#maybe bad weather gets in the way

[swordmaid]

i am wide awake thinking about that post canon jb au again when I should be sleeping …!!! such is the nature of the jbrainrot…

[iceyrukia]

i really don't understand why the women's version of any clothing ALWAYS has to show more skin and be as form fitting as possible. Like even with more "modest" (for lack of better word) clothing that aren't too over-sexualized, you could still see a difference in men's and women's uniforms that are completely unnecessary. And the thing is that perhaps people have gotten so desensitized to the most ridiculous objectifying clothing that women are subjected to that anything less than pornified is praised as a "Win" or nothing to complain about. An example of this is how women's shorts for any type of occasion/use whether is for sports, sleepwear, or casual wear are always super short by default and it's frustrating.

Like as a women who dislikes wearing very restrictive clothing for various reasons it's annoying how there's this general consensus that women don't mind wearing clothing that's primary function (in comparisons to men's clothing) seems to prioritize showing of my "feminine figure" or how ~nice my legs look~ rather then comfort. And i know many women would defend this but I can't think of a reason why women's and men's clothing have to be (for the most part) different in functionality other than the normalization the mentality that women = body that needs to be shown off.

[slutdge]

god i need winter to be over my skin is so fucking dry 😭

[princessmyriad]

*minecraft damage noise every few seconds, i am dying of cold*

[sodrippy]

i dont wanna go home i wanna stay here and be unemployed but still have money and spend all my days going to new cafes and walking around and taking the subway and doing nothing forever please

[winterrose42]

Im so excited to bike around my roads and town starting this spring just going out a little ways is already really nice, i never really have a choice on where we go so i dont see the backgrounds and hidden bits as much. And its nothing compared to some places but it really is very nice and has beautiful quiet bits, perks of living in valleys you live in a cute lil bowl filled with trees and if you can reach the top of hills you get absolutely stunning views.

The hype i have!!! To go get fuckin cider this fall!!!!!!!! Ah!!!!

[clownpassing]

man i love being from&living in las vegas but holy shit this city should definitely not exist. why did we build the brightest city on earth in an area that is 120F in the summer and 30-40F in the winter, where there is very limited natural water??!?

[jvzebel-x]

🦋

[pebblezone]

Every day I find out a different song I like is in fact a cover and lose my shit

[actuallylorelaigilmore]

i feel like life right now is me trying to juggle approximately 127 different things, and none of them are life-or-death but they’re all equally important to me, so those 127 things are like simultaneous balls in the air that i am holding up while the adderall shortage makes it harder to remember what they are let alone keep from dropping them, and at this point even my to-do lists have lists which got so out of control that i stopped even keeping lists but also i’m so tired every day that i’m lucky if i get a single thing done and if i don’t set alarms then i depression-sleep for fourteen hours because oh yeah my adderall was also the only thing that helped my bipolar meds work all the way so i’m crying and thinking about everything that makes me sad 24/7 while i try to keep juggling

[wandering-aloneo-o]

a little thing about the weather i wrote because the weather this morning was very weather-like

the sun wasn't up yet, but the sky was still a lightish blue.

the clouds in the east, that were above and behind the mountain, were a bright, deep red underneath, and it looked almost like red lightning.

in the north, it was raining, and the red light caught on parts of the rain too, looking like the valley was being drenched in blood in some places. the north rain clouds were also occasionally spotted with lightning.

there was also rain in the south, but most of it couldn't be seen due to the mountain.

there was a large chunk of empty sky in the west and above us, but it was spotted with a few clouds here and there.

after a while, the red had completely faded from the dark blue clouds, and they were instead becoming golden at the tops.

you could see the changing colors of the leaves on the east mountains, and on the south mountain chunk too.

[coriander-candlesticks]

Me: I'm not sure if my health can withstand a commute. Should I try to go in tomorrow?

Apollo: no

Me: should I plan to work from home?

Apollo: no

Me: ...

Apollo:

Me: migraine?

Apollo: migraine.

[karinyosa]

starting to think something more than adhd may be wrong here

[reasonsforhope]

No paywall version here.

"Two and a half years ago, when I was asked to help write the most authoritative report on climate change in the United States, I hesitated...

In the end, I said yes, but reluctantly. Frankly, I was sick of admonishing people about how bad things could get. Scientists have raised the alarm over and over again, and still the temperature rises. Extreme events like heat waves, floods and droughts are becoming more severe and frequent, exactly as we predicted they would. We were proved right. It didn’t seem to matter.

Our report, which was released on Tuesday, contains more dire warnings. There are plenty of new reasons for despair. Thanks to recent scientific advances, we can now link climate change to specific extreme weather disasters, and we have a better understanding of how the feedback loops in the climate system can make warming even worse. We can also now more confidently forecast catastrophic outcomes if global emissions continue on their current trajectory.

But to me, the most surprising new finding in the Fifth National Climate Assessment is this: There has been genuine progress, too.

I’m used to mind-boggling numbers, and there are many of them in this report. Human beings have put about 1.6 trillion tons of carbon in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution — more than the weight of every living thing on Earth combined. But as we wrote the report, I learned other, even more mind-boggling numbers. In the last decade, the cost of wind energy has declined by 70 percent and solar has declined 90 percent. Renewables now make up 80 percent of new electricity generation capacity. Our country’s greenhouse gas emissions are falling, even as our G.D.P. and population grow.

In the report, we were tasked with projecting future climate change. We showed what the United States would look like if the world warms by 2 degrees Celsius. It wasn’t a pretty picture: more heat waves, more uncomfortably hot nights, more downpours, more droughts. If greenhouse emissions continue to rise, we could reach that point in the next couple of decades. If they fall a little, maybe we can stave it off until the middle of the century. But our findings also offered a glimmer of hope: If emissions fall dramatically, as the report suggested they could, we may never reach 2 degrees Celsius at all.

For the first time in my career, I felt something strange: optimism.

And that simple realization was enough to convince me that releasing yet another climate report was worthwhile.

Something has changed in the United States, and not just the climate. State, local and tribal governments all around the country have begun to take action. Some politicians now actually campaign on climate change, instead of ignoring or lying about it. Congress passed federal climate legislation — something I’d long regarded as impossible — in 2022 as we turned in the first draft.

[Note: She's talking about the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Act, which despite the names were the two biggest climate packages passed in US history. And their passage in mid 2022 was a big turning point: that's when, for the first time in decades, a lot of scientists started looking at the numbers - esp the ones that would come from the IRA's funding - and said "Wait, holy shit, we have an actual chance."]

And while the report stresses the urgency of limiting warming to prevent terrible risks, it has a new message, too: We can do this. We now know how to make the dramatic emissions cuts we’d need to limit warming, and it’s very possible to do this in a way that’s sustainable, healthy and fair.

The conversation has moved on, and the role of scientists has changed. We’re not just warning of danger anymore. We’re showing the way to safety.

I was wrong about those previous reports: They did matter, after all. While climate scientists were warning the world of disaster, a small army of scientists, engineers, policymakers and others were getting to work. These first responders have helped move us toward our climate goals. Our warnings did their job.

To limit global warming, we need many more people to get on board... We need to reach those who haven’t yet been moved by our warnings. I’m not talking about the fossil fuel industry here; nor do I particularly care about winning over the small but noisy group of committed climate deniers. But I believe we can reach the many people whose eyes glaze over when they hear yet another dire warning or see another report like the one we just published.

The reason is that now, we have a better story to tell. The evidence is clear: Responding to climate change will not only create a better world for our children and grandchildren, but it will also make the world better for us right now.

Eliminating the sources of greenhouse gas emissions will make our air and water cleaner, our economy stronger and our quality of life better. It could save hundreds of thousands or even millions of lives across the country through air quality benefits alone. Using land more wisely can both limit climate change and protect biodiversity. Climate change most strongly affects communities that get a raw deal in our society: people with low incomes, people of color, children and the elderly. And climate action can be an opportunity to redress legacies of racism, neglect and injustice.

I could still tell you scary stories about a future ravaged by climate change, and they’d be true, at least on the trajectory we’re currently on. But it’s also true that we have a once-in-human-history chance not only to prevent the worst effects but also to make the world better right now. It would be a shame to squander this opportunity. So I don’t just want to talk about the problems anymore. I want to talk about the solutions. Consider this your last warning from me."

-via New York Times. Opinion essay by leading climate scientist Kate Marvel. November 18, 2023.

[toastsnaffler]

this assay is so fucking fake......

[gender-euphowrya]

you've heard of do it scared and do it alone here comes do it annoyed