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All aboard the Kaine Train!

@arkaine-spell

Welcome to my blog! >21 he/they.
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This video is so much better than it looks like it'll be.

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Translation:

Voice 01: "Now there's no way to get it wrong. No way to get it wrong at all."

Person in cap after cat comes out: "THIS cat came out!! I'm goiNg to gRAB him!!"

[Video description: Someone filming a person at a claw machine game. The player carefully picks up an elephant plushie and drops it down the chute. Their group cheers quietly together. As the player steps back from the machine, the camera looks at the prize hatch. Out of nowhere a ginger cat steps out of the flap and stretches. The person behind the camera absolutely cracks up; the player yells happily too and yoinks the (non-protesting) cat off of the ground. /End description].

[video ID: a series of women using their long hair to open beer bottles by wrapping a lock around the neck and pulling up, while the intro to “I’m Shipping Up To Boston” by the Dropkick Murphys plays. The music cuts as it shows four bald, bearded, white guys sitting at a wooden picnic table, looking sadly at their sealed beer bottles. End ID.]

The more I read into reports about industrial and transportation accidents the less I feel like “operator error” actually exists

Ok so “doesn’t exist” may be a slight overstatement. A better way of phrasing it might be “operator error is often used as a way of warding off close examination of how systems fail.”

You read about airlines accidents attributed to pilot error, and almost universally you find overworked, overtired people who have to deal with inadequate training, and poorly maintained equipment. Often investigations uncover a pattern of management ignoring problems that pilots regularly have to deal with. Out-of-date terrain data, false sensor readings, confusing systems presentation, fatigue.

The cargo airline industry fights to keep its pilots exempt from crew rest requirements and a fatigued crew crashes a mile short of the runway. Only the two crew on board die, so really it’s no big deal, right?

Amtrak builds a new bypass to cut 10 minutes off the travel time from Portland to Seattle but doesn’t give the engineers enough training to prepare them for it, nor installs adequate signage to warn of a 30mph curve, so on the inaugural run the engineer hits the curve at 80 mph.

Construction on a nuclear power plant runs into trouble and so to make a key pressure-bearing component fit, they install an S-bend around a pipe, which causes falsely water level readings. Operators open a valve to reduce what they think is excessively high pressure in the reactor and it melts down.

And all of these get simplified, either initially, or in perpetuity, as operator error. Because operators are cheap and easy to replace. Firing someone and laying the blame on them is cheaper than reassessing and restructuring a management culture built on passing the buck.

This is an extremely valuable addition thank you selky ❤️

I'm a barista. My coworkers know I'm a furry. Here's a collection of things that have been said on the job.

  • "Wash your paws, Daisy."
  • "A pup cup! I make the puppiest cups. 😌" "Well, at least there's one pup involved, since this one is for a human child."
  • "Daisy, go wash your paws."
  • "What's that, girl? You see another dog?"
  • "I'm not a human yet this morning. 😩" "Well yeah, I thought you were a dog."
  • "Daisy, fetch!"
  • "Time to wash your paws, Daisy."
  • "Sorry I bumped your tail!"
  • "I'm not doing that unless you have food. 😌" "What?" "You know, like... a treat or something. Because I'm a dog." "Oh- OH, no, you gotta do this now. Belly rubs later, Daisy."

Update:

Coworker: "I'm not even a human today. I'm a loaf."

Me: "I'm a dog."

Coworker: Pats me on the shoulder

"Good girl, Daisy."

This is my life. I cannot believe this is my fucking life.

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In an interesting turn of events I have been enrolled in a six hour couples bondage seminar despite being both 1. painfully single and 2. Incredibly anxious but fuck it we ball, I guess

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I thought "Excellent, I've been looking for more formal training in this area" so I signed up and then twenty minutes later the hamster running the wheel that powers my brain woke up and I went "ah shit, I need a date for this don't I"

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Totally understandable thought! But do consider:

You can choke someone unconscious in just 15 seconds. Temporary or permanent brain damage can then occur within 30 seconds. After 3 minutes, the brain will shut down and they will die.

And yet, plenty of people think getting choked in bed is sexy, and will attempt it without any research whatsoever.

Did you know that using binding materials that are too thin can cause lacerations? Or that tying someone in the wrong position can kill them? Did you know that just surface pressure held too long, without any struggling or pulling, can feel like a bone-deep bruise? Or alternatively, that too much slack or movement can strip skin right off, and you might not even feel it happening?

Sitting in a big room writing down notes and following an instructor really isn't all that sexy for me personally, true, but a lot of kink comes with risk, and making the concious choice to engage in kink without taking steps to minimize that risk is, frankly, dangerous and irresponsible.

Like.... every sky diving attendant probably had to pass a few exams before jumping out a plane with you, right? So wouldn't you feel a little unsafe jumping with one that was just making it up as they went?

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Smash that mf reblog button if you stoically ignore all labelled washing instructions and everything your mama ever told you about laundry and just send those bastards hurgling around in an overfilled tub to meet either death or glory

Something I learned from a costume designer: if an item can be washed multiple ways the designer is only legally obligated to put one of the ways on the tag, but if there’s only one way to wash that item they have to put Only on the instructions

If the tag says “Dry Clean” it’s safe to machine wash but the designer thinks it looks better if you get it dry cleaned 

But if it says “Dry Clean Only” you will destroy it if you wash it any other way

Reblogging for that last bit which this 37 yr old adult did not lnowy

Other pro laundry tip: a good way to get out funky smell (like for nasty towels or workout/manual labor clothes) is to put some white vinegar in the bleach spot in your washer.