#terrible drought

[syvrae]

oh noooo . what a crisis . it's been sooooo long since i showed you guys my ass .

[x-aven]

Dominic Fike, you are so loved.

[bleach-your-panties]

Hi, just trying to finish some valentine content for you all 💕

[jetaloen]

i literally dont know where to post text about my ocs anymore bc i had assumed my twitter followers mostly moved to bsky but it is so dead there and tbh it kind of sucks. ive had tumblr a while now and i kinda figured ppl here mostly followed for volo content and didnt care much for my oc stuff but then i realize some of u guys tag my oc by name and some of u also put nice tags that pierce me to my core and i think about them for days. should i just start posting oc rambles here instead?? is that something u guys would want to see??

[tokagrem]

First aphelios legendary is gonna reuse every single one of his base animations and riot are gonna justify it because "look phel and alune both get voicelines the extra voiceover makes up for the cost in quality" and theyre gonna conveniently ignore kindred and varus and kayn and everyone moves on

[sheyshen]

don’t get me wrong i’m excited about dreadwolf, but... yeah.

[spinecurlingmice]

wanted u to know i think about "he chews on his chews" every day. every time im in rp especially and i try to write hinata chewing on his lip because hes anxious and cringe and definitely does that a lot my brain goes "lmao he chews on his chews" and i have to stop and physically make myself Not write that .

THIS IS SO FUNNY. he chews on his chews living in ur mind forever .....

[thekingofspin]

Why am I always like 10 years late to fandoms.

they don't write shows like they used to anymore man.

[novantinuum]

FYI I am going to boost a multitude of recently posted writing works tomorrow morning/afternoon under my self-reblog tag, in case anyone needs to/wants to blacklist that for whatever reason.

[sixpigeonz]

where's sapnap and his goodmorning snapchats when you need them☹️☹️☹️☹️

[spacejasontodd]

"Joe!! Get your lazy ass over here!!" My crackhead of a Vice President shouted.

I put my short white hair in a messy bun as I stared at my reflection's blue orbs giving me a proper gander before throwing on a hoodie and heading downstairs. Vice President Kamala Harris was already at the table, taking a swing of her vape in between downing more vodka like the socialist commie she was.

"Pack your shit and go! I needed money for the presidential campain so I sold you!"

"You can't do that, you can't just sell me to some young hot tail!!" I cried out with tears streaming down my pretty, sharp cheekbones.

"I never even wanted you to be my President! Now go to your room and pack!!"

"Why are you doing this!!"

"Because I love being the President and hate you!!!"

Before I could even stumble and trip on my way up the stairs, there came a knock to the White House's door. The handle was pulled without waiting for an answer, and suddenly I was very glad I wasn't stuck in an unlocked stall.

"'Ello luv! We're your new owners!" Said Harry One Direction, making himself right at home like the Colonizer he was.

"B-but I'm Irish!" I croaked, dumbfounded.

"Nonsense! We both know they've revoked your ancestry card thanks to your war crimes! Now get your bags and let's go, our private jet is waiting." Harry winked at me smiling devilishly and amidst all this chaos all I could think was...

Would Obama be jealous?

"Kamala Harris raised 50+ million dollars after Biden dropped out!" you fools.... that's the money she got from selling Biden to One Direction :(

[inkskinned]

it is november, and yesterday it felt like it was supposed to be snowing. in boston, november used a winter month, not a fall month. it is supposed to be chilly; rarely capping over 45F. it is a sweater-and-jacket month. it is a "maybe a scarf too" month. in my childhood, november meant blizzards and sleet.

it did not snow. tomorrow the weather predicts a high of 76.

i have spent so many years of my life studying the longterm possibilities of climate change - the culmination of capitalism wreaking havoc on the bodies of people, animals, plants - but every so often i am still shocked by something small and personal.

in a hundred years, when someone goes outside in boston - will they know the feeling of "snow in the air"?

i know it's a learned feeling, a sensation that maybe only longterm experience can teach. a few years ago, i was walking with my friend who had just moved up from the south. i said it smells like snow and she gave me this look like - what the fuck. i said it feels like snow too, which didn't help. she looked up to the bright blue sky and then back at me and then back at the sky. 12 hours later, we had 3 inches. you can just tell if it's going to snow.

except i can't tell, anymore. i stand outside in a tee shirt and watch my dog dance around a lake. we're in a drought and the skin of the water has peeled back twenty meters. the lake is tamed, quiet, puddlelike and sour. my pokemon go app warns there's a weather condition in my area.

my dog gets too hot from running and sits in the water and i want to laugh about his long frame and how awkwardly he sits - and i can't. some simian part of my brain is scratching the walls. it was supposed to snow. it was supposed to snow, but now it's warm instead.

during the last full solar eclipse, the dogs and the birds and the crickets went crazy under utter darkness. we laughed at them then, promising it will all be okay in a moment. but some part of me is still locked in that long night: some animal sensation.

something is wrong, my body says. i can't afford eggs or rent. i go outside to watch a sunset and listen to birdsong. i don't bring a jacket. allergies are killing me this season, allergies i didn't have as a kid. everyone comments that halloween has started to feel strange, offkilter. that it's hard having "holiday cheer." my body thinks it's april, and then it thinks we're in september, and then june.

something is terribly wrong, she whispers. go outside. it is supposed to be snowing.

