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my (cis) brother is using my old license to buy wine and it has the gender marker F on there. so whenever he gets asked he just says “oh i’m trans”. its literally worked every single time.
#the narwhal speaks#we’re close enough in age and looks to pass for the other#if you took out photos and then shrunk it down on shitty plastic#if he gets asked why he doesnt quite look like the photo he has a whole speech planned abt how hormone replacement therapy changed so much#like muscle distribution etc#he hasnt been asked yet tho but hes practed the speech on me its totally great#what a time for our generation to be alive
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"With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures — and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.
In the face of a rapidly heating planet, the City of Eternal Spring — nicknamed so thanks to its year-round temperate climate — has found a way to keep its cool.
Previously, Medellín had undergone years of rapid urban expansion, which led to a severe urban heat island effect — raising temperatures in the city to significantly higher than in the surrounding suburban and rural areas. Roads and other concrete infrastructure absorb and maintain the sun’s heat for much longer than green infrastructure.
“Medellín grew at the expense of green spaces and vegetation,” says Pilar Vargas, a forest engineer working for City Hall. “We built and built and built. There wasn’t a lot of thought about the impact on the climate. It became obvious that had to change.”
Efforts began in 2016 under Medellín’s then mayor, Federico Gutiérrez (who, after completing one term in 2019, was re-elected at the end of 2023). The city launched a new approach to its urban development — one that focused on people and plants.
The $16.3 million initiative led to the creation of 30 Green Corridors along the city’s roads and waterways, improving or producing more than 70 hectares of green space, which includes 20 kilometers of shaded routes with cycle lanes and pedestrian paths.
These plant and tree-filled spaces — which connect all sorts of green areas such as the curb strips, squares, parks, vertical gardens, sidewalks, and even some of the seven hills that surround the city — produce fresh, cooling air in the face of urban heat. The corridors are also designed to mimic a natural forest with levels of low, medium and high plants, including native and tropical plants, bamboo grasses and palm trees.
Heat-trapping infrastructure like metro stations and bridges has also been greened as part of the project and government buildings have been adorned with green roofs and vertical gardens to beat the heat. The first of those was installed at Medellín’s City Hall, where nearly 100,000 plants and 12 species span the 1,810 square meter surface.
“It’s like urban acupuncture,” says Paula Zapata, advisor for Medellín at C40 Cities, a global network of about 100 of the world’s leading mayors. “The city is making these small interventions that together act to make a big impact.”
At the launch of the project, 120,000 individual plants and 12,500 trees were added to roads and parks across the city. By 2021, the figure had reached 2.5 million plants and 880,000 trees. Each has been carefully chosen to maximize their impact.
“The technical team thought a lot about the species used. They selected endemic ones that have a functional use,” explains Zapata.
The 72 species of plants and trees selected provide food for wildlife, help biodiversity to spread and fight air pollution. A study, for example, identified Mangifera indica as the best among six plant species found in Medellín at absorbing PM2.5 pollution — particulate matter that can cause asthma, bronchitis and heart disease — and surviving in polluted areas due to its “biochemical and biological mechanisms.”
And the urban planting continues to this day.
The groundwork is carried out by 150 citizen-gardeners like Pineda, who come from disadvantaged and minority backgrounds, with the support of 15 specialized forest engineers. Pineda is now the leader of a team of seven other gardeners who attend to corridors all across the city, shifting depending on the current priorities...
“I’m completely in favor of the corridors,” says [Victoria Perez, another citizen-gardener], who grew up in a poor suburb in the city of 2.5 million people. “It really improves the quality of life here.”
Wilmar Jesus, a 48-year-old Afro-Colombian farmer on his first day of the job, is pleased about the project’s possibilities for his own future. “I want to learn more and become better,” he says. “This gives me the opportunity to advance myself.”
The project’s wider impacts are like a breath of fresh air. Medellín’s temperatures fell by 2°C in the first three years of the program, and officials expect a further decrease of 4 to 5C over the next few decades, even taking into account climate change. In turn, City Hall says this will minimize the need for energy-intensive air conditioning...
In addition, the project has had a significant impact on air pollution. Between 2016 and 2019, the level of PM2.5 fell significantly, and in turn the city’s morbidity rate from acute respiratory infections decreased from 159.8 to 95.3 per 1,000 people [Note: That means the city's rate of people getting sick with lung/throat/respiratory infections.]
