#data grief

[ramon-tikaram-love]

Rakie Ayola as Persephone Nabhaan Rizwan as Dionysus Kaos (2024–)

[hope-for-the-planet]

This is an older article (from 2021), but I'm posting it here because I realize a lot of people don't know this is happening. There seems to be a narrative in certain corners of the internet that we haven't made any measurable progress on climate change at all when the opposite is true--while we need to do more as quickly as we can, we have already significantly moved the needle on the amount of warming in our collective future.

It wasn't all that long ago that it was debated whether it was even possible to meaningfully decouple emissions from economic growth--now it is beginning to happen for several countries and more are headed in that direction.

To compensate for instances where wealthy nations might be "exporting" their emissions to other countries, this data attributes emissions from imported goods to the importing country (and subtracts them from the exporting country).

Here are some graphs from a more recent analysis done in 2024 by the International Energy Agency, where you can see that this is also beginning to happen even in countries seeing rapid development like China and India.

While decoupling at this rate is not sufficient to get where we need to be to properly address climate change (and there is an argument to be made that slowed growth or degrowth may be necessary to fully curb unsustainable emissions and resource consumption especially in wealthier countries) the fact that it's happening at all shows remarkable progress beyond what many expected to be possible not so long ago.

[kawaiicanica]

I started watching Star Trek TNG recently and have been silently enjoying myself (honestly not so silently, I've been reblogging shit like a fiend) Wel, I just finished episode 16 of season 3...

WHAT THE FUCK. WHO EVER ALLOWED ME TO BECOME AN ADULT, GET A JOB, EARN MONEY TO BUY A COMPUTER TO WATCH FUNNY SHOWS ON, AND THEN LET ME WATCH THIS!

WHAT DO YOU MEAN! I'M FUCKING DEVASTATED! WHEN I CATCH YOU RENÉ ECHEVARRIA! WHEN I FUCKING CATCH YOU!

[deer-watcher]

"For both bonobos and chimpanzees, the bodies of the dead evoke many emotions. Even if the process often begins with trauma and confusion, typically corpses shift to a liminal status; not alive, but equally not a lump of meat. They're more intensively manipulated than hunted animals, and carried for longer. In some – if not all – cases, the eaters must know what and who they're consuming. Cannibalism is very probably a powerful means by which individuals and groups process the impact not only of killings carried out on emotional impulses, but other deaths too. In other words, it's about grieving. [...] "Shift these scenarios to Neanderthals, and add into the mix their far greater cognitive sophistication, and lives that revolved around using lithics. Suddenly it's not difficult to envision how skills in carefully taking apart hunted carcasses might be transposed into a grieving process that involved butchery and cannibalism as acts of intimacy, not violation."

Rebecca Wragg Sykes, Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

[transgenderfivepebbles]

the expectation for the meaning of existence

[youngpettyqueen]

“I would gladly risk feeling bad at times, if it also meant I could taste my dessert.” is an all time line to me forever

[stuck-in-a-lake]

should never have trusted a biologist who smelled like that

yet sometimes i do miss him

[ephemeral-winter]

unwittingly fucked up something massive in our database because no one ever explained to me the medieval studies major how a DOS-based system from the 80s does or doesn’t work for this specific thing and nobody is Mad and things can be Fixed but now I feel so so so stupid and useless

[aitsuheart]

Data Dating Data Soriku Story

Dah-tuh day-TUH-ing

Summary:

Post Re:Coded where data Sora remembers everything and the datas get closer by the second from hand holding, hugs, and then kisses.

Excerpt:

But when Riku sometimes let himself relax, that's when he became touchy as well. He hugged Sora from time to time and would even rest his chin on Sora's hair.

"Your hair is soft," he found himself muttering quietly, amongst themselves. Sora still heard him and his own cheeks would be velvet by the minute.

Sora personally didn't think so, his hair was really spiky and messy. "Riku..." he whispered back, "it's really not."

