#WE HAVE A PLANNER NOW!

[lilbit-of-kizzy]

Man I wanna play Pocket Camp again *plays for like maybe 30 mins*....no I don't 😒

[deityofhearts]

I collect a lot of stationary for someone who has no reason to use all this stationary

[imminent-danger-came]

I really need to go in depth into MK's "smartie kid" arc that starts in 1x10 and is then a consistent thread through the whole show

[reflectionsofgalaxies]

coping with things so well today so i’m bragging about it ✨

[horny-ex-catholic]

HELLO, I AM NOT DEAD, BUT I HAVE MANY FINAL PROJECTS AND WILL BE MILDLY INCOHERENT FOR THE NEXT 2-3 WEEKS

[waterberry-strawmelon]

anyways turns out I ordered the wrong planner for school

[syncrovoid-presents]

I will continue being gone for a few days, sadly my original al plan of releasing the newest chapter of The Consequence Of Imagination's Fear has also been delayed. My apologies

Can't go into detail because its hush hush not-legally-mentionable stuff but today is my fifth 12 hour no-break work day. I'm also packing to move too in a fortnight (which is a Big Yahoo!! Yippee!! I'll finally have access to a kitchen!! And no more mold others keep growing!!! So exciting!!!)

[exopelagic]

Okay I’m finally excited abt term starting now this is gonna be GOOD

[keepchangingandneverstop]

New BYOBlorbo Planner Spread. If anyone wants it, I'll get it formatted for others to use and get it up on the drive.

[twinsunsintatooine]

staying up until 6am because “what if I’ve had a stroke” is not on my bucket list my life is a stage and I am the miserable court jester which jingles across it

[noodleshark]

i cant believe i just found a similarity between my teacher and the one from LN2

[radiant-system]

I want to get a physical journal for us to write in because we always forget to use the digital ones but if it’s physically there it’s a constant reminder that it exists

[phagodyke]

SUDDENLY STARTED RAINING SO HARD WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK

[longlegsnamjoon420]

Work is gonna be so crazy today because a physical therapist told one of our patients they could leave today without consulting the team or telling the literal discharge planners so. That’s gonna be fun

[reasonsforhope]

As relentless rains pounded LA, the city’s “sponge” infrastructure helped gather 8.6 billion gallons of water—enough to sustain over 100,000 households for a year.

Earlier this month, the future fell on Los Angeles. A long band of moisture in the sky, known as an atmospheric river, dumped 9 inches of rain on the city over three days—over half of what the city typically gets in a year. It’s the kind of extreme rainfall that’ll get ever more extreme as the planet warms.

The city’s water managers, though, were ready and waiting. Like other urban areas around the world, in recent years LA has been transforming into a “sponge city,” replacing impermeable surfaces, like concrete, with permeable ones, like dirt and plants. It has also built out “spreading grounds,” where water accumulates and soaks into the earth.

With traditional dams and all that newfangled spongy infrastructure, between February 4 and 7 the metropolis captured 8.6 billion gallons of stormwater, enough to provide water to 106,000 households for a year. For the rainy season in total, LA has accumulated 14.7 billion gallons.

Long reliant on snowmelt and river water piped in from afar, LA is on a quest to produce as much water as it can locally. “There's going to be a lot more rain and a lot less snow, which is going to alter the way we capture snowmelt and the aqueduct water,” says Art Castro, manager of watershed management at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. “Dams and spreading grounds are the workhorses of local stormwater capture for either flood protection or water supply.”

Centuries of urban-planning dogma dictates using gutters, sewers, and other infrastructure to funnel rainwater out of a metropolis as quickly as possible to prevent flooding. Given the increasingly catastrophic urban flooding seen around the world, though, that clearly isn’t working anymore, so now planners are finding clever ways to capture stormwater, treating it as an asset instead of a liability. “The problem of urban hydrology is caused by a thousand small cuts,” says Michael Kiparsky, director of the Wheeler Water Institute at UC Berkeley. “No one driveway or roof in and of itself causes massive alteration of the hydrologic cycle. But combine millions of them in one area and it does. Maybe we can solve that problem with a thousand Band-Aids.”

Or in this case, sponges. The trick to making a city more absorbent is to add more gardens and other green spaces that allow water to percolate into underlying aquifers—porous subterranean materials that can hold water—which a city can then draw from in times of need. Engineers are also greening up medians and roadside areas to soak up the water that’d normally rush off streets, into sewers, and eventually out to sea...

To exploit all that free water falling from the sky, the LADWP has carved out big patches of brown in the concrete jungle. Stormwater is piped into these spreading grounds and accumulates in dirt basins. That allows it to slowly soak into the underlying aquifer, which acts as a sort of natural underground tank that can hold 28 billion gallons of water.

During a storm, the city is also gathering water in dams, some of which it diverts into the spreading grounds. “After the storm comes by, and it's a bright sunny day, you’ll still see water being released into a channel and diverted into the spreading grounds,” says Castro. That way, water moves from a reservoir where it’s exposed to sunlight and evaporation, into an aquifer where it’s banked safely underground.

On a smaller scale, LADWP has been experimenting with turning parks into mini spreading grounds, diverting stormwater there to soak into subterranean cisterns or chambers. It’s also deploying green spaces along roadways, which have the additional benefit of mitigating flooding in a neighborhood: The less concrete and the more dirt and plants, the more the built environment can soak up stormwater like the actual environment naturally does.

As an added benefit, deploying more of these green spaces, along with urban gardens, improves the mental health of residents. Plants here also “sweat,” cooling the area and beating back the urban heat island effect—the tendency for concrete to absorb solar energy and slowly release it at night. By reducing summer temperatures, you improve the physical health of residents. “The more trees, the more shade, the less heat island effect,” says Castro. “Sometimes when it’s 90 degrees in the middle of summer, it could get up to 110 underneath a bus stop.”

LA’s far from alone in going spongy. Pittsburgh is also deploying more rain gardens, and where they absolutely must have a hard surface—sidewalks, parking lots, etc.—they’re using special concrete bricks that allow water to seep through. And a growing number of municipalities are scrutinizing properties and charging owners fees if they have excessive impermeable surfaces like pavement, thus incentivizing the switch to permeable surfaces like plots of native plants or urban gardens for producing more food locally.

So the old way of stormwater management isn’t just increasingly dangerous and ineffective as the planet warms and storms get more intense—it stands in the way of a more beautiful, less sweltering, more sustainable urban landscape. LA, of all places, is showing the world there’s a better way.

-via Wired, February 19, 2024

[gothamcityneedsme]

ok the issue for me when gabriel dies (assuming he does.  lmao).  is that lila is the only like.  current candidate next!hawkmoth. and like.  lila can be a fun and great villian.  but the thing is.  she lacks the truly compelling motivation needed to carry being like. the main villain.  gabriel is fun because he is easy to hate, but also you totally see where he’s coming from, and he has a badbackstory and makes the wrong choices, but you understand why. he has an extremely compelling motivation to explain his actions.  he’s motivated by his wife, his memories of her, his son, and nathalie.  he wars against these things constantly and you see it pressure him and it’s fun.

felix has potential as a rising villain for his own conflicts and reasons for being who he is, it isnt fully revealed to us, but sentimonster theory is basically confirmed, etc. he has a reason and he has weakness and emotions, any cruelty he chooses is understandable and compelling.

lila does not have a compelling backstory or.  reason to do what she is doing.  she likes to be on top and feels insulted by others who disregard her, and she wants to have the world wrapped around her fingers but..she lacks like.  a REASON for that?  she hasn’t lost anything and she just like, doesn’t have any actual source of deep conflict that gabriel, nathalie, felix, or really many of the akumatized victims have.

like i am all for a new hawkmoth.  as much as i love gabriel, i understand his story has to crumble etc.  but if lila is the next holder i will be disappointed, as it will feel lacking and i cant really think of a way to make her compelling the way the other antagonists are.