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the view from the geographic center of California

North Fork, CA

[vmantras]

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[meteorologistaustenlonek]

"“Tree planting campaigns are important, but it’s more important that we do it right, planting the right trees in the right places," says ecologist Jake M. Robinson. In a new interview, Robinson explains what it really takes to grow a forest."

[techdriveplay]

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[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Yale Environment 360:

For decades on the U.S. Mid-Atlantic coast, recreational anglers have braved the cold temperatures of late October and November to chase one of the region’s most iconic fish species, the striped bass. This season, just offshore of New Jersey and New York, the fall run was especially strong. “The amount of fish and [their size] was really, really high,” said Lou Van Bergen, a captain of Miss Barnegat Light, a 90-foot party boat out of Barnegat Light, New Jersey. “Every week, all the way through Thanksgiving, you could go out and catch nicer-sized fish.”

From the looks of the boat’s deck this fall, it would have been easy to assume that striped bass, once overfished to dangerously low numbers on the East Coast, had completed a remarkable comeback. Except that in the nearby Chesapeake Bay and in the Hudson River, where the fish return each spring to spawn, the hatching and maturation of juveniles “has been abysmal,” said John Waldman, an aquatic conservation biologist at the City University of New York. Waldman, an avid fisherman himself, called the low levels of striped bass recruitment, or spawning success, in these historically fertile estuaries “a real mystery.”

One way to better understand this apparent shift in striped bass recruitment and distribution in the Mid-Atlantic Bight— the coastal region that stretches from North Carolina’s Outer Banks to Massachusetts — is to look at similar shifts in the behavior of one of its key food sources, the Atlantic menhaden, a forage fish in the herring family. In recent years, menhaden have also been seen in high numbers off the New Jersey and New York coasts — Van Bergen described an early November trip in which the ocean surface was thick with menhaden for some 25 miles. But just like striped bass, menhaden numbers in the Chesapeake and other estuaries, where the fish was once reliably abundant, have been low.

“I don’t know if this is a larger cyclical pattern, if it’s driven by how they’re managed, or if it’s because the water temperature is increasing,” said Janelle Morano, a doctoral student at Cornell University who has been studying how menhaden distribution has changed along the U.S. East Coast over time. “But something is going on, and it is real.”

Taken together, the shifts in behavior of these two interconnected species resemble aspects of a phenomenon that is being observed across the planet, from land to sea: phenological mismatch.

Phenology is the seasonal timing of lifecycle events, like spawning and migration. Think of how honeybees emerge from their hives just as spring flowers bloom, or how in autumn, the monarch butterfly migrates south to Mexico as milkweed begins to die off in the United States. Phenological mismatch, however, occurs when these intricate, interspecies relationships fall out of sync due to changes in the environment. Terrestrial cases of phenological mismatch have been well documented. For example, detailed analysis has shown that, over the past 29 years, monarch migration has been delayed by six days due to warming temperatures, triggering mismatches with food availability during the journey and failures to reach overwintering sites.

But in the oceans, phenological mismatch has been far less studied. Every scientist interviewed for this story noted that while there has been good research on single-species phenology in marine environments, there remains precious little understanding of multispecies phenological mismatch. The subject, they said, urgently requires more focus because of the potential knock-on effects that mismatches could cause up and down the food chain. They also cautioned that all species, marine and terrestrial, are prone to natural swings in abundance, and that declines or increases can’t be pinned to any one stressor. Overfishing and stock management are just two external factors that may be influencing phenological mismatch in the world’s oceans. As the authors of a paper published in Nature Climate Change that focused on this lack of knowledge put it, “Given the complexity involved, accurately forecasting phenological mismatch in response to climate change is a major test of ecological theory and methods.”

[syngoniums]

A strange woody mushroom we encountered in south Texas. When I tapped the cap to confirm its texture, it spun around 360 degrees. Pulling it off revealed a black spore mass clinging to the top of the stalk. This is likely Podaxis, probably Podaxis pistillaris, but there is some controversy about how broad and inclusive that species is. In any case, it's a mushroom of arid climates, associated with termites rather than a particular host plant. Tubes constructed by agricultural termites are visible on the ground around this specimen.

[bobcat-pie]

Estimating Twisted Wonderland's Circumference ONCE AND FOR ALL

howdy. In this post, I once attempted to figure out the circumference of Twisted wonderland. Instead, I failed, and just went mad collecting screenshots of random spheres that weren't/might be globes modeling the planet.

that's not important. What IS important is the rant about the map that we DO have that followed. y'see, it looks like this.

