#project 2015

[mikeo56]

Summer 2024 saw another round of devastating heat waves, droughts, wildfires, storms, and record-setting global temperatures. The window for averting a catastrophic 1.5 degrees Celsius (3 degrees Fahrenheit) warming of the planet is rapidly closing. Can we meet this moment? I suppose it depends on whom you ask. For this is a tale of two worldviews.

In one—based on facts and evidence—environmental policy is motivated by science and reason, with the intent of advancing the common good and the sustainability of our civilization and our planet. The climate crisis is seen as the defining challenge of our time, demanding immediate and urgent action.

In the other—steeped in myth and conspiratorial ideation—environmental threats are an elaborate ruse perpetrated by scientists and politicians on the take, and environmental sustainability is a Trojan horse, a tool used by “globalists” to instill a new socialist world order. Climate change is a hoax perpetrated by environmental extremists.

Nothing better illustrates this yawning chasm in worldview than two deceptively similar-sounding projects known as the fact-based “Agenda 2030” and the conspiracy-rife “Project 2025.”

The first, “Agenda 2030,” is a United Nations program for Sustainable Development unanimously adopted by UN member nations on September 25, 2015. Agenda 2030 supports a set of 17 global Sustainable Development Goals, or “SDGs,” promoting “peace and prosperity for people and the planet” and the social, economic, and environmental sustainability of our civilization. Among its priorities are the health of the planet’s oceans and forests and the overriding threat of human-caused climate change.

I’ve contributed to the program personally. Back in 2018, I developed a free online course for the SDG Academy, which the UN describes as the “premier source of high-quality resources and guidance on education for the SDGs, with the mandate to enrich the field of sustainable development and advance Agenda 2030.” My course, which is still offered today (so far more than 35,000 people have taken it) is entitled “Climate Change: The Science and Global Impact.” Its stated purpose is that “we need to understand the science behind global warming to avoid the most damaging and irreversible climate change impacts on people and planet.”

So perhaps I’m a bit personally invested in Agenda 2030 and its mission to educate the public and policymakers about the climate crisis. But it is objectively disturbing to see that program attacked in such bad faith by the right. Representative of the assault is the plutocrat and dark money-funded Heritage Foundation, which has denounced Agenda 2030 as “hopelessly flawed from the start,” “replete with imprecise goals and targets,” “senseless, dreamy, and garbled,” and “[the] antithesis of a focused development strategy.” They insist, in fact, that “the US should call out the SDGs for their ineffectiveness and call for a re-evaluation of this failed endeavor.” Strong language. We’ll return to the Heritage Foundation and their role in all of this in a bit.

[critterishere]

Idk what to caption this😭😭 help

tag yourself I’m feeling like p2 currently

[moo9395]

I think in the next six idiots projects they should all switch roles.

Ben should play the morally bankrupt and yet still somehow loveable character.

Jim should play the glass closet gay.

Martha should play the trans coded character.

Larry should play the smart one who is forced to hang around with idiots.

Mat should play the gender haver.

Simon should play the romantic Twink.

I just think it would be funny if they all swapped.

(incase you're wondering the description fits the previous)

[dandylandon]

DC Comics: *makes an interesting character in Duke Thomas, lowkey set him up as a bigger presence in this new chapter of DC*

DC Comics: *gives up after a year in favour of known characters and have him jus kinda be there and give him a 3 issue comic once in a while*

[sunanthrope]

Documentary: the wolves need to hunt to feed their young. If they don't, the pack will not survive the winter.

Me, 17 y/o, no kids, sitting in my bed, mid May, snacking on my cheetos: oh no I'd better hunt to feed my young or the pack won't survive the winter :[

[figurecollection]

Maki Nishikino Garage Kit by Ts System, from Love Live! School Idol Project

[hyyper]

Old Trowa drawings that I made many, many years ago. I still love them sm, so I'm reposting.

