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Overwhelming desire to plait this guy's tentacles the whole time I'm talking to him.
I don't do a lot of reblogging, but after reading through the entire thread, there was one thing that really got to me... about halfway down Page 13, SA user "Kramer" has a truly prophetic take:
"Not to belittle the signifigance of these events, but you do realize that this means a whole slew of "anti terrorist" and probably "anti violence" laws will be passed through congress. Any "anti terrorist" laws will be given almost a blank check to do what is necessary. I'd be surprised if in 6 months you'll be able to make a domestic call without it being monitored. That's the way terrorism works. It's not the attack that hurts most people. A couple of hundred people die -- every death is tragic, but the truth is the real tragedy will be the loss of freedoms for the survivors."
How unbelievably dead-on; "I'd be surprised if in 6 months you'll be able to make a domestic call without it being monitored." I wonder where they are now, what they're doing and what they think of the state of the world 22 years later... any other predictions for us, Cassandra Kramer?
I reblogged it earlier but I'm glad the Something Awful Forums 9/11 thread was archived because it's an incredibly important slice of internet history. For the record I think 9/11 was thousands of personal tragedies for the direct victims of the attacks but one big national farce that led to America's ongoing slide into fascism, and the nationalism and remembrance around it is a joke especially in the wake of the same amount of deaths every fucking day in the US during the height of coronavirus.
Nevertheless I think it's important that if you do not remember because you were too young or just didn't exist on Sept 11, 2001 to read the Something Awful 9/11 forums to get an idea of what the internet was like at the moment when America changed to 24 hour news cycles and renewed hyper-nationalism not seen since WWII.
This all happened before Twitter, Facebook, before Discord. Before smart phones. Before most people had cell phones. When a lot of people still had dial-up internet, even. Some people in the thread were relying on radio because internet and TV weren't keeping up.
It was a live event of internet denizens reacting to the biggest national event (and among the biggest international events) of the past 25 years. It was also a slice of what the internet was like at the turn of the millennium. Not only that, but people accurately calling out who was responsible, and what would result before the attacks even finished.
Keep in mind that the links that follow contain images of the event, lots of Islamophobia, people calling for the Middle East to be nuked, people blaming Palestine, casual racist and homophobic language (this was Something Awful after all), etc etc. They preserved the first 17 pages which spanned about 24 hours during the events. It's the origin of the "WATCH BUSH START A FUCKING WAR" screenshot.
Links under the fold. I've also annotated the pages with notes regarding the timeline and any posts of interest. Note the thread was preserved in Pacific Time even though the page says times are Eastern. That's incorrect. Post timestamps are 3 hours behind Eastern Time, which is the time zone where the attacks occurred:
Page 1 - Note the first post was edited to include images of the second attack. The thread started after the first plane hit. Second plane hitting the WTC happens here too.
Page 2 - Poster accurately calling out Bin Laden was responsible at 9:14 AM EST
Page 3 - "WATCH BUSH START A FUCKING WAR"
Page 4
Page 5 - First official acknowledgement it was a terrorist attack.
Page 6 - Pentagon hit
Page 7
Page 8
Page 9 - Commercial flights grounded by FAA (Federal Aviation Administration)
Page 10 - First mention of towers collapsing at end of page
Page 11 - More reactions to collapse of first tower. People thinking it was a bomb or yet another plane. Rumors about a fourth plane just missing the White House (these are false and predate the actual 4th plane crash by minutes)
Page 12
Page 13 - By this point there's just rampant speculation about more bombs at the WTC, the US Capitol building being hit, etc (all false). Remember this is all just people reacting to TV news and radio and the rumor mill via phone, AIM, IRC, and maybe text messages.
Page 14 - By this point internet news sites are overwhelmed
Page 15 - Second tower collapses. First acknowledgement of the fourth plane that crashed in PA.
Page 16 - There's an abrupt time jump in the threads, I think it was the result of admins pruning the activity or the SA forums going down. This page starts on 9/12 even though it is page 16. American flag signatures and ribbons start appearing.
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Forgot I had the "Cloud to Butt" extension and opened a Final Fantasy VII fic
happy crab day! <3333
Happy crab day to you as well!!! Thank you for the carcinisation. I can't remember how in the world (much less when) we started following each other, but you're always a constant on my dash and I appreciate it! ❤️🦀
Thank you for the crabs!!!!! 🦀 Pretty sure we've been mutuals for nearly ten years. An utter delight as always!
I have almost no followers and so am probably screaming into the void here, but! An important addition to this:
Respiratory distress is the number one cause of cardiac arrest in children.
This isn't the case with adults (I believe the main cause is arrhythmia? but don't quote me) but kids? Absolutely. It's not a terribly intuitive thing - I think we usually expect people to stop breathing because their heart has stopped, but in children it's very much the other way around.
So this kind of thing is VITALLY IMPORTANT to remember when you're using things like essential oils and cleaning products that a child could be sensitive to! Their little bodies are fragile, and they really, REALLY need to breathe. Keep an eye out for respiratory issues in children, especially if there's something new that has been introduced into their environment.
Oh my god, food extract is not the same as an essential oil.
Food extract is the flavoring of something cooked down into a carrier oil or alcohol that is safe for human ingestion.
Essential oil is the pure extract of the plant refined down and distilled for concentrated medicinal purposes to a significantly higher strength than simply adding ground up mint leaves to your water. The two are not comparable in any way.
Cinnamon extract and cinnamon essential oil are not the same thing.
One is about 100 times the strength of the other and can also cause acute organ failure. I’ll give you a hint, it’s not the food extract.
Sweet gods I’m not trying to be mean, I want you to be aware and safe and stop putting yourselves and others at risk. Please.
"surely im faking this," i think, directly experiencing all the symptoms nd not benefiting from it at all
this might be a hot take but i think we should still be required to wear masks on airplanes
if you’re on tumblr and over the age of 24 it means the mental illness won
@willowcrowned your wish is my command!
Image sourced from here!
What's the difference between a gun and a slugthrower? I thought slugthrowers were just an upgraded version of a gun?
slugthrower is the stupid star wars name for guns that I refuse to use because it makes me think of horrific abuses of gastropods
It’s that month again folks! Happy February.
For the female character ask, what about Master Vokara Che? She's such a cool character and there really isn't enough content on her out there.
You are right Anon! I am not sure if this is her canon appearance (I used one I found on Wookieepedia) but I really love Vokara!
almost called my wife "blorbo from my shows" last night
I can't believe this is my first original tumblr post in literally years, but also I guess I can totally believe it??? This seems on brand
Anyway does anyone remember the end of Wild Space when Palpatine lost it because Bail Organa was in his cafeteria instead of being dead? No? Well, that's a shame. Here have a meme
if you’re on tumblr and over the age of 24 it means the mental illness won
I wrote up a 3,000+ word comment about a fic... I have no idea if this is Too Much or not but I think I'm actually going to post it and just cross my fingers and hope that it's not a creepy thing to do...
some obi-wans for @katiaswift !! his reaction to experiencing tatooine gets me every time
He's trying to distract us again, and it's working
the 1D to hockey pipeline ✨
I can't believe this is my first original tumblr post in literally years, but also I guess I can totally believe it??? This seems on brand
Anyway does anyone remember the end of Wild Space when Palpatine lost it because Bail Organa was in his cafeteria instead of being dead? No? Well, that's a shame. Here have a meme