March 18, 2024

aphony-cree:

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I am so normal about buffy the vampire slayer

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March 18, 2024

robertreich:

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That’s today. Not 5 years from now. Today. Instead, the federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since it was last raised on July 24, 2009. http://dlvr.it/T4GQDm

March 18, 2024

ringneckedpheasant:

were–ralph:

noonesgaylikegatson:

I want what they have

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the final photos are so cute x

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March 18, 2024
today i found out that if you have library access through ur school, you almost definitely have a copy of the vatican’s latin translation of diary of a wimpy kid and i am currently reading Commentarii de Inepto Puero thank you

certifiedlibraryposts:

baece:

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Certified Library Post

March 18, 2024

secularbakedgoods:

one frustrating element of the new content bans on gumroad and patreon is that they’re doing it to stay in line with their payment processors’ policies, which themselves are in place to stay in line with FOSTA-SESTA.

which is a law passed in the united states, a country of which i am not a citizen and in which i do not live. i was legally prohibited from voting for or against FOSTA-SESTA, but because the platforms and payment providers i use are based there, i am expected to comply with it anyway.

and the tiktok situation shows us that any platform based outside the US can and will be either blocked from operating within it or forcibly divested from its foreign owners.

this is just another facet of american empire, by the way. it’s more than bombs and guns and client states: it’s that the US leverages its dominance over technology and finance to set policy for, effectively, the entire world.

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March 18, 2024

psychotic-gerard:

do you all remember in the early 2010s where people were talking about freeing the nipple and that mixed-gender sports should become a thing and the removal of period tax and all of that and then some people realised that would mean trans people too ans they instantly decided to revert to bioessentialism 101 and now i have to see grating sentences like Well maybe jeopardy should be gender-segregated because males have a biological advantage in pressing a button

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March 18, 2024
findingfeather:
“supreme-leader-stoat:
“horizon-penblade:
“libertineangel:
“samshine-and-lollipops:
“ Wait, it got better.
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He does this a lot, to my deep surprise in undergrad:
For reference, the reason nobody likes this book and you can press tofu...

findingfeather:

supreme-leader-stoat:

horizon-penblade:

libertineangel:

samshine-and-lollipops:

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Wait, it got better.

He does this a lot, to my deep surprise in undergrad:

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For reference, the reason nobody likes this book and you can press tofu with it is that it’s about 1600 pages long.

It’s also, by all accounts, the origin of Cousin Throckmorton

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You know, it makes perfect sense that the guy who would amuse himself by going around Twitter as above would also have come up with the skateboarding cousin Throckmorton for a word problem.

Like it totally follows.

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March 18, 2024

firekitten830:

eldritchwhispersofficial:

aethersquid:

rorschachisgay:

fags are allowed to say dyke and dykes are allowed to say fag in the same way that youre allowed to run up and slap your sibling on the back of the head

I fully agree with the sentiment but also seeing this reblogged onto my dash by my sibling feels like a warning.

did they do it

yes I did

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March 18, 2024

dkpsyhog:

clefairytea:

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So I’m about to make a completely insane post. Excuse me.

So I got this comment on Peaks and Valleys the other day, on the chapter where Blue is in the airport and has to put all his Pokemon in holding.

Grabs this anon’s shoulders. I thought about this. I thought about this a lot. I went back and forth on it during this chapter so much.

And I actually concluded that the airline security does not necessarily imply this. While a lot of our real-world flight security was considerably tightened and comes as a direct result of 9/11, I don’t think that’s the case here.

I think this is actually much more mundane safety concerns. Even an incredibly well-trained and well-behaved Pikachu, if surprised by a bout of turbulence, might let off some static. That’s going to interfere with the equipment and make things unsafe.

What about the incredibly variable size and shape of pokemon - what happens if some kid releases Mom’s Nidoqueen or Wailord in the middle of a flight? That’s a big and heavy pokemon to suddenly have in an enclosed space where weight of cargo has to be well accounted for.

Even if you bring a small Pokémon, evolution could happen really suddenly - especially due to environmental effects. Imagine someone’s got their cute little Tyrunt next to them on the flight, it sneaks a rare candy or something, and next thing you know there’s a massive 600lbs Tyrantrum to deal with.

What about the effects on the pokemon themselves - moving quickly at high altitudes between different places and weather patterns is probably going to make a Castform kind of sick and out of sorts.

Pokeball locking, enforcing Everstone use, or having specific regulations about what Pokémon can go on flights and what can’t. Those could be feasible solutions but would also require a lot of overhead. There’s hundreds of different Pokemon, the average flight holds about 200 people, every single person could carry up to 6 pokemon with them. That’s a LOT of SOPs and guidelines to write, a lot of things to check, potentially a lot of things for passengers to get done (I didn’t consider this at the time because it was pre-Scarvio, but Everstones can only be bought in ScarVio at 3000 yen a pop - otherwise they have to be found in the wild. That’s an expensive and annoying thing to source for either passengers or the airline).

