as a reminder to anyone here if youre a radfem/trasmed/truscum/TERF/etc. leave my blog and vaporize yourself <3 you are not welcome here
Really wish tumblr had a "people are appropriating and misusing elements of my faith and that is offensive" option for reporting posts...
CATHOLICISM 👏 IS 👏 NOT 👏 AN 👏 AESTHETIC 👏
catholicism’s only value is in its aesthetic actually. sorry :/
also the guilt thing can be kinda hot when y'all have gay sex
reposting a favorite reddit moment of mine since god knows if ill ever see it again
YES I'M GAY:
faGgot
dykAe (the a is silent)
trannY
i may be stupid
you shut your whore mouth
i won’t hesitate bitch
stop being mean to me
ive been trying to upload her to artfight for an hour
unconventionagainsttorture
hey just so you know op reblogs from faggots :/
ana mendieta “people looking at blood, moffit, iowa” 1973
“In this piece, Mendieta spilled a large amount of what appeared to be chunky blood over a doorway and sidewalk on an Iowa City street. Then she removed herself from the scene and, from a distance, photographed the reactions of various passersby. […] It intimates to passersby that a grievous and dramatic injury has taken place, but it gives no explanation and, more important, no recourse to action. It may incite horror, concern, compassion, and revulsion—in short, pity and fear—but it doesn’t offer anywhere for these feelings to go. […] Each pedestrian’s only real choice is to walk on by, which looks from the outside—and likely felt, on the inside—like an uncaring abandonment, even if of an indeterminate or imaginary entity. […] And somewhere out of sight lurks Mendieta, a voyeur of each passerby’s involuntary voyeurism. […] People Looking at Blood says, Look at this pile of carnage, with no clear story, source, assailant, or victim. Just look at it. Now look at others looking at it. (And I will be looking at you looking.)”
— The Art of Cruelty, Maggie Nelson
bloodthirstypandasfromthesky
Ana Mendieta was murdered by her husband and fellow artist Carl Andre. This work became a self fulfilling prophecy and meditation on tragedy, the nature of violence, and peoples unwillingness to help.
And no I will not shut up about this.
By the way, her husband never went to prison for what he did.
But it’s NOT about unwillingness to help! It’s NOT about people not caring!! It’s so very explicitly the opposite!!!
I’ve BEEN in this situation. You walk past an old crime scene, or the place where an accident happened, and you see evidence of something terrible. If it’s old, maybe broken glass, or scuff marks.
But sometimes, you’re too late. Sometimes someone is on the ground, and EMTs are already helping, and the only helpful thing you can do you is move on, refuse to linger, refuse to form a crowd.
Sometimes there’s dried blood, or fresh blood, but when you look around you can’t find anyone hurt or needing help. Whatever happened, it has happened without you, and you can’t undo it or make it better. You could contact an authority, report what you’ve seen, but that’s just sharing information. It doesn’t FEEL like helping.
Humans are by nature incredibly compassionate creatures. What is more heartbreaking to an animal designed to bring comfort than a pain that cannot be comforted? A hurt that cannot be soothed?
You are confronted by this helplessness, and it looks you in the face and says, “It’s too late for you to fix this. You must move on, and hope that next time, you aren’t.” And then you do. You have to. There is no other choice.
Ana Mendieta’s piece is not condemning the observed- it’s mourning their directionless compassion, their grief, their uncertainty- their concern and hope offered to someone or something they will never know, never speak to, never be able to help.
It says that we love each other, that we care for one another, and that even if we are lost and no one ever finds us, we are cared for long after we are gone, and by people who never knew our names.
Our outrage at her death only proves this. Now that we know her life ended tragically, what will you do? What CAN you do? Nothing. You will observe the blood, experience something that cannot be captured on film, and move on.
“What CAN you do? Nothing. You will observe the blood, experience something that cannot be captured on film, and move on. “
What we know about the missing Sub
For whatever reason this story has absolutely grabbed my attention, and so I will be compiling the information that I can confirm in a decent timeline of events, feel free to message me if y'all feel like something needs to be changed/revised
- A company known as OceanGate offers dives to view the wreck of the Titanic, charging 250,000 USD per ride. This sub is not approved by any regulatory body, and is controlled with an xbox controller. The inside is a small tube one would have to sit down to fit inside.
- It is not a regular sub, but a submersible, which does not have the power to lauch itself and return on it's own, but instead must be launched and retrieved by a mothership. Thus, constant communication is of the utmost importance.
- 4 AM, June 18th, an expedition begins. Confirmed passengers are a pilot, a "Content Expert," Businessman Hamish Harding (who posted the linked instragram post,) and two other passengers who are as yet unconfirmed.
