i feel bad for people who skip the early years
i posted this ages ago on twitter and no one cared so im hoping i will find some bird likers on this app. ardeidae fancam!
BIG fan of this
I’m still thinking about that “is OSHA regulations Cop Behavior” post. Like. You know who thinks regulations are for losers? People who build submersibles out of logitech gamepads and rejected carbon fibre. People who trust starlink as their only surface lifeline.
Do you wanna be like the fine film on the floor of the Atlantic that was once a billionaire? Is that the hill you’re really gonna die on?
We have an expression in my field- “Regulations Are Written In Blood”
People don’t have fucking safety standards as a power trip, we have them because somewhere in the past, NOT having those regulations killed or maimed someone.
A lot of laws out there are bullshit- safety regulations sure as fuck aren’t. I have the literal scars to prove it.
Please please please remember that bosses and CEOs hate safety regulations.
Doing things safely cuts into their profits and lets workers survive long enough to learn.
If you’re ever irritated at how long it takes to be safe?
Remember your bosses hate it twice as much!
Then be even safer.
Safety regulations are there because businesses see workers as expendable.
Safety regulations are there because businesses see workers as expendable.
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This is that eldritch shit. Still here for it, though.
Thinking of Deep Space Nine as “the Dark Star Trek” without digging into what made Deep Space Nine work is so reductive. Like when people discuss Star Trek being “dark” now people bring up “DS9 was Dark and you loved that! Trekkies would hate it now!”
Deep Space Nine didn’t work bc it was Dark and it wasn’t Dark out of nowhere. Deep Space Nine is intimately tied to TNG in a way no other series is with another (Voyager could’ve been just as rooted in DS9, but. Y'know. Wasn’t). Not only in characters, but that the show is so devoted to exploring deep cuts from TNG: the Bajorans, but also the Ferengi, long dismissed as failed villains, and the Trill, one-off aliens-of-the-week who DS9’s writers turned into one of Trek’s major species. The central thesis of DS9 isn’t that the Trek Universe Is Fucked Up Actually. It’s that things get more messy and complicated when Starfleet has to stick around and not dash off to another planet at the end of the episode
DS9 is darker than other Treks, yes, but DS9 is also the warmest, with the most grounded, human characters, not in spite of the fact that two-thirds of the cast are aliens but because of it. The writers treat alien characters as not representatives, but individuals. They treat everyone as individuals, with foibles and flaws, not as perfect, straitlaced future people. DS9’s dark episodes are darker than other Treks, but also it’s more willing to get silly and emotional. Only DS9 could do the “Sisko confesses to a conspiracy to get the Romulans in the war” episode, but also only DS9 could do the “a holographic lounge singer tries to get Odo and Kira together” episode right after it. Boiling the entire series down to “Deep Space Nine was the Dark Star Trek! Grimdark!” is…just not it
People who only see Deep Space Nine as “dark” are missing out on how much DS9 truly loves the ideals that Star Trek represents. Enough to really dig into what they *mean*, how they would look in practice, the pitfalls in upholding them. It’s all well and good to end an episode with a moral message about imperialism, but DS9 got into the species-wide, long-term trauma it created on both sides.
As fascism becomes more mainstream globally, I think any art that explores the difficulty and need to maintain our values is the epitome of hope.
It’s such a fantasy to be able to have an adventure and then sail off into the next galaxy like “phew, I sure am glad WE don’t have to pick up after that mess.”
I love DS9.
So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????
I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.
Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?
Saw a sharp increase in my follower count after posting this. The legitimacy of it is driving me nuts so I also feel the need to say that you can follow anyone on here regardless of whether you’ve interacted with them or not. People like the above mentioned blog are exceptions. Perhaps they themselves think they aren’t and therefore will act like they aren’t, but they are, trust me.
Just follow anyone you wanna follow. The worst thing that can happen is maybe getting soft-blocked by the other person, but if they do soft-block you, then they were never that worth following in the first place.
wow. really hope this isn’t actually a norm taking hold with new users! this isn’t facebook, you don’t need to know people before following them
this is the ‘10 year mutuals you’ve never spoken to once’ site
i love you. you made a mistake? i dont care i love you. you made a wrong choice? love you. you don’t think you’re good for anything? guess what you’re good for loving i love you
i was 15 when i made this post and i’m 25 now, and still seeing people reblog and tag this with things about their lovers or their friends or characters or themselves or that they really needed this today. i dunno it just feels really special to me. thank you, keep loving each other, i still love you.