TheMechNamedAshley

40 orbits. Satellite Communications Engineer. Ask me about satellites and physics if you want to learn way more than you wanted to. I write and reblog warped, strange, beautiful things. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here, and all that. You have been warned. Banner Credit: Sirenium

[themechnamedashley]

So I finally took the time to put together the design doc for my truesona.

A friend of mine and the wonderful Jen Pallante ( https://bsky.app/profile/jenpallante.bsky.social ) made her real.

This is Ashley, and she is me. --- With everything going on, it's easy to get swamped.

Tell your loved ones that you do.

Tell your friends you love em too.

Help where you can, and get help where you need.

Stay safe, stay sane, and stay alive. Everything else follows from that. Whatever you gotta do, you do it.

We will make it through.

I love you.

[maeneiii]

the alley

[eeizabeth-8]

Not a furry? That's exactly what a furry would say. 😏🐺

[luluquiq]

I drew some flag deers for pride month ! 

Be proud of who you are !

you can use them if you credit me

[tgirl-tamag0tchi]

I have the heart of a bumble bee and the will to live of a house plant.

[tgirl-tamag0tchi]

Also thick thighs… like pineapple.

[komorebigold]

If you're a house plant, you're a pothos. You let us know when you're not doing well, so that we can water you.

[tgirl-tamag0tchi]

… I do live blog about my mental health a lot lol.

Now I’m imagining my head on a pothos plant lol.

[pangur-and-grim]

Please look at the baby chinchilla from work. Look at as much of it you can see without a microscope. Please PLEASE I need people to see it's it's such a THING

how can that exist

[mousegirlheart]

fuck i love pirating movies. i wish i could pirate them faster. I shouldn't have to wait until they come to streaming or bluray. the cinema should personally deliver me a usb with a copy of the newest movie i wanted and then get on their knees and kiss my feet. i once paid you fuckers money to see adam sandler's blended. you owe me. now get out of my sight. take your disgustingly priced concessions with you. i got ubereats.

[reactionimagesdaily]

[guoh-art]

refined sketch commission -> wolf OC

[innerchildabortionclinic]

Growing up non american but with US media and later US centric social media the meat consumption just feels wild. The idea that meat like beef and such is seen as this easily affordable thing to have around. Not saying everyone does but just the portrayal of it. The US meat and dairy lobby really grabbed some and made them think its normal and consequence free. And you are right. We will see more of that. They keep walking in that direction not expecting to hit the goal.

the meat consumption combined with disgust over direct killing of animals for food is what really gets me. working in a grocery store one time this woman said she hated the graphic near the meat department that showed what part of a pig is called what as a cut of meat. she "didn't want to think about where it comes from". DID YOU THINK THE PORK SPAWNED OUT OF THIN AIR?! not having to be the one to kill the animal yourself is a privilege--US factory farms are notoriously horrendous not only for what the animals endure. hell, one of the main motives for food safety regulation in the US early on was a story about working in a meat packing plant.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

[footlongdingledong]

thing thats good: yay

thing thats bad: aww

thing that has both genuinely amazing pieces of storytelling and abysmal dogshit slop both happening like entirely interchangably:

[libraford]

The dudes I work with are very macho and big on hiding their emotions from each other because dudebro culture. But then the sunrise looks like this:

"Braaaaaaah!"

"Hell yeah hell yeah hell yeah!"

"The fuck is that color chartreuse?"

"Nah dumbass chartreuse is green thats safety orange."

"Yah can't call a sunset 'safety orange' it's not very poetic."

"Hey BabyJake- what color you call that?"

"...beautiful..."

[tigirl-and-co]

i wrote this shitty poem instead of sleeping bc i got mad about colours

[libraford]

I'm not crying you're crying.

[systlin]

In 38 years of life I have learned 1 thing;

If anyone is ever training you to replace them in a position and tells you 'its an easy job I don't do much' what this means is that you are about to spend six months to a year catching up on all the stuff they didn't do and sorting out the stuff they did poorly.

In related news I finally managed to finish un fucking my predecessor's lack of a filing system.

[hungrymilliek]

And if they start a sentence with "You're not supposed to do it this way but...", you're about to learn some shit to make OSHA go:

[systlin]

My job is literally in safety and emergency management and that phrase makes me break out in hives. Which is to say that you are entirely one million percent correct.

[bisquid]

Alternatively by 'an easy job where they don't do much' what they mean is that they've got so much unwritten knowledge and experience stored up in their heads that they *genuinely believe* it's an easy low effort job and then leave you with a learning curve like a rocket launch and frantically spawning spreadsheets of all the shit they know off by heart

[scratch-meowt]

my hottest take

[keeper-of-the-flames]

Counter point, those machines can make me a peach sprite.

[pusheenthenerdcat]

guys did you know the tech in that nefangled machine revolutionized preemie healthcare

[maimonideznuts]

[pusheenthenerdcat]

yeah the guy who invented them made incredibly precise infusion pumps (as opposed to gravity fed ivs) which not only meant they could give medications to teeny tiny babies safely, it's also used for insulin pumps and portable dialysis machines. the key element is that it's a peristaltic pump so the liquid stays in sterile tubing for safety

(unholy drink cloaca uses it to dispense precise amounts of flavored sugar syrup)

[hedgebotherer]

Then how the haters loved him,

As they shouted out with glee,

"Unholy Drink Cloaca

You'll go down in history!"

[naamahdarling]

You DON'T get this on any other site in quite this format.

[lucinatural]

Hey, to any girl out there, please eat that cookie or cake or special treat, please

[kosmogrl]

there’s something very beautiful about being able to try again tomorrow

[mintbecrazy]

I have been trying tomorrow for the past 3 years

[kosmogrl]

and you still have tomorrow to try again

[amarguerite]

🎶 there is power in a union 🎶

[loth-catgirl]

put up a statue of this woman actually

[whatthefuuuuuuccckkkk]

is she my role model or am i in love

[princessterf]

its always "unions are good" until the women get unionized 😔

[triforceofidiocy]

the post got taken down because the mods didn't want someone protecting themself from sexual assault to be up for moral debate