#disaster

[nando161mando]

The Trump Administration Is Tempting a Honeybee Disaster

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/05/honeybee-trump-research-disaster/682858/

[ralfmaximus]

There is some pretty shocking footage out there of the Baltimore bridge collapse early this morning. I've already seen some incredibly wrong, incredibly insensitive Hot Takes about how shitty the bridge was to have fallen after being bonked by a boat, etc

Please don't be that person.

The facts will come out. Speculation is silly. In addition to loss of life, the Francis Scott Key bridge was a major arterial in that region's highway system. Its loss will be felt for years, and not just to daily commuters.

Baltimore harbor is closed. No shipping at all. This will impact supply chains in ways we cannot even assess yet.

It's pretty fucked up.

[theonion]

[moved-to-slayfk]

posting here because this just doesn’t feel right to talk about in the horseimagebarn voice but this is extremely important to talk about.

my partner and i have returned to our hometown to stay with her family and my own has gotten a hotel here too (they moved to the town we currently live in after we did) so we are all safe and out of the thick of it

however there are tens of thousands of people who are not both in my own town and in the many surrounding it. appalachia will take an extremely long time to recover from this and there are more storms on the way. all i see on social media right now is people asking for shelter because their homes have been destroyed, or people asking for help searching for family members who are missing. hundreds of trees have fallen. hundreds of homes have flooded. roads are literally falling apart. preexisting sinkholes due to shitty pipes are opening up and consuming land. dams are on the verge of bursting and the only way to stop it is to release water so quickly it floods whole towns. all but one of our cell towers are down, so only people with at&t have service and the rest can’t contact anyone. over half the town still doesn’t have power. a major water supply issue occurred and the entire town is on a water boil order with no electricity to boil with. people are trapped in their homes and workplaces or out on the street because they have nowhere to go. law enforcement is blocking off roads but trapping people in the process. people have to be rescued by helicopter. our animal shelter has no water or power and boarding facilities have been flooded. entire villages like chimney rock nc are gone, and entire cities like asheville are cut off from the rest of the state and are completely inaccessible. ALL OF THE ROADS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ARE CLOSED. 400+ roads are closed because they are unsafe . that is INSANE!!!

when people say that climate change isn’t real, they don’t know what they’re talking about. climate change and its father capitalism are only going to continue to worsen lives in every way possible. i live in the mountains and our infrastructure is completely unprepared to handle hurricanes and it’s only going to get worse. it’s such a strange and eye-opening experience to live something like this when you think that it could never happen to you because that type of weather shouldn’t reach you in your environment. climate change doesn’t care where you live. it’s real.

western north carolina and the rest of the southeast that has been hit by helene need help. more people need to be talking about this so that the government DOES SOMETHING because the government historically fucking hates appalachia and it still does!!! the major state institution near me took DAYS to respond despite being the only place in town with power and wifi connection because they had to wait for the state to approve their response—they could have allowed thousands of people to evacuate days prior to the hurricane hitting us but they didn’t do anything before or after until it was too late!!! it’s bullshit!!! PLEASE get talking about this because something has to be done. climate change is going to continue happening and our mountains and the people in them are going to suffer immensely. hundreds if not thousands are now homeless. please talk about this look at the footage online of the wreckage and look how quickly our infrastructure crumbled. we need better. the people of appalachia deserve better.

i’ll get back to posting horses soon. but for now this is a lot. my friends are homeless and my family had to get off the mountain or be trapped there without power and water for days. we’re all safe but exhausted. i hope everyone who has been affected by this is staying safe. if you are in western nc, dm me. when i come back, if you’re in my area, im happy to bring supplies. stay safe everyone

[gwydionmisha]

Republicans want to remind you that events like this are why is essential to dissolve NOAA immediately, since if you know a tornado is coming you can't prepare or take shelter, which is a thing they want for some reason.

[straycatj]

I just saw how many people are suffering in the aftermath of the earthquake because it has also been very cold and raining; I remembered how branches fell through your roof and got worried... I hope all three of you and ikemen orange and white are still warm, dry, and safe! <3

We had warm new year holidays but it's gotten colder again. The disaster area is also cold and have snow, so we're really worrying about there.

Our house had damaged but we have no problems to live and she's going to repair but the damages around the disaster area is so heavy and the damage is increasing still now.

The three of us are fine, so if you would like to help, we would be very grateful if you could donate to support the effected areas.

Japan Peace Boat can be accept the donation from abroad:

Although our house in this circle but the the damage of Noto peninsula is so heavier...

