#Failure

[pr1soners-d1lemma]

My heart aches for the happiness I could've had.

[lonestarflight]

The first Australian-made orbital rocket launched from Australia, Eris-1, fails after 14 seconds of flight.

Date: July 30, 2025

[reasonsforhope]

Put this down as a weird reason for hope, but I think people really underestimate the utility and value of sometimes fucking things up.

An example: When I was younger, I in some ways majorly fucked up a situation with a friend, when I was trying to be there for him, but I was in over my head. It ended the friendship. But you know what, that fuckup saved so much of my mental health, because that friendship was really manipulative and bad for me, and I needed out.

Sometimes fucking up is the only way out of a bad situation. Sometimes all you can do is hit your limits, and come what may. Mentally, physically, socially, sensorily, fatigue-ily, whatever it may be.

We can't just do it all - and sometimes fucking up is the only way we know where that line is.

Imperfection isn't always a flaw - sometimes it's a feature.

Anyway, try to not be so hard on yourself for your failures. You never know what they might have saved you from.

Sometimes failure is your body's or your self's only way of asserting its needs. So have some extra self-compassion today.

[darkpoeticsoul]

My darling, you are allowed to fail without being a failure. You are allowed to make mistakes without being one. More opportunities will present themselves. You will find hope again.

R.V.

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

Perhaps then, in the depths of your gentleness, you'll find the impetus to forgive me not for my failures, but for the brief moments when I imagine that I could faint from the love of you.

Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, April 11, 1950 [#276]

[gemsoffails]

Worst Pitcher ever😂😂😭

[crankydevon]

[ID: twitter posts by bluewmist, "The fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. It's called ego involvement. When failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. Not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

You don't need lower standards. You need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. The work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are."]

[spaceexp]

First Australian orbital launch attempt ended shortly after takeoff

This was the first test flight of Gilmour Space Eris rocket.

[thecultureapothecary]

Hwang Bo-reum, Welcome to Hyunam-dong Bookshop This sums up how I feel at the moment. After working hard and following the "right" paths, I have ended up with nothing but exhaustion. But deciding to give up on that life, and just focus on rest also takes a level of courage I never realised.

[dimension20official]

Sam Reich loves watching failure, you say? Who would have guessed!

Watch the full Adventuring Academy interview here

[abodywithnosoul]

Why is everything so heavy? 😖

[robertreich]

How Trump Killed Every Business He Touched

Trump’s entire candidacy is based on a lie.

TRUMP: I’m really a good businessman. I’m so good at business.

Not true. Trump is a business failure. Almost every business he’s touched, he’s driven into the ground.

RUBIO: You ever heard of Trump Steaks?

TRUMP: Trump Steaks are the greatest steaks, and I mean that in every sense of the word!

RUBIO: You ever heard of Trump Vodka?

TRUMP: It’s a smooth vodka. It’s a great-tasting vodka.

RUBIO: All of these companies that he’s ruined!

It’s true! Trump had a failed board game…

TRUMP: My new game is Trump the Game.

…a failed bicycle race called the “Tour de Trump”…

TRUMP: I think this is an event that can be tremendous in the future. And it can really rival the Tour de France.

…a failed football team.

TRUMP: It’s gonna stay strong. It’s gonna stay strong for a long time.

Trump decided it was a good idea to start a mortgage company in 2006.

TRUMP: It’s a great time to start a mortgage company.

That failed in less than two years. Let’s see, what else was there?

JOHN OLIVER: Trump Magazine, which folded, Trump World Magazine, which also folded…

ROMNEY: Whatever happened to Trump Airlines?

Oh! That was a good one! One of his planes had a crash landing within the first two months, which he insisted was “the most beautiful landing you’ve ever seen.” The business failed within three years.

Trump has even managed to bankrupt multiple casinos. How do you lose money running a casino?

There’s an old joke that the easiest way to make a small fortune is to start with a large one. And that’s exactly what Trump did. Multiple analyses show that if Trump had simply invested his multi-million-dollar inheritance in an index fund and didn’t touch it, he’d be a lot richer than he is now. Think about that. His entire life’s work has been less successful than if he’d done nothing.

And when he was president, Trump ran the country like he ran his failed businesses. He added $8.4 trillion to the national debt — largely through his tax cuts for the rich and big corporations.

Trump has managed to survive every one of his business failures by leaving other people on the hook — leaving workers unpaid and shafting his investors.

The whole idea that Trump is good at business was a carefully-crafted illusion — concocted for a reality TV show. And like a lot of reality TV shows, we’ve come to learn it was all show, and no reality.

The only business Trump has been successful at is conning people. Now he’s trying to do it again. Don’t fall for it.

[philosophybits]

People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning; then there will be no failure.

Laozi, Daodejing, Feng & English tr. (Ch 64)

[thebookquotes]

“If you’re not failing, you’re not pushing your limits, and if you’re not pushing your limits, you’re not maximizing your potential”

- Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

[spaceexp]

Northrop Grumman BOLE SRB nozzle failure during a static fire test

(by Jack Beyer/twitter)