Soriku Week 2023 day 3 Datascape

i'm sharing this early since i originally lost all of this story last week

and i don't want that to happen again so I'm sharing it

[prehistoricmancunt]

Woah I just watched s3e5 of Star Trek next gen with my dad and it’s such a spectacular exploration of grief I simply HAVE to write an essay on it.

stay tuned for it bc I’m not kidding

[youngpettyqueen]

put on the TNG rerun channel and it’s Hero Worship. all I do is cry about Star Trek

[advestager]

A/I STAN IN THE DASH. I REPEAT A/I STAN GOT THROUGH MY FILTERS INTO THE FUCKIN DASH THIS IS NOT A DRILL

[ikemenomegas]

1. What a Lovely Mess - Tash I might have feelings I can't fake Can't blame me for tryin' , thought this would end happily

2. Difference - TAMIW I can understand what they say with my perfect brain but somehow, I feel uncomfortable

3. ZITTI E BUONI - Måneskin If you want to stop me try again, Try and cut my head off because I'm out of my mind, just not like them

4. I Am The Only One - Ursine Vulpine ft. Annaca I am the only one

5. Mountain Top - Radwimps Life will never be that easy but Hey descendants Guess that's all I could say to you

6. Lost Game - Nulbarich I can't do anything anymore, I'm tired. At the end of the world I'll let go

7. ninelie - Aimer ft. Chelly Within a twisting image I can't communicate: Is an awakened resistance...

8. アルカレミア (Alkalemia) - mol-74 I know it's too late and I understand perfectly But if we still have time, I'll try again

9. Into An Unseen Tomorrow - AKG We who are presently here Yes, to an unseen tomorrow Let's call it hope

hidden tracks:

|| Ontario - Novo Amor All your love overgrown, all your body undersold, all above, all your waiting coming home

|| warm blood - flor* softly, never letting Never letting love go

Notes on the music:

3. The moment i realized the line translated to "you should have cut my head off", even though this group is about 10 years too early for high school satoru, i feel like this is something he and suguru would have listened to together

7. I chose ninelie for its MV and it's suitable imagery which is reminiscent of Unlimited Void's interior, however the song is very poetic and hard to translate, even it's title is a play on words

*i heard the lyrics for ages as "never learnt to [let] love go", which I think suits him much better, so please mishear the lyrics with me

a/n: I was not sure how to link the songs. I still believe in buying music if you can afford it because streaming is a capitalist joke, but the platforms that typically sell music are also part of the monopoly hellscape... (The playlist is in the world floating in my spotify account if you can find it, but I also added the music in order below the cut)

[friendofcars]

a little preview >:)

[vzyee]

as ever i love it here and hate that i have to leave. I rmm thinking, long before i really had to decide, that i would be tempted to stay here for years & years & eventually all of my roommates would leave & i wouldnt know anyone, i'd get quiet & lonesome & weird. So i figured by the time my lease ran out in july 2025 i would be ready to leave, i'd need a push out of the nest. Well what i didnt consider was that wanting to stay might be a good reason to stay, that everyone i love is here for at least one last year & im running away too soon, i could have had a slower life with smaller frustrations & boredoms, wondering if i should have left but at the end of the day eating dinner w my friends & going on walks through the neighborhood until the houses empty out into endless green fields & cottonwoods, big skies and mountains close as a painting, that i'd feel safe here in ways very very very few other places on this earth would allow me to feel, etc. Lately it's really been eating at me, like maybe i'm making a serious mistake, maybe not all choices were made equal & i'll never forgive this, but when im living at my parent's house or crying from loneliness in a strange city it remains a fact that i'll never know what would have happened otherwise, it will become a precious mystery

[phagodyke]

I was feeling soooo good this morning, had a nice weekend, creative project ongoing, got enough sleep for once, leftover pad thai to look forward to for lunch AND my bestie brought me homemade bread, gym session in the evening, just generally at peace with the world and my work was going rly smoothly I had my music on I was in the zone even tho I was doing a rly tedious assay and then BAM of course smth goes wrong in another department and I have to stay an hour over to cover their shit. on top of the overtime I already agreed to. grrrrr!!