The Sleeping King

Personal blog filled with historical, political, cultural, sensual, scientific, and nature-oriented nonsense.

[donesparce]

ERCOT IS THE MAIN REASON TEXAS IS IN THE STATE IT IS IN NOW IN REGARDS TO SO MANY PEOPLE WITHOUT POWER, FUCK ERCOT

[donesparce]

in just the greater houston/galveston area, ERCOTS mismanagement has caused:

galveston to plead for refrigerated trucks to handle the influx of bodies from the cold weather (90% of galveston is/was without power)

has managed to “negotiate” raising the price cap due to the weather and demand for power (which will be a permanent price raise to continue out of this which is just a fucking slap to the face) ….. despite them being at fault for not winterizing grids causing this demand they had a weeks notice to do something about knowing this weather was coming

so in essence they are making a profit out of this whole event they caused! 

they also initiated rolling black outs they knew they did not have the power to do, so rolling blackouts turned into permanent ones! Taking houses that did have power off the grid on purpose and making it worse!

also this article just for the hell of it

fuck ERCOT!!!

[donesparce]

i’m gonna add this tweet because its a good summary also fucking hilarious (to me, and that’s all that matters)

[donesparce]

anyone else in texas please feel free to add to since i’m pretty greater houston area centric 

[donesparce]

here is more about rolling blackouts becoming 24 hour blackouts (please note centerpoint is just the power distributor for the greater houston area, the fact theyre doing this still lies with ERCOT)

[chemicallywrit]

[narcoleptic-hero]

I have no responsibilities when I’m drunk

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

[cinemove]

[lolasteppereincarnate]

[punknursejoy]

@machamp your tags are perfect

[vanny-more]

[slangwang]

I HATE EVERYTHING ABOUT THSI GOD FORSAKEN WEBSITE I AM IN SHAMBLES

[discountbadjokes]

ANOTHER CLASSIC I LOVE THIS VIDEO

[aangarchy]

I didn’t know memes could go this far

We have reached the ultimate meme

[thecollectibles]

Avatar: The Last Airbender by Flesh.png

[catchymemes]

Via @iamdylancurran (Twitter)

[quiet--batpeople]

fuck..

What..the..fuck, Google???

[leonkennedv-deactivated20200827]

I’m surprised that this post doesn’t contain a link to turn off all of these settings (maybe another version of this post does, who knows)

Go to https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols and this will take you to a page which states what information Google is currently tracking. Each section has a blue slider next to it. Click it and it will come up with a confirmation box, scroll through it and select “pause” and you should be good to go.

[wowpoliticsareannoying]

I would go to this link regularly to make sure the sliders haven’t reset, too.

[lord-huggington]

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

And 20 years later we still don’t get it.

[awed-frog]

When STEM people have fun.

[nyctosaurid]

who else is in the “didn’t realize sheep have long tails until i was like 20″ club

[dimetrodone]

Undocked unrestrained

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

The reason most farmers dock (cut off) the tails is to prevent fly strike, an often lethal infection of fly larvae in the rear of the sheep. Without a (VERY FLUFFY) tail for fecal matter to accumulate on, fly strike is almost completely eliminated!

[brunhiddensmusings]

there is a wide variety of similar treatments for farm animals that are entirely for the animals well being pigs get their tail curled and tusks removed as babies so they dont accidentally nip each other while playing or stab each other just walking around- even a small tail nip might be fatal once the other pigs react to the scent of blood goats/cows often have their horns removed as babies as well both for obvious reasons to prevent stabbings but also to prevent them from growing in weird that can cause pain and infection for the animal chickens and other poultry, especially pet ones or hobby farms, might have their flight feathers clipped to prevent them from flying over fences, where their life expectancy is nill outside the farm/owners enclosure

[rabbitfishes]

Very good and valid points but please tell me what you mean by “might be fatal once the other pigs react to the scent of blood” before I lose my marbles

[battlships]

Pigs are omnivores and cannibals. Fun fact if you ever have need to dispose of a body, tossing it in a pigpen will get rid of it real fast.

[amaronith]

There’s a reason why everyone went into a full blown panic when Dorothy fell into the pigpen in the Wizard of Oz. Pigs are vicious.

[acefandom103]

[sooske-deactivated20200915]

[myososheep]

[narcoleptic-hero]

I get too emotionally invested every single fucking time. Two dates and I’m dreading the fact that she hasn’t texted back. Guess I’ll drink myself into oblivion.

[vacant-obsessionn]

on twitter, a girl posted that a true feminist is pro-life... sweaty, please, do yourself a favor and educate yourself.

[by-grace-of-god]

The first feminists were pro-life. 

Elizabeth C. Stanton called abortion "evil." 

Sarah F. Norton called abortion a "crime." 

Susan B. Anthony called abortion "child murder." 

Alice Paul called abortion the "ultimate exploitation of women."

(+)

[tiktoks-we-like]

[elodieunderglass]

the only way to travel tbh

[stability]

i literally can’t stop thinking about this video and i lose it every time

[zamzamafterzina]

Lmfao

[noneeyewithleftyork]

okay everything about this video is absolute gold:

the fact that the guy argues via the puppet the entire time

the music

“let’s discuss the contradiction”

the overuse of the word “camera”

the way the puppet goes from trying to placate the guy to actively arguing against the guy and like turning it around on the guy

“youre consciously making a conscious choice”

the fact that by the end the puppet is basically screaming and the music is just. so loud.

“YOURE BREAKING THE CAMERA” as the video abruptly ends

[1st-1]

[kat-got-your-tongue14]

If you rearrange the letters in the light it spells alien

[truthtoldslant]

If you add in the partial letters touched by the light it’s “E.T. Alien” 👽

[1st-1]

[nappesworld]

[bathtubbarrister]

that’s some damn tea

[greyhairedgeekgirl]

If extending a right to all people reduces your rights in any way?  That means that right has been dependent on the oppression of someone else.

It means you’ve been profiting from the subjugation of others in some way.  Are you good with that?

[smartest-of-them-all]

Wow this tea is SCALDING