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enslaughts · 1 year

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@huntalie. . . liked for a starter.

life had stopped making sense to laura lee the moment their plane plummeted from the sky. glimpses, maybe, here and there, shapes in her periphery, but by the second plane raining fire and brimstone upon them, she'd only kept on falling. head over heels far after she'd already hit the water. o thou of little faith. wherefore didst thou doubt ? maybe it was the moment you let us fucking sink. and yet, there is no other word for it but faith, this hellfire reflection in her eye. it devours the cabin, their home, like a lion, leaving nothing but skin and bone to pick through, blacker than black. at least it's warm. it'll be warmer in hell, something certain in her whispers, a root taking hold. a certainty of the un - seen, made seen before their very eyes. faith. the only thing that's made sense to her since the moment their plane plummeted from the sky ; this is judgment. righteous, holy fire for the blasphemers.

but the innocent were always damned with the guilty. firstborns swallowed in the plague. travis didn't deserve to lose his only home now that his brother was dead. lottie didn't deserve it either, akilah, gen, melissa, natalie. they were already suffering, half frozen, half starved, half dead. what more could it want from them, what more could it take ? what more could they give ? a home. their only home, for their only meal. maybe it was a fair trade after all. but no. no, it's only fair the taste of javi is forever turned to ash in their mouths, but not for all of them. travis, natalie— natalie tried. she was going to feed them all, despite lottie's offering, despite their heresy against it, she was going to feed them. heed the altar call and lie down upon it, and now look at her. ram in the thicket made archangel, forged in fire to light their path forward, chosen by the cards, the wilderness, lottie. who was laura lee to question it ?

so she doesn't. she has faith in lottie, and lottie put her faith in natalie. and god saw the light, that it was good : and god divided the light from the darkness. laura lee knows this, if nothing else : natalie is good. and because she's good, she will doubt herself, just as lottie did, and this is why they're good, why they're chosen. their home is in each other. “ you're not alone in this, ” she whispers, fierce, forcing the glow in her gaze to shine on natalie's. what a way to start a reign. but light will always shine brighter in the dark. “ have faith in lottie. in yourself. we've made it this far. ” what more could they lose ? where could they go now but up, after they'd already walked through the gates of hell ? doesn't that depend on which way you're going : out, or further in ? “ you got us this far. ” not only your skill, but your kindness, “ you've been a faithful servant, natalie. now it's our turn. we just have to give it. . . more of the same. ” here, cold hands find another's, slow, wary as an animal, but holding tight. “ more faith in it. trust, in each other. ”

#huntalie #interaction. . .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀𝚃𝙷𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳⠀:⠀laura lee #verse. . .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀𝙽𝙴𝙸𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚁 𝙳𝙴𝙰𝚃𝙷 𝙽𝙾𝚁 𝙻𝙸𝙵𝙴⠀:⠀laura lee #yj spoilers //#NEED you to know she is absolutely pulling this out of her ass #processing not processing trying to make sense of hell literally as the words come out of her mouth #but can you truly have faith without doubt?#she's telling nat what She needs to hear #what she's trying to believe #but she is also very aware that the faithful light in the dark could have have been her. that she was it for lottie until she wasn't #and then it was just lottie and now it's been passed to nat #it's not easy being a prophet. too many of them become martyrs #and she just wants natalie to know she has disciples if nothing else. she has people who will raise her up #people who's faith can be that light even if it's also heavy #BUT. this can be anywhere from literally right outside as their home burns or after the fact as they try to pick up the pieces #make some sort of camp or find some kind of cave to recouperate in #pls don't be afraid to lemme know if i need to change anything <3

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hippophobia · 7 months

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i used to think a lot of those “one time i dreamt” posts were made up for likes but i just woke up from the most vivid dream involving a supernatural and glee crossover special promoting getting vaccinated that was sponsored by sprite. what the fuck. i’m so sorry i ever doubted you guys. what the FUCK.

#some of the details were the weirdest part too #like the fact that no one else had seemingly seen it so i had to go hunt down a copy #and the only place it seemingly existed was in a loose crate of vhs tapes #or the fact that the glee cast did absolutely no singing but the supernatural cast did #and everyone was dressed up as cowboys for some fucking reason #so my dream self obviously went onto tumblr because wtf??#and i had to spread the word like some cringy 2012 era prophet #but everyone quickly turned on me because while it turned out they were definitely going for a brokeback mountain type thing #they made the winchester brothers the couple #thankfully i woke up before i was fully canceled for my part in this disaster #but now i do have a strange craving for a sprite?#subliminal advertising is really getting advanced these days jfc #personal

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positivelyapunovexponent-good · 1 year

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Okay SO the professor supervising my research officially made me project leader on one of my pet projects and on one hand I am very honored. But on the other hand I am anxious as hELL because I genuinely really, really struggle with project management. Delegation, communication, sending concise and clear emails on time- all of these are points of weakness that have resulted in me sinking projects I really care about in the past.

