SAILINGSOMEWHERE

In love with being lost.

[stmort]

David Bowie by Masayoshi Sukita 1973

[the-final-sentence]

“Only the middle ground of this wicked world mattered, the vast gap that stretched between, and those who were born with enough grit to brave it.”

— David Joy, from Where All Light Tends to Go

[drunkenhills]

Listen. Cut your own hair. Dye it blue, then shave it off when you’re bored of it. Wear that outfit with those shoes. Paint your nails with all the colors of the rainbow. Get that tattoo. Go to the movies alone. Get coffee, then drink it at that special place you like. Mouth the words of the song you’re listening to on public transport. Put that thing on your wall. Bake. Draw. Dance in your underwear. Life is so much better when you don’t give a fuck

[liberalsarecool]

Help spread the word: Obamacare deadline for health care coverage in 2019 is December 15. Pass it on.

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Just INFP Things

Doing stupid or clumsy things because you forgot to pay attention to the real world again; walked into doors, burned your food, maybe ran a red light…

When someone is having feelings in your vicinity, you are having those feelings right along with them, even if you don’t know them or why they’re upset

Art vs. Science

Really wanting to have your life all organized and together, but also being the sort of person who just doesn’t do that

When you look at a thing and it reminds you of another thing but nobody else sees it and you become the “weird” one

Dropping everything you’re doing to Google something you got curious about, or draw an image that occured to you, or in any way indulging a sudden burst of imagination before it slips away and your boring life returns

Having to say “I don’t know how to explain it, it’s just this feeling” on a daily basis to a bunch of blank faces

Nobody seems to appreciate the value of a long walk by yourself

The sensible, logical voice in your head is constantly facepalming at all the stupid stuff you do, even though it told you it was a bad idea

Your best solution to potential problems is “I’ll just take to the woods and live with trees where nobody will care what I do”

“What are you staring at?”, “What are you smiling about?”, “Why the sudden gasp?”

When you’re focused on something important then you start thinking all these other thoughts about the thing and then it snowballs and you realize you have no idea what you were focused on to begin with

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INFP as a child

As a child, an INFP was probably doing some of these things (though most of this is just personal):

Had multiple fantasy worlds

Eager to meet new people

Tried to be creative in one area, but not focused enough to stick with one thing for more than an hour or so.

Dreamed big dreams about their life.

Couldn’t possibly see the reality of the future in five years.

Recited poetry with an accent or while doing something else.

Not understanding why being different is a bad thing. But still wanting to connect with others.

Had multiple best friends.

Could spot weirdos.

Had friends of all ages, sizes, and backgrounds.

Even at a young age, tried to figure out what the meaning of life was.

Had multiple imaginary friends.

Loved “dress up”

Probably got lost

Disliked super scary movies or scenes because it would give fuel for the imagination.

Could have a dark side.

Probably got injured in a weird way.

Started having crushes on people by 3 or 4 years old.

[sailingsomewhere]

Lol.

[nocoasty]

This was a much larger project Than I had actually anticipated. I used around 3.5gal of Henry Tropi-Cool elastomeric roof coating and sealer. It’s a high reflective white that blocks a lot of light and radiant heat from getting into the bus.

[utwo]

Cozy Bus

© The Simple Bus Life

[thewightknight]

The 14 Fake Olive Oil Companies Are Revealed Now – Avoid These Brands

Supposedly, even 70% of olive oil in the USA markets is fake, cut with cheap bad oils like sunflower and canola. This item is supposed to be healthy, but this is now corrupted. It was found that even 7 of the biggest olive oil makers in USA, mix their items with cheap oils to get more profits. This is like the 2008 practice in Italy when 400 police officers were involved in the breakdown known as operation Golden Oil. This meant seizure for 85 oil farms that mixed some percentage chlorophyll with sunflower and canola to the olive oil. The oil was mixed, colored, perfumed and flavored too, and these things made the Australian government investigate their own oils. The results were awful. After that, not one brand named extra virgin olive oil got the 2012 certificate of approval.

This scam made the California University study 124 imported oils and found that over 70% of samples failed the tests.

These failed:

Mezzetta

Carapelli

Pompeian

Primadonna

Mazola

Sasso

Colavita

Star

Antica Badia

Whole Foods

Safeway

Felippo Berio

Coricelli

Bertolli

These brands passed:

Corto olive

Lucero

McEvoy Ranch Organic

Omaggio

California Olive Branch

Bariani Olive oil

Lucini

Ottavio

Olea Estates

Cobram Estate

Kirkland Organic

Also, test the olive oil yourself at home. Put the bottle out when cold, or in the fridge for 30 min. if it gets solid, it is pure and has monounsaturated fats.

[brownmonalisa]

The lies!!!!

[sauvamente]

*throws out all the bertolli*

[julianahuxtable]

IM SO PRESSED/SHOOK RN

[trapcard]

this is a real scandal

[note-a-bear]

Ain’t that a bitch

[earthshaker1217]

They selling fake olive oil.

[talesofthestarshipregeneration]

they been selling fake olive oil from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/08/13/slippery-business   This is a cool article on how they do it now and what they tend to substitute it with.

In 1997 and 1998, olive oil was the most adulterated agricultural product in the European Union, prompting the E.U.’s anti-fraud office to establish an olive-oil task force. (“Profits were comparable to cocaine trafficking, with none of the risks,” one investigator told me.) The E.U. also began phasing out subsidies for olive-oil producers and bottlers, in an effort to reduce crime, and after a few years it disbanded the task force. Yet fraud remains a major international problem: olive oil is far more valuable than most other vegetable oils, but it is costly and time-consuming to produce—and surprisingly easy to doctor. Adulteration is especially common in Italy, the world’s leading importer, consumer, and exporter of olive oil. (For the past ten years, Spain has produced more oil than Italy, but much of it is shipped to Italy for packaging and is sold, legally, as Italian oil.) “The vast majority of frauds uncovered in the food-and-beverage sector involve this product,” Colonel Leopoldo Maria De Filippi, the commander for the northern half of Italy of the N.A.S. Carabinieri, an anti-adulteration group run under the auspices of the Ministry of Health, told me.

In Puglia, which produces about forty per cent of Italy’s olives, growers have been in a near-constant state of crisis for more than a decade. “Thousands of olive-oil producers are victims of this ‘drugged’ market,” Antonio Barile, the president of the Puglia chapter of a major farmers’ union, told me, referring to illegal importations of seed oils and cheap olive oil from outside the E.U., which undercut local farmers. Instead of supporting small growers who make distinctive, premium oils, the Italian government has consistently encouraged quan-tity over quality, to the benefit of large companies that sell bulk oil. It has not implemented a national plan for oil production, has employed a byzantine system for distributing agricultural subsidies, and has often failed to enforce Italian laws and E.U. regulations intended to prevent fraud. The government has been so lax in pursuing some oil crimes that it can seem complicit. In 2000, the European Court of Auditors reported that Italy was responsible for eighty-seven per cent of misappropriated E.U. subsidies to olive-oil bottlers in the preceding fifteen years, and that the government had recovered only a fraction of the money.

[white-throated-packrat]

I’ve been reading Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller, and wow, the things that get sold as ‘extra virgin’ olive oil are kind of scary, especially if you have any allergies. Or if you’re trying to use olive oil for health reasons – you’re likely paying a premium for something with none of the benefits you’re looking for.

Also, you could write at least 8 different genre novels about skullduggery in the olive oil trade, starting with a murder mystery and working your way out, because there’s just so much to unpack.

[thebibliosphere]

Well, that explains the rash of migraines/respiratory issues I had last month. I was cooking everything in whole foods oil and couldn’t figure it out. If it was cut with canola oil then there’s my answer. Son of a bitch.

[bonehandledknife]

(“Profits were comparable to cocaine trafficking, with none of the risks,” one investigator told me.)

[politicalsci]

[lavvyan]

This! This is why I start cursing like a sailor the minute someone brings up aaaallll the things we the people can do to stop climate change.

Spoiler: it’s nothing. Oh, sure, you can recycle your trash, but that doesn’t mean much when it all ends up getting burned anyway because our economy doesn’t have anywhere near the capacity to deal with the sheer mass of trash, and no interest in doing so. Like, “sure, our company could switch to environmentally friendly packaging, but that’d mean we’d have to change things and it might cost us a whole cent more per article and that’s just not viable you know, so sorry.”

Or, yes, you can absolutely bike to work instead of driving, but your CO2 emissions are nothing against what big companies blow into the atmosphere every second. Nothing.

Or, yes, you can absolutely grow bee-friendly plants in your yard, but that won’t save them.

By all means, be environmentally conscious! In fact, I strongly encourage you to be! But let’s be real here, our individual footprints on this planet aren’t what’s killing it. Big Industry is.

[silencingthedrums]

Same with food/water waste!! It annoys me so much when commercials and gov’t campaigns emphasize individual waste when corporations are doing the OVERWHELMING majority of the wasting.

[prettysimpletattoos]

by Hannah Flowers

[plant-folk]

The full rotation of the Moon as seen by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

[frogmp3]

she is WHAT? sickening

[lookskindadeadinside]

I’m not even kidding I teared up a lil

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mom

[iridessence]

moom

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[jathis]

I love how happy the puppy is as the kitten comes to visit

[helvetillinen-helluntai]

Delete this website and only leave this behind

[whitmerule]

This would be so much easier if you’d stop trying to kiss me and just let me HOP DOWN, Fred.

[whatistheplan-deactivated201712]

Man found the stoplight cameras were activated during yellow lights and decided to cut the wires of it.

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hero

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STOP SCROLLING!!! Please take a moment to read the article about what this man is doing, the criminals he is exposing, and the deaths of so many poor and middle class families at the hands of the greedy. Yellow lights with Xerox cameras were shortened from 5 seconds to 3 seconds in poor and middle class neighborhoods to surprise drivers and generate more revenue. Many deaths ensued. This story is already a couple months old, but there isn’t enough talk about it. Please signal boost this.

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/04/26/new-york-man-arrested-for-cutting-wires-to-red-light-cameras-after-exposing-government-revenue-generating-scheme/

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even traffic lights are racist

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😧😧😧😧

[nyokoko]

The gag is it was a Black man who invented the traffic light and now white supremacy is using it to kill us what in the fuck.

[thecheshirecass-deactivated2018]

Also notice this man looks DELIGHTED in his mugshot, probably because he knows it will help shine a light on the subject.

[wecanalldobetter]

This guy’s an actual American hero, using his white privilege for good. 

Please read his story and I know y’all don’t click links so:

A New York man known as the Red Light Robin Hood was arrested again this

 month after cutting wires to red light cameras where yellow light duration

 times were shortened by the city in order to generate more citations and 

revenue.

The shortened durations at the traffic lights generate $32 million for Suffolk 

County, which is why the county allows the practice to continue despite their

 own study showing they lead to an increase in accidents with injuries.

PINAC’s Theresa Richard reported about Stephen Ruth back in February

 after seeing videos he posted on Facebook that prove the lights near the 

cameras trick drivers into citations.

At that point, Ruth had already been arrested in August for using a painter’s

 extension rod to point the cameras towards the sky.

On April 11, he went a little further and cut wires to 18 cameras.

“I cut the cable wires, making it useless. I’ve made it

 dysfunctional, just like the whole red-light camera 

program,” said Ruth during a local interview. “I did it in 

order to save lives.”

And after he cut the wires, he called the news to cover his act of civil 

disobedience, which resulted in his arrest after police received pressure from

 politicians. Ruth said police and sheriff deputies support him, because 

they’re aware of the shortened yellow lights.

Some may even testify on his behalf if his case goes to trial. When he was in

 jail for his most recent arrest, a sheriff’s deputy even offered to bail him out.

But after receiving attention from local residents and media, Ruth discovered 

a government entity mounted a camera outside of his home on a telephone 

pole just like the one LaVoy Finicum took down during the standoff with the

 government at a National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.

But Ruth doesn’t know exactly where it came from.

“The only reason the government is so concerned about me is because I 

proved that they shortened the yellow lights to generate revenue and killed a

 lot of innocent people,” said Stephen Ruth just before he painted over the 

camera with a painter’s extension pole.

Ruth currently faces 22 years in prison for tampering of public property and

 obstructing government administration, but relies on his faith and stated he’s

 on a mission from God to save lives.

Ruth said that a car tried to hit him head-on and narrowly missed his vehicle. 

Upon talking to neighbors, they described a similar vehicle with similar 

occupants staking out his house and lurking around his neighborhood.

He said someone could be trying to kill him, although he said he could be 

wrong.

“The only way they can keep this from gaining national attention is to get rid of me,” he said.

If you think Ruth may be paranoid, consider the case of John Lang, a traffic-

light scam whistleblower in Fresno, California who posted on Facebook that 

police were trying to kill him just days before he was found stabbed to death 

in his burned down house.

Police ruled his death a suicide.

If Suffolk County’s contract with Xerox is any indication of what other cities’ 

contracts with Xerox look like, the problem extends much farther than Suffolk 

County. So Ruth’s “paranoia” might not be paranoia at all.

In Suffolk County, yellow lights at 50 intersections with cameras were shortened 

in 2011 after state legislators approved the cameras to be installed in 2010. In 

2012, 50 more cameras were installed at intersections, which increased revenue 

by $17 million.

The video below, shot by Ruth, shows the duration of a yellow light at an 

intersection with no cameras to be five seconds compared to the duration of a 

yellow light at an intersection with a camera to be three seconds.

That two-second reduction has netted millions of extra dollars for the county 

and Xerox, the publicly-owned company that contracts the cameras.

Ruth pointed out some cameras that were put up have been taken down after 

they fell short of daily contract-quota with Xerox to produce 25 citations, per 

camera, between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., which costs Suffolk County $2,132 per 

day, according to the Xerox contract with the county.

Xerox collects $13 from Suffolk County for each ticket, which increases to $33 

per ticket when a camera generates more than 90 tickets in a month.

Ruth pointed out that the vast majority of cameras were placed in lower to 

middle class neighborhoods.

“I’m on 25A and Setauket and you can see that there’s no

 cameras to be found. Lower class neighborhoods are

 loaded with cameras. But if you drive through Setauket, 

you won’t see any cameras. Why are they all over the lower 

and middle class neighborhoods? That’s what we want to 

know,” he stated in a video seen below.

Another vexing problem for Ruth is the coverage the issue has gotten from local

 news, specifically News12, which is owned by CableVision who provides the 

internet service to the cameras at the lights.

When victims of the lights went to News12 about the deaths of their family 

members due to the shortened lights, News12 interviewed them, but never ran 

the story. And while other local media outlets report from Ruth’s point of view 

and most of the public’s, News12 has painted Ruth a criminal.

When the news failed to investigate some of the deaths at intersections with 

shortened lights, Ruth took his own camera to document the light-duration 

times at the scene of the deaths. When he arrived, he recorded a light-duration

 of three seconds at an intersection where it was previously five seconds.

“I saw the crosses and thought I was in the right place.”

However, when he determined he was actually at the wrong location, he went to 

the correct location the following day and found the same thing, again – a light 

shortened from five seconds to three where a person was killed.

Ruth’s energy and persistence on social media and news media have gained the

 yellow light issue local support and he’s spoken on behalf of victim’s families to 

representatives urging them to discontinue the program. His supporters consist

 of a variety of groups from judges to cops to just about everyone in Suffolk 

County.

Meanwhile, Ruth’s support seems to be growing everywhere but the U.S., where

 it has remained mostly specific to Suffolk County.  He posted a screen shot on 

his Facebook page of folks from England calling him a “hero” and saying they 

“idolize” him.

“I’m even getting messages from Australia,” Ruth told 

PINAC. When asked if he was afraid of the possibility of jail 

he said, “I’m willing to go to jail for doing what’s right.”

Ruth said one of his hero’s is MLK, who he shares a birthday with on January 15.

“You gotta love a guy like that. He was willing to go to jail to do what’s right.”

“I’m just trying to save lives. I spend Christmases delivering flowers to the 

cemetery, because nobody wants to work on Christmas. I get orders from all 

around the world from people ordering flowers to put on graves. I take my son 

and tell him to note the ages of the people who died fighting for our country. 

And they come back to this?”

So we asked what he’d like to see come from risking his own life and freedom to

 save the lives of others and expose the traffic light scandal.

“I want people to go to jail.”

Ironically, at this point in time, Stephen Ruth is the only person facing jail time 

for “crimes” related to the Suffolk County yellow light scandal.

[flange5]

Apparently he announced a run for local office last summer (x)

[sixpenceee]

Halitrephes maasi is a species of deep sea jellyfish. The look like fireworks deep in the ocean.

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