The most effective solution - short of forcing everyone to put their pokemon in boxes to get on the other end (and box software varies by region potentially causing complication, a lot of people would really resist this, etc), is just to securely hold all Pokémon in the same way apart from the human passengera until the end of the flight.

In conclusion: never think I didn’t excessively think about the implications of Pokemon air travel in my gay fanfic. I am insane and I did.

Forcibly locking pokeballs is definitely possible (it happens in scarvi after all) but there’d need to be exceptions for people whose pokemon provide an accessibility service… and everstones would be needed for those mons…

Yeah, I think I can see why so many trainers ride on pokemon to get around

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March 18, 2024

dabwax:

“They’re not disgusting, they’re gay culture!”

Gay Old Life ft. Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally from Dicks: The Musical (2023)

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March 18, 2024

nederlandsespoorwegen:

quantumized-insanity:

nederlandsespoorwegen:

Als je met de ICD gaat ben je verplicht om stilletjes in jezelf te vragen “welke pride vlag is dat?”

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Some things really are universal

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I know there’s a lot of queer people on this site but that’s not happening

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March 18, 2024

mytortoisegotstuckinatupperware:

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beautiful

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March 18, 2024

viralfrog:

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March 18, 2024

reasonsforhope:

yarnings:

reasonsforhope:

reasonsforhope:

A century of gradual reforestation across the American East and Southeast has kept the region cooler than it otherwise would have become, a new study shows.

The pioneering study of progress shows how the last 25 years of accelerated reforestation around the world might significantly pay off in the second half of the 21st century.

Using a variety of calculative methods and estimations based on satellite and temperature data from weather stations, the authors determined that forests in the eastern United States cool the land surface by 1.8 – 3.6°F annually compared to nearby grasslands and croplands, with the strongest effect seen in summer, when cooling amounts to 3.6 – 9°F.

The younger the forest, the more this cooling effect was detected, with forest trees between 20 and 40 years old offering the coolest temperatures underneath.

“The reforestation has been remarkable and we have shown this has translated into the surrounding air temperature,” Mallory Barnes, an environmental scientist at Indiana University who led the research, told The Guardian.

“Moving forward, we need to think about tree planting not just as a way to absorb carbon dioxide but also the cooling effects in adapting for climate change, to help cities be resilient against these very hot temperatures.”

The cooling of the land surface affected the air near ground level as well, with a stepwise reduction in heat linked to reductions in near-surface air temps.

“Analyses of historical land cover and air temperature trends showed that the cooling benefits of reforestation extend across the landscape,” the authors write. “Locations surrounded by reforestation were up to 1.8°F cooler than neighboring locations that did not undergo land cover change, and areas dominated by regrowing forests were associated with cooling temperature trends in much of the Eastern United States.”

By the 1930s, forest cover loss in the eastern states like the Carolinas and Mississippi had stopped, as the descendants of European settlers moved in greater and greater numbers into cities and marginal agricultural land was abandoned.

The Civilian Conservation Corps undertook large replanting efforts of forests that had been cleared, and this is believed to be what is causing the lower average temperatures observed in the study data.

However, the authors note that other causes, like more sophisticated crop irrigation and increases in airborne pollutants that block incoming sunlight, may have also contributed to the lowering of temperatures over time. They also note that tree planting might not always produce this effect, such as in the boreal zone where increases in trees are linked with increases in humidity that way raise average temperatures.”

-via Good News Network, February 20, 2024

Reblogging to show the temperature maps that are featured in the original study (and the Guardian article about it), because the visual difference really is so striking and so encouraging.

As you look at these maps of forests vs. temperature trends, remember that the temperature map is showing large-scale, very long-term averages, especially on the temperature map. Because of that, the map data doesn’t reflect how very, very big a difference it can make on a local scale, e.g. those 9°F summer temperature conditions. And those local scale changes are the changes that people actually live in.

This is hugely

Forest Age vs. Warming Maps

A map of reforestation in the United States in the past century. Younger forests are dark green (under 25 years) and light green (25 to 100 years). Forests older than 100 and 200 years are shown in light brown and dark brown, respectively.  The vast majority of older forests are in the western half of the US. The east and southeast, though, are covered in dark green, which is by far the most dense in the large area of the southeast between South Carolina and Louisiana.   There are also pockets of new reforestation in the northeast, around the Great Lakes, throughout the west, and in the Pacific Northwest.ALT
A map of cooling trends in the United States, shown as change per 50 years (that is, change from 1960 to 2010). Areas that cooled down in that time period are shown in various shades of blue, with dark blue being the coolest. Warming is shown in shades of red, with bright red being the warmest.  Most of the country is in the red, and most of that portion is the lightest shade of red, with plenty of dark red hot spots.  However, the midwest and southeastern areas of the US are all cooling - all shown in blue. The cooling is most dramatic in the same area as the resforestation: South Carolina through Louisiana. The cooling effect actually extends substantially beyond the new reforestation areas, by what looks (to my math) like an area of 200 to 400 miles.  There are also pockets of cooling in the west, many of which roughly match pockets of new reforestation.ALT

Pictured: Guardian graphic. Source: Barnes, et al, 2024, ‘A Century of Reforestation Reduced Anthropogenic Warming in the Eastern United States.’ Note: Forest age data from North American Carbon Program. Age estimates as of 2019 at 1km resolution. Temperature data from Delaware Air Temperature & Precipitation Dataset.

