Rockets, Airplanes and Photography, oh my!

Exactly what it says on the tin. edit: I lied. I rebagel whatever now.

[tsarina-anadyomene]

it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there

[gsot]

[drmajalis]

[stuck-in-jelly]

You know what I know I'm usually pretty silent but I need you all to understand the horrible impact SpaceX and Starship has had on South Texas.

Yes, fuck those ugly ass cyber trucks but FUCK that Space Center.

Starship genuine danger to the people who live here. It's to the point many of the people here when they heard the explosion joked that it was probably another one of Elon's rockets.

This is a horrifying pattern we are becoming numb to, we hear about a planned test launch and brace ourselves for more debris.

Several of Musk's attempts at rockets, especially after the deregulation, have resulted in catastrophic explosions. Want the list? Here are a few!!

December 9th, 2020- Starship serial No. 8, or SN8. Exploded upon landing.

February 2, 2021- Starship SN9. Exploded upon landing.

March 3rd. 2021- Starship SN10. Landed in one piece. Fire at the skirt caused an explosion.

April 20, 2023- Starship. Exploded once more. Debris scattered in Port Isabell.

March 6, 2025- Flight 8. Spun out of control and exploded in a mass of fireballs. Planes had to be grounded due to the mass explosion and the debris are stills scattered in the ocean.

And now we have the most recent and the worse one yet.

June 18-19, 2025- Starship 36 during a GROUND test caused a mass explosion, the looming mushroom cloud causing locals in Cameron to believed they had been bombed.

The loser describes this it as a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" instead of what they are: fiery failures locals have to deal with as a result.

Pretty much everyone locally knows Elon Musk and his negative impact on our home, people who have had the unfortunate curse to have worked with him and the center call it Cultish, 8 members of his staff who spoke out against his behavior and sexual harassment were all fired.

Its a well known fact he hates the people here, and he goes out of his way to find employees who are not from this area and move them down here.

Musk has tried to encourage even more white people to come down to South Texas and live in his "Starship City". An attempt to gentrify and push out local citizens.

Rebekah Hinojosa, a local Activist with Another Gulf Is Possible, even had her home unlawfully entered by police after an alleged graffiti on a mural he commisioned (which didn't even obscure the mural).

This article is a good read on everything Musk has done to South Texas

As SpaceX Grows, So Do Complaints From Environmentalists, Indigenous Groups and Brownsville Residents - Inside Climate News

One day last month, Juan Mancias, the chief of the Carrizo Comecrudo tribe of Texas, and two companions headed to Boca Chica village, a bays

I am TIRED of this going unnoticed and unheard of the People of The Valley. I need you to stop laughing and start taking this seriously.

If you want to read more on all the insane shit this man has done to South Texas here are a few more Articles I would Recommend

South Texas groups sue Texas for letting Elon Musk's SpaceX dump wastewater without permit, SpaceX's Starship explodes in space, which Musk calls a 'minor setback', What Is Starbase? Elon Musk Builds a SpaceX City With Shops, Worker Housing and Its Own Mayor — But Texas Locals Aren't Happy

[fleshmesh]

Break the stereotype* of tumblr sexyman always being a skinny guy in a suit. It’s time for hairy muscled short fat muscular men with big beards to shine. Vote senshi. tumblr sexyman is whoever tumblr says is the sexyman. bring in the new era

He’ll make you bread

*(people keep poiinting out that sans and stan won who are not skinny suit wearers. i am not saying they did not win. i'm saying it's the common stereotype of what a tumblr sexyman is. sans and stan winning only further proves my point that senshi can win)

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[skyblob]

Vote for him n he’ll give u free bread

Funny I usually post about Thistle but ofc I’d vote for Senshi

[prokopetz]

I'm currently living in a two-cat household, and there's a thing that happens where the first cat is calling for me, the second cat shows up like "you rang?", and the first cat immediately smacks the second cat in the face like "not you, knucklehead". They do this every day.

[prokopetz]

The second cat always comes running when the first cat calls for me, even though it gets her dope-slapped with 100% reliability. I suspect she simply enjoys the attention.

[freakasaurus-rex]

"google ai" "spotify ai dj" "ai assistant" "enhanced by ai" what if i just start beating people over the head with a rock

[haleyusesherwords]

[epicscizor]

[hunter-rodrigez]

So I do 3D modeling and printing as a hobby, and a few weeks ago I designed wheel guards meant to prevent office chairs from running over cables and clothes... or your pet's tail.

I got the idea from cowcatchers old locomotives used to have.

Anyways, yesterday I uploaded the model to Thingiverse, and just hours after uploading it, the Community Relationship Manager of the whole website left a comment suggesting I enter the model into a competition that's currently being held on the site.

So I did... and now it's in third place not even a day later. First place is $500, but the competition still has a month to go.

Then the Community Manager contacted me again, telling me they want to feature my model in an upcoming design promotion.

Just, what is happening? I mostly made this thing for myself in, like, an hour, and now it's suddenly super popular? This is all a little bit overwhelming 😵‍💫

Other models I worked on for weeks didn't get nearly as popular. I swear, it's impossible to predict what people will like.

