the mspec to aspec pipeline is real and it happened to me
[ID: a collection of m-spec flags (including bi, pan, poly, omni, and multisexual) at one end of a pipeline with a collection of a-spec flags (including aro, ace, greyace, greyaro, demi, demiro, and aroace) at the other end. end ID]
Let's talk about "woo-woo" people red flags, shall we?
If you've been in the occult, mystical, witchcraft game for long enough, you've probably seen your fair share of weirdos.
You know.
The ones who think the antisemitic conspiracies are real. The essential oils can cure cancer types. The guy who seems cool at first then seems convinced that the hand of God is in the Sahara desert.
There's more to being grounded in this community than avoided the racist norsepagans.
You are intelligent. You are wise. You have a world of resources and knowledge at your fingertips. And yet!
YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO CULTS
It never starts out feeling crazy. It never feels crazy in the moment. Believing aliens built massive structures to channel energy around the world DOESN'T SEEM WEIRD. And it sure doesn't change when the entire group's thoughts collectively devolve into situations like Heaven's Gate.
No one who cut their hair and had their last meal at Marie Calendar's thought they were wrong.
YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO CULTISH THOUGHT. YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO MISINFORMATION.
Be so careful peeps. It's human nature to want to belong, to want to learn more. Speaking as a 3 time cult joined, it is so fucking easy to lose yourself in online forums, threads, group chats...
A 303 mile long pipeline set to carry natural gases through West Virginia and Virginia. Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC. Equitrans Midstream Corp. is the lead developer of the project. It crosses several bodies of water, puts multiple eco systems at risk (including human lives), and has already been reported to have violated the Clean Water Act several times over.
Why is it awful?
Same reasons as always. It's awful for the environment and neither the people constructing it or demanding it be constructed care about the environmental impact. The pipeline has received 55 notices of violation – 46 of those were for violating water quality standards (and that number is from 2021, it's larger now.)
From the article:
In the path of the pipeline:
The Gauley River, home of the Candy Darter, where they want to bore under the river to preserve Candy Darter habitat. Yet, there will be a total of 191 waterbody crossings within the Gauley watershed potentially flushing sediment into Candy Darter habitat.
The Elk River, the drinking water source for 6 public water systems including the City of Charleston which supplies drinking water to over 300,000 people.
The Greenbrier River, one of the longest and most technical borings will be 1,250 feet in length, will require half a million gallons of water and drilling slurry and take up to 4 months to complete.
If crossing some of West Virginia’s most cherished rivers isn’t enough, the remaining crossings are of headwater streams – over 80% of all the stream crossings are headwaters.
I couldn't find info on where to donate to protesters or things like that so if ANYONE can add those resources (or whatever other you find) PLEASE feel free to add them!!