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unbothered · 7 months
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vintagepromotions · 1 month
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'South Wales Docks For Quick Despatch' poster (1947). Artwork by Albert J. Martin.
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beeb-oob · 10 months
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Further work/brainstorming on space station interior design:
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just thinking about how transit would work best with such a masive size range due to all these sophonts, and accomodating them while they are in transit
also have this Chirper in a suit, i feel like i'll call him Patrick
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suit design is by @arkelyon !!
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supplyside · 4 months
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BNSF double stack
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Today's poll is again courtesy of @trixie-troubleby, who kindly helped brainstorm some new topics.
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ficsex · 1 year
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i'm going to be totally upfront -and of course lmk if this is uncouth/too much, but- what is normal, non-actor/porno sex like?
not that you need to write a bunch on the minutia, but the vibe maybe? do people laugh, or get awkward, or like, mess up? in media they just turn up there, go for like 5mins and end the scene/cut to another scene..so, as dumb as it sounds, do you walk in there together, is it longer than that usually, and how do you leave the situation? when/do people actually use protection? i can't think of a sex scene in a movie that involved a guy putting on a condom tbh. so, stuff like that i guess? 🤷
silly maybe, but i'm sitting here realizing that i have no clue lmao. can you just say no if you don't like something? can you ask to take a break? maybe i'm just lowkey dumb, but a rundown of like, normal people sex would be cool, if you're comfortable to type it ig? <3
oooh, I love this question ( I love all questions, promise).
Here is a timeline of sex that might occur between people who are not in a porn or movie, all steps optional.
before sex:
making out on a bed, or on a couch/chair, leaned up against a wall, in the shower, whatever
asking "hey, do you want to take this to my bedroom?"
confirming "yes, but I only want to do [action]"
putting on music
locking the cat out of the bedroom
just rolling over in bed and starting to kiss or grope or touch
looking at your phone and going "oh hey, it's time for that sex we scheduled"
kissing or groping or biting with clothes on or off
removing clothes in a sexy way, or an awkward way, or a utilitarian way
forgetting to remove socks, or keeping them on because the room is cold
placing sex toys, condoms, lube, or any other sex aids by the bed
taking the duvet off the bed, or putting down a sex blanket
removing one garment and kissing more, and then removing another garment and kissing more...
saying "I want to keep my shirt on today" or "can you help me unclasp my bra" or "hold on, I have to put my earrings on the nightstand" or "oy, careful of my glasses!"
if it's a new partner, discussion of safer sex practices (do you want to use condoms? when was your last STI test? do you have other sexual partners?)
as sex gets started:
kissing/licking/biting/touching someone on any part of their body at all
exploring your partner's body to find out what feels good for them
starting to gently touch your partner's genitals
touching your own genitals while making eye contact, or kissing, or talking
massaging your partner
accidentally tickle your partner or get tickled, make a weird squawking noise in response
grabbing, squeezing, lifting, or moving your partner's body
opening a condom, glove, or dental dam and applying it to the relevant anatomy
pulling the plastic safety seal off a new bottle of lube
laying down a towel
grinding your genitals (clothed or naked) together, or against another part of your partner's body
almost falling off the bed, actually falling off the bed, or readjusting your position so you don't almost fall off the bed
licking or sucking fingers
during sex:
applying lube to genitals
performing oral sex
gliding the head of a bio- or inert-penis across lips, vulva, or anus (that can feel really excellent, whether you're intending to engage in penetration or not!)
fingering any orifice, or giving a hand job, or playing with labia, or grabbing an ass-cheek
try to insert a bio- or inert-penis into an orifice and slipping, or not being able to get it in, and needing to adjust the angle and try again, or push more firmly
often, someone with a vulva will use one hand to spread their own labia to make it easier for their partner to access their vagina
slowly sliding in to a mouth, vagina, or anus
shoving in quickly (with lube, one hopes, or plenty of spit or natural vaginal lubrication)
thrusting in one position for a while
switching positions, either because you want to try a new sexy sensation, or your knees hurt, or the current position is getting uncomfortable
more oral sex!
