Pippa

@mspips.bsky.social

German-American trans woman who love to travel. Contributor for In the Raptor's Claws on Tranquility Press. 🇩🇪🇺🇸🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇪🇺🚢🖖🏻

As far as I can tell, the Ecuadorian government is not conducting a genocide and spending millions to silence their critics, nor did it have any government officials who are involved in a genocide.

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Marvel did not kill off the Black Panther, the actor Chadwick Boseman died in real life. And Mr. Boseman’s colleagues did not feel comfortable with simply replacing him with another actor. These are real people who knew him in real life. That means more than your action movie desires.

#MicroTreks: The MACOs of Alpha Team held movie night separate from the rest of the crew. War films helped them blow off more steam, rather than the comedies and genre films the crew enjoyed. Tonight's film was Field of Fire, about the Egyptian invasion of Israel during World War III.

Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%.  In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets.  This is only the beginning.

#MicroTreks: The pain washed away from Malcolm's body as the injection filled his veins. Nurse Lisa Fuller put the hypospray down. "How are you feeling, Lieutenant?" "Well enough to return to duty." She scoffed. "Like hell. Phlox is going to use his animals to heal it."

Your regular reminder that these two people are associated with vastly different historical eras but were actually born within six months of each other.

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This is random, but I wanted to extend my gratitude to Democratic Congresswoman Joyce Beatty for her tireless effort in protecting the Kennedy Center from being fully destroyed by a vindictive jealous petty classless criminal. 💙👊

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#MicroTreks: Six hours had passed since the mine explosion. Most of the crew had been moved to interior locations. It was hard to be calm when there was a quarter-kiloton explosive still on the hull that could go off. They were just sitting and waiting for something to happen.