the municipality of gaza announced it has to halt all waste collection and sewage treatment operations because of the war…..many have said it already but the long-lasting impact this war is going to have on the health of palestinians in gaza can’t be overstated. i think about water stations being targeted by israeli bombers, about the millions of displaced palestinians sharing limited bathrooms, about bisan sharing that she’s been very sick. i think about how contagious covid still is even with normal access to resources like clean water, medication, masks, i think about how many are rightfully concerned about the transmission rates in the us and other countries with relaxed restrictions. where are those people now???
Dr Tamer Alnajjar is a scholar of Environmental Engineering who has been posting about these issues on his Instagram account. Please follow him and boost his content to spread awareness about the human and environmental crises created by Israel in Gaza.
I saw the “AD BLOCK IS NOT ALLOWED ON YOUTUBE” popup on YouTube only for it to immediately disappear within a half second. I felt like a lady being shielded by the great knight sir Firefox from a terrible bowmans arrow.
I saw the “AD BLOCK IS NOT ALLOWED ON YOUTUBE” popup on YouTube only for it to immediately disappear within a half second. I felt like a lady being shielded by the great knight sir Firefox from a terrible bowmans arrow.
This captures everything I love about being online
This reminds me of the time that I asked if anyone had resources on the history of Shinto and while nobody had book recs, turns out an actual Temple Maiden followed me on Tumblr and was down to chat.
Tumblr has a startling number of well informed insightful people with names that reference obscure hentai.
People are downright interesting when they’re not being duct taped into one box or another.
The world is fucked when historians and linguists and mathematicians and artists of all kinds are forced to work jobs that suck the soul out of them because they didn’t get the right bit of paper from the right building or be born in the wrong place or something
seriously think about how many absolute geniuses spend their free time mastering some obscure realm of knowledge but have to mop up shit for 8 bucks an hour, or pick vegetables for a nickel
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
Easter egg for office workers: if you go onto Excel and press ctrl+left, then ctrl+down, you will reach cell XFD1048576. If you put a dot in there, then ctrl+A and fill every cell in black, you can then print 34 million black pages from your office printer and get fired
I’m going to the grocery store does anyone want to sublet my apartment for 45 minutes
How much
Only 3400
hot damn 🏃♂️ cmon guys lets go 🏃♂️🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🧞♀️
ok I’m back you and your boyfriend and your dog and your dog and your dog and your dog and your dog and your dog and your dog and your dog and your dog and your dog and your dog and your djinn can go
Orders from my shop help me pay rent. Orders from my shop help me buy groceries. Orders from my shop help me pay for gas. Orders from my shop help me pay for a gift for my fiance that I might not otherwise be able to afford. Orders from my shop help me pay for my future wedding. Orders from my shop help me pay for therapy. Orders from my shop helped me leave a toxic household.
Shop small, especially if you can afford it. I know sometimes corporations have cheaper options.. but that extra $5 is far more useful to a small business owner. If you can afford it, shop small any time you can.
Israeli drones dropping tear gas on us: AJ correspondent
Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim, reporting from the occupied West Bank, says Israeli drones have dropped tear gas on the Palestinians gathered outside the Ofer prison in Beitunia.
“The numbers of Palestinians who have made it here today is much less than the ones who made it yesterday [Friday] … because we do not have a list of names of the Palestinian prisoners who are going to be released,” she said, standing near the crowd awaiting the release of the second round of Palestinian prisoners.
“We do not know whether they’re going to be released from here,” she said, standing near Ofer Prison. “We’ve been seeing confrontations between Palestinians and the Israeli forces stationed [nearby].”
Ibrahim was visibly uncomfortable, coughing and tearing up as a result of the inhalation of the tear gas.
