arclightHave US airports always been a concentrated dose of American dystopia or has it just been O'Hare and everything post-9/11? Somehow Security was not the most disturbing source of decay and horror. Or maybe it was and I'm just numb to it.
Jack the Frosted CountEncounter a wild techbro in the airport? Don't worry - contact one of Austin Bergstrom Airport's Techbro Control Specialists who will bait one of our specially constructed techbro live traps with Claude tokens, capture, and harmlessly release the techbro at one of our server farms upstate
Away from your sterile metallic Skinner Box condo? Need coffee but can't bear the thought of "interacting" with other "people" who might have a "personality" and subject you to "conversation"? Obtain coffee from one of our emotionless robot baristas - just like Wire Mom used to make!
I'm sure SeaTac has its own WTF elements. This isn't one of them.
Seeing the breastfeeding station after deplaning is not nearly as disconcerting as the patriotic beaky Underoos.
UnlikelyLass
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ROTOPE~1 ⭐️
Janne Moren@arclight
At Haneda airport I've seen "quiet corners"; a mostly walled off spot with a chair, low lighting and sound dampening. For anybody who finds the stress, noise and crowds too much to handle.
At Haneda airport I've seen "quiet corners"; a mostly walled off spot with a chair, low lighting and sound dampening. For anybody who finds the stress, noise and crowds too much to handle.
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Carolyn@arclight Privacy or they don’t want to see it, so think the woman should take her baby into a dark hole with no visible sources of air?
Mar@CStamp I don't know what's been your experience, but as a mom who breastfed two kids for many years, I very much welcomed these private spaces in busy places. I never used the one at the airport -I only traveled by air after weaning- but I was happy to learn of its existence.
Maybe I'm too modest, but I didn't like to be seen breastfeeding by dozens of strangers, let alone pumping 😬. I have social anxiety and the stress of having so many people around made things very difficult. The noise and movement also distracted both of my babies. It's not always easy to find a clean stand to put all the pump paraphernalia and a handy outlet to connect it. Idk, just my experience.
I assumed the pods were ventilated somehow.
As a side note, I felt that Seattle was quite chill with breastfeeding moms. I did it in quiet restaurants, parks and even a church. But for the crowded places, I appreciated and made use of the breastfeeding rooms.
@marsiposa @arclight Nice to have options. I hope they look better on the inside. That looks not so much a room as a box.
@CStamp yeah, I'm also curious how they are inside.
I'm guessing many breastfeeding rooms are not exactly an example of thoughtful design. I've heard *stories*. The breastfeeding "room" at one of my jobs was one of the employee restrooms, which I could lock, but also.. Idk... I could never shake the feeling that pumping in a restroom is yucky 🤢.
As I write this I realize that maybe my expectations were very low to start with 😅
Andrew
Maria Langer | 📝💎🌵🛥️@arclight SeaTac also has at least one mixed gender restroom. It's the first one I've ever been in. It's basically a large restroom with multiple fully enclosed toilet stalls. I think urinals are in their own room. After a lifetime of seeing men's rooms and ladies' rooms, it was quite mind-boggling to see a mixed gender restroom. I think it's civilized, too.
@arclight they also have a sensory (quiet) room, most times honor the sunflower lanyard for invisible dissabilities, have accessibility assistance for blind or low-vision and have a social story-guide tailored for autistic people with the process of going through the SEA-TAC airport.
Dashes of civilization among the chaos.
👻™ supreme goblin 🐊@arclight These are all over the place in Seattle, it's great, there are even some at Climate Pledge Arena
I'm not sure why people who are breastfeeding would be taking their babies to a hockey game or a concert but, hey, if they are, they're taken care of
aburka 🫣@arclight sounds like you should be okay there https://southseattleemerald.org/voices/2026/03/23/opinion-port-commissioner-says-sea-airport-not-impacted-by-reported-ice-deployment
Darth Osler@arclight it's a ruse
Max L@petabites @arclight they unicycle at that altitude
Fear and Tooting in Las Vegas@arclight Brawndo. It's what plants need.
Pseudonymous 
@VictimOfSimony I haven't been able to muster the interest in a rewatch given that we all get to live it pretty damn hard.
J MillerI haven’t flown since 2019. When I miss travel, I have a little list of things I reflect on to keep from getting sad: that time on Southwest when I was in the middle seat between two 300 pound guys, the NYT story about the airline with a bedbug problem, and now this.
In the past, I used to enjoy spending time in most airports, with the food and shopping and no pressure to do anything but catch my flight. But these sights you have here 😳.
Jimmothy Baggins@arclight You just woke up ? You lucky bastard … I’ve been seeing this shit for over 30 years
Cassandrich@arclight The incel magazine isn't supposed to outright say that it's an incel magazine.
khmI didn't have my glasses on so for about ten seconds I thought the brand name was "man sheath"
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Bond. James Bond.This is why men are idiots.
Nazo
I love this, so I@arclight The only two things I remember about Denver airport are the signs for torando shelters, and the cursed demon horse out the front
petes_bread_eqn_xls@jpm @arclight
I always liked the train from the airplane to Denver. It's comfortable and fast, and you get a good view of the nothingness that's eastern Colorado.
I could do without the armed security guards though. A jumpy 30-something with a big gun doesn't make me less worried, hired to be there or not.
C++ Wage SlavePutting his pecker right out there…
(More #alt4you: photo shows an illuminated advert for men's underwear. The designs on the left and right leg come from the American flag. A bulge for the genitals is adorned with the head of a bird, probably (from context) an eagle, with a prominent beak. Hence my terrible pun.)
Bob
Scary Austin
Frank Bennett 🇯🇵@arclight ~"Honey, why have you been keeping your shorts on when you wake me in the evening? It's not the same, you know."~
NilaJones
gemelen@arclight
Every time something such USian comes between me and my friends, it's almost obligatory to reference that clip: https://youtu.be/P7JRvwfHFwo
Every time something such USian comes between me and my friends, it's almost obligatory to reference that clip: https://youtu.be/P7JRvwfHFwo
America, Fuck Yeah!
@arclight What in the actual fuck?
Pia Herself 
@arclight I will never understand something like this while people at the same time preach about respecting the flag.
skuaNow is clearly the time to release my range of Designer Penis Gourds.
Coming so soon to high end mens fashion outlets near you.
AI6YR Ben