Huh.

Yeah, I love going places with my flash suit and pants which cost me a grand total of twenty five dollars. I quite often get compliments. I once walked into a gallery and someone asked if I owned the place. How easily people are fooled.

OP: when your fashion doesn't match your life (cr 千千Sherry)

Bot accounts are such an integral part of the tumblr ecosystem. Haiku bot and its ilk often show me interesting semi-popular stuff in niches I wouldn't even think to look for. They beat the algorithm due to their sheer randomness, which makes them a much better way of finding cool new things. Once an algorithm has decided what type of person you are, it will keep channelling you into a stagnant pool.

I want to kiss my girlfriend, in public, without fear. (ca. 1980)

What in the actual fuck.

i think trans people need more fun stereotypes. so many groups get at least one that is like, offensive but also kinda baffling, like "gays walk fast" or "germans are obsessed with efficiency." all we get are like "evil sex predator" shit

I have been watching a few shows lately and there is a type of recurring character type that I enjoy which I like to call The Appreciator.

Appreciators enjoy the small things especially food and they are always be vocal about what they like in an exaggerated way, but they are not pretentious or obnoxious about it.

My two favourite appreciators are Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks) and Senshi (Dungeon Meshi).

Dale Cooper is constantly proclaiming about how good his coffee and pie is and has several food-related catchphrases. At the start of season one he was loud about the scent of the pine trees and threatened to inhale them at one point.

Senshi is rather single-minded about food, which I appreciate. He enjoys making it and teaching the process to others, which I love. In fact, I love the whole show because of how often the characters are expressing their appreciation for foods.

I personally love it when people are very appreciative of good things, because it means that they living and are merely consuming something for its constituent parts. You will see people saying things like “I like consuming this type of media” or compliment a meal for its nutritional balance, which is a little sad if that’s the only thing they have to say about it.

Personally, even if I have had the same delicious meal many times, I will still say what I liked about it.

A slight breeze at this moment sprang up, and the great sails began to move, seeing which Don Quixote exclaimed, "Though ye flourish more arms than the giant Briareus, ye have to reckon with me."

So saying, and commending himself with all his heart to his lady Dulcinea, imploring her to support him in such a peril, with lance in rest and covered by his buckler, he charged at Rocinante's fullest gallop and fell upon the first mill that stood in front of him; but as he drove his lance-point into the sail the wind whirled it round with such force that it shivered the lance to pieces, sweeping with it horse and rider, who went rolling over on the plain, in a sorry condition.

- Chapter VIII, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Just so you know… There is no “the queen”. Why? 

There are so, so many queens.

They make up half of the human population.

We call them “women”. 

Ahem, *coughs* 🤓. Don Quixote never succeeded in killing a windmill in the books. He was defeated.

Just so you know… There is no “the queen”. Why? 

There are so, so many queens.

They make up half of the human population.

We call them “women”. 

pig,,

"Ah I see, what you meant to say is you have upset my loose association of gossipers, busybodies and know-nothings who cannot tolerate criticism, and are ready to turn on each other the moment one of them steps a little bit out of the norm."

Please skip the "youre dividing the community" I don't care if its divided I dont want to share the room with someone who treats me as disposable

tell about the history of oil?

Alright, so most of what I know about crude oil is from The History of Standard Oil, 1904, which was written by this very cool woman Ida Tarbell, who grew up in the oil fields in the late 1850s to 60s where her father worked and she saw numerous accidents and awful things there.

So, Oil was once very easy to find, it would often be floating ontop of ponds. For a long time it was turned into medicine by cranks and considered a nuisance byproduct in the salt industry. The first real use for oil was when people figured out it was good substitute for whale blubber in lamps, as that was incredibly smelly.

The first oil drillers were individual small businessmen in places like Ohio who shipped it to the cities by horse and cart and boat, though this was not to be for long. Railways were built and the first oil pipes were made in 1865.

John Rockefeller was the man who monopolised the Oil supply under the banner of Standard Oil, and he got into the business in 1860. His modus operandi is exactly like Jeff Bezos: he defeated his competitors by buying the entire supply chain, which meant he owned the refineries, the railroads, the towns the oil workers lived in and every business operated there.

Ida Tarbell managed to prove beyond any doubt that he'd secured control of the railroads like the Southern Railroad company via kickbacks and corruption, and her reporting was essential to railroad regulations passed in 1906 and court cases that entirely broke up the Standard Oil company in 1911.

To me, the fact that the public read a 400-page book, which led the USA's own courts to break the oil monopoly within only a few years is amazing. Nowadays, even worse things like the Panama Papers are exposed, yet the government does very little.

BP, Chevron and ExxonMobil are the awful offspring of this breakup. Unfortunately, even in its weak form, it seems the oil industry has had the last laugh (so far).

I have about a 90-year gap in my knowledge from there, but I do know some interesting facts

The first offshore oil rig, Neft Daşları, was made in 1949 in the USSR, where it was used to extract oil in the Caspian Sea.

Oil companies have known about climate change for decades, and their scientists made, highly accurate predictions about global warming in the 70's, which Oil companies covered up and lied about. This is a verified Conspiracy Fact™ ✅

Vice-President Dick Cheney was the CEO of Halliburton before he worked for Bush. Halliburton was given many lucrative contracts during the Iraq War, including supplying military bases.

Rex Tillerson was Secretary of State in the 1st Trump administration, he was an Exxon executive.

Peak Oil: oil supply will eventually peak, and production will slowly go down. This is true, but it is discredited in the public imagination because some environmentalists made doomsday predictions about it in the 90's. People also seem to think 'Peak Oil' means 'no oil'.

While oil production is still expanding, the discovery of oil reserves hit a peak in the 60's. Oil being extracted now is much lower quality and more expensive to get.

In a dark twist of irony, climate change has made new supplies of oil in Alaska and the Arctic accessible, which may prolong the life of the oil industry for decades to come.

Since around 2010, the Lakota and other indigenous peoples have led the resistance to the huge Keystone XL oil pipeline, due to the huge environmental cost building it would entail and the inevitability of leaks.