Detective Jack

I reblog posts about leftist politics, art, cartoons, film, anime, tv shows, books, and other shit I'm forgetting. Sometimes I even make my own posts too! From San Juan, Puerto Rico. My bio previously said I'm perpetually tired. That's still true.  Oh, and I also write what I pretend to be weird interesting stories.

[ovadrive]

[castellankurze]

The Gimli Glider is one of those stories where every aspect sounds more fake than the last and yet it all actually happened.

-A passenger plane was underloaded with fuel because Canada had just converted to the metric system and everyone supposed to double check their numbers got it wrong. -When the plane ran out of fuel they were too far away to make it to an in-service airport and had to head towards the Gimli military base.  Which was shuttered. -They were coming in to fast due to a lack of flaps control and had to perform a series of slips (as shown in the video above) to slow down, basically drifting a giant passenger plane. -As they come down they realized that just because Gimli’s been decommissioned doesn’t mean it’s abandoned because a bunch of people are having drag races on the runway they’re about to need. -Despite everything they managed to land safely and no one was killed or even hurt which is why it’s one of the best air disasters to meme on.

[zanmor]

The Wikipedia page on this is fantastic and my favorite line from it is “Flying with all engines out was never expected to occur, so it had never been covered in training.”

[lesferatu]

Nice

[crazy-kangaroo]

Read the Wikipedia page and have two more things to offer:

- initially the pilot was going to make a full 360 turn to lower the speed, but decided he doesn’t have enough altitude

- some people did get hurt a little and you know how? While exiting the aircraft

[cici-chimera]

[christopher575]

[7000spidersinatrenchcoat]

[bonersniper]

This man should just own and operate escape rooms

[overlyactivepingpongball]

[synebluetoo]

If this guy ever gets raided by the cops the cops will just quit

[tippenfunkaport]

there is something so darkly comical about tumblr potentially outliving twitter

tumblr, which is held together with duct tape and madness, run by three raccoons in blood stained Yahoo! hats and a handful of crabs, its only discernible source of income the sale of shoelaces from an inside joke so inside no one knows the original source anymore and fake blue checkmarks... that website still lives on

truly the cockroach of social media and I love it for that

[dogdownloader]

can i post about wanting to kill specific celebrities by name and with that weapon on here or not i forget

[dogdownloader]

thank u i just wanted to say i really want to stab elon with a knife like really really violently 10000 times

[dogdownloader]

like a lot of it basically

[perichat]

I really hope Tumblr can maintain the joke long enough that a fake movie we all fever-dreamed into existence has more fanworks about it than the fourth highest grossing movie of all time.

[tomgirlhysteria-deactivated2023]

i will never understand swifties. listen to lana del rey like a normal person

[weaver-z]

[sonyslaystation-deactivated2021]

[jeekoftheweek]

[leorioismydad-deactivated201809]

i think everyone in england is just voice acting or something i dont think people actually sound like that

[heymomlookimadeablog-deactivate]

hey op can I politely ask which country you’re from?

[leorioismydad-deactivated201809]

peppa pig boutta say something racist

[mosticonicposts]

certified iconic post

[raptorific]

I’m genuinely worrying about people whose main source of social development comes like 100% from these incredibly insular and entirely unregulated internet spaces. Like this isn’t even a “technology is bad and kids these days don’t learn how to talk to one another” post, it’s a “basic conflict resolution skills and the practical realities of interacting with human beings are the sort of things you probably shouldn’t learn in an unstructured environment, populated largely by antisocial weirdos, and when you do develop your interpersonal skills entirely in that environment, you’re going to have a fast and rude awakening when you finally do have to apply those skills outside the tiny toxic community you cultivated them in and find that they don’t transfer well to classroom discussions or dates or job interviews or having a roommate”

[acaipsychelife]

yeah i admit this is kinda me… this is one of the themes of us as a society transitioning from the age of pisces to the age of aquarius, Aquarius is very social but could also be the awkward loner, the outcast, the pariah, the maverick…

maybe this is a theme for people with personal planets in the 12th house? maybe the 11th house plays into it cuz that rules the internet.

children are being held back from social development because schools are now on Zoom meetings, they’ll miss critical markers in learning how to act during whatever age they currently are. i hope schools reopen this upcoming school year, we cannot do this to children!

anyone feel free to reblog with your thoughts.

[raptorific]

See this is a great example of the sort of thing I’m talking about. Clearly, in your social space, all of this is considered a pretty normal and appropriate thing to say to a complete stranger, and not something that reasonably makes everyone who hears it go home and say “papa, today I met someone who made no sense at all and seemed to relish in it”

[glyceriiin]

i rlly. rlly like this show a lot

[dankmemeuniversity]

[luxlightly]

So, there's apparently research coming out now about microplastics being found in people's bloodstreams and the possible negative effects of that and I feel the need to get out ahead of the wave of corporate sponsored "be sure to recycle your bottles!" or "ban glitter!" campaigns and remind everyone: It's fishing nets. It's fishing nets. It is overwhelming fishing nets It always has been fishing nets. Unless regulations are changed, it will continue to be fishing nets. The plastic in the ocean in largely discarded nets from industrial fishing. The microplastics are the result of these nets breaking down. The "trash islands" are also, you guessed it. Mostly fishing nets and other discarded fishing industry equipment. Do not allow them to continue to twist the story. Do not come after disabled people who require single use plastics. Do not come after people using glitter in art projects and makeup. These things make up a negligible amount of the issue compared to corporate waste, specifically in the fishing industry. Do not let them shift the blame to the individual so they can continue to destroy the planet and our bodies without regulation.

[elodieunderglass]

Industries are incredibly resistant to taking responsibility for their own waste, to the point where “consumers are responsible for industrial waste” is somehow considered a sensible, ethical, worthy sentence.

It is actually perfectly reasonable to say that “industries are responsible for industrial waste” and “the effects of industry can, should and must be fixed by industry” and “Industry can, should and must be held responsible for its impacts on the commons, such as air, water, oceans and land.”

[thegoatsongs]

op of a viral tweet: “banger drop a follow and turn on notis 😘”

op of a viral tumblr post: “stop reblogging this and fuck off”

[thegoatsongs]

[action52]

love that picture of shelley duvall where she looks like a jojo character

[action52]

[tchaikovskaya]

"group harassed for speaking russian in the US was actually speaking ukrainian" wrow its almost as if a) the two peoples are very closely related regardless of politics and b) xenophobia against one people is a threat of xenophobia against any people!

[lil-grimlynn]

VIETNAM HAS MOSS FROGS.

THEY LIVE IN MOSS.

THEY ARE CUTE AS FUCK!

Thank you for coming to my ted talk. Now lets go live the way of the moss frog.

[fancybroom]

[dr-cringe]