This youth from Palestine here, was called after finding his friend’s house got bombed. They asked him to call his friend in order to determine his exact location so they can start digging.
Remember that in gaza there are no resources to dig people up from underneath the rubble, so civilians from the neighborhood have to use their own hands and be very careful because of the bodies underneath. I can’t even imagine the trauma he’s experiencing, his shaking voice and hands. I would never bear witnessing my best friend in such conditions and having to call them bc I’m not even sure they’re alive.
How would anyone heal from this? And yet all are we asking for is just a ceasefire. This genocide should stop.
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.
One thing I really love about seedy anime websites and YouTube mp3 converters is like. They actually do what they say they’re doing. But they WILL try to trick you into downloading a virus. Like it’s almost just a greeting at this point. I try to extract a song from a YouTube video and it says free VPN installer tonight perhaps? Free VPN installer tonight queen? And I say YouTube-mp3 converter you sly dog, you know what I’m here for. Show me the goods. And YouTube-mp3 converter says ahhh you got me, no getting one over on you. Thought it was worth a try tho. Here you go king x
Got any gullible friends bossman? Haha just kidding mate, what’s a little laugh between pals?
so i recently decided to take a look at the latest stonetoss comics (probably because i love suffering). and while i was expecting some content on the israel palestine conflict, what i did not expect was how… standard it seemed. well, most of it at least, but i’ll get to that in a second.
for context, if you don’t know what stonetoss is, it’s a (poorly drawn) webcomic known for having radical alt-right views - meaning it’s incredibly racist, homophobic, transphobic, islamophobic, antisemitic. all that fun stuff.
so while i was expecting to see bad stuff, one of the first things i saw on the topic of israel was this:
terrible art aside, this comic is making a point that i usually see in left wing circles: that israel is pinkwashing genocide.
curious if there was more like this, i kept looking, and the comic right before that one was this:
again, this makes points that i usually see in left wing circles. that american healthcare is crazy expensive, that canada tells poor people to commit suicide, and that israel is bombing hospitals.
why does stonetoss, this well known alt-right nutjob, now seem to be bringing up left-wing talking points?
curious, i kept going deeper:
well this is… odd. clearly, stonetoss is trying to say that israel is on another level of bad, even worse than russia, iran, and north korea. i can possibly see someone on the left making the argument that the russian invasion of ukraine isn’t as bad as what israel is doing in gaza, or that at least north korea isn’t invading any other countries, but… iran??? the country that has a police force designed to enforce religious law, and gets away with murdering women who do not properly cover their hair? the country that props up paramilitary groups in countries all over the middle east, including lebanon, yemen, and yes, palestine?? that’s completely ridiculous
but, given how much more israel is in the news nowadays than any of these other countries, i could see why someone would buy this
and now, we’re starting to get to the crux of what stonetoss is trying to do. when someone sees this, they might be inclined to agree with it. they might begin to think that israel is the worst country on the planet
and that might not seem so bad at first. but the more you hate israel, especially irrationally, the more you feel allowed to dehumanize those who support it. the more you might be willing to agree with this comic, which came out two days prior to the one above
this comic says that jews, as a whole have no desire to exist with other people. it is blatantly antisemitic
i’m sure you could imagine some young leftist who sees the comics above this one and thinks, “this guy makes some good points”. and then, when they get to this one, they might realize that this is antisemitism
or, they may not.
and that would start them down the road to becoming an antisemite.
this is what stonetoss and other alt-right nutjobs are hoping to achieve. to take left wing fury at israel, and direct it at jews.
we saw it with those neo-nazis at the palestine rally, and we’re seeing it again here.
and if you’ve found yourself agreeing with what stonetoss has said so far, i would like you to see the last comic stonetoss put out before october 7th:
this horrifically racist comic is in reference to an environmental activist who was murdered by a black man in early october. this blatantly racist garbage is the kind of stuff stonetoss usually puts out.
but as soon as october 7th happened? these were his next two comics:
stonetoss completely changed the comic’s tone as soon as the current crisis started. why?
to get as many people as possible to get on board with hating jews.
and i know many of you might be thinking that “well, everyone knows that stonetoss is racist garbage. nobody is going to fall for this”
except, as we saw with the neo-nazis at the rally for palestine, it’s not always that obvious who the antisemites are and who is just rallying for peace. they are often a lot better at disguising it than stonetoss is.
