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My friend just made me feel weird for asking so now i gotta know.

If you do have a favorite bird please please tell me in the tags, i want to see some Birds!!

#the baby blackbird that just left my mum's garden <3 we've had to SURVEIL my dog and put a fence up around the nest and move the chick when #it ran off to be found again by parents and weve got to see it all. it just left but its still like a child to me <3 it was so sweet. #terrified understandably too but yknow. hope it does well out there #text post #sweet whisperin' #polled post #birds #tumblr poll

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be honest. is "popular girl handwriting" just another girldinner

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#*sees weed AND sex number and makes the PENIS face then promptly blacks out* huh wait that actually kinda worked for me #text post #polled post #tumblr poll

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now that i am a real adult i am starting to realise. media lied to me about the availability of rooftops to go hang out on. every day i wish i could be hanging out on a rooftop somewhere looking cool as fuck

#text post

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Please make a post about the story of the RMS Carpathia, because it's something that's almost beyond belief and more people should know about it.

Carpathia received Titanic’s distress signal at 12:20am, April 15th, 1912. She was 58 miles away, a distance that absolutely could not be covered in less than four hours.

(Californian’s exact position at the time is…controversial. She was close enough to have helped. By all accounts she was close enough to see Titanic’s distress rockets. It’s uncertain to this day why her crew did not respond, or how many might not have been lost if she had been there. This is not the place for what-ifs. This is about what was done.)

Carpathia’s Captain Rostron had, yes, rolled out of bed instantly when woken by his radio operator, ordered his ship to Titanic’s aid and confirmed the signal before he was fully dressed. The man had never in his life responded to an emergency call. His goal tonight was to make sure nobody who heard that fact would ever believe it.

All of Carpathia’s lifeboats were swung out ready for deployment. Oil was set up to be poured off the side of the ship in case the sea turned choppy; oil would coat and calm the water near Carpathia if that happened, making it safer for lifeboats to draw up alongside her. He ordered lights to be rigged along the side of the ship so survivors could see it better, and had nets and ladders rigged along her sides ready to be dropped when they arrived, in order to let as many survivors as possible climb aboard at once.

I don’t know if his making provisions for there still being survivors in the water was optimism or not. I think he knew they were never going to get there in time for that. I think he did it anyway because, god, you have to hope.

Carpathia had three dining rooms, which were immediately converted into triage and first aid stations. Each had a doctor assigned to it. Hot soup, coffee, and tea were prepared in bulk in each dining room, and blankets and warm clothes were collected to be ready to hand out. By this time, many of the passengers were awake–prepping a ship for disaster relief isn’t quiet–and all of them stepped up to help, many donating their own clothes and blankets.

And then he did something I tend to refer to as diverting all power from life support.

Here’s the thing about steamships: They run on steam. Shocking, I know; but that steam powers everything on the ship, and right now, Carpathia needed power. So Rostron turned off hot water and central heating, which bled valuable steam power, to everywhere but the dining rooms–which, of course, were being used to make hot drinks and receive survivors. He woke up all the engineers, all the stokers and firemen, diverted all that steam back into the engines, and asked his ship to go as fast as she possibly could. And when she’d done that, he asked her to go faster.

I need you to understand that you simply can’t push a ship very far past its top speed. Pushing that much sheer tonnage through the water becomes harder with each extra knot past the speed it was designed for. Pushing a ship past its rated speed is not only reckless–it’s difficult to maneuver–but it puts an incredible amount of strain on the engines. Ships are not designed to exceed their top speed by even one knot. They can’t do it. It can’t be done.

Carpathia’s absolute do-or-die, the-engines-can’t-take-this-forever top speed was fourteen knots. Dodging icebergs, in the dark and the cold, surrounded by mist, she sustained a speed of almost seventeen and a half.

No one would have asked this of them. It wasn’t expected. They were almost sixty miles away, with icebergs in their path. They had a responsibility to respond; they did not have a responsibility to do the impossible and do it well. No one would have faulted them for taking more time to confirm the severity of the issue. No one would have blamed them for a slow and cautious approach. No one but themselves.

They damn near broke the laws of physics, galloping north headlong into the dark in the desperate hope that if they could shave an hour, half an hour, five minutes off their arrival time, maybe for one more person those five minutes would make the difference. I say: three people had died by the time they were lifted from the lifeboats. For all we know, in another hour it might have been more. I say they made all the difference in the world.

