Just some quick math, by the by.
A VLCC carries about 2 million barrels of oil per shipment. That's 84 million gallons.
The largest tanker trucks have a capacity of 11,600 gallons.
Each VLCC supertanker would need 7,241 trucks. 30+ VLCC tankers pass through the straights daily, in peacetime.
A screenshot of a tumblr ask from an anonymous user. They write, โYour art always seems to touch me when I really need it - been so incredibly depressed for no discernible reason (so nothing seems to improve it), hard to feel much, but flipping through your comics finally got me to have a much needed cry. I love you. Thank you for everything you shareโ A comic follows: "...MOMENTS EARLIER..." Emma is struggling to draw on her tablet. "ugh I'm having such a hard time drawing lately. everything i try to make always turns out so SHITTY." Emma yells, breaking her stylus, "AUGGHHH WHY DO I EVEN BOTHER MAKING ANYTHING???????????" Emma looks defeated, but is distracted by a notification on her phone. "what? a tumblr ask? what could anyone possibly have to say to a worm like me?" (tiny: Emma pauses to read and then cries)
thanks anon I needed that, i hope youโre feeling a little better
โwhat if you made the whole year out of seasonal allergiesโ ok well first of all fuck you, rapidly warming planet
I'm beating a dead horse but it's not that there was "no plan," it's that there isn't a military solution period if Iran has been provoked into going big, short of "invade Bandar Abbas"
The plan is
-don't do a war with Iran if you don't have to
-if you do then terminate it as quickly as possible
on the bright side i can't imagine losing a democratic primary against ilhan omar as an ICE lawyer is much work at all
Environmentalists have been saying "keep it in the ground" for decades and now that they finally come up with a plan to put some back, you're up in arms over it. There's no winning with you
I was over on x dot com scoping out things to talk about on youtube dot com and across a unique and cunning plan for dealing with the strait of hormuz
overlooking a series of circular water filled tanks of a sewage treatment plant at night. lights line a long brick building on the horizon as a blue-black sky is stark behind a veil of thin puffy clouds in the distance.
good night, sewers.
good night, streams.
good night, operations and maintenance teams.
good night, settling tanks.
good night, stream banks.
good night, engineers, scientists, crews, managers, inspectors, analysts too.
a good night for us means serving with care.
good night, sewers, everywhere.
It's day 100 of the ICE occupation of MN.
For 100 days, this community has done everything in our power to protect and care for our neighbors.
And today, Jacob Frey failed to do the bare minimum and give neighbors time to recover and put their lives back together.
We'll be ๐ some ๐งต below.
Pot roast with chimichurri sauce
Yeah I'm addicted to pot
Pot roast that is
Actually itโs just me going on and on about my fantasy league draft as the trapped players have to nod politely.
This guy was one of the more annoying people on Twitter. The benefit of Bluesky is that I forgot about him
The hardline pro-Israel wing of the Democratic Party has been experiencing the biggest dog catches car moment ever over the last couple of years and they're still mad
So much for a big Democratic tent. NEW @J _Insider via @GSDeutch: "Ben Rhodes calls for primaries against Dems who support Iran war"" HE WHITE HOUSE SASHUNGTON Ben Rhodes calls for primaries against Democrats who suppo...
Yeah well I mean, >85% of Democratic voters think this is a stupid fucking idea, >75% think negatively of Israel, and even >80% of Democratic members of Congress weren't stupid enough to vote against the WPR.
Sorry but you're a sucker if you think you can just cry and appeal to "the big tent".
You read the news like "White House surprised Iran fires missiles in war. Investors bet on the Money Fairy turning sea mines into cotton candy" and it's that scene in Downfall where Hitler is moving imaginary armies on the map.
Man, we're gonna *lose* lose this war, aren't we?
My opening assumption was a strategic defeat but tactical stalemate that Donald would spin into a win in domestic politics because we killed a lot more of them than they did of us, but this is gonna be like if Vietnam and the oil crisis had a baby.
y'all should familiarize yourself with what the Average American is consuming entertainment-wise!
Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestselle... โฅใป10h O 2/ I asked Al, "Can you wear a crop top for Iftar?" As Rama Duwaji is doing: Al Overview It is generally advised not to wear a crop top for Iftar. Ramadan is a time for modesty and respect, requiring covered shoulders and knees. Crop tops, which expose the midriff, are considered too revealing for traditional, public, or family Iftar gatherings. Opt for modest, loose, or flowing, comfortable clothing. ยฎ 0 2 L7 10 ยฉ 81 ฤฑl 6.2K Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestseller... โข X.com @naomirwolf 3/ It is super rude by the way, in observant Muslim norms, for the hostess to reveal her midriff at an Iftar celebration in the presence of men who are not her husband and in the presence of Mahmoud Khalil's wife, who is veiled as is far more religiously customary. 10:38 PM โข 3/9/26 โข 5.6K Views
No idea who this Naomi Wolf person is but can people not be normal about Arab and Muslim women?
her being nuclear levels of hot and interesting and cool really fucks with their perception of muslim women as oppressed faceless blobs
people are so mad Zohran Mamdaniโs wife is hot
โNo idea who this Naomi Wolf person is.โ
maybe this is unfair but I always find throwing errors by pitchers extra funny
your entire thing is making millions of dollars for throwing the ball extremely accurately, what do you mean you can't throw it to second base
Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt
A screenshot of marine traffic dot com's map without any boats visible, zoomed in on the area of the middle east and showing a blue line connecting the Persian Gulf through Kuwait, and then Saudi Arabia via a canal to the red sea
Why don't they just build a canal here? Are they stupid?
wait, we had to ask *THE BRITISH* to evac US personnel? holy christ these people are incompetent abcnews.com/Internationa...
fuck it, add top 8 friends to bluesky. make it the blood sport it was meant to be.
Chairman Cruz Announces Hearing to Debate the Future of Section 230 WASHINGTON, D.C. โU.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a full committee hearing titled โLiability or Deniability? Platform Power as Section 230 Turns 30โ on Wednesday, March 18, 2026, at 10:00 am EST. Thirty years after enactment of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, this hearing will take testimony from legal experts on the role Section 230 has played in the digital era. Witnesses will discuss how Section 230 affects the regulation of online expression and conduct, as well as the constitutional limits on congressional policymaking imposed by the First Amendment. Upon announcing the hearing, Sen. Cruz said: โBig Techโthe most powerful companies on Earthโcan exercise monopoly power to make views they dislike disappear and that should scare everyone. When it comes to viewpoint suppression, however, repealing section 230 might increase censorship. I look forward to hearing from our witnesses and discussing possible reforms to section 230 so online platforms are a free and open marketplace for ideas.โ Witnesses: Ms. Daphne Keller, Director of Platform Regulation, Program in Law, Science, and Technology, Stanford Law School Ms. Nadine Farid Johnson, Policy Director, Knight First Amendment Institute Mr. Matthew Bergman, Founding Attorney, Social Media Victims Law Cente
Senate Commerce hearing on Section 230. And, uh, this is big. Not giving him any credit, but Ted Cruz was really the first Senator to be vocally anti-230 and calling for repeal a decade ago. And here he is saying "whoa, repeal might be bad." That's big.
www.commerce.senate.gov/2026/3/liabi...
okay, well, good luck to them on pivoting away from Trump over the cause nearest and dearest to his heart - hurting people of color - when so far they haven't been able to pivot away from Trump on the matter of him making them walk around in shoes that don't fit
I'll believe this when I see it
The important thing to remember is that The Big Bang Theory, a multi-camera show, spun off Young Sheldon, a single-camera show, which then spun off George and Mandyโs First Marriage, a multi-camera show. This is the first time in tv history that this has happened. We live in unprecedented times!!!!
Unpopular take: I want there to be as much energy going into physical accessibility as there is going into digital accessibility. I don't want new software or AI tools hyped to me until we can get ramps, handrails, and accessible toilets. WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY.
