#doomer tag

[jocnewsupdates]

Black Hawk Helicopter crashes into small passenger flight over Potomac River right near the D.C airport; No Survivors

[jocnewsupdates]

Links to the article:

CDC Researchers Ordered to Retract Papers Submitted to All Journals

CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Links to Data Backups and other archival projects:

Btw, this is how conservatives keep getting to claim that trans people are a new thing no one has ever heard, because our history and existences have continually been erased or obscured systematically through out history.

The most famous example was 92 years when the Nazis raided the library of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, the medical practice where the term transsexual was first coined and the first gender affirming surgery was performed in in 1931.

What did the Nazis do after raiding the library on May 6th, 1933? You may be familiar with these images

It is happening again.

[is0pod64]

hey tomodachis sorry i havent posted in nearly a year hehe >_<!!!!! heres a doodle >//////<

[worlds-largest-juice-container]

[yourlocalstingbeans]

I've seen a lot of people talking about all the bad things that have happened recently, or just in this year in general and going, "yeah, this is an omen, 2025 is gonna SUCK."

And true, there's a lot of bad things that are going to happen, lots of ones we're not going to see coming, and lots of ones we are.

But good things will happen too. Good things are happening as we go into 2025, and they're going to happen during 2025. All this talk about doom and gloom makes it really hard to focus on those things, that's all. They don't make national news, but they happen. Small things, big things.

So just make sure you remember the good stuff when you talk about the bad stuff. Hopefully we'll all make it to the other side, and if we don't, we can focus on making sure we didn't lose anyone in vain by making things better as we go.

Happy new year everybody.

[exutrio]

tag team shows in the bag! some overall thoughts:

I like how there were two different vibes for the shows. the sydney show had more focus on worldbuilding and combat. the sydney show also had worldbuilding, but the plot and character interactions were the main draw. while I think the melbourne show edges it out for me slightly, both were truly incredible!

the choice of crews for each half were spectacular. truly worked so well comp wise and the interactions between them all were so interesting.

chetney, orym, fearne and imogen were my standouts for bells hells, while caduceus, beau, yasha, and caleb were my standouts for the mighty nein.

ethel was such a wonderful concept for a character, and tom cardy played him so well! it's nice to see how he was not just for a gimmick, but that he really had connections to the shattered teeth and it's lore. I love how while keeping the essence of ethel as a character in both sydney and melbourne, there were differences in each ethel based on the life he had lived in either the material or spiritual realm. I think these differences also contributed towards the different tones of the show.

the twist at the end of how he was connected in the island was unexpected, but also completely made sense and was beautiful. in general, the lore of the shattered teeth was so so so good! (shoutout to the wandermen lore in the melbourne cooldown) once again, why did bells hells not spend more time there...sighs.

caduceus' scene with divine intervention was so touching. I like how bittersweet it was, truly embodying the finale of c3, both a sense of grief towards the way of life that was lost, but also a show in how the world will move on, will find more ways to grow, and become stronger because of it. it was made all the more impactful for me with the comments taliesin made about that scene and caduceus' current state of mind in the cooldown.

such wonderful shows overall, I can't wait for more of the shattered teeth saga, cause it seems like according to the end of the melbourne show and the melbourne cooldown.

[rose-void-789]

Look, I know a lot of you are frustrated about Izuocha being the central discussion because she was just crying over Toga, and the fandom is tossing that aside just to talk about a potential romance. But having calmed down, I think most of us are just scared of where Ochako's character will go. At least I am.

But we need to remember that Izuku and Ochako started the war on that cliff overlooking it and made a promise to save these children. And they both lost. For all that we want to talk about, Katsuki pulling Izuku and making him talk he can't understand Izuku pain. And this thread needs to end with Izulu and Ochako. They need to talk about their loss. That's why he tried to reach out to her first, and that's why he realized exactly where she was in this chapter. That's why he has to reach out. And it will be a beautiful and amazing conclusion where they both will finally greive and open up to the feelings they have been hiding from the rest of the class. And maybe then Izuku will be able to finally face his own heart because that's the last thread of his arc. Control your heart.

I'm just scared that after that beautiful scene, after they grieve together and relish in the pain they both share, he will confess, and she will accept. Because then, what does that say about her whole arc? About giving up on her love for him and becoming a stronger hero because of it. What will it mean for all her pain to have revolved not on her but on him? How will that recontextualised her character? And that, more than the harassment and harsh voices that will continue to come to us harder than ever, scares me.

[jocnewsupdates]

Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to U.S. Treasury’s Payments System

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency access to the federal payment system late on Friday, according to five people familiar with the change, handing Elon Musk and the team he is leading a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending. —The New York Times

David Lebryk, the longtime career official who oversaw Treasury’s vast financing and payments operations, suddenly resigned on Friday after clashing with Trump officials over granting access to the payments system, which contains details about the people who receive government payments. The system controls payments to Social Security recipients, people entitled to tax refunds, organizations receiving grants, as well as payments to federal workers and government contractors. —Politico

[gen-is-gone]

This is perhaps bitchy and uncharitable and certainly almost a year late to really be complaining about but fuck it, we complain anyway.

Yes, I am still unreasonably upset about Sutekh clinging to the side of the TARDIS since The Pyramids of Mars, and upset because I was sort of foolishly hoping we might get some actual characterization fallout from that addressed properly this series, which of course isn't going to happen. And the reason I'm upset about it while it seems fairly few people care all that much is because it's a litmus test for the degree to which any given person sees the TARDIS as a character in her own right. And it's fairly obvious now that rtd doesn't, or at least, only does when it suits him.

Because the thing is, if the TARDIS is a character, is a person, then the manner in which Sutekh uses and usurps her, and the ambiguity in whether it was consensual ('seduction' vs 'coercion') becomes extremely important to the Doctor and the TARDIS's relationship, and the TARDIS's characterization as a whole, both going forward and echoing back. Like bearing in mind that what actually happened is so ambiguous, what Sutekh being 'there the whole time' even fucking means, that trying to pull a point out of it is almost an exercise in futility from the jump, but to borrow some wildly inadequate or perhaps even inappropriate language, it's the difference between whether the TARDIS has been cheating on the Doctor for more than half the length of their entire relationship, or whether she'd been being (sorry) raped that whole time and the Doctor just hadn't noticed.

And yeah, evidently it was too much for me to hope that there would ever be any kind of real emotional or plot-relevant followup about that, because, again, that requires you to see the TARDIS as a character whose choices and emotions and relationships matter beyond their immediate relevance to the plot. And this isn't new by any goddamn means. This isn't actually the usual split between the traditionalist and the avant-garde camps. The TARDIS's sapience and autonomy do not begin with The Doctor's Wife; this is established (more or less) in The Edge of Destruction, the third ever serial in the history of the show, all the way back in nineteen sixty-fucking-four.

And y'know, yes, it would still be a big deal if Sutekh jumped on in Wild Blue Yonder (as would make way more logical sense) rather than Pyramids; the ambiguity of consent that the show either doesn't care or lacks the stomach to address would still be a blow, but it wouldn't have the unutilized capacity to fundamentally alter the relationship between the two longest-running characters in the franchise if it was the span of a season, rather than thousands of years in-universe and nearly five decades in real life. And not to be conspiratorial or assume categorical bad faith on rtd's part, but yeah, it's hard not see that particular unnecessary detail as a petty response to Moffat and Chibnall's own continuity-and-paradigm-altering retcons, and an attempt to get his own shot in.

And it's just. Never gonna get talked about, huh. 'Cause it doesn't actually matter, right? 'Cause it's not like the TARDIS is really a person, right?

[thirdwheelravi]

I want to believe in buddie canon but based on why Ryan's said abt not wanting to play Eddie as gay, the new interview with AH after her directorial debut, the way the bt hookup scene looked a lot like tarlos..I don't have hope :( unless they do it from an unreciprocated pov but I think that'd just be worse.

ok 👍

[c1trvswurld]

The whole "people who don't want to take DIY hrt are losers/feds" shit I see around is so annoying. Maybe it's because I'm black but ik if I ever get caught with t (reminder its a controlled substance) I'd get thrown in jail so fast. "Just go to the gym and sniff out some gym bros who take t" okay so are you dumb. Say that slowly. Say trans men should just walk up to a cis guy and ask them. Do it one more time....lik...So sorry but everytime I see some white non disabled trans person propose DIY hrt as an easy alternative that other trans people are just to much of government bootlicker to take....I kinda get pissed. I kinda get very pissed how white queer spaces can feel. I kinda get fucking angry how you cannot empathize with the fears of other people that aren't fucking you. Like girl fuck you and your white queerness!! Fuck ya mama too!

[what-is-love-babey-dont-hurt-me]

mods are asleep. post new oc concepts.

Say hello to your local Noble Ranger!! She’s a bit tight lipped about how exactly she secured her wares, but they are such a point of pride for him that you can be confident that the sphere doomer feathers are genuine! What a odd guy…

Traditional sketches with POSCA markers. Bonus cat helping me out

[mechanicalhandsyaoi]

guys ik I’m gonna get crucified but idk if I like the spn guys being added to s5

idk if the last season is the time to be adding new characters like

I feel like at most it’ll be a wink nudge moment to the audience with the cast and at worst they’ll take away time from the main story/building tension for the end to develop their characters to make up for lost time

[lurkiestvoid]

I have absolutely zero spoons to provide links this is not a news post this is a ... a sigh. it's widely reported and easily searchable info. Fuck it i came back and added links

memos relating to the bullshit huge federal funding freeze and demanding orgs answer 14 questions by next week to keep their funding, to ensure they aren't supporting "illegal" "DEIA"

The acronym has grown

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

They're gonna go after the whole fuckin ADA, aren't they.

Oh, and he repealed instructed the DOJ not to enforce the FACE Act, the 90s law to protect clinics, patients, and staff from anti-choice protestors (they can now get right back up to the doors, and short of basically killing someone it just won't be enforced)

They're trying to institute a way to simultaneously email all 2.3 million federal employees at once to be able to "communicate directly" and not have orders "filtered by management". Several lawsuits already, massive privacy concerns, etc.

Loyalty tests have begun for both current employees and applicants, mostly headed by department-inexperienced youths, to ensure full 100% enthusiastic support specifically of MAGA over Republican party and with zero non-party associations or opinions

He revoked equal opportunity employment, killing 60 years of labor+civil rights just as both my trans wife and my trans self are trying to find work

The funding freeze has everyone scrambling. Compliance by 5pm today, so many have been working through the night because some of these programs can't just be flipped like a switch. non-profits panicking. Research suspended. Emergency meetings. Already "temporary" layoffs of medical staff and others, for grant freezes.

r/fednews is a new subreddit for Fed workers to whistleblow and share internal fuckery. Have a random screenshot.

The reddit account that discovered that the funding freeze EO was written by two randos bc the pdf metadata wasn't scrubbed, one of whom is Heritage Foundation, was nuked. An hour later the EO was updated to change the "author"

Aaaaand he's openly talking about deporting "criminals," and regressives are enthusiastically supportive of the idea of deporting "dissidents" like [checks notes] American citizen Selena Gomez.

Etc etc etc oh god there's so fucking much already.

I am left wondering how to personally tread the line between "do not comply in advance" and "do not draw attention to yourself." How to keep my family safe. I am wondering how many of the social media posts encouraging people to scream and be loud and DEMAND to be SEEN and RESPECTED as QUEER/DISABLED/ETC are maybe written by people who don't know or remember how fucking bad the baseline social attitude was towards marginalized people even just twenty years ago, and therefore have zero context for exactly how bad it can get and what it's like to survive daily life in even the mildest of strict national oppression, and maybe don't really even believe us when we try to tell them, think we could never go back that far surely, not for very long surely.

And I am so, so sorry my loves, but you have yet to see a true winter, and you're treating the snow flurries as hyperbole.

[tvitr]

C'mon Brass, positivity is soooooooo last year.

[pikapitou]

"their outfits are so bad" Yes, And not just buddie. the whole cast. since s7, i dunno what's going on with the wardrobe but it's Bad. (also hi!!!)

hiiiii mai!!!!! and yeah it's ridiculous like they looked plausibly like real people in s1-7 with their own grounded real people styles but suddenly their outfit combinations are soooooo awful. seriously buck. THOSE pants with THAT jacket??????? the scene in 8a where buck finds out eddie's moving had some of their worst outfits yet like people do not DRESS like that. I won't even mention make-up like oh my god. I was hoping the curse would be defeated by 8b but buck's still down there... (under 10000 layers of foundation)