#the new agency

[gameo-archive]

I keep forgetting to post my gameos/gameodens. Here's one for the crafters out there. I mentioned some projects I'd seen people make and asked for a shout out and pep talk for all the crafters. Tag any you know!

#SaveDeadBoyDetectives #AsTheFrenchSayMerde

"Thank you so much for bringing these characters to life and for all you have done for the community. My friend and I are both crafters and are working on payneland inspired projects, embroidery and knitting respectively. Both our projects have been dubbed 'insane' by our respective crafting communities, which might be a fair assessment. Also, the fandom has so many amazing crafters. I've seen crocheted ghosts, a dollhouse agency, handmade minis, a knitting fundraiser, and even a Dead Boy Detectives Clue game. Could you do a shout out for all the crafters in the community and a pep talk for the days when motivation is a bit lacking?"

If anyone has seen these projects, please lmk so I can add links. I'm super curious!!

My Dagfinn sweater-turned-hat:

Glow in the dark poster symbols on my jacket:

[deedala]

[reasonsforhope]

Holy crap, I didn't think Biden would be able to get the Climate Corps established without Congress. This is SUCH fantastic news.

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"After being thwarted by Congress, President Joe Biden will use his executive authority to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps that will serve as a major green jobs training program.

In an announcement Wednesday, the White House said the program will employ more than 20,000 young adults who will build trails, plant trees, help install solar panels and do other work to boost conservation and help prevent catastrophic wildfires.

The climate corps had been proposed in early versions of the sweeping climate law approved last year but was jettisoned amid strong opposition from Republicans and concerns about cost.

Democrats and environmental advocacy groups never gave up on the plan and pushed Biden in recent weeks to issue an executive order authorizing what the White House now calls the American Climate Corps.

“After years of demonstrating and fighting for a Climate Corps, we turned a generational rallying cry into a real jobs program that will put a new generation to work stopping the climate crisis,” said Varshini Prakash, executive director of the Sunrise Movement, an environmental group that has led the push for a climate corps.

With the new corps “and the historic climate investments won by our broader movement, the path towards a Green New Deal is beginning to become visible,” Prakash said...

...Environmental activists hailed the new jobs program, