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Ben Royce 馃嚭馃嚘 馃嚫馃嚛
Ben Royce 馃嚭馃嚘 馃嚫馃嚛
@benroyce@mastodon.social  路  activity timestamp 6 months ago

this is why #vonderLeyen makes the big bucks

it take superhuman composure to just sit there, letting her soul leave her body and join the astral plane, to escape the eldritch horror of abject stupidity before her, and not say "will you just shut the fuck up please?" like 99% of humanity would

seriously what the fuck is this orange turd babbling about

it's 2025 and this bloviating dotard leads a powerful nation

not powerful for long i guess

#Trump#USA#Europe#EU

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von der Leyen and some demented corn husk babbling about stupid shit
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Raindrops and Roses
Raindrops and Roses
@raindrops_and_roses@mastodon.social replied  路  activity timestamp 6 months ago
@benroyce @pluralistic Oh yeah, the windmills. Those Chinese Dutch windmills from back in the day that survived are so ugly and harm us so much and it is so expensive and energy is never made just converted and we convert the money to energy and the energy to money. And windmills.
In the background, three historic Dutch windmills against the backdrop of a blue sky with fluffy white clouds with a foreground of a field of tulips in multi-coloured rows. Image from: https://thekolsocial.com/the-netherlands-land-of-windmills-and-tulips/
In the background, three historic Dutch windmills against the backdrop of a blue sky with fluffy white clouds with a foreground of a field of tulips in multi-coloured rows. Image from: https://thekolsocial.com/the-netherlands-land-of-windmills-and-tulips/
In the background, three historic Dutch windmills against the backdrop of a blue sky with fluffy white clouds with a foreground of a field of tulips in multi-coloured rows. Image from: https://thekolsocial.com/the-netherlands-land-of-windmills-and-tulips/
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Hamish Buchanan
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@hamishb@mstdn.ca replied  路  activity timestamp 6 months ago

It's funny how we romanticize antique infrastructure, and villainize as ugly intrusions contemporary works like wind turbines and solar panel fields, yet simply naturalize things like gas stations, highways, oil rigs and all the rest of our fossil fuel infrastructure.

Well, not really funny.

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@Beelbeebub@mastodon.social replied  路  activity timestamp 6 months ago
@hamishb @raindrops_and_roses @benroyce @pluralistic Some bits of abandoned industrial infrastructure are specifically preserved in Cornwall.
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Paul Barnfather
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@clanger9@mastodon.online replied  路  activity timestamp 6 months ago
@Beelbeebub @hamishb @raindrops_and_roses @benroyce @pluralistic it seems like there's no real rush to get rid of them in East Anglia...
Derelict windmill in East Anglia
Derelict windmill in East Anglia
Derelict windmill in East Anglia
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Cooperation Denton (TX)
Cooperation Denton (TX)
@coop@denton.social replied  路  activity timestamp 6 months ago
@hamishb @raindrops_and_roses @benroyce @pluralistic behold! Nature in all its splendor! 馃槏
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Natural gas plant in Houston Texas. Looks like a bunch of pipes tangled up like old Christmas lights.
Natural gas plant in Houston Texas. Looks like a bunch of pipes tangled up like old Christmas lights.
Natural gas plant in Houston Texas. Looks like a bunch of pipes tangled up like old Christmas lights.
Two hydraulic fracture drilling sites nearly adjacent to each other. Looks like a big gravel covered pad cut out of the natural landscape, with a road to and from.
Two hydraulic fracture drilling sites nearly adjacent to each other. Looks like a big gravel covered pad cut out of the natural landscape, with a road to and from.
Two hydraulic fracture drilling sites nearly adjacent to each other. Looks like a big gravel covered pad cut out of the natural landscape, with a road to and from.
Diagram of an active fracking site. Marked items include fracking fluid storage tanks, chem trucks, sand storage, pump trucks, and wellhead.
Diagram of an active fracking site. Marked items include fracking fluid storage tanks, chem trucks, sand storage, pump trucks, and wellhead.
Diagram of an active fracking site. Marked items include fracking fluid storage tanks, chem trucks, sand storage, pump trucks, and wellhead.
Map of active oil and gas wells in Texas, showing substantial, dense coverage of most of the state.
Map of active oil and gas wells in Texas, showing substantial, dense coverage of most of the state.
Map of active oil and gas wells in Texas, showing substantial, dense coverage of most of the state.
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Raindrops and Roses
Raindrops and Roses
@raindrops_and_roses@mastodon.social replied  路  activity timestamp 6 months ago
@hamishb

I think ancient windmills are quite objectively beautiful, as are solar panel fields and wind turbines.

The solar panel fields remind me of sunflowers tilting towards the sun when they move. The wind turbines, of giant flowers.

But can't find a poetic imagery for the others - for sure.

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@64kb@icosahedron.website replied  路  activity timestamp 6 months ago
@raindrops_and_roses @hamishb @benroyce @pluralistic solar fields giving shade to sheep is great.
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