sense8 has plenty of issues to go around and i am not diminishing that but to this day nothing fills me with joy like the what's going on montage. no sequence in any show ever made has been filled with so much love, and so much joy over connected humanity like that sequence was. it still brings happy tears to my eyes. and it was done so simply with the power of editing, concept and actor's chemistry. i love it so so SO much, if it was a food i'd eat it every day
it's kinda funny having manual labor type strength because I can lift excessively heavy shit and squat constantly with zero issue but no I cannot do multiple push ups
TWO HOURS AGO: an incredible photo taken by a ut austin student capturing something deeply poetic in my opinion, a line of state troopers eagerly waiting to arrest student protesters standing just behind a sign that reads "what starts here changes the world. its starts with you and what you do each day."
#that was (give or take) around the time of the bronze age collapse #crete was no longer a major player #and the known world was kinda in turmoil #and yet someone planted an olive tree #i’m not saying there’s a direct parallel #but you know…systemic collapse thanks to many things including climate change #and it sucked for a lot of people #but they still needed olive oil #and idk man…maybe plant a tree #because the world has ended so many times #but the tree is still here #and so are we
shaking six year old me by the shoulders YOU WERE RIGHT. YOU WERE RIGHT ABOUT LOVE AND ABOUT FAIRNESS AND ABOUT SHARING IS CARING. YOU WERE RIGHT. THE ADULTS DON’T KNOW ANY MORE ABOUT TRUTH THAN YOU DO. KEEP BELIEVING IN THE FAIRIES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GARDEN. NOTHING IS “JUST THE WAY IT IS”. I AM SORRY THEY EVER CONVINCED YOU TO FEEL SHAME. YOU ARE REAL AND A PART OF THIS WORLD. YOU WERE RIGHT.
Multnomah county is suing 17 companies for the fatal heatwave, seeking billions to upgrade public services and infrastructure
June 22 2023
"The new lawsuit, filed at a state circuit court in Portland, draws on research showing the scorching heat was exacerbated by climate breakdown. It aims to hold 17 fossil fuel companies and interest groups – including Exxon, Shell, Chevron, BP, Koch Industries and the American Petroleum Institute – accountable for their role in the event.
“The heat dome that cost so much life and loss was not a natural weather event. It did not just happen because life can be cruel, nor can it be rationalized as simply a mystery of God’s will,” the litigation says. “Rather, the heat dome was a direct and foreseeable consequence of the Defendants’ decision to sell as many fossil fuel products over the last six decades as they could.”
The suit seeks $50m in damages for the 2021 heat dome’s consequences and $1.5bn for future climate damages. And it demands the defendants spend an additional $50bn on a county plan to upgrade public healthcare services and infrastructure to protect residents from coming extreme heat events and other climate disasters.
“We know that our need to mitigate, to take action, to respond in the future is going to escalate over time as climate change worsens,” said Pederson. “We really want to make sure that we have the resources to do that.”
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It comes as part of a wave of similar litigation against fossil fuel interests. Since 2017, seven states, 35 municipalities, the District of Columbia, and one industry trade association have sued major oil and gas corporations and lobbying groups, alleging that defendants have for decades known about the dangers of fossil fuels and yet actively hid that information from consumers and investors.
“Multnomah county has joined the growing ranks of local governments that are standing up to big oil and fighting to make these polluters pay for the catastrophic damage they knowingly caused and lied about for decades,” said Richard Wiles, president of the Center for Climate Integrity, which has supported plaintiffs who have filed similar litigation.
The litigation is among the first to demand damages from fossil fuel companies for a specific climate disaster. Last year, Puerto Rico filed a federal lawsuit against oil and coal firms for their role in 2017’s Hurricane Maria.
“Communities should not be forced to pay the price for these catastrophic climate damages while the companies that caused the crisis perpetuate their lies and rake in record profits,” said Wiles. “The people of Multnomah county deserve their day in court to hold big oil accountable.”
“That’s why high school, or a crappy job, or any other restrictive circumstance can be dangerous: They make dreams too painful to bear. To avoid longing, we hunker down, wait, and resolve to just survive. Great art becomes a reminder of the art you want to be making, and of the gigantic world outside of your small, seemingly inescapable one. We hide from great things because they inspire us, and in this state, inspiration hurts.”
— One of the best articles I’ve ever read. Rookie Mag. By Spencer Tweedy. (via wildyork)
I am being HAUNTED right now by the ghosts of fruits and other treats that went bad while I was saving them, of events I did not enjoy as much as I could because I was upset that they arrived too fast and would thus be over soon, of places I didn’t go because it was somehow not the right time for it, I wasn’t equipped to enjoy it yet, it’s a TREAT, it’s SPECIAL, you can’t waste it on any old regular day.
The ghosts of art I haven’t made and skills I haven’t developed prowl around the margins like hungry spirits.
FUCK how did this man hit me in the soul that hard from having never even seen me?
“I didn’t want to read or watch or listen to great things because I didn’t want to be inspired, because I didn’t have time to do anything creative, and when I did, my work sucked. It became easier to hide inspiration behind endless lists, to tuck it safely away into notebooks, than to take advantage of it. “
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