#Making Active Carbon

[coachbeards]

thinking about how angry beard was in s3. how beard said that he learned from codependents anonymous how keeping pain inside will just poison you. how jane liked beard being angry, actively rewarding him with her attention when she sees him mad at ted. you know.

[deathsmallcaps]

So, I was just looking for a Snow White gif set, and I came across quite a few posts expressing displeasure about Rachel Zegler’s flippant attitude to the original Disney film. And while I agree she was being a bit glib, you have to remember, it’s all about playing it up for the camera. Maybe her manager told her to push a love-to-hate-it angle. Who knows. Disney is still trying to work that little bit of feminism that is truly marketable but is ‘safe’ in their standards.

But what irritates me is that those posts immediately delve into the history and animation of the work in the film. As an artist, I totally respect the work and success Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was in 1937. It’s a beautiful piece, to be sure.

And Snow White was kind of modern for the movie’s supposed setting and time period! She has a bob! It’s easily demonstrated and acknowledged by the audience how hard she works, in both the castle and the cottage! She’s a upper class woman who manages to stay chaste despite living with, horror among horrors, seven unmarried men!

But, come on. She was relatively safe, barely pushing the envelope, in 1937. Women were in factories, wearing pants, and were still actively fighting for their rights at the time. All while weathering the Great Depression!

Films like Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman have already done more-feminine-modern takes on the tale. But Zegler isn’t wrong. If the original film’s story, no changes, came out today, it would be disappointing to a lot of feminists. So if you’ve watched the other live action Disney princess films, I’d say don’t knock the Snow White one just yet. It might actually offer something new but nice to more modern feminist audiences.

Just please don’t forget that something can be wonderful in one way and meh in another. The original film was an artistic masterpiece, but wasn’t the be-all end-all of feminism in the 30s. Check out this film, for example.

And hey, this is the webbed site of anxiety. You’ve all probably said things you regret, whether you ‘deserve’ to regret it or not. Don’t forget actors can make mistakes too. They’re human.

[patchdotexe]

one of these days ill stop having The Most Obscure Blorbos In The Entire World

[activated-carbon-depot]

[soupcrouton]

I imagine this must be how jesus felt as a shepherd.

[westerncarbon]

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[obsessedwithstarwars]

Okay you can’t tell me that Vlad doesn’t have an organ somewhere in his mansion. Upon learning of this, Danny would teach himself how to play the Haunted Mansion theme on the organ and play it at 2am.

Vlad Masters is away on business in Gotham, and the Fentons are coincidentally there for a symposium on ecto-activity. So it’s perfect! Except he goes to the wrong house, er mansion.

Honestly, Danny thought it was one of Vlad’s many mansions. Scaring the old man is his favorite activity after all. There’s a higher amount of ectoplasm here, so it has to be Vlad’s place right?

When Bruce comes out (on one of his few nights off) and sees his carbon copy playing the organ, all thoughts fly out of his head. Danny finally looks up and also blue screens. They stare at each other for what feels like an eternity until Danny’s cell phone rings (the ghostbusters theme??) and he panics. He jumps up and makes a break for the other door rushing through apologies “SorryWronghousegottagobye!” And runs out of the room. “Wait! Who are you?”Bruce exclaims as he rushes after him. They’re on the second story in one of the rooms he rarely uses. How did he know where the organ was? No matter. He’ll catch the kid on the stairs.

Except the kid is already almost at the bottom. How did he get down so effortlessly? The kid practically floated down the stairs.

Bruce gets to the foyer just in time to see the kid realize the door was dead-bolted in multiple spots. He won’t be able to undo them all before Bruce catches up to him.

He slows down and stands behind a pillar, assessing his next move. He needs to be careful here. This is a child after all, no need to spook him any more than he already has. He needs to slowly approach, and ask his questions.

But then the kid does the unexpected. After looking around frantically, he takes a deep breath. Two rings form around his middle and travel up and down his body. His black hair turns ghostly white. He looks back, almost directly at Bruce. His eyes widen as if he realizes he’s being watched. He whispers, barely loud enough to hear, “I’m so sorry, please don’t follow me.” Then, he backs through the locked door and vanishes.

[hope-for-the-planet]

"At the start of the 21st century, it was predicted that continuing carbon emissions would warm the planet by about 4 degrees C by the year 2100. This would be catastrophic [...], but preventing this future seemed impossible. Almost every human activity produced carbon dioxide, mostly because our energy was overwhelmingly supplied by burning fossil fuels [...] to generate electricity, produce heat, and move ourselves around. But the Earth was we knew it was at stake, so people all around the world got to work. This video is about what they did and what a difference they've made."

This was published in February 2025 and I highly recommend giving it a watch. Just since the start of the century, global climate mobilization has already brought the estimated warming from 4 degrees C to 2.7 degrees, and if countries stick to their current legally binding pledges and targets that will likely go down to 2.1 degrees. Each tenth of a degree means a significant, tangible increase in the ecosystem health and overall well being that humanity will experience in the future.

Yes, we need to continue to do this and more, but that is an insane amount of worldwide progress from something that was considered a fringe, "tree-hugger" issue not all that long ago. The public opinion around climate change and the action that is being taken today would've sounded beyond impossible only a decade or two ago and the momentum behind climate action has and continues to build exponentially.

