Dear god, after I make it perfectly clear why I think some people are arseholes, it seems they really want to demonstrate that, yes, they are arseholes.

Still, server block is a thing.

@Orc No, you really can’t do that. The first most people know of the attack is when the boat is violently struck.

This shit has been talked about for years. Whatever you can think of has been thought of. Explosives work. Nothing else does.

@Orc No. They don’t go into the med. it happens between the Strait of Gibraltar the the English Channel.

Most boats these days with modern rudders, you can’t just drop it. Can’t on long keelers either. It’s integrated.

People have thought of this. All of it. It. Doesn’t. Work.

@The Actual Brian @Orc Thankfully nobody has died yet. It’s been very close on occasion though.

Some of the pods are now electronically tagged, and they will try to tag more in a few weeks as they migrate to Biscay for the winter.

When we know where they are, we can avoid them.

@Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑 @Orc It matters quite a lot if you’re the one about to be in the fucking water with them, tosser.

Another arsehole, another server block. plonk

@Orc @Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑 Do you enjoy doing something?

Maybe you should be chased by tigers while doing it.

You were hovering on the edge, but I think you’re engaging in bad faith here and it’s server block time. Tchau.

@golly josh darn @Orc Yeah. I liked this better for the 3 years that the only people who knew about this were sailboat owners.

On the other hand, it’s providing something of a quality filter on my social media connections, so there’s that, I suppose.

@Orc @golly josh darn @Miguel Arroz I just looked, and second hand narrowboats, which are much more “working class coded” than sailboats, are about 5-10 times the cost of second hand sailboats at a similar level.

But no, it’s the people living on sailboats who are apparently wealthy.

@jeanoappleseed @Marq ⚛️ @fedops 💙💛 The pods are now being tagged and information on their whereabouts is being communicated through. Boat owners are also increasingly collaborating to report attacks and their locations in real time, and there are apps that show it. It’s getting easier to just not be where they are.

Hopefully as we get better at avoiding them, they will start to forget about their stupid little rudder game.

If not, then I suspect things are going to get messy. The attacks in the strait are happening close to shore (how can they not? It’s narrow). The ones in Biscay in the winter and autumn are much further out, and there’s not so much oversight of what goes on out there. In previous years, it’s been suggested that some of the encounters in Biscay have ended very badly for the orcas, although details are scarce because nobody wants to get in trouble.

@Noodlemaz You may not think playing volleyball with seals before killing and eating them isn't saidstic, but if so, you and I have very different definitions of that word.

Lots of dolphins in general are, let's be honest, bastards. Orcas aren't the worst dolphins, but they are certainly up there.

If you think that enjoying inflicting pain and suffering, and killing for enjoyment, is something that is unique to humans, then you're a fool.

@Noodlemaz Yes, people call cats sadistic for torturing animals.

And orcas absolutely kill for pleasure, without eating.

*plonk*