[slack-wise]

Gomi Pit

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[mattydemise]

bellum omnium in omnes

[useless-denmarkfacts]

I remember discovering the fire of Notre Dame on tumblr, so I'm very sorry to inform everyone that the Danish Stock Exchange in Copenhagen, completed in 1625, is burning. Its unique spire has fallen, and as the building is, to a larger degree than Notre Dame, made of wood, mortar, and stucco, there may be very real structural damage. As you can see from the image, they were in the process of restoring it, just as it was the case with the church. Very real reconsideration should be done to how we restore very old buildings if we keep setting them on fire during the work.

People off the street have been seen running into the building and bringing out historical art pieces, primarily paintings. If you are close by, DO NOT do this! I know it appears the heroic thing to do, but no human life is worth the risk to save a painting, no matter how significant.

Before all this:

[lgbtqrefugeessouthsudan]

The LGBTQ refugees of South Sudan (Africa) are in shock right now after the news they got from the government official of South Sudan forcing the refugees to evacuate from the camp without any support from them. There are big challenges they're going through, like not being given enough food, water and other basic needs to last long enough - everything they get provided for a "month" is barely enough for a week. Not even speaking of the daily threats of aggression they face.

These challenges now became much worse...

They have to leave TOMORROW but they don't have funds to evacuate them or even funds to rent a house for them. The official stated it very well that any lgbt person found in the camp after 10 days will be imprisoned, or even deported.

Please, if you're able to help them to get some funds for transport or a house to rent to save their lives....

DONATE HERE!!!

The refugees are in fear of their lives and don't know what to do next.

[thatdisasterauthor]

So this just happened in Toronto. And everybody LIVED. The plane is UPSIDE DOWN and missing a WING and everybody LIVED. Wild. No footage of the actual crash yet, but I’m sure there will be some since they did make it to the airport. I honestly can’t wait to see it because I cannot fathom how this happened without more damage to the body of the plane.

I almost feel like they must have clipped something and torn the wing off right at the body? Maybe? Time shall tell.

[weirdlookindog]

Adam Chmielowski (1845–1916) - Death and conflagration, 1870

central section of the triptych 'Disaster'

[dailyadventureprompts]

Adventure Arc: Toppling the Toymaker

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Labour disputes in a lumber town lead an avaricious sawmill owner into a head on conflict with a grove of dryads

A dead man dressed like the king of a past era points the party to investigate a derelict playhouse staffed by puppets and hungry spirits.

Hoping only to save people from the horrors of war, a well meaning artificer builds a clockwork army that's poised to go rogue upon it's debut

Buffeted by an unnatural fog, the denizens of a flying city throw an inventors' fair to keep everyone's spirits up.

Unlike a lot of my arc sized adventures which tend to progress in a strictly linear fashion, I decided to try my hand at creating something more nebulous for a more open world style of campaign.

You could start these adventures in any order, and whether your party is your classic bunch of wandering dogooders guarding a caravan, a gaggle of thieves in the province's capital looking to loot a creepy building, or a group of crime solving sleuths,there's a way to get them tangled in this disastrous chain of events.

Endgame: Once the machines start going rogue, it'll be all too easy for the party and their allies to throw blame at the toymaker, imagine this is all part of some plan to conquer the territory while he sits safely in his flying town. To put an end to things, they'll need to improvise a means of returning to Thopperton, possibly having tfight past the legions of clockwork soldiers in the process. Once there, they'll find Gleebringer sealed inside his laboritory by his own creations, possessed by the dryads who cursed him and his industry.

[anim-ttrpgs]

Starting adventures off with a BANG in Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy!

Starting Adventures with Disaster

Sometimes, you may want to start off a Eureka adventure with a bang! The plane crashes, leaving the investigators stranded on a mysterious island; a massive explosion in the building, leaving the investigators reeling in the burning wreckage, etc.. In cases like this, we don’t recommend leaving investigators without a scratch, especially when they’re so close to the epicenter of a mass death, however since it is the inciting incident of the adventure, there would be no way for the investigators to use their brains to avoid being there in the first place - plus, unavoidable death in the very first scene would be a bummer. To resolve this, investigators will each take 1D12-3 Superficial damage.[1] While they won’t die, this means that they have about a 25% chance of taking no damage at all, but also about a 59% chance of taking enough damage to leave them Injured, hugely raising the stakes and the effect this event has on them.[2][3]

[1 off to the side in the final formatting] To a minimum of 0, obviously.

[2 off to the side in the final formatting] For a character with the “Wizened” Trait, still just leave them with at least 1 Penetrative HP.  

[3 off to the side in the final formatting] If it isn’t an unavoidable disaster, such as the investigators know - or had ample opportunity to learn - that there is a bomb in the building or that the plane will crash, and they go in anyway, then either have them take explosion damage as normal, or simply 1D12 Superficial Damage without the life-saving -3. If they die, they die.