I really don’t want that to happen again. But I’m kinda petrified. I feel like I ruin everything I touch, that I’m really good at starting things but apparently incapable of finishing them, stranding people and ideas and inevitably letting everyone who ever believed in me down.

Which is not a productive way to think but it is true. In a sense. I have meaningfully, unambiguously fucked up in the past and probably will again. That much is inarguable. But also. I care about my work, and sincerely believe there is something about my idea that is valuable. Worthy of proper exploration. Even if it fails, I want it to fail on its own merits, not because I was so afraid of failing and so paralyzed by executive dysfunction that I didn’t even bother pushing it to see how far it can actually go.

I guess all that is to say I am excited and scared in equal measure. So... nothing to do at this point but try, right?

#personal #research jeremiad #(my vent tag for all research matters specifically)#vent #(side note the word jeremiad is really really cool)#(I have a lot of sympathy and fascination with the prophet Jeremiah from which the word derives)#(now there's a guy G-d almost literally told to eat shit)#(when my work is stalled I can at least find solace in the fact that I am not him)

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k1ngtok1 · 2 years

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Last night on dnd

#first it’s her dead dad not actually being dead #then there’s THIS #for context Hope is a quarter bronze dragon way of the beast barbarian and the dm gave her some badass homebrew abilities #never been a whole dragon before tho #this voice has been screaming in her head for almost the entire campaign during any significant battle or decision #if I were to describe her in one word it would be valiant #I could go on about this campaign for days it’s so well thought out #props to my dm for all his homebrew shit #dnd #dnd oc #dnd5e #dnd homebrew #hope calighan #dragon Hope calighan #dnd dragon #dragons #bronze dragon #oh and once mr dragon grandpa appeared in a prophetic dream where he just told her to keep proving her valor #I’d imagine she’s sick of the phrase now #if anyone wants to hear about her or the campaign hmu I’ll ramble all about it

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chemicalarospec · 2 months

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I made a "2023" folder in my Death Note fanfic folder, but I just took everything out and deleted the folder cuz. yeah. I'm not starting any new DN fics unless something miraculous happens.

#three months from now when i'm invested in mraculous ladybud i sigh at the prophetic wording in this post #hoping that doesn't happen #I said this #my writing #chem's death note arc #yes i do believe it has ended #but i'm going to try to post the duology tonight. at least the light fic #which is a bold claim coming from me i know lmao #maybe i could do a tumblr post of the minifics? idk

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tracle0 · 1 year

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These characters will not show up again but LOOKIT WRITING

#Writing #Am writing #my writing #original writing #writerblr #Writer on tumblr #spilled ink #hey hey hey!!!! Look!!!!!!!! Words!!!!!!#Haven’t been able to do words for a very long time but now we have !!THREE!! Chapters done!!!! What!!!! That’s wild!!!! That’s insane!!!!#Okay listen it’s. I’m constantly afraid that I’m just gonna. Lose this again soon. Half expect it to happen #So I’m gonna celebrate it whilst it’s here but fully anticipate it leaving soon #I’ve not done chapter 2 which in my head is actually chapter 1 cause it scares me #This is like. mid book. And like said. Random characters who won’t show up again. Barring the stranger who is not a stranger but is cain #Just wrote a bit for Theo nd Raya in their Van so that’s cool #Gonna try and write another bit of Theo and Raya discussing Dreams and Prophets and cooking. Breakfast maybe #Ends with Cain again what a special boy that boy is #Okay bye love you ✌️

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aviewfromtheclouds25 · 6 months

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I was shown this vision several months ago of the chaos and destruction still to come in the world and shared it on my previous Facebook page as a warning that things on this planet would continue to grow darker still, but that we each have the choice whether to act through love or fear. This illusion of a society is designed to make you fear everything. The dark forces in this world control humanity through fear. But fear isn't real. This society and all its systems aren't real. The dark forces created them, not God or any other name you give to the original source and creator of our universe. They created these systems to enslave humanity, to make people forget who they are inside. Through fear, hate, brainwashing and so many other ways. And all of them go against love. Love for ourselves as well as each other. And love is the ONLY truth. LOVE is what sets you free. But it is always our own choice, whether to choose love over fear. As I was shown in my vision... May we all remember to choose love; in all ways, always. <3

I saw “The End Times”

But it was not the End of Time.

