[maomango-doodle]

PARALLELSSS!!! (based on this fic by the ever-inspiring @patrice-bergerons <3)

[json-derulo]

having the Aviation Accident Investigations Autism™️ has actually done wonders for the way I process and respond to my own fuck-ups

[json-derulo]

And I don't just mean "oh, my little work mistake is actually nothing compared to a fiery crash that kills people," either. The reason commercial flight is so many orders of magnitude safer than any other form of transportation is because after every accident and incident, an independent regulatory body investigated it with the express goal of figuring out exactly what happened, why, and how to prevent the same thing from ever happening again—not to root out which person deserved the blame or the liability.

It's a simple, shockingly effective idea. It's also worlds away from how most people approach their own mistakes and the mistakes of others.

[json-derulo]

Because it’s never just one person’s fault. And even when it is, it still isn’t. 

The sharpest, best-trained pilots make worse decisions when they're tired or sick or stressed out, so there's two of them. The most dedicated and experienced air traffic controllers garble an instruction over the radio sometimes, so pilots are trained to always repeat clearances back to catch misunderstandings quickly. The best and brightest maintenance mechanic still overlooks a screw or misconnects a wire once or twice in her career, so aircraft systems are built with two or three or four layers of redundancy, and pilots are exhaustively trained to deal with failures safely. 

Everyone eventually has a bad day. Every component breaks down. Every computer gets a bad a Windows update and spirals into a reboot doom loop. If it’s possible for one person’s mistake to domino into a mushroom cloud of a fuckup, then that task is too critical to be one person's sole responsibility. The accident sequence starts with the design of the system—so how do you improve the system to keep it from happening again?

[json-derulo]

oh yeah. The “modern commercial aviation is the safest form of transport” thing only applies to planes, btw. A helicopter is a beautiful metal horse that wants to break its legs and die so so so badly

[thelawfulchaotic]

This is such a good example of systemic solutions to problems!! Putting it in my pocket for explaining problem-solving vs. blame and punishment in the future.

[ramblingandpie]

Swiss cheese model of risk management, my beloved!

[random-brushstrokes]

John Singer Sargent - A Jersey Calf (1893)

[cardinal-atis]

the passage were the captains we fell in love with along the way,,, lol

a cute lil close up if anyone cares WE’RE NEVED FINDING THAT PASSAGE BRO LOOK AT MY CAPTAINS

[callizinc]

When the story has a sequence where the characters each get personally tortured with their exact personalized greatest fears and traumas

[bluering8]

listen to me, this is so so important: you've gotta get used to really giving it your 60% as a default. like don't half-ass it necessarily but try not to go over 70% or so of an ass. you'll feel better and live a happier more fulfilled life, and on the rare occasions where you do need to lock the fuck in you'll be able to pull off bullshit that the sad miserable wretches giving it their 100% can never dream off, because they're busy draining themselves dry and you have energy reserves to spare.

[fruit-on-the-sea]

This, absolutely. OP touches on a crucial point, which is that if we define your 100% as what you can achieve in a short burst when you are well rested, then your sustainable long term best really is 60–70%. When people think of what doing their best looks like, too often they think of, and judge themselves against, that 100%, but that's a false premise if there ever was one.

Like imagine you are happy and healthy when an emergency request comes in at work or you realise that you forgot a wholeass essay due next day. You probably can pull a 15 hour day, push your brain to its limit to problem solve, knock it out of the park, and... wake up the next day thinking yeah I was amazing and that wasn't bad. BUT try doing it 3-4-50 days in a row, you will tank your productivity and health both. Far too many people confuse these two definitions of doing your best and either burn themselves out or feel guilty for being 'lazy' when there is zero need for them to.

[fruit-on-the-sea]

Bathroom selfie but a low key slayful summer office outfit if I say so myself 🥰 (if only it wasn't too hot and sticky to bind too...)

[fitzchocos-moved]

Francis, what’s happening?

[futuremoji]

Your least most recent emoji predicts how your summer will end

[ohhamlet-art]

francis too

[luxfatale]

“but he got bit by an animal and became that animal.”

[ohhamlet-art]

fitzjames on the rocks

[path-finder]

Something I think is awesome about Hilson’s dynamic (as far as I can tell after finishing S1) is that they’d have equal but opposite reactions to realizing they’re gay vs. realizing they’re in love with each other.

Realizing they’re gay? House is like ‘whatever’ and is mostly just excited he gets to add a new slur to his vocabulary for his jokes. Meanwhile Wilson spends months laying awake at night contemplating every life choice he’s ever made and feeling like he should be put down like a sick dog

Realizing they’re in love? Wilson is like ‘checks out’ bc obviously nobody truly cares about House except for him bc he’s House’s pretty and special boy. Meanwhile House is sitting at his piano drinking an entire bottle of scotch imagining all the ways he’ll ruin Wilson’s life if he ever manages to get as close as he desperately wishes he could

[femmeberlin]

A terrible fact of fandom is that sometimes people who absolutely suck and have stupid takes are going to enjoy the exact same things you do and the only thing you can do about it is sit there with your mutuals who don’t suck like:

[fruit-on-the-sea]

You know all these budget black holes would be solved immediately if we legislated to force bicycles to have some sort of highly visible ID number on them, serving the same purpose as a car's licence plate, and then charged those fuckers exorbitant fees every time they gleefully speed past another zebra crossing and another red light.

[life-gives-you-lemons]

I think people need to understand that everyone has to unlearn misogynistic behaviors and thinking patterns. Cis women and trans women and cis men and trans men and anyone who doesn’t fall under those categories are all completely capable of being misogynistic and actively hurtful to women. Trans men are included in this, obviously, but when you only call for trans men to unlearn this mindset, you are no longer being progressive and fair. You are singling out a minority.

[chekhovs-raygun]

it pisses me off to see cis women saying 'trans women are misogynistic because they were raised as men' and trans women replying 'no we aren't because no we weren't!' and i'm sitting there staring at the camera like it's the office. because like women are ALL raised to be just as misogynistic as men. it's a notable goddamn feature of the patriarchy.

like if you are marginalized it is in your own self-interest to interrogate and deconstruct the cultural narratives that position you as subnormal. this is what starts a lot of queer people on wanting to reform the world into something more compassionate and egalitarian.

but it's not the marginalization that makes you any more or less ethical than anyone else. it's the work. you gotta do the actual work.

[hareofhrair]

I feel like part of the problem is a really popular misunderstanding of bigotry.

Misogyny is not just prejudice experienced by a woman. It is not simply something that happens TO a woman. It has nothing to do with the woman. It’s about the misogynist.

Bigotry is not determined or defined by the target of that bigotry. The bigotry is stored in the bigot.

Misogynists will be misogynistic towards any person they associate with femininity, including cisgender men.

When a misogynist cis man tears another man down for liking something he thinks is girly, he is still being misogynistic.

A cis male coach telling his cis male student he runs like a girl is being misogynistic.

A cis woman punishing her son for wanting a “girl” toy or policing her boyfriend’s hygiene habits and interests for anything she considers emasculating, is being misogynistic!

When a woman gets in a car accident and is injured more severely because the safety testing on that car was only done using crash test dummies and models based on men, she’s experiencing misogyny.

When the medication she takes for her injuries doesn’t work right or has unexpected side effects because it was only tested on men, she’s experiencing misogyny.

When the tools she uses at work that are the wrong shape for her hands, and the jumpsuit that’s part of her uniform which she has to take off completely to use the bathroom, and all the spaces she moves through and everything within them are designed with the assumption that an average male body is the only body that matters— she is experiencing misogyny.

Misogyny is the belief that women are inherently inferior, and the systems and institutions built around that belief. It can be experienced by anyone, and anyone is capable of having misogynistic beliefs and doing misogynistic things.

Bigotry is not about the target. It’s about the bigot, and what the bigot believes, and the way those bigoted beliefs have shaped our world.

I don’t care what race gender or sexuality you are, you were raised with racist, sexist, homophobic beliefs. Because it’s literally impossible not to be.

And the harder you try to cling to the idea that misogyny is something that happens TO women, rather than something coming FROM misogynists, the more blind you’ll be to your own misogynistic beliefs, and all the ways everything in our society is a product of or directly reinforces those beliefs.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[queenofmoons-deactivated2024092]

I stole this from Twitter but I’m Curious