Salutations

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
derinthescarletpescatarian
chefpyro

dont talk to me if you don’t know that this, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight! Every five seconds, the main gun of an Everest-class dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed! It impacts with the force of a 38-kiloton bomb! That is three times the yield of the city buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means: Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in space. Now! Serviceman Burnside! What is Newton’s First Law?

chichi2000fgh

An object in motion stays in motion Sir!

chefpyro

No credit for partial answers, maggot!

blazing-forge

Sir! Unless acted upon by an outside force, sir!

chefpyro

Damn straight! I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty! Once you fire this hunk of metal, it keeps going till it hits something. That can be a ship. Or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years! If you pull the trigger on this, you are ruining someone’s day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not “eyeball it!” This is a weapon of mass destruction! You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip!

persephinae

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amtrak-official

tears-of-boredom asked:

Heyyy doesn't the train look like a great mode of transportation? Don't you wanna get on?


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amtrak-official answered:

Oh, I need to get that cascades train back and out of that box before someone else steals it

fishpostings

Fish: 0/7. Logo has blue background for color of fish home. Points deducted because amtrak is not fish accessible. Outrageous, truly. I ask that amtrak remedies this mistake.

amtrak-official

Once a man brought an octopus in his luggage on the Coast Starlight in Emeryville if that's any consolation

radioactive-georg
drill-teeth

You know. Some people could really stand to get more comfortable with the idea of “you shouldn’t say that because it’s mean”. Especially with really common body shaming and straight up bullying lines.

“You shouldn’t make ugly bald jokes because what if a transman on T sees it!”

“You shouldn’t make virgin jokes because what if someone who’s asexual sees it!”

How about you just don’t make them because they’re mean. How about people can be balding or a virgin for a number of reasons and also don’t deserve to be routinely made fun of. How about saying that the reason you shouldn’t make x joke because it spares x specific identity’s feelings also let’s them know that you actually have no problem saying or thinking bald people are ugly or virgins are stupid or etc but you’re just not saying it in front of them. How about you understand this kind of body shaming and bullying especially in a very public setting online are always going to have way more unintended damage to people who did nothing wrong than damage to the person you’re upset with.

Sometimes the best reason to not make a bad joke like that is because it’s fucking mean.

radioactive-georg
orpheuslament

one thing about me is that i will lose my mind about the personification of the house

orpheuslament

this house hates you. this house loves you. this house wont ever let you leave. this house has eyes & a mouth. you could make this house speak. you could make this house cry. this house has seen the worst parts of you & wants to keep you inside it forever. this house will die with you. etc.

radioactive-georg
phantomrose96

You know I gotta learn shitpost brevity. Most of my successful posts are like 3 paragraph essays, minimum. Fucking dissertations. Terrible note-to-word ratio. Inefficient. In this economy? In this economy? Unsustainable. Everyone else posting "blowing my balls up at the bomb factory" and getting 50,000 notes. Amazing ROI. They're the future and I'm on dial-up. The market's gonna out-compete me.

lemonlegs4

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themightylizardking

[image id: a panel from a Calvin and Hobbes comic. Both Calvin and Hobbes have angry expressions. Hobbes sits with his arms crossed, listening to Calvin, who has a fist raised as he yells. There is a portion of a speech bubble above Calvin's head indicating that he is shouting the words of OP's post.]

radioactive-georg
pillsburysoyboy

If your revolution doesn’t have space for sex work, drugs, queers, rule-breakers, sinners, and genuine freaks then brother I don’t think you have much of a revolution at all.

pillsburysoyboy

So many people get focused on the idea of a revolution existing to punish oppressors instead of freeing the oppressed and it sure fucking shows.

You don’t get a free and open society by cutting out all of the “bad” people.

Gene Roddenberry had it right. “If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.”

bioluminescently-unfolding

This hit me right between the eyes. There's so much lateral violence in marginalised communities, and so much of it is an unstated attempt at purging the most visibly marginalised, because deep down what a lot of people want is the approval of the "normal" world, and they're willing to exclude and/or crucify the rest of us to get it.

But some of us are never going to be "normal", or seen as such, and nor should we have to be in order to be treated as equal. As important as recent human rights gains are, for the more marginalised within the margins, they don't give us the same security they do many of our peers. Not when government policies about disabled people or the GRT commuity, or those heavily affecting sex workers or unhoused people, amount to social murder.

What really complicates matters is when people will monster and sacrifice those they share even multiple identities with, but compared to whom they have more ability to present an "acceptable" face to the world.

And they do it because their own reputation matters more to them than our collective liberation. I'm thinking here particularly of the vicious ableism, including lateral ableism, I've seen in my local LGBTQIA community, but this dynamic isn't exclusive to that situation, and of course it overlaps with many that OP mentioned.