masturbating next to each other
taking a break for a little while, to catch your breath, or apply more lube, or kick the cat out of the bedroom, or because you remembered a funny meme you want to show your partner, or to take a step back to kissing, or because what you're doing doesn't feel good, or because you've having some feelings and you want to talk about them, or because you have to pee
using a dildo or vibrator
caressing, licking, or sucking testicles
adding more lube
going "fuck, I hate this song" and wiping off one hand to skip a track on your sex playlist
going "fuck, that feels really good, keep doing this"
going "hm, can you try going harder / changing the angle / turning up the vibe / using your fingers?"
riding your partner
fucking your partner into the mattress
touching lips or nipples or neck or ears while also fucking / sucking / licking
asking "do you want to keep going, or are you good?"
saying "hm, I want to stop now, this doesn't feel good anymore"
continuing
stopping
often, if one partner is penetrating their partner and one person comes, the penetrative sex might end, and the other person who didn't orgasm might say "I'm good" or "please go down on me" or "hold on, I'm going to grab my vibrator, will you kiss me / touch my nipples / NOT touch me / say sexy things while I get myself off?"
orgasming
not orgasming
after sex:
catching your breath
if someone with a bio-penis was wearing a condom, pulling out while they still have an erection, holding the base of their penis so the condom doesn't slip off
knotting the condom, then tossing it towards the trashcan and hoping it doesn't land on the floor
snuggling
not snuggling
laying next to each other laughing and grinning
grabbing a towel or discarded garment to wipe off your genitals, or to wipe off sweat and lube
getting up to pee (especially if you have a vulva) and then getting back into bed, or not getting back into bed
saying "wow, I loved when you did ______"
saying "can we try ____ next time, too?"
kissing
showering
brushing teeth
getting all the way dressed
just putting underwear back on
staying naked
changing the sheets, putting a towel on the wet spot, removing the sex towel, pulling back the duvet, or any other method of cleaning up
taking all of the discarded garments and putting them in the hamper
looking at your phone and going "oh shit, it's after ten, I have to get home now!"
letting the cat back in
going down to the kitchen for post-sex snacks
enduring the giggles of roommates
laying next to each other and sharing memes / scrolling tumblr
okay, that ended up being a lot of minutia, actually. so here are some vibes that sex might involve:
silly
feral
nervous but excited
lovey-dovey
aggressive
so-turned-on-you-can't-think-of-anything-else
a perfectly pleasant way to spend an afternoon, but you're thinking of other things
entirely focused on one partner, who gets to lay there and be pampered
shy and exploring
focused on the orgasm count
not even sure if you've orgasmed
angry sex
jealous "I'm going to make you orgasm better than anyone else can" sex
relaxed and chill / lazy
"I'm going to miss you so much I need to be as close to you as possible"
just plain ol' having a good time together
sex has SO much variety in activities, moods, how long it takes, what the point is, how you get started, how you finish up... there's no one way to go about doing it, but as you engage in more partnered sexual activities, you'll learn more about what options exist, and which ones you enjoy!
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hope-for-the-planet · 2 months
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Hi :) sorry to bother you.
If it's not too much trouble, do you mind going into your blog settings and switching on 'enable custom theme'?
At the moment, if I send your blog to my parents, they won't be able to scroll far because tumblr will force them to make an account. But if you enable a custom theme, they'll be able to browse your blog via hope-for-the-planet dot tumblr dot com.
(alternatively, if you have a version of this blog outside of tumblr, or an RSS feed of it, please let me know! :) )
thanks a million and no pressure x
Hi Anon! Thanks for the heads up that my blog wasn't accessible without making an account--it's fixed now.
Making a version of this blog outside of tumblr has been on my mental radar for awhile now, but unfortunately I haven't had a chance to make it a reality yet. Hopefully someday!
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pratchettquotes · 1 year
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Behind him a voice said, GOOD MORNING.
The king turned.
"Hallo," he said. "You'd be--"
DEATH, said Death.
The king looked surprised.
"I understood that Death came as a three-headed giant scarab beetle," he said.
Death shrugged. WELL, NOW YOU KNOW.
"What's that thing in your hand?"
THIS? IT'S A SCYTHE.
"Strange-looking object, isn't it?" said the pharaoh. "I thought Death carried the Flail of Mercy and the Reaping Hook of Justice."
Death appeared to think about this.
WHAT IN? he said.
"Pardon?"
ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT THE GIANT BEETLE?