This ship and her crew received a message from a location they could not hope to reach in under four hours. Just barely over three hours later, they arrived at Titanic’s last known coordinates. Half an hour after that, at 4am, they would finally find the first of the lifeboats. it would take until 8:30 in the morning for the last survivor to be brought onboard. Passengers from Carpathia universally gave up their berths, staterooms, and clothing to the survivors, assisting the crew at every turn and sitting with the sobbing rescuees to offer whatever comfort they could.

In total, 705 people of Titanic’s original 2208 were brought onto Carpathia alive. No other ship would find survivors.

At 12:20am April 15th, 1912, there was a miracle on the North Atlantic. And it happened because a group of humans, some of them strangers, many of them only passengers on a small and unimpressive steam liner, looked at each other and decided: I cannot live with myself if I do anything less.

I think the least we can do is remember them for it.

#text post #titanic #the titanic #rms titanic #rms carpathia

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I only learned recently that people from Not America don’t specify hard cider and instead it’s just cider.

I know this is a small difference but it is surprisingly one I do sometimes have to lie down on the floor about.

#this is kind of unrelated to the actual post but giving minors alcohol is treated. SO much more seriously in the US than europe huh #like. ok let me check how much alcohol is in kombucha OH MY GOD IT'S ONLY 0.5%? #now JUST TO BE CLEAR. my parents have NEVER broken the law (especially since the uk seems to have complicated as hell exceptions for minors #drinking alcohol. they literally never broke the law) but the alcohol i grew up on from like 12+ was VKs and buck's fizz which are both 4% #(as well as everyone around me) #like real cultural disconnect. maybe it's the UK drinking culture in general (the crowd boos uproariously)/european drinking culture/the 'i #rather you get used to it under adult supervision than get in over your head on your 18th with friends' attitude most adults had/have #but the attitudes towards giving alcohol to a minor is SO different here. maybe its also the arbitrary n bizarre 21+ drinking age over ther #no image id #image post #siigh #alcohol #cultural differences

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#americans will use anything but the metric system. #image id #text post

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Gonna look for confirmation but I've seen a claim relating to the news that the NHS is going to force GICs to hand over patient records to look for evidence of detransition, that the criteria they are going to use is if the patient has a GRC.

I dont have a solid source yet. Do not panic yet. But if true I will lose my fucking mind.

#cemeterything #< sorry to bother u ur just the only fairly 'big' blog who posts about uk politics i know #text post #uk politics #trans #trans rights are human rights #trans rights

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Btw Israel let Palestinians celebrate not one (1) holiday in peace. They didn’t grant Christian Palestinians access to Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, they actively attacked families who were already starving at Iftar during Ramadan, and now there are several reports of families being killed on Eid al-Fitr—a sacred multi-day holiday practiced by lots of Arabs. It breaks my heart imagining the Palestinian families in Gaza right now, most of whom are spending Eid mourning loved ones who were taken by Israeli strikes. Most of us will never understand the sheer magnitude of that pain.

#text post #gazan genocide #free palestine

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Image 1: A 3x3 alignment chart, with 'hates the irish', 'fucks to survive' and 'evades taxes' along the top, and 'feral', 'homophobia' and 'war criminal' along the left.

Image 2: The above chart, with Margaret Thatcher added to the 'hates the irish'/'war criminal' box.

Image 3: The image of Margaret Thatcher has been stretched in the 'hates to irish' box to also be in-line with 'feral', 'homophobic' and 'war criminal'.

Image 4: Margaret Thratcher has been expanded to fill the entire chart, in line with every option.

Image 5: The previous chart, with the middle column of 'fucks to survive' cut out. The image is still positioned in line with every other option.

Image 6: Putin winking has been added to the 'fucks to survive' column, image stretched to be in line with 'feral', 'homophobic' and 'war criminal'. End ID

the funniest character headcanons are feral, homophobic and tax evader i dont accept constructive criticism and you cant change my mind

#image id #text post #margaret thatcher #putin #alignment chart

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my parents have no issue with my art being explicit or sexual and are very supportive and this is great. the issue is they’re too supportive. my dad will whip out his phone and show neighbors we barely know paintings of naked trans men on their knees and be like ^_^ im so proud of my son!!!

