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[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

"Screams ricocheted through the space station as the doomed craft plunged toward the rocky surface of the planet below. Hearing their cries, Conservative Man leapt into action, lobbying for a change in regulations that would shield the starship company from legal liability."

[Mia K. @miakhalifa]

of course I think I’m better than you, I’ve never used chatgpt

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Between 1982-2007, every Russian Soyuz capsule carried an unusual piece of equipment—the TP-82 survival pistol. This wasn't about threats in orbit. It was about what waited on the ground. The weapon addressed a specific problem: Russian cosmonauts might land anywhere across thousands of miles of wilderness, facing temperatures that could kill and predators that could maul. In March 1965, cosmonaut Alexey Leonov discovered this reality firsthand when his Voskhod 2 capsule landed 600 miles off course in the Ural Mountains. Armed with only a nine-millimeter pistol, he spent two nights in bear and wolf territory before rescue teams could reach him through the dense forest.

The TP-82 emerged from Leonov's experience. By 1981, as a major general overseeing cosmonaut training, he commissioned a proper survival weapon. Tula Arms Plant delivered an ingenious design—essentially a sawed-off double-barreled shotgun with an added rifle barrel underneath. The right hammer fired 12.5mm shotgun shells from a smoothbore barrel. The left hammer could switch between a second shotgun barrel and a 5.45mm rifle barrel below. This gave cosmonauts options: bird shot for small game, signal flares for rescue, and rifle rounds powerful enough to deter a thousand-pound brown bear. A machete slotted into the pistol grip to form a stock, and doubled as a tool for building emergency shelters from snow.

The weapon first flew aboard Soyuz T-6 in June 1982. Every cosmonaut trained with it, learning both its mechanics and the Voskhod 2 survival story that justified its existence. The gun's simple manual action prevented jams in the damp cold of Siberian forests. Its ammunition belt carried 11 rifle rounds and 10 each of shot and flare cartridges—enough firepower and signaling capability to bridge the gap between crash landing and rescue. The Soviet military produced ammunition until 1987, and the TP-82 remained standard equipment on every Soyuz mission through 2006. Even international crews, including American astronauts bound for the International Space Station, trained with the weapon as part of mandatory Russian survival courses in Siberia and the Black Sea.

The TP-82 disappeared from space in 2007 when its custom ammunition exceeded shelf life. Russian officials replaced it with standard military sidearms, though the space agency refuses to discuss specifics. Modern GPS and satellite communications have reduced stranding risks, but they haven't eliminated them. In 2008, a Soyuz capsule made an emergency ballistic reentry and landed 250 miles off course. Mission control lost contact. For thirty minutes, the crew��including South Korea's first astronaut—sat completely off the grid before calling in their location via satellite phone. Today, Russian crews vote on whether to carry weapons at all, and increasingly choose not to. Some argue guns have no place in spacecraft, especially given the psychological pressures of space travel. Others note that accidents remain possible, and wilderness survival sometimes demands more than a phone.

The TP-82 represents a distinctly Russian approach to space travel—pragmatic preparation for worst-case scenarios shaped by geography and history. While American astronauts trained for ocean splashdowns, Russian cosmonauts prepared for Siberian taiga. The weapon acknowledged a simple truth: technology fails, weather changes, and sometimes the greatest danger isn't in space but in the moments after coming home. Whether future crews should carry guns remains debatable, but Leonov's experience established a precedent that lasted four decades. When you might land in bear country 600 miles from civilization, better to have the firepower and not need it than face wolves with empty hands.

#drthehistories

[Kitty-Bit Games & Cosplay~ @kitty_bit_games]

For the same reason they put "No animals were harmed in the making of" in the credits.
People deserve to know and understand exactly what it is they're paying for and be given the option to filter it out of our searches so we can avoid supporting unethical practice.
Got it, Consumer?

[Cheesesniffer6967 @cheesesniffer67]

well why don’t I just go fuck myself

[YMS (Adum) @2gay2lift]

People rag on YouTube Premium as if they're not watching YouTube more often than all of their streaming services combined.

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

"King Charles shouldn't be blamed for things his ancestors did."

The Irish response when the King visited Ireland in 1911.

[Nostalgic Gamer @16bitnostalgia]

Bubble Bobble • 1986 • Taito

[AnthroVet50 @spooked75]

I have spent the last 3 days painfully sitting through Charlie Kirk debates. Here are my conclusions:

He was a political grifter pandering to his MAGA base for personal and monetary gain.

He purposely chose divisive topics to maintain relavence.

His videos were manipulated, only showing arguments where Kirk was succesful

When facing actual intellectuals or prepared students, Kirk's arguments were repeatedly crushed, exposing Kirk for the uneducated buffoon that he was.

Kirk was highly succesful against random, unprepared, and often emotional university students, who often didn't have any debating experience, or the media experience he had.

Kirk was a predatory oppurtunist who prioritized entertainment value over genuine intellectual value.

Kirk operated as a sophisticated political grifter who successfully monetized cultural resentment and political division.

His dramatic personal enrichment, calculated message evolution, strategic provocation, and opportunistic positioning all point to someone who prioritized personal gain over genuine conviction

His ability to extract millions from donors while living in luxury estates represents a classic grifter model - exploiting the genuine concerns and grievances of his audience for personal enrichment while offering them little substantive improvement to their actual circumstances.

[soul khan, msw @soulkhan]

Idk at the moment how i feel about this, but to those who are like "there are already books on this," i submit to you that if you want to confront a large audience of americans with the horrors of imperial violence, you probably should not bet on them reading a book about it

[Lance McDonald @manfightdragon]

This is the funniest shit I seen in ages

[Cody Johnston @drmistercody]

Probably not my *favorite*, but it gets me every time and I've never seen anyone share it.

[nick ☭🔻 @strongerpotions]

anybody got any more posts like these

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

its crazy how accurate this is😭 https://t.co/d9lLgEvajm

[Seb 🇲🇽 @sabooschin]

can they bring this back too.