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nettiepiecosplay

This literally has my best friend and i energy ❤️

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treethymes

v-is-a-cyberpunk

A version for tumblr that can be read without opening a new tab, since plenty of people would scroll past this story otherwise.

fuckyeah-nerdery

The bravest woman on Earth.

unofficiallyjuni-deactivated201

I love her. Forever reblog.

theatsymbol-deactivated20210220

I have the utmost respect for this woman.

the-dream-i-had

please reblog. reblog the way you would reblog a picture of a hot singer, a pretty girl, a tasty meal or some nice stationary. Because this will not make your blog ‘less aesthetic’ or anything. This is important, far more important than anything I’ve mentioned before.

motherbychoice

Nevertheless, she persisted.

Persist.

randomfandomteacher

She graduated from Oxford this past June 2020

With a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics

coolxatu

volvereparcas

Hot take though

my wife worked on an oil rig in Wyoming out of high school because there aren’t a lot of jobs that pay that well for someone without access to college. She was a driller and then a supervisor after the crew supervisor was killed during their shift. She saw multiple people die and loose limbs and she got pretty bad ptsd from watching a friend get decapitated by a chain that went loose and catching his head in her hands.

Shifts are often 20+ hours at a time with an 8-10 hour break between shifts for at least two weeks at a time and then a week off. Rigs are normally understaffed which make it worse and a lot of people on rigs turn to drug use just to be able to stay awake during their shifts. But it’s a job that pays a lot in rural and low income communities for people who don’t have a lot of options. A lot of people go in knowing they’ll maybe die but at least their families won’t have to work afterwards because of life insurance policies from the companies they work for.

I know this post was probably just meant as a joke post the whole thing with Joe Biden and fracking but like sometimes it shows that people who post these things don’t know a ton about what they’re talking about. It remains one of the most lethal jobs worldwide. Switching from oil/natural gas to sustainable energy sources will take time to transition and right now we have millions working in drilling with odds stacked against them. Republicans don’t care about oil workers’ lives because they can be used to make a profit and the left hates them because of a career they didn’t have a lot of choice in choosing.

The oil field is like the military where largely low income and marginalized individuals get preyed upon by an organization that doesn’t care if they live or die. Fracking and drilling being bad for the planet and needing an end and oil workers being worthy of concern because their lives are treated as disposable are two ideas that can coexist.

squeeful

class solidarity must extend to ALL workers, not just workers of sectors you approve of.

antique-scarecrow

“The oil field is like the military, where largely low income and marginalized individuals get preyed upon by an organization that doesn’t care if they live or die”

jenniferrpovey

Look, I grew up in the UK.

Our oil production is offshore rigs.

Those guys go out for two to three weeks to live on a tiny platform in the middle of what can be a very cold sea. Their unions are currently fighting to reduce rotations from three weeks back to two. (They’re winning, by the way). They don’t have windows. And right now, if one of them has COVID and it was missed…everyone’s gonna get it.

Once on the rig they work 12 on 12 off, completely ignoring actual day and night schedules. Because of this, many rig workers have shift work disorder. They aren’t allowed alcohol or any kind of non-prescription drugs.

And it’s bloody dangerous. In 1988 the Piper Alpha rig experienced gas leakage from a condensate pipe. The normal pressure safety valve had been removed for maintenance, and they didn’t put it back. Instead they down checked the pump. The other pump failed. The night crew workers turned on the broken pump.

The platform went up in a series of explosions. 167 of the 226 workers on the rig were killed. Thankfully, it remains the worst oil rig disaster of all times, but in 2007, 22 workers were killed when two platforms were brought together to complete a drill and collided in the Gulf of Mexico.

In 2010 the BP Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, killing 11 workers and creating an oil spill in the Gulf. Some of you probably remember that one.

Aside from these major disasters, offshore rig workers face risks that include minor fires, fall hazards (including the risk of falling off the rig into the ocean), hypothermia from the cold weather, helicopter crashes getting to and from the rig, boating accidents during the same procedure, heavy equipment…and, of course, there’s no nearby hospital when something does happen.

No matter how you feel about big oil, the safety of these workers still matters. I personally hope for an end to North Sea drilling soon because of the environmental impact, and for jobs to be found for these people elsewhere, but until that happens? Absolutely support oil and gas workers.

willingtobe

when Charles Bukowski said "and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?"