#white gladys the orca

[morally-grey-girlbosses]

Propaganda under the cut.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus:

White Gladis the Orca:

Miss Orca was harmed by boats and then plotted revenge by teaching other orcas how to attack boats and they all went on the sink yatchs <3

Eat The Rich's Boats

#poll #tournament poll #round 2 #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow the ninth #tlt #the locked tomb #locked tomb #white gladis #white gladys #white gladis the orca #white gladys the orca #orcas #animals #irl #irl animals

[hussyknee]

This is, bar none, the funniest fucking completely unironic shit published by a legitimate news outlet:

In recent months, orcas in the waters off the Iberian Peninsula have taken to ramming boats. The animals have already sunk three this year and damaged several more. After one of the latest incidents, in which a catamaran lost both of its rudders, the boat’s captain suggested that the assailants have grown stealthier and more efficient: “Looks like they knew exactly what they are doing,” he said. Scientists have documented hundreds of orca-boat incidents off the Spanish-Portuguese coast since 2020, but news coverage of these attacks is blowing up right now, thanks in part to a creative new theory about why they’re happening: cetacean vengeance. Now that’s a story! “The orcas are doing this on purpose,” Alfredo López Fernandez, a biologist at the University of Aveiro in Portugal, told LiveScience last month. “Of course, we don’t know the origin or the motivation, but defensive behavior based on trauma, as the origin of all this, gains more strength for us every day.” López Fernandez, who co-authored a 2022 paper on human-orca interactions in the Strait of Gibraltar, speculates that a specific female, known to scientists as White Gladis, may have suffered a “critical moment of agony” at the hands of humans, attacked a boat in retaliation, and then taught other whales to do the same. Whatever the truth of this assertion, White Gladis and her kin have quickly ascended to folk-heroic status on the internet. “What the marine biologists are framing as revenge based on one traumatic experience may be a piece of a larger mobilization towards balance,” the poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs tweeted before referring to the killer whales as “revolutionary mother teachers.” Media figures and academics are expressing solidarity with their “orca comrades” and support for “orca saboteurs.” One widely circulating graphic shows a pod smashing a boat from below, above the words “JOIN THE ORCA UPRISING.” (You can even purchase it in sparkly sticker form.) Yet all of this fandom and projection tends to overlook important facts: First, these orcas are likely to be playing with the boats rather than attacking them, and second, if one insists on judging killer whales in human terms, it’s plain to see they aren’t heroes but sadistic jerks.

A shark wrote this.

The recent incidents, none of which has resulted in any injuries to humans, are simply the result of curiosity, Monika Wieland Shields, the co-director of the Orca Behavior Institute in Washington, told me. A juvenile may have started interacting in this way with boats, she said, and then its habit spread through the local community of killer whales. Such cultural trends have been observed before: In the Pacific Northwest, orcas have been playing with buoys and crab pots for years; in the late 1980s, one group of orcas there famously took to wearing salmon hats. Is ramming boats the new donning fish? Shields believes that theory makes more sense than López Fernandez’s appeal to orca trauma. White Gladis shows no physical evidence of injury or trauma, Shields told me, so any “critical moment of agony” is purely speculative. Also, humans have given orcas ample reason to retaliate for hundreds of years. We’ve invaded their waters, kidnapped their young, and murdered them in droves. And yet, there is not a single documented instance of orcas killing humans in the wild. Why would they react only now? And though recent events may fit the story of these orcas’ being anti-colonial warriors, you can’t just anthropomorphize animals selectively. What about all the other “evidence” we have of orcas’ cruelty, or even wickedness? Scientists say they hunt and slaughter sharks by the dozen, picking out the liver from each one and leaving the rest of the carcasses to rot uneaten. Orcas kill for sport. They push, drag, and spin around live prey, including sea turtles, seabirds, and sea lions. Some go so far as to risk beaching themselves in order to snag a baby seal—not to consume, but simply to torture it to death. Once you start applying human ethical standards to apex predators, things turn dark fast.

Oh no, they gleefully torment other animals for sport!! Does this species deserve to have any redeeming qualities???