AOC shines a harsh spotlight on Alito’s corruption: refusing to recuse in the Singer case after receiving a substantial bribe. He ruled in Singer’s favor to the tune of $2.4 Billion. Nice return on investment, I think!
getting older can be so amazing? you get more familiar with yourself. learn tips & tricks for troubleshooting your own brain. trial & error helps you build routines that minimize discomfort, maximize reward. your preferences/interests don’t get set in stone, but you do find out which ones are going to stay with you in the long-term, and which ones are fun but transient joys to appreciate in the moment.
you learn that the world is so much more complex than you were taught, and that that’s okay, and that there’s an endless supply of things you can learn or watch or experience or think about if you want to. if you’re lucky, you loosen up, stop putting so much pressure on yourself. if you’re lucky, you learn to recognize that negative inner voice, and whack it with a baseball bat until it hushes up. if you’re lucky, you learn to treat yourself gently, not because you are fragile but because you are worthy of gentleness. (i hope you are lucky.)
and some things will change. some things will get better. some things will get good. and maybe you start to recover from the dehumanizing stress of childhood/education. maybe you learn the power of your own autonomy. maybe you learn how to walk away from bad situations (which is a superpower even if you don’t realize it yet). and you get to choose your own clothes. and your own food. and which relationships to pursue! and what you do with your free time. and with your life (but don’t worry you get to choose that gradually). and that’s crazy! and sometimes scary. and extraordinarily, indescribably precious.
bitches needed to hear this huh ♥ (you’re bitches)
The protests that happened at the macy’s day parade are so important specifically because they tried to stop people from finding out about them. I watched the whole parade and didn’t see a single sign or protestor, because try as they may to claim the show is live, they’ve been doing this for decades, they have full control over what footage the camera’s capture and when ads conveniently cut away from what’s happening. I found out from the few people still talking about the protests that there were any happening at the parade today.
They know we’re all getting so tired and sad of hearing about what’s happening. They want to make it as difficult as possible for us to interact with it, in hopes that we give up. They want you to say “It’s Thanksgiving, we deserve a break from hearing about this.”
I know that it hurts and it’s stressful to try to help, but we have to keep going if we want anything to change. The writer and actor strikes were successful because they didn’t give in.
It doesn’t have to be much, you don’t have to spend your days doomscrolling footage and fighting zionists. Just email your representatives each day, boycott businesses that support Israel, and hang on tight. As long as there is hope, there is a way through. The Palestinian people will be free.
in the US, you’ll often see two gas stations across the street from the other. this can seem odd, or even like a design flaw, but the reason for this is to better accommodate drivers, without requiring people to turn around or drive through traffic to reach a station. there’s a reason for it! and that reason is poor street design
to put it another way: in america, it’s easier to build a second gas station 50 feet away from the first, than it is to turn around in a lane
I hate the rainbow fish story SO much. “Ohh it’s not nice to have so many beautiful glittering holographic scales that you were born with because you make the insecure fish jealous :-( you should rip them off and hand them out so they will be nice to you” well, those ugly ass stupid grey fishes have to shut the hell up and get over it
Stop calling Gaza an “open air prison.” Prisons are filled with convicted criminals. Prisons have food. Prisons have water. Prisons have electricity. Even prisons have medical treatment. Gaza is not a prison; it is a concentration camp.
OKAY STRAP IN because this is one of the WILDEST stories in aviation history.
In 1990, a British Airways BAC One-Eleven, captained by Tim Lancaster and co-piloted by Alastair Atchison, was cruising at 17,000 feet.
Around 15 minutes after take-off, flight attendant Nigel Ogden entered the cockpit to bring the pilots something to drink. One second everything was fine. The next second, the pilot’s side window blew out from the force of the pressurized cockpit. Even though he was strapped in, the force of the explosive decompression ripped the captain out of his chair and pulled him though the window.
The flight attendant immediately leapt forward and grasped the captain’s belt. The force was so strong - due to the plane’s speed - the captain slipped and was pulled almost entirely out of the plane, but the flight attendant caught his leg. The captain laid on the roof, then the side of the fuselage (the above image is an inaccurate recreation - the side window was smashed) and the flight attendant’s entire arm was soon outside of the plane, gripping him.
(Recreation from the show Mayday at the point of decompression)
At the same time, the event caused the autopilot to disengage, and the captain’s body hitting the flight controls caused the plane to enter into a deep dive. The throttle was set to full power and could not be accessed due to debris, meaning the plane was descending rapidly. The co-pilot, experiencing hypoxia, fought to control the plane’s dive while allowing it to continue descending to a level the passengers/crew could breathe at. He attempted to contact air traffic control, but the wind made communication impossible, so he broadcast a mayday signal. Finally, he was able to re-engage the autopilot and level the plane out at a breathable altitude.
Soon, the flight attendant’s entire arm was burned from wind shear and frostbite, and his grip began to slip. The other attendants entered the cabin to see what was wrong and took over holding the captain’s body. Seeing the blood covering the windows from the captain’s severe wind sheer burns and frostbite, the attendants and co-pilot knew he was dead. However, they could not let his body go because it could smash into the wing, horz stabilizer, or engine, and bring the plane down.
For 30+ minutes the co-pilot flew a jet plane with an OPEN WINDOW and his co-worker’s body hanging along the side of the plane. Finally, clearance to land from ATC came across over the sound of the wind and the flight attendants were able to dislodge the captain’s ankles from the flight controls without letting him go. The co-pilot successfully landed the plane.
(tw below for blood)
(Taken same day as the incident)
BUT HERE’S THE KICKER: when they reached the ground and evacuated, they realized THE CAPTAIN WAS NOT DEAD.
He SURVIVED being outside the fuselage of a jet airplane traveling 550mph at 17,000 feet. His only injuries were extensive - but mostly superficial - frostbite and windshear burns, bruising, fractures in his hand, and shock. He has since stated that he remembers the event and was conscious for much of the time he was outside of the fuselage. The only other injury was the flight attendant’s frostbitten/windshorn arm. Captain Tim Lancaster returned to flying five months later.
(Captain Tim Lancaster in bed several weeks after the incident, with flight attendant Ogden (+ Ogden’s wife) above him and co-pilot Alastair Atchison to the far left, along with the two other flight attendants)
Why did this occur? Because the plane had received maintenance the day before, and the maintenance supervisor did not check he was using the correct screws in re-installing the windscreen.
(Recreation)
So yeah: you can apparently survive clinging to the side of a jet airliner traveling 500+mph at 17,000 feet.
Wow! Didn’t expect this many likes for an aviation post.
Just a note that I was wrong - it was the front pilot’s windscreen, not the side-window! I’m used to looking at Boeing windows with different positions :)
If y'all want the full story & more analysis of what exactly went wrong, Mayday: Air Investigations did a pretty decent special on the incident. It’s free on YouTube here (and here on dailymotion if you’re outside the US).
@argumate
you really couldn’t film a scene like this for a movie without it looking too fake to be believable.
This whole Palestine thing with the US being completely supportive of it hit me in the face.
It’s like the US is a guy you know and you’re fairly certain he’s part of a gang or sells drugs or something but then you walk in on him raping his dead baby sister and not even stopping once he knows you’re there
Black Friday is such a joke nowadays. “Don’t miss out on 30% off” don’t piss me the fuck off. People used to hit each other over the head for a microwave that’s how low the prices were. People literally died. We used to be a country
If there’s a black Friday deal that’s not even 50% off or more I don’t give a fuck man
gotta appreciate the jpegging going on here. already crusty like it’s been screenshotted fifty times over after an egregiously long period of…[checks calendar] 11 days ago
“There is no epidemic of trans teens being rushed through medical transition by overly permissive doctors; trans people struggle to access healthcare at every age, and it has never been easy, let alone too easy, to be a trans child in the U.S. The articles claiming otherwise are recycling talking points that recognizably and overtly originate from anti-trans groups.”