The Lord showed me great towers crumbling to the ground

Just as some had fallen before,

But He wanted me to remember that in the cycle of life

When the Tower falls, that is when the World will begin anew once more.

But as I watched this vision of destruction,

A charcoal blanket of smoke and ash erased the sky,

And day gave way to dark, dark night.

And the people panicked as they fought to breathe,

And they pushed their brothers aside as they ran through the streets.

I saw the flames and the chaos and the riots,

I saw how the people turned on each other with sickening violence.

I saw the raging fire of Babylon,

I saw the Dark “Angels” who had long ago Fallen.

Consumed by the smoke and fire of their own creation,

I saw them seek to drag the people into their devastation.

As their bodies began to waste away, I watched the venom spill from their mouths,

Filthy black tar flying through the air and claiming the innocent.

I watched young children weep over the mothers who had sought to protect them.

I heard the world grieving.

I feel a world grieving.

“Do not be afraid”, I wanted to cry,

But my voice could not carry through the burning ash that claimed the sky.

Would that I could have implored humanity to not give into fear,

For the fear is how the Fallen Ones brought us to the darkness here.

And amidst the Armageddon, I heard a call from a small group of watchers like me

Who had found safe haven in the shelter of a large rock by a tree.

And together we stood and watched the world turn to ash,

And I wondered what it would take for humanity to turn back;

Away from fear, and back to their hearts,

Had they not turned on each other, could this rock have been that start?

Because the Prophecies had come and the Dark Ones had fallen for real,

But they had taught humanity fear and hate, and it was by these this fate was sealed.

Do not give into fear, I hear my soul cry,

Because fear is the darkness which allows day to be stolen by night.

Do not give into fear,

Hold onto the love in your heart.

Have faith, the sun will rise again

And this world will be free from the dark.

Do not give into fear,

Fear feeds the dark,

Remember your humanity is the Light inside of your own heart.

I saw “The End Times”;

But it was not the End

Of Time.

~ Written by Lullabies of Venus (my Facebook page).

#sharing this post here because it's important for people to understand that everything going on in the world right now #runs much deeper than what you can see on surface #but change is coming - see my next post here for more #so hold on and have faith folks #a new world is coming #yes I am a psychic medium #no this is not how I figured out all so many 'theories' as I was not fully tuned in to my abilities then #although it did mean my intuition has always been very strong so maybe that helped haha #have faith folks - the world is going to change very soon #prophetic vision #prophetic word #psychic #medium

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thedeafprophet · 1 year

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help my word document glitched whilst i was writing

#word why do you do this. im literally writing about the uncanny right now stop being uncanny ajdkfkfkgkgkhhj #the prophet speaks

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mostlysignssomeportents · 3 days

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Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp

For the rest of May, my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel THE LOST CAUSE (2023) is available as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

A decade ago, a hedge fund had an improbable viral comedy hit: a 294-page slide deck explaining why Olive Garden was going out of business, blaming the failure on too many breadsticks and insufficiently salted pasta-water:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/940944/000092189514002031/ex991dfan14a06297125_091114.pdf

Everyone loved this story. As David Dayen wrote for Salon, it let readers "mock that silly chain restaurant they remember from their childhoods in the suburbs" and laugh at "the silly hedge fund that took the time to write the world’s worst review":

https://www.salon.com/2014/09/17/the_real_olive_garden_scandal_why_greedy_hedge_funders_suddenly_care_so_much_about_breadsticks/

But – as Dayen wrote at the time, the hedge fund that produced that slide deck, Starboard Value, was not motivated by dissatisfaction with bread-sticks. They were "activist investors" (finspeak for "rapacious assholes") with a giant stake in Darden Restaurants, Olive Garden's parent company. They wanted Darden to liquidate all of Olive Garden's real-estate holdings and declare a one-off dividend that would net investors a billion dollars, while literally yanking the floor out from beneath Olive Garden, converting it from owner to tenant, subject to rent-shocks and other nasty surprises.

They wanted to asset-strip the company, in other words ("asset strip" is what they call it in hedge-fund land; the mafia calls it a "bust-out," famous to anyone who watched the twenty-third episode of The Sopranos):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bust_Out

Starboard didn't have enough money to force the sale, but they had recently engineered the CEO's ouster. The giant slide-deck making fun of Olive Garden's food was just a PR campaign to help it sell the bust-out by creating a narrative that they were being activists* to save this badly managed disaster of a restaurant chain.

*assholes

Starboard was bent on eviscerating Darden like a couple of entrail-maddened dogs in an elk carcass:

https://web.archive.org/web/20051220005944/http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~solan/dogsinelk/

They had forced Darden to sell off another of its holdings, Red Lobster, to a hedge-fund called Golden Gate Capital. Golden Gate flogged all of Red Lobster's real estate holdings for $2.1 billion the same day, then pissed it all away on dividends to its shareholders, including Starboard. The new landlords, a Real Estate Investment Trust, proceeded to charge so much for rent on those buildings Red Lobster just flogged that the company's net earnings immediately dropped by half.

Dayen ends his piece with these prophetic words:

Olive Garden and Red Lobster may not be destinations for hipster Internet journalists, and they have seen revenue declines amid stagnant middle-class wages and increased competition. But they are still profitable businesses. Thousands of Americans work there. Why should they be bled dry by predatory investors in the name of “shareholder value”? What of the value of worker productivity instead of the financial engineers?

Flash forward a decade. Today, Dayen is editor-in-chief of The American Prospect, one of the best sources of news about private equity looting in the world. Writing for the Prospect, Luke Goldstein picks up Dayen's story, ten years on:

https://prospect.org/economy/2024-05-22-raiding-red-lobster/

It's not pretty. Ten years of being bled out on rents and flipped from one hedge fund to another has killed Red Lobster. It just shuttered 50 restaurants and declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Ten years hasn't changed much; the same kind of snark that was deployed at the news of Olive Garden's imminent demise is now being hurled at Red Lobster.

Instead of dunking on free bread-sticks, Red Lobster's grave-dancers are jeering at "Endless Shrimp," a promotional deal that works exactly how it sounds like it would work. Endless Shrimp cost the chain $11m.

Which raises a question: why did Red Lobster make this money-losing offer? Are they just good-hearted slobs? Can't they do math?

Or, you know, was it another hedge-fund, bust-out scam?

Here's a hint. The supplier who provided Red Lobster with all that shrimp is Thai Union. Thai Union also owns Red Lobster. They bought the chain from Golden Gate Capital, last seen in 2014, holding a flash-sale on all of Red Lobster's buildings, pocketing billions, and cutting Red Lobster's earnings in half.

Red Lobster rose to success – 700 restaurants nationwide at its peak – by combining no-frills dining with powerful buying power, which it used to force discounts from seafood suppliers. In response, the seafood industry consolidated through a wave of mergers, turning into a cozy cartel that could resist the buyer power of Red Lobster and other major customers.

This was facilitated by conservation efforts that limited the total volume of biomass that fishers were allowed to extract, and allocated quotas to existing companies and individual fishermen. The costs of complying with this "catch management" system were high, punishingly so for small independents, bearably so for large conglomerates.

Competition from overseas fisheries drove consolidation further, as countries in the global south were blocked from implementing their own conservation efforts. US fisheries merged further, seeking economies of scale that would let them compete, largely by shafting fishermen and other suppliers. Today's Alaskan crab fishery is dominated by a four-company cartel; in the Pacific Northwest, most fish goes through a single intermediary, Pacific Seafood.

These dominant actors entered into illegal collusive arrangements with one another to rig their markets and further immiserate their suppliers, who filed antitrust suits accusing the companies of operating a monopsony (a market with a powerful buyer, akin to a monopoly, which is a market with a powerful seller):

https://www.classaction.org/news/pacific-seafood-under-fire-for-allegedly-fixing-prices-paid-to-dungeness-crabbers-in-pacific-northwest

Golden Gate bought Red Lobster in the midst of these fish wars, promising to right its ship. As Goldstein points out, that's the same promise they made when they bought Payless shoes, just before they destroyed the company and flogged it off to Alden Capital, the hedge fund that bought and destroyed dozens of America's most beloved newspapers:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/16/sociopathic-monsters/#all-the-news-thats-fit-to-print

Under Golden Gate's management, Red Lobster saw its staffing levels slashed, so diners endured longer wait times to be seated and served. Then, in 2020, they sold the company to Thai Union, the company's largest supplier (a transaction Goldstein likens to a Walmart buyout of Procter and Gamble).

Thai Union continued to bleed Red Lobster, imposing more cuts and loading it up with more debts financed by yet another private equity giant, Fortress Investment Group. That brings us to today, with Thai Union having moved a gigantic amount of its own product through a failing, debt-loaded subsidiary, even as it lobbies for deregulation of American fisheries, which would let it and its lobbying partners drain American waters of the last of its depleted fish stocks.

Dayen's 2020 must-read book Monopolized describes the way that monopolies proliferate, using the US health care industry as a case-study:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/29/fractal-bullshit/#dayenu

After deregulation allowed the pharma sector to consolidate, it acquired pricing power of hospitals, who found themselves gouged to the edge of bankruptcy on drug prices. Hospitals then merged into regional monopolies, which allowed them to resist pharma pricing power – and gouge health insurance companies, who saw the price of routine care explode. So the insurance companies gobbled each other up, too, leaving most of us with two or fewer choices for health insurance – even as insurance prices skyrocketed, and our benefits shrank.

Today, Americans pay more for worse healthcare, which is delivered by health workers who get paid less and work under worse conditions. That's because, lacking a regulator to consolidate patients' interests, and strong unions to consolidate workers' interests, patients and workers are easy pickings for those consolidated links in the health supply-chain.

That's a pretty good model for understanding what's happened to Red Lobster: monopoly power and monopsony power begat more monopolies and monoposonies in the supply chain. Everything that hasn't consolidated is defenseless: diners, restaurant workers, fishermen, and the environment. We're all fucked.

Decent, no-frills family restaurant are good. Great, even. I'm not the world's greatest fan of chain restaurants, but I'm also comfortably middle-class and not struggling to afford to give my family a nice night out at a place with good food, friendly staff and reasonable prices. These places are easy pickings for looters because the people who patronize them have little power in our society – and because those of us with more power are easily tricked into sneering at these places' failures as a kind of comeuppance that's all that's due to tacky joints that serve the working class.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/23/spineless/#invertebrates

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rottenwolf · 11 months

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Hate me, hate me, tell me that you hate me

#i used to be cool #juice wrld #elle goulding #hate me #i used to rule the world it felt like #and now I'm drowning #and people who promised to stay are going with the words of false prophets #personal #rage #angry

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nerdpoe · 5 months

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JLD prophets have been asked to prophesize the future of Robin.

It's stupid.

So a few Leaguers found out about this new Robin's slightly violent tendencies, and how he used to be barely controlled. Now they're convinced that he'll snap at any moment. Superman and Batman vouched for him, and Wonder Woman called out the hypocrisy of that paranoid fear, but the Leaguers insisted.

So, they called in JLD.

And the prophets take one look at the future, and collectively freak the fuck out.

"He is destined to awaken the High King of the Infinite Realms!" They cry out, scrambling to get away from him.

The room descends into chaos. People are shouting, arguing, asking what the hell that even means. The JLD are trying to explain over calling their loved ones and double checking every single failsafe they have in place, they themselves freaking out.

"Pariah fucking Dark!" They say, scrambling to spread the word from their phones, "The little shit's going to kill us all!"

Robin, of course, leaves the room.

These people are so stupid. This whole situation is stupid. He's going to call up the one hero who knows more about the Infinite Realms than anyone else to ask how stupid and impossible that prophecy is.

Phantom answers his call, white hair messed up and eyes half lidded, clearly having just awoken.

And from down the hall, he hears those stupid 'Prophets' start screaming again.

"It has come to pass! The High King is awake!"

Phantom freezes.

Robin feels the realization unfolding in his mind even as he glares death at the other hero.

"They assume I am going to cause the end of the world by waking you," Robin says, keeping his voice even in an attempt to sound...not nearly as angry as he is.

It doesn't work.

Phantom is now sitting up straight and looking terrified.

"Fix this," Damian hisses, leaning forward and gripping the console so hard he feels a few buttons pop off.

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #phanfic #story prompt

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catsharkie · 4 months

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what if ds9 had tumble

capsisko

the wormhole :)

i-identify-starships-in-posts follow

klingon bird of prey, cloaked.

capsisko

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skrainfanboy5997notdukat follow

Gul Dukat did nothing wrong.

wormzallday

juuuuulian

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miles-edward-obrien

I thought I had work today, but no, the time loop.

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ziyart

STATUS UPDATE, I WON THE ART COMPETITION!

#THERE WAS NO ONE ELSE IN THE COMPETITION!

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kiranerys

If another thing breaks on this station i swear to the prophets

kiranerys

the replicator just sent someone to the infirmary. our doctor is running on negative 60 hours of sleep at least

kiranerys

i just want a raktajino

kiranerys

@miles-edward-obrien get your ass in here

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