- Communications with the sub are lost 1 hour and 45 minutes into the dive.
- The US and Canadian coast guard begin working together to try and find the sub. The vessel has an advertised 96 hours of oxygen.
- The instagram post earlier is found by CNN, although they do not yet divulge who posted it. They reach out to OceanGate for comment and get none.
- An additional vessel is dispatched to assist in the search.
- The US Coast Guard holds a press conference where they discuss the difficulties in locating the vessel in the remote area it dove into.
- Coast Guard surmises that there is 70 to 96 hours of oxygen remaining, although this was reported abt ten hours ago, so it's more like 60 to 86 now.
- The coast guard also begins a twitter thread which they are continually updating. They have completed two flights over the area but have not found anything, they will dispatch another plane in the morning.
- OceanGate claims to be taking "every step possible" to recover the missing vessel.
- Twitter user Kenny Sharpe realizes that he had seen the vessel being towed out to it's expedition and posts photos that he took.
- LITERALLY FOUND THIS AS I WAS GETTING SOURCES, Daily Mail claims that the other two passengers are businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, but given DM's dubious journalistic integrity (to put it nicely,) I would take this claim with a grain of salt until other sources confirm it.
I will update this as more info becomes available, feel free to message me with sources if you know anything.
A few more infos (as I've also been completely enraptured by this story)
TW for death, drowning, suffocating, claustrophobia, etc.
- The sub is meant to have 1 pilot (Stockton Rush, OceanGate executive chief), 1 expert to narrate the expedition (Paul-Henry Nargeolet, a french explorer who is an expert diver) and 3 paying guests (Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood and his 19 years old son, Suleman Dawood). The clients are rumored to have paid 250.000$ each.
- As said above, the sub relies on a mother ship and needs to communicate every 15 minutes. They lost contact after ~2 hours. They needed to be back by 8pm, by 9pm they were declared missing.
- A CBS reporter (David Pogue) was on the Titan last year and has a documentary on it. He was also recently interviewed and gives his opinion on what could have happened.
- International help has been deployed from (at least) the USA, Canada, France and the UK.
- The biggest problem us that we have no idea where it is (duh). It's either on the surface (and they can't come out) or under the sea. So the search teams have to look in those two places. The problems are that (1) It's an ocean, the surface is huge and (2) there's so much debris on the floor that sonars wouldn't be able to tell the sub from a boulder.
- The second problem is that we won't be able to help them if they aren't on the surface. They also need to be found before all breathable oxygen is depleted, which will happen around thursday morning.
- Worsts options are: the sub lost pressure and there's no chance of survival. Or the sub is stuck under the sea or in the Titanic. In that case, even if we find it, we probably won't be able to rescue them because we wouldn't be able to access it.
- All passengers knew that the sub was experimental. No independant organisation checked to see if it could function.
- The hull is not made of standard materials, it uses carbon fiber and titanium. It usually is only titanium. The sub is thus much lighter than any other.
- It is not operated by a Xbox controller but by what seems to be an off brand controller. They also have a back up.
- The sub is TINY. The passengers have to sit cross leg. There's a window and a toilet (a curtain and music were installed for privacy).
- No other expedition was launched this year because the conditions weren't good enough. Before the departed, they said it would probably be the only one this year. Other expeditions were planned for june 2024.
Sources
If anyone else would like to reblog this post with additional info than you are more than welcome and I will reblog it from you, just try to maintain a consistent thread so that we can have all the info in one place, and please make sure the sources of the people above you are valid, as I will not be rebloging additions without sources or clarification on what is and is not speculation.
I am enraptured by this story and keeping track on my own end, but I do not want a frenzy of misinformation to break out, I want this post to be a reliable source of all of the facts.
Adding a Couple of Things:
The Sub's Communications relies on SpaceX's Starlink Satellites. The company is owned by Elon Musk. There is currently (as of 6/20/2023 at 6:30 PM EST) No information on if Starlink is responsible for the loss of communication and no Information on the reasons contact was lost. (Sources 1/2/3/4/5)
As Mentioned Above: CBS Correspondent David Pogue went in the vehicle in 2022. This news segment shows some of the construction of the Submersible, what happens in case of weather delays, and gives a tour of the vehicle. In this segment the CEO shows off some parts of the submersible have been improvised, states that there's "One button, it should be like an elevator . . . it shouldn't take a lot of skill.", and shows off the dreaded modified Logitech Controller. (Watch the 10 minute segment Here)
The controller is confirmed to be a Modified Logitech G F710 Wireless Gamepad for the PC. The controller was first released in 2011. I've seen a lot of debate on the type of controller and how old it is, so I thought I'd clear this up. (Sources 1/2/3; Controller manual and Controller Amazon Page.)