We are making progress. If anyone tells you "no one cares and we aren't doing anything to stop it" they are either lying or misinformed.

[miyaz6ki]

Imagine

Kinich with

With a breeding kink

Imagine him not allowed to finish inside at the beginning, but gods does he beg to

Eventually reader gives in and allows him to

Hhhhhhhhes so jekfmekdkfke😞

──── i wanna see some!!

⠀ ۪ ⠀✧ synopsis. baby fever & kinich (i cant think of anything aesthetic)

⠀ ۪ ⠀✧ pairings. kinich x gn!afab!reader !!NSFW CONTENT AHEAD!!

⠀ ۪ ⠀✧ director's notice. thank you all again for 1k, i might be a bit slow with posts since projects are going crazy at class rn sob

kinich who has to plead and beg to cum inside of you. even if it is in the heat of the moment; there's no shame in asking, you are his partner after all.

after a few times where stress gets to you and you both wanna relieve it (sex)- you might as well indulge into the activity, right?

but after a few more tries, you can sense how tempted your lover was to keep your hips attached to his before he came, literally having to ask you with that oh-so-whiny voice.

"ah- pretty, please- ahhn- fffuck let me cum in you- need it s'bad." you felt bad hearing how desperate he was, but no no no you both had lives outside of this. it could be a lot of hassle. jokes on you though because he already has baby names planned out for them ^_^

so in love with the way your hole just takes him so good he can't help but ask more and more, it'd be an honor to orgasm with you anyway, he wouldn't have it any other way.

kinich who already had your legs hoisted up on his shoulder, his gloved grip strong against the plush of your thighs, archons was he hot. "p- please.. c'mon i've been treating you real nice, right? let me breed you." he whispered into your ear as he leaned forward.

ever since he saw you with mualani's baby niece in your arms, cooing to her like how any parent would. making the small child in your arms smile, and giggle at your peekaboo attempts, or how you tickled her with a sense of gentleness.

what would your kids with him look like? shit he could already imagine.. his black-blue hair and your (e/c) colored eyes. or what if they had your hair, and his eyes? or maybe they'd be your little carbon copy, and take after their dad for personality. his mind hasn't stopped ever since seeing the situation unfold in front of him.

but when you finally let him, of course he has to build up the best orgasm for you both to share! fitting his head into the crook of your neck; "what do you think our kids would look like? or act like?" it felt like the more he talked, the faster he went. "mmph.. maybe i jus' wanna see you with a round belly. jus' wanna see you bearing our child."

he could already imagine life after you've given birth, what would he name them if it were to be a girl, or perhaps a boy? maybe a mixture of both of your names? or let you decide?

"ahh- u- uhuh? you like the way i thrust into you, right? i'd hate for you to be uncomfortable." he hummed as he continued drilling his cock into you. your hole was already so wet from the previous foreplay beforehand, well of course when you let him cum inside, he'll want a taste of your pussy before it's alllll gone!

he'll still ask you if he could kiss you right after. he wants to make what'll happen now special for you and him to look back onto in the future. laughing or not at the past, he'll make sureit's memorable..

of course by the evident, and growing bulge in your tummy. oh fffuck you could feel it coming already-

"d- don't cum yet, p- pretty. w'na do it together." he mumbles out, barely being able to control himself, he placed one of your stray palms onto the mark on your stomach. "you feel me inside you?"

you couldn't help but let out a loud moan, throwing your head back before he quickly pulls your hair to look back at him.

"don't look anywhere else, pretty, i wanna see the way you look when i make you cream on my dick while i cum too. okay?"

you could hear the loud sound of his shaft slapping against you loudly in the stray hallways of the outside lobby of the hotel you both stayed in- previously on a mission.

even what felt like the fifteenth time you've came on his cock again, it just seemed like it only throbbed, continuously hard throughout all your climaxes. each dominant vein on his cock you could feel, the way his grip tightened around your waist as he took the gloves on his hands with his mouth to make sure not to waste a drop.

"mmf- k- kin i'm g'na-" you try to close your thighs, but to no avail, as kinich's palm, previously on your hair, moves swiftly to keep them open. "i know y'can take me baby, don't worry."

kinich who wrapped a possessive arm around you as you came, holding your waist close to his as you came. as his warm load shot up inside you, letting you arch your back all you wanted on the base of his cock. your arms instinctively rang around his neck, still shaking, trembling almost from coming with him.

he slowly let you lay down on the comfort of the pillows.

he leans down next to you, his fingers still keeping themselves inside your hole.

"not a drop wasted, 'kay?"

he couldn't wait 'till the day came that he'd be able to see kids of both your descents-

"what's with all the-" ajaw's jaw drops at the scene of you cuddling, and kinich hand still inside your hole.

"..." "..YOU ARE DISGUSTING!!"

i kind of ran out mid way for ideas, so sorry if this isn't what you were looking for sob

[dandelionsresilience]

Dandelion News - March 1-7

Like these weekly compilations? Tip me at $kaybarr1735 or check out my Dandelion Doodles! I’m almost finished with February’s doodles, sorry for the delay

1. Charles Darwin saw this Galápagos bird on Floreana Island in 1835, then it wasn't seen again for almost 200 years

“The Galápagos rail […] had been deemed locally extinct – and due for reintroduction from other Galápagos islands – until it was seen during recent fieldwork. [… “R]emove the invasive threats, and native species can recover in remarkable ways,” says Island Conservation’s Paula Castaño.”

2. Bill supporting free student meals passes through Utah legislature

“[The bill] would move thousands of students who qualify for reduced-cost school meals into eligibility for free breakfasts and lunch. […] H.B. 100 secures $2.5 million from the state’s education budget to help students from families who do not qualify for federal aid like SNAP or TANF.”

3. Indigenous leaders sign landmark carbon deal in Philippines

“[The deal establishes] the country’s first locally owned forest carbon project. The project, which places a monetary value on the potentially climate-warming carbon stored in trees, aims to halt deforestation through the sale of carbon credits — effectively making the forest more valuable alive than cut down.”

4. Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In Montana

“Transgender Reps Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell delivered powerful speeches on the Montana House floor on Thursday. Republicans defected en masse to join them in voting against anti-trans bills. […] One Republican even took the floor to deliver a scathing rebuke of the bill’s sponsor.”

5. Illinois proves states have a lot of power to advance clean energy

“[Two new bills] aim to evaluate the state’s current power grid, make it easier to expand the transmission system, and add a ton of new battery storage[…. Illinois already] has one of the cleanest grids in the nation thanks to bountiful nuclear power.“

6. ‘I feel real hope’: historic beaver release marks conservation milestone in England

“”We are visibly, measurably recovering nature and that is so exciting[….]” [… In] recent years, beavers have been returning to our waterways via licensed releases into enclosures and some illegal releases. […] Last week, the government announced that, with a licence, it is now legal for conservationists to release beavers into the wild, with no enclosures necessary.”

7. One of South Dakota’s largest wind farms just got the green light

“Invenergy says the new South Dakota wind farm will pump $78 million into landowner payments over the next 30 years, while local governments will see $38 million in property tax revenue. [… T]he project is expected to create 243 construction jobs and support eight long-term operational roles.”

8. The Antarctic ozone hole is healing, thanks to global reduction of CFCs

“[The] new study is the first to show, with high statistical confidence, that this recovery is due primarily to the reduction of ozone-depleting substances, versus other influences such as natural weather variability[….] "By something like 2035, we might see a year when there's no ozone hole depletion at all in the Antarctic.””

9. Monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico rebound this year

“The number of monarch butterflies wintering in the mountains west of Mexico City [doubled] in 2024 despite the stresses of climate change and habitat loss[….] Tavera Alonso credited ongoing efforts to increase the number of plants the butterflies rely on for sustenance and reproduction along their flyway.”

10. Pip in final egg means bald eagles Jackie and Shadow should soon be parents of triplets

“Triplets would be unprecedented for the eagles in a decade of observation. […] The [third] eaglet is "actively working on getting out of the egg." […] The two already-hatched chicks, who will be named by the public in the days to come, are "looking much stronger than they were even yesterday[….]””

February 22-28 news here | (all credit for images and written material can be found at the source linked; I don’t claim credit for anything but curating.)

[shrimpybbq]

rafe with his son from his high school gf! he’s always cuddled up with the baby and doing his normal activities, just plus his cute as shit kid (all the girls stare at him and he loves it, complimenting his son and how much he looks like his father. rafe 100% has kids that look like his carbon copy and it just makes him so smug)

[justaz]

peter, nauseous as fuck but refuses to admit that he feels ill:

rhodey who attended college with tony and knows the exact face he makes when he over does it, glances at peter (who is literally like a carbon copy of tony) and asks on instinct: what did you take?

peter, forcing his stomach to not spew everywhere, trying and failing to act casual: what? nothing. i didn't take anything.

rhodey activating his mom voice colonel voice: peter.

peter: i did what i had to. (reaches into his pocket and pulls out $40) and i won the bet.

rhodey: what did you do?

peter: i drank a gallon of bleach

rhodey, closes his eyes and takes a deep breath trying to process how peter is simultaneously better and worse than tony ever was: why...did you drink a gallon of bleach?

peter: i lost my backpack and needed money to buy a new one. and i cant ask may. shes bought seven over the last two months

rhodey:

peter:

[slytherinshua]

⼺　BABY FEVER　( エンティーム )

genre fluff , headcanons , parent au , &team hyung line (plus yuma) x fem!reader (implied marriage for all hcs)   cw food mention , toddler/baby stuff , yuma's child is incredibly sassy , not proofread   wc 1170   request no   note cien did this to me he put these thoughts in my head (well actually i thought of the thoughts myself BUT STILL) and i am in shambles &team as dads :(   net @kstrucknet @lune-net

KOGA YUDAI ﾐ 古賀祐大

he’s probably a boy and girl dad, so ends up having at least two kids

but his true form is a goofy dad

will match his childrens energy 200%

always making silly faces and getting them to laugh

would carry them on his shoulders, swing them around, hold them upside down, do the little airplane flying when he’s lying on the ground, etc

all the types of play that are exciting when they’re little

there’s not a day where he fails to find a new activity to entertain your children even as they grow older

from newborn to first day of kindergarten, yudai wants to have fun with his kids 

he’ll definitely put them in dance classes when they’re little, but if dance isn’t their thing, that’s fine too!

