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@madisonbeer: i wanna make you mine.

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Hey, happy Earth Day! Who wants to talk about climate change?

Yeah, okay, fair, I kinda figured the answer to that would be "ugh do we have to?" What if I told you I have good news though? Good news with caveats, but still good news.

What if I told you that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, we've avoided a whole degree celsius of global warming by 2100, or maybe more?

Current projections are 2.7C, which is way better than the 3-5C (with a median of 3.7C) we were expecting in 2015. It's not where we want to be - 1.5C - but it is big, noticeable progress!

And it's not like we either hit 1.5C and avoid all the big scary consequences or fail to hit 1.5C and get all of them - every tenth of a degree of warming we avoid is going to prevent more severe problems like extreme weather, sea level rise, etc.

This means that climate change mitigation efforts are having a noticeable impact! This means a dramatically better, safer future - and if we keep pushing, we could lower the amount of global warming we end up with even further. This is huge progress, and we need to celebrate it, even though the fight isn't over.

It's working. Keep going.

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i hope that the discussion about student protests does not get reduced to "privileged rich kids faffing around at an ivy league school." setting aside that tenuous claim, over the last week, protests have erupted over the entire country. a few days ago, riot police beat, pepper-sprayed, and arrested NYU faculty shielding students; protests started at the university of southern california when the admin cancelled the valedictorian's speech; encampments appeared at the university of southern carolina, UT dallas, the university of maryland, the university of new mexico, IUPUI, virginia tech, the university of virginia, the university of illinois, the university of north carolina — chapel hill, the university of pittsburgh, uc berkeley, the university of michigan — ann arbor, MIT, emerson, tufts, the university of rochester, rice, swarthmore, the new school, vanderbilt university, with students arrested; students protested or walked out at miami university, northwestern, temple, the 5 claremont colleges: pomona, pitzer, scripps, harvey mudd, and claremont mckenna, stanford, washington university in st louis, students were arrested at ohio state, students were confronted by riot police at cal poly humboldt, after which they occupied campus, students were arrested at the university of minnesota — twin cities, after which faculty walked out; and yes, there are protests at the other ivies, most notably yale, with students facing mass arests after encampments, but there is also an encampment at brown, protests appeared at cornell, princeton faculty issued a statement of solidarity while students are preparing an encampment, and harvard banned the undergraduate palestine solidarity committee. there are thousands of students who are protesting for palestine across the entire country, facing harassment, arrest, and suspension in return

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MISS CONGENIALITY (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

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Carla Gugino as Grace Gordon Greene The Girls on the Bus || 1x08

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J. Smith Cameron at the 2024 Writers Guild Awards

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EDEN ESPINOSA as Tamara de Lempicka & AMBER IMAN as Rafaela LEMPICKA the musical

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Many theatergoers might not know that Tamara de Lempicka was a Polish art deco painter. “But they will recognize her art,” says Eden Espinosa (Rent and Wicked), who plays the artist in a new musical, Lempicka, directed by Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown). “Lempicka’s story is so layered and nuanced. It makes you feel and think.” Espinosa has been attached to the show for several years—it first premiered in 2018 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival—but she’ll finally bring it to the Longacre Theatre this spring. “That’s all I’ve ever wanted for this piece,” says Espinosa. “I just want New York to be able to see our show.”

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TINASHE Harper's Bazaar Vietnam.

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thinking about how Gerri Kellman is a horny mastermind

- how incredible must it have felt to be able to berate one of these men (especially *THIS* babyman) after thirty fucking years of leering and undermining and misogyny at this company (we can only imagine)

- the fact that *she* was the one who brought masturbation into the conversation during the first conference call

- the fact that she could have hung up BUT DID NOT (because she easily could have once she realized what was happening)

-the fact that by keeping it over the phone, she could say that she didn’t *actually* know he was jerking off and

- the fact that she kept everything in Term Haven through a closed door that she never *said* anything explicitly about his cock etc., because *technically* the phrase “do something with yourself” could mean a variety of things

- because you know she’s going to cover her ass (legally) because she’s brilliant

- still wish we had gotta to see Gerri Kellman having an orgasm Jesse you’re a coward but I get why you did what you did

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Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) dir. Audrey Wells

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I’ve only seen two episodes of Abbott elementary but god I would let this woman beat me with a crowbar

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Bernadette Peters sitting on a piano in 2024?! Some things never change.

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I neeeeed people to stop conflating femme with “gender-conforming lesbian.” Both butch and femme are inherently gender nonconforming because they’re based in redefining masculinity and femininity in ways that don’t involve men. That’s like half the definition. Some of us have all of our body hair. Some of us have short hair. Some of us don’t wear a lot of makeup, or any at all. Some of us feel more comfortable in a suit than a dress. Some of us are loud, angry, and protective. Some of us aren’t women. Femmes are not a monolith of soft and delicate cis girls and I really need to see more recognition of that on this site before I go insane.

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