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For all of the northerners that stood up for Texas during our freeze and said, "Don't make fun of them, they've never dealt with this before. Their infrastructure isn't made for snow and freezing."

This one is for you.

Where I live 108°F with 80% humidity with no wind is normal.

Pacific North West is dealing historic best waves 35-40°C or 95-105°F.

First of all. Don't make fun of them for bitching about the heat. Just like Texas isn't built for a freeze and our pipes burst, Pacific North West isn't built for heat and a lot of their homes don't have AC.

If you live somewhere with a high humidity like 80+ HUMIDITY IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. The "humidity makes it feel cooler" is a lie once it gets beyond a point.

If you live somewhere with a lower humidity, misters are nice to cool off outside.

Once you get over 90°F (32°C) a fan will not help you. It's just pushing around hot air. (I mean if you can't afford a small AC unit because they're expensive as hell, by all means a fan is better than nothing).

If you have pets, those portable AC units aren't safe. If your pets destroy the outtake thing, it'll leak CO2. Window units are safer.

Window AC units will let mosquitoes or other small bugs in. Sucks, but that's life.

Now is not the time to me modest. If you have to cover for religious reasons, by all means. If you don't, I've seen people wear short shorts and a swim top. It's not trashy if it keeps you from getting heat stroke.

If you do have to cover up for religious reasons, look for elephant pants or something similar. They're made with a breathable material.

Shade is better than no shade, but that shit it just diet sun after some point. Don't think shade will save you from heat stroke.

I know the "drink your water" is a fun meme now, but if you're sweating excessively you need electrolytes. Drink Gatorade, Powerade, or Pedialite PLEASE. I don't care if you're fucking sitting in one spot all day. That shit WILL save you from heat stroke.

Most importantly. RESEARCH THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HEAT STROKE AND HEAT EXHAUSTION PLEASE!

If you're diabetic and can't drink Gatorade, mix water, fruit juice, and either lite salt or pink salt

If you can afford it, cover windows with thick curtains to insulate the house

If you have tile floors, lay on them with skin to tile contact. If you don't, laying your head on cool counters works too.

If the temperature where you're at is hotter than your body temperature, don't wear heat wicking clothing. Moisture wicking is safe though.

Check your medication labels. Many make you more susceptible to sun and heat

-Room temperature water will get into your body faster. This is something I learned doing marching band in high summer in Georgia, and it saved all of our asses. Sip it, don't gulp it, especially if you're getting into the red; same goes for whatever fluid you're drinking. And just in general drink during the day.

-If you are moving from an air conditioned space to an un-air conditioned space, if at all possible try to make the shift gradual. When my dad and I were working outside and in un-ac houses a few years ago, he'd turn the air down to low in the truck about ten-fifteen minutes before we got where we were going. This way your body doesn't go from low low temps to high temps. S'bad for you.

-If you can, keep your lights off during the day. Light bulbs may not generate a lot of heat, but the difference is noticeable when it gets hot enough. I literally only turn my bedroom light on in the evening when it gets too dark.

Don't be afraid to just like... pour water on yourself if you need to. The evaporation will cool you off.

Put your hand to the cement for 15 seconds. If you can't handle the heat, it'll burn your dog's paws. Don't let them walk on it.

Dogs with flat faces are more prone to heat stroke. Don't leave them out unsupervised.

Frozen fruit is delicious in water.

Wet/Cold hat/handkerchief on your head/neck will help you stay cool.

Pickle juice is great for electrolytes! You can even make pickle juice Popsicles!

Heat exhaustion is more, "drink water and get you cooled off." Heat stroke is more "Oh my god call 911."

Image Description provided by @loveize

[Image description: an infographic showing the difference between heat exhaustion and heat stroke. The graphic is labeled "Heat Dangers: First Warning." Signs of heat exhaustion: faint or dizzy, excessive sweating, cool, pale, clammy skin, rapid, weak pulse, muscle cramps. If you think you or someone else may be experiencing heat exhaustion, get to a cool, air-conditioned place, drink water if conscious, and take a cool shower or use cold compress. Signs of heat stroke: throbbing headache, no sweating, red, hot, dry skin, rapid, strong pulse, may lose consciousness. If you think you or someone else may be experiencing heat stroke, call 911. End description]

Be safe.

-fae

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I hope I am wrong about covid. I desperately would love to be proven wrong.

But every single piece of evidence including my own lived experience of getting covid and still being sick 3 years later (it’s my anniversary ✨) and thousands of published scientific studies has demonstrated that this virus is not harmless and even if it doesn’t kill you that doesn’t mean there isn’t going to be lasting damage from cumulative infections

I think people hear this and fall into either nihilism (it’s inevitable, might as well go out and party before the apocalypse) or complete denial (it will only happen to people who are already disabled who i unconsciously as acceptable sacrifices for not making any adjustments to my life). Neither are appropriate responses m.

