First there was the Opium Wars. Now we have the Cooking Oil War.
October 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
First there was the Opium Wars. Now we have the Cooking Oil War.
Permanent Opium War (2025)
"The spectacle is a permanent opium war which aims to make people identify goods with commodities and satisfaction with survival..." -Debord
www.artdecademonthly.com
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"The spectacle is a permanent opium war which aims to make people identify goods with commodities and satisfaction with survival..." -Debord
www.artdecademonthly.com
(Quality version here: www.furaffinity.net/view/62499602/)
October 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Permanent Opium War (2025)
"The spectacle is a permanent opium war which aims to make people identify goods with commodities and satisfaction with survival..." -Debord
www.artdecademonthly.com
(Quality version here: www.furaffinity.net/view/62499602/)
"The spectacle is a permanent opium war which aims to make people identify goods with commodities and satisfaction with survival..." -Debord
www.artdecademonthly.com
(Quality version here: www.furaffinity.net/view/62499602/)
If there's one thing we know about people who use and sell opium, it's that they always keep their opium in bottles clearly labeled "OPIUM."
Also, opium?
Do they think he emigrated from the 19th century?
Also, opium?
Do they think he emigrated from the 19th century?
Arkansas police pulled over an Indian GrubHub driver wh ois married to a U.S. citizen. They found a bottle of Opium-brand perfume, arrested him for narcotics possession, and turned him over to ICE, where he was held for 30 days.
He has now been stripped of his immigration status.
He has now been stripped of his immigration status.
Traffic stop in Benton leads to ICE detention, deportation risk
What began as a routine traffic stop in Benton ended with a man jailed, detained by immigration authorities for a month, and now living under the threat of deportation —
www.bentoncourier.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
If there's one thing we know about people who use and sell opium, it's that they always keep their opium in bottles clearly labeled "OPIUM."
Also, opium?
Do they think he emigrated from the 19th century?
Also, opium?
Do they think he emigrated from the 19th century?
kitsune parm, now with an opium addiction
February 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
kitsune parm, now with an opium addiction
Learning about the official antique figurine of Tintin smoking opium
July 2, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Learning about the official antique figurine of Tintin smoking opium
Daria Petrilli (b.1970, Italy)
Opium, 2020.
oil on canvas.
Opium, 2020.
oil on canvas.
June 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Daria Petrilli (b.1970, Italy)
Opium, 2020.
oil on canvas.
Opium, 2020.
oil on canvas.
NYC opium den 1923. Damn do I miss the old days.
September 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
NYC opium den 1923. Damn do I miss the old days.
The history of pharmacology is basically:
opium, opium, opium, slightly different opium, opium, vaccinations, opium and cocaine, antibiotics, opium, this opium is definitely less addictive we promise, opium, opium, much stronger opium
opium, opium, opium, slightly different opium, opium, vaccinations, opium and cocaine, antibiotics, opium, this opium is definitely less addictive we promise, opium, opium, much stronger opium
August 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The history of pharmacology is basically:
opium, opium, opium, slightly different opium, opium, vaccinations, opium and cocaine, antibiotics, opium, this opium is definitely less addictive we promise, opium, opium, much stronger opium
opium, opium, opium, slightly different opium, opium, vaccinations, opium and cocaine, antibiotics, opium, this opium is definitely less addictive we promise, opium, opium, much stronger opium
So police thought a bottle of Opium perfume was Opium. The incompetency is dumbfounding.
www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...
www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...
Indian immigrant fights deportation after police mistake perfume labeled 'Opium' for the narcotic
Kapil Raghu, 28, was arrested in May after an officer in central Arkansas spotted the rollerball perfume bottle in his car during a routine traffic stop.
www.nbcnews.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
So police thought a bottle of Opium perfume was Opium. The incompetency is dumbfounding.
www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...
www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...
Opium
September 13, 2024 at 1:48 AM
Opium
opium den summer
May 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
opium den summer
karl marx once said "opium is massive"
April 25, 2026 at 12:58 AM
karl marx once said "opium is massive"
Caterpillar Absolem feasting on Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum)
March 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Caterpillar Absolem feasting on Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum)
opium poppy from the sketchbook
March 30, 2026 at 8:04 AM
opium poppy from the sketchbook
To write a 12-minute talk about the Opium Wars, I have written a 40-minute talk about the Opium Wars.
May 27, 2026 at 4:57 AM
To write a 12-minute talk about the Opium Wars, I have written a 40-minute talk about the Opium Wars.
See also: opium in China.
It was a whole crisis in the British Empire, basically as soon as industrial scale distillation stills brought liquor (gin) down to its modern relative price to beer, towns were literally emptying out of people who collectively drank themselves to death.
March 12, 2026 at 5:49 AM
See also: opium in China.
(Opium. It's about smoking opium. Thanks @wwozneworleans.bsky.social)
May 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
(Opium. It's about smoking opium. Thanks @wwozneworleans.bsky.social)
Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum) on the streets, Deganwy #wildflowerhour
June 14, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum) on the streets, Deganwy #wildflowerhour
Roblox opium dens
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June 15, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Roblox opium dens
June 16, 2026 at 7:39 AM
German poster for OPIUM (1919)
November 3, 2024 at 2:13 PM
German poster for OPIUM (1919)
"You've got it so easy," says the generation who had liquid opium over the counter for coughs and tummy aches
March 27, 2024 at 1:21 PM
"You've got it so easy," says the generation who had liquid opium over the counter for coughs and tummy aches