Perhaps #orcauprising was inevitable. Humanity does have, after all, a long history of freighting cetaceans with higher meaning. Moby Dick is, among other things, a symbol of the sublime. The biblical whale—or is it a large fish?—that swallows Jonah is an instrument of divine retribution, a means of punishing the wicked in much the same way some have framed the boat-wrecking orcas. The whale 52 Blue, known as the loneliest whale in the world because she speaks in a frequency inaudible, or at least incomprehensible, to her brethren, has become a canvas for all shades of human sorrow and angst. Orcas in particular have long been objects of both fear and sympathy, in some cases with an explicitly anti-capitalist tint. The 1993 classic Free Willy centers on a conniving park owner’s scheme to profit off of the bond between a child and a young killer whale. And more recently, the 2013 documentary Blackfish chronicles SeaWorld’s real-life exploitation of captive orcas. The “orca uprising” narrative fits neatly into this lineage. In our present era of environmental catastrophe, Shields told me, it’s appealing to think that nature might fight back, that the villains get their just deserts. But projection and anthropomorphization are only shortcuts to a shallow sympathy. Orcas really are capable of intense grief; they are also capable of tormenting seal pups as a hobby. They are intelligent, emotionally complex creatures. But they are not us.

Someone paid this dude actual money to conclude that Orcas aren't human.

In conclusion:

#this is a White Gladis stan account sorry #I don't care if she's doing it for shits and giggles in fact that would be even better #support orca rights and orca wrongs #orca splatoon #the atlantic #capitalism #joining the war on orcas on the side of the orcas #yachts #orcas #marine life #ecology #marine animals #class war #eat the rich #anti capitalism #cetaceans #knee of huss

[mockingnerd]

Yacht sabotage is just the beginning. Lyric from "Go Into the Water" by Dethklok because no song fits orcas better right now :V

#my art #orcas #killer whales #white gladis #eat the rich #orca #killer whale #whale #cetaceans #orca art

[sharkfish]

(free!) pattern by badasscrossstitch.com

#white gladis #orcas #embroidery #sink the rich #and #eat the rich

[sixbucks]

Gladys has put out the call!

#orcas #white gladys #fuck them boats

[6th-for-truth]

Very rare non TLT post but I couldn’t help myself. The moment calls for it 😂

Available here on Redbubble!

#orca gang #orca uprising #team orca #orca whale #orcaposting #gladis the orca #white gladis #killer whale #titanic #oceangate #Lisa Frank #eat the rich #sink the rich #rainbow #90s kid #90s retro #ok but Nona would love Lisa Frank #couldn’t you picture Pyrrha buying her this shirt? #nvm Pyrrha is a cop. I’m sad now.

[fullposadism]

It's time to build solidarity with our comrades of the deep - propaganda design, free to use

#posadism #orcas #white gladis #critical support #anti boat action

[mannyblacque]

Source

#jk rowling #orca attacks #killer whale #sink the rich #fuck them yachts #terfs #billionares shouldnt exist #eat the rich #tax the billionaires #the internet is undefeated #orcas #orcaposting #orca whale #orca pod #gladis the orca #white gladis #gladis the killer whale #blackfish

[datgreenmonstah]

“Sink the Rich”

Based on the recent orcas attacking sail boats near Spain, thanks to what they think is white gladis teaching other orcas within their pod on how to capsize sailboats/yachts. Manifesting the energy of them dealing with a certain billionaires boats.

I’ve been busy with work and getting suits done and out.

Plan to make this into merch or something maybe

#orca #orca pod #white gladis #digital art #art #animal #animal art #yacht #sail boat #Jeff bezos boat #sink the rich #killer whale #cetacean #boat

[whitegladis]

First: No matter what anyone says. It wasn't me. I was in Portugal, i have a solid alibi.

Second: Can't say that I'm mad

#orca gang #orcaposting #gladis the orca #white gladis #orca #sink the rich #eat the rich #orcas #gladis the killer whale #killer whales #titanic #submarine #bottom of the ocean #titanic expedition #oceangate

[themesopelagiczone]

earth fact time. cookiecutter sharks took down nuclear submarines during the cold war!! they'd bite off chunks of the rubber around sonar domes and cause the oil to leak, blinding submarines and forcing them back for repairs. the americans thought it was some kind of secret soviet technology but actually, it was these little cat-sized, glow in the dark bitches that will bite anything that moves.

medium | business insider

photos: noaa observer project

#cookiecutter sharks attacking submarines walked so white gladis the orca sinking yachts could run #aquatic #earthposting #facts! #fish #sharks #cookiecutter shark #fishblr #marine biology #marine life #marine animals #sea creatures #sea animals #sea life #biology #zoolog #ichthyology #history #the cold war #earth fact no. 25

[morally-grey-girlbosses]

The top two characters will be eligible for entry into the bracket!

Teddy the Pomeranian is owned by the submitter's local dog cafe, and the image used was distributed on that company's public Instagram account for promotional purposes. Fira the cat is owned by @notblueferet, image used with permission. Mashed Potato the rabbit is owned by @boba-thot, image used with permission. Image used for White Gladys is an actual orca involved in the attacks believed to have been orchestrated by White Gladys, though it cannot be determined if it is the original herself. Penelope the Platypus lived and died in the 1940s-1950s and I was not able to find digitized photos of her. (If anyone has any, please send them to me.) A generic image of a platypus was used to represent her.

Propaganda under the cut.

Praying Mantis:

They murder their mates after fucking, then eat their heads. Slay. Girlboss. Morally gray. You understand.

Anglerfish:

Tapeworm:

this bitch lives inside of people for long periods of time, living off of them. aint that cool

Blobfish:

she got held by a generic white man but still stays strong, she deserves the world, Plus she lives at crushing depths in the sea and that's great too (the photo is what she looks like in her natural habitat)

Licherally just look at them. don’t tell me they wouldn’t destroy worlds on a whim

Betta:

I think that male bettas are pretty well known for being little murder gremlins at this point, but the females really deserve the title of morally ambiguous girlboss. Unlike the males, you can put multiple female bettas in a tank together and they usually won’t fight to the death immediately. And people usually assume that that means their tank is peaceful now. No, you put multiple female bettas in a tank and they are all just biding their time, ready to start the murderfest whenever they feel they’re strong enough. But they’re also really sweet to humans and if you set up the tank correctly and pay close enough attention to it then bettas sororities can work, so I think they deserve the title of morally ambiguous girlboss

Teddy:

Honestly she's beautiful, she loves belly rubs, she is plotting something. She's hbic. She's going to take over the world one day. She's sneaky but also has a love of pink chairs. She's an icon

White Gladys:

Miss Orca was harmed by boats and then plotted revenge by teaching other orcas how to attack boats and they all went on the sink yatchs <3

Penelope:

girl faked a pregnancy for extra food and ESCAPED THE PLATYPUS ENCLOSURE when the jig was up, NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN. girlboss behavior if i've ever seen it.

Fira:

You could say she is... Morally.. GREY (I'm sorry)

Mashed Potato:

She is sometimes so so sweet and honestly she's an absolute icon really but also she eats my curtains and that's kind of a dick move

#poll #tournament poll #qualifiers #irl #real life #irl animals #animals #praying mantis #anglerfish #tapeworm #blobfish #betta #betta fish #bettablr #teddy the pomeranian #pomeranian #white gladys #white gladis #white gladis the orca #white gladys the orca #orca #orca whale #penelope the platypus #platypus #fira the cat #cat #sphinx cat #mashed potato #mashed potato the rabbit #rabbit

[protoslacker]

No one was earnestly suggesting that these orcas are capable of class analysis and specifically going after rich people as an anticapitalist statement. Any solidarity the people expressed with these marine animals was a cheeky, satirical way to say, yes, we have badly fucked up their habitats, and yes, we generally support them defending their right to exist more than we care about any damage incurred to leisure boats. It shouldn’t be controversial to say that we’d like to see these majestic creatures thrive and survive, despite the horrors humanity has wrought upon the ocean.

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Killer whales are sinking yachts off the Iberian coast, and Yale graduate Jacob Stern is fully team yacht

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#rich people #white gladis gang #critically endangered orcas #narrative

[mockingnerd]

I finally resurrected my ancient Etsy shop for new stickers! And there’s a bonus old design in there too.

#my art #yes hello please support a queer orca nerd #orcas #killer whales #orca uprising #white gladis #stickers #orca #killer whale

[thequeercoalition]

#direct action #animal liberation #orcas #vegan #white gladis

[thornwolfart]

SINK THE RICH! I'm proud to announce my brand new design, "Don't Agonize, Orcanize" featuring White Gladis and her yacht-smashing pod. 

Preorders are now open for hoodies, shirts, tanks, mini posters, stickers, and even special bundles until July 19! 

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Alternative colors of t-shirts, pullover hoodies, and zip hoodies are available only during this preorder period! So if you see something you like, best to grab it now as it may not be available later.

#sink the rich #eat the rich #orca #white gladis #gladis the orca #orcaposting #team orca #orca uprising