#aqi levels

[thefirsthogokage]

@adamsmasher: This put me in research mode.

So the AQI in Portland was indeed clocked at 516. Or, rather, I think an area around Portland that they called Portland clocked that high. Bend, Oregon, it would seem, while Portland top clocked in at 477 (that source is opb.org, Article: Oregon’s air is so hazardous it’s breaking records; By Monica Samayoa (OPB); Sept. 15, 2020 4:36 p.m.). I was curious how far Bend and Portland were from each other, so I mapped it:

Anywho, I remembered the scale only going up to 500 in the charts I'd seen, so I looked a little more.

Looks like the scale in the United States only goes up to 500 because it rarely gets above that here, but the scale goes higher in other countries, such as India.

In case the NY Times gets gate-keepy with the article, here it is in full:

Title: What Happens When the Air Quality Index Surpasses 500?

Tagline: The toxic air in the United States this week has flirted with the upper range of the 500-point scale. In the past decade, there have been times when the air quality was even worse.

Author: Jenny Gross

Date: June 9, 2023

Body:

New York City’s smoke-clogged air reached 407 on the Environmental Protection Agency’s 500-point Air Quality Index at one point this week, signifying that pollution levels were “hazardous” and at historically dangerous levels.

But it’s not the worst air quality that the United States has seen. There have been about 40 times over the past decade when the index has risen above 500, into what the E.P.A. calls “Beyond the A.Q.I.” Most of those instances have occurred in Western states, including California, Oregon and Washington, the E.P.A. said in an email, as wildfires spread a blanket of smoke over parts of the region.

The E.P.A. in 1999 released the current version of the six-tier index as a way to communicate to the public the density of five pollutants. A rating anywhere between 301 and 500 is considered “hazardous,” and air quality at that level will trigger health warnings. At that level and beyond, everyone should stay indoors and reduce activity levels. “Use the same information that is for the ‘hazardous’ category,” the E.P.A. advises.

While the A.Q.I. measurement used in the United States does not support values above 500, such values occur so infrequently that the issue rarely comes up, said Robert Rohde, the lead scientist at Berkeley Earth, an organization focused on environmental data science.

“Such levels do occur more often in some foreign countries, such as India,” Dr. Rohde said. Some third-party air quality tracking platforms extend the U.S. A.Q.I. scale and track figures over 500, he added.

Harshal Salve, a professor at the All India Institute Of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, said that as air quality reaches hazardous levels close to or above 500 on the U.S. A.Q.I. scale, people will experience symptoms of respiratory illnesses, such as coughing and a burning sensation in their eyes, with people over 65 years and under five years at the highest risk.

The negative effects can continue even after air quality levels have improved, since pollution particles can cause inflammation of the lung tissue and increase the vulnerability to infections.

By Friday, the cities with the highest A.Q.I.s were seeing improved air quality, with Susquehanna Valley, Pa., at 150, down from 448 on Thursday morning, the highest of anywhere in the United States, according to AirNow, a source for air quality data. Levels below 100 are considered to be below the level known to cause adverse health effects.

The E.P.A. said it has proposed changes to the A.Q.I. to make it more accurately reflect recent scientific studies about particle pollution and health, and to improve the quality of monitoring data. The agency said air quality in the United States is generally improving, even if climate change is contributing to more frequent and severe wildfires.

Olivia Clifton, an atmospheric scientist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said that if air quality levels like the ones this week become more frequent, the E.P.A. should consider defining what A.Q.I. levels above 500 say about air quality for the public.

“Is this still hazardous or beyond hazardous?” Dr. Clifton said. “What is the qualitative description of the air quality that would need to be described for a higher A.Q.I.?”

Jenny Gross is a general assignment reporter. Before joining The Times, she covered British politics for The Wall Street Journal. @/jggross

This was an interesting read! Thanks for triggering my need to do a deep dive!

Anywho, since I included things in the OG version way too late: Cloth masks are NOT sufficient. Please used KN95s or N95s!

Stay safe out there, folks!

If you're in an area that is suffering from wildfire polluted air, I just saw this on Twitter:

Bonus:

Here's a site I found that can tell you how to make these:

Edit: There have been some extra pointers (about open sources of water in the home, and I believe some other things) in the reblogs, so I highly recommend taking a look at the notes of this post!

[heatheniousmaterials]

In case anyone is wondering how it's going in California...

[financia012]

Air Pollution Emergency in Delhi: 13 Major Hotspots Identified

Delhi is facing another air pollution crisis as levels of harmful particles continue to spike, prompting the identification of 13 major pollution hotspots across the city. These zones are being closely monitored as part of the ongoing effort to tackle the severe smog that envelopes the region every winter. Delhi’s Air Quality Deteriorates The capital’s air quality index (AQI) has once again…

[fawn-paws]

Holy god are anyone else’s allergies like absolutely fucked today? I’m suffering so bad

[liuet]

AirVisual and AirNow tend to be more accurate, with My AQI Air coming in just after that. Firesource is useful for knowing where incidents are and the smoke plume map overlay. AirCare is less accurate but is usually somewhere in the general ballpark.

AirVisual has an option to display the local AQI as a badge number on the app so you can see it without even opening it. AirNow gets info directly from the EPA and the details in the alert info is insightful and occasionally hilarious.

the reason there are no actual phone alerts for the air quality in Canada and parts of the US right now is because the government doesn't want to freak people out. This is what I've taken to calling New Normal Syndrome — when people don't want to acknowledge that the worst air quality on record, or an ongoing global pandemic is cause for alarm and appropriate protective measures.

New Normal Syndrome has also affected the folks pretending it's "Normal" (or not a form of child abuse??) to take their kids out in a level 11 air quality warning without any respiratory protection before kids can comprehend the damage that will do to their lungs.

People with New Normal Syndrome can wear blinders as much as they want, they can cling to "Normal" with their fingertips, but it's not going to make it true. We're living in a global pandemic, in a climate crisis, and this is not sustainable.

We don't need to adjust to "the New Normal," we need to take appropriate steps to fix it and mitigate the damage that it's causing, at least within our own families and communities to start.

[jayflrt]

a stoner’s guide to starbucks

PAIRING ▸ lee heeseung x fem!reader (ft. enha, winter from aespa, beomgyu from txt, and dino from svt)

GENRES ▸ social media au (smau), crack, fluff, stoner au, strangers to lovers

WARNINGS ▸ profanity, sexual jokes, zero braincells, limited knowledge of the starbucks corporation, weed consumption, dumb shenanigans, ignore timestamps!

SUMMARY ▸ in which you work at the starbucks where heeseung is a regular at (and considered a public enemy). also he only goes when he’s stoned off his ass.

AUTHOR’S NOTE ▸ hello !! i am alive (real) also i was so committed to the bit that i got high to make this <3 shoutout @hoonbear for the Extensive Starbucks Knowledge 🫡 i would also like to note that i am NOT doing a tag list for this smau. also please note that this is a fictional setting and to boycott starbucks in real life for firing their workers over their pro palestine speech. remember to do your daily click!

INCOMING MESSAGES !

TEASER

PROFILES ONE | TWO

01. weed guy beomgyu

02. red bitch with the freckles rizz

03. starbucks public enemy #1

04. 50% cut ???

05. lee heeseung: upstanding citizen, NOT murderer

06. clearing up misunderstandings with an aqi under 50

07. chat is this real

08. daddy’s home 2

09. biodegrade ur chance at romance

10. triple filtered reverse osmosis water filtration system

11. losing the idgaf war

12. crazy gets u bitches

13. banned in the name of love

14. riki s worded irl??

15. 8ball brings nations together

16. killing myself postponed tonight repostponed

17. scheming sponsored by crazy bitch 62 and unimportant goon

18. the do-over date to end all first dates

19. seek BetterHelp.com

20. quarterly store meeting (remote)

21. WHAT ARE WE

22. heejake support group for heejake victims

23. bro fumbled the unfumbleable

24. sunghoon is the new Papa John

25. according to penal code 837 🤓☝️

26. jungwon pulls bitches (the duolingo owl) too

27. someone PLEASE take jungwon to see the teenage mutant ninja turtles movie

28. 14th date’s the charm

29. doc mcuggo

30. nothing to write home about

31. LONDON I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL I LOST MY QUEEN TOO

32. starbucks double chocolate brownies

33. having a kid together before dating is next level

34. tweaking out on 5 hour energy

35. 7.83 inches

36. The Milk Makes The Man, And The Man Makes The Milk

37. sunghoon from papa john's from starbucks

38. then who's flying the plane???

39. league of legends quarantine ex girlfriend

40. WELCOME HOME CHEATER 😐

41. unknown evil forces (chaewon)

42. friends to rivaling coffee shop employees au

43. do NOT get the weed frap

44. now on channel 9 news

45. choose your fighter heeseung tit variation

46. kitten i'll be honest, daddy's about to kill himself

47. a fire can be put out but missing a bereal is forever

48. baby's first customer connection score

49. #STARBUCKS_FIRST_WIN

50. epilogue

UNCUTS !

weekly weed check 🗣️

SUNGHOONXJLAW

happy weedsgiving

minjake texts

the Sunghoon Special

goons vs baby shark movie

COMPLETED 12/1/23

[covid-safer-hotties]

Also preserved in our archive

By Taylyn Washington-Harmon

Wearing a mask has several benefits. It can keep you from inhaling any respiratory hazards, such as particles of dust or smoke, poor air quality, and germs. Masks can also protect others and reduce the spread of infections if you have an illness.

Research has found that wearing masks, along with social distancing, has significantly curbed the spread of SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19.2 KN95 and N95 respirators have been shown to offer strong protection.

1. Keeps You From Spreading Germs Masks can help prevent you from spreading germs if you're already ill. Wearing a mask decreases the likelihood that you will exhale and spread germs into the surrounding air.

2. Prevents You From Getting Sick Infectious diseases can spread from exposure to droplets containing germs that cause diseases. Masks protect you from inhaling droplets when people around you breathe, cough, sneeze, or talk.1

A 2022 study showed that one person wearing a mask is partially protected from infectious droplet exposure from others with SARS-CoV-2. One-way masking is better than not using a mask—in other words, one person wearing a mask is better than no one wearing a mask.

3. Protects People With a Weak Immune System Masks protect people who have a weak immune system. They reduce or prevent exposure to germs that can make you very sick if you are immunocompromised. This means you have an immune system that does not work properly.

Immune system dysfunction may occur due to:

Chronic diseases, such as diabetes or cancer Conditions like HIV Therapies that suppress the immune system, such as radiation therapy

4. Reduces Exposure to Allergens Wearing a mask could decrease allergen exposure, especially if you have pollen allergies. A mask that covers your mouth and nose helps filter out pollen or irritants. Masks also change the moisture and temperature level of the air you breathe in, further reducing allergy symptoms.

5. Shields You From Poor Air Quality Wearing a mask can protect your respiratory system and general health when there is poor air quality because of pollutants.8 Categories of poor air quality range from moderate to hazardous on the Air Quality Index (AQI).

The AQI measures levels of the following pollutants with Clean Air Act regulations:

Carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, and sulfur dioxide: Gases from motor vehicles and industrial processes Ground-level ozone: Gas from the atmosphere referred to as smog when it reaches the ground Particle pollution: Particles made of sulfate, nitrate, carbon, and mineral dust chemicals Who Should Wear a Mask? All healthy children and adults should wear a mask when necessary. Talk to a healthcare provider to determine if and when to wear a mask if you are sick or at risk of getting very sick.

The following people should not or may not be able to wear a mask:

Children under the age of 2 People who cannot remove a mask or put one on without help People who have trouble breathing Those with certain disabilities who have trouble wearing masks (e.g., people who are sensitive to having something on their face) Choosing the Right Mask An effective mask will fit well: It won't be too tight or loose. It will also have high filtration of particles and droplets, measured by a percentage. High filtration means the mask does a good job of protecting you from those particles and droplets.

The most effective masks are ones approved by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). NIOSH-approved masks (or respirators) are tight-fitting and have higher filtration rates—usually greater than 95%. These masks also are best at protecting you and others when worn correctly.

The next best option is international filtering respirators such as KN95s. They offer at least 80% filtration and are also tight-fitting. Other masks—including barrier face coverings, disposable masks, and cloth masks—can have variable filtration and fit. While not as effective as N95s or KN95s, disposable masks can be easy to find, comfortable to wear, and better than cloth masks or no mask at all.

Other Considerations Follow this guidance to ensure proper mask wear:

Check the mask for any damage, and use a new one if there are any defects like holes or broken pieces. Choose a mask with multiple layers and, preferably, a nose wire to get a good fit on your face. Make sure your mask covers your mouth and nose once in place. It should also fit comfortably, but snugly, on your face. Wash your hands before putting on your face mask. You can wear a cloth mask on top of a disposable mask or a mask brace over disposable or cloth masks. You can also knot and tuck three-ply mask ear loops.

A Quick Review Masks have been used to protect against COVID and other infectious illnesses. Wearing them has other benefits. Masks may keep your allergy symptoms from getting worse, or they can keep you from pollutant exposure.

NIOSH-approved masks are the most effective, though other masks may be helpful, too, depending on the type of mask. Not everyone can wear a mask, but you should wear one that has a snug, comfortable fit if you can and when necessary.

(Sources for info at original link!)

[queenlua]

i'm hanging out in eastern Washington w/ the in-laws & everyone's discussing the locations of the latest wildfires & the evacuation levels & aqi numbers the same way my family back in Kentucky discusses this year's UK basketball lineup & the latest injuries & 3-pointer percentages & such

[lathrine]

western WA here, and last year we had a fire that burned from Oct-Sept (Bolt Creek Fire, 41 days total), I want to say. they had to let it burn for forest management reasons but that meant living with 150-300+ AQI for months. that SUCKED, it would be incredible to get some rain and stave off these awful wildfire conditions

So who else is literally praying to Thor for rainstorms/people to not be stupid and set the fucking states in record heat waves even more on fire.

No I'm not joking

[scribblesbyavi]

"Delhi's AQI continues to deteriorate as it crossed the 500 mark on Sunday, two days after Diwali. The air pollution level now lies in the alarming 'Hazardous' category in the national capital as of 5 am."

Lekin phir vi fireworks karna hai. i never said fireworks mat karo but when it is already that bad don't make it worse.

[phuvioqhile]

aqi levels skyrocketing all over india and m*di has the audacity to talk about protecting the environment at BRICS.

for every politician in this country, nature is only important when they want to blame farmers for stubble burning.

but yes, let us fight communal wars because that will definitely save you from choking to your early death! :)

[mikeo56]

Princeton, N.J. — As I write this, the sun is a hazy reddish orange orb. The sky is an inky yellowish gray. The air has an acrid stench and leaves a faint metallic taste in my mouth. After 20 minutes outside, my head starts to ache, my nose burns, my eyes itch and my breathing becomes more labored. Streets are deserted. The ubiquitous lawn service companies with their machine mowers and whining gas-powered leaf blowers have disappeared, along with pedestrians, cyclists and joggers. Those who walk their dog go out briefly and then scamper back inside. N95 masks, as in the early days of the pandemic, are sold out, along with air purifiers. The international airports at Newark and Philadelphia have delayed or canceled flights.

I feel as if I am in a ghost town. Windows shut. Air conditioners on full blast. The Air Quality Index (AQI) is checked and rechecked. We are hovering around 300. The most polluted cities in the world have half that rate. Dubai (168). Delhi (164). Anything above 300 is classified as hazardous.

When will the hundreds of forest fires burning north of us in Canada — fires that have already consumed 10.9 million acres and driven 120,000 people from their homes — be extinguished? What does this portend? The wildfire season is only beginning. When will the air clear? A few days? A few weeks? 

What do you tell a terminal patient seeking relief? Yes, this period of distress may pass, but it’s not over. It will get worse. There will be more highs and lows and then mostly lows, and then death. But no one wants to look that far ahead. We live moment to moment, illusion to illusion. And when the skies clear we pretend that normality will return. Except it won’t. Climate science is unequivocal. It has been for decades. The projections and graphs, the warming of the oceans and the atmosphere, the melting of polar ice sheets and glaciers, rising sea levels, droughts and wildfires and monster hurricanes are already bearing down with a terrible and mounting fury on our species, and most other species, because of the hubris and folly of the human race. 

The worse it gets the more we retreat into fantasy. The law will solve it. The market will solve it. Technology will solve it. We will adapt. Or, for those who find solace in denial of a reality-based belief system, the climate crisis does not exist. The earth has always been like this. And besides, Jesus will save us. Those who warn of the looming mass extinction are dismissed as hysterics, Cassandras, pessimists. It can’t be that catastrophic.

At the inception of every war I covered, most people were unable to cope with the nightmare that was about to engulf them. Signs of disintegration surrounded them. Shootings. Kidnappings. The bifurcation of polarized extremes into antagonistic armed groups or militias. Hate speech. Political paralysis. Apocalyptic rhetoric. The breakdown of social services. Food shortages. Circumscribed daily existence. But the fragility of society is too emotionally fraught for most of us to accept. We endow the institutions and structures around us with an eternal permanence.

“Things whose existence is not morally comprehensible cannot exist,” Primo Levi, who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp, observed. 

I would return at night to Pristina in Kosovo after having been stopped by Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) rebels a few miles outside the capital. But when I described my experiences to my Kosovar Albanian friends — highly educated and multilingual — they dismissed them. “Those are Serbs dressed up like rebels to justify Serb repression,” they answered. They did not grasp they were at war until Serb paramilitary forces rounded them up at gunpoint, herded them into boxcars and shipped them off to Macedonia.

Complex civilizations eventually destroy themselves. Joseph Tainter in “The Collapse of Complex Societies,” Charles L. Redman in “Human Impact on Ancient Environments,” Jared Diamond in “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed” and Ronald Wright in “A Short History of Progress,” detail the familiar patterns that lead to catastrophic collapse. We are no different, although this time we will all go down together. The entire planet. Those in the Global South who are least responsible for the climate emergency, will suffer first. They are already fighting existential battles to survive. Our turn will come. We in the Global North may hold out for a bit longer, but only a bit. The billionaire class is preparing its escape. The worse it gets, the stronger will be our temptation to deny the reality facing us, to lash out at climate refugees, which is already happening in Europe and along our border with Mexico, as if they are the problem. 

Wright, who calls industrial society “a suicide machine,” writes: 

Civilization is an experiment, a very recent way of life in the human career, and it has a habit of walking into what I am calling progress traps. A small village on good land beside a river is a good idea; but when the village grows into a city and paves over the good land, it becomes a bad idea. While prevention might have been easy, a cure may be impossible: a city isn’t easily moved. This human inability to foresee — or to watch out for — long-range consequences may be inherent to our kind, shaped by the millions of years when we lived from hand to mouth by hunting and gathering. It may also be little more than a mix of inertia, greed, and foolishness encouraged by the shape of the social pyramid. The concentration of power at the top of large-scale societies gives the elite a vested interest in the status quo; they continue to prosper in darkening times long after the environment and general populace begin to suffer.

We will frantically construct climate fortresses, like the great walled cities at the end of the Bronze Age before its societal collapse, a collapse so severe that not only did these cities fall into ruin, but writing itself in many places disappeared. Maybe a few of our species will linger on for a while. Or maybe rats will take over the planet and evolve into some new life form. One thing is certain. The planet will survive. It has experienced mass extinctions before. This one is unique only because our species engineered it. Intelligent life is not so intelligent. Maybe this is why, with all those billions of planets, we have not discovered an evolved species. Maybe evolution has built within it its own death sentence.

I accept this intellectually. I don’t accept it emotionally any more than I accept my own death. Yes, I know our species is almost certainly doomed — but notice, I say almost. Yes, I know I am mortal. Most of my life has already been lived. But death is hard to digest until the final moments of existence, and even then, many cannot face it. We are composed of the rational and the irrational. In moments of extreme distress we embrace magical thinking. We become the easy prey of con-artists, cult leaders, charlatans and demagogues who tell us what we want to hear. 

Disintegrating societies are susceptible to crisis cults that promise a return to a golden age. The Christian Right has many of the characteristics of a crisis cult. Native Americans, ravaged by genocide, the slaughter of the buffalo herds, the theft of their land and incarcerated in prisoner-of-war camps, clung desperately to the Ghost Dance. The Ghost Dance promised to drive away the white invaders and resurrect the warriors and buffalo herds. Instead, followers were mowed down by the U.S. Army with Hotchkiss MI875 mountain guns.

We must do everything in our power to halt carbon emissions. We must face the truth that the ruling corporate elites in the industrialized world will never extract us from fossil fuels. Only if these corporatists are overthrown — as proposed by groups such as Extinction Rebellion — and radical and immediate measures are taken to end the consumption of fossil fuel, as well as curtail the animal agriculture industry, will we be able to mitigate some of the worst effects of ecocide. But I don’t see this as likely, especially given the sophisticated forms of control and surveillance the global oligarchs have at their disposal.

The awful truth is that even if we halt all carbon emissions today there is so much warming locked into the oceans deep muddy floor and the atmosphere, that feedback loops will ensure climate catastrophe. Summer Arctic sea ice, which reflects 90 percent of solar radiation that comes into contact with it, will disappear. The Earth’s surface will absorb more radiation. The greenhouse effect will be amplified. Global warming will accelerate, melting the Siberian permafrost and disintegrating the Greenland ice sheet. 

Melting ice in Greenland and Antarctica “has increased fivefold since the 1990s, and now accounts for a quarter of sea-level rise,” according to a recent report funded by NASA and the European Space Agency. Continued sea level rise, the rate of which has doubled over three decades according to the World Meteorological Organization, is inevitable. Tropical rainforests will burn. Boreal forests will move northward. These and other feedback loops are already built into the ecosystem. We cannot stop them. Climate chaos, including elevated temperatures, will last for centuries. 

The hardest existential crisis we face is to at once accept this bleak reality and resist. Resistance cannot be carried out because it will succeed, but because it is a moral imperative, especially for those of us who have children. We may fail, but if we do not fight against the forces that are orchestrating our mass extinction, we become part of the apparatus of death.

Stop, stop, stop believing America is great. It isn't.

[4ster-bl4ster]

Area Zero Research Trip - Part 04 [Final]

I... went in. I haven't been in here since then. Anyways, here's the final log before I leave the crater.

I'm gonna be in so much trouble with my friend Bea when I get back lol

[Area 0, Underdepths - 05/29/20XX - 5:14pm]

》》》 Temperature is 19.4°C (67°F), Humidity is 50%, Air Quality is Dangerous at 200 AQI [oxygen tank is in use]

<>

》 Only pokémon seen within the Underdepths since the incident are Glimmet and Carbink, both with healthy-lookinh populations. [Avg. 15 for each, the underdepths is very cramped so a large population isn't expected]

》 The level of Tera energy in the underdepths is near suffocating, if I didn't have an oxygen mask on I would probably be having a difficult time breathing (thank you Hano for carrying the tank)

》 Crystal formations seem normal, no signs of cracking or shattering in most. The ones that do have most likely already fallen from the celing as they are assorted chunks on the ground

》 The crystals are making a noise, it sounds like singing? I've attached an audio file of the noise they make. It's a bit overwhelming for me so I put earplugs in.

[File ID: <crystal_song.mp4>]

》 Deep within the Underdepths there's this tree, I think it might be a fully-grown Herba Mystica as there is a branch of it growing from the tree— a sample has been taken for the league to study

At this point I decided to leave as I noticed tera crystal flecks sticking to my skin and my prosthetic leg is getting stiff due to crystal buildup.

I've submitted the full report to the league already, so that's it! I'm making my way out as I type this— I'll probably be in Medali when this post goes up, I dunno.

[agentfascinateur]

BOYCOTT COP28

As with everything in the UAE, COP28 is a mirage of green washing. Getting there by plane - the top polluting industry, made worse by private jets, is only the beginning of the paradox of attending. The tourism industry, heavily reliant there on air conditioning, releases GHGs by the tons, food waste and a proliferation of plastics. The ambient air is often at 150 on the AQI, where elsewhere normal levels are at 25. Next is the use of Israeli lobby firms to help the UAE with its human rights record in Europe where EU politicians are allegedly bribed in Red Crescent envelopes, which still conveniently leaves out the sex trade (Porta Potty) and degradation of women albeit - as is always the excuse, renumerated handsomely (for dressing as nuns ripping bibles mid-sex!). Yes, employing human rights offenders to combat its image as human rights abuser is as cynical as the UAE leadership is. But getting at the heart of abuses is what Little Sparta has accomplished in Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, Sudan, and elsewhere with mercenaries like the Wagner group or with UAE-based nutjob Erik Prince. Muslims killed, starved or displaced by the thousands if not millions to the glory of a leader whose protection is guaranteed by London, UK for services rendered to the (non-Muslim) monarchy by its repression and persecution of all things Arab Spring and democracy... couched in "anti-terrorism". Of course 🙄. This is the place that jailed Jamal Khashoggi's lawyer for "insulting the state" and lured & kidnapped the Hotel Rwanda hero recently released. Its judicial system is at the whim of its leaders. Fast forwarding to the UAE's planned fossil fuel expansion by 2050 and the Paris Accord may as well go to Dubai to die in December 2023.

[colorguardsweetheartblurrsgirl]

HEY Guys,

Sorry you haven't heard from me in sometime.

But I have...

BIG NEWS!!!

I want to share...

*Nervous excited squealing*...

So today... I'm going on my first date since the summer before the Pandemic.

I've got butterfly's and nerves all week. It's been a while since I "Dated" a guy so nerves are high. We met online so this is the first day and meet. But we've talked tons... via text. We never could schedule with our schedules to talk over call or facetime (something you should generally do) but we couldn't correlate are schedules the last few days to do so.

It's just an exciting time I wanted to share with you.

I had a fun idea the other day to post what I may be wearing, hair ideas, makeup and do a voting thing just to make it something fun. But... with my phone power level it is now, I'll likely have it off for a few hours that such time would have benefited to do so.

I may do this IN THE FUTURE for funsies!

~~~~~~~~~

I still have THSC 3Rd anniversary art and other art coming soon. Weather this last month and AQI has been crazy in my area of Washington the last few weeks. Due to heat or air quality related to smoke in the air from Canada fires (as an allergy induced asthmatic) has delayed art as some days I couldn't work on them. And others thanks to the same instances effected my old computer to overheat and go through hours if performing self maintenance.

So A LOT has happened, but I finally am at a spot with the art that I can say it should be coming hopefully in the next week.

[cosmicanamnesis]

so I died a little bit before I could finish that post yesterday. we saw 11 people by the time my migraine was so bad I had to go home (at about 1:30). according to my boss this morning they saw 18 people all day.

today is day 3. our local AQI is 286, but for the greater surrounding area it's 465. there's more smoke than air in the air.

one of my coworkers says we've got firefighters in from Montana.

the fire is currently at 10,892 acres, 0% contained. the level 2 evacuation zone ends about a mile away from my parents house.

we've had 5 people today