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I don’t know why that affected me so strongly, but I’m watching a youtube video on disasters on Lake Huron, and the first one involves a coal freighter that was lost in the White Hurricane of 1913 called the SS Argus. Everyone on the ship was lost. But it’s mentioned that the captain’s body washed up later, and was found without a life jacket. So they thought, based partly on testimony of another ship that thought they saw them go down, that it just happened too fast for him to have time to get his jacket. But then another body was found, that of the second cook, and she was found wearing the life jacket marked ‘captain’. And that’s …

It didn’t work. It didn’t save her. But it’s so very possible that he spent his last moments alive trying to save someone else, one of his crew, and they probably both knew that it wouldn’t work, that there wasn’t a lot of hope in a blizzard on the lakes in November, but he tried … he tried anyway. Even if it did nothing but maybe make her body easier for her family to find.

You know that Mr Rogers thing of ‘look for the helpers’? How many times has someone, facing the end, done something tiny and fragile and maybe hopeless just to try and help someone else? Whether it works or not. How many people went to their graves at least trying?

That has to say something about us. As a people. As monstrous as we sometimes (perhaps often) are, so many times we were also …

Whoever saves one life, saves the whole world.

And sometimes you can’t save one life, sometimes it doesn’t work, sometimes there’s no getting out of this for anyone, but … try anyway. Because it matters anyway.

And maybe no one will ever know. But maybe also some day more than a century down the line, maybe some idiot will be crying into her coffee because of what you died trying.

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really enjoying all the videos Muslims have been posting of their cats looking like this

when the humans are up at 4 am for suhoor

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one time i took a picture of a tiger at the zoo and the tiger smiled for the picture it was very great and the best picture i’ve ever taken

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Hilda by Duane Bryers

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God the prices of tvs have changed so much let me get my graph

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Jfc that kitty parade music justmakes it hilarious

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feeling called out today

credit: _ADWills

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I so desperately want to be able to convince Trump supporters with facts and logic and empathy, but it’s so important to remember that their ignorance is INTENTIONAL. my mom didn’t let us watch Sleeping Beauty growing up. I asked her why recently and she said, “it was evil.” when I pointed out other movies had similar themes and depictions of evil, and asked what the difference was, she couldn’t. I pressed one more time and she just said, “it felt evil to me. I didn’t like it”. same thing with dune 2: she said it was “dark”, and I was, “literally, like the movie’s lighting? Or the themes?” and she said “I don’t know” and didn’t want to talk about it more. many conservatives genuinely cannot tell the difference between “I don’t like it” and “this is evil” and they do not care to learn despite many chances

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is anyone else still experiencing a bit of whiplash at how extreme the general opinion over the terms “yaoi” “yuri” and “fujoshi” have turned around in the past, like, two years

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riding the trolley out of omelas because i'm a little too shaken to walk rn and i just heard this weird thump from the tracks. probably nothing

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I think these comments about Matt from a Marvel comics editor really highlights all of his actions in this episode quite nicely:

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seeing straight men be disgusted by booktok smut recommenders has actually radicalized me to the side of booktok smut recommenders. girls your taste may be atrocious but i will never disparage you for exposing mainstream discourse to the concept of soaking through your underwear. spent my whole life listening to men talk about penises it’s about time they get jumpscared by women talking about pussy in crude detail on social media. go forth and goon my warriors

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If you want to know what's up in Argentina:

We had mass mobilizations yesterday. Football fan groups joined retirees for their weekly protest against Milei’s pension cuts, which have plunged the elderly into poverty. The goverment decided to put on a mass police operation that actively shot ELDERLY PEOPLE, JOURNALISTS and illegally detained 200 people without stating motive, time, hour, even name, including a 12 year old boy who was just passing by.

In the meantime, Congress ilegally stopped a session that was going to strip operative powers from the president as soon as quorum was met due to ''a disagreement''. The president of Congress, Martin Menem, simply left and stopped the session that should have happened.

Today, the Security Minister justified yesterday's events and said she was going to intervene with the judge that contradicted the detentions since ''they were terrorists''.

A journalist was shot in the head by the police, which she justified claiming he was ''an activist'. He's currently fighting for his life. An 87 year old woman has head traumatism due to being shoved by a policeman.

Below are videos from yesterday - you can see the police aiming the guns at old women, people being rounded up and the journalist getting shot.

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As a reminder if you're wondering why Gundam has so many weird names for people and things, this is why.