#BP Spill

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Have you ever seen such audacity?

[whispersofthepurplevalley]

"Can I lay by your side

Next to you

And make sure you are alright?

I will take care of you..."

Midnight haze covers the sky. Laced in dew, the easterlies softly caress the back of my neck, as if to ease the ache of your absence. Chosen by art, you must leave behind the one you adore to attend to the souls who crave your attention. It is a fate you’ve chosen for yourself—with my permission.

Nights are usually my refuge, a quiet space where my thoughts wander freely, away from eyes that half-see me, unburdened by cruel scrutiny. But tonight is different. Your absence invades all my thoughts. Every street I look at, every corner I turn, I search for you, hoping—foolishly, perhaps—to see you walking towards me.

You say distance fuels love in its autumn with longing, and maybe you’re right. For I long for you with an urgent need, a pull so deep I can hardly contain it. My guiding light, the life of my soul, the music to my songs, the rhythm of my heart—can you abandon the world you are in, just for a moment, to be with me in the world I am in?

-Sabina Yesmin

P.C - X

[lies-i-just-made-up]

Useful chart explaining how different university students will interact:

Architecture + engineering: someone will end up dead

Science/maths + arts/philosophy: constant arguments

Theatre + languages: wildly inaccurate French historical drama

Computer science × 2: either gay sex or the next crypto scam

Art + music/English: joint project

Biology + theatre: the shape of water (2017)

History + computer science: another Alan Turing documentary

Economics × 2: BP oil spill

[kimonia6]

Mmmm Tasty Spaghet

[tilbageidanmark]

[rottingpileofartist]

My chosen grandmother at one point owned a home in the Gulf of Mexico on an island called Dauphin. I grew up visiting the island and enjoying the beaches. This was until 2010 when an oil rig owned by BP leaked into the ocean for six months. It took them six months to stop the spill from spilling. I never got to visit the island again after than. The local flora and fauna had been completely destroyed. It took five years to get them to hold accountability but BP paid 52 Billion dollars for clean up and damages. The point of this story is the fight to hold giants accountable is worth it. Nature eventually heals, but thats not reason to let it get hurt in the first place.

[kraniumet]

hannigram is not toxic they have a consensually ill relationship. loustat on the other hand...

[iabgunner]

I LOVE FOSSIL FUELS‼️

[follow-up-news]

The Environmental Protection Agency has announced more stringent rules governing offshore oil spill response, amid continuing concerns about the effects on public health and wildlife from chemical disasters, including BP’s Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010. The federal agency, which announced the update on Monday, had not updated its rule regulating the chemicals used to break up offshore oil slicks since 1994. Five environmental organizations, an Alaskan tribal leader and a south Louisiana fisher sued the EPA in 2020 to force the agency to update its regulations based on lessons learned from the BP oil spill and the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. In 2021, US district court judge William Orrick ordered the EPA to update its oil spill response plans. Thousands of people who rushed into Gulf of Mexico waters to clean up BP’s oil spill have fallen ill, and some have died. A recent Guardian investigation spotlighted the difficult legal fight that cleanup workers who got sick have been experiencing trying to bring medical cases against the oil giant. More than three decades earlier, those who cleaned up the Exxon Valdez oil tanker spill off the coast of Alaska suffered the same fate. A growing body of research has linked exposure to the dispersants used by BP to break up oil slicks with chronic illnesses, including increased risk of cancer, heart conditions and an increased rate of births of premature and underweight infants. The updated EPA rule, which takes effect in December, requires dispersants to undergo more stringent toxicity and efficacy testing before they can be approved for use. Dispersants currently approved by the agency must undergo retesting under the new criteria. Products not retested within two years after the rule takes effect or that do not meet the new criteria will be removed from the approved list, according to the updated regulations.

[whispersofthepurplevalley]

She plays guitar with her eyes closed, as if to witness her soul gallop to the top of the sky and sing the freedom song; her lips curl up to form a shy smile every time she is reminded of the beauty that grows inside her; a star from others' point of view, a dreamer from my window side; she's my kind of aesthetic, her sky wears the shade of purple I adore; four thousand miles away, she's never within my reach; yet, her voice is my safest sound.

-Sabina Yesmin

[wreckingball4good]

[image description: an image of an outstretched hand palm-up with a black opaque slick-appearing liquid substance covering the palm and dripping from it. there is a dark water river beach shoal in the background. Black text on white background above the picture says “when you accidentally touch your sense of humor”. /end description]

ew ew ew get it off me it feels like the shoal or blackwater rivers in NW Florida after BP destroyed my hometown ecosystem about a decade ago.

[cmonbeeb]

i was little around the time of the deepwater horizon oil spill, or what i called just "the oil spill" at the time. i remember my parents boycotting BP, that when we were looking for gas we would always go somewhere else. the irony i now know is that all gas companies have had horrible oil spills, just ones that are less reported or have impacted people outside of america that the media does not wish to shine a light on. yet, there's still a part of me that would never set foot (or tire) in a BP. some deep moral standing i've had built into me since i was 7. so please enjoy this not BP gas sign i took a picture of recently. it was like 100ft in the air, i swear it could almost touch the clouds, and something about it being that tall and that rusty and the birds resting on it on such a nice day just felt worthy of a photo.

[chipjrwibignaturals]

anyway. tldr pr is not some big fuckin bad evil or all made of corrupt spin doctors i promise