[thesixthstar]

i thought maybe my new meds (another attempt at managing chronic pain) were having a side effect of helping with the whole Seasonal Depression thing, as has happened once before, but turns out October was just winding up its swing so it could take a big hit all at once, and just needed an opportunity to strike

[ploridafanthers]

holy shit we needed this rain so bad

[reasonsforhope]

No paywall version here.

"Two and a half years ago, when I was asked to help write the most authoritative report on climate change in the United States, I hesitated...

In the end, I said yes, but reluctantly. Frankly, I was sick of admonishing people about how bad things could get. Scientists have raised the alarm over and over again, and still the temperature rises. Extreme events like heat waves, floods and droughts are becoming more severe and frequent, exactly as we predicted they would. We were proved right. It didn’t seem to matter.

Our report, which was released on Tuesday, contains more dire warnings. There are plenty of new reasons for despair. Thanks to recent scientific advances, we can now link climate change to specific extreme weather disasters, and we have a better understanding of how the feedback loops in the climate system can make warming even worse. We can also now more confidently forecast catastrophic outcomes if global emissions continue on their current trajectory.

But to me, the most surprising new finding in the Fifth National Climate Assessment is this: There has been genuine progress, too.

I’m used to mind-boggling numbers, and there are many of them in this report. Human beings have put about 1.6 trillion tons of carbon in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution — more than the weight of every living thing on Earth combined. But as we wrote the report, I learned other, even more mind-boggling numbers. In the last decade, the cost of wind energy has declined by 70 percent and solar has declined 90 percent. Renewables now make up 80 percent of new electricity generation capacity. Our country’s greenhouse gas emissions are falling, even as our G.D.P. and population grow.

In the report, we were tasked with projecting future climate change. We showed what the United States would look like if the world warms by 2 degrees Celsius. It wasn’t a pretty picture: more heat waves, more uncomfortably hot nights, more downpours, more droughts. If greenhouse emissions continue to rise, we could reach that point in the next couple of decades. If they fall a little, maybe we can stave it off until the middle of the century. But our findings also offered a glimmer of hope: If emissions fall dramatically, as the report suggested they could, we may never reach 2 degrees Celsius at all.

For the first time in my career, I felt something strange: optimism.

And that simple realization was enough to convince me that releasing yet another climate report was worthwhile.

Something has changed in the United States, and not just the climate. State, local and tribal governments all around the country have begun to take action. Some politicians now actually campaign on climate change, instead of ignoring or lying about it. Congress passed federal climate legislation — something I’d long regarded as impossible — in 2022 as we turned in the first draft.

[Note: She's talking about the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Act, which despite the names were the two biggest climate packages passed in US history. And their passage in mid 2022 was a big turning point: that's when, for the first time in decades, a lot of scientists started looking at the numbers - esp the ones that would come from the IRA's funding - and said "Wait, holy shit, we have an actual chance."]

And while the report stresses the urgency of limiting warming to prevent terrible risks, it has a new message, too: We can do this. We now know how to make the dramatic emissions cuts we’d need to limit warming, and it’s very possible to do this in a way that’s sustainable, healthy and fair.

The conversation has moved on, and the role of scientists has changed. We’re not just warning of danger anymore. We’re showing the way to safety.

I was wrong about those previous reports: They did matter, after all. While climate scientists were warning the world of disaster, a small army of scientists, engineers, policymakers and others were getting to work. These first responders have helped move us toward our climate goals. Our warnings did their job.

To limit global warming, we need many more people to get on board... We need to reach those who haven’t yet been moved by our warnings. I’m not talking about the fossil fuel industry here; nor do I particularly care about winning over the small but noisy group of committed climate deniers. But I believe we can reach the many people whose eyes glaze over when they hear yet another dire warning or see another report like the one we just published.

The reason is that now, we have a better story to tell. The evidence is clear: Responding to climate change will not only create a better world for our children and grandchildren, but it will also make the world better for us right now.

Eliminating the sources of greenhouse gas emissions will make our air and water cleaner, our economy stronger and our quality of life better. It could save hundreds of thousands or even millions of lives across the country through air quality benefits alone. Using land more wisely can both limit climate change and protect biodiversity. Climate change most strongly affects communities that get a raw deal in our society: people with low incomes, people of color, children and the elderly. And climate action can be an opportunity to redress legacies of racism, neglect and injustice.

I could still tell you scary stories about a future ravaged by climate change, and they’d be true, at least on the trajectory we’re currently on. But it’s also true that we have a once-in-human-history chance not only to prevent the worst effects but also to make the world better right now. It would be a shame to squander this opportunity. So I don’t just want to talk about the problems anymore. I want to talk about the solutions. Consider this your last warning from me."

-via New York Times. Opinion essay by leading climate scientist Kate Marvel. November 18, 2023.

[stelashe]

Yk i sometimes joked about northern Europeans being kind of depressed and dark bc they have no sun but I won't anymore. I'm sorry, I understand only know u love her(the sun) when u let her go(gotta make that fucking factory more productive!1!!)