13&14/30
Context: In 1977, Exxon researchers gave executives a definitive report that burning fossil fuels was causing climate change. Exxon went on to spend at least $30 million funding public skepticism about climate change and lobbying against federal action.
More than half of the world’s industrial carbon emissions have been produced since 1977. ExxonMobil’s 2018 earnings were $20.8 billion.
Chidi + books
Imagine how much better the first Avengers movie would have been if Goose had never spit up the Tesseract. Loki spending the entire movie just running bent over through SHIELD chasing a cat that occasionally tries to eat him.
You guys are family, tell us your roles in your family
Me whenever I leave the house
CAPTAIN MARVEL dir. Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck, 2019
okay but that jaw thing steve does in the new avengers end game trailer reblog if you agree
power couple, power walk
Tumblrites who have never seen their site of choice imploding before: OMG IT’S THE END OF TIMES.
Some of us fossils, who have lived through Bebo, Myspace, Angelfire, Geocities, Yahoogroups, Delicious, Livejournal:
So tired.
The more I watch the scene with Phillips telling Steve they’re not going to rescue anyone, the more I feel Phillips is playing him. “Nope, we’re not going to go after them, because - and let me point out very clearly and specifically on this map exactly where they are - it is in dangerous territory and I will not order anyone to go in there”.
“Incidentally, Rogers, I know you have hero-issues coming out the wazoo and you want to be respected as a soldier and a man, so I will diss you to your face, call you a chorus girl, and basically wind you up to the point that you do something damned reckless and stupid without orders, because you’re the kind of dumbass hero who will jump on a grenade for your fellow-man or chase down an armed man while unarmed and barefoot in your shorts and I know this because I watched you do it before.”
“And Carter, if you’re about to say something, just don’t, because no one needs to know that I know exactly what I’m doing. It’s called ‘dance, monkey, dance’. And if he dies, wasn’t on my orders.”
You notice that he’s not exactly surprised about Steve being Captain Dumbass Hero. You’ll notice he’s also not massively surprised when Steve returns.
Colonel Chester Phillips. Didn’t get to be head of the SSR because he’s just a pretty face.
Importing this, since Phillips needs more love.