would always encourage sports and physical activity as main hobbies so that his kids can create memories outdoors while staying active 

and he will never miss a game

his children will also be best dressed, taking after their father’s fashion

he loves to dress up his kids and picks the cutest matching outfits for them as well

his camera roll is filled with them and only them (and a few pics of you he snapped while you weren’t looking— he loves his candids)

MURATA FUMA ﾐ 村田風雅

boy dad, and his son is like his carbon copy

pokemon was the toy of choice since his child was still in the womb, and heck, you probably have a pokemon themed nursery, as well as plushies, clothes, and other toys

his kid’s favourite pokemons are probably snorlax or mudkip which goes adorably for buying things

frankly fuma is out of control with it

his son loves it, he himself is obsessed with it, there’s no cap on the budget when it comes to bonding with his child over the simple collectibles 

he’s the best at introducing new foods to his son, even when he’s scared to try something

seeing his dad eat it and make it look like the yummiest thing always works like a charm

you have your husband to thank for getting your toddler to actually enjoy vegetables 

although fuma is a bit paranoid about his child’s health

and absolutely panics whenever his son is sick

he’s not the type to fuss over “healthy” food— as long as his son is eating and getting the nutrients he needs, fuma will absolutely allow sweet treats

speaking of worrying, fuma is a huge worrier :(

he can’t help but be concerned over the littlest things when it comes to his son 

very protective over him, but also gives him advice and guidance and is easily the best role model you could ask for your son to have

WANG YIXIANG ﾐ 王奕翔

he’s a boy dad and his son is just as much of a softie as he is

raises the shyest kid to ever walk the earth

has to always encourage his son to make new friends or try new things

because his little boy is just so hesitant and afraid of so many things

nicholas wants to show his son how fun things can be as well as dispelling the fear that his kid has

this takes little baby steps and hand holding, but nicholas is the best at being patient and comforting with his son

always tries to give his son a healthy push, but when it gets overwhelming, he understands as well

every small milestone is celebrated like it’s a big deal

because to nicholas, it is

every time he sees his son smile, his heart bursts in his chest 

he has the closest bond imaginable with his child, and as such, often spends time playing with him alone even after he’s reached the age that most kids would want to play with their friends

will sing and play guitar or piano with his son, which is one of the few things that isn’t so terrifying to his little brain 

even when a wrong note is pressed, the two can laugh it off together and enjoy the process of learning new songs together

he has the cutest father son musical duets to show off to you

BYUN EUIJOO ﾐ 변의주

girl dad in the house

his little daughter will grow up to love watching movies, especially ghibli ones

and well, ponyo may be her favourite for a reason

points and giggles whenever she sees ponyo to compare with her dad

euijoo can’t get over how cute it is every time

he’s the soft and caring type of dad, like he’s incapable of ever getting mad at his daughter

he will scold her when she does something wrong, although it breaks his heart to see her pout and tears

he’s the best at comforting her as well, and it seems as if there’s no safer place than in her father’s arms

loves to play dress up with his daughter, whether it’s a princess tea party or dinosaur onesies 

tries to learn how to do his daughter’s hair, to varying success

but he is the best at picking out bows or cute hair accessories for her

reads a bedtime story to her every night, and sometimes has to think of his own stories off the top of his head when his little girl insists on making a new story together

loves to go on walks with his kid or plan cute picnics

peels oranges for his daughter, they’re her favourite fruit

she likes to eat the segments from biggest to smallest saving the cutest piece of orange for last

NAKAKITA YUMA ﾐ 中耒田悠真

this man is a girl dad and he creates the sassiest child by accident

every time his daughter shows you attitude, he has to remind her that it’s no way to treat her mother

you blame yuma for your daughter’s sassiness

yuma is convinced it was partly you as well

either way, you have a bold and cheeky toddler on your hands, and dealing with her can be hard work 

fighting her sassiness with more sassiness only works part of the time

gentle words aren’t too effective, yet strongly worded ones often give the opposite affect yuma and you intend

whenever yuma has to introduce his daughter to new people, he’s always a little nervous about how she’ll behave

but he quickly figures out that she knows when and where she can have attitude, and puts on the perfect princess act around strangers

 it makes yuma laugh and also slightly impresses him the grasp his daughter has on people already 

despite it sometimes feeling like fighting fire with fire, yuma and his kid have a very close bond

and he would protect her from anything 

he’s proud of the things she can do as well— her sassy sarcastic attitude shows how smart she really is, and witty as well

although she may not use it for the most perfect reasons

yuma can always joke around and laugh with his kid, his humour matching his daughter’s perfectly

and sometimes he enjoys seeing who can be sassier (it is always his daughter)

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[nasa]

Six Answers to Questions You’re Too Embarrassed to Ask about the Hottest Year on Record

You may have seen the news that 2023 was the hottest year in NASA’s record, continuing a trend of warming global temperatures. But have you ever wondered what in the world that actually means and how we know?

We talked to some of our climate scientists to get clarity on what a temperature record is, what happened in 2023, and what we can expect to happen in the future… so you don’t have to!

1. Why was 2023 the warmest year on record?

The short answer: Human activities. The release of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere trap more heat near Earth’s surface, raising global temperatures. This is responsible for the decades-long warming trend we’re living through.