Anyways, if you want to print the wheel guards yourself, you can get the model here or here.

I also made a quiet version you can stick furniture felt pads on.

[these-violet-delights-fic]

People love simple, extremely practical things. I hope you win!

[enki2]

[vintagewildlife]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.

[ryan-sometimes]

Please for the love of the Gods I *need* an update regarding your work nemesis, so I can live vicariously through you. <3

Ok, so my boss sent my nemesis that email, and then it was silence since we had state holidays so we were OOO for 4 days. Hence why I took a while to give an update.

For my nemesis, let’s refer to her as Laura from Pfizer (different name and different company but same gist)

The summary is: we will now charge extra for Pfizer projects from Laura, and Pfizer will also have stricter restrictions on her. Hopefully that’ll make working with her easier 🙏

I’ve also gotten questions on why exactly Laura is my nemesis, so I’ll explain that below:

We do research within the pharma industry, and companies can reach out to us to buy/sponsor that research. So they’ll ask us to research a specific medication/condition, to understand the prescription habits of doctors, the barriers to treatment, etc.

So Pfizer will tell Laura to find out X thing about Y medication/disease, and she’ll buy that research from us, which we will do correctly. We charge by project size and methodology, as per method we have different procedures, team size, third parties, etc.

But Laura must not understand our methodologies very well, so she’ll frequently buy the wrong type of project. This has catastrophic implications for us. Because when the projects are drawing to a close, Laura will reach out to us and ask for results which are not included in the methodology she ordered. So when she can’t deliver the results Pfizer asked of her, she blames US! She’ll literally slander us to her superiors and tell us we caused damages at Pfizer.

This causes financial damages to us too, because Pfizer is one of our biggest clients and names in the industry. Laura is also incredibly mean in her emails to us, to the extent some of our employees have actually cried reading them. She’s not only incompetent at her job, she’s also a bully.

And the thing is, we don’t have access to Pfizer’s internal communications, so we don’t know what they actually asked of her. Laura is our only point of contact, meaning we have to go by what she says. And her information is often wrong.

When this happens, we’ll often have to scramble to alter the fieldwork last minute, revise project timelines, reprocess our data, and so many more awful things. Our employees have had to work late countless times because of Laura, and realistically miss out on bonuses too. Merely saying her name in my office produces winces, stressed sighs, and facepalms.

Hopefully you can understand why I had enough of her, why I dedicated an entire day to take her down, and why my coworkers were willing to take on my work for the day because of it. That’s also why my bosses loved my report on Laura so much — she also causes them a lot of stress lmao. Pfizer having harsher restrictions on her means that there will be other employees reviewing her work, which hopefully means that she’ll make less mistakes when ordering research from us.

[anotherhawk]

Eva Stratt does NOT need a redemption arc. Eva Stratt did EVERYTHING WRONG so that no-one else would have to. Her hands are permanently stained with blood so humanity gets to keep on living.

[natalieironside]

The thing is that there's no line. For men of power and authority, there is no price that's so high or depravity so low as can't be justified if it furthers that power and authority. It'll keep going until they've debased themselves in ways you could never have imagined and people still won't believe someone would do such a thing.

[natalieironside]

Comrade, it is about every country

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Embarrassing fact about me is that it took me so so long to be able to tell Ross Bryant and Grant O'Brien apart. I'm sorry guys you're both tall white dudes with similar-sounding names and very very similar voices. I would just wait for the first sex joke or Shakespeare reference.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I feel better now because everyone in the notes is like "yeah same".

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Every day I receive further vindication

[j0urn3y]

I thought I was the only one

[nattousan]

"But surely you've at least wanted to try using AI-"

[prokopetz]

Strictly speaking, "ultimate" means "last", not "best". It's often figuratively employed in the latter sense to suggest that the thing so described is the final word on the subject, after which nothing more need be said, but if we're being real technical, describing a game or movie that was so bad it killed its entire franchise as the "ultimate" is in fact correct.

[prokopetz]

@ffoxer replied:

Now I'm thinking about the prefix "pen," which as far as I can think I may have only ever seen in "penultimate"

It's Latin for "nearly" or "almost", and it does pop up in a few other English words. "Penultimate", "penumbra" and "peninsula" are the only ones I can think of that you'd even remotely expect to encounter in everyday speech, though; the rest are all medical or mathematical jargon.

[prokopetz]

#so peninsula means what? #almost island? #lmao (via @actualanxiousswampwitch)

That is the actual etymology of the word "peninsula", yes.

[everybidenjusthavegoodtime]

give a man a guitar and he’ll play for a day, teach a man guitar and today is gonna be the day that they’re gonna throw it back to you

I swear to God I am so tired of this meme. You guys need to leave Wonderwall alone, seriously by now you should’ve somehow realized what you gotta do

[hannah-the-lion-deactivated2023]

my friend asked if i was gonna stop laughing at wonderwall jokes.

i said maybe

[herhighness-thequeenofhearts]

Famous last words

You fuckin clowns