrote in a post viewed 2.4 million times. “That doesn’t even seem natural,” Kylie Jane Kremer, executive director of Women for America First, wrote on X, in a post that has been viewed 9 million times.

As the emergency response to the floods was still taking place on Saturday, US representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, tweeted that she would be introducing a bill to “end the dangerous and deadly practice of weather modification and geoengineering.” Greene, who once blamed California wildfires on laser beams or light beams connected to an electric company with purported ties to an organization affiliated with a powerful Jewish family, said that the bill will be similar to Florida’s Senate Bill 56, which Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law in June. That bill makes weather modification a third-degree felony, punishable by up to $100,000. (Greene’s office did not respond to a request for comment on whether her announcement was specifically tied to the floods in Texas.)

On Instagram, right-wing influencer Gabrielle Yoder jumped on one of the biggest conspiracy theories, claiming that cloud seeding was responsible for causing the floods and calling out Doricko specifically.

Docicko’s company was also named by disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn on X. He wrote that “anyone who calls this out as a conspiracy theory can go F themselves.”

Doricko told WIRED that Rainmaker was working on a brief cloud seeding operation just days before the storms near the town of Runge, Texas, about 120 miles away from Kerr County, where the worst of the flooding was concentrated. But Doricko says his staff meteorologists noted some high moisture content in the region. The company, he says, called off its operations, per state regulations.

Cloud seeding—the practice of increasing precipitation in a cloud by introducing materials like silver iodide or dry ice—has been in use for decades. The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation maintains a page on current weather modification efforts from irrigation districts, counties, and other groups in the state. Doricko’s company, Rainmaker, is a buzzy startup that aims to “[synthesize] advanced technology with environmental stewardship.”

Multiple meteorologists told WIRED that there is no way that cloud seeding was responsible for the devastating storms that racked Texas last week.

“It is not physically possible or possible within the laws of atmospheric chemistry to cloud seed at a scale that would cause an event like [the Texas flooding] to occur,” says Matt Lanza, a digital meteorologist based in Houston. Lanza compares cloud seeding to adding “icing to a cake”: It’s able to juice up precipitation from clouds in drier areas, not create storms wholesale out of thin air.

The National Weather Service was already warning as early as last Tuesday about potential nighttime downpours in parts of Texas, thanks to moisture coming northward from Tropical Storm Barry, which made landfall last weekend in Mexico.

“The meteorological ingredients [for the storm] were already there, and cloud seeding could not have played a role,” Lanza says.

Doricko is no stranger to anti-weather modification factions. He spent much of the early half of this year testifying against a swath of state-level anti-geoengineering bills, including the one that eventually passed in Florida.

Doricko’s personal profile—he was once photographed with Bill Clinton and was chosen as a Thiel fellow—seems to have made the attacks on his company easier for those looking for a conspiracy on which to pin the devastating storms in Texas.

“I am trying to be as transparent as possible, because this is an incredibly controversial subject but isn't actually as regulated and discussed transparently as it ought to be by the federal government,” Doricko says. “Just for the record, I'm not a deep state plant from either Bill Gates or Palantir, Peter Thiel or Bill Clinton.”

[lillybean730]

people who are aware of what's happening to the planet and then ignore/deny it bc it makes them too sad piss me off

[vaguely-concerned]

lucanis' last question when interrogating zara's corpse -- whether illario also asked her to kill caterina -- is so telling. because if illario had done that, I actually do think lucanis would have killed him. (his standards are predictably wild and hilarious in a dark sort of way. listen I can forgive you for killing me that's fine understandable even but there's a limit to everything illario.) which is why he saves that question for last: it's the one thing he really does not want to know the answer to. because if the answer is yes, it's going to need action from him that would be so psychologically catastrophic that nothing the ossuary could do to him would compare, that would have been the end of him too, I feel, even with rook and the team there to try to catch him or pick up the pieces. I love how if you pay attention you can trace out the underlying hurt/logic already here, before it gets spelled out in inner demons. the logic lucanis' brain operates on is very sad and very consistent the whole way throughout the game.

[caityrose]

Some drawings from yesterday, lost power for probably 14 hours after we were hit😓

(Our fence had 2 holes in it, but we fixed it)

[smileysvech]

ANDREI SVECHNIKOV

stars @ hurricanes | 02.24.24

[russell-crowe]

i have been listening to quite a bit of U2 today and now the age old question of "which member is actually my fave?" has resurfaced

[dykephan]

my friends and i were debating which natural disaster is the most fuckable and i really need to hear phil's opinions on that

[alexandriaellisart]

Our power is back on!!!!!😭💖💖🌟🌟

[bluesidedown]

im so tired (like emotionally but also 1st day of period) that all i wanna do is crawl into a small dark hole and never emerge but for some stupid reason i signed up to make soup for bible study tomorrow

[wildsaltair]

WHO GAVE HIM THE RIGHT

[nctyaoi]

FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OF TAMPA BAY:

10/07/24 11am Major Hurricane Milton Update

⚠️Now a Category 5 Hurricane

⚠️If the storm stays on the current track, it will be the worst storm to impact the Tampa area in over 100 years.

⚠️Please evacuate if told to do so.

⚠️Complete all prep before tomorrow night.

LOCAL OFFICIAL EVACUATION ORDERS: https://www.floridadisaster.org/evacuation-orders/

MORE INFORMATION ON STORM SURGE: https://hurricanes.gov/

⚠️ please take this seriously ‼️

if you know anyone currently in the central Florida area please reach out to them! This IS expected to impact Orlando as well. Local weather stations are the best source to get weather information! do not wait until Tuesday to evacuate, the time is NOW.

[marsmad]

So fineeeee! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

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[pardonmydelays]

one thing about me is i will listen to hurricane on repeat

[samglyph]

Well I’m caught in a tropical storm and thinking about evacuating which means my instinct to relisten to malevolent is acting up again

[grilledcheeseandguavajelly]

Hey guess what?? There’s a hurricane coming right at me! So if any of you lovely peaches want to send me asks to get my mind off of it, it’d be greatly appreciated 🥺🙈

(If I don’t answer them right away it’s probably because I’ve lost power and am trying to save my phone battery)