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[stuck-in-jelly]

You know what I know I'm usually pretty silent but I need you all to understand the horrible impact SpaceX and Starship has had on South Texas.

Yes, fuck those ugly ass cyber trucks but FUCK that Space Center.

Starship genuine danger to the people who live here. It's to the point many of the people here when they heard the explosion joked that it was probably another one of Elon's rockets.

This is a horrifying pattern we are becoming numb to, we hear about a planned test launch and brace ourselves for more debris.

Several of Musk's attempts at rockets, especially after the deregulation, have resulted in catastrophic explosions. Want the list? Here are a few!!

December 9th, 2020- Starship serial No. 8, or SN8. Exploded upon landing.

February 2, 2021- Starship SN9. Exploded upon landing.

March 3rd. 2021- Starship SN10. Landed in one piece. Fire at the skirt caused an explosion.

April 20, 2023- Starship. Exploded once more. Debris scattered in Port Isabell.

March 6, 2025- Flight 8. Spun out of control and exploded in a mass of fireballs. Planes had to be grounded due to the mass explosion and the debris are stills scattered in the ocean.

And now we have the most recent and the worse one yet.

June 18-19, 2025- Starship 36 during a GROUND test caused a mass explosion, the looming mushroom cloud causing locals in Cameron to believed they had been bombed.

The loser describes this it as a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" instead of what they are: fiery failures locals have to deal with as a result.

Pretty much everyone locally knows Elon Musk and his negative impact on our home, people who have had the unfortunate curse to have worked with him and the center call it Cultish, 8 members of his staff who spoke out against his behavior and sexual harassment were all fired.

Its a well known fact he hates the people here, and he goes out of his way to find employees who are not from this area and move them down here.

Musk has tried to encourage even more white people to come down to South Texas and live in his "Starship City". An attempt to gentrify and push out local citizens.

Rebekah Hinojosa, a local Activist with Another Gulf Is Possible, even had her home unlawfully entered by police after an alleged graffiti on a mural he commisioned (which didn't even obscure the mural).

This article is a good read on everything Musk has done to South Texas

As SpaceX Grows, So Do Complaints From Environmentalists, Indigenous Groups and Brownsville Residents - Inside Climate News

One day last month, Juan Mancias, the chief of the Carrizo Comecrudo tribe of Texas, and two companions headed to Boca Chica village, a bays

I am TIRED of this going unnoticed and unheard of the People of The Valley. I need you to stop laughing and start taking this seriously.

If you want to read more on all the insane shit this man has done to South Texas here are a few more Articles I would Recommend

South Texas groups sue Texas for letting Elon Musk's SpaceX dump wastewater without permit, SpaceX's Starship explodes in space, which Musk calls a 'minor setback', What Is Starbase? Elon Musk Builds a SpaceX City With Shops, Worker Housing and Its Own Mayor — But Texas Locals Aren't Happy

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

the staccato trumpet trills from the end of TANK! but they just keep going

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[rose-blumen]

Visit Original Link

I have been prepared for this moment for like 2 months

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

holy shit i am in tears

[merryweathart]

Kids, always remember to hate on generative ai, fascism and the patriarchy ✨️ (frame ref)

[stealingpotatoes]

pretty sure this is exactly how lessons at qifrey's atelier go

(links // tip jar!)

[epicallyepicnerdery]

[fipindustries]

ok this looks ultra mega based, are you kidding me? can you imagine the bullshit i could get up to with this bad boy? fuck yes i want ten

[mint-corset]

Wait are iPhone bros coping because Apple has to be more universal? Lol.

[such-justice-wow]

Boo hoo i'll be able to add more physical storage to my phone and be able to change out batteries if they degrade as well as all these other optional features I won't have to touch

[lectorel]

Continuing in the trend of political cartoons depicting milquetoast moderate positions seem so much cooler and more badass than they are

[domina-honoribila]

I love how they add totally absurd things no one is asking for to make the idea look crazy. And still, I must emphasize, failing to make this look like a bad idea.

[teaboot]

"Is this what you want? Is this ugly stupid bullcrap what you want??" the biggest loudest idiot in the room asks, holding up a picture of the hottest looking shit I've ever seen

[tieflingkisser]

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[theconcealedweapon]

[maarvarq]

Always bear in mind that there is absolutely no legitimate evidence that Luigi was actually the one who killed the insurance company guy.

[theconcealedweapon]

Of course he wasn't. He was at a party with me that day.

[tiny-space-whale]

No but like literally, actually. All bits aside.

He didn't do it.

The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.

Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?

From the moment of his arrest, even left-of-center media has been presuming his guilt without examining anything (e.g. calling him "the killer" instead of "alleged" or "accused") and then when I say he didn't do it, the nearest person chimes in with some quip that tells me they think he did do it but should go free anyway. Don't get me wrong, I would have the same attitude if he had done it. But he didn't. It makes me feel like the only sane person in the world, even among my staunchly leftist friends.

[googiekitsch-deactivated2024071]

THIS SONG IS FUCKING AWESOMEEEEE🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[googiekitsch-deactivated2024071]

HOW THE FUCK DID YOU DO THAT THERES NOTHING THERE

[malscare]

hi

[foolofworms-deactivated20251128]

Legitimately good example of how thorough you need to be to protect private information

[eternalgaylord]

collecting tweets

[eternalgaylord]

#vessel alert

that's right

[citadelbloodbeard]

ahh hii im not sure if u answer these anymore but might was well shoot my shot lolz ANYWAY you likely get this a lot but i loveeLOVEE ur sniper cosplay (somehow u capture the beauty of that stinky bushman perfectly) and it really inspired me to start putting together some of my own tf2 cosplays :D i was orginally hesitant to cosplay anyone in tf2 since i was cursed with the unfortate build of 5'2 and very feminine xd BUT EXCUSE MY RAMBLINGS!! ur awesome dude keep doin what u do best !! :)

Thank you so much!

You should absolutely go for it, and don’t worry about things like your build. If you focus on the costume, props, and makeup, the character will always come through.

[ayagdos]

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[moonfox-mumbles]

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[pt: DO NOT TAKE THIS SURVEY]

The Same Dark Money Behind Project 2025 Is Bankrolling A Northwestern Study Recruiting Trans Kids

Project 2025 outright calls on conservatives to fund and manufacture more “studies” on the “negative” effects of trans-affirming care.

[reishi-wants-noodles]

guess we need to be circulating this psa again. This Is A Fucking Trap. Do Not Participate.

[uncertainlys]

MY FINGERS BARELY EVEN TOUCHED YOUR STUPID FUCKING AD STOP REDIRECTING ME TO THE APP STORE

[phantomrose96]

Day 286 of quarantine I have discovered www.webstaurantstore.com

It is, I BELIEVE, a website intended to be used by restaurants for bulk ordering food and utensils. And this is bringing me such unbounded delight scrolling through and recognizing that I, a single individual, ALSO can order ridiculous obscene enormous offensive-to-all-common-sensibilities shipments of BULK FOOD, to my LITTLE LITTLE APARTMENT, for PENNIES on the dollar. I have this god given power to flood my entire living space with bulk grains and it is one single button click away from my reality.

30 POUNDS of chocolate for $100. 20 POUNDS of peas for $13?? $13!!!! I will wake up every single morning from now on knowing that a box of donuts and a sack of dried split peas heavy enough to bodily injure someone both carry equal monetary weight. 25 POUNDS OF ONION POWDER for $50. Do you understand the enormity? the accessibility? the potential here? With the single click of the button I can put myself in a position of bequeathing more than a humanly comprehensible amount of onion powder in my will. AND IT WOULD ONLY COST ME $50 TO MAKE THIS A REALITY.

But what gets me

What truly gets me

is the 50 POUND BAG OF RICE 

FOR LESS THAN $20

Do you know how much that kills me? How much I’m losing my mind? that I can order MYSELF WORTH OF RICE for something to the tune of $50? I can OUT-RANK MYSELF WITH RICE, DEMOCRATICALLY OVERRULE MYSELF WITH RICE, IN MY OWN APARTMENT for the fucking PENNIES that is $50

I’m so sorry for the normal person I’ll be after quarantine because the cabin-fever version of me I’m inhabiting right now is perhaps just uninhibited enough to follow through on this dream I’ve just discovered of out-ricing myself.

[closet-keys]

real talk though, if you had a large number of people in your community who wanted a particular food item and couldn’t afford it (for instance if you’re in a food desert and need produce or if you’re a part of a large disabled and/or overworked community who all need prepared frozen food), you could pool funds and get an order from a supply store like this.

it requires organizing for finance management, ordering, transport, and distribution, but if you build a stable mutual aid network, it’s genuinely within the realm of possibility.

[anarchopuppy]

This idea is called a buyers club (or buying club, buying coop, etc) and it’s a great time-tested method of mutual aid. And there are guides and tools for starting your own at managemy.coop

[fox-bright]

do not taste plants if you don't know what they are

do not identify a fruit as edible just because it tastes sweet

hope you didn't eat any fucking seeds, bro

[fox-bright]

And today, we have this winner:

I saw the photo in my feed and went ohh, dude, no, we do not handle yellow rocks with our bare hands until we know for sure what they are. And I know that orange...