I wanted to chime in about the speculation on SpaceX’s involvement in the communications here, among other things. I have no direct involvement with OceanGate or the mission, but I’m an engineer that’s done some work with and research on underwater communications and have a basic understanding of several of the elements at play here. First and foremost, most traditional wireless communications don’t work underwater (I know “Wikipedia isn’t a reliable source” but this page has some good explanations on why this is if anyone is interested). From the videos linked in the above posts (including this one) it does not appear that the submarine is tethered, which really only leaves one other option for communications (discounting the one-way military communications systems from the Wiki): underwater acoustic modems. Some of these modems can work at the depths at which the Titan would have been operating, and are capable of very slow two-way communications. This article gives an overview of the technology used in a somewhat comparable vessel taken to the Challenger Deep (Mariana Trench): “...Considering 1,200 baud (the speed of transmission in communications) was considered a slow dial-up in the 1990s, the 20 or 30 baud that [the crew was] working with meant text messages were incredibly slow to send and receive—seven seconds, to be exact. 'You can send text messages, but it takes time. And an actual voice communication, which is also possible, then is taking seven seconds to go from the bottom to the surface. And we’re reporting every 15 minutes.’” One of the missing passengers, Hamish Harding, actually happened to be on the Mariana Trench expedition discussed in the article. Based on the video and some of the previously mentioned sources, the quote from the article seems to line up with how communications were described on Titan. In addition, I noticed a piece of equipment attached to the submersible in the video that looks fairly similar to a commercial acoustic modem:
Certainly only speculation, but further convinces me that this is most likely the mode of communication between the submersible and the main vessel. It seems to me that Starlink was providing an internet connection to the main vessel on the surface, and likely had nothing to do with direct communications to the submersible. Again I can’t confirm this, but it seems highly unlikely that Starlink communications, or lack thereof, would have a significant impact on the ability of OceanGate to communicate with Titan.
I was a bit surprised to learn that there was not some kind of tethered communication and/or power backup for such a vessel as there are for many deep sea ROVs (see this and this article), but it seems like it’s less common to tether to manned vehicles, possibly because they’re typically controlled from onboard, not from the surface, as well as to avoid the tether becoming snagged or entangled, or disturbing the sea life or sea floor in some way.
I also saw an interview earlier today--unfortunately I can’t remember the particular news outlet but if anyone recognizes it and can link it I would appreciate it--where the expert they were talking with had worked extensively with the coast guard in the past and expressed surprise that there were not deployable beacons on the submersible that could be released in emergency situations such as this, so that signals could be sent out to and picked up by the coast guard and other organizations to aid in locating the vessel. This is primarily important because currents can cause the vessel to move in vastly different directions from what may have been expected, and such beacons can greatly narrow the search radius.
Also, this article seems to imply that the maximum depth of Titan is 4,000 meters. The depth of the Titanic is 3,800 meters. Typically the engineering factor of safety on any kind of system that is meant to, you know, keep humans alive is a LOT higher, I would expect at the very least 1.5 to 2 times anything you might actually need, not merely 1.05. For lifting people on rigging, for example, the standard is 5. For spacecraft, it’s 1.4 to 1.5. Sometimes there’s a factor of safety built into the estimate, so while they say the max is 4,000m, it could really be more like 5,000m (1.3 vs 1.05). Still, struck me as a bit concerning if the article is accurate and I’m interpreting it correctly. This also means that if for some reason they get pushed deeper than the maximum rating, the submersible could implode due to the pressure if it hasn’t already. In addition, this article and several others I looked at mentioned that OceanGate failed to have its vessel approved by the DNV, “an independent organization... which certifies vessels like submersibles and issues a list of regulations for such products” despite their marketing materials saying it would meet or exceed these standards. However, in the video linked earlier, the reporter read the waiver aloud and it stated that it was not certified by an independent organization. The article also had a statement from a previous passenger, Mike Reiss: “‘They’re learning as they go along … things go wrong. I’ve taken three different dives with this company and you almost always [lose] communication.’”
Actually very recent update I just saw, according to CNN sonar was able to pick up banging noises in the area, and it’s being investigated: https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/20/us/titanic-shipwreck-vessel-missing-tuesday/index.html this could be a sign that the vessel is intact and the crew is alive, but hopefully we’ll find out soon.
Was not expecting to fall back into my Titanic rabbit hole tonight but here we are. Sorry if the sources are a little jumbled. Best wishes to the crew and those searching for them.
Update from a little under an hour ago, but searching around the banging noises haven't yet yielded any results. This could still have been them, either banging on the sides of the vessel or (more likely in my opinion,) the vessel bumping into something, but while the area is still being checked the results are still inconclusive.
I'd like to contribute with some additional background on OceanGate's CEO Stockton Rush and his decades long grudge against safety regulations:
In 2019, Smithsonian Magazine did one of those softball 'profiling a wealthy person and 'subtly' shilling their business' fluff pieces on Stockton Rush and his up-and-coming nautical tourism company OceanGate.
Skipping aside most of the article's bootlicking (Rush is described as: Maverick CEO, Real Pioneer, Daredevil Inventor (?) and Ocean Adventurer) we reach the most, in hindsight, damning part of the profile: Rush's dislike for safety regulations for marine travel
Quote: (The U.S. Passenger Vessel Safety Act of 1993) "needlessly prioritized passenger safety over commercial innovation"
In a separate interview with CBS Rush expanded on his dislike of safety regulations: "At some point, safety just is pure waste. I mean, if you just want to be safe, don't get out of bed. Don't get in your car. Don't do anything."
This repeated unwillingness to care about safety was best epitomized by the falling out and subsequent litigation between Rush and OceanGate's then director of marine operations David Lochridge.
In 2018 Lochridge 'blew the whistle' on Oceangate by releasing a document detailing the many safety concerns he had about the company and its subs. These include:
1.- OceanGate's repeated refusal to submit any of its subs to third party testing
2.- That the Titan's viewport was only certified for 1,300 m
3.- That OceanGate straight up refused to conduct ANY testing to determine the status of Titan's hull, essentially by claiming it's 'too thick to test'
Rush/OceanGate's only response to the whistleblowing report was to sue Lochridge, before offering a settlement before the case could reach court. (This is pure speculation on my part, but I'm guessing they wanted to avoid any actual litigation so none of Lochridge's accusations were investigated/ ended up in public records.)
Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/worlds-first-deep-diving-submarine-plans-tourists-see-titanic-180972179/
https://unsungscience.com/news/back-to-titanic-part-1/
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/20/a-whistleblower-raised-safety-concerns-about-oceangates-submersible-in-2018-then-he-was-fired/
Late yesterday, the US Navy detected the soundwaves similar to that of an implosion. Later, ROV's began to find debris from the Titan, the pressure hull found in five pieces in different locations each. That said, the sound was "not definitive," meaning that while the vessel certainly imploded, it may have happened before the Navy heard anything, or even before the search began.
Now that the people onboard are confirmed dead, I want to ask people try and be a little respectful. While I am not particularly sympathetic toward the wealthy, especially those more invested in flights of fancy than in actually improving society. And while I wouldn't wish this fate on them, I can't exactly feel bad for most of them. But one of the passengers, Suleman Dawood, was only nineteen years old. And while legally that means he was an adult, that's only just barely.
It's fair and valid to criticize all of these people, and even to find a little dark humor in the situation, but personally I can't find any humor in the death of someone who was hardly an adult, even if not a child, and I'm hoping that the people who can are people who just don't realize how young one of the passengers was. I'm not trying to be holier-than-thou, and I don't want any of you to be that way either, I just want it to be known that not all of the passengers deserved what they got, in my opinion, and I want more people to be aware of that.
Thanks to everyone who followed and contributed to this thread. I'm going to be a little more careful about my posts about this topic from here on out though, and I encourage you all to do the same.
OMG MY NEW SHOES CAME :3 ignore my ugly house arrest ankle bracelet. haha
fuck everything else this is the real post of the decade
hero accidentally bumps into dusknoir and gets a dimensional scream but instead of seeing anything like him dragging them to the future. they just see him and grovyle making out. the entire vision.
They want air-conditioning in the vans so they don't die from heat stroke.
I haven't found anything saying the drivers want people to boycott Amazon, btw.
hello board of education here is my proposal for a new mandatory k12 curriculum class
lesson plans include:
- "no, they aren't putting litterboxes in schools for people who identify as cats"
- "no one unironically identifies as dreamsexual"
- "if you ignore trolls they will go away, they want you to react"
- "you should just assume troll/bad faith like 80% of the time, because even if they aren't there's literally no downside to blocking them and doing nothing else"
- "if an account made yesterday says something offensive while posing as a fan of something, that's obviously not a real account"
- "you really don't need to give your thoughts on every opinion you see online"
if you see a jackass online. block them! that's how you show racists theyre not welcome, engaging with them in any way just invites them in even if you're fighting with them.
The First King of Hyrule ✨🌿