Terry Pratchett, Pyramids
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xreloadedx · 1 year
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@jeep_neverdie
Military Jeep packaged for delivery
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stu-dyingforme · 1 year
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I’ve been spending the last days of the year studying for my last exam in January and working on my thesis. I wish everyone a lovely new year! 🥂 I hope 2023 will be kind to us all! 🤍
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memenewsdotcom · 8 months
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Yellow files for bankruptcy
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This is the model I have in mind for Lifehouse-as-community-infrastructure: when the grid goes down, or the water from the pipes isn’t safe to drink, every cluster of a hundred or so households has a place it can go to fulfil its basic needs, on multiple levels at once.
Here’s the crux of it: local communities should assume control over underutilized churches, and convert them to Lifehouses, facilities designed to help people ride out not merely the depredations of neoliberal austerity, but the still-harsher circumstances they face in what I call the Long Emergency, the extended period of climatic chaos we've now entered. This means fitting them out as decentralized shelters for the unhoused, storehouses for emergency food stocks (rotated through an attached food bank), heating and cooling centers for the physically vulnerable, and distributed water-purification, power-generation and urban-agriculture sites capable of supporting the neighborhood around them when the ordinary sources of supply become unreliable.
The fundamental idea of the Lifehouse is that there should be a place in every three-to-four city-block radius where you can charge your phone when the power’s down everywhere else, draw drinking water when the supply from the mains is for whatever reason untrustworthy, gather with your neighbors to discuss and deliberate over matters of common concern, organize reliable childcare, borrow tools it doesn’t make sense for any one household to own individually, and so on — and that these can and should be one and the same place. As a foundation for collective resourcefulness, the Lifehouse is a practical implementation of solarpunk values, and it’s eminently doable.
Formally, the infrastructural services I imagine Lifehouses offering are distributed, as opposed to centralized, which makes them robust to the kind of grid failure we've been experiencing more and more often. In Ours To Lose, Amy Starecheski’s wonderful social history/ethnography of squatting on New York’s Lower East Side, she tells the story of the electricity-generating stationary bicycle set up on the sidewalk outside C-Squat at E 10th Street and Avenue C, which supplied power to a bank of phone chargers during the extended outages that followed Superstorm Sandy.
The entire community gathered around, at first simply to top up their phones, but later because that's where the people were. Over these days and weeks, the sidewalk in front of C-Squat was simply the most obvious place for people experiencing a sharp and relatively sudden disruption to seek out useful information, the comfort of fellowship, and vital material support.
This is the model I have in mind for Lifehouse-as-community-infrastructure: when the grid goes down, or the water from the pipes isn’t safe to drink, every cluster of a hundred or so households has a place it can go to fulfil its basic needs, on multiple levels at once.
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warsofasoiaf · 15 days
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Was the provisioning of troops part of the feudal compact? Would a noble or ruler be expected to feed the troops of his vassals, or was that on each vassal to feed his levies? Where the levied peasants supposed to bring their own food when they reported, or was the lord supposed to provide, or was that the duty of the guy at the top? And what about mercenary companies? Did they buy their own food with their payment, or was supply part of the deal? What about ammo, like arrows?
Medieval logistics were highly improvised affairs, and supply shortages were common on long campaigns. While the stereotype of medieval logistics was to pillage farms and granaries is not entirely accurate, it is also not altogether inaccurate. Typically, soldiers carried some food with them, typically cracker bread and dried food (things that were preserved so they could keep). However, kings sometimes did take advantage of their resources to arrange for supply shipments or requisitions with compensation from locals - many farmers were happy to sell surplus crops for good coinage. The same was true for mercenaries, who either plundered, bought, or traded for food.
Ammunition was typically requisitioned in bulk and recovered and repaired in camp. King Henry requisitioned feathers to craft arrows for campaign. A mercenary company typically employed fletchers, and arrows would be recovered after battle, with anything that could be recovered (shafts, fletching, heads) taken back and cannibalized.
Thanks for the question, Anon.
SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King
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scrapironflotilla · 4 months
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I always enjoy a little bit of logistics, so here's a little on the ammunition that a single British division was allotted for the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
Small Arms Ammunition (SAA): 170 per man 200,000 reserve per Brigade 5,500 per Lewis Gun 3,000 per Vickers Machine Gun 2,188,000 Divisional total
Mills Bombs (hand grenades) – 67,554 Rifle grenades – 5,180
There were 12 British divisions that attacked on that first day, so we're looking around the 25 million rounds of rifle ammunition for that attack alone.
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supplyside · 8 months
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bulk freight terminal
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