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31 💫 San Diego 💫 Whatever the opposite of a girlboss is

[crabussy]

extremely fond of and perplexed by this website

[crabussy]

IT'S GREEN NOW LEAVE ME ALONE

[crabussy]

[pansyfemme]

yes im addicted to attention and orgasms and food and shiny jewlery and 7$ Iced Lattes. does that really not sound like an awesome lifestyle to you

[enki2]

[mothcub]

This happened to me in real life.

[romcommunist]

i think we could reform pangaea if we all tried hard enough

[lovingrot]

if we all just got in the water and pushed

[oaky-dokey]

love the library. there's no risk. you can take out a book and go "wow this sucks" and just give it back. and when you do that you're still making the library's Number Go Up so you'll be able to roll the dice on even more books. all for the low low price of free/you already paid for it with your tax money so you might as well use it

[ialreadyboughtthedream]

[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

[millertastic]

My favorite Peanuts strip.

[wagahai-da]

but what did Nancy draw

[formerhomeofsadistbait-deactiva]

Conclusions

[clearlightwired]

sorry for the random question but what's your opinion on transmasc people?

They should install Firefox with UBlock Origin and start using a password manager (I recommend bitwarden)

[maswartz]

[inkprilled]

All Eyes on the Sumoud Convoy

Eyes on the road people. Eyes on the thousands of people on their way to the Gaza border to break the siege.

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[the-end-society]

We need to show support, as much as we did for the madleen, this is a civilian led movement with over 10,000 volunteers, driving to rafah, where they will be joining 35,000 people to march to the Gaza boarder and demand the entry of humanitarian aid. They have no western news covered so we must keep our eyes on the sumoud convoy. Right now the 8 madleen volunteers still being illegally detained have the eyes of the west on them and even with their European passports rima hasan and Thiago avila are being held in inhuman conditions in solidarity confinent and threatened with physical violence. Even with this happening the freedomflottila volunteers still insist we keep demanding a break to the seige on Gaza.

[reblogbinge]

people all over the world are going to meet the sumoud convoy at the border. Thousands from Europe are taking flights to Egypt, all eyes on the sumoud convoy.

[pissvortex]

[stlamb]

on the count of 3 we are all going to wake up and it was just a bad dream are you ready

[krasnoarmeyets-deactivated191907]

anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.

EDIT: let's use this post for something good. if you are considering being annoying in my notes, please instead consider donating to gaza soup kitchen. thanks!

[demolitionmuses]

now feels like a good time to reiterate that Iranians have been martyred by america + israel already, both empires that possess nuclear weapons, and that Iran does not have nuclear weapons. so now is not the time to joke about america getting nuked-- any retaliation on Iran's part is justified and the only way we escape this situation, but Iran is not going to nuke us, because the entire premise that Iran has nukes is how america justified bombing them and also the exact same rhetoric we used against Iraq and how we killed my countrysmen when there was again no evidence of nuclear warfare. New York City is not going to get fucking nuked. go listen to a podcast or something