Making the air safer through ventilation and filtration and masking with proper respirators are two significant ways to reduce transmission that are achievable. You don’t have to give up and fall into denial or apathy. You can take individual actions to make a small difference.

If you’ve given up for whatever reason you can always start again. I understand the social pressure to continue on as normal is crushing. But many of us are physically unable to pretend to to back to normal because we are too sick. If you talk about resisting, here you go. Resist right wing misinformation, science denial. Care about covid- at least a little bit

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fan fic authors be like yes i know this will flop however i simply have too much love for this character and my very niche headcanons for them. and i think that is so fuckin sexy of us

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HAPPY FIRST EVER INTERNATIONAL AROMANTIC VISIBILITY DAY

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This pride month don’t forget your disabled and immunocompromised peers. Wear a mask. Stay home if you’re unwell. Get vaccinated. Take a covid test.

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crush - richard siken // how to draw a horse - emma hunsinger // sehnsucht - german word

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If you're a writer you're supposed to write a lot of bullshit. It's part of the gig. You have to write a lot of absolute garbage in order to get to the good bits. Every once in a while you'll be like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time writing bullshit," but that's dumb. That's exactly the same as an Olympic runner being like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time running all those practice laps"

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Let’s compare some different weights of bow!

As always, you can find more stuff here

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Take action:

https://wclivestream.com/act

For context, a bunch of climate scientists and meteorologists are currently doing a 100-hour long livestream of scientific talks to protest funding cuts in the USA (it's being cut into segments due to youtube stream length limits). All the science discussed so far has been really cool and you should check it out!

Their website

Watch here

(reblogging for greater visibility would be greatly appreciated!)

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blorbo from my 100 hr climate livestream

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If, as Sedgwick says, some of us “fail to desire,” there may well be, as Jack Halberstam’s work reminds us, a particularly queer pleasure in affirming the failure to be properly sexual (and the failure to produce recognizably disciplinary scholarship): “failure allows us to escape the punishing norms that discipline behavior and manage human development with the goal of delivering us from unruly childhoods to orderly and predictable adulthoods....[Failure] provides the opportunity to use these negative affects to poke holes in the toxic positivity of contemporary life”. The failure to be sexual or have a sexual orientation offers one modality of feeling a much wider field of erotics— a politics of touch—that sustains and envelops queer, asexual orientations to sexuality.

Nathan Snaza, Asexuality and Erotic Biopolitics

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Hour 52!!! Of weather and climate livestream!!!

This is the 52nd hour of 100 scientific presentations, each 10-15 minutes, + panels sometimes! to raise awareness about the Trump administration cutting funding to weather and climate related science and research!

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STARTING TOMORROW

Scientists in weather and climate are live streaming for 100 hours to make their case to the American public.

They are live streaming, but engagement is necessary for it to work. SHARE THIS WITH PEOPLE, RECORD THE STREAM, POST CLIPS OF IT THAT ARE FUNNY, if you can tune in, PLEASE DO!

This is something that has to be heard by as many people as possible. Put it on in the background! See if you can get other people to watch it! Do whatever you can do support those who are trying to be supported! Anything and everything helps!

TUNE IN HERE

article I posted screenshots of here

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I love scientists because they’re actually really funny people sometimes

Here’s the link

Please support scientists!!!!

[disaronnus]

STARTING TOMORROW

Scientists in weather and climate are live streaming for 100 hours to make their case to the American public.

They are live streaming, but engagement is necessary for it to work. SHARE THIS WITH PEOPLE, RECORD THE STREAM, POST CLIPS OF IT THAT ARE FUNNY, if you can tune in, PLEASE DO!

This is something that has to be heard by as many people as possible. Put it on in the background! See if you can get other people to watch it! Do whatever you can do support those who are trying to be supported! Anything and everything helps!

TUNE IN HERE

article I posted screenshots of here

[disaronnus]

STARTING TOMORROW

Scientists in weather and climate are live streaming for 100 hours to make their case to the American public.

They are live streaming, but engagement is necessary for it to work. SHARE THIS WITH PEOPLE, RECORD THE STREAM, POST CLIPS OF IT THAT ARE FUNNY, if you can tune in, PLEASE DO!

This is something that has to be heard by as many people as possible. Put it on in the background! See if you can get other people to watch it! Do whatever you can do support those who are trying to be supported! Anything and everything helps!

TUNE IN HERE

article I posted screenshots of here

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I love scientists because they’re actually really funny people sometimes

Here’s the link

Please support scientists!!!!