Tilted. Cropped. Incomplete. Utterly infuriating. Anyway, we're gonna be working with my SUPERIOR map projection for this theory post.

yeah it's literally just tilted so that North points straight up. There's almost no way to really tell what latitude location is or how large it is compared to the rest of the world... EXCEPT...

...FOR THE CLIMATES.

it's pretty easy to label the middle section as "temperate," since summers are hot, winters are snowy, and every other season is pretty comfortable.

The northern parts of the Coral Sea can be determined as arctic or near-arctic, because Azul and the tweels don't bother being there during the winter due to the ice covering the water's surface. The furthest south that winter sea ice extends on earth is the coast of Hokkaido, Japan, at 43 degrees north.

Last but not least, as Sunset Savanna is based on the setting of the lion king, that makes it a tropical savanna. The most northern tropical savanna on earth is the Terai–Duar savanna at the base of the Himalayas in India, at 27 degrees north.

Therefore, this whole (VERY inexact) area I marked on this map that holds the temperate zone is around 16 degrees of Twisted Wonderland's latitude, possibly more.

Now, we don't exactly have a giant perfect ruler that we can use for reference. but we DO have the next best thing: Sage's Island!

And 16 degrees of Twisted Wonderland's latitude seems to beeee…

22 Sage's Islands long!

So this lil island is about 0.727 degrees long.

Now, I'm none too confident in my island-length-guessing ability. So i gotta say Sage's Island is like... maybe 3 miles long, north to south.

Soooo... 3 miles is 0.727 degrees in Twisted Wonderland.

That means 1 degree is 4.126 miles.

And that means the full 360 degrees of Twisted Wonderland's circumference is... drumroll please...

...

1,485.36 miles/2390.46 kilometers.

Give or take, I mean. I'm not a scientist. I don't even play Twisted Wonderland.

PLEASE understand that is a TINY amount. Earth's circumference is 40,075.017 km. PLUTO has a circumference of 7,231 km. Twisted wonderland is smaller than Pluto.

We were ROBBED of Yuu being capable of jumping 50 feet in the air due to the weaker gravity.

[forgottensibiria]

Amphibian Perucetus and giant scissor sharks

In previous posts, we considered Moropiton and Poseideongenia, two groups of animals that migrated to Siberia through the Ural Sea in the Late Carboniferous. Before moving on to the actual descendants of these Seymouries - the Angarians themselves - we can distract ourselves with the creatures that the Moscow settlers could encounter on a vegetable raft.

The Dynasty of marine amphibians

Let's start with a strange speculative kind that shouldn't exist. Ichthyocetus, the "whale fish", is a large animal reaching a size of up to 2.5 meters and is a direct descendant of tetrapods of the Moscow Sea, primarily tulerpeton. The latter is known primarily for its six-toed limbs developed relative to other modern tetropods, as well as for its location. The fact is that the remains of the tulerpiton were located 200 kilometers from the supposed shore: this and the very structure of the body of the tetrapod under discussion suggest that the animal lived in shallow water, breathing atmospheric air (no bones corresponding to the gills were found, and the head was separated from the body - i.e. the tulerpeton could lift its head) and moving forward using the legs, pushing them off the bottom (their strength would not be enough to allow the toolerpeton to move on land). It is possible that some tetrapods could have stayed in this habitat, becoming the main predators of shallow waters, where larger predators like eugeneodonts or placoderms could not move normally.

Tulerpeton, 360 m.y.a. Art by Dmitry Bogdanov

Tulerpeton found fossils

Ichthyocetus is the last representative of this hypothetical clade, whose population was almost completely destroyed by the decline in sea level due to the new peak of the Karoo ice Age. His basic diet is benthos, which he can find in the buried ground: echinoderms, starfish and lilies, as well as, if luck smiles, the corpses of marine animals that the surf brings. He could also purposefully hunt for moropitons if they swam too deep. The bones of ichthyocetus are incredibly dense; this allows it to stay in the water during strong waves. This animal is able to sense the approach of a storm - then it tries to find the shore and crawl out onto it, burrowing into the sand; then they are most vulnerable. If it is impossible to find the shore, then the ichthyocetuses go to depth, swallowing air, where they can stay for 3-4 hours. Sometimes this tetropods go deep in search of new food sources, where they can catch young eugeneodonts or small fish. Surprisingly, ichthyocetuses are not the largest representatives of their clade (let's call it Ichthyocetusae): some species could grow up to 3 meters and lead a more pelagic lifestyle.

They usually appeared during periods of intense glaciation with a reduction in their original habitat. Unfortunately, this time climate change has become insurmountable.

Something about scissor sharks

If the meeting of protoseimurians with their "cousin" was unreliable, then the same cannot be said about eugeneodonts. The largest animals of the sea were the edestus, or protopirates. Although the largest protopirate species, E. vorax, could reach 6 meters (making it the largest predator of its time), the Moscow species were somewhat smaller and reached a maximum of 4 meters. These sizes correspond to the modern white shark and mako shark.

Edestus, 313—307  m.y.a. Art by Dmitry Bogdanov

Comparison of the four species of Edestus. Authors of this illustration is Leif Tapanila and Jesse Pruitt

Both poseideonogenes and moropitons encountered these cartilaginous fish - most likely, they were four-meter E. heinrichi and E. triserratus commensurate with ichthyocetus. Most likely, the edestus hunted numerous nautiloids and other soft-bodied prey and could well attack rafts, mistaking them for a dead cephalopod with a spiral shell. The protoseimuria themselves would not be of interest to the edestus - they are too small. That's what saved them.

[scooperdipoop]

The US Air Force’s F-35 has a helmet that is custom fitted to the pilot and allows said pilot a 360 degree vision through the plane as if it were invisible AND IM SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE THAT THERE IS NOTHING THEY CAN DO ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE?

The programs lifetime cost is approximately $1.7 trillion. And yet there’s never enough money for healthcare or education.

It’s fucking bullshit. They are lying. Go to them and tell them to stop lying. Check white pages, with about 15 minutes of research and cross referencing you can find anyone!

For example: I have it in good authority that John P. Backiel, treasurer for The Heritage Foundation, lives somewhere in Cheverly, Maryland. Because his bio on their very own website says so the stupid bastard.

Stop letting them intimidate you.

There’s more of us than them. If the police arrest you just mob the jails like the good old days. Grow a goddamn spine and riot already.

[turndecassette2]

How did get good at writing in English

the swedish school system is pretty good at teaching english imo. also, games don't get localised here since it's such a small market so I had to gain a passive understanding of english at age 7 or so in order to play Pokemon. and I lived in the us for a couple of years. I speak english with foreigners online etc etc. no real method to this.

(I'm taking forever learning spanish, I know w english I was reading shitty old lovecraft stories before I had my first proper conversation with a native english speaker. so I need to get to a 'reading borges' level before I can stop feeling awkward trying to express myself ha ha. rn I'm getting my news from the Jaime Maussan 'tercer milenio 360' news podcast, which usually starts with normal takes on the climate, palestine etc then tops it off with some story about a ufo fighting a dog in a mexican backyard & we have blurry footage from a security camera; I guess that part is there to remind us there is still wonder & magic in the world)

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

"We especially want to support a lot of renewable projects through solar and wind, and we want to support agriculture too, because having a robust food system is a form of revenue for local farmers,” says executive director Robyn Jackson. “It also helps with continuing our cultural traditions.”

“We understand that rebuilding watersheds is going to be key to farming into the future,” says a Navajo activist."

[techdriveplay]

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[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Yale Environment 360:

Across the world’s oceans, an invisible army of tiny organisms has a supersized impact on the planet. Plankton are at the base of the ocean food chain, feeding fish that feed billions of people. They are responsible for half of the world’s oxygen supply and half of our planet’s annual carbon sink. Miniscule but powerful, their presence can help or hinder ecosystems — by soaking up greenhouse gas, for example, or by spewing toxins. Where plankton live, how many there are, when they bloom and which species dominate each play a huge role in this delicate balance. And our changing climate is spurring a sea change in all of it.

“We’re headed into an ocean and, for that matter, a world that we’re not going to recognize because it’s changing so fundamentally,” says David Hutchins, a marine microbiologist at the University of Southern California, who has charted plankton’s future.

Climate change is hitting our oceans hard, making them warmer and more acidic, while radically altering currents. The outlook for plankton is mixed. Some studies report overall plankton numbers dropping, while others show them rising in some major ocean basins. As the planet warms, the diversity of the menagerie in many spots is increasing, says Clare Ostle, a marine biogeochemist at the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth. But certain species are losing out, she adds, including big juicy plankton thought to be important for food webs and carbon sequestration. And, in the long term, plankton numbers may plummet as climate change starves them of nutrients.

Scientists are now struggling to work out what the net effect will be. They have some new technologies at their disposal, including a new NASA satellite called PACE — for Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem — launched this February. And some old ones, including a decades-old program that painstakingly trawls the ocean with filters to scoop up tiny creatures and count them by hand. Yet scientists say they are shocked by the size of our knowledge gaps. “I always find it surprising how little is known about plankton,” says Ostle.

The Ocean Stewardship Coalition this month released a “plankton manifesto” at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, highlighting how important plankton are alongside how little we know about them. “The planetary importance of plankton remains largely ignored,” the group writes, alongside a plea for more research, education, and discussion in international treaties about plankton’s plight.

[niiwa-angel]

Do you think different characters in Hazbin Hotel have difficulty with vision?

Vox has a very flat face and while he has all his cameras and can probably actually see 360 degrees, without them, I doubt he has very good spacial awareness. He doesn't have very good peripheral vision, his face is very wide, and slightly disproportional to his body.

I think Nifty and Cherri may have bad depth perception because they only have one eye. They've probably adapted after being in hell for so long but it was probably a steep learning curve.

Vaggie obviously has bad depth perception, losing an eye comes with difficulty adapting to new environments, writing can be difficult, she may get frequent headaches, and there may be phantom pain from the trauma of losing her eye. We also see that heaven and hell have very different colour schemes, Vaggie's eyes may not have been built to navigate hell's climate.

Alastor has his monocle, which may be an aesthetic thing but may also have a very real fictional purpose. Somebody on YouTube noticed that his eyes often don't line up properly when he's looking around and speculated that he may have a lazy eye. Deer also don't have very good vision, something he may have inherited.

Angel Dust is a spider and they also don't have great vision. Not to mention, going from two eyes to eight must be a mindfuck, again, he's probably had time to get used to it but it still must have been annoying.

I just think it's an interesting premise and I might explore it more later.

[zenaidamacrouras1]

End of year re-cap.

I wrote 231,184 words this year, apparently. It's a little wonky with how ao3 accounts for fics that began posting in one year but ended in another. But. That is around 630 words a day, which is ... something.

My most popular fic ever was finished in 2024, which is History of American Capitalism. It's interesting to me because I was so embarrassed of this fic and thought it was really bad and then I sheepishly showed it to others to see if they thought it was anything to salvage and everyone enjoyed it.

This is my third year posting fic on a03 and in that time I have posted 830,642 words. So, we'll see if I get to a million in 2025? Or if I get burnt out and stop writing?

I also learned how to bind books, and am working my way through my own works to practice. I didn't think about it till now, but I have now typeset all of my fics except for Plastered and Tension and Tonic, which means I've made over 600k words of books.

I find myself wanting other numbers. How many times did I tell a child to put their socks and shoes on? How many emails did I send for work? How many weeds did I pull? How many times did I look at the news and look away with a twist of sorrow and fear? I took around 360 doses of my anti-depressant (forgot them on one trip woops) and walked over a thousand kilometers.

(I didn't run any of those kilometers because I had knee troubles that I went to the physical therapist for. The physical therapist is a basketball player who regularly told me that with my height it was a shame for the world I didn't play basketball or maybe become a swimmer. Which is not true because I am pretty uncoordinated, truly, but I really appreciated her confidence in me. I appreciated her view of the world through the lens of the beauty of sports, similar to how I am always telling people they should write or make art. I may or may not have had a crush on my physical therapist. But I digress.)

Now I need to clean my house because I invited twenty or forty people over for a New Year's Eve Party (you just never know who will come and how many siblings they will bring). It's my fifth year hosting a party for NYE. (Our first was when my son was 2 and a half years old and he went around the morning after sneakily finishing all the juice boxes that kids had left out like a degenerate frat boy until we realized what he was doing. He didn't catch any diseases somehow)

It's kid oriented and we'll serve frozen pizza and pint after pint of strawberries and do balloon drops at 8, 8:30 and 9 pm. The balloon drops are me standing on a footstool dumping a play tent full of balloons while neighbor children scream with glee.

I often feel like a depressed thing. My kids have told me that my favorite hobby is probably laying(lying?) in bed looking at my phone because that's what I do the most, but also that their favorite thing about me is cuddling me. So maybe it's okay they see me laying (lying?) around so much. Also, that is sometimes me writing.

Next year is going to be horrible, as far as my job in climate policy. I'm sad about it. But also I will do things everyday that add up to bigger things.

I had a mentor that used to close out every phone call with, "Onward and sideways!" So, in honor of her.