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istandonsnowpiles · 2 months

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Not in commission quite yet

#train #pennsylvania #university city #amtrak #acela #black and white #philadelphia #philly #30th st station #january #my work #photography

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cruelbunnicula · 8 months

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morgan davies is the PERFECT cast for aled last CHANGE MY MIND

#radio silence #alice oseman #aled last #aled #heartstopper #IT'S ALED LAST #i'm not crazy #JUST LOOK AT HIM #plss alice oseman make my dreams come true #university city #morgan davies #koby one piece

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cufjskdjfjfn · 1 year

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im in university rereading radio silence trying so hard not to sob. someone help me pls.

#alice oseman #aled last #daniel jun #frances javier #radio silence #heartstopper universe #university city

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touloserrs · 1 year

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"I stopped feeling anything ages ago"

same aled same

#radio silence #aled last #university city #osemanverse

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papayacool · 10 months

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I need friends who read radio silence i feel like im the only one who has ever read it and im going crazy

#radio silence #university city #alice oseman #aled last #f #be my friend #talk to me

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dancing-withthedoctor · 2 years

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its 4 am and im awake thinking about all the ways aled last and I are the same and that I've never been so connected to a fictional character this much before????

#i put off finishing radio silence bc i didn’t want it to end #and now i might just have to reread it again #aled last #radio silence #osemanverse #university city

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semlan132 · 2 years

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A small drawing of university city :) (while listening to radio silence) should I color it??

#radio silence #alice oseman #university city

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blickcalleviewfromthestreet · 1 year

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About To Cross by Blick Calle Via Flickr: 34th Street and Walnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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philadelphia-hq · 1 year

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"I can't see myself at 40, to be honest. Surprised I made it to 30."

SILAS CODY

Age: 32 Gender and pronouns: Male, He/Him Occupation: Unemployed / Drug Dealer Neighborhood: University City

BIOGRAPHY

tw: cancer, child neglect, child death, drugs, prison

Loud and rowdy, that’s how most of their neighbours would describe the Cody family from Portland, Oregon. They were only ever supposed to be a family of six and when their fourth son was born Ethan and Claire mutually decided that they were finished. That was until Jack, the eldest, was diagnosed with Leukaemia at the age of 8. Their optimism began to falter with every post treatment check up and each ensuing set back that followed, heartbreak coming to a culmination when he needed a bone marrow transplant at age 10 and there was no match within the brood. After two years of what felt like an endless battle, with options dissipating, they decided to try and expand their family one more time and conceive a savior sibling through IVF.

Silas Cody was born thirteen months later.

For all the effort that went into bringing him into the world, by the time he turned four, the Codys were back to being a family of six and the once loud and lively household seemed to still in the aftermath of Jack’s passing. He has few memories of his eldest brother, just snippets of stories that were gradually retold on holidays and birthdays, though the topic continues to be an open wound among the family.

For most of his childhood he felt like he was carrying the weight of his dead brother, as though he was occupying a place in his family that was never supposed to be for him. To him, his parents seemed perpetually tired, like they had nothing left to give. His brothers were close knit, a fortress of three that he was on the outside of.

Then at the age of 11 his family grew again, but in a new way. He found himself with another brother in the shape of Ricky Murdock, but one that had come into his life via a moving truck and conversations through the garden fence rather than the traditional way. They became fast friends, their closeness only growing over the years as the distance between him and his blood increased.

His parents disinterest in his life continued throughout high school and the only reprieve seemed to be when Silas announced his intention to forgo college and move to California with Ricky and their mutual friend Andrew to chase their band ambitions. It was as though he saw his father wake up for the first time, in a way that loud jam sessions in the garage and years of attention seeking behaviour hadn’t achieved.

Eventually, he agreed to go as his last attempt at gaining his parents affection.

He lasted a half of a semester. It hadn’t been his intention to be a college drop out, but after a tense Thanksgiving and Christmas with his family, that ended in a blazing argument where words were shared that could never be taken back, Silas took his future into his own hands and uprooted his life with the little money had saved.

Moving states wasn’t enough distance between him and his kin, he needed to put a border between them, which is how he found himself saying goodbye to his two best friends who were still L.A. bound. He drifted for a few months, moving city to city until he eventually found himself in Philadelphia at 19 years old.

It wasn’t long before he fell into the wrong crowd, the kind that knew fast ways to make money with high risks a footnote that was rarely spoken about. The lifestyle fit him like a glove instantly, no schedule to adhere to, just a where and a when of where he had to supply.

At 20 he met James Mitchell, who became a regular customer and a regular fixture on his mind. Falling for her was like dealing for him – it was about all that made sense for him. That lasted all of five years before they both found themselves sat in front of blue lights with bricks of cocaine in trunk, starring down the barrel at the ruin of both their lives. In a split second decision, Silas had decided the both of them going down for it would be a waste, so he took the blame for it and insisted once he was under arrest that she had only been present because he forced her to be.

By the time his trial was over, he was sentenced to 7 years in jail for drug trafficking and for having said he had used the threat of violence to get James in the car with him. He was given parole in June 2022 and after a week of nomadic travel and being conflicted he decided he had no intentions of being anywhere but Philly.

SILAS CODY has the face claim of CHACE CRAWFORD and is played by STARK.

