After Captain Pike suffers his accident he ends up paralyzed, needing a special wheelchair. In canon, he then goes to live in Talos IV - but I thought it would be cool if he could still be captain, so I made this AU! Below is a masterpost with all the art made for it.
this dog walked on stage during a biden rally and joe had his campaign team bury and seal the dog underground with bricks. this is SO fucked up, are some of you really voting for this ‘nice guy’?
someone please tell me this is a joke. please tell me a dog wasn’t actually buried alive
it is true biden is a ruthless sicening monster who would stop at nothing to further his campaign
First of all Biden and the people who carried this out should be drawn and quartered
Second, how does this even further his campaign? What could he have possible gained from this?
Or is his mind even more deteriorated than we thought and he’s really gone insane
he thought he could keep it secret but this footage leaked of his staff burying the dog outside of the building the rally was in. you absolutely can’t trust biden and shouldn’t vote for this dog burier
saw this massive onion bigger than my entire hand in the produce aisle and immediately snatched it up solely to weigh it and a guy across the aisle asked how much it weighed because he was curious as well and when i told him it was two pounds he excitedly was like “it’s like the biggest one i’ve ever seen..” humanity rocks moment. bonding with strangers over giant onion
hot take but I think the “we’re only talking about people who identify as queer when we talk about the queer community” thing was and is one of the worst arguments in defense of the word.
I am talking about you when I say “the queer community”, and “queer people”, and “queer studies”. I’m describing a thing that a large group of people have in common, and you share that thing in common. Your individual comfort with the word doesn’t change the definition of it.
I’m sorry you don’t like that word. You don’t ever have to call yourself that, and you don’t have to like it, and I won’t ever call you that if you don’t want me to.
What I am going to do, however, is decide what language I use based on A) how inclusive it is, and B) how well it communicates my point to the relevant audience.
“Inclusive” here is an important criteria; this refers to the number of people who should be included, that are included, ideally without some kind of weird hierarchy (like we see in “LGBT+” and variations). The technical definition is what we’re talking about here- putting personal comfort aside, could the word “queer” describe you?
There will always be someone who doesn’t like a particular word for themselves- even if it could apply. Lots of people don’t like “LGBT+” (I don’t really), even if it technically applies to them. You’re not more important than they are.
You can identify one way on a personal level, and still understand that when we’re discussing the larger community of people and the histories attached to it, you’re included in that- even if you don’t personally identify with the specific word we’re using. Your story, your voice, and your presence matters.
Y'all need to learn to distinguish “broad term for an experience I share with others” from “personal identity label I use to describe my individual experience to others”. ASAP.
Pride isn’t a “queer-friendly space”, pride IS queer space.
Kink doesn’t “belong” at pride, kink IS pride.
To say that these things are just-kind-of-also-included is such a diluted view of what these things actually are. These spaces have been mentally purified for so many people as things that are “also-okay-for-gays!”–
No!!
These spaces ARE OURS. Not just “friendly to us”. Not just “inclusive to us”. They ARE us. We don’t just “belong”… We’re the reason it exists in the first place!
idk when we decided that explaining yourself shouldn’t be part of an apology but like. if someone was a dick to me and apologizes but I still don’t understand why they did it I’m not gonna feel any better
“Sorry for hurting your feelings earlier. I was trying to say x, but I guess it came across wrong. I don’t think you’re stupid.”
or
“Sorry I snapped at you. I didn’t get enough sleep last night so my patience is a little low today.”
is a better apology than
“I want you to know that I am sorry that my actions offended you. I take full accountability for my actions and I am listening and learning. I hear you.”
A helpful 12 components to include for an effective apology by Dr. Kirk Honda:
1. Acknowledge the transgression
2. Acknowledge the harm
3. Take responsibility
4. Sincerely express remorse
5. Explain the cause without making excuses
6. Provide a plan to address the cause
If necessary:
7. Offer a remedy
8. Request confirmation of accuracy
9. Request forgiveness
10. Follow through with remedy and plan
11. Find meaning
Podcast episode about the components on YouTube here
i feel like the above can feel kind of clinical so here’s an example of how to use it without all the self help speak or therapy speak or whatever you wanna call it:
“hey i’m really sorry i missed your birthday party. i know i promised i was gonna be there. i had a family emergency i had to take care of but i should have texted to let you know what happened. i really wish i could have been there. can i take you out for lunch to make up for it?”
or something more serious:
“i shouldn’t have lashed out at you last night when you brought up chores. i was really tired and you caught me off guard, and i should have just asked if we could talk today instead. now that i’ve had some sleep and am in a better headspace, can we talk about it again?”
tbh i don’t really get why we divide the oceans into different oceans because they’re all connected it’s the same ocean
no metaphor here just pure confusion…is there a line where one ocean stops and another begins? or is it like a smooth gradient of percentages of one ocean shading into another ocean?
Yes, there is a line. There are confluences you can see and touch and they are NOT subtle in the slightest.
That’s the Atlantic and the Caribbean on a particularly pronounced day.
This is the Indian and the Pacific. It’s not always this obvious everywhere but the dividing lines are very much there.
Oceans have their own properties as far as temperature and salinity and unless something like a storm or a current forces them to mix they won’t. Mostly this applies to vertical mixing and it gives you things like thermoclines and haloclines but water is wierd and won’t mix horizontally either.
The ocean basins tend to have their own currents that go in a circle and define that ocean, and those patterns mix the water within that ocean. Like a washing machine.
The Caribbean has a little loop of its own that not on this map, but that current keeps that ocean pretty internally consistent. It’s got clear warm water because of the shallow bowl of limestone sand it sits in. Where it meets the Atlantic with wildly different conditions the water is traveling in opposite directions, and it acts kind of like an oncoming lane of highway traffic. Species that have adapted to a narrow band of temperatures and salinities (most fish) can’t cross, while species with a stronger homeostasis hang out there on purpose, (marine mammals, turtles, sharks). Plankton, that cannot control their horizontal movement in the water column, are held in their home territories by these barriers.
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