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I probably should not post any thought that comes out of my head but it will make this post spread so I will just still write them down.

How shitty you have to be to make this decision as a leader, as a parliament? I'm sorry but if my goverment did that there would be molotov cocktails flying in the window of the parliament...

And you know, condemn Hamas etc.

and all that. Are we going to pretend that the Israeli goverment did not create hamas back in the day? Like it's not the Israeli goverment that made it impossible for Palestine to become a normal democracy? Are we going to pretend that the issue is Palestine? Like yeah Hamas is bad but... *think* please, if someone bombed your house, would you be like "Yeah I forgive them"? And it's not just their homes, but their mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, daughters and sons. And nephews and nieces and grandparents. So why do we act surprised if they become a part of Hamas? What else they can do? Just die in silence? Israel would like that.

Anyways I don't like to post/repost stuff about this because I know far to little and almost no one reads me anyways but it was about time I said something I guess.

Israel has banned children’s insulin injectors from entering Gaza

Children can die within a matter of days without insulin. In even less time a lack of insulin will cause blindness, nerve damage, and kidney failure.

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How the hell did I see the one on Pinterest before the original? T-T

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So I translated my poem to English, which was a grave mistake cuz God if it's not the first lesson in technical translation to never translate to a forgein language, so I definitely appreciate feedback if anything sounds off. Anyways, enjoy:

Human

A human is flesh, bones, veins and blood,

A human is a nervous system, brain, a thought,

A human is enthusiasm and soul,

A human being is fire, rain and morning dew.

And the fire sleeps in me,

And the idea is within you as well,

And I will be enthusiastic one day too,

And one day the storm will fall asleep in you.

One day I will be the fire

One day I will be the idea,

One day you will be bones and blood

One day I will know where I belong

And than I will be human too

And maybe I will learn to love

One day I will love another for you

One day God will sit on the Garden wall.

#humans are weird #poem #humans are space orcs

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Athis wasn't really the person who seemed to be found of other humans. Eversince they got on the ship they were very helpful, kind, but quiet. Not the type humans usually are. Athis was not loud, although they liked to sing, and their voice was kind of nice to listen to, so no one had a problem with it.

They seemed to know a good variety of folk songs of a specific region on earth. Oftentimes the crew found her gazing out one of the windows of the cantina instead of talking to the other humans or the other members of the crew.

Not that they were specifically asocial or hostile. They were kind of nice to talk to. On rare occasions they even talked a lot.

I took the time to talk to them as often as possible. I liked them. I asked them about their life... She opened up slowly. One time we started talking about their home.

"Ah... Gaia is a cesspool... It has so many good things but god awful politics and the people... Fuck the people. Honesty they are so brainwashed. You'd think with the universe open to them they would finally let go of these silly things like... Them being weird about same sex relationships. Why? The whole ass universe is open to us, we literally see interspecies relationships but they get weirded out by two women holding hands? And your own relatives chew you out for not agreeing with them on politics. And the lack of spine people have there... No offense Xebie... they are awfully two faced." they seemed stressed as they hid their face in their palms.

"It really does sound horrible... I would understand if you'd never want to go back."

"Ah that's my biggest problem... I cannot tell you how much I hate it but also... I miss it. I wish to go home I want to see trees and flowers I know the name of, I want to sing toghether with people who know the songs of my region... I miss speaking the language of my mother. I really miss it. And the food is great and the people can be so nice. And the Sun is such a pretty star. The evening sky is prettier than any painting or photo of it... Oh and I love people. I hate my kind but I also love them. We go to war, we hate for such ridiculous things, I cannot stand how prejudiced we are. And even like that... People help each other for no personal gain, make art, write poetry that makes me cry, create songs that make me smile... I love that side of us". their face lit up with something I rarely seen in her. I didn't understand human expressions well enough to decode it, but my interpreter program recognised it as something between admiration and disgust... "What I really love that we are not all that different. Not even from the other species. But that doesn't mean we are great. I think humans, though strong, have a lot to learn from species like yours. You never had wars! How much more intreeging that is."

Athis smiled at me than shook their head. "I talk to much." they said as they covered their mouth. "I am so sorry."