[lochallthedoors]

Liam Interview in The Guardian, 4 June 2017

[memaibocchi]

Little kidomomo doodle!! I don't know how to color.

alt ver under cut

[thedeepfanpage]

[headfullof-ideas]

Okay, trying this again because something went wrong with the post. I’ve finally finished the art project I was working on, and I’m really hoping it works out as I’ve never posted a video on this site before. I made a reel of Ant and Fontaine, doing that trend where a guy pokes fun at a girl doing makeup or wearing a face mask, and it cuts to him wearing one. I thought it was really funny, and got the motivation to actually get around to it a while ago, though it took me forever to find a way of making reels that I was comfortable with. But I found something in the end!

I have never underestimated the effort it takes to animate something, and certainly not now that I’ve kinda done so myself. This was an eleven frame, seven and a half second reel, and it took me two and a half days to do. And most of the work was a lot of copy pasting since there wasn’t a lot of movement. Animators have even more of my respect now

[doctorsiren]

blessed is the food that you have given us of chubby Phoenix on this fine evening.. he is mouthwatering, appetizing, tasty, flavorful, delectable, succulent, luscious, savory, piquant, scrumptious, yummy, yum-yum, peng, finger-licking good, nummy, flavorous, sapid, delightful, exquisite, lovely, glorious, heavenly, divine, enticing, majestic, ethereal, elegant, attractive, handsome, dashing, dazzling, gorgeous, lovely, magnificent, fair, pretty, wonderful, beautiful, pleasing, graceful, aesthetically, alluring, charming, delicacy, extraordinary, splendid, flawless, delicate, sweetness, glamorous, radiant, striking, photogenic, snazzy, appealing, pretty, angelic, excellent, superb, fine, fascinating, marvelous, ravishing, bewitching, and a distinguished gentleman in your style.. literally so ba-da-ba-pa-ba

oh my god you are literally saving us from the dreading hunger that we suffer from each day, every waking hour that I personally see of buff, skinny, whatever Phoenix (THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG WITH IT BY THE WAY.), by now I have grown immensely numb to seeing Phoenix drawn as such but then here you come in full glory of shining light with chubby Phoenix and I forever and ever thank you

..the words I used to describe it are synonyms of delicious and good looking by the way so you don’t have to read all of that :3c

I’m glad! Allow me to use this post to talk about some headcanons I have

So Phoenix has ADHD. Feenie was unmedicated until after the whole thing with Dahlia. Once he turned his attention to studying law and doing law school, he got a prescription to help him focus his energy and mind.

AA1-3 Phoenix took the medication.

He stopped taking them during the 7 year gap because he didn’t really need them and also he needed to use that money to take care of his newly adopted daughter (which is one of the factors of his weight gain bc he’s no longer taking medication that has an appetite suppressant side effect). Also, he would work out as well, so the extra weight is both fat and muscle. Working out was one of the things that helped him get over his alcoholism that he fell into after his disbarment.

After AA4, he started taking medication again (as well as biking around a lot like he used to, so he lost some weight but bc he’s already 34/35, his metabolism slowed so he kept part of it). He kept working out because it was already a part of his routine now and he found it to be a great stress reliever. Also, he got a nicely tailored suit (paid for by Miles 💖), which works well with the dad bod he has now :)

Based on the original sprites, he’s got broad shoulders, and based on the fact that he bikes a lot, he’s got strong legs :3

[lonoellphotojournal]

The Tumblr/Pinterest bedroom style we all know and love

[imvec]

heyo saw this on BB discord, would you be down to draw either this short and sweet one: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54451951

Or this bonus smut (doesn't have to be the smut scene) fic of my call the midwife AU? https://archiveofourown.org/works/55292092

"Carefully, Beatrice’s right hand hovers over Ava’s right above the change-over switches on the electronic panel. She counts in a whisper by her ear, “… four, three, two-” She presses, feeling Ava’s hand underneath hers." (Link)

[oddestishottest]

White Cliffs area, Missouri River Breaks National Monument, MT, USA

August 2015, photos by me

The "mushroom rocks" or rock pedestals, found in areas like the Missouri Breaks, are formed by differential erosion where harder, resistant rocks (like limestone) cap softer, underlying rock (like sandstone), creating a mushroom-like shape. 

[shiningidoll]