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shetheyslain

Trying to sleep during a heatwave is a great reminder that all oil executives need to die painful painful deaths

isuggestrevolution

good suggestion

croaksac

via Seattle Times:

Local Ballard raccoon has been spotted thriving in a remarkably unique and charming body

Yes he(?)'s actually factually real and has even been given an extremely millennial nickname: Jimothy. Wildlife experts advise everyone to just leave him alone and let him live his life

love-ardour-anarchism

“If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation—you may hate it, or deify it, but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.” Ursula K. Le Guin "American SF and The Other" in Science-Fiction Studies 7, 1975.

tredlocity

foralittlewile

Something else I see people keep forgetting: between humans and Eridians, we are the astronauts. And we are good at it.

Eridians' perception of the world relies on something that is completely absent in space — sound. They haven't been looking at the stars their entire existence the way we have. Their concept of aliens might only be as old as their discovery of astrophage. They made a bad ship, because it was their first one ever! Rocky himself says they rushed it, and that multiple (vital) things broke. Their mission was just as much of a Hail Mary pass as ours was — they had no idea what they were doing, if they could even travel in space safely. And, as it turns out, they couldn't.

Humans are the ones who have been doing it over multiple lifetimes. Mary is state of the art. We've been space farers longer than most humans have been alive. We can actually see through space. We are more likely to survive exposure to the void. We can encase our lighter, more flexible, more mobile bodies in a material that lets us walk outside of our ship, and, to a degree, we can get our bearings out there in a way Eridians just can't.

Eridians are not looking at Mary and thinking she's a bad ship. They are not thinking humans have no idea what we're doing. They are looking at this species that can walk in the stars, have been perfecting machines to take us to them for decades, have been dreaming about them and mapping them and naming them for millennia, and used all of that to save them, and thinking, wow.

jheselbraum

This, like I think they won't understand why we made it out of aluminum instead of anything else but if aliens showed up on earth in a fully functioning spaceship made out of cardboard, that was capable of climate control, air and water recycling, and radiation shielding, I'd be pretty damn impressed they did that and excited to see what they do with like. Metal.

jheselbraum

Like Xenonite has tensile strength so insane you can hold massive amounts of pressure back from the void of space using entirely flat panels. Imagine what Earth can do with it once humans apply our "never put a corner on a pressure vessel" knowledge to it

hometoursandotherstuff

craftykit

A thought just occured to me

agaywolf

Alternatively: 2 wrists (puppy)

gothhabiba

I grabbed the wrong box and accidentally dumped about half a cup of powdered Assam black tea into my tomato sauce. I scooped most of it out but it's definitely still in there 😭

gothhabiba