"Oh don't worry about! It was intresting. And I think I understand your feelings a little bit. I had a friend who was very talented, but turned out to be a horrible person overall. It was a very confusing feeling." I replied.

Athis wasn't that different afterall. Soon I learned most humans on our ship seen Gaia similarly. Humans seemed to carry a type of guilt with themselves. Learning the history of their homeworld made me understand why.

#humans are space orcs #space australians #humans are weird #humans are deathworlders

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Uhhh there was a writing I read about this either here or reddit. It was about how humans can be absolutely awful. One human is a bully, an absolute nightmare of a coworker who uses his speacies reputation of being dangerous to terrorise everyone. Than the ship later needs to employ two other humans. Than the two other humans are much more nice, and often stand up against the bully human (who was also slightly racist). When he becames actually dangerous to the entire ship, the two 'normal' humans get the other human killed, but still feel extremely guilty about it. One of them even tries to save them from the situation after they pushed him into it.

I guess the point was that humans have a weird way of acting in the extremes. And that some of them feels bad about doing something that was objectively the right or useful thing to do, because it was still morally bad, while others can be absolute assholes and still be okay with themselves.

All the humans fuck yeah, and humans are space orks stuff lost its appeal when I realized it's just the same self important vanity that lets people justify destroying the environment, deprive the poor of the value of their work, and racism.

You can not tell me the first person to set fire to an alien refugee craft won't be some kind of human elitist who thinks himself and whatever group or groups he is a part of are the best.

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8am philosophy lessons should be classified as crime against humanity!!

I am barely awake what do you mean the fabric of percieved reality is made up by the "common normative linguistic agreement" of the people speaking a language?

What do you mean there is an unsaid consense in the words we use to describe reality???

I JUST WOKE UP!

Help???

#philosophy #help #crimes against humanity #I am not even awake why do you gotta go into something that deep.

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Sometimes I wonder why my best friend is still friends with me.

Like we are sitting here... On this abandoned space station, just the two of us. The heating system died like an hour ago. Since then we have been in our space suits. They keep us warm but... Not warm enough. I feel my body slowly getting colder and colder. And I know they feel like this too. We will be okay though. There is enough oxygen for days in the station and we are far away from hypothermia yet and the rescue will be here in any minute now. So I don't stress about it. Sure it is embarrassing that we miscalculated and now need help, but we will be okay. I did this a dozen of times.

But they are not that calm about it. Their hands are fidgety and I know them enough to understand: this is how the start of a panic attack looks like. So I slide closer to them and I put my arm around their shoulders. And I say the most obscure shit I can think of at the moment. And I whisper it into their ears.

"Would you like me to explain how hypothermia works?"

The utter shock on their face let's me know I am on the right track.

"What the actual fuck is wrong with you?"

They ask, but I can see their whole body language changing they are no longer fidgeting with their hands, they are now completely calm and just confused and annoyed by me.

"Yeah, you know. Hypothermia. The thing we will be experiencing if no one comes in the next 24 hours."

They start to laugh. Maybe a bit hysterically but it's still a laugh. And laughing is good. It means they are out of it.

I smile at them. And then, there is light. And the well-known sound of a radio signal tuning into our station.

"Hey idiots! We are here for a pick up!" I hear a familiar voice.

"Thanks Tim!" I answer.

And we are saved.

"Sometimes I wonder why are we even friends." they say and they hug me. And I hug back.

"I love you!" I say with a smile.

"I love you too!" they say and laugh a little. "And thank you!" they don't have to specify why they are thanking me. We both know it is about the hypothermia.

#humans are space orcs #humans in space #humans are weird #humans being humans

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Other species are often facinated by how much human bodies can take.

Helle (human) is climbing up somewhere that is about two meters high.

Fe'ek: Be careful... You don't have wings. If you fall down from there you'll die.

Helle: Despite falling off from various heights I never broke a bone.

Fe'ek: Never?

Helle: Not even when I hit my head falling from around the same heigh I am at now... I think I didn't even got a concussion... They did have to sew the wound together though.

Fe'ek: Adds to mental notes that some humans can survive stuff that would give most of the other species at least a traumatic brain injury.

(This is not really an episode. I just remembered I fell off of places a lot as a kid, yet never broke a bone.)

#humans are space orcs #space australians #humans are deathworlders

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Humans drink poison?

(here is part 3. I hope you will enjoy it.)

Helle laughed out loud watching the scene. Which reminded Ga'al that he's not alone with Fe'ek, so he let his friend live another day.

She was curious as to what does Ga'al still do to make him fall asleep but it seemed she'll have to wait to learn that.

"So yes... We all had our ways to stay calm... You'll be fine." Ga'al tried to save whatever left of his dignity after the previous scene.

"Sweet!" she smiled than she heard the metallic noice that ment it is soon time to sleep on this side of the ship. "Oh, that's the first nightcall, think we should eat dinner, right?"

"Oh, you are so right... Humans are not exclusively herbivorus, right?" Fe'ek asked. When Helle shook her head he nodded. "Perfect. That means I don't have to cook separatly!"

He started to pack out his cooking tools. He knew he could just use one of the fast food packages but no matter how long he stayed on the ship he couldn't get used to them. They tased like plastic to him. Ga'al was perfectly fine with them, but still preferred "real" food so he also agreed to get a few cooking tools and make a kitchen in their quarters. It took months till they got the green light to build it, but they both agreed, it worth the effort.

While Fe'ek made dinner, Ga'al and Helle started to have a conversation. They talked about their homes. Helle was amazed that on Ga'al home world, the cities were builed on trees. He talked about how Felleg, the biggest city there was taking up half of the planted and still it could not be seen from above.

And Helle told stories about Gaia's culture and how it is still devided into small local regions and all of them have different laws and a lot of the time, even different languages. Fe'ek was listening to them from the kitchen.

"So what do your species eat? Do you also like fish?"

"Yes I personally like it, but some of us hates the taste or the texture. Humans can eat almost everything. I even like coffee in the morning."

Ga'al stopped mid movement. "What?"

"Coffee!" Helle repeated.

"Oh I thought you said coffein... The poison."

"Coffee has coffein in it." Fe'ek peeked out from the kitchen. "I've been working with poisons before and learned that humans are somewhat immune to them. 400 milligrams of coffein daily is completly manageable for them."

"And we can drink more from time to time, but if we go above that every day it can cause some heart problems." Helle added.

"You mean to tell me, that the worst poison that is still legal is barely causing an inconvenience to you?" Ga'al was buffeled.

"That's the main reason it's still legal. Some scientists even suggest that it is beneficial to drink it every day, though it's still debated." Helle shrugged.

"And wait, I know something even better!" said Fe'ek as he came out from the kitchen. "Humans can digest alcohol."

Ga'al stared at Helle. "Is that true?"

The girl just nodded. "Though I hate the taste of it."

Up untill this point Ga'al has looked at Helle as someone who has a very similar physiology to him and is otherwise harmless. Now he was was looking at her with a bit more respect. Helle tilted her head to the side.

"Are you okay?" she asked.

He nodded.

"Dinner is ready by the way!" Fe'ek's hand landed on Ga'al's shoulder. "Could you two set the table, please?"

Ga'al nodded again.

He was silent troughout the dinner while Helle and Fe'ek exchanges a few gossips from the ship. Helle seemed to know a lot about what happened lately in sector no. 12 and 13 and Fe'ek knew all the local gossips in 25 and 26 where they worked.

After eating they cleaned up the table and the kitchen. Everything was done when they heard the nightcall again. It was time to sleep. The lights of sector no. 24 went out with the lights in theor room.

"Oh well... I think we should sleep..." Fe'ek yawned.

Helle started looking for her nightlight. She turned it up as soon as she found it.

Ga'al offered his bed to her, but she declined the offer, saying she's fine with sleeping on the couch and she doesn't want to be any more of an inconvenience.

After that everyone went to sleep. Helle fell asleep almost immidietly. Fe'ek noted that she probably had a long day. Ga'al agreed.

Before falling asleep Fe'ek taught Ga'al some things about humans he knew. He reassured him that even though humans are fine with alcohol and coffein they are not immune to botulinum for example. Ga'al fell asleep after a while so he could go to sleep too finally.

#humans are space orcs #space australians #humans are weird #spaceaustralians #humans are space australians

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Humans are social creatures and some are afraid in the dark.

Due to popular demand (three people), here's part two.

"Oh well, if I must sleep here than I will, right?" Helle got over the thing faster than the two a thought she would.

"You are not mad?" Ga'al asked confused.

"Not really... I mean... Spending my first night away from everyone else, in a completely empty room... This room sounds better!"

"Oh, I heard you are a species that is pretty social, like us. If that helps you, you are still on the same ship as your pack is." Ga'al smiled at her.

Helle smiled back at Ga'al.

"And you'll probably see them when we are going around. You will need to check out the training center with us tomorrow anyways. And than you can meet the others working in security!" Fe'ek added. "You will love Maya. She's a human like you and also like a mom to everyone else."

"That actually sounds great!" she stopped for a second before she went on to continue with a question. "You two didn't tell me your names yet! So how can I call you?"

"Oh, right! Sorry. That's rude of us! I'm Ga'al."

"And I am Fe'ek. Nice to meet you!" he stood up and shook hands with Helle. Ga'al did the same after realising that the other one didn't go crazy and that's a human greeting form.

"Nice to meet you!"

"Nice to meet you too!" Helle nodded than a somewhat scared look ran trough her face. "My stuff! I left it outside the door." She ran out than ran back with her backpack in her hands. "Sorry!"

"No problem. That happens to Ga'al more than you'd think. You can put it down anywhere. And feel free to sit down anywhere you find it comfortable."

"Hey! That's not true!"

"And as you can see it happens more than he's willing to admit!"

Ga'al shook his head as he sat down on the couch Fe'ek already was on.

"Ah, thank you!" she lowered herself into one of the armchairs. "You have a pretty comfortable room here... It's almost like a home on Gaia..."

"Well we have been in this room for like... Five or six standard periods... We had to make it comfortable!"

"Oh that's like... 8 Gaian years... We get moved every standard period or so... They always need us somewhere else and it's easier if we sleep closer to the stuff we are working on."

"Oh... Makes sense but sounds troubling! I hate moving!" Fe'ek's face showed a bit of sadness. A sing of emphaty towards their new team mate.

"It sucks, but I have everything I need. My clotes, my light and Ms. Spike!" she pulled out a plush sheped like a Gaian animal. "She's a cat!" Helle explained before the other two could have even asked.

"And why is the light?" Fe'ek asked. He was familiar with the shape of the little lantern. It was a moon, probably Gaia's.

Helle's face flushed with red. Fe'ek couldn't recognise that emotion their faces never changed colours only if they were sick.

"It's a bit embarrassing to admit, but I'm afraid in the dark... The doctors said that it's normal for kids, but I should have grown out of it by now..."

Fe'ek finally understood the meaning of the red shade on her face. It was embarrassment.

"That's nothing to be ashamed of! I heard Gaian predators are usually hunting at night. It's natural for you to be afraid."

"I... I did not have to use the light lately but sleeping at a new place always makes me anctius... I hope it won't be a problem for you two? I heard madarianans need complete darkness for sleeping..." Her hands started playing with the plush she just showed them.

"That's completely fine. There is never complete darkness on the ship so we have our methods to keep our nests dark." Ga'al reassured her.

"Thank you. The light kind of replaces the presence of everyone else. I obviously know I am still on the same ship as them it's just that this whole thing is as big as a city... And they are like miles away..."

"Hey, it's okay!" Fe'ek smiled. "We all go trough that. I could only sleep with one specific pillow I brought from home and Ga'al wa-"

"Shut up about it!" As he realised that they has a guest, Ga'al let go of Fe'ek and immidetly looked at Helle, to apologise only to see her laughing silently.

He couldn't finish as Ga'al's hand covered his mouth and pushed him down on the couch in an attempt to choke him before he can embarrass him more.

(well that's for today. I feel like if I continue now I will push too much information into one. Also you can see that I tired to colour code their dialogs. Does it help?)

#humans are space orcs #humans are weird #space australians

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Other species seem to have a problem with being able to tell human males and females apart.

"Do you remember Helle?" Ga'al asked resting his head on one of his feathery hands while making a drink with the other three.

"Helle?" Fe'ek raised raised one of his eyebrows. They were in their own quarters of the ship. Humans called them rooms, but they liked to call it their nest.

"Yeah, the fidgety human from the third floor."

"Oh I liked her! What about her?" Though Fe'ek seemed to like all humans he ever met. Maybe because they looked similar to them. Minus the feathers and two arms and they were shorter.

"Yeah she's gotten a new role after the incident... Seems all humans did. She will be working with us from next week..."

"As a merchant basically?"

"Bodyguard, but yeah." Ga'al nodded.

"I mean it makes sence after how much help she was with the intruders last week. But everyone? Human engeniers are one of our best? Why?"

"They work a little too well... Do you remember when two weeks ago the engine got completly blasted by those pirates?" His blue feathers ruffled from the memory. He really though they will fight till death that day.

"Sure?"

"Humans fixed the engine but somehow made it better... But the current build of the ship is not stable enough to basically operate with the engine and it would be a lot of money to make it work. But humans took it on themselves to solve the problem so now most of them are working in strengthening the ship. Or at least that's what I heard from them... I don't really understand this engineering stuff, that's why they pay me to hit people..."

Fe'ek nodded in agreement. Neither of them were really good at understanding tech. "Wait! If all of them are working on the ship, why did Helle got a job with us?"

"Long story short, she's a good engineer who is bad at following instructions... She is also good at hitting things so she's more beneficial fighting threaths while left to build whatever she wants... At least that's what the captain told me..."

They heard two knocks on the door than a feminine voice. It was kinda hard to tell females and males apart when it came to humans but their voice seemed to be a stable indicator of it.

"Hey, I'm Helle! Can I come in?"

Ga'al put the drink down he was working with and got out from behind the kitchen counter to be able to properly welcome their new teammate. "Of course, come in!" he said as he sat next to Fe'ek on the couch.

"Hi!!" the girl seemed to be exited. Thanks to their similarities they could read eachother's moods quite well. "I'm Helle, but you know that..." Helle could tell from the colours of the two Madarianans that they were both male. Both of them had black feathers, Fe'ek had a green hint to it and Ga'al had a few blue rows. The females of the species were always brownish colours.

"I though I will be-"

"With other women... Yeah. We can tell that you are not a male but based on that Xair at registery can't." said Fe'ek laughing.

"Oh for the love of God I knew he didn't believe me when I told him that I am a girl... I'm so gonna report that..."

"Good news is that we knew and we already put the report in. Bad news is that they can't give you a room till next morning so you goot spend the night here."

She nodded but seemed frustrated. "That happens way too much lately."

*should I continue this? It would kinda be about how humans are kinda weird and are afraid of the creatures that look like spiders but completely harmless but not afraid of the poisonous dragon like creatures. They are wanting them as pets.*

#humans are weird #humans are space orcs #space australians

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We are crying. 100%

neurodivergent and queer people how are we feeling?

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Human show affection in weird ways sometimes.

It could be a very sweet moment when other species learn about the 5 love languages of humans, but there is also the fact, that we bite the people we love and it would definitely confuse them too.

Alien crewmate: "I think John is mad at me!"

Human crewmate: "Why would you think that?"

Alien crewmate: "Well he bit me yesterday!"

Human crewmate: "Oh... That actually means quite the opposite when it comes to him!"

Alien crewmate: "Elaborate please!"

Human crewmate: "Well it's called cute aggression. When we, humans see something that we really like, a neurochemical reaction happens that makes us wanna bite the thing that makes us feel good. This is our way of regulating our emotions so our brain won't get distracted or overwhelmed by the cuteness."

Alien crewmate: "So does this mean John finds me cute?"

Human crewmate: "I can't say this for sure, because for us it happens with both friends and lovers, but either way he definitely likes you very much and is not angry at you."

#humans are weird #space australians #humans are space orcs