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thought about that quote “homosexuality exists in 1000+ species, homophobia only exists in one” but how awkward would it be if we discovered another species that was homophobic

“homosexuality exists in 1000+ species, homophobia only exists in two. what? oh, humans, and the yellow-patched cuboid pinecone wren that was recently discovered on an island off the coast of canada. they’re fucking bigots”

“‘The only thing that will end the pregnancy is water from Abortion-Spring, inside Child-Destroying Cave on Dissolving-Maleness Mountain,’ the old woman continued.”

Reached the part of Monkey King where our male heroes accidentally get pregnant then immediately go into labor, which leads to this sentence, and lemme say. that Ming Dynasty machine gunfire of proper nouns right there has been my whole evening. Every book should be this

Just a strong page overall. Monkey, I’m also very interested in Abortion Spring.

Sixth-plate daguerreotype portrait of a young man in a tall hat with a long pipe, by unknown American photographer c. 1845.

“Le Dessinateur or Kybernetes” (1956) ⌘ Hans Erni

it burns when I post

Antique postcards circa 1900

Sarah Miska (American, b. 1983, Sacramento, CA, USA, based Los Angeles, CA, USA) - Cautionary Tail, 2022, Paintings: Acrylic on Canvas

reading ultimates xmen for complete closure on alternate versions of qq (this is the last one!) and pairing him with rogue is truly batshit crazy.

HOWEVER. i am choosing to interpret quentin thinking touch-starvation is hot as fuel for nathaniel/quentin

I’m going to level with you. I have listened to The Devil Went Down to Georgia for most of my life. We were a country music household, this was a staple of my childhood along with Johnny Cash, Garth Brooks, and that one Chipmunks country album.

I have no idea what “Fire on the mountain run boys run/The Devil’s in the house of the rising sun/Chicken in the bread pan picking out dough/Granny does your dog bite no child no” means and at this point I’m too scared to ask.

For once I can be of assistance.

Each of the lyrics comes from an old-time hickory song for fiddles, and is a lyric from that corresponding song.

“Fire on the Mountain” –> “Fire on the Mountain, run boys run”

Fire On The Mountain - Fiddle Player POV

“The House of the Rising Sun” –> “The Devil’s in the house of the rising sun”

House of the Rising Sun

“Ida Red” –> “Chicken in the bread pan peckin’ out dough”

Ida Red - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

“Granny Will Your Dog Bite” –> “Granny does your dog bite? ‘No child, no’.”

FTC #149 Granny Will Your Dog Bite

And for your furthered education, The Mountain Whipporwill.

Mountain Whippoorwill (aka How Hillbilly Jim Won the Great Fiddler’s Prize)

past where the geofence bends

past where the flock cameras stand

past where they hail the waymos

past where they hail the waymos

I think about British Airways Flight 5390 a lot

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).

Adding some stuff:

The ‘maintenance supervisor did not check the bolts’ is technically correct but ignores the amount of stuff that had to go wrong for that to happen.

1: the supervisor was the one doing the bolts (I think there was a staffing issue) and so did not have to check the work that he did

2: the window was not on the list of vital components that need to be checked by someone else even if the supervisor does it.

3: the parts store where he had to go to get the bolts was badly lit and had bolts in the wrong drawers.

4: the wrong bolts and the right bolts are almost indistinguishable by sight.

5: the correct tool to put the screws in was not available so they had to do some lite bodging to get the screws in. By this I mean it was still a torque wrench and they checked it released at the right point but the correct socket did not stay in place or something like that.

6: any slight differences between the right bolts and the wrong bolts were hidden because of the tool they were using (which would have worked perfectly if they were using the right bolts).

If one of those things had not happened then the plane would have had the right bolts when it took off.

^ absolutely critical edition and a great example of what’s known in risk analysis as the Swiss Cheese Model.

From Wikipedia:

“The Swiss cheese model of accident causation illustrates that, although many layers of defense lie between hazards and accidents, there are flaws in each layer that, if aligned, can allow the accident to occur. In this diagram, three hazard vectors are stopped by the defenses, but one passes through where the “holes” are lined up.”

Accidents in complex systems are very rarely one person’s fault and my original post indeed oversimplified the incident for the sake of telling a straightforward story. This was not the case of one bad maintenance worker; this was a systematic failure. The holes lined up and a tragedy nearly occurred because profit (short staffing, poor maintenance facilities, poor training and tools) was prioritized over safety at several layers. Any additional degree of safety would have prevented this from occurring.

Tooling around tonight doodling my Legion blorbos in various Pinterest “draw your fave” poses… I would like to thank the show for putting David and Lenny so consistently in predicaments (predicamence)…

I can’t find a YouTube clip of Farouk putting David in knee socks and shorts while banishing him to the astral kiddie table but I might clip that for you all because it’s a magical moment.

Dogs are machines that turn normal toys into wet yucky toys

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From - Pitiful Weakling

Please, don’t kill me

mother forgive me, the zodiac quilting cotton post is circulating again and i’m getting followed then blocked by exxxtreme horror guro gay disembowelment fanblogs who DNI incest shipping

A catagory 6 cunt quake in computer city has left my haters dead & shit

love a song that tells a story

Moments before disaster. Work in progress, ink on paper. 🐈🐈🐈

fonts will be named shit like viscera antique, 16 bit dreams, doctor’s orders, bingo condensed, googly, wish you were here

ALT

for your consideration

(as a distinct but adjacent thing from “Guy Quentin who’s pretty sure he’s straight but has a confusing relationship with the ideas of being liked and being desired, getting attention, getting attention from gay and bi guy friends who are by necessity chill about it for a half-dozen different reasons and thus nonthreatening”: transfem Quentin who knows for sure she’s into girls, is only just picking apart the sticky tangle of identifications and feelings that made it at one time both easy and appealing to take shelter behind being a rancid little nerd boy in a sweater vest, and who feels like she gets along with cis queer men for various reasons but also doesn’t have other non-cis friends to connect with due to having a difficult personality and a small community to mingle within. Trying to figure out if you’re misidentifying the reasons you feel so different, if exploring a more expansive gender expression is just a patch on your previously uneasy relationship to hegemonic masculinity and the patriarchy, if the Phoenix Force just gives all its hosts some lite dysphoria.)

Georg Wilson (British, b. 1998, London, England, based Ibid) - The Last Oozings II, 2024, Paintings: Oil on Panel

really losing my patience for any ‘feminist’ statement to the tune of 'we need feminism because women fill a fundamentally different and necessary role than men and will be better at doing x y or z’. like actually i think we need feminism because it is an unbearable death of the spirit by inches to exist in a world where you are not seen as a fully realized human being because of a single cultural determination, and because a world that enshrines such things creates systems that are fundamentally sick to the core

chickenscratch nosebleed quentin sketches
the more I draw him the more I feel confident in what he looks like in my style

in reference to

do you think Longlegs and Aunt Gladys ever hooked up

how to escape the terrible fatigue guide

escape the terrible fatigue walkthrough no commentary

Augusto Camerini

poster for La Vittoriosa, 1915

tumblr user on the ides of march: caesar was basically a liberal

second tumblr user on the ides of march: caesar was actually a combination of every morally reprehensible person ever

l.domitius ahenobarbus (cos. 54): I agree with the second guy

the latin loeb on your shelf: i turned pale pink while you were reading this