But this year’s record wasn’t just because of human activities. The last few years, we’ve been experiencing the cooler phase of a natural pattern of Pacific Ocean temperatures called the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). This phase, known as La Niña, tends to cool temperatures slightly around the world. In mid-2023, we started to shift into the warmer phase, known as El Niño. The shift ENSO brought, combined with overall human-driven warming and other factors we’re continuing to study, pushed 2023 to a new record high temperature.

2. So will every year be a record now?

Almost certainly not. Although the overall trend in annual temperatures is warmer, there’s some year-to-year variation, like ENSO we mentioned above.

Think about Texas and Minnesota. On the whole, Texas is warmer than Minnesota. But some days, stormy weather could bring cooler temperatures to Texas while Minnesota is suffering through a local heat wave. On those days, the weather in Minnesota could be warmer than the weather in Texas. That doesn’t mean Minnesota is warmer than Texas overall; we’re just experiencing a little short-term variation.

Something similar happens with global annual temperatures. The globe will naturally shift back to La Niña in the next few years, bringing a slight cooling effect. Because of human carbon emissions, current La Niña years will be warmer than La Niña years were in the past, but they’ll likely still be cooler than current El Niño years.

3. What do we mean by “on record”?

Technically, NASA’s global temperature record starts in 1880. NASA didn’t exist back then, but temperature data were being collected by sailing ships, weather stations, and scientists in enough places around the world to reconstruct a global average temperature. We use those data and our modern techniques to calculate the average.

We start in 1880, because that’s when thermometers and other instruments became technologically advanced and widespread enough to reliably measure and calculate a global average. Today, we make those calculations based on millions of measurements taken from weather stations and Antarctic research stations on land, and ships and ocean buoys at sea. So, we can confidently say 2023 is the warmest year in the last century and a half.

However, we actually have a really good idea of what global climate looked like for tens of thousands of years before 1880, relying on other, indirect ways of measuring temperature. We can look at tree rings or cores drilled from ice sheets to reconstruct Earth’s more ancient climate. These measurements affirm that current warming on Earth is happening at an unprecedented speed.

4. Why does a space agency keep a record of Earth’s temperature?

It’s literally our job! When NASA was formed in 1958, our original charter called for “the expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space.” Our very first space missions uncovered surprises about Earth, and we’ve been using the vantage point of space to study our home planet ever since. Right now, we have a fleet of more than 20 spacecraft monitoring Earth and its systems.

Why we created our specific surface temperature record – known as GISTEMP – actually starts about 25 million miles away on the planet Venus. In the 1960s and 70s, researchers discovered that a thick atmosphere of clouds and carbon dioxide was responsible for Venus’ scorchingly hot temperatures.

Dr. James Hansen was a scientist at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, studying Venus. He realized that the greenhouse effect cooking Venus’ surface could happen on Earth, too, especially as human activities were pumping carbon dioxide into our atmosphere.

He started creating computer models to see what would happen to Earth’s climate as more carbon dioxide entered the atmosphere. As he did, he needed a way to check his models – a record of temperatures at Earth’s surface over time, to see if the planet was indeed warming along with increased atmospheric carbon. It was, and is, and NASA’s temperature record was born.

5. If last year was record hot, why wasn’t it very hot where I live?

The temperature record is a global average, so not everywhere on Earth experienced record heat. Local differences in weather patterns can influence individual locations to be hotter or colder than the globe overall, but when we average it out, 2023 was the hottest year.

Just because you didn’t feel record heat this year, doesn’t mean you didn’t experience the effects of a warming climate. 2023 saw a busy Atlantic hurricane season, low Arctic sea ice, raging wildfires in Canada, heat waves in the U.S. and Australia, and more.

And these effects don’t stay in one place. For example, unusually hot and intense fires in Canada sent smoke swirling across the entire North American continent, triggering some of the worst air quality in decades in many American cities. Melting ice at Earth’s poles drives rising sea levels on coasts thousands of miles away.

6. Speaking of which, why is the Arctic – one of the coldest places on Earth – red on this temperature map?

Our global temperature record doesn’t actually track absolute temperatures. Instead, we track temperature anomalies, which are basically just deviations from the norm. Our baseline is an average of the temperatures from 1951-1980, and we compare how much Earth’s temperature has changed since then. 

Why focus on anomalies, rather than absolutes? Let’s say you want to track if apples these days are generally larger, smaller, or the same size as they were 20 years ago. In other words, you want to track the change over time.

Apples grown in Florida are generally larger than apples grown in Alaska. Like, in real life, how Floridian temperatures are generally much higher than Alaskan temperatures. So how do you track the change in apple sizes from apples grown all over the world while still accounting for their different baseline weights? 

By focusing on the difference within each area rather than the absolute weights. So in our map, the Arctic isn’t red because it’s hotter than Bermuda. It’s red because it’s gotten relatively much warmer than Bermuda has in the same time frame.

Want to learn more about climate change? Dig into the data at climate.nasa.gov.

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[tanadrin]

could you elaborate, why do you believe that people online continue to talk about the flint water crisis as if it were still active? Is it just ignorance of the solution or are there ongoing health issues?

i mean i think people do that bc "everything is fucked and nothing ever gets better" is a genre of post that tickles the limbic system, and in the attention economy of the internet, anything that tickles the limbic system tends to do well, bc it produces engagement. outrage, and outrage-adjacent things, and cliches like "why is no one talking about [major news article everyone is talking about]" and "don't get excited about apparently-good-thing X, here's why it's actually just as bad as [completely different thing it is in no way just as bad as]" and all that other stuff.

and because negativity and outrage--even negativity with no underlying substance--makes a bigger splash than positive stuff with real underlying substance, continuing to repeat "flint doesn't have clean water" (a crisis that did genuinely drag on for a very long time!) has more salience than the news that flint's water problem was fixed (something that took a long time when it finally was properly tackled and didn't generate a single large headline).

there's kind of a similar dynamic in climate news actually, where genuine improvements in areas like energy storage and clean energy rollout and new nuclear permitting don't make a dent in people's narrative that everything is fucked and we're making no progress because IPCC forecasts about what would happen if we hit 4 degrees of warming are genuinely very bad and scary (and, thankfully, no longer on the table!), whereas the boring policy details of stuff in the Inflation Reduction Act, or China's continuing expansion of EV manufacturing are, well... boring. although climate news is different in other ways--like, the planet will continue to warm until carbon emissions are net negative, so even as we make progress on that issue the crisis continues. it's not all good news. but there is good news there, which just gets much less traction online bc of the dynamics of how news works on the internet.

needless to say, though, i think if you want to have an accurate understanding of the world you need to internally mentally check your own tendency to succumb to engagement bait like this. worst case scenario you fall into a doom loop, which i think is pretty unhealthy just in general. but if you notice somebody post something compelling, and you click on their username, and it turns out that all they post is about how the world is fucked, and nothing good ever happens, and we're all gonna die, i think you should be suspicious of them and their motives. not because doomposting is inherently manipulative or deceptive--a lot of people genuinely are doomers! but that doesn't mean they're not responding to the limbic incentives of social media, either. after all, if you too express nothing but pessimism and outrage, then the people addicted to pessimism and outrage will applaud you for being Very Serious and give you lots of engagement and attention, and you will react accordingly.

and also, you know. some people do just lie on the internet for attention. that is absolutely a thing that happens. i am not inclined to bend over backwards to try to reconstruct a generous framing of those lies where maybe people somehow are under the mistaken impression that there is some ongoing sub-problem affecting flint that they have mistaken for being isomorphic to the original crisis. some of them are just liars!

[lxzy-bxby]

Perfect

Husband!Zayne × Reader

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“Ow no, Mr. Snowie gets cardiac arrest!” Aria squeaks, clutching her stethoscope tight in one hand, snowman plushie in another while bouncing on your lap. “Mommy, what’s cardiac arrest? Officers arresting hearts?” She looks up at you blinking, her grin baring her baby teeth.

You try your hardest not to chuckle with the way letter ‘r’ rolls off her clumsy tongue every time. But then again, you barely could remember any four-year-olds around who knew the phrase ‘cardiac arrest’ in first place.

You gently take her stethoscope from her, fingers tracing cold metal absentmindedly. Having a doctor husband came in handy since you didn’t have to buy any overpriced toy tool kits—Zayne kept bringing different out of commission medical supplies from Akso for her to play with. So your daughter owned pair of latex gloves, variety of masks, a sphygmomanometer, a thermometer and whole ton of other whatevermeters. Most of them didn’t even work, but Aria couldn’t care less—she is just like her daddy, and that is all that matters.

Aria dreams of being a ‘doctow’ from the moment you two visited Zayne in the hospital once—you often did ever since she was an infant, but her long-term memory started developing just recently. You just decided to go visit him and surprise with a homemade meal since it was your day off, and accidentally made your daughter find her life purpose.

Of course you two didn’t take it quite seriously since this age is all about exploring and being ambitious. But just in case—just in case—Zayne paid a visit to his university and had a small talk with his rector. You got surprised when he returned home, because you honestly thought your genius of a husband would get taken hostage in the basement of his old medschool. He is the bestest cardiac surgeon in the whole damn Linkon City, after all. As well as the most perfect husband and father you could ever get.

A tug on your sleeve from Aria brings you back in reality, and you honestly try to find a kid-friendly explanation to the question. Normally you’d send her off to Zayne, but Zayne’s busy and that’s why you’re hanging out with Aria in the first place—just fifteen more minutes before her bedtime.

“Nah, honey, cardiac arrests have nothing to do with police.” You chuckle, poking her tummy. “It’s more like when… Your heart goes still. No boom-boom at all.”

Aria gasps, even though she barely grasps the concept, and presses a palm to her chest, “Mine is boom-booming, mommy!”

”Of course it is, sunshine,” You smile gently. “It’ll be boom-booming for a very long time. You got a strong and healthy heart.”

Aria puffs out her chest proudly, “Yeah, I know! Daddy told me so. And then… then… He gave me some mints, but he told me not to tell you! He said that it’s okay to eat yummies sometimes! Because… because doctors… extr… ex… exga…” She then looks up at you with hesitant eyes, confused at the word, but you don’t need her saying a syllable more.

You know it all to well.

“Because doctors exaggerate all the time.” You utter softly, lips twitching in a warm smile.

”Mhm! That word! Mommy, what does eggag… that word mean?” Aria giggles, jumping on the couch so intensively her little pigtails start practically flying around.

You scoop her up, preventing activities before bed—because it’ll be impossible to put her to sleep if she’ll keep bouncing around, “That word means that you indeed can eat sweet treats sometimes, but only if you brush your teeth twice a day and won’t make a fuss when mommy takes you to dentist next week.”

Little carbon copy of Zayne wrinkles her nose at the mention like a decent little carbon copy of Zayne she is. Both hate dentists, both love candies, both keep you on your toes.

“It’s important, baby. Oh, it’s time to take daddy to dentist’s too, by the way. So you’ll get checked together.” You hum, holding your kid close to your chest.

“Daddy don’t need dentist! He a doctor, remember? He can to save anyone and everyone!” Aria declares, fidgeting with the wedding band on your finger, the white gold ring seemed to always fascinate her.

“Yeah. But even daddy needs to go to dentist sometimes. Daddy takes care of hearts, dentist takes care of teeth.” You explain, smoothing out her hair.

”Daddy is the coolest! He’s… like a superman, yeah? Yeah! Daddy hero!” Aria exclaims, clapping her small hands. Mind you she wasn’t even exactly daddy’s girl, she adored you both since you both saved people in your own ways.

“Daddy’s great, baby. But sometimes even daddy can’t do something. And that’s okay.” You ground her softly, feeling sudden urge to cut off her unhealthy determination to idolize her father.

Because thinking that someone is in charge of everything is something that could—that will—end up badly. You got a living example upstairs.

Aria’s tiny brows furrow, the oh-too-familiar crease in between them. Stubborn just like her father. Determined. Way too much. She always draws her little doodles until they turn out to be the way she wants them to be, until her pencils are broken, wanting everything to be perfect and growing frustrated when she can’t control the way things go.

That always got you worrying sick.

“But… Daddy is… Daddy… He perfect!” She states stubbornly. “Daddy do everything!”

You inhale, exhale and feel a tug in your heart. Pathological perfectionism. Passes down through generations. You just wish you could do something about it.

So you try to. You scoop Aria up once more, cupping her face tenderly and stroking her cheeks while looking her deep in the eyes. ”Baby. What’s with the word ‘perfect’? You don’t have to be perfect for your loved ones to love you. Perfect is a bad word. If you can’t do something, that doesn’t mean you’re bad. None is perfect. Even daddy. And that’s okay. Because daddy can’t do something doesn’t mean he’s not good enough.”

Aria sulks, blinking at you. “But I wanna be perfect!”

”To us, you are.” You reassure her, wishing you could ban the word from the household.

”Even if… when… if when I didn’t win the contest?” She mutters quietly, and your heart grows heavy again.

The stupid art contest her kindergarten organized. The very same one that made her little mind obsessed with the concept of perfection.

“Baby, we couldn’t care less. Mommy loves you. Daddy loves you. And mommy loves daddy, and daddy loves mommy. That’s all that matters. Loving each other is what makes us perfect to each other.” You then grab her snowman plushie—the one Zayne won in the claw machine for you when you weren’t even dating. “See this stitch over there? And that stain here. But you love your Mr. Snowman, right? Even if he has just one eye.”

Aria nods eagerly. “I love Mr. Snowie! Don’t care about eye!”

“That’s right.” You smile softly. “Exactly what I told you about.”

Your daughter nods once again before letting out a small yawn. You give her another smile, picking her up to bring upstairs. She doesn’t even squirm, holding her toy tight and tucking in to your chest.

You almost have to brush her teeth yourself with her being so sleepy. Quickly switching her to her pajamas, you get Aria settled in her bed.

“Mommy, what’s endocarditis?” She suddenly inquires softly, making you stop in your tracks.

You chuckle, ruffling her hair. “We’ll ask daddy tomorrow together. Because I barely have any idea, baby.”

You read Aria her favourite fairy-tale, and moments later she already almost dozes off, yet still tries to fight it stubbornly.

“Sweet dreams, baby. Daddy gonna come and kiss you goodnight when he’s done working. We love you.” You kiss her forehead softly, wrapping fluffy blanket tighter around her teeny frame.

Aria nods, yawning once again. “I gonna wait.”

”Sure you will.” You don’t even try to object, pretending to believe her. “I’ll turn the lights off anyway, alright?”

Another nod—and by the time you leave the bedroom, Aria’s asleep already, snoring softly. The familiar situation makes you chuckle under your nose while you make your way upstairs to check on your husband.

You see the dim light coming from under his study room’s door. When you knock, however, there’s no answer.

Predictable.

You quietly push the door open. The view meeting you is both heartwarming and heartbreaking.

Guess who’s working himself to the bone again.

Mop of dark hair is the first thing you see—Zayne’s head buried on top of the pile of files and documents scattered around the table. His glasses are still perched at the bridge of his nose; lenses pressed against the papers.

You take a few steps closer, your lips twitching in a subtle smile. That happened at least twice a week recently. And Zayne probably didn’t even know you always caught him red-handed.

Last month Zayne decided he really, really needs requalification. He probably wants to be the goddamn Hippocrates, you thought. He had enough on his plate already with constant surgeries and overall busy schedule. And now this.

You supported him, of course. Tried your best to make things easier for him—running hot baths, finding time to cook dinner before he gets home, being the one who spends most of the time with Aria. But that still didn’t erase the lines of exhaustion from his face, didn’t light his eyes up the way you wish you cold, his smiles remained wry.

Good thing this whole retraining thing is going to be over in just few weeks. The whole hospital tried to talk him out of it, yet here he is. Always trying to be not the best—the bestest.

Because when his daughter looks up at him with those wide adoring eyes like he’s a goddamn angel walking on Earth, he melts. When his daughter tells her kindergarten teacher that her favourite superhero is daddy, he bursts. When he hears you telling Aria how ‘daddy always makes sure mommy’s heart is okay’, he combusts and already opens his laptop to get back to research work. And when you whisper about how proud you are of him, he wants to achieve the impossible, to make you even prouder, to be on the top of the world and bring you there with him, to give you and your kid the moon and stars and the Sun even if that means getting his hands burned. He needs to save every patient, needs to justify the amount of trust others put in him, needs to grow and learn and improve and practice.

Needs you to consider him perfect.

And the sooth is, to you he is.

You stop near his table, being as quiet as possible. Zayne’s the lightest sleeper you’ve ever known, yet tonight he’s so overworked he doesn’t even stir as you take off his glasses, folding them and putting away in a case. You grab a pillow from armchair nearby, wishing you could just carry Zayne to bed instead so his neck won’t get numb in the morning—but being Hunter doesn’t make you Hercules.

Delicately lifting his head up a bit, you slide the pillow underneath so that his neck and head rest on something soft. Zayne remains motionless and unresponsive—just quiet puffs of breath spilling from his lips. You can’t resist running your fingers through his hair lovingly and then pressing a kiss to the crown of his head.

That’s when Zayne finally shudders, reacting to your presence.

”Shh. Get back to sleep.” You whisper, never stopping caressing his hair.

”I have to finish this.” He rasps, yet his eyes remain shut.

You reassure him right away. “It’s okay, dear. You got a day off tomorrow.”

“I promised Aria that I will take her to the rides.” Zayne croaks out, his voice soft and so tired.

Your heart squeezes once again. “I can take her instead. Or we all could just stay at home. Home is nice. We can sleep in—I’m off tomorrow as well.”

Zayne shakes his head, fighting sleep. “I got reports. And daughter. I must to prioritize it before myself.”

“You’re doing enough as it is.” You utter in a strangled tone, desperate to convince him just this once. “Please. Have some rest.”

Zayne looks up at you, his eyes hazy with drowsiness. “When Lord sends me blessings, I ought to make sure I deserve them. I was blessed thrice having a wife, a child and a job.”

Your words get stuck in your throat; you just squeeze his hand wordlessly. He squeezes yours back, his eyes drooping yet he stubbornly tries to keep them open. “You are getting more fabulous by every day I don’t mention it.”

Your lips curl up in an earnest smile. “There’s zero days you forget to mention it.”

He smiles back at you, all sleepiness and tenderness. “Then I’m doing everything right indeed.”

Zayne’s fingers trace your knuckles while you enjoy his blissed out expression that’s so rare to see these days.

“And you’re perfect.” You blurt out out of the blue. “Utterly, absolutely, undividedly perfect. Have you known that? And you still would be. Even if you didn’t work yourself to the state of passing out. Even if you wasn’t the best in your field. To me, you define perfection. Just because you’re imperfect. That’s exactly what makes you perfect.”

Zayne stills for a solid minute, before breathing out as if the weight is thrown off his shoulders. “That is what you think?”

You nod.

He keeps silence, and when he finally speaks, his lips twitch upwards. “None is perfect, doubtlessly. Even so, if my math is correct, imperfect and imperfect equals perfection. That means I am perfect. With you by my side. With Aria too, I’m twice as.”

Your smile mirrors his. “That equation is acceptable. Hope you’ll stand by it from now on.”

His answer to you is a kiss to your knuckles—reverent, chaste and grateful.

“I will.” Zayne nods lightly, head rubbing against flax of the pillow. “Starting right now.”

He then lifts his head, and moment later he’s on his legs already. You gaze confusedly at him, wondering what’s gotten into him.

“Moving to bed.” Zayne clarifies in a calm voice. “Then spending tomorrow learning how to be imperfect. Would waking up by the afternoon, with pleasure of not having to get my arms off you to leave earlier, be a good point of departure?”

Your heart flutters, and you wonder since when cardiac surgeons provoke cardiac arrests and not prevent them.

“Yeah. Sounds about right perfect to me.” You whisper as his hand finds yours, his wedding band brushing against yours.

Zayne lets a lazy grin stretch on his lips. “I reckon it would be nice if we banned this word in our household from now on.”

You chuckle, so happily and carelessly, not believing your ears.

As you lay in bed, Zayne’s arms holding you tight against his chest, your heart finally feels weightless in your ribcage.

Ironically enough, the day when a perfectionist accepts that it’s okay to be imperfect, turns out to be the perfect day.

And to you, Zayne’s ability to admit it makes him even more perfect. The most perfect. Perfectest, even.

Just like he always aimed to be.

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