In comments, they continue:

and that's where I started cussing at the computer monitor. But someone else had got there first:

So just as a reminder, folks. If you don't know what it is, don't put it in your fucking mouth!

[fox-bright]

YOU GODDAMN STUPID MOTHERFUCKER

[citadelbloodbeard]

Legendary forager and wild food advocate Euell Gibbons (wrote “Stalking the Wild Asparagus”) gave very good advice for dealing with unknown plants; Before you eat any, its characteristics should be as clear and familiar to you as the differences between an apple and an orange at the grocery store.

I will add:

- Apps like Seek are often good at helping to narrow the identity of a plant down to its family or genus, but very often fall short of an actual species ID (I should specify, they fall short of providing a *correct* species ID. Most will be extremely happy to give you a species ID, even though it is patently false). Once the app gets you close, it’s time to crack open a field guide or consult an expert.

- Speaking of field guides; BEWARE OF ANY PUBLISHED POST-AI. I’m serious. Once people figured out they could generate whole books using those bloated chatbots, foraging guides (which had experienced a surge in popularity following the threats of food insecurity during the beginning of the COVID Pandemic) were one of the first genres to be overloaded with ai slop. Look for trusted authors like Samuel Thayer, and publishing dates before 2023.

- A good field guide should offer detailed verbal descriptions of the physical characteristics of various plants, using specific botanical terms, and will often contain a glossary with definitions of those terms. It should also feature maps of the known growing ranges of those plants, and ideally, photographs of the plant during various stages of growth, and at different times of year.

- Start slow. Learn a handful of “easy” plants or fungi that have distinctive characteristics and few toxic lookalikes, and learn them well. Learn the toxic lookalikes as well as you learn the edible species.

- Once you are confident you have a positive ID, try a little bit and see how it agrees with you. Just because it’s “edible” doesn’t mean you aren’t allergic to it.

Learn Your Land and Black Forager are excellent references for foraging information, especially the ecology, ethics, and history of the practice.

[guerrillatech]

My sweet summer child

[transgendinator3000-deactivated]

[The wildest part of my labor history class is when we learn about the repression of a strike and another student is like “wait… the companies just like, killed strikers? and the police helped? wasn’t that illegal?” and my professor just like “…”

- @pink_leninade on Twitter]

[commievoltie-deactivated2021070]

Companies didn’t just kill and use police, they used US army as well. The largest labor uprising in US history and largest armed uprising since civil war was Blair mountain. I doubt they teach that in schools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

[eregyrn-falls]

Also, don’t forget – you know all those armories in your towns and cities?  Look around, there’s a good bet that your area has at least one, possibly many.  They often look like little medieval fortresses or something.  These days, they are often used as public spaces – they have big open spaces indoors, and they get used for conventions, fairs, performances.  They seem like benign civic spaces, don’t they?

They were built in the late 19th and early 20th century specifically because of the labor unrest in the U.S., as a central point in communities from which the National Guard could operate AGAINST labor demonstrations.

Approximately 120 armories were built in New York  State from the late eighteenth century  to the middle of the twentieth, and most date from the last quarter of the  nineteenth century, when the National Guard was America’s primary domestic   peacekeeper during the post–Civil War era of labor-capital unrest.

https://www.sunypress.edu/p-4344-new-yorks-historic-armories.aspx

Since Colonial times, local militia units drilled on village greens or met in rented space, often taverns, hotels or Masonic halls. Even the Civil War did not bring a outcry for more publicly owned military buildings. What did was the intense domestic unrest of the 1870s.

A national recession struck in 1873. Conditions got progressively worse and boiled over in 1877, when a railroad strike in Baltimore triggered strikes and riots across the country. Rebellious workers in St. Louis briefly installed a communist government until troops were sent in.

“More than anything else, these outbursts initiated the first great wave of armory building in America. Throughout the remainder of the century, urban and industrial tensions between management and labor, immigrant and native and affluent and disadvantaged ebbed and flowed,” Rossano and Donohue write.

“It was the time of the Pullman Strike, Homestead Riot, Haymarket Riot – a time of great labor unrest,” said Donohue, a historian who is survey and grants director of the historic preservation and museum division of the state Commission on Culture and Tourism, in an interview last week.

City officials and corporate elites, fearing the wrath of the riff-raff, now saw the National Guard’s mission as the maintenance of public order. That meant the troops needed their own buildings: secure, comfortable, impressive, impregnable.

https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2007-05-27-0705270184-story.html

You can find out more if you dig around, and especially if you know to start searching for the history of armories along with labor unrest. 

It’s nice that they were largely able to be repurposed into civic spaces open to the entire population… but it’s hard to ever look at them the same way again when you know that THIS is why they were built.