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This is a clusterfuck of fandoms, politics, aesthetics, fashion, history, memes, and lots of other random things | Genderfluid (switch between he/she/they) | my langblr is @nerdy-langblr | my ao3 is theangstmonarch | I never check my asks

[doctorcurdlejr]

sometimes I get sad when I think about all the people who are missing out on the pleasures of life only because they've decided it wasn't for them before they even gave it a shot :(

[doctorcurdlejr]

Like idk sometimes you just have to step out of your comfort zone and take a risk to seek happiness in life... I almost didn't reach out to a classmate to ask if we could catch a movie bc it felt lame, but I did and now they're one of my best friends and we live together. I put off seeing live music for years because I was afraid to go alone and I thought I'd hate it, but after I finally pushed myself to go to a show alone I realized I fucking loved it! This year alone I've probably seen more live music than every year before this combined. I thrifted a film camera, bought some film, and then put off learning how to use it for two years because I was afraid people would think I looked stupid and I didn't want to be bad at something. A month ago I realized the film was just gonna expire and go to waste anyways, so I pushed myself to give it a go and I've had so much fun learning something new just for me. Sure, I've had nights where I've gone to the club or trivia night or a library event, and thought it was bogus - but it wasn't world ending either. I just left! But I felt happier just knowing I tried.

[weekendviking]

Chat, what happens when we don't pay the Praetorian Guard, or the Legion in general? Shouldn't be too much of a problem, should it?

[weekendviking]

Ok, it doesn't seem to have been too much of a problem yet. What happens if we don't feed the whole imperial army?

[settlers-of-caltrans]

This article is fucking crazy lmao

[settlers-of-caltrans]

One App, 60 Men, 26 Dates: My Adventures in Alt-Right Dating

There’s no question that we’re living—and looking for love—in contentious times, where extreme political ideologies have all but divided par

[settlers-of-caltrans]

Like what is happening, even the author seems perplexed.

[settlers-of-caltrans]

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[ashleythetraveler]

[redstonedust]

it IS surreal when companies decide to invent the torment nexus from hit media franchise "dont invent the torment nexus" but also to be fair a lot of "dont invent the torment nexus" stories are less "don't invent the torment nexus" and more "oh god has anyone noticed that we are dangerously close to inventing the torment nexus. can we please stop inventing the torment nexus. the torment nexus is maybe 2-3 years away. is anybody listening."

[becquerel]

oh so um shipping is about to be kneecapped in the US

[becquerel]

a plane just exploded on the UPS worldport hub which is biggest ups hub in the world. and usps also uses

[becquerel]

like louisville worldport is important enough that the one time they tried to close it for winter and there's major salt stores in the caves under the city to make sure winter weather never stops the shipping. an md-11 plane on the way to honolulu just exploded on it.

[becquerel]

sorry i meant "the one time they tried to close it for winter in 1994, ups threatened to leave the city, and now there's massive stores in the caves underneath the city to make sure weather never affects the capability of worldport to continue operating."

everyone in this city is in one of three categories: currently employed by ups, formerly employed by ups, or someone directly related to them is. the main thing the entire city is currently built around just had a 280k lb bomb go off on it.

[e-motionengine]

At least 3 dead, 11 injured in UPS plane crash in Kentucky and governor says numbers likely to grow

At least people are 3 dead and 11 injured after UPS plane crashed in Kentucky. The governor says Tuesday those numbers are likely to grow.

UPS distribution hub in Louisville has 300 flights per day. What to know

A UPS cargo plane crashed at a Louisville, Kentucky, airport where the company operates its largest package delivery hub. UPS calls the gian

[moki-dokie]

This could have been unfathomably worse if not for those pilots doing everything in their and the planes power to get it into the air and aimed at a safe area to crash back down into.

They knew they were going to die when the engine fell off whilst still on the runway. Their options were to slam on the breaks and barrel directly into the distribution facility straight ahead of them with hundreds of workers inside of it, or TRY to get airborne enough to hit the ground somewhere that won't kill more people than them. They chose the latter. It's a nightmare Murphy's law scenario in general, but especially for that bird.

It was bound for Honolulu, there was a MASSIVE amount of fuel it had just been filled with. It has 3 engines and designed to be able to fly with 2 should one fail and even if 2 failed it should still be able to make a relatively safe emergency landing (depending on altitude and location). But one engine fell off, the tail engine ingested likely debris from the multiple different angles of it, and there was an uncontrolled fire near, if not already at the fuel tank for that fallen engine - and it all happened while going down the runway at speeds there is no way of stopping quickly with something so large. Had it crashed into the facility straight ahead, not only would everyone in it be killed but the explosion would have taken out other surrounding buildings/parts of the airport that were also highly populated.

Those pilots saved countless lives in the last few moments they had.

I look forward to the report after the investigation is done, though. Either someone(s) was extremely neglectful doing inspections on that plane or a structural failure is about to be uncovered because engines don't just fucking fall off like that. Explode, malfunction, break, pieces fall off, but the whole. entire. engine. should not simply come off the wing like THAT.

