#index fossils

[mineralsrocksandfossiltalks]

Throwback Thursday: Charles Lapworth

This is Charles Lapworth, though perhaps we should call him professor or headmaster since he was both. He was incredibly important in geology for several reasons.

1.) Through mapping and use of index fossils, he showed that a sequence of Silurian rocks long thought to be a thick sequence, was actually much thinner, just folded and faulted to look thicker.

2.) He pioneered analysis of index fossils (mostly graptolites) to date Silurian rocks.

3.) Using those index fossils he determined that a new geologic period should be placed between the Cambrian and Silurian: the Ordovician.

4.) Proposed that older rocks were lying on top of younger rocks in Durness, Scotland (not a popular hypothesis) thanks to complex folding and faulting.

5.) He used Olenelloid trilobites to date Cambrian rocks previously thought to be Silurian in age because they sat below Carboniferous rocks.

Tune in tomorrow to learn about some important Ordovician fossils! Fossilize you later!

[cheetahtrout]

worked on index fossils today for a little project. Please ignore the era-names , since they are not all relevant to the fossils depicted on the same page.

[cognitivejustice]

Leading the way in the global energy transition

The Energy Transition Index tracks progress and preparedness for an equitable, secure and sustainable energy future.

Advanced economies are generally the top performers in the Energy Transition Index (ETI), with Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Switzerland leading the rankings. France, meanwhile, has entered the top five performers due to its effective energy efficiency policies, resulting in a 12% reduction in energy intensity.

The top 10 countries collectively only represent 2% of the global population and contribute just 1% of energy-related CO2 emissions, but major emerging economies like China and Brazil have also made significant progress, according to the report. It highlights that China commissioned as much solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity in 2023 as the entire world did in 2022. Meanwhile, Brazil’s long-term plan for hydropower and biofuels has been key in attracting investment.

Common characteristics of the top performers include: enhanced energy security through a diverse mix of sources, improved energy intensity, an increasing share of clean energy, a carbon pricing mechanism and a supportive regulatory environment.

source

[transgender-chiroptera]

Icaronycteris index (extinct), via batconservationtrust

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

Meteorologist Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf:

"Sea surface temperatures east of #Bermuda are so anomalously hot that #climatechange made them 800 times (or more) likely. Bascially that means, SST's like this were simply not possible in a pre-industrial climate. This tool is @ClimateCentral new Ocean Climate Shift Index."

[literaryvein-reblogs]

more words for worldbuilding (pt. 2)

ANIMALS

Animal: adult, beast, buck, cat, chicken, cur, father, frog, goat, half-breed, horse, hybrid, litter, mongrel, monster, parasite, pig, stock, young

Bird: bird, chicken

Fish: aquarium, aquatic

Group of animals: drove, herd, insect, pack, stock, team

Insect: bee, grub, pest

Limb or appendage of: bill, coat, feather, fur, mop, pelt, scale, trunk, wing

Mammal: cat, dog, father, goat, hound, mother, pig

CLOTHING

Accessory: bag, belt, buckle, collar, pocketbook, purse, satchel

Clothing: apparel, array, bathing suit, cape, clothes/clothing, costume, dress, dungarees, falsies, frock, garment, girdle, gown, hat, jacket, negligee, nylons, pajamas, pants, quilt, scarf, skirt, suit, swimsuit, thing/things, trappings, underwear, veil, wash, wrap

Part: collar, crown, pocket, strand, tiara

State of dress: bareness, nudity, try on/try out, wear

FOOD & DRINK

Beverage: alcohol, coffee, drink, potable

Beverage, alcoholic: beer, liquor

Change in: curdle, turn

Food: appetizer, bite, brew, bun, casserole, condiment, cracker, diet, doughnut, feed, frosting, grub, helping, hors d’oeuvre, leftover, macaroni, meat, nosh, nurture, nutrition, pastry, produce, refreshment, seasoning, stew, subsistence, support, sweet, treat, vittles

Food part: morsel, nip, taste, tidbit

Meal: banquet, bite, buffet, diet, fare, picnic, repast, spread, table

Produced from animal: comfort food, feed, food, frosting, grub, hero, macaroni, sandwich, submarine, vittles

Produced from plant: condiment, doughnut, loaf, pastry, produce, sweet

Quality of: acerbity, baked, done, edible, mellow, nourishing, perishable, rare, ripe, salty, short, stale, strong, sweet, unappetizing, weak, wholesome

NATURAL RESOURCES

Electricity: beam, spark

Energy: electricity, fuel, nuclear energy, petroleum, power

Expression of energy: blast, bonfire, chill, concussion, discharge, fire, flash, noise, thunder

Natural event: eclipse, meteorology, weather

Resources: fuel, resource, rock, substance

PLANTS

Flower: bloom, bouquet, flower

Fruit: berry, produce

Growth or death of: bloom, bud, germinate, growth, wilt, wither

Part: bark, branch, cereal, flavoring, foliage, grain, juice, limb, nut, pod, scion, shell, stalk, trunk

Plant: algae, bramble, bush, crop, fossil, grass, harvest, hybrid, organism, produce, wreath

Tree: timber, wood/woods

Vegetable: produce

WEATHER

Object connected with: avalanche, breeze, climate, cold, dew, film, flurry, frost, gust, haze, hurricane, meteorology, moisture, puff, thunder, weather, wind

Quality of: breezy, clear, close, crisp, dismal, fair, fiercely, fine, furious, gloomy, hazy, humid, intimidating, misty, oppressive, raw, rugged, soft, stormy, sultry, temperate, thick, tranquil, turbulent, wild, wintry

Type of: blizzard, cloud, drizzle, fog, hail, mist, puff, rain, shower, tempest, torrent, tremor

NOTE

Excerpted from Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Updated and Expanded 3rd Edition, in Dictionary Form, edited by The Princeton Language Institute.

The above are concepts classified according to subject and usage. It not only helps writers and thinkers to organize their ideas but leads them from those very ideas to the words that can best express them.

It was, in part, created to turn an idea into a specific word. By linking together the main entries that share similar concepts, the index makes possible creative semantic connections between words in our language, stimulating thought and broadening vocabulary. Writing Resources PDFs

Source ⚜ Writing Basics & Refreshers ⚜ On Vocabulary

[inprogresspokemon]

#1020.? - There are but a scant few reports of the creature “Gouging Fire” being sighted; however, it resembles an eerie Pokémon once shown in a paranormal magazine, where it was said to be an Entei regenerated from a fossil. Other leading researchers believe it to be an ancient relative of Entei that once roamed volcanic regions in an age long past. Gouging Fire possess a massive, armored crest with jagged horns that glow white-hot when the Pokémon is enraged. If theorists are to be believed, over a very long period of time, Gouging Fire’s lineage may have adapted to a changing world, refining its form into the swifter, more regal and controlled Entei that is known as legend in modern times. With its body streamlined for endurance and long-distance travel over raw power, this Pokémon’s once formidable draconic traits may have faded, leaving behind the purely fiery essence that fuels Entei’s mighty presence. However, without more living specimens to study, the true connection between these Pokémon remains a matter of debate.

Named: “Gouging Fire” - - ? - - Entei

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[raptorladylover6969]

I think something interesting about The Handler’s design that I really like, which is most likely probably unintentional, but this is just how I perceive it, is the fact she almost looks “skin-wrapped”

Skin-wrapping is an old form of reconstruction in palaeontology which the scientists reconstructing the dinosaur, completely skip over the muscle tissue and body fat of the animal, and the reconstruction therefore comes out as just a fossil with skin wrapped around it.

This is a good example of it. From the skin-wrapped reconstruction of this Tarbosaurus, it looks basically like they just put skin over the skull of this dinosaur.

And this is a thing for the Jurassic Park dinosaurs especially. All of their designs are skin-wrapped. The Tyrannosauruses for example are wayyyyyy too skinny compared to an actual Tyrannosaurus, and clearly take inspiration from the practice of skin-wrapping.

How I kinda relate this to The Handler is the fact a key thing about her design is the fact she’s thin. Really thin. I could probably wrap my index finger and thumb around her forearm. Her sunken eyes especially add to that “skin-wrapped” feel, kind of mimicking that of the cavities on the skull of a dinosaur, which are especially apparent when reconstructing via skin-wrapping.

And since the Jurassic Park dinosaurs all take inspiration from the practice of skin-wrapping, and the main point of her design being that mimicky feel of a Raptor, it would be genius if she too took on that skin-wrapped feel, exactly like the dinosaurs of this franchise.

