#hundred knight

[chongoblog]

Pokemon Legends Arceus is the game of all time. You’re technically working for the bad guys for most of it. God gives you a cell phone. They sent a guy that runs trains hundreds of years into the past and do not elaborate. You play a song for a Pokemon that makes them shove you in a basket. Melli is there.

#i love this flavor of post #after doing it for hollow knight i wanted to do it for pla #pokemon legends arceus #i changed thousands to hundreds due to popular backlash

[illustratus]

Joan of Arc wearing armour and mounted upon a horse at the head of her troops

by Jules Prater

#jules prater #art #joan of arc #jeanne d'arc #engraving #history #medieval #middle ages #hundred years war #europe #european #france #french #knights #knight #armour #chivalry #christianity #christian #saint #saints #horse #horses #sword #swords #religious art #religion

[mostlysignssomeportents]

SoCal Gas spent millions on astroturf ops to fight climate rules

Today (19 Aug), I'm appearing at the San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books. I'm on a 2:30PM panel called "Return From Retirement," followed by a signing:

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/festivalofbooks

It's a breathtaking fraud: SoCal Gas, the largest gas company in America, spent millions secretly paying people to oppose California environmental regulations, then illegally stuck its customers with the bill. We Californians were forced to pay to lobby against our own survival:

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article277266828.html

The criminal scheme is spelled out in eye-watering detail in a superb investigative report by Joe Rubin and Ari Plachta for the Sacramento Bee, which names the law firms and individual lawyers involved in the scam.

Here's the situation: SoCal Gas is California's private, regulated gas monopoly. They are allowed to lobby, but are legally required to charge their lobbying activities to their shareholders, and are prohibited from raising customer rates to pay for lobbying.

The company spent years secretly violating this rule, in the sleaziest way possible: working with corporate cartels like the California Restaurant Association and BizFed, the monopoly paid BigLaw white-shoe firms to procure people who posed as concerned citizens in order to oppose climate regulations that are essential to the state's very survival.

The bill topped $36 million – and it was illegally charged to its customers, the Californians whose immediate health and long-term survival these efforts opposed. SoCal Gas refuses to disclose the full extent of the spending, as do its lawyer-procurers, who cite legal confidentiality and a First Amendment right to secretly seek to influence policy in their refusal to disclose their profits from this illegal conduct.

The law firms involved are a who's-who of California's most prominent corporate fixers, including Reichman Jorgensen and Holland & Knight. The partners involved have a long rap sheet for anti-climate dirty tricking, most notably Jennifer Hernandez, notorious in climate justice history for an incident where activists claim she posed as one of them, infiltrating a campaign to force corporate despoilers to clean up their pollution in order to sabotage it, while secretly on a wealthy, prominent landowner's payroll.

Hernandez claims to care about the environment and says that her longstanding, corporate-funded, extensive campaigns and lawsuits against state environmental regulations are motivated by concern over their impact on working people. Her firm, Holland & Knight, denies serving SoCal Gas in opposing gas regulations, but it received $594k in ratepayer dollars, and submitted comments opposing the rules on its own behalf. Those comments were nearly identical to the comments submitted by SoCal Gas.

Hernandez also represents an obscure organization called The Two Hundred for Home Ownership in "a flurry of lawsuits" over California Air Resources Board rules on pollution, seeking to overturn the state's landmark climate change regulations.

Two Hundred for Home Ownership was founded by Robert Apodaca, who told the Bee that Hernandez's work for him is pro bono and not funded by SoCal Gas, but his entry into the fray occurred just as SoCalGas was founding an astroturf group called Californians for Fair and Balanced Energy (C4BES), which pretended to be an independent organization, disguising its relationship with SoCal Gas.

Apodaca is also founder of United Latinos Vote, an organization that had been largely dormant for seven years, not receiving any donations, until 2018, when the California Building Industry Association gave it $99k. The CBIA is a large-dollar recipient of donations from SoCal Gas, and its CEO insists that it was not acting on SoCal Gas's behalf when it made its unpredented donation to Apodaca.

The CBIA donation to United Latinos Vote was forerunner to a flood of corporate donations from the likes of Chevron, Marathon and Phillips 66. Shortly after receiving this cash, United Latinos Vote ran a full page ad in the LA Times, accusing the Sierra Club of pushing for anti-gas appliance rules that would harm working class Latino families.

This ad, in turn, featured prominently in advocacy by the SoCal Gas front group C4BES, funded with $29.1m in ratepayer money, which it then spent seeking to link clean appliance rules with anti-Latino racism. A quarter of California's carbon emissions come from home gas use.

SoCal Gas is regulated by the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC), which tolerated this mounting illegal conduct for many years, even as the company circulated internal memos as early as 2015 discussing its plans to oppose electrification in the state on the basis that it constituted "a significant risk to our business."

But last year, CPUC fined SoCal Gas $10m. Now, CPUC's Public Advocate office has filed a damning, extensive report on SoCal Gas's unlawful conduct, seeking $80m in rate cuts to compensate Californians for the funds misappropriated to protect the company's shareholder interests:

https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M517/K407/517407314.PDF

Additionally, the Public Advocate is demanding $233m in fines for the company's refusal to allow investigators to audit its books and discover the full extent of the fraud.

SoCal Gas is the nation's largest utility, but (incredibly), it's not the dirtiest. That prize goes to Ohio's FirstEnergy, which handed $60m in ratepayer dollars to state politicians in illegal bribes in exchange for coal and nuclear subsidies and cancellation of state climate rules. That scandal led to GOP speaker of the Ohio House Larry Householder being sentenced to 20 years in prison:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_nuclear_bribery_scandal

There is something extraordinarily sleazy about using ratepayers' own money to lobby against their interests. SoCal Gas and its Big Law enablers have funneled millions in Californian's money into campaigns to poison us and boil us alive, and they did it while using workers and racialized people as human shields.

I'm kickstarting the audiobook for "The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation," a Big Tech disassembly manual to disenshittify the web and make a new, good internet to succeed the old, good internet. It's a DRM-free book, which means Audible won't carry it, so this crowdfunder is essential. Back now to get the audio, Verso hardcover and ebook:

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/19/cooking-the-books-with-gas/#reichman-jorgensen

Image: Maryland GovPics (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/mdgovpics/6635539089/

Jackie (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/79874304@N00/197532792

CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

#pluralistic #socal gas #california #climate emergency #climate denial #Reichman Jorgensen #california restaurant association #astroturf #Holland and Knight #puc #cpuc #california public utility company #fraud #Alice Walton #bribery #ohio #bizfed #Jennifer Hernandez #American Gas Association #The Two Hundred for Home Ownership #Robert Apodaca #Californians for Fair and Balanced Energy #C4BES #United Latinos Vote #Chevron #Marathon #Phillips 66 #sacramento bee #sacbee #Joe Rubin

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 149

Danny is not the ghost king. In fact, he’s never going to be the ghost king. 

However, that doesn’t stop him from getting summoned, which is stressful. First of all, he has school to deal with, second of all, he’s just a lil baby ghost so shouldn’t even be able to be summoned, and three, his new ghost-dad gets a… tiny bit upset. Not at him, but he can only talk him out of destroying a world thanks to some idiot-cults so many times before there’s the temptation to let him do so. 

#DCxDP #DPxDC #prompts #Pariah adopts Danny #Stops his plans to take over the world by the ghost equivalent of a tiny baby holding ur finger for the first time ever #Aka new halfa child came at him swinging and that’s utterly Adorable #To Pariah he’s just a lil guy- a lil baby boi #And since he’s still half alive he Supposes the city needs to still exist in the living world #He’s just going to hold the lil child in his hands and marvel while Danny tries to gnaw a finger off #Fright Knight is his official babysitter & now lives in his shadow half the time #The crown only transfers through a mutual battle/challenge #Which didn’t exactly happen #Vlad is technically also a ghost-child & gets sent to a medical foster-home until his obsession-sickness is fixed #no one bothered stopping the cult because the summoning hasn’t worked for hundreds of millenia #They now regret this #if wanted could also be marvel #dp x marvel #or really any sort of crossover #if there's magic or summoning it works lol

[friedri-ce]

the ✨️girlies✨️ and lurien

#fanart #hollow knight #hollow knight fanart #hk #monomon the teacher #hk monomon #lurien the watcher #hk lurien #herrah the beast #hk herrah #hollow knight gijinka #i think im going to redesign them at least a hundred more times #FUN FACT lurien has no eyebrows #where'd they go tho

[martyrbat]

batman: dark knight gallery

fellas is it gay to sit alone in a dark cave and stare at several images of your ex best friend who you couldn't save while yearning for what could of possibly been?

#very normal and heterosexual behavior mr wayne 👍 #but god hes just like me fr.. #need to do a big harvey read through soon.... stare at my misunderstood angel baby who has murdered a few hundred men..... #c: batman: dark knight gallery #crypt's panels #batman #bruce wayne #harvey dent #bruharvey

[gaemms-chamois]

Arknights Blorbissimo Series

#91 – #100

#ONE HUNDRED !!!!! thats like 31% of the playable cast Dies #arknights #pramanix #savage #liskarm #nearl the radiant knight #nearl #specter the unchained #specter #laurentina #provence #bassline #mizuki #noir corne #schwarz #animalified #blorbissimo series #gaemms art #Collapses

[brawlmetaknight]

pic of the day and special event images featuring meta knight from the official smash twitter/sakurai (2018-2022)

#meta knight #super smash bros #cataloguing these so they don't succumb to lost history like the hundreds of wiiu/3ds screenshots nintendo posted on miiverse and facebook #(is what i would have said if i was normal and didn't have all the meta knight ones saved at least) #(there's around 60 so i'll probably post those in parts another time)

[hood-ex]

Going bananas trying to remember where this one panel is from. It's the one where Dick is like ?? joking with a woman outside. Or maybe there are three women who are friends or something, but I think he's just kind of joking around/smiling around with one of them. You know what I'm talking about? I think they were standing kind of close? Gah. I know I literally have this panel in my archive, I'm just tired of looking for it alsdkja. Anyone have an inkling of what I'm talking about? And if you do... can you please lead me to this panel alskdja.

#is it from gotham knights or nightwing orrrrr ughhh #the way that i've seen this panel a hundred times but still can't remember exactly what happens in it #were they prostitutes?? oh my godddddd brain workkkk

[llamagoddessofficial]

Hello hello! I’ve a been a fan of your stuff for a little while but I always get confused with how many AUs you have! For the sake of me and any new fans who have a favorite AU, could you name all of your AUs, and the basic concept of them? Please and thank you!!

I mean.

You asked for it. Here's every au.

Nagas

Sirens

Harpies

Skiders

Moths

Forest Gods

Pride and Prejudice

Coffee shop

Asylum inmates

Prison inmates

Daycare Attendants from FNAF

Portal

Ancient mummies in a crypt

Beasts (beauty & the beast style)

High school students

Ghosts

Ghost HUNTERS (& demons)

Gods in general

Fairy MC

Dragons (including one where they were all different head on one hydra)

Robots

Build-a-wife related AUs

Avatar (the good one not the blue one)

Pirates

Vampires

Wizards (howl's moving castle style)

Knights

Among Us aliens

Wild west cowboys

Steven Universe gems

Mobsters

Cheshire cats

Coraline monsters

DnD party

Farmers

Mamma Mia surprise dads

Demon familiars to a witch

#if i remember any more i will let you know #ask and ye shall receive #many of these aus have other aus within them #like... 'ghost' #that could mean the friendly ghost one... the one where theyre just haunting her... the one where shes their reincarnated love.... #knights could mean travelling knights... or knights to queen mc.... #prison and asylum cover the hundreds of offshoots #and theres abt 100 aus in the gem au category #lmao

[romancemedia]

Anime Romances + Interruptions

#Inuyasha The Final Act #Sugar Apple Fairy Tale #Chivalry of a Failed Knight #Snow White with the Red Hair #Sword Art Online #Brother's Conflict #Fruits Basket #Clannad #Hundred #Maid Sama #Anime #Moments #Inuyasha x Kagome #Anne x Shall #Misaki x Usui #Zen x Shirayuki #Asuna x Kirito #Tohru x Kyo #Ikki x Stella #Natsume x Ema #Hayato x Emilia #Tomoya x Nagisa

[szappan]

it wouldn't make a difference

#sir gawain and the green knight #the green knight #dev patel #my art #my post #my god i have no idea how to do any of this anymore! #but i had fun #i also drew one mr mistoffelees tonight and with these ive filled my yearly quota i think #maybe later ill put a darker background on this i feel like it would look better #it's nice to see the difference between the gawain i drew last year and this gawain. i Did improve even though i barely drew anything #one year or a hundred does make a difference!!

[illustratus]

The Black Prince at the Battle of Crécy

by Julian Russell Story

#julian russell story #art #battle of crécy #hundred years war #edward of woodstock #john the blind #medieval #europe #history #france #england #english #knights #middle ages #european #edward the black prince #knight #squire #windmill #windmills #landscape #armour #heraldry #coat of arms #ich dien #john of bohemia

[illmoraineakoi]

Feelin like the Pale King rn

#illmoraine sews #vessel plush wip #hollow knight #sewing #fun fact: I got twenty yards of minky for under a hundred bucks at an Amish store #I’m only sad they didn’t have black too #IllmoraineVesselPlushesChallenge

[westwing19]

Playable Galacta Knight move set concept, with rough animations.

Parts 3 & 4 below the cut.

I think a lot about how GK was once considered as a possible star ally... he'd be so OP though. I tried nerfing him a bit here.

Move names were based off wiki descriptions.

#kirby #galacta knight #finally done! started this back in June and wanted to make sure I finished it before the end of the year ^^; #initially thought to just rip clips off the internet but then my brain went 'don't you want to draw GK another hundred times??' #and then I did all the animations in one file and my art program absolutely hated it #was super fun to put together though :) #animashun #meart

[cheapbourbon]

‘It doesn’t fucking snow in Luxor’ was the working title for this. Really it just entertains me that of the three of them, only Jake is comfortable in the snow, Khonshu and Badr would be miserable. 🤣

Bonus PNG sexy pidgin for all your bird dad needs.

#Jake Lockley #Yehya Badr #Moon Knight #Hunters Moon #Khonshu #Jake Lockley/Yehya Badr #Moon Knight/Hunters Moon #HuntersKnight #I actually googled and the last time I could find it snowed in Ciro was in 2013 #and 2014 in Luxor #so once every hundred years or so #anyways #this is my personal relief from the pre hurricane heat and humidity #I turn the moon cult into softies in snow ^.^ #more real comic coming soon once I work the pacing out for this next project have junk art till then