[liminalcathag]

the rights of homeless ppl are literally never considered when ppl talk about public sex

[liminalcathag]

this isn’t me saying i think people should have the right to fuck on the public bus in front of god and everybody’s kids and repulsed people— i’m saying none of you think in terms of, “unnuanced approach to law (including sexually related law) can lead to people being stripped of rights for no reason without recourse”

if homeless people have no place to safely, securely fuck

they will fuck in that alley. they will leave that condom in the park. they will fuck Wherever

the things you dislike involved in the topic has direct causation in loss of rights from being homeless

what sorts of people tend to be homeless? or tend to be in a situation they can’t fuck at home? is it trans people and other lgbtqia+ folks? oh shit it is. maybe the real public sex is the rights we lost along the way

[desolationlesbian]

I cannot put into words how much I Fucking Loathe the fact that when you search something on youtube now it will randomly intersperse blocks of "people also watched" and "for you" into the results. That's not what I searched for, youtube. I typed in a search query because I wanted to see search results, not random unrelated garbage you have placed in my way apparently to either inconvenience me or force me to scroll further for actual results. I despise your wretched little games and every time I see it I can only instantly close the tab as I am overcome with the urge to burn something down.

[macademia-nut]

"I despise your wretched little games" perfectly conveys how I feel about the entire algorithm/attention economy

[prismatic-bell]

I recently discovered laundry stripping and y’all, no matter how much of a crock of shit you think fast fashion is, you’re underestimating.

[prismatic-bell]

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OKAY SO. You know how we talk about how one way fast fashion has made itself “necessary” is that the clothing looks like shit and feels horrible after just a few washes?

Let. Me. Tell. You. Something.

Laundry stripping is a process where you load your laundry into a tub or bin (I’ve been using my bathtub) with warm water, half a cup of borax, half a cup of washing soda, and half a cup of laundry soap (not detergent, SOAP, there’s a chemical difference). Leave it there for at least eight hours. I’ve been going for 12-24.

What you will come back to is a tub full of nearly-opaque black-gray-brown water that absolutely REEKS. This is normal. You are looking at (and smelling) hard water buildup, body sweat and oils that were embedded in the fabric, dead skin, and just regular grime.

Wring out your clothes. Throw them in the washer. (I like to do a spin-only cycle before going any further, because I have one of those washers that determines by weight how much water any given load needs.) Wash as usual.

You will notice I didn’t suggest any further pretreatment, and that’s because 1) you don’t want to layer too many chemicals on top of each other but also 2) you may not even need it.

When your clothes come out, check each one as it goes into the dryer, and if anything else s still stained, set it aside to run again with a regular pretreatment. One of the sweaters I did this with apparently did need a second treatment…to deal with what appears to have possibly been a hot chocolate stain that was previously invisible due to “well, it’s old” dinginess. I was planning to throw this sweater out. It looks almost new now. I need to wash it one more time for the probably-a-hot-chocolate stain, and then it needs to have the hem weighted to block it and bring it back to evenness, but dude. I wear my clothes to rags and I thought this thing was unfixable. “I need to reshape it” is nothing.

Remove clothes from dryer when done. Fucking MARVEL at the colors and how good the fabric feels. Give them a smell. Get righteously and royally angry that you can rejuvenate this stuff so easily, with a process that does take awhile but is 90% hands-off, but we’ve been trained to believe it’s all got to be binned once a year because discoloration and gross fabric is “normal wear and tear” and can’t be fixed.

It’s utterly unreal! I just pulled a seven-year-old work undershirt out of the dryer and this thing looks NEW!! It FEELS almost new!!! One of the shirts I hung up from the last load is older than some of the people on this site and it went from “I keep this to wear on laundry day, for sentimental reasons” to “I could actually wear this out of the house, it looks old but respectable”! The pajama bottoms I’m wearing were from Goodwill and they have BRIGHT YELLOW in them! I thought it was goldenrod!!

I do not know how often you’re supposed to do this (doing it every time can strip the dye out of your clothes, not to mention it’s way too much work to do every time), but once or twice per season seems respectable. I don’t wear white, so I can’t test the “it will make whites look almost-new as well” claim, but I’ve seen a lot of people on the cleaning subreddit attest that it works.

Just remember: WASHING soda. Not baking soda. I tried baking soda and a little bit happened, but not a lot.

Go forth. Rejuvenate your clothing. Strip your laundry.

[misty-anne]

To make whites white, you need bluing.

[neurospicy]

College is wild because it really isn’t about intelligence or the ability to understand the material at all. It’s literally just a test of executive function and abled-ness. I had good attendance. I participated in class discussions…possibly to an annoying extent, I got A’s on my tests. When we did group work in classes, it was usually me knowing the answers and everyone else just writing them down from my paper.

But I watched those same people who copied my in-class work and who barely passed tests and who only understood the material enough to regurgitate it, not to expand on it, graduate while I flunked out. Why? Because I didn’t have the executive function to do homework outside of class. That’s it.

[arborealgargoyle]

when I was a teen dealing with chronic illness, I was just abled enough to go to school and do the work in class. I got As on all my in-class work and tests. I understood the material. when I got home everyday, I was so exhausted I went straight to bed and didn’t get up until it was time to go to school the next morning. I stopped hanging out with friends or having any free time, and I dedicated every ounce of energy to school. but, on the basis of needing to pass out as soon as I got home everyday, I was unable to do homework (I also had missed more days that I was supposed to, but again, I passed every test and hadn’t fallen behind in the material). despite having As in everything except homework, I failed every class and had to drop out of high school.

our education system is structured less around an actually well-rounded education (which would look different for different people depending on their needs) and more around conformity to neuro-typical, abled standards that prepare you for being a worker under capitalism, which itself enforces these standards in the attempt to drain as much profit from the individual as possible. even people who are “lucky” enough to be NT and abled enough to survive in these environments deserve more than to be treated like a renewable resource.

[laughterbynight]

Because apparently folks are confused and not looking shit up, this is the missing “sub”. It’s literally a metal tube.

It fits 5 people.

There’s no crew y’all. This isn’t Disney’s Atlantis. There’s one guy who presses a button on a Logitech controller to go up and down. Everyone else is whoever can afford a ticket.

Hope this helps cause I’m seeing some wild ass claims in the comments.

[lapsuslapsiis]

elon should take his submarine and personally lead the expedition to find them in the icy depths, with any luck he'll get lost down there as well and we'll be free of the emerald boy

[strigon1]

I highkey think this is HILARIOUS. Because it’s a bunch of rich hacks paying 250k a seat in that nightmare tube. And the Chief Executive Fuckwit of that nightmare himself is in the thing this time. Mans thinks safety features is wasting money it’s why no one can find the thing there’s no “we’re lost and need help” bonus safety features on the tub.

And even funnier imo is I heard that like. They’re bolted in from the outside? Even if they manage to surface they can’t get themselves out without someone on the outside letting them out.

Safety features exist for a reason and y’all just potentially killed yourselves.

[optipesi]

As someone who’s training to be a deck officer, I think I can add some of my own knowledge here:

In the maritime world, there are organisations called classification societies that basically inspect vessels and make sure they’re up to international standards. This submersible was never inspected by any of these bodies, so it was never deemed to be up to standard by anyone.

Even better… the company itself posted this article that attempted to explain why this was. Apparently, most maritime accidents are operator error and not due to the failure of the vessel itself…

Which is usually true, because vessels are safe because they are inspected and up to standard. Titan was not. And evidently, their steps to keep the submersible safe didn’t work either. So why was the vessel unclassified?

Because the CEO complained that the regulations for passenger vessels were ‘obscenely safe’ and prevented ‘innovation.’

If innovation is making a shitty pressurised tube and sending it to the bottom of the ocean that’s new to me. So basically this idiot ignored every chance he could have to make this disaster sub safe, and is now paying the price because he’s presumably a fine pulp on the ocean floor right now.

[enigma-the-mysterious]

Even better… the company itself posted this article that attempted to explain why this was. Apparently, most maritime accidents are operator error and not due to the failure of the vessel itself…

No one explained the concept of survivors' bias to these people

[hbbisenieks]

Also: one of their innovations? The thing was made of carbon fiber. Do you know what material absolutely does Not fail gracefully? Carbon fiber.

[fromchaostocosmos]

perhaps we have discovered our version of a stealth guillotine? think of the possibilities we have open to us,

we know these too rich for multiple lifetimes are not that bright and clearly don't care about safety standards so all we need to is find a way to trick them into basically guillotining themselves.

[socialist-microwave-laser]

the oceangate situation is really funny but i do want to take a moment to look at the fact that five people of their own volition decide to go two miles under the sea in something controlled by a $30 xbox controller with no beacon or way to navigate, go missing, and immediately a massive search effort is underway with people anxiously combing the ocean for any sign of these chucklefucks, but the greek coast guard capsized a boat full of hundreds of migrants, killing 80 with over 500 people still counted as missing, and the eu won't even investigate

you can and should hate rich people, but you also need to show up for the oppressed

[sufferingandasense]

the eu has blood on their hands <3

[yharnamsnewslug]

Mediterranean countries are also trying to make it illegal to aid any immigrant coming through boats, btw, which also means getting arrested for saving someone from drowning at fucking sea.

[animentality]

[theotherhappyplace]

my tweets sure go viral a lot on here! LOL

[leninthesixth]

idk how much this made the news in the Americas but the Hellenic coast guard watched as a vessel carrying more than 400 (some estimates say 700) migrants capsized and sank in the Mediterranean. 104 people survived. official death toll is 79 because the rest is missing, and might never be found. There are claims that many children were below deck.

Frontex and the Hellenic Coast Guard was aware of the vessel and the dangerous situation it was in for days, but did not intervene

[leninthesixth]

The coast guard released this photo. They came this close but did not intervene. EU and the Greek coast guard sat and waited for this boat to sink

[leninthesixth]

Survivors and rescuers claim that the boat capsized after being towed by the coast guard at high speed.

if this is true, at best they caused an accident out of carelessness and immediately retreated to cover it up, or they committed a massacre.

[theboxer1261970]

id: a series of tweets about a boat, with migrants on it, capsizing and leaving 104 survivors.

tweet one, from niki kitsantonis, reads: "Photos of migrant boat taken by Greek coast guard helicopter on Tuesday indicates hundreds were aboard. Official death toll so far 79 with 104 survivors. Shipping Ministry official says boat sunk in spot where sea is 4,000 meters deep, so retrieving other victims may be impossible."

the photos attached are of a blue (?) boat with people packed like sardines in the middle of the water.

tweet two reads: "The vast search and rescue operation continues with hundreds missing and at least 78 dead, the Hellenic Coast guard said in a statement on Thursday. A new photo has been released by #Greece's coast guard showing the fishing vessel that appears to be photographed at night time."

the photo attached is of the boat at night time.

tweet three, from iasonas apostolopoulos, reads: "[thread emoji] New item that completely changes the data! Rescuers revealed that the new coast guard was towing them at high speed, this destabilized the boat and sank it! If this is true, we are not talking about criminal negligence, but about an act that caused the death of 600 people."

the video attached is of a middle-aged man, with his arms folded, wearing an n95 mask, surrounded by people.

/end id]

[maaarine]

@W_Asherah

[marxandangels]

[vaporize-employers]

[ID: Tweet via Lydia Kiesling: Housed people have the privilege of having their worst moments in private; unhoused people don't. This gives some people the profoundly mistaken impression that the person they see acting belligerent on the street is and will be that person every single moment of their life. /end ID]

[strange-boss-deactivated2023071]

This person replied to OP with this example of how poly culture enables violence towards women and they turned off reblogs lololol

[fandomsandfeminism]

Titanic sub: What we know about the search for the Oceangate submersible

With a massive search under way, what do we know about the Titanic sub that has gone missing?

Yall, this story inspires so many emotions.

The debilitating existential Dread of imagining people being trapped at the bottom of the ocean in a mini van.

The deep schadenfreude delight of imagining billionaires trapped at the bottom of the ocean in a mini van.

[fandomsandfeminism]

The most likely theories on what happened:

1. At some point on the descent, the sub had some kind of structural failure and leaked, which at that depth, would cause an instant implosion and death.

2. A mechanical failure occurred, triggering a failsafe, which would result in them bobbing up to the surface. But the sub is sealed with bolts FROM THE OUTSIDE, so they are still trapped in there with depleting air unless they are found.