AND EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE AWARE OF THAT
EVERYONE, no matter HOW much experience you have, can fall victim to propoganda. EVERYONE needs to be aware of what people around them are saying, and able to pick out hateful rhetoric, because even the stuff that is just kind of toeing the line of what’s hateful is still putting your foot in the door
be cautious, everyone. and stomp out hate where you see it.
so i recently decided to take a look at the latest stonetoss comics (probably because i love suffering). and while i was expecting some content on the israel palestine conflict, what i did not expect was how… standard it seemed. well, most of it at least, but i’ll get to that in a second.
for context, if you don’t know what stonetoss is, it’s a (poorly drawn) webcomic known for having radical alt-right views - meaning it’s incredibly racist, homophobic, transphobic, islamophobic, antisemitic. all that fun stuff.
so while i was expecting to see bad stuff, one of the first things i saw on the topic of israel was this:
terrible art aside, this comic is making a point that i usually see in left wing circles: that israel is pinkwashing genocide.
curious if there was more like this, i kept looking, and the comic right before that one was this:
again, this makes points that i usually see in left wing circles. that american healthcare is crazy expensive, that canada tells poor people to commit suicide, and that israel is bombing hospitals.
why does stonetoss, this well known alt-right nutjob, now seem to be bringing up left-wing talking points?
curious, i kept going deeper:
well this is… odd. clearly, stonetoss is trying to say that israel is on another level of bad, even worse than russia, iran, and north korea. i can possibly see someone on the left making the argument that the russian invasion of ukraine isn’t as bad as what israel is doing in gaza, or that at least north korea isn’t invading any other countries, but… iran??? the country that has a police force designed to enforce religious law, and gets away with murdering women who do not properly cover their hair? the country that props up paramilitary groups in countries all over the middle east, including lebanon, yemen, and yes, palestine?? that’s completely ridiculous
but, given how much more israel is in the news nowadays than any of these other countries, i could see why someone would buy this
and now, we’re starting to get to the crux of what stonetoss is trying to do. when someone sees this, they might be inclined to agree with it. they might begin to think that israel is the worst country on the planet
and that might not seem so bad at first. but the more you hate israel, especially irrationally, the more you feel allowed to dehumanize those who support it. the more you might be willing to agree with this comic, which came out two days prior to the one above
this comic says that jews, as a whole have no desire to exist with other people. it is blatantly antisemitic
i’m sure you could imagine some young leftist who sees the comics above this one and thinks, “this guy makes some good points”. and then, when they get to this one, they might realize that this is antisemitism
or, they may not.
and that would start them down the road to becoming an antisemite.
this is what stonetoss and other alt-right nutjobs are hoping to achieve. to take left wing fury at israel, and direct it at jews.
we saw it with those neo-nazis at the palestine rally, and we’re seeing it again here.
and if you’ve found yourself agreeing with what stonetoss has said so far, i would like you to see the last comic stonetoss put out before october 7th:
this horrifically racist comic is in reference to an environmental activist who was murdered by a black man in early october. this blatantly racist garbage is the kind of stuff stonetoss usually puts out.
but as soon as october 7th happened? these were his next two comics:
stonetoss completely changed the comic’s tone as soon as the current crisis started. why?
to get as many people as possible to get on board with hating jews.
and i know many of you might be thinking that “well, everyone knows that stonetoss is racist garbage. nobody is going to fall for this”
except, as we saw with the neo-nazis at the rally for palestine, it’s not always that obvious who the antisemites are and who is just rallying for peace. they are often a lot better at disguising it than stonetoss is.
AND EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE AWARE OF THAT
EVERYONE, no matter HOW much experience you have, can fall victim to propoganda. EVERYONE needs to be aware of what people around them are saying, and able to pick out hateful rhetoric, because even the stuff that is just kind of toeing the line of what’s hateful is still putting your foot in the door
be cautious, everyone. and stomp out hate where you see it.
It’s a good thing that this webbed site has Piss on the Poor Reading Comprehension because it means nobody notices mu numerous typos and weird uses of words and autocorrect mistakes I don’t fix
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NOOOOOOO D:
fun train fact: “no” only has one “o” in it!
Fun train fact: you just lost the game
unfun train fact: fight me in the street punk
fun Terry fact: I would lose, badly
naw Terry we’re friends id prolly let u win and then just lie about who won forever afterwards
I was waiting for my order at the coffee shop, and they had this thing where you could draw a mask and put it on a notice board, but the part that interested me was the gender (what a surprise) field on the page. Some examples:
* non-binary
* a 16 year old who wrote “gorgous girl”
* an eight year old who either wrote “box” or “þox”
* a seven year old who put their gender as “2”
* someone who put their city as “alpha city”, age as the infinity symbol, and gender as “alpha” (clearly a visitor from the omegaverse!)
* a 15 year old who put their gender as “old”
* a teen who wrote “girl” then crossed it out and wrote “female”
* “Lady Millowee”. That’s what they wrote for gender. I don’t know if they misread and put their name, or if that’s really their gender. Maybe both.
