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People who say "bring back bullying" have never been bullied and it shows

People who say "bring back bullying" are bullies.

Kyiv is under a Russian missile attack. There are multiple fires in residential areas. A 1000-year-old Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Monastery is burning.

limbel

we have to thank our brave soldiers in fandom who write gen fics. we have to thank our brave soldiers in fandom who write character studies and stories with no focus on romance or sex. we have to get on our knees and thank the brave soldiers in fandom who write about minor characters and friendship and family with no focus on romance or sex. i know it’s hard to care about characters in a world that seems to only revolve around ships but i see you. and i love you

walkingstackofbooks

Posts like this are always so startling to me because I genuinely didn't realise until last year that shipping was about romance for most people - and even though, in theory, I now know, I still I always forget that romance is seen as fandom-default until it gets brought up 😅

basingstokemercury

I wish I could live in your world 👀

Been struggling against the Romance Imperative practically since I started checking out fandom spaces...

traceamountsoftimetravel

"Founded in 1051, this nearly 1,000-year-old monastery has survived centuries of wars, invasions, and empires. Today, it bears the scars of another Russian attack."

Saint Javelin on twitter 6/14/2026

#sickening #destruction of cultural heritage #russian war on ukraine #russia is a terrorist state #russian war crimes #kyiv

mariacallous

maimonideznuts

People should feel as gutted by this as they did by the Notre Dame Cathedral fire. Except this was a deliberate act of cultural erasure by Russia.

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#oh no #no no no #this is horrible #i have no words #russian war crimes #kyiv pechersk lavra #russian war on ukraine #russia is a terrorist state #destruction of cultural heritage #unesco site #kyiv

charlesoberonn

Heartwarming story: Little girl doesn’t have to do anything to fund her dad’s surgery because his expenses are covered by his country’s universal healthcare.

charlesoberonn

Human determination: Man bikes 18 miles to work every morning because he wants to and not because he can’t afford a car and would be fired if he’s late.

charlesoberonn

Spirit of Brotherhood: Neighbors host housewarming party for elderly resident who doesn’t need help in paying rent because his pension is more than enough.

hyperlexichypatia

SO INSPIRING: Local middle school students bake dozens of cupcakes because their home economics class is doing a baking unit. Their school is fully funded with everything they need.

blandandtasteless

This feels like calibrating my normal detector

snazzyscarf

rewatching the final scenes in the movie i Really like how the turbulence in the sub shakes the speaker & makes it look almost intentional in its movement. like ava is physically banging on the radio to get through to simon. ough. really really adds to the stress of the scene

#iron lung

the-iliad-and-the-audacity

oh my god, the COI unintentionally replicated the Harvard Hope Experiment on Simon. has anyone talked about this. I am physically ill.

(tw for discussion of animal cruelty below)

#iron lung #simon iron lung #T-T #iron lung spoilers

c3rvida3

Nobody wanted to eat grandma candy out of my doily spider yesterday. Likely because they hold some sort of bigotry in their hearts.

vamplire

Kate Bush as a Bat for “Breathing” her 1980 single.

Photographer: John Carder Bush

tridentandtales

Roman cameo with a goat

1st - 2nd century CE

British Museum 1824,0301.49

girlfriendsinjeans

sometiktoksarevalid

ekjohnston

OKAY OKAY OKAY so when I realized I was going to have to write a lot of space battles, I did two things. The first was put a sticky note on my laptop that said THE ENEMY'S GATE IS DOWN (which, ugh, fuck OSC into the SUN), to remind myself that direction is both 1. important, and 2. relative, and then I watched approximately a billion hours of bait ball footage in David Attenborough documentaries, which helped me write battles in which all directions are possible.

(A bait ball, btw, is when teams of predators work together to eat small fish like anchovies, sardines, or lantern fish. Tuna, seals, sharks, dolphins, etc corral the fish into a ball at the surface, and then pick them off. Sometimes rays get involved. It's like a toothy, toothy dance. Gannets and boobies dive down from above. They can go 20m down! And then sometimes a whale comes up from the deep and swallows the whole thing. It is my favourite part of any nature documentary.)

datasoong47

This is one thing that really annoyed me reading Asimov's Foundation universe novels. His descriptions of military tactics make zero sense given the existence of hyperspace. For example, he describes a battle where the admiral has his ships surrounding the enemy on all sides - something like the bait ball being described here - except that since they use hyperspace to travel, they could just jump right out of the trap and appear outside of the surrounding vessels. In fact, interstellar battles in general wouldn't really make much sense. Naval battles make sense on Earth because you have to cross the actual physical sea to get from one point to another, and so you can logically intercept enemy ships, but if you're jumping from one point to another, that doesn't work. Interstellar space becomes pretty much irrelevant

He also describes an overall strategy that is similar to island-hopping and the use of blockades. Which again makes sense in actual naval warfare on Earth - you need to have support bases for supply lines - but with hyperspace doesn't make sense. You could just jump directly to the enemy capital bypassing outer worlds. In fact, political entities wouldn't really even need to be contiguous (though presumably it would be preferable to keep the parts near each other since it is implied that travel costs are greater for larger distances, so a polity consisting of a bunch of worlds scattered all over the galaxy might not work as well as one consisting of a group of nearby worlds economically)

It's like he forgot all about how his own system works and just treated space like a giant ocean, except 3D. Naval-inspired tactics only work if ships are actually traversing space itself. If you're using wormholes or hyperspace or something similar, you gotta use different tactics