I also heard one theory that the sub could have gotten snagging on something, like a loose large fishing net or even part of the titanic wreck, and is operable but stuck. In which case...they are fucked because very few craft can submerge that deep. So. 🤷‍♀️

[fandomsandfeminism]

So, anyone following this story has probably heard this update:

Underwater noises heard in search for missing sub near Titanic wreck

A tourist sub missing during a dive on the wreck of the Titanic has just over a day’s oxygen left.

So, to be clear, we do not know for sure that the noises heard yesterday were in fact from the submersible. The fact that the banging came in 30 minute intervals is a point in that theorys favor, but we can't know for sure.

1. This is an absolutely horrific situation if it is them. The craft imploding would have at least been a quick death. This craft has been missing since Sunday morning and had no food on board and only a camping toilet behind a shower curtain for those needs. If they are snagged somewhere on the bottom, very few crafts could reach them to even try to help and there is less than a days worth of oxygen left (not accounting for the state of the C02 scrubbers)

2. The CEO is one of the people who went down in there. If any of them are alive (again, unknown), then I'd be AMAZED if *all* of them are alive.

[septembriseur-deactivated202502]

A few facts for you as we contemplate all things [sub]marine today:

- more than 600 people, many of them Afghans and Pakistanis, may have drowned in the Mediterranean last week after Greek authorities allegedly chose not to intervene when they encountered the vessel in distress to avoid the politically toxic spectacle of allowing so many migrants ashore.

- $250,000 in the right hands could arrange asylum for up to 12 refugees or, alternatively, support an Afghan family for about 80 years.

[ms-hells-bells]

the story of the four colombian children that survived over a month in the jungle after surviving a plane crash is incredible. their mother initially survived the crash, but was fatally injured, and as she was dying, she told them to leave her so that they may live. the eldest child, a 13 year old girl, is who kept the younger siblings alive, having both knowledge of edible jungle plants, as well as scavenging the wreckage, knowing how to take care of an infant (yes, the youngest was an 11-12 month old baby), and also had a hobby of playing 'survival games' with her 9 year old sister, where they would built make-shift shelters outside for fun. they were finally rescued several days ago, in large part because the search helicopters continuously played a recording of their grandmother, telling them to stay where they are in their native language.

so, three generations of women and girls, grandmother, mother, and daughter, all contributed to the group's survival. they are malnourished and dehydrated, but apart from that, fine physically. they will be out of hospital in little over a week (excluding perhaps the baby).

[limeade-l3sbian]

the constant "wrong side of history" bs towards radfems is so fascinating to me. the idea that i am acting as i am now in hopes of appearing in a "good light" later on in history. as if there are women, to this day, who are still seen in a bad light despite their actions. that somehow i'm more involved with the future than the women here with me now. i don't need to look good for the future, i need to be strong for the women now.

[homonormatism]

[mini-wrants]

I think part of the reason it’s so hard to discuss abortion’s importance for any woman’s life is because we would have to actually talk about how much harder having children makes your life.

We discuss mommy penalties on working moms, but always under the assumption that the child was wanted.

We don’t talk about the woman with the unplanned pregnancy, crying in her bathroom alone at night cause she can’t get her baby to sleep and also she has a big conference call tomorrow.

We don’t talk about the resentment a 20 year old feels after dropping out of college and moving back home to raise a kid she never planned for, watching her future slip away, knowing it’ll be years, decades likely, before she can finish her degree (if she’s ever able to).

Families with planned pregnancies already struggle to find childcare. Do you honestly think a young single mother has an easier time juggling a job and a baby, all alone?!

We think of it as selfish for choosing an abortion to complete college of move further in your career, but there are scores of men out there who simply dip out and disappear when they find out their One Night Stand is pregnant. They face relatively few consequences.

No suburban mom wants to admit that she knows she would encourage her 16 year old daughter to get an abortion if she fell pregnant, but we all know that’s precisely what would happen cause mom doesn’t want her daughter to lose her future to diapers and 3 am feedings.

But I do think these are conversations that need to be slowly introduced, one on one, to women who are on the fence.

Answer me honestly; if your kid was pregnant in college, what would you tell her to do?

[only-tiktoks]

[all-hail-the-kazoo]