[holy-muffins]

Career pilots are often some of the most deeply principled and disciplined people you can usually meet. They have an intense love of the air and they have an even more intense respect for the physics of what makes their birds fly so high. They work on a different level of love for the craft, though, because if something goes wrong it will so often put so. many. more. people at risk than almost anyone else's job going wrong can.

It's basically them and railroad workers who are awake to problems in their industry and they will work themselves to the bone too keep those problems from killing people--and they will stay in these industries even when that work is insurmountable because so often the math comes down to "at least I know what is wrong, I couldn't live with myself if I walked away and wasn't there when something happens."

Pilots of all flavors, private and commercial and more, are also trained how to make the best of bad dice. They go up in the air knowing how much fuel they have, how heavy that fuel is, and they know just how quickly a spark becomes a conflagration in the realm of compounding problems. Pilot decisions therefore must move faster than that spark and must outsmart the physics of that conflagration.

This flight crew made and implemented decisions faster than the fate they'd been dealt could take their lives. It will probably come out that the company they worked for played with those lives and helped stack the deck against them in an endless quest to please shareholders. It is a damn shame and this crew should be home with their families tonight, even as their actions allowed hundreds to go home to their families.

[depsidase]

[dreg-heap]

"He would NOT fucking say that" does not apply to yoda, who could plausibly say anything

[dreg-heap]

Took ecstacy and remembered people have feelings, I did. Making the rounds and apologizing for my past misdeeds I am

[liberalsarecool]

2026: vote to impeach Trump, unwind P2025.

I'm in!

[fandomsandfeminism]

God, you promise?

[saywhat-politics]

Democrats flip two seats in deep red Mississippi, break GOP supermajority

The outcome in Mississippi adds to a national pattern in which Democrats are making legislative gains in red states.

Democrats have broken the Republican supermajority in the Mississippi state Senate for the first time in years, following court-ordered special redistricting elections intended to provide greater representation for the state’s Black voters.

It comes as Democrats notched up wins in city and statewide elections across the country on Tuesday in what is being seen as a widespread rebuke of President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress.

[astra-the-dragon]

small wins build up, let this be a small light of hope.

[basileater]

ive always been willing to die on the hill of cis women being able to beat cis men in sports so nobody will ever ever make me concerned about trans women in womens sports even if i was delusional enough to believe that was a comparable situation. do i think a cis woman could beat a trans woman in fucking pickleball or whatever? Buddy I think a cis woman could beat a cis male bodybuilder in sports. You will not get me

[domsdickey]

this feels too important (and correct!!) to leave in the notes

[catboybiologist]

Why Women Have Beaten Men in Marathon Swimming?

Research has shown that women, due to specific reasons, have regularly produced faster times than men in marathon swimming.

Women often outperform men in Olympic shooting. Is it time for open events?

The sport’s governing body says there is little difference in performance between genders. Should men and women compete head-to-head as indi

Men’s and Women’s Gymnastics: Exploring Differences in Olympic Events

Uncover the unique differences between men’s and women's gymnastics at the Olympics. Explore how these events contrast in style and rules.

Women outperform men in many sports, and in many instances, the men's versions of these sports are rewritten into completely different versions so that they can't be compared.

And if your reaction to this is "well women don't outperform men in skills that we typically find impressive" I would implore you to think about why things women tend to be better at than men are valued less by society.

If your reaction is "well that's cherrypicking examples, its such a small handful of formalized sports" I'd implore you to think of why so many popular sports are structured around the specific set of skills men are better at.

Because the answer starts with m and ends with isogyny.

[mephistopheles]

first female democrat governor of new jersey AND first female governor of virginia. and they were roommates

[mephistopheles]

oh my god they were roommates

[mephistopheles]

you’ve heard of the beach that makes you old now get ready for the apartment that makes you the first female democratic governor of an east coast us state

[sweatermuppet]

"irreversible side effects of HRT" all of life is irreversible. i cannot go back a single second in time

[afurioushawk]

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer about that Democratic flip for the Bucks County District Attorney, they're saying a Democrat hasn't held that position since 1891, which means the last time they did was during the Benjamin Harrison administration.

[s0ur-kand1]

this is so fucking funny dude

[enki2]

[pespillo]

the pipeline of fixating over some thingy

[ruffolive]

[image id: On the left, a drawing of a nondescript character smiling and throwing up peace signs, labelled "First fanart of a character you liked". On the right, the same character is seated in an elaborate dress, with feathered wings, in front of a birdcage covered in sparkle. This drawing is labelled "30th fanart of the character. This is how you know you're cooked". /end id]

[pespillo]

alright alternate route for people who have problems (i understand)

[luulapants]

Nothing more cringe-worthy than a story where the writer clearly thinks they're making some broad statement about the human condition in the modern day but actually it's just been too long since they left their specifically dysfunctional community, which is ultimately irrelevant to most of society. And 95% of the time that community is Hollywood.

[luulapants]

[writer who got his big break and moved to LA about 10 years ago] wow has anyone noticed how everyone has become an inauthentic, self-obsessed social climber in the past decade?