[cosmozoa-sys]

⋯ paleontology themed id pack !!

names ⁘

fossil ⋄ trilo ⋄ dino ⋄ cambria ⋄ amber ⋄ nuna ⋄ shale ⋄ marrella ⋄ archo ⋄ azhdarcho ⋄ strata ⋄ phyla ⋄ devon(ia) ⋄ mosa ⋄ darwin ⋄ finch ⋄ kimberella ⋄ pteraspi ⋄ stega ⋄ raptor ⋄ burgess ⋄ holocene ⋄ lichida ⋄ luca ⋄ zircon ⋄ ediacara

trilo: as in trilobite | cambria: the cambrian period | amber: where many insects are preserved | nuna: one of the oldest supercontinents | archo: as in archosaur | azhdarcho: as in a group of large pterosaurs | strata: as in stratigraphy | devonia: the devonian period | finch: darwin's finches | stega: as in stegosaur | burgess: the burgess shale, british columbia | lichida: a group of trilobites | luca: last universal common ancestor | zircon: a crystal that can help search for early microbial life | ediacara: the ediacaran period

pronouns ⁘

paleo/paleo ⋄ fossil/fossils ⋄ dig/digs ⋄ dino/saur ⋄ dino/dinos ⋄ geo/geology ⋄ phy/phylum ⋄ tri/trilobite ⋄ bone/bones ⋄ mammoth/mammoths ⋄ flora/fauna ⋄ zo/zoa ⋄ tetra/tetrapod ⋄ evo/evolve

titles ⁘

The Most Ancient ⋄ (prn) Who Swims with Ichthyosaurs ⋄ The Fossilized One ⋄ (prn) Who is Encased in Stone ⋄ The Ancestor of Life ⋄ The Driver of Evolution

system names ⁘

the burgess shale ⋄ the fossil dig ⋄ the cycling lands ⋄ prehistoric pack ⋄ mesozoic menagerie ⋄ the index ⋄ heart of ediacara

As a certified paleontology nerd with a tattoo of a cheirurus trilobite and an anomalocaris.... this was absolutely necessary. -Iris (she/her)

credit: 1, 2

[mineralsrocksandfossiltalks]

Wordplay Wednesday: Index Fossil

Trilobites have come up a bunch this month and on Monday I mentioned they were used to date certain rocks. We call these kinds of fossils index fossils.

Now, not everything can be an index fossil. There are some very important qualities needed to be considered an index fossil.

1.) They must be distinctive and easily recognizable.

Look at how easy it is to identify different trilobites (and this is an incredibly small selection of the thousands of types out there).

However, if you were to look at hadrosaurinae, it is very difficult to tell Kritosaurus from Gryposaurus from Brachylophosaurus.

2.) They must be widespread. Trilobites can be found on every continent including Antarctica. In contrast, hadrosaurs have not been found in Africa or Australia so they are not very widespread.

3.) They must be abundant. There are over 22,000 kinds of trilobites while there are only about 60 kinds of hadrosaurs. Not even a competition there.

4.) They must live in a limited amount of geologic time. That means they can only be found in like one stage rather than an entire Era. Each of the 22,000 trilobites out there has their own distinct time they lived. For example, Elrathia lived from 513-499 Ma while Walliserops lived from 407-388 Ma.

Some may argue that hadrosaurs have a fighting chance here. Gryposaurus only lived from 80-75 Ma. That's a short time. We could use them to date rocks. But guess who else lived within that time frame?

Maiasaura.

Kritosaurus.

Hadrosaurus.

Brachylophosaurus.

Corythosaurus.

The list goes on. So, as you can see, dinosaurs do not make good index fossils but trilobites make great ones.

Fossilize you later!

[pixeldistractions]

Sebastian was a highly educated man. He knew more than Colette did about a lot of things—classical art, history, radio-carbon dating, and he loved to show that off, too. He didn’t seem to doubt himself about anything, and she found that attractive. She suspected she would eventually grow tired of the lectures, the stream of endless facts—she finished her college learning and had no desire to repeat that experience again—but tonight, this was a novelty. She was impressed.

He asked her about her own work only briefly. In his world, selling high-end real estate on commission probably seemed so superficial. He was surely uninterested in it. Fair enough, though. She didn’t really want him to know her that deeply, anyway. 

Already this date felt more her style than the last one, which meant he could confidently count himself as her best date in ten years. The bar was that low, but he didn’t need to know. 

She found the classical art lovely, but basic. She wasn’t interested in fossilized rocks or dinosaur bones. But she loved the modern art wing, just as he told her she would. The cold and brutal sculptures, the black and white photos, the political rage, the paint splatters that could mean literally anything or nothing at all. This interested her, and he wasn’t bored by it, either. 

They had plenty of interests in common to talk about, and she thought their failed (or failing) relationships were a depressing choice of topic, but he brought up his marriage first. She wouldn’t have pried, because honestly she was trying not to think about his unfortunate marital status.

“She wants kids,” he said. “A lot of kids. And I don’t. I don’t want any. I don’t think we can work that out.”

“I suppose not,” Colette agreed. 

“Do you have kids?” 

“Two boys,” she said. “They’re nine. My ex wanted a ton of kids.”

“You didn’t want more?”

He looked entirely too eager about the prospect. It was probably a great turn-on to him to find a woman who didn’t want more.

That blank feeling filled her gut again. It felt something like regret, and she didn’t like it. She shrugged. “That ship has sailed now.” 

They continued browsing the exhibits, and they found themselves stood in front of a giant shimmering marble egg. He knew about the sculptor, of course, and he told her all about him. Colette wasn’t listening.

An egg. 

She never got a tubal, she realized. If she didn’t want more children, she would have gotten her tubes tied ages ago. Colette was no stranger to optional surgeries. She had the money for it. She got a boob job and a tummy tuck—after the twins, she wouldn’t have even considered it purely optional. She didn’t necessarily want more kids. She didn’t pin all her hopes and dreams on it. But she would have had them, if it made a difference, if they could have made it work. It was something she was holding in her back pocket like a bargaining chip. It was something she was willing to compromise on. For him, the father of the children she already had. If it could have saved anything. 

It probably never could have saved anything. 

But no, not now, not with anyone else. She didn’t want more. It wasn’t necessarily a depressing realization, but a heavy one. This baby factory was closed for business forever. And if that was a thing she had just decided, tonight in this gallery in front of this giant marble egg, then she should probably schedule that tubal ligation.

“God, do you want to stop talking now and go fuck?”

He grinned at her, looking surprised, but also keen. It wasn’t too much to presume, she hoped, because why else does a married man ask out a woman who isn’t his wife?

— boxes and squares #5.3: hindsight is a bitch, part 10/11

next -> // 5.3 start // index

[drdemonprince]

How to be anti capitalist and still invest in the stock market?

The Socially Conscious Mustachians group on Facebook is a great place to turn to, if you want to speak with other people contemplating these questions. There are some forums on the Mr Money Mustache site where people explore alternate options too.And I suppose I should mention that there are index funds that purposefully exclude stock in firearms, tobacco, fossil fuels, and other especially morally galling industries.

Personally, I wouldn't pretend that any investment method can be moral. Holding onto any resources within the imperial core is arguably immoral. I think if you've been around here a while, you might have noticed that my lens of analysis is not one of personal moralization. If someone thinks that me saving for an early retirement is immoral, I can't necessarily disagree with their value judgement, I certainly see the basis of it. My viewpoint is that not being dependent upon an employer for a wage means I can be far more selective in how I spend my time, and not take work that I view as morally compromising, and live more in alignment with my values in a variety of other ways while surviving as a disabled person and supporting my friends from time to time, none of which would be possible if I was dependent upon a full-time wage. But I can see why others would disagree. I would certainly welcome the collapse of capitalist society and lose all my savings if it meant not having to make these awful choices.

If you wish to invest without putting money in the stock market for moral reasons, then investing in a money market is really the only way to go. Bonds and CDs loan money to a genocidal government; investing in the stock market fuels (and allows you to profit from) capitalism. If you can find a banking institution or credit union that does not invest in oil pipelines and political lobbies and keep your money in a high-yield savings with them, that's the simplest, best, and likely more secure way to go.

[mikkeneko]

Other things you can do to push back against the "Big Beautiful Bill" that aren't calling your representatives:

1. Find and attend a townhall near you

If that index doesn't have any, you can call your representative's office to find out when and where the next one is:

2. Talk to people in your life -- friends, family members, or coworkers -- about items of concern in the bill

Arguing on the internet is unlikely to get anywhere, but a huge number of people in the US are simply not tuned in to the political cycle and have no idea what's in this bill or what it's about. Depending on what your audience cares about there are a lot of topics to choose from, including: gutting Medicaid, boosting ICE funding and green lighting the sale of public lands for fossil fuel production, $351 billion in cuts to student aid, $50 billion in cuts to the Federal Employee Retirement System, cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) by nearly 70% and a complete dissolution of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a widespread roll back of climate-focused programs and clean energy tax incentives authorized by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, the elimination of EV tax credits, the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a $300 billion funding cut and stringent new work requirements for SNAP.

[ikajo00]

Non-alien human alien #7 The Great Melt

Excerpt from Global History vol. 3

To understand how we as humans reached the level of living we are currently enjoying, there is one significant event that simply cannot be ignored. That is the Great Melt, a global catastrophe that pushed humanity to the brink of destruction. Moreover, this event was caused by humans in the first place.

While scholars are in disagreement of what were the main defining factor of what happened, all are in agreement that it was decisions made in the 21st century that ultimately lead to the Great Melt. At this point, a large majority was already aware that Earth was experiencing a significant increase in global temperature. Caused by the burning of fossil fuels (fossil fuels was liquid and gas made from prehistoric biological matter that had decomposed under certain conditions) which released greenhouse gases and caused pollution. Despite this the leaders of the world, both political and economical, mostly decided to ignore the very real threat and prioritised profit instead.

Some of the biggest culprits were the United States of America (modern day NAIUN, plus some additional nations), People’s Republic of China (modern day Asiana), and the private sector consisting of individuals driven by profit above all else. Economical inequality also caused countries with lower living index to rely more heavily on fossil fuels than countries with higher living index. Contributing further to the pollution. On an individual level, the global culture of the time encouraged overconsumption of resources.

Things took a turn in year 2101 when the temperature reached the point of no return. With the available technology of the time, there was simply no way for humanity to reverse the global impact anymore. All over the world, scientists scrambled to collect and preserve DNA samples from as many animals as possible. Especially those that had already been on the verge of extinction. Earlier collected samples of extinct species were safe guarded further. Additionally, the seed vault in Svalbard was further expanded and outfitted with a multitude of backup systems.

It would take a few more decades before the reality of the situation truly became apparent.

The summer of 2133 clocked record high global temperatures, causing a rapid melting on inland ice masses. Within just two months, water levels rose 60 meters. While thankfully the melting had been tracked, allowing vulnerable populations to evacuate inland, large swatches of land sank under water. All around the world, governments scrambled to secure locations and apparatuses that could create further global catastrophes. Namely, nuclear power plants, nuclear weapon storages, and storage of toxic and radioactive waste. In records preserved from the time, it is described as a global blackout. Everything humanity had grown used to, relied on, was suddenly gone.

This event had been named the Great Melt, to signify just how of an effect this had on the development of our world.

After the Big Melt, diseases started to run rampant, combined with starvation, and apocalyptic weather caused by the huge changes in global temperature. Reducing the global population down to pre-industrial levels. While some locations managed better than others, like landlocked locations and those of high altitude, all island nations had been submerged.

Ironically, it was nothing that humanity did that eventually reversed the effects of global warming. Five hundred years after the Big Melt, humans had been mostly isolated from the global scene. Knowledge of past eras surviving thanks to both oral tradition and sturdier technology. Some places, like the Scandinavian peninsula, had managed to preserve more technology than locations along the American coast. (Important to note, the reason the Scandinavian Peninsula faired fairly well despite being surrounded by water is because the landmass had been pressed down during an ancient ice age. This landmass then spent millennia slowly rising, offsetting some of the more severe effects of the Great Melt.)

What finally changed things were a series of volcanic eruptions, and the subsequent ash cover, that cooled the planet down again. After that, it was rapid. By the year 3289, the global temperature had returned to pre-industrial levels. As the ice caps formed once more, sea levels sunk, exposing land long lost, and humanity could finally start to rebuild.

It was slow at first, with big differences depending on where people lived. In some areas the living index had risen dramatically during the past millennia, while in other parts it had plummeted. Interestingly enough, a lot of culture remained intact across the globe. With some variations. One area that had flourished during this time were the African inland, alongside the Eurasian continent. It was in Africa that the true effort was made to return humanity to its long-lost glory. Soon, technology known from stories was available once more, and the disconnected world was connected once more.

However, the biggest impact on our current world came with the reinvention of the Internet. By chance or divine intervention, the network that was created was identical to the one created in the 20th century and was further developed in the 21st century. This led to the discovery of what had been named the Archive Servers.

The Archive Servers are true relics of a bygone era. Websites still existing well over a millennium into the future. Somehow, ancient servers had survived the passing of time and global catastrophes. Within them, they carried knowledge, culture, and understanding. It was thanks to the Archive Servers humanity avoided repeating the mistakes of the past. With the knowledge that fossil fuels had caused the Great Melt, scientists turned their attention to alternatives. Leading to the use of solar-, hydro-, and fusion power. Moreover, materials were chosen from sustainable sources with high reusability and low pollution.

The Archive Servers also contained the locations of other ancient servers that could be reactivated or otherwise salvaged. Furthering our knowledge and understanding of the past. At our fingertips, we had the wealth of human history dating back to the dawn of life itself. With the help of the Archive Servers we also found the seed vault on Svalbard, the DNA from long extinct animals, and nearly evolutionary medical knowledge.

Within the next two hundred years, humanity had returned to the level of living during the 21st century, and then surpassed it. The global population had in fact started to reach critical levels once more. It was at this point the universe we had once reached for, reached back down, and we learned that we were not alone in the universe. In fact, we were part of a vibrant galaxy, flanked by two equally vibrant galaxies, full of sentient life.

With the technology gifted to us by the aliens, we managed to reverse engineer and add our own flair to space travel. Leading to the terra forming of Mars, which allowed for colonisation. From 3577 to 3587 humanity went from standing at the verge of another ecological collapse to spreading across the known galaxies. Allying with the Galactic Federation, and creating colonies on rejected planets. Lowering the strain on our home world, while also setting the stage for a new era for humanity.

While we are culturally more or less identical to 21st century Earth. We are nonetheless far beyond our ancestors in terms of global cooperation, equality, and general living index. Nonetheless, if history has taught us anything it is that humanity’s greatest threat is not a global catastrophe, it is not pandemics, it is not even war. The greatest threat to humanity is complacency, and the belief that humans are above nature. By learning from the past, we can create a better tomorrow.

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Anna put down the screen and leaned her head against the window. She had turned 35 recently. A decent age, for sure. She could still remember when alien life was nothing but speculative fiction, first introduced around the second millennia. History fascinated her just as much as space did. It told a story of people. About people.

Earth was by no means a utopia. In fact, many issues still remained to this day. Stuff like ableism, affecting her personally, and nations that was still refusing to cooperate with the rest of the world. Even so, she found it remarkable that humanity had fallen to its knees, and then managed to claw itself up again. And if that wasn’t the definition of being human, she didn’t know what was.

[workersolidarity]

Look, I don't talk about Climate Change very often, A because plenty of other people better cover the issue than I ever could, and B because establishment of the Democratic Party along with the Liberal establishments of most European countries, are using Climate Change to push an agenda of artificial food scarcity to raise prices and I personally believe, to ensure the poorest among us are too busy fighting for scraps of food to fight the Capitalist Class.

They don't ask the US Military, the largest polluter on the planet to make cuts, they don't ask the Fossil Fuel companies to make cuts, they're not asking the elites flying in private jets to make cut backs, no they ask us, the workers to cut back, or they ask the farmers to make do with fewer animals at a time when small and medium farms are in crises, completely unable to compete with large Corporate factory farms who, for all intents and purposes own the regulators and literally write the regulatory laws themselves.

I won't play along with this kind of attack on the working class under the guise of Climate Change.

But all that being said, ITS FUCKING HOT OUT THERE. This shit just isn't normal.

Last week we had a day with a heat index pushing 130°F, yesterday's was about 120°F and today a bit more mild at only 115°F.

At Persian Gulf Airport in Iran reached a heat index of 152°F on July 16th.

And it seems it's not getting any better this week:

Stay safe everyone, hide in the shade and AC where you can, stay cool and drink plenty of water 🥤