#fuck exxon

[guavagyal]

it's hard to enjoy the snow when you have friends in California having to evacuate from the wildfires.

[reblogonalog]

Hey Exxon!

SHUT THE FUCK UP

We are gonna fix your mess and you’re gonna sit the fuck down and shut up while we do so

[nando161mando]

Be sure to thank the Shareholders

[pumpkinsouppe]

I really don’t know how to explain that climate town has filled the hole in my heart that was made when Disney got rid of Ellen’s energy adventure

[cli-meme]

Why the fuck didn't ExxonMobil just start a bunch of renewables businesses? Like Wh How do you fumble the bag that badly

Imagine It's the 1970's or whatever time it was You make this big discovery Oh! Oh shit! Okay well that's bad news Well

I guess we will need a new energy system And we found out Before everyone else about this. So we get to make The energy system Before anyone else gets to make it And, Due to this information, We know, That fossil fuels of all sorts have to phase out 100% Which is all of our competitors basically So come on let's put our thinking caps on We all know that the industrial revolution Was a big thing Back In the day And here we have information that means we can make another energy revolution A million times bigger And we can lead it And make money off it If we just, you know, Made a smart business decision If we shifted course real fast right now Put in all the money we've made into it Get all the technology ready We have like 40 years to do it, but definitely Before more companies can find out Then, once we're ready Start pushing for new laws. With money Educate the public on it. So they vote on it And then because an extinction event is something nobody wants For obvious reasons Even if its hard at first, we should be able To get all our competitors Out of commission Even if they try to copy us, We've had time to prepare, We can lead the change Internationally - In every country - And become a single monopoly Controlling all Energy resources on The planet And be basically the biggest company Making money from another energy Revolution Which would give us WAY more money Than EVERYBODY.

Why didn't they just do that shit?

[pipseroo-too]

climate rant under the cut lol

I find myself listening to music from pre 2000’s and I can’t help but think about how their world was so different from ours. Not politically, but environmentally. They had winter, they had snow and the seasons were stable-ish. They reference these things in their music sometimes, but even when they aren’t talking about it I can’t help but think about it. The changing air suffuses every single day, and I grew up believing my home would be safe, and now the lakes don’t freeze. My childhood memories are just that, memories, forever.

Literally what the fuck. Wish i could do something about any of it…

[shvoowsh]

it is fucking snowing today and Last Week i wore a sundress. make up your fucking mind, March.

unfolding into another spring

mahmood darwish, sylvia plath, v.e. schwab, ana mendieta

buy me a coffee

[notdexterousatall]

Bro it is October and it is 104°F where I live this ain't right

[fuckbrained]

Parasyte is so good until it starts trying to make the audience ask “but who are the real monsters? Humanity is bad too!”

I’m pretty sure the real monsters are the ones trying to kill and eat people. 💀

[jorjin]

Ok I'm not done about the Essequibo thing. If y'all truly care about Venezuela then fucking. Be aware the US has a chokehold on them pretty much on everything. Their oil imports were mostly FOR the US.

This whole thing just reeks imperialism to me.

[nando161mando]

Kamala Embraces Fossil Fuels: After All, Hurricanes Don’t Fuel Themselves!

[lesbianaelwen]

i was half expecting Lila’s last check to be like “you find all the paperwork from exxon and the like where they know how bad climate change will be and they’re knowingly continuing and you out them like three decades earlier” but a fucking doctorate is also ~super cool

[sleep-safe]

I've also recently encountered an unfulfillable desire to "vote with your money": medical supplies. i have to buy my prescription medications even if I hate Bayer or EL or purdue because it's legal and Desirable under capitalism to restrict the ability to produce vital drugs and medical equipment.

Not to say that what you buy doesn't mean anything. boycotts Do work (although they only function to force change when there is a unified front with express demands). but "just stop participating in the system" usually isn't doable.

we should do everything we can AND we as consumers are not solely responsible for the practices of those selling to us.

I feel like we don't talk enough about how the whole "capitalism is a democracy! vote with your dollar!" myth falls apart once you're dealing with a company that doesn't sell directly to individual consumers

Like say you want to boycott Norfolk Southern after the East Palestine disaster. Presumably you're not in the situation where you personally do business directly with Norfolk Southern, so that's not an option. Products don't have stickers telling you what freight company shipped them, two of the same product sitting right next to each other on the same shelf may well have been handled by two different companies and there's no way for you to tell. And in some cases companies like that may have monopolies on transporting certain goods in certain areas, so you couldn't make a different choice even if you knew. How could you possibly say that such a situation is "democratic" and decided on by consumers?

Capitalism enjoyers love to pretend that the whole economy is Tommy trading his apples for Mary's flowers in a mutually beneficial exchange and ignore 99% of the nuance in the economic system they claim to believe in

[cromerholt]

dont never drink one of those limoncello bang energy drinks. my fucking god bro. shit tastes like straight research chemicals. im talking monsanto. thats that superfund slurp. this drink is not a place of honor. some drop and run drank. no fucking way bro. you do not want that exxon elixir. youll be sipping on some soylent green. told my children i love them. time for them to explore this galaxy alone. drink that makes you feel like its 25 or 6 to 4. feels like the enemy is spinning up the photon torpedoes and the ionic stellar dust is disabling our weapon systems. no sir. this shit tastes like fauci highball. he drank this shit in district 9. i just heard them play a sorrowful refrain on the mandachord. this shit tastes like a lexus dealership. not fit for man nor beast.

[wildmansters]

If anyone is still undecided on voting or like, not going to do it at all, remember that it's not just one person you're voting for or against, it's all the people they surround themselves with that you don't get a direct vote for. So if voting AGAINST Trump isn't enough, consider it also a vote against the Steve Bannons and the Betsy Devoses, and the Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State. (To jog your memory, Tillerson was an Exxon CEO who is only second to fucking Henry Kissinger to "Americans who have interacted the most with Putin").

I would enumerate the people in Biden's cabinet in the same way but they have all been generally benign people that don't become household names from how awful they are. Did you know that less than half of Biden's cabinet are straight white men? If nothing else I can vote for a presidential cabinet made up of a diverse group of people.

And don't forget that a president's cabinet also becomes the line of succession and, given how old the candidates are, is likely to become VERY relevant.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

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#20yrsago Low-tech “Hipster PDA” (cards and a paperclip) hacks https://web.archive.org/web/20050111035632/http://www.43folders.com/2005/01/organizing_your.html

#10yrsago Sharpening the contradictions: why jihadis attack cartoonists https://www.juancole.com/2015/01/sharpening-contradictions-satirists.html

#10yrsago Porn companies carpetbomb Google with sloppy takedowns, remove tons of Github projects https://torrentfreak.com/google-porn-takedowns-carpet-bomb-github-150107/

#10yrsago DHS’s weird, creepy social media search-terms https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/jan/07/homeland-security-search-logs-include/

#10yrsago Batmanga: Japan’s 1960s parallel universe “New Look” Batman https://memex.craphound.com/2015/01/08/batmanga-japans-1960s-parallel-universe-new-look-batman/

#5yrsago A Public Service: a comprehensive, comprehensible guide to leaking documents to journalists and public service groups without getting caught https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/08/a-public-service-a-comprehensive-comprehensible-guide-to-leaking-documents-to-journalists-and-public-service-groups-without-getting-caught/

#5yrsago Three years after the W3C approved a DRM standard, it’s no longer possible to make a functional indie browser https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/the-end-of-indie-web-browsers/

#5yrsago Trying to land on some runways causes the Boeing 737’s control screens to go black https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/08/boeing_737_ng_cockpit_screen_blank_bug/

#5yrsago Something Awful’s “Fuck You and Die” forum went from freewheeling jokesters to Nazi shitposters, so it’s dead https://www.vice.com/en/article/something-awfuls-notorious-fuck-you-and-die-forum-shuts-down-because-of-nazis/

#5yrsago Internal docs reveal that Canada’s Exxon subsidiary knew about climate change risks and lied about it for decades https://theintercept.com/2020/01/08/imperial-oil-climate-change-exxon/

#1yrago Molly McGhee's "Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind" https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/08/capitalist-surrealism/#productivity-hacks