There’s also been a 34.6 percent rise in cycling in the city, likely due to the new bike paths built for the project, and biodiversity studies show that wildlife is coming back — one sample of five Green Corridors identified 30 different species of butterfly.
Other cities are already taking note. Bogotá and Barranquilla have adopted similar plans, among other Colombian cities, and last year São Paulo, Brazil, the largest city in South America, began expanding its corridors after launching them in 2022.
“For sure, Green Corridors could work in many other places,” says Zapata."
-via Reasons to Be Cheerful, March 4, 2024
#colombia#brazil#urban#urban landscape#urban planning#cities#civil engineering#green architecture#green spaces#urban heat#urban heat island effect#weather#meteorology#global warming#climate change#climate hope#climate optimism#climate emergency#climate action#environment#environmental news#city architecture#bicycling#native plants#biodiversity#good news#hope#solarpunk#ecopunk#hopepunk
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Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:
15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)
2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)
1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.
None of the hijackers were from Iraq.
None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.
None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.
#9/11#serious post#not a shitpost#this should be one of the first things kids learn when they learn about the 9/11 attacks#politics#this is just...it's such an essential and brazen fact and i rarely see basic outrage over it#i want outrage. i want fury. i want disgust over the way fundamental facts are disguised and discarded and downplayed#because there are things we should KNOW. basic fact we should ALL KNOW. and they are tucked away in the footnotes.#and no this is NOT to put the blame on other middle eastern countries#we know this was carried out by a specific terrorist organization not a national government#but King George the Second decided (and was encouraged by his cabinet!) to invade a nation!#a nation that was not at all related or responsible!!!#a dictatorship to be sure--but a dictatorship that King George the First had been happy to support#so what changed? why did we go in guns blazing to DEMOLISH a country *we had NO PLANS OF REPAIRING*???#well. because they wanted a villain didn't they. a nice clean war. clarity of purpose. us the heroes against them the villains#and when you're in that mindframe--truth is irrelevant. you can pick your villain (your victim) by rolling a roulette wheel#truth is irrelevant#worse: to the people in charge#truth is a HINDRANCE#'Alternative facts' existed long before it became a catchphrase#facts don't matter. truth doesn't matter. the impulses of a handful of volatile & rich & power-high people--that's History. congratulations
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happy long weekend!!! i wanted to compile all of my sonic prints in one post...theyre available on my shop!
#sonic the hedgehog#tangle the lemur#whisper the wolf#shadow the hedgehog#knuckles the echidna#jewel the beetle#espio the chameleon#mighty the armadillo#vector the crocodile#charmy bee#ray the flying squirrel#rouge the bat#surge the tenrec#metal sonic#sonic#sth#idw sonic#ive made a lot of changes to my shop!! pls check it out 🙇♀️#link in bioooo#also i like the quality of our printer and my sonic prints are my favs#i have plans to draw more but im just waiting for our next con#this doesnt include my postcards omg
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waittt you wanna cancel your subscription? nooo you dont meant that haha. you dont mean that 😧we'll just put the button to cancel all the way down here behind all of this other stuff so you cant find it ok?❤️thanks
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The Allegiance of the Ascended Vampire and the New God of Magic
#bloodweave#baldur's gate 3#bg3#gale x astarion#astarion x gale#gale dekarios#astarion ancunin#yes this is about astarion helping gale defeat mystra and take her place with the crown in exchange for gale helping him with the ritual#the ‘they can make each other worse’ part of their relationship turned to the max#I enjoy them being reluctantly soft for each other more but from time to time I just think about how powerful they could get together#toxic evil boyfriends. take love and twist it up until it’s unrecognisable#I like to think that astarion approached gale with that offer after realising no one else in camp is gonna help him#and that he can use gales own hunger for power which backfired when astarion actually became emotionally invested in gale#and after gale kept his word despite everyone’s concerns astarion changed his plan from not fullfilling his end of the bargain to actually#helping gale kill mystra (mostly so that gale could belong to him and him alone. and letting him take the place as a god bc having a god#at you beck and call is definitely appealing. especially one as eager to please as gale)#anyway what I want to say with this is please please please let me kill mystra i don’t even care if the weave gets destroyed again
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every time i remember percabeth have canonically discussed marrying each other and that percy thought sadie looked like his and annabeth's daughter five years are added to my lifespan
#oh their future planning#like i alr know it would happen#but doesnt change that them thinking abt and discussing it is so cute#i love them#pjo#heroes of olympus#hoo#percy jackon and the olympians#percy jackson#annabeth chase#percabeth
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Erika's reaction is all of us, cause that scene was WILD!
#dropout#dropouttv#dropout tv spoilers#misfits and magic spoilers#mismag#d20 mismag#misfits and magic season 2#misfits and magic#mismag 2#mismag s2#d20#dimension 20#dimension 20 spoilers#ttrpg#k tanaka#erika ishii#sam britain#danielle radford#evan kelmp#brennanleemulligan#brennan lee mulligan#brennan lee mulligan gifs#brennan lee mulligan edit#edit#gifset#A Change of Plan#2k+#like and/or reblog!
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TW: SA in the Work Place. Seeking Justice
Direct Aid:
Sorry I look disheveled. I am a broken person. All I ask is that you guys help me prove my past employer wrong. Help me fight.
💗 $400/$20,0000 raised
#immigration#politics#uk politics#donald trump#asexual#lesbian#gay#abortion#planned parenthood#comic#climate change#city#classic car#classroom#clouds#code#coding#collage#college#colonialism#Spotify
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5/12/2024: "Jambalaya"
He doesn't indulge in the dishes his mother used to make in his childhood all that often, but when he does....the nostalgia never fails to hit him where it hurts the most.
100% probably OOC but I don't care, I was in an angsty mood and watching Ratatouille when I thought of this.
#digital art#digital drawing#digital illustration#hazbin hotel#fanart#hazbin hotel fanart#alastor the radio demon#hazbin hotel alastor#hazbin alastor#hazbin hotel art#alastors mom#ive never had jambalaya before#plan on changing that soon tho lol
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we were fucking ROBBED
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 part 8 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 part 8 spoilers#the only ssr i'll whale for#oh my god i loved this update. holy shit#got some ~compositions~ in mind so i'll get to the more serious stuff later#in the meantime those first couple of chapters genuinely made me question if i was perhaps trapped in my own absurd dream or not#the whole-ass video just DROPPED in there idia how long were you WORKING on that#don't forget to like and subscribe! :)#i demand that all cutscenes be animated in that style forevermore#i also demand that all clothing changes henceforth be done via magical girl transformation phrase#not just in the dreamworld. all of them.#DREAM~~~~~FORM~~~~~CHAAAA~~~~NGE#also savanarook was so unexpectedly precious! i want to protect him.#augh there's SO MUCH and i am SO PLEASED with all of it#anyway i guess we're going to be going through everyone's dreams after all!#and it's going to be a THING!!!!!!!! CLOSURE AND SELF-ACCEPTANCE FOR EVERYONE#(insert 'it's all coming together' meme)#man i hope 'please watch this video' remains a running gag it's AMAZING#also i cannot believe#i cannot BELIEVE#that the plan is actually literally#defeat malleus by inviting everyone else to the party except him#HIS ULTIMATE WEAKNESS#malleus doesn't get to be in smash bros
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Sometimes I think about the commentary track where Alex Hirsch explains his choice to have all of Stan's memories come back more or less immediately in the finale. He said that, if he'd written the final goodbye scene so that Stan only half remembered the twins, then he could have made audiences cry. The thing is, the point of Gravity Falls isn't to make people cry, it's to show the relationship between the Pines's, and especially between Stan and the kids.
I know we love angst on here, but that wouldn't have fit the canon of Gravity Falls. In this show, everything ends happy because the Pines family got over their issues and put it all on the line to save each other, and that's why we all come back every summer. Gravity Falls proved time and time again that the only way to "win" at storytelling is to care about the characters and give them what they deserve, no matter what people think or what technically makes sense.
#this is also about when hirsch found out that the fans had predicted his “stan has a twin” twist#and rather than changing his plans at the last minute he instead staged an elaborate hoax to throw the fandom off the scent#gravity falls#stan pines#stanley pines#mabel pines#dipper pines#alex hirsch
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"Amsterdam’s roofs have just been converted into a giant sponge that will make the city more climate resilient.
The Dutch have always been famous for their ability to control water, born out of the necessity of their homeland, much of which is below sea level.
Now, their expert water management skills are transforming the city skyline in the capital city of Amsterdam from one of terracotta tile, concrete, and shingles into green grass and brown earth.
It’s part of a new climate-resiliency trend in architecture and civic planning known as the ‘sponge city concept,’ in which a garden of water-loving plants, mosses, and soil absorbs excess rainwater before feeding it into the building for use in flushing toilets or watering plants on the ground.
If heavy rains are predicted, a smart valve system empties the stored rainwater into the municipal storm drains and sewers in advance of the weather, allowing the roof to soak up water and reduce flooding in the city.
In this way, the rooftops of buildings can be wrung out and filled up just like a sponge.
In Amsterdam, 45,000 square meters, or 11 acres of flat metropolitan rooftops have already been fitted with these systems, and the contracting firms behind the technology say they make sense in dry climates like Spain just as much as in wet climates like Amsterdam...
A 4-year project of different firms and organizations called Resilio, the resilient network for smart climate adaptive rooftops, rolled out thousands of square meters of sponge city technology into new buildings. As with many climate technologies, the costs are high upfront but tend to result in savings from several expenditures like water utilities and water damage, over a long-enough time horizon...
All together, Amsterdam’s sponge capacity is over 120,000 gallons.
“We think the concept is applicable to many urban areas around the world,” Kasper Spaan from Waternet, Amsterdam’s public water management organization, told Wired Magazine. “In the south of Europe–Italy and Spain–where there are really drought-stressed areas, there’s new attention for rainwater catchment.”
Indeed the sponge city concept comes into a different shade when installed in drought-prone regions. Waters absorbed by rooftops during heavy rains can be used for municipal purposes to reduce pressure on underground aquifers or rivers, or be sweated out under the Sun’s rays which cools the interior of the building naturally.
Additionally, if solar panels were added on top of the rooftop garden, the evaporation would keep the panels cooler, which has been shown in other projects to improve their energy generation.
“Our philosophy in the end is not that on every roof, everything is possible,” says Spaan, “but that on every roof, something is possible.”
Matt Simon, reporting on the Resilio project for Wired, said succinctly that perhaps science fiction authors have missed the mark when it came to envisioning the city of the future, and that rather than being a glittering metropolis of glass, metal, and marble as smooth as a pannacotta, it will look an awful lot more like an enormous sculpture garden."
-via Good News Network, May 15, 2024
#amsterdam#netherlands#green roof#blue roof#city planning#urban#urban landscape#flood#climate change#climate action#climate emergency#climate hope#solarpunk#hope posting#go green#eco friendly#climate adaptation#sponge city#urban planning#good news#hope#rooftop garden
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Kazuscara | A Ghost of a Memory
Part 1/?
Also hbday to scara ♡
#genshin impact#kazuha#kaedehara kazuha#scaramouche#wanderer#kazuscara#my art#first art of the year!!#i have an entire 20+ page comic planned for this sooo#u can expect more of them#and every time i think about how to panel everything more pages get added akdfh#they are living rent free in my head rn#hoping that I can get the next parts up next week! but it's currently the part that i'm having trouble#sketching out#so im doing more research :'D#fight scenes and bgs are not my forte but that can change for 2023 lmao
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Quick, find him the closest meteor-
#You can do it Pokey i believe in you#Tinky is already planning the play dates they're gonna have#alsooo- drawing another tiny lord?? me?? huh?? whooaa!!#Obviously since i've never done pokey before the way i draw him is probably gonna change a bit as we go (that is if i draw him again heh)#Pokey is enraptured by scribbled paul and must ruin his life#the only proof he and tinky are related /j#tinky#pokey#t'noy karaxis#pokotho#hatchetfield#ted spankoffski#paul matthews
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my contribution to the kimharry nation (please ignore the crappy quality sweats)
#disco elysium#whiteboard fox#kim kitsuragi#harry du bois#kimharry#hello de fandom waves#this comic was just a big excuse to draw flustered kim honestly#also an excuse to draw harrier looking happy#he looks rlly softPUNCHES WALL#this was like the second time i drew them so they might change a lot as time goes smiles#planning on drawing a lot of de.. i love this game so much...
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