#night nation rise!

[respectthepetty]

I KNOW IT JUST ENDED SECONDS AGO BUT PETTY HAVE YOU SEEN LAST TWILIGHT EP 10!?!?!? NIGHT NATION RIIIIIIIIISE!!!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 - Katros

I actually haven't watched it yet, but your ask caused me to immediately skip to part three of the episode, so I could see

NIGHT NATION RISE!

He said all of that with his FULL CHEST! No hesitation. No argument. This isn't a daddy. This is a dad. And I have never been more attracted to a man using his authoritative voice.

I was saving this episode and planned to watch it in the airport but good thing I saw this part already because I would've screamed at gate B5 because Night deserves his family, and Day and Mork are going to be the best uncles to the kid who will be the ring bearer at their wedding.

MARRIAGE EQUALITY 2024, THAILAND!

[kotaki]

"A mischievous pumpkin who loves sweets! Cure Pumpkin!"

[puhpandas]

this will be flashlight duo in 2024

[marsberryart]

dorlily pirate au ❤️‍🔥🏴‍☠️

[cultofpunksonality]

monday night raw — may 29th, 2023

“...but none of it matters, 'cause for the rest of your life, when you look at these faces, you'll always know in your heart that WE. WON.”

[josephtrohman]

sorry to be a hater and engage with this but calling the black parade a GREAT song…….i need to be whatever mcr fans are on fr……..

[sunskate]

the anon was talking about how British Ice Skating as a fed doesn't have so much power that they could influence F/G's rise. this doesn’t account for it either, but there's a British ISU judge named Christopher Buchanan who has been helping their scores on panels for years.

the examples below are their actual FD score vs the score he gave as a judge on these panels (from skatingscores.com)

the first number from left is the official score awarded for their FD at a competition (in the top row, 125.42)

the 2nd number from left is the mean score (arithmetic average) from the panel - meaning before highest and lowest marks were tossed, what was the average score the panel gave?

the first number in green (132.31 in the top example) is the score that Christopher Buchanan gave F/G

the +8.23 is the difference between his score and the average

these are their scores for the FD and RD from Skate Canada just a few weeks ago vs his scores for them:

and these are the panel vs his scores for them from Nepela Trophy in September, FD and RD:

in every case, their actual score ends up higher than the average of the panel in part because of his high score - his marks are often thrown out, but they nudge the panel higher because the next highest mark ends up being counted no matter how high. or if they stand, then his very high mark helps their score

most countries's judges do this to an extent, but maybe because he's only had one team to push, he's been doing it to a greater extreme than most - 9+ pts is a lot

Buchanan was not on the panel at NHK - a different and more measured British judge named Stephen Fernandez was. but the difference as time goes on is that the entire panel is rewarding F/G with higher and higher marks

[amiharana]

It’s been a year daddy

guess who's home from getting the milk 💪🍼💥

[mr-buisson-bosquet]

- Where the fuck is Ahkmenrah

- OMG Nick with Bi flag.

Long ago, these two nation lived together in harmony. But then everything changed when the Jedtavius nation attacked.

[kgdanny02]

Just watched Challengers… for the plot of course. The plot being Tennis ;)

Definitely giving it an 8/10

[bornetoblood]

some osm eome bowblade

[yell0wrabb1t]

Nah cus yall don't understand my brain, Henry would cry at the sight of the glamrock animatronics (and the daycare attendant), not because of fazbear ent. Not letting the past die (well maybe afterwards he would cry about that) but because of them being a real technological wonder, even if i think that in fnaf's earth technology was always a bit more advanced than ours Henry died in a time where despite the technological advancements TRUE artificial intelligence still did not exist, and look even if William was more talented when it came to it, Henry lived and breathed robotics and engineering, it was his passion and all of his creations were his pride and joy, and I imagine seeing that somehow his own creations lead to the creation of true AI, well I think he would spend more than a few minutes being overcome with emotions because of this.

And this I were I propose a time travel fic where Henry after trying to kill himself at the end of Pizzeria Simulator, ends up some time before SB, he stops the mimic before shit can really hit the fan, but shit is still fucked so he tries to fix everything that's shit while also still grappling with the whole "I should be dead, but I am not" thing, of course he helps out Vanessa and possibly Gregory too (while also feeling completely incompetent because *gestures vaguely at Charlie and all of the Afton kids and the other kids*), also he gets to be a grandpa to all SB animatronics/robots, it's funny to me.

[hooksredrum]

TODAYYY!!!

[crocsfroggo]

having a lot of thoughts about Lute and Adam that I can't elaborate on normally because I feel like whenever I open my mouth all that comes out are television noises. they're being like annoying little worms boring into my brain and eating my braincells

[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.

[granhairdo]

i want another les mis tattoo...