Source: The Guardian, February 17, 2024. And the original study is here, from the journal Earth’s Future, first published February 13, 2024.

(Also, btw, for any non-US and/or non-geography people, don’t worry about the fact that there aren’t any forests in the middle of the country. That’s the Great Plains. Like we definitely did turn most of it into cropland, but it’s not supposed to have forests.)

This is huge.

Even the small pockets of new reforestation elsewhere in the country are usually correlated with small pockets of cooling. (And of course correlation by itself does not equal causation, but that’s what the rest of the study is for.)

This is genuinely strong evidence that the massive tree planting campaigns of the last 25 years are going to pay off dramatically much sooner than we thought.

The study found that the coolest forests were ones planted planted 20 to 40 years ago.

That means that trees planted in the 90s through 2004 are in that stage and causing the most cooling right now.

It also means that the ongoing, absolutely massive recent reforestation efforts are going to pay off a lot between now and 2050.

That means campaigns like China’s 2022 pledge to plant or conserve 70 billion trees by 2030. Or India’s annual tree-planting drive, which in 2021 saw 250 million trees planted in just one day. Or Kenya’s new tree-planting holiday, started in 2023, to plant 100 million trees each year.

This study also gives strong evidence that newer forests don’t have vanishingly few benefits compared to old growth forests - they do have benefits (if not as many), just different ones. It also, I would argue, suggests that tree planting efforts don’t have to be ecologically perfect to make a real difference. They certainly were not nailing native plant biodiversity and ecological best practices in the US in the 1930s!

And as we learn (and actually implement) more and more about how to do reforestation right - more biodiversity, native plants only, actual forests and not just tree plantations - the benefits of reforestation will only increase.

A point of explanation for those who aren’t used to having to read scientific figures, and are thinking that this doesn’t make any sense so there must be a big flaw: the fact that the newer forests are associated with more cooling doesn’t mean that younger forests give more cooling effect. It means that there’s no cooling effects from the older forests because they were there all along. What that map shows is the change over 100 years. If the forest was there (and mature) for the whole time, the cooling was already happening in 1910, so there was no change from 1910 to 2010.

@yarnings Yes, exactly! Thank you for adding that clarification!!

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March 18, 2024

penny-anna:

penny-anna:

penny-anna:

penny-anna:

penny-anna:

penny-anna:

penny-anna:

penny-anna:

Before Steven was born Amethyst used to say ‘fuck’ all the time & so when he was a baby Greg had to sit her down and explain that she has to stop swearing around Steven because he’s young & impressionable

So Amethyst is like “but that’s my favourite word, when will be stop being young & impressionable so I can say it again??”

And Greg is like “uhh I don’t know, 15 I guess? 15 is probably old enough” 

“Got it”

flash forward to Steven’s fifteenth birthday and he is woken at dawn by Amethyst yelling “wake the FUCK up Steven it’s FUCKING TIME”

& he spends the entire day losing his mind

Steven: w-what’s happening

Garnet: *deadpan* Amethyst just got her favourite word back

Amethyst: *running around the house* FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

Greg: what’s going on

Amethyst: you said once Steven was 15 I could say fuck again

Greg, who only hazily recalls the conversation in question: ……i DID?

Amethyst: *runs outside* FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK *distant sounds of spooked birds*

Pearl: Steven the *whispering* F-word is a bad word that Amethyst USED to say before-

Steven: I know what fuck means Pearl

Amethyst: *stopping dead in her tracks* WHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATT??

Pearl: who taught you that word mister!!

Steven: um… Lars and Sadie… *mumbling* five years ago…

Amethyst: I’ve been denying myself my favourite word for FIVE YEARS for NOTHING??

Greg: uh even if he knows what it means it’s still not really appropriate for you t-

Amethyst: *running outside* FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCK

Steven: …

Greg: …

Pearl: …

Garnet: …*quietly* fuck

Everyone else: O_O

Garnet: what. I missed it too

also Amethyst made a banner that says HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY STEVEN in very large writing

Connie: what’s going on

Steven: Amethyst is allowed to say fuck now

Connie: oh! are we all allowed to say fuck now??

Greg & Pearl in unison: NO!!

Peridot: what’s fuck

Amethyst: *whispers in Peridot’s ear*

Peridot: huh. if anything that raises further questions.

Connie: because I’m not allowed to say fuck at my house so I’d really appreciate it if I could say fuck here-

Pearl: NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO SAY FUCK!!

Everyone else: ……………….

Steven, Amethyst & Connie: *losing their minds* OHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

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