#yachts

[mysharona1987]

#capitalism #anti capitalism #democrats #republicans #politics #yachts #luxury yacht #ocean

[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

[copperbadge]

Researching a man this morning who is so wealthy he has a personal yacht captain. 

Not like, he owns a yacht and it has a captain he employs, that’s fairly standard. This is more like, he has a man who for 20 years has managed every yacht he owned and travels with him from yacht to yacht, and is employed by him year round even during times when he does not personally own a yacht. He sometimes rents a yacht and puts this guy in as captain. He’s like this guy’s Boat Butler. 

I wish I could link you to the absolutely breathless five thousand word profile I found on yachtsinternational.com (no lie) of this guy’s latest yacht. I can’t for confidentiality reasons. But it describes his personal captain as, I’m paraphrasing here but the gist is the same, “an impeccable gentleman, unassuming but with exceptional taste in both ships and interior design.”  

I don’t think it’s another Outdoorsy Lesbians In Love scenario; the yacht owner is married and Deeply Catholic. Technically that’s no bar to a bit of fun in international waters, but makes it somewhat less likely. 

It’s just. You guys, when yachts come into the picture, good sense goes out. Last time I researched a guy this rich who was into boating, his yacht had a smaller yacht that lived on the big yacht. The yacht had its own website. And also a submarine. 

#sam works #yachts #eat the rich

[mrs-trophy-wife]

#portofino #italy #travel #travels #yacht #water #lake #sea #ocean #view #views #scenic #scenery #yachts #boats #greenery #flowers #pink

[fineinteriors]

M/Y Meserret 57m yacht interiors by BAK Fine Interiors

#interior design #architecture #interiors #interior #interiordesign #yacht #yachts #yachtlife #bedroom decor #decoration #decorating #luxury #luxury interior design #mansion

[foreverfitnesspositivity]

I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea

#positive mental attitude #positive #bemindful #ocean life #the sea #sea life #ships #yachts #life at sea

[theminimalisto]

#luxury #lifestyle #italian life #yachts #sailing

[calistadianthe]

Ju mer mogen du är, desto tystare blir du.

#calistadianthe #luxury lifestyle #luxury #lifestyle #life #yacht life #art #yachtlife #yacht #yachts #los angeles #fantastic art #my art #digital art #artists on tumblr #3d art #futuristic architecture #fun #free #fun art #futurist #futuristic fashion #futuristic technology

[jupiterovprsten]

proleće na Mediteranu

#photography #analog #photographers on tumblr #la vie en rose #original photographers #analog photography #photooftheday #la vie est belle #original photography blog #photography on tumblr #la vie boheme #la vita è bella #la dolce vita #indie #retro #girly #vintage #bohemian #boho #bohostyle #bohochic #aesthetic #monte carlo #monaco #spring #march #yachts #boats #cote d'azur #mediterranean

[1lifeinspired]

~ Come Sail Away! ~

#boatlife #boats #sailing #sailboats #yachts

[the-posh-life]

#luxury #rich lux #luxury lifestyle #millionaire #boating #yachts #yachtinglifestyle #old money aesthetic #old money #old vanguard #rich life #billionaire #luxurious #rich #millionarelifestyle #lifestyle #vacation #luxury travel

[mysharona1987]

Yeah, this makes them sound even more fun.

#Orcas #whales #yachts #news #europe

[villaannaskiathos]

Postcards from Skiathos...

#postcards #Skiathos #Sporades #Greece #Plakes #travel #swim #yachts #sailing #Villa Anna Skiathos

[teathattast]

#tumblr polls #polls #orcas #yachts

[mrs-trophy-wife]

#Italy #views #mountains #mountain #Tuscany #sky #boat #boats #yacht #yachting #yachts #pillows #pillow #water #lake #lake como #Italian

[innerslumber]

Whenever I see the reports of orcas sinking yachts, I keep thinking of the dolphins from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. But in contrast to the dolphins giving us a sweet note of "So long, and thanks for all the fish", the orcas leave and their message says "Fuck Capitalism and Eat The Rich."

#and they'd be right #orcas #yachts #capitalism #eat the rich #the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy #dolphins #so long and thanks for all the fish #do the orcas have a gofundme or something that i can donate to their efforts? #i knew there was a reason why i loved them since forever