#lmao #text post #nsft-ish #nsft ish

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true romance really is like. you were created to destroy me but we're mirrors of each other and now i'm the one who has to grieve you. your death drives me mad with the need to prevent my own but i can't. of course i can't. you couldn't, and we're the same, after all

#we're the same after all GOD #text post #romance #tropes

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not nearly enough people are fuming about the cass review. do you understand the eventual implications? trans people in the uk will be considered children up until the age of 25, and denied HRT/surgery/even basic measures like legal name change and social transition. all owing to a biased and largely unscientific study. you know what “treatment” for gender dysphoria is recommended by the review instead? conversion therapy.

this will kill people and they know it, because they prefer us dead and out of sight. the government, the NHS and even the opposition have made this clear again and again. a twenty-five year old can have sex, get married have children, join the military, earn a living, be halfway up the corporate ladder or highly successful in their chosen career field by that age, but they can’t transition under NHS rules. this is a death sentence for trans teenagers and they are going ahead with it. it’s trans genocide, same as across the pond.

i’m so afraid for my trans siblings and our futures. i’m so scared for myself. what are we to do if not even the party that is supposed to be on the “left” gives a shit about our safety and mental health as long as they get voted in? labour have become tories with a red coat of paint. it all feels hopeless

#trans #transphobia #uk politics #text post #labour very much = uk democrats #they are very marginally better but. not on trans rights at all.

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Image 1: A Tumblr post by @/pruane2, which reads, 'divorce court judge ruling a couple has to just stay together cause they both suck so bad they shouldnt be allowed to subject anyone else to their behaviours'

Image 2: A Tumblr post by @/willowcrowned, which reads, 'love when a dynamic is like. this would be deeply toxic for anyone else but considering the people involved this is actually far and away the healthiest option'

Image 3: A Tumblr post by @/wilsonsmcgillsweatshirt, which reads 'When their entire relationship is toxic, but they're both so fucked up that it's actually the best case scenario, because subjecting anybody else to either of them would be a human rights violation'

Image 4: Reddit comment on r/AITA reading, 'ESH. You're both just enabling each other's mental illnesses. You're both perfect for each other. Never change. Just never involve anybody else in what you've got going on.'

Image 5: A Twitter post by (m) vore connoisseur, @/bae lyssa_, which reads 'big fan of codependency that edges towards illness. very big fan of two people unable to function correctly without the other close, whether in sight of touch. absolutely huge fan of sick individuals who should not be separated. ever. or something horrible happens'

Image 6: A Twitter post by 7, @/parasolsi, which reads 'i like my ships a little toxic. a little possessive with each other. a little too codependant. throw in some doomed by the narrative. sprinkle in a little bit of "if i had to choose between the world and you, it's you"'

Image 7: A drawing on 2 simplified characters, with eyebags and unimpressed or grumpy expressions, clasping hands firmly and a light effect emitting from their hands. Text above them reads, 'we both have a lot of unresolved personal issues that making out might not Help but can make worse'

Image 8: A Tweet by clare @/sadder lizards, which reads, 'of course i can handle you at your worst that's basically all the time'

Image 9: A Tweet by Sushi🍣, @/Mx_Grumpy_Sushi, replying to @/parasolsi, reading, 'ships where either one could become the villain at the drop of a hat (if they aren't already) 🤣' End ID

making a collection

#kinda oc ship foggy #thats the goal at least #hmm considering making them worse. morally ambiguous right now. listening and learning (probably not too bad i guess? i dunno) #only one of them would choose the other over the world tho (n some of the other posts also dont fit). but that's Part of the Other's Proble #phew #text post #image id

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queerplatonic is whatever those 3 middleaged animal men from ice age had btw. i hope you understand now

#taking notes #queerplatonic #text post #ice age

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Hey guys maybe before you call a trans man ‘fem-presenting’ check to see if they are actually purposefully being gnc. Because if you call me ‘fem presenting’ just because I am visibly trans and visibly have boobs I’m going to maul you.

#trans #transphobia #text post

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#10 million usd characters... hmm thinking thinking. sudden responsibilty for a child is a classic #tumblr poll #polled post #text post