Hello guys! I have 5 slots of square portraits open! They are due late July to early August, would super super appreciate all reblogs!
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Here’s to hoping that every single person with schizophrenia or a schizoaffective disorder or DID or NPD or any other ridiculously demonized mental illnesses has a wonderful day
oh and people with ASPD and borderline and bipolar disorder and anybody who experiences psychosis but doesn’t have schizophrenia or a schizoaffective disorder. i love all of you and i wish you the absolute best <3
i love shrikes because they’re horrible little carnivores whose feeding habits are grim enough to earn then the nickname ‘butcherbird’ but they look like this
[VD: A black person stands at a podium. They say, “There is no war on police. There is no such thing as a blue life. The thin blue line is a tantrum of immature and petulant adult children. If your egos are too fragile to accept the rightful criticism of your tactics, then quit. If you can’t do your job without somebody constantly hovering over your shoulder, then say it. We’ll hold your timid hands at every step. You’ve already forfeited any career aspirations you may have had. We live here, y'all have made it abundantly clear that you all just work here. If accountability makes you uncomfortable, go somewhere else. Atlanta has no place for you. The police have shown time and time again that the training they’ve been given isn’t interested in de-escalation, conflict resolution, or preservation of life. If I had 57 bullets, I could assassinate every member in this chamber with three shots each and still have nine bullets left over. I dare any single one of you to tell me that you believe that is justified, reasonable or acceptable as standard operating procedure. Wars have been fought over, much less. What’s the difference between a bullet and a cop? If a bullet kills someone, you’ll know it’s been fired. If you have a problem, call the police. Then you’ll have two problems: money or violence. You seem to only respond to these two categories using one to beget the other. Can’t even get the correct dates on your signed off warrants, but expect us to believe that you have the competency and due diligence for a 100 million dollar project that we have told you repeatedly that we do not need and we do not want.The May 31 deployment of militarized police units on a residential street to raid a bail fund on suspicion of white collar financial crimes is tyrannical. Tyrannical entities must be demolished by any means necessary. You have the option to resign willingly, be cast out politically, or be removed violently. The choice you make today on this bill will be inextricably linked to the method that will be chosen. You will vote no. You will vote no. You will vote no. All of you will vote no today and you will re-plant every tree you uprooted a hundred times over. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. If you build it, we will burn it.” End VD.]
just reread this piece from a couple years ago about a different rich guy who got the itch to get into deep sea diving and not only commissioned a new type of vehicle to do[1] but also set a bunch of records for reaching the deepest ocean trenches… which is interesting in that like, a random multi-millionaire[2] can pull off this kind of stunt, repeatedly, and not die. the oceangate guy was just a particular type of rich reckless idiot who endangered the lives of his passengers to pioneer a newer, shittier vehicle than the vehicles that other rich guys already use for these things.
also notable that over the course of his “reach the bottom of five of the deepest trenches on earth” mission, a shitload of things went wrong at first—there were snags! conditions were bad! parts failed unexpectedly! but they crew he hired wasn’t full of yes-men, and they tested the shit out of everything, and there were plenty of failsafes built into the submersible itself. so no one died.[3] and eventually they got so good at diving to the bottom of trenches that it became more or less routine.
[1] a vehicle that gabe newell now owns, by the way.
[2] it’s not super clear how much this guy (victor vescovo) was actually worth before he spent about fifty million dollars on deep-sea shit, but someone specifically says he was “wealthy, but not paul allen wealthy,” so I think it’s safe to say firmly south of a billion. in a similar vein I’ve seen a lot of people refer to the now-ex CEO of oceangate (stockton rush) as a billionaire, but it seems like he was also “only” a multi-millionaire. the only billionaire on board the titan when it imploded was one of its passengers (two at most if you count the billionaire’s son).
[3] unless you count all the marine specimens that their resident marine biologist hauled up out of the water. I don’t think they respond well to non-pressurized environments.
(non-paywall link, but I actually recommend trying to read this one in an incognito tab or something instead because there’s a lot of interactive-y stuff that breaks if you’re not on the new yorker’s site)
oh YES the author of the five deeps article I linked above did a follow-up about oceangate… I def recommend reading the other one first (if you haven’t already) since this one includes several follow-ups from vescovo’s crew, and also the descriptions of how rush operated are that much worse when you compare him to the other rich guy who wanted to visit the bottom of the ocean and didn’t skirt safety regulations at every chance he got.
there are honestly too many insane things here to do pull quotes for them all, among them that at one point rush tried to recruit oceangate’s head of finance as their next submarine pilot and that passengers were technically classified as “mission specialists” because there was less legal liability for potentially killing crewmates in an unauthorized vessel than there was for killing passengers, but here’s a really good one to whet your appetite:
Until June 18th [2023], a manned deep-ocean submersible had never imploded.
(non-paywall link, this one doesn’t have any fancy interactive widgets so you won’t miss out by bypassing the main site)
Apparently the new think is bluesky which I completely missed the ball on bc I havent been using my twitter?? Like hello….how many am I gonna need to make
dont worry about bluesky that place literally run by insane people
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