Anyway this coffee shop is right near a high school so I’ll just say The Kids Are Alright
was handed a new style guide at work and now we gotta use “person-first” language meaning you can’t say “lgbt person” you gotta say “a person who is lgbt” and it’s very fun and whimsical for me to imagine a world in which this helps anyone
liberals have gotten themselves so confused about language that they think saying “a mentally ill person” somehow erases that individual’s personhood. they also think the magic solution is to just clumsily rearrange the words. fascinating.
the snowy sheathbill is one of two species of sheathbill, and the only land bird native to antarctica. they are omnivorous scavengers that also engage in kleptoparasitism (stealing food from other birds). they have a varied and sometimes questionable diet, consuming everything from krill to tapeworms and waste. these birds are solid white, with a bare pink face. they are easily distinguished from the only other sheathbill, the black-faced sheathbill, which has a distinctive black bill.
was anyone going to tell me that the pope’s dressmaker posts dick and cock on instagram or was i supposed to find out for myself
waittttt there’s more. apparently he was outed as a homosexual by a competitor but the pope was like well the gowns are sickening so what am i gonna do about it? and so he’s still the pope’s dressmaker even though he said vatican priests tried to fuck him all the time when he was closeted. work
also please note that this scientist is in fact the retired man who invented the xbox.
oh fuck i listened to a podcast that was interviewing him and the process he went through to make this bread, ologies with allie ward
like he went through full on clean room levels of prep to ensure that this was 100% yeast from old egypt and had to bend over backwards to ensure everything involved was uncontaminated
Its always “why are you crying in a pine barrens” and “what are you doing are you eating dirt and putting it in your bag” and never How was the land-spirit of a logging forest redefined by enforced monoculture and constant stasis within an unchanging nature of simultaneous life and death The relationship humans have with maintained land inherently reflects the relationship they have with themselves how did the spirit of the pine barrens sound when it tried to weep I bet it sounded like nests falling from felled branches
I absolutely love that the Pokémon universe is literally tearing itself apart at the seams. Fantastic worldbuilding, A+++
ALTALT
A non-exhaustive list:
Mega Evolution comes from a meteor. The impact of that meteor literally split the dimensions apart and made it canonical that different versions of the same game are parallel dimensions (Alpha Ruby is a different world from Ruby, for instance). This is later confirmed by the presence of Anabel in Sun and Moon, who fell through dimensions from a world without Mega Evolution.
Speaking of Sun and Moon, wormholes are opening up all over Alola, letting in extradimensional beings that Pokéballs don’t catch properly. There are silver-skinned humans from one of these portals that live in a giant prismatic city.
Also in Sun/Moon, you can pass through to a mirror world where day is night and night is day. When this happens, you can catch the mirror world version of your box legendary friend.
There’s a giant space alien in Sword and Shield who’s leaking particles that cause Pokémon to briefly turn massive, which sometimes rearranges their genetic makeup.
In Scarlet and Violet, reality is splintering. There’s a hole to the future/past that generates paradox Pokémon which are heavily implied to have been materialized out of a researcher’s desire to see them rather than actually from their future/past. The same energy that supposedly made them enables Pokémon to become any type they want and caused a robot to gain human sentience.
In the hole you find the paradox Pokémon in, you find buried monoliths that nobody knows where they came from. The very material they’re made of is canonically unidentifiable.
Time and space were briefly unraveled in Pokémon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum as a maniac tried to overwrite the current world and make a new universe out of it, and in the Platinum universe, this opened a hole to another dimension where a banished god lives. The banished god was pissed off about this and abducted the guy that messed with time and space.
People sometimes slip through the cracks and become Pokémon in Pokémon-only worlds (the Mystery Dungeon series) or drop through time to different eras (Legends Arceus’s protagonist and Ingo).
In Mystery Dungeon, time is eroding (Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky), and the world is warping and distorting into areas that scramble themselves every time you enter them and make the inhabitants of those areas agitated and hostile (entire series).
the thing about mystery dungeon tho, and in particular explorers of sky, is that they were the FIRST games in the franchise to do multiverse shenanigans wayyy back in the ‘00s. i mean the very premise of “human from a world with both humans and pokemon comes to a world with only pokemon” implies that these people are either coming from the main game universe(s) or something similar.
(spoilers for the explorers games, particularly explorers of sky, beyond this point)
then in explorers, they introduce TIME-TRAVEL, wherein the hero isnt actually a human from the human world, but a human from the FUTURE of the world youre playing in, a future where time froze because the god of time went insane after his house started falling apart. and by the end of the main plot, you stop his house from doing that, thereby erasing that future (and therefore yourself) from ever existing, marty mcfly style. but then to thank you, and to soothe the grief of the friend you left behind, the time god says “hey bud sorry about that, lemme just—” and just Brings You Back
and THEN, in explorers of sky, they added special episodes that center around side characters. and in the fifth and final version of this, you play as grovyle (the player character’s former partner from the future, who sacrificed himself to bring a bad guy BACK to the future to get him out of the way) as he journeys through the frozen future to try and defeat the insane time god on HIS end. and at the end, the world begins to unfreeze as the effects of your victory in the past begin to ripple forward. everyone—grovyle, his allies, his enemies, even the time god himself—is erased from existence while watching the first sunrise in eons as their entire timeline collapses…
but then they wake up. everyone is fine. everyone turns to the time god to ask wtf happened, and he says “idk man wasnt me. some power beyond me must have done this.” and they all just,,, go on with their lives. the implications of this are that a bunch of heroes stopped the bad future from ever happening, but then some nebulous and omnipotent force (thought to be arceus, the ultimate god of all pokemon) just Brings It All Back, meaning there are now two PARALLEL futures, one where the world sucked for a long time, and one where presumably it was totally fine (we dont get to see this future but obviously time DOESNT stop in this version), and suddenly you’ve got an explicit, discrete, canonical multiverse, years before the main series ever touched the idea
so anyway TL;DR: in mystery dungeon, you erase the future from happening, but a capital-g God so powerful even the god of time doesnt know them says “actually no” and un-erases it as its own alternate timeline simply because it wouldve been sad not to, thus creating a multiverse.
theres a reason its my favorite game of all time shskfhskf
also no the shit about time god’s house is not an exaggeration, the god of time is a pokemon called dialga and he begins to go insane as his home, temporal tower, slowly collapses. its ultimate collapse (and his insanity) is what causes time to freeze across the world. now really all this means is that the inanimate world (rocks, trees, rivers) become petrified, but only SOME pokemon follow suit. how anyone at all survived is a mystery (dungeon. heh), but evidently some DID because YOU are one of these survivors.
if you’re gonna have a big celebrity voice a character in your animated movie you should show it to a test audience and if they can correctly guess who the celebrity is you need to fire the celebrity and hire a real va
hiring a wizard to break whatever curse is holding henry kissingers shitty body together and laughing with childish glee as he instantly collapses into individual limbs like a lego character
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen about the whole Musk Twitter Event because imagine being so bad that John Green, the man who was famously run off Tumblr by literal maniacs editing his post to a serenade to cocks in the Green Cock Incident, considers Twitter to be The Worst Site, ie worse than Tumblr. Insane
WRONG anything can be a nap if you believe in yourself
Added context that readers would like you to know: this user frequently dms me things such as “I’m going to have a nap, so I’ll be back in like 9 hours.” He doesn’t know what a nap is. /silly
if i go to sleep and then wake up its a nap thats the rule
Do you have no regards for what words mean? Is language a game to you?
yeah and im WINNING at it 😌😌😌😌
Uh well you don’t use any neopronouns so I’m better at it than you actually
we cannot afford to not be normal about pregnant men
like all trans people who can get pregnant need more awareness and support but on an ideological level theres a special focus put on men getting pregnant because its the most visceral offense to cissexism. and it feels clear to me that right wingers are actually a lot more willing to take male pregnancy seriously than a lot of leftists who don’t seem to see it is an important thing to discuss?
I’ve seen people talk about how it will traumatize children to see their trans father’s unnatural, mutilated body and be told he gave birth to them. and how trans fathers will groom their children into the “trans cult.” and i have absolutely seen people advocating for trans fathers being labeled child abusers who should have their children taken away. thats obviously a risk for all trans parents but there is obviously extra vulnerability when it comes to being physically pregnant! as seen with Shaun Simmons, male-presenting trans people are extra vulnerable to workplace abuse while pregnant, leaving them financially vulnerable! i’ve seen trans men talk about being denied emotional support after getting an abortion because they saw it as “removing a tumor”; i imagine trans people suffering postpartum mental illness or health issues are going to have even more difficulty receiving treatment, esp if its related to dysphoria. pretty much all pregnant trans men i’ve seen have talked about being misgendered and othered while getting medical care, being socially isolated once they start showing. we cannot afford to not be normal about pregnant men.
[image description: a tweet by user @indigenousAI saying
“fun fact: as a DV survivor i cannot register to vote because doing so makes my address public. anyone who is fleeing or hiding from an abuser is automatically disenfranchised from the political process and this is a feature, not a bug”]
I don’t know of the original poster might not be aware
but!
if you’ve been a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, you can enroll into the address confidentiality program (free of cost!) and be registered to vote as an absentee voter and your name and address will not be made available for the public
it is super easy to get enrolled - the application takes like 5 minutes, but it has to be with someone who is certified to do it (most likely an advocate! try going to a family justice center in your area or calling the Attorney Generals office in your area!!!!)
ALSO :
you don’t need to have any police reports or have a protection order to qualify!!! you just have to sign stating that you’ve been a victim of one of the aforementioned crimes.
Links to the info for every state in the Wikipedia article:
