#climate-desk

[burr-ell]

What I love about Spy x Family's recent chapters concerning Martha and Henry—two secondary characters with little direct connection to the plot as we've known it—is that Endo's taking the opportunity to once again hammer home what the story's actual stakes are. The idea of potential conflict between Ostania and Westalis isn't just window dressing for a wacky wholesome badass family gimmick—the previous wars are real events that various characters lived through, and all of them are in some way affected by it and have good reasons to want to avoid another one. This is primarily an action-adventure/slice-of-life manga with a lot of sendups to spy movies and pop culture of the 60s, but I think those things hold much more weight with the thematic underpinning of the horrors of war and the ruin it leaves behind.

[lamajaoscura]

Climate lawsuits are rising around the world, a UN report shows - Vox

[galaxseacreature]

our office has been in renovations for what feels like forever and my team is very close to getting some of our new space. my dream. my absolute dream for my cubicle decoration. is a framed embroidery of this

i have never embroidered anything in my life but now that the time is near i think i am willing to learn

[iscreenscenes]

First Reformed, 2017

Directed by Paul Schrader Cinematography by Alexander Dynan Production design by Grace Yun Art Direction by Raphael Sorcio Set Decoration by Nadya Gurevich

[terrasu]

I know my dad's side of the family left (fled?) tsarist russia, and no one talks about specifically why (antisemitism likely), but like how am I supposed to wrap my head around my maternal grandmother/and later my mom

-surviving the great depression

-surviving the dust bowl

-surviving LA VIOLENCIA from possibly the mid forties onward to the Columbian Internal Armed Conflict's start (the latter of which my mom has faint childhood memories of)

-Gaddafi (family left 74)

-Sudharto

[veralernt]

7th of September 2023

I was sunny and 24°C in Copenhagen today.

That’s not normal at all.

It was so nice to go swimming in the harbour after class, but there is also a nagging concern that arises when the sun is burning like that - in September, in a nordic country.

Hope your day was fine!

🍀

[fithragaer]

Fellow southerners if you brag about being able to withstand heat compared to other countries mayhap try cutting your electricity for all of august and then come back to me :)

[geneticcatalyst]

my phone says it feels like 118 out??

[ms-cellanies]

LONG OVERDUE

[biglisbonnews]

Why this beautiful rainbow sea slug is such an incredible scientific find The slug may be vibrant and rare, but experts believe we'll be seeing more of them as they adapt to warming waters thanks to climate change. https://www.businessinsider.com/rare-rainbow-sea-slug-found-uk-rock-pool-2023-5

[monotone-artist]

the past few days we've been driving across the country and last night we arrived at our new house! this has so far been an Experience

[lamajaoscura]

World can still avoid worst of climate collapse with genuine change, IPCC says | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) | The Guardian

[sagevalleymusings]

Every single person on the planet needs to stop what they are doing right now and watch Sophie from Mars' essay "The World is Not Ending." It is incredible and I wrote down multiple direct quotes. "And if I'm really lucky, I find mushrooms" is such a profound conclusion that I started weeping at my desk at work

[faultfalha]

It seemed like the old days; when the present felt past and the future nothing more than a distant haze. In a city of smoke and ash, where the rising flames of raging fires were the only source of light and the sound of roaring, thunderous floods could be heard resonating all through the night. The heatwave had arrived in force, bearing down on the city and the inhabitants beneath. A thought came to me then, like a whisper from the abyss: this summer's fires, floods, and heatwaves are the new normal. A sense of resignation came over me, as if to accept what I already knew. We can only hope to bear the weight of this uncertain future and try to remain resilient among the ruins.

[richdadpoor]

Welcome to the Republic of Cows

We created cattle by manipulating their wild cousins, aurochs, in Europe, Asia, and the Sahara beginning over 10,000 years ago. Unlike Frankenstein’s monster, who could never find a place in human society, cattle trotted into societies around the world, making themselves at home on most ranges they encountered. Rosa Ficek, an anthropologist at the University of Puerto Rico who has studied feral…