#university city #b #chace crawford

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quanchofromthe9cho · 2 years

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iNDePeNDeNCe DaY

-Quancho

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istandonsnowpiles · 2 months

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30th Street Station

#pennsylvania #architecture #university city #black and white #subway #philadelphia #philly #30th st station #january #my work #photography

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happygalaxyland · 17 days

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#Mine #Charlotte #University City

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deep-space-netwerk · 7 months

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So Venus is my favorite planet in the solar system - everything about it is just so weird.

It has this extraordinarily dense atmosphere that by all accounts shouldn't exist - Venus is close enough to the sun (and therefore hot enough) that the atmosphere should have literally evaporated away, just like Mercury's. We think Earth manages to keep its atmosphere by virtue of our magnetic field, but Venus doesn't even have that going for it. While Venus is probably volcanically active, it definitely doesn't have an internal magnetic dynamo, so whatever form of volcanism it has going on is very different from ours. And, it spins backwards! For some reason!!

But, for as many mysteries as Venus has, the United States really hasn't spent much time investigating it. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, sent no less than 16 probes to Venus between 1961 and 1984 as part of the Venera program - most of them looked like this!

The Soviet Union had a very different approach to space than the United States. NASA missions are typically extremely risk averse, and the spacecraft we launch are generally very expensive one-offs that have only one chance to succeed or fail.

It's lead to some really amazing science, but to put it into perspective, the Mars Opportunity rover only had to survive on Mars for 90 days for the mission to be declared a complete success. That thing lasted 15 years. I love the Opportunity rover as much as any self-respecting NASA engineer, but how much extra time and money did we spend that we didn't technically "need" to for it to last 60x longer than required?

Anyway, all to say, the Soviet Union took a more incremental approach, where failures were far less devastating. The Venera 9 through 14 probes were designed to land on the surface of Venus, and survive long enough to take a picture with two cameras - not an easy task, but a fairly straightforward goal compared to NASA standards. They had…mixed results.

Venera 9 managed to take a picture with one camera, but the other one's lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 10 also managed to take a picture with one camera, but again the other lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 11 took no pictures - neither lens cap deployed this time.

Venera 12 also took no pictures - because again, neither lens cap deployed.

Lotta problems with lens caps.

For Venera 13 and 14, in addition to the cameras they sent a device to sample the Venusian "soil". Upon landing, the arm was supposed to swing down and analyze the surface it touched - it was a simple mechanism that couldn't be re-deployed or adjusted after the first go.

This time, both lens caps FINALLY ejected perfectly, and we were treated to these marvelous, eerie pictures of the Venus landscape:

However, when the Venera 14 soil sampler arm deployed, instead of sampling the Venus surface, it managed to swing down and land perfectly on….an ejected lens cap.

#space #space history #venus #NASA #Venera #spost #I will talk all day about venus #ask me about venus floating sky cities #unpopular opinion venus > mars #this is probably my favorite space history story #the surface of venus is made of lens caps #don't try to tell me the universe doesn't have a sense of humor #well #I guess its more that people have a sense of humor and we happen to live in the universe

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paulpingminho · 2 months

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#gyro #Greek food #The Greek Lady #french fries #lemon potatoes #Philadelphia #Pennsylvania #University City

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reasonsforhope · 1 month

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Sometimes you just have one of those moments where the progress we've made as a culture get thrown into stark relief. You look at something and go "Holy shit, that would never have happened when I was a kid."

Today, I had one of those moments when I realized that the teenage boys I'm working with are just. genuinely, openly enthusiastic about going to Build-a-Bear for their outing.

These are sixteen and seventeen year old boys! They just had a whole conversation about what to name their "cute", mostly new squishmallows! They're genuinely excited that they're going to Build-a-Bear this weekend and asking other kids to pick up specific accessories for them!!

Holy shit, that never would've happened when I was 16. None of the boys would have dared to be visibly interested - and neither would most of the girls! There would have been a million gay jokes and "Haha, you're a girl" jokes and "What are you, a baby?" jokes. Teenagers weren't even supposed to care about anything back then!

Less than 15 years later, and I'm watching three 17 year old boys treat all that as not even worthy of comment.

So let's call that a reason for hope. Even when the kids aren't alright, in some ways apparently they are alright. Go Gen Z, honestly. It's so lovely to watch you guys just openly doing and saying stuff that, when I was a teen, would've been a social death sentence.

#obligatory disclaimer that this really really obviously is not universal #I do live in a major progressive city #there's definitely a level of a liberal bubble effect here #but it's still really powerful to see it #because even in a major liberal enclave there were so many limits on the gender roles and homophobia etc. etc. fronts #and also the limits of the oppressive weight of obligatory teen apathy lol #seriously go gen z. so glad you guys decided cringe is dead. I love you for that so much #and I love it for you #not news #life #hope #homophobia #sexism #teens #teenagers #progress #gen z #btw if it wasn't clear I'm a #millennial #plush toy #plushie #squishmallows #build a bear #stuffed animal #like the idea of almost any teenager much less teenage boys #saying IN FRONT OF THEIR PEERS #that they are excited about their STUFFED ANIMALS #when I was a teenager #?????#cannot imagine that ever happening.

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going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi · 4 months

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idk if someone has already made this post but. imagine gotham upholding bruce wayne as an example of "you can have a tragic backstory and not start doing weird superhero/villain crap" and he just has to Deal with it

#bruce wayne #batman #dc comics #dc #dcu #dc universe #dc batman #gotham #gotham city

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