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So there was this video iykyk

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pro censorship people are always like “actually I’m living proof that books can be really harmful to kids! when I was a child I read a book that upset me and of course I couldn’t talk to my parents about it because they would throw rocks at me whenever I confessed to reading anything but the Bible, so as you can see, that book was the source of my trauma and warped ideas about right and wrong”

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"Fifteen years ago, solar power was nearly four times the cost of fossil fuel alternatives. 

For context, 2010 was back when the iPad was first released, Instagram was launched, and “TiK ToK” by Kesha was the number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. 

Needless to say, a lot can change in 15 years — including the affordability of solar power. 

According to two new United Nations reports, renewable energy has passed a “positive tipping point,” and solar power is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels.

“The fossil fuel age is flailing and failing,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a speech on July 22, as the reports were released. “We are in the dawn of a new energy era. An era where cheap, clean, abundant energy powers a world rich in economic opportunity.”

“The sun is rising on a clean energy age. Just follow the money,” Guterres said frankly, pointing to the figures in the reports which found that green energy outpaced fossil fuel investments by $800 billion in 2024 alone. 

Last year is evidence of a decade-long trend towards renewable energy — despite federal attempts to slash it under Trump’s second presidency. 

“The year 2015 marked a turning point in global climate governance, with the adoption of the landmark Paris Agreement at COP21,” One report, titled “Seizing the moment of opportunity” said, in reference to the promise 195 countries pledged to hold the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius. 

“The cost of utility-scale solar PV has fallen by 80–90% each decade since 1960, whereas the costs of fossil fuels are highly volatile and show no long-term decrease,” it continued. 

“New solar PV has been undercutting new coal- and gas-fired power plants in most of the world for six years, and the gap in their average lifetime electricity generation costs continues to widen in favour of solar. Meanwhile, global manufacturing capacity of renewable energy technologies is outstripping demand: Announced solar PV and battery projects can already cover the global deployment needs of the tripling renewable capacity by 2030 goal.” 

For example, the report noted, electric vehicles are up from 500,000 to 17 million since 2015. 

Other astounding figures from the UN reports stated a 74% growth in electricity generated globally from wind, solar, and other green sources — just in the last year. 

And 92.5% of all new electricity capacity added to the grid worldwide came from renewables in the same time frame. 

“Countries that cling to fossil fuels are not protecting their economies, they are sabotaging them,” Guterres said in his speech, pointing to countries like China, India, and the United States, which still rely heavily on coal, oil, and natural gas.

“[They’re] driving up costs, undermining competitiveness, locking in stranded assets.” 

Guterres’ impassioned speech came to a head as he said that there is security in renewable energy. 

“There are no price spikes for sunlight,” he said. “No embargoes on wind.” 

“This is not inevitable. We have the tools, the instruments, the capacity to change course,” Guterres said. “There are reasons to be hopeful.”"

-via GoodGoodGood, July 26, 2025

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE - 1.05 | 1.07

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I watched K-pop Demon Hunters and now I'm in love with Zoey

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🎶 Knocking you out like a lullaby

Hear that sound ringing in your mind

Better sit down for the show

'Cause I'm gonna show you

How it's done, done, done 🎵

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love reading only one bed fics where character A wakes up first and goes oh no my boner’s against his ass! really just one of the classic fic tropes to me

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Why do you think the NYT is Like That currently?

buncha reasons. access journalism dazzles journalists by letting them close to people who have power and prestige so they come up with ways to justify making that closeness primary rather than instrumental to good reporting. misunderstanding political neutrality to mean perfectly-balanced bothsidesism, which when one party has gone objectively insane means minimizing their insanity. post-Woodward and Bernstein generations of reporters obsessed with getting the Scoop, meaning they ignore obvious crimes right out in the open. obsessively repeating mantras like 'it's not the coverup it's the crime' when in fact the crimes are really fucking important. 'centrist liberal who gets their yahoos punching hippies' is just kind of a naturally reactionary figure, and the NYT is a paper where that is basically the official editorial line. BLM scared the piss out of Arthur G. Sulzberger personally and he would throw in for Adolf Hitler to prevent it happening again. transphobia is just really common and people will contort themselves wildly to justify their prejudices. good journalism is slow, difficult, and expensive and journalists are lazy, so it's much easier to write commentary on commentary and publish it as political reporting than it is to do research and shit. the paper's incredibly inflated sense of its own importance as an institution. journalism has always been bad, and despite journalists sucking each other off about being a bulwark against authoritarianism, a free press is closer to a necessary evil than it is an active virtue--with very occasional exceptions journalism should be viewed as a slightly scuzzy profession like used car salesman or personal injury lawyer, and they are more often the people driving the turn towards authoritarianism than the ones preventing it. this goes triple for opinion columnists and (save Jamelle Bouie, who I think is great) the NYT has some of the most dogshit stupid opinion columnists on earth.

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Writing Advice that Will Save You from Crying over Chapter 3 Again

☽ Sometimes “writer’s block” is actually just your story being broken and your brain knowing before you do. Respect the vibes, go back. Something stinks.

☽ If you’re stuck in the middle, skip to the part you’re excited to write. Chronological writing is a suggestion, not a law.

☽ “Kill your darlings” is not about deleting every cool thing you love. It’s about not hoarding scenes like a dragon with dialogue you wrote in 2017 that doesn’t even make sense anymore.

☽ You do not need to write like your favorite author. You need to write like you, caffeinated and slightly unstable.

☽ Talking to yourself in the mirror as your character is not weird. It’s called method writing. You’re not unhinged, you’re dedicated.

☽ Aesthetic Pinterest boards and playlists are writing progress if they make you feel like a god again.

☽ You can write the climax before you finish Act 1. You can rewrite Chapter 1 thirty times and then delete it anyway. You’re not behind, you’re in hell with the rest of us.

You’re allowed to write stuff that’s not “marketable.” You’re allowed to be weird. Write the story that would make you feel seen. The niche finds its freaks.

☽ Beta readers are not gods. Take what resonates, ignore what doesn’t. If five people say your story drags at Chapter 8? Maybe listen. If one person says “make it all about the dog,” maybe don’t.

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kpdh prequel but it’s no plot just gay

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According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.

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So, I received an ask ages ago regarding what could Annie & Smoke's baby passed from.

That is hard to say.

What I can do is point to a document with national mortality statistics from 1925 (7 years prior to when the film takes place) and highlight the stats from Mississippi.

Grey is white US born and red is Black US born.

These are telling numbers, even if we don't see the cause of death outlined here.

That said, I don't believe that Ryan gives us any context clues for a specific reason. We don't even get her name.

I personally believe that it's another example of Ryan weaving the reality of life in the Delta into the story he's telling.