I will be in the shadows if you need me

She/her // Queer // Plant Parent // Env. Science Student

[j-train13]

Astronauts are so funny man. Here's just a couple of things I've found hilarious from this past week of space stuff:

It's probably already been spread around here enough already, but in case anyone's missed it; 7 hours after launch, commander Reid Wiseman, dealing with tech issues, uttered the generational quote "I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working."

After fixing the issues that were afflicting the onboard toilet, mission specialist Christina Koch (who has quickly become my favourite of the four) laughingly said “I’m the space plumber, I’m proud to call myself the space plumber.”

On Easter Sunday, the Artemis II crew hosted a makeshift egg hunt, by hiding packets of dehydrated scrambled eggs around their Orion capsule.

The way the crew always makes sure to make it very clear they're in space when doing interviews. From stuff like Wiseman just hanging out floating sideways on screen or Koch letting her hair loose so it can freely span out flowing around her.

While in transit, the crew decided to record a parody of those bad 80s sitcom intros where everyone turns and smiles at the camera.

When the crew reached the furthest point from Earth in the mission, they jokingly clambored over each other in an effort to get to the far side of the capsule, so that they could individually claim to be the furthest person from earth.

At the same time, on the ISS which was at the time on the other side of earth, the 7 astronauts onboard had a light-hearted race to the far side of the station, making jokes about being the furthest humans from Artemis.

On the way back to earth, NASA actually managed to establish an audio call between the crews of the ISS and Artemis II (where they shared the above info), and Koch called one member of the ISS crew, Jessica Meir, her "astro-sister" as the two of them previously spacewalker together in 2019. Meir then responded I'm so happy that we are back in space together, even if we are a few miles apart" (a few here being 230,000).

While Jeremy Hansen was doing an interview, Wiseman and Koch were just in the background swatting the mission mascot (a little moon plush toy named Rise) back and forth between each other.

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

Almost every single day brings news of yet another attack on Jewish life around the world - synagogues rammed and shot at, businesses vandalised, people murdered or beaten or spat at or verbally abused for speaking Hebrew, or wearing a Magen David, or being visibly Jewish in any way at all, and still a huge amount of loud and hateful people professing to be social justice activists dismiss antisemitism as not a real problem, accuse Jews of “playing the victim card” and of being “a privileged class.” Every single day these people expose that their values mean fuck all.

My love and solidarity with my Jewish friends as always. Please stay safe ❤️

[anonymous-robot]

[britomartis]

Since there’s OP didn’t include a caption, here are some links to fundraisers to help our tribe! Thank you!

Navajo Relief Fund: http://www.nativepartnership.org/site/PageServer?pagename=nrf_index

Navajo Water Project: https://www.navajowaterproject.org/

NavajoYES (youth organization): http://www.navajoyes.org/donate/

[stevviefox]

Re-reblogging as this is important.

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[mossmusings]

I don't really have anyone else to tell this to because I don't want to depress my friends when theyre going through stuff already. So if you want to be sad with me, read on:

I do pet sitting on the side, and for this one couple I've been watching their cats for a few years now. Last time I was over, there were ultrasound pictures on the fridge (looked pretty far along) and baby stuff being set up in the 2nd bedroom. It had been about 7 months since they requested any pet sitting, and I figured that was normal that they'd put a pause on taking vacations towards the end of pregnancy/new baby arriving and all that.

So when I go over again, and walk past the 2nd bedroom, there's no crib. No baby stuff at all. I stop and look in, getting a weird knot in my stomach. I peek into their bedroom to see if there's a bassinet by the bed, and there's not. Finally in the living room I see a small table set up with a sage bundle and smudge bowl, crystals and candle. And a little stained glass box with a clear lid.

I peek in through the lid and there's an ultrasound picture, on top of that sits a tiny pink tulle bag with a smaller clear bag inside of it, which I recognized as holding cremains. Not even a teaspoon full. Oh my heart hurts so much.

I don't think it's appropriate for me to say anything because we have a strictly professional relationship and I don't want my clients to feel invaded because I notice things in their home. But the absence of an expected baby is hard not to notice. I can't even imagine that kind of hope & loss all so close together, I don't know if I could handle it. I am so sorry for anyone who has experienced this.

[mossmusings]

Omg my conservative coworker just got back from his first international trip and said The Thing!!! I couldn't believe it I smiled so big he said

"Maybe America isn't the best country, you know?"

There's still some hope for him ahhh this is giving me life in dark times

[twerklina]

Vintage Valentine’s Day Cards

[lake-lady]

Yes yes yes yes yES YES YES YES

[ashstfu]

i knew this day would come. i saw it on the calendar

[mossmusings]

I don't really like to be a bitch, it stresses me out, but goddamn does it get results.

Like if my water heater is broken and my landlord won't respond to maintenance requests or calls for 8 days, I send an email in mostly caps threatening legal action. Wow, water heater fixed in 2 hours!

Or if someone parks in my assigned spot, instead of leaving a polite note and parking however far down the street, I just honk incessantly til they come out and move their damn car. Usually under 1 minute of honking. I know it's fuckin annoying but I'm out of fucks to give and I paid for that spot damnit!

Or when that deliciously kinky bisexual man keeps dodging me so I'm kind of mean to him and now he's begging for a chance to make it up to me 👀

like whyyy can't I just be nice all the time and get the same results

[justsomeguycore]

ya being kafkaesque isn’t about turning into a bug it’s about how if you turned into a bug your boss would still be like “ok but we’re short staffed can u still come in”

[rosemarythunder]

while i understand that this is meant to be a joke about hellish capitalism, again, we cannot erase an important dimension to his work: franz kafka was a jew. he and his families were jews during a time period where traditional, religiously-based jew hatred was being replaced with a new pseudoscientific belief that jews were to be hated and oppressed because they were a subhuman race. this transition to race-based hatred of jews meant that even assimilated jews- who considered themselves citizens of states before they were ever jews- were now being irrationally targeted and hunted.

the term “anti-Semitism” was created specifically to name this new racial hatred of Jews. it was coined in 1879- 4 years before Kafka was born. 

in “the metamorphosis”, Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a "monstrous vermin". in kafka’s real world, jews woke up one morning, in their country that they were told was now enlightened and accepting of all people, and found out that they were now considered “monstrous vermin”. and then 6 million jews of his generation were exterminated. 

i am giving the simplest analysis to this right now, but we need to understand that you cannot just blanketly universalize his work. you cannot remove the context of kafka’s jewishness or that he lived at a time when antisemitism became fervently racial. yes, discuss how his work comments on capitalism, society, etc. but to only use ONLY these lenses and to ONLY universalize his work is dishonest, whitewashes his work and life, and further exhibits how little non-jews know or care about the jewish history and the how antisemitism has impacted jews for over 2000 years.

[daughterofstories]

The modern experience that best reflects Kafka's Metamorphosis is Jews around the world waking up on October 8, 2023 and learning that we had collectively been transformed into such detestable vermin that, if our homes were invaded, and we were sexually assaulted and tortured to death, and our babies and elders were kidnapped, and mothers and their children were tied together and set on fire, and entire villages were exterminated in a day, and the attackers livestreamed all of it

College professors would stand on campus and call it "exhilarating."

[weaselle]

listen. There's a whole mentality shift that needs to happen culture wide here, from the schools to the public infrastructure to pet ownership to the justice system

The proper response to your dog doing a natural behavior you dislike (digging/barking/protecting etc) it to give them an appropriate time and place to engage in that behavior

The proper response to skateboarders damaging infrastructure is to build more and better skate parks, or build skate elements into the public infrastructure on purpose.

The proper response to homeless people sleeping on park benches is to build them houses.

you see how there's like, a commonality at play here?

The proper response to a disruption is to address the root of the disruption directly, not somehow attack the disruption itself -

you don't invent a muffler by swinging a bat at the engine noise, you don't relieve your hunger by punching yourself in the stomach, you don't resolve public unrest by sending armed men to control them and you don't prevent homeless people using bus shelters as a roof by removing the bus shelters.

a whole ass shift in a basic mindset, i'm tellin' you. We need it.

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Expert debunks harmful myth about widespread forest practice: 'That just isn't true'

"This makes sense."

I'm glad to see someone speaking out against the myth that clearcuts increase biodiversity. Yes, there are stand-replacing disturbances in nature like large wildfires, landslides, etc. But they don't happen as frequently or on as large a scale as clearcuts. And even a lot of large wildfires still display mosaic burn patterns, in which there are patches of relatively untouched forest amid the burned areas that help repopulate the whole region.

A clearcut, on the other hand, involved bulldozing all the plants beneath the trees to make the trees easier to access, and then cutting down all the trees, or leaving a few sickly specimens behind. Then the land is replanted with a monoculture of whatever cash crop tree the timber companies prefers. That's why the Pacific Northwest is covered in closely-planted stands of <60 year old Douglas fir. Those aren't forests--they're just glorified tree farms.

While there is an increasing number of foresters trying to promote more sustainable and ecologically sound forestry practices, your larger timber interests are generally going to be spouting myths that make themselves look better (if they bother to try for better P.R. at all.) They're also busy lobbying against any conservation measures that could affect their bottom line.

And, for the record, they are directly responsible for the closure of lumber mills and loss of jobs here in the United States because it's cheaper for them to just ship logs across the Pacific to Asia to be processed into lumber. It was never about the spotted owls and old growth forests--that was a puppet show to distract people from corporate decisions that ultimately hurt both nature and workers alike.

[heyclickadee-deactivated2025121]

You know, I’m not Jewish, but I really think I and my fellow non-Jews need to take a step back, notice that basically every Jewish holiday these days opens with antisemitic violence and Jews being attacked or killed, and realize that it’s not only a serious issue but that it’s our issue to fix.

[basilgeuse]

i do think it’s important not to have a saviorship complex about it. it’s not “our issue to fix,” because that perpetuates the idea that the community can’t fight for their own needs. i think it is equally telling that the jewish response has been to be louder and prouder this chanukah for the victims at bondi—and while acknowledging a rising tide of anti-semitism is important, deciding that you as a non-jew are the only one who can hold the line strips them of their autonomy as a group with a history of resisting violence perpetuated against them.

[wokeuphighbyvanessacarlton]

I think you're misunderstanding the point of the OP. Jews are not committing violence against themselves. It's our problem to fix because it's non-jewish people who are being antisemitic. That's not saviorism, that's "hold ourselves and people in our lives to bare minimum standards of being normal about Jews"

[smegorl]

This also isn't a problem Jews can fix by themselves. They are only 0.2% of the global population. If the USA were the only country on earth where Antisemitism existed and only 10% of Americans were antisemites there would already be two times more antisemites than there are Jewish people globally. They need the rest of us to stand with them as unapologetic allies and shut down antisemitism whenever and whereever it appears.

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

Deciding that loudly and unapologetically standing with Jews against antisemitism is a “saviourship complex” just removes our responsibility and our obligation and allows people to shrug and go “not my problem.” It is our problem and our issue to fix because we are the ones who keep killing them, and then blaming them for their own slaughter.

[penrosesun]

Yeah, I think we maybe need to put "saviorship complex" on the high shelf, ngl

It's not white saviorism to try and take an active role in combating the antisemitism of your fellow non-Jews. It's likewise not white saviorism try and take an active role in combating the anti-Blackness of your fellow white people, or the anti-Native racism of your fellow non-Natives, or the ableism of your fellow abled individuals, or the homophobia and transphobia of your fellow cis straight folks. Neither, btw, is it white knighting to try and take an active role in combating the casual sexism perpetrated by your fellow men.

How the actual fuck did we get all the way from "this group's oppression is not about you" to "so you shouldn't bear any responsibility at all for your role in perpetuating it"???

These things ARE INDEED your fucking issues to fix. It is on white people to take part in dismantling racism, it is on non-Jews to take part in ending antisemitism, it 100% is on the able bodied to fight for accommodations for the disabled, and on cis straight people to fight for queer rights, and it's on each and every man to do his part in ending systemic sexism.

What these things aren't are your victories to demand credit for. Ending oppression is not a pet project to boost your own ego, and you need to stop centering yourself over the actual victims. The ask is and always has been that you sit down, shut up, and do what the communities in question actually say that they need instead of doing what a story that centered your personal growth would suggest that you should do. It was never that you walk out the fucking door on us.

[hoot-alex]

[mossmusings]

Do you ever hear a single bird call out in the night and wonder if birds talk in their sleep

[barbarian15]

Bondi Beach terror survivor describes how cops ‘froze’ during 20-minute shooting rampage: ‘I don’t understand why’

The eyewitness said he was with his family when the two suspects began firing at the crowd of worshippers from a nearby bridge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8w7mv2ROzQ

Police do nothing until a random guy disarms the terrorist.

[weemietime]

Why in the FUCK did the police just STAND THERE and let him shoot for TWENTY MINUTES??????????????? UNBELIEVABLE. This is Uvalde levels of failure. Honestly it sounds like the cops wanted them to die, and we saw this in Amsterdam as well, the police refusing to respond to Jewish hate crimes during the pogrom. What a disgusting look for Australia. The entire Australian government ought to be ashamed of themselves.

[gamingtide]

From here: [Link]

[corpsecowboy]

i get to see sturgeon every weekend so i made this:)

[bakedbakermom]