I spent a while being confused at people calling it "Ever Given" when every photo had "EVERGREEN" in huge letters across its side, so I was forced to look into it and of course the latter is the company name.

Adventures in branding.

It took the time to trace an outline of a cock and balls before entering the canal https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1374515642339004417

As one does.

As I said elsewhere, wrong canal, but this is now stuck in my head: https://youtu.be/eN3qfnjbKJ8

And it made me learn about the bulbous bow, so that's a plus.

3. I think that's mostly just the ship swinging at anchor as the tides change in the anchorage. The first part seems to be the ship anchoring and then drifting out as the rode pays out.

that's mostly just the ship swinging at anchor IYKWIMAITYD

Big Swinging Ship energy there.

Oh, you'll always know your neighbor, you'll always know your pal,
If you always trace cock and balls before the canal.

The legend lives on from the Nubians on down
Of the big ship they call EVER GIVEN
Suez, goes the talk, has unpassable locks
When your ship tracks are some balls and a cock

Many of their ships are called Ever ____ and they seem to have letter classes which is probably the commission year like how breeders name puppies.
http://www.vesseltracking.net/carrier/carrier-ships/4

Actually looks like it's not year but class/size of ship. All the ones with the same first letter in the second word are similar sizes but may have launched a few years apart.

I thought it was the motion of the ocean?

You would need more than a dozen puppies to block the canal.

She might run have aground
Or she might have wedged tight
While the storm dust devils were blowing
But the tugs and the crews and the Suez Canal Authority too
All are hauling and towing...

Lake Gatun fills, Panama sings
In the locks of her freshwater thriving
The Red Sea gleams like an Israelite's dreams
The waters and waves are for parting
And farther above, the spreading blue Med
Takes in what the canal can send her
And the schedules will bend as the agents all dread
With the groundings of Suez remembered

|| New Yorkers: any hope that Cuomo can be pushed out? I see his family got special access to testing. That's on top of minimizing nursing home deaths.

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Your guess is as good as mine, but I'm hoping. It'll probably come down to the Attorney General's investigation -- if the report is scathing enough, that might get him out.

Predictit is pretty much 50-50.

So, I just finished season 2 of Counterpart. Not half bad.

OP would never happen with ekranoplans. They could just go round the blockage by flying over the desert.

Me obviously.

This has made me so happy:

my name is Boat
and wen im tired
(but shipping werk
is still required)

then all I want
is lyttle snooze
i turn to side
i blok the Sooz

https://twitter.com/krfabian/status/1374798847650709504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1374798847650709504%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fdelagar.blogspot.com%2F

Ultra Large Container EKRANOPLANS! What a wonderful world this could be.

Who will Tom Hanks play in the eventual movie about the giant stuck boat in the Suez Canal? Entertaining Twitter thread here: https://twitter.com/ellle_em/status/1375018847338643461?s=20

Question. Why don't they have like two backhoes digging instead of just one?

FT article that suggests one more case of private profit, socialized risk. Container ships have been getting bigger quickly, this huge one built in 2018 was a predictable disaster.
https://www.ft.com/content/171c92ec-0a44-4dc5-acab-81ee2620d3c1

Also, lament in print about the cost of the delays, but not a word about whether the poor guys who work for shitty improvised companies come out OK with the extra month added on to their voyages.

They've been stuck on the ship since last January. Won't even notice.

28: I'm paywalled. Does it compare Suez/Panama?

Reading list, since some of you folks are into that sort of thing: https://twitter.com/charmaineschua/status/1375868552129863681?s=21

How weird that very anodyne book covers are tagged as "Potentially Sensitive Content" on her feed. What is Jack Dorsey telling us?

I didn't see anything flagged, but here's the whole thread if that's a better format: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1375868552129863681.html

"Tenet" is confusing but visually distinctive. So I guess it's on topic.

He's driving while going backwards through time and using his phone. So unsafe.

He was fighting himself?

This makes so little sense.

33. That's even weirder than seeing the warnings! Are Twitter warnings personalized? Yikes.
ps: The threadreader version is certainly easier on the eyes. Thanks.

The post title is not factually correct.

I'm going to tell kids that this was the Suez Crisis.