aaron boothby

Iran has hit an oil refinery in Bahrain and forced them to invoke force majeure. x.com/MarketIntl_/...

they don't have to fulfill their contracts (deliver gas / oil) until the situation can be resolved

I successfully have no idea what's going on here today

I had false spring hot dogs as is tradition in this house

The Tides In olden times, winds blew unremittingly on Vancouver Island. Good weather didn't exist, and there was no low tide. Men decided to kill the winds. They sent in spies. The winter blackbird failed; so did the sardine. Despite his bad vision and broken arms, it was the sea gull that managed to dodge the hurricanes mounting guard on the house of the winds. Then men sent in an army of fish led by the sea gull. The fish hurled themselves in a body against the door. The winds, rushing out, trod on them, slipping and falling one after another on the stingray, which pierced them with his tail and devoured them. The west wind was captured alive. Imprisoned by the men, it promised that it would not blow continuously, that there would be soft air and light breezes, and that the waters would recede a couple of times a day so that shellfish could be gathered at low tide. They spared its life. The west wind has kept its word.

I like this one too, "the winds wouldn't cut it out so we went with a sea gull and a sting ray to kill the winds"

yay, it's great and hope you enjoy

will remember jay as the person who deleted lexi alexander and link, worked hard to cut palestinians off from their one chance at survival, ignored the ongoing abuse of Black and trans users, and then when confronted about the whole thing said 'waffles'. and for that fugly no caesars shirt.

"how do you like them waffles"

you don’t hate rich people enough

this book has Indigenous stories from every part of the Americas by about five pages in and the US writer who blurbed about it doing a "unifying theory" for the Americas was a very confused person because no

The Rainbow The forest dwarfs had caught Yobuënahuaboshka in an ambush and cut off his head. The head bumped its way back to the land of the Cashinahuas. Although it had learned to jump and balance gracefully, no- body wanted a head without a body. "Mother, brothers, countrymen," it said with a sigh, "Why do you reject me? Why are you ashamed of me? To stop the complaints and get rid of the head, the mother proposed that it should change itself into something, but the head refused to change into what already existed. The head thought, dreamed, figured. The moon didn't exist. The rainbow didn't exist. It asked for seven little balls of thread of all colors. It took aim and threw the balls into the sky one after the other. The balls got hooked up beyond the clouds; the threads gently unraveled toward the earth. Before going up, the head warned: "Whoever doesn't recognize me will be punished. When you see me up there, say: 'There's the high and handsome Yobuenahuaboshka! " Then it plaited the seven hanging threads together and climbed up the rope to the sky. That night a white gash appeared for the first time among the stars. A girl raised her eyes and asked in astonishment: "What's that?" Immediately a red parrot swooped upon her, gave a sudden twirl, and pricked her between the legs with his sharp-pointed tail. The girl bled. From that moment, women bleed when the moon says so. Next morning the cord of seven colors blazed in the sky. A man pointed his finger at it. "Look, look! How extraordi- nary!" He said it and fell down. And that was the first time that someone died.

from Eduardo Galeano's Genesis (this one is a Kaxinawá story)

I don't have an intellectual answer for many things in my life and see no contradictions there

started going to concerts and realized it was all just feeling but one didn't make me fall asleep in the back

between sipping a can of beer and reading, that's how nice it is outside, I didn't have plans but I would have cancelled them

dozing off in the sun with the windows open next to the cat, just two happy mammals

new guy's shitty ai profile background though...

all these people suck and we exist to spite them is my only opinion

jay came from crypto lol

why do people think waffles ceo being replaced by wordpress vc ceo means anything had changed, it's same same but different (less waffles)

relentless horrors but it is nice outside and in two days everything might be covered in ice so I'm taking a walk and the horrors will continue but at least the air will be pleasant

bluesky is a lot like life in that we weren't really supposed to be here and we're justifiably making it the creator's problem

“natural” “biology” has always been a just-so story for the socially constructed world

Americans have no idea how much the world is shook, folks. Here in Thailand they have a running tally of how many days' worth of fuel the country has left.

This is what Syrias looked like in Tehran today. It is raining oil. The street cats are covered in it. This is a colossal crime against humanity.

the drives to the top of the hill for reception that become increasingly fraught

a little curled up Moo cow

I remember scenes from this sometimes forgetting they're all in the same film, so rich and wonderful

a "white homeland" is an impossibility because whiteness itself is a negation of any kind of actual human togetherness or belonging

it's endpoint is nazism, they want to rule a land of the dead

if you want to have a people find a place, stay there, and learn how to live together

that's not what these white people want. they want dominion over everyone forever and ever, a wasteland of their own insatiable entitlement

this is the rudest and overly simplified version, but white people gave up belonging to any actual place to play white colonists somewhere else in the expectation of white dominion filling the void, which it cannot, and all they are left with is trying to claim more of what isn't theirs

I'm not over the Mackintosh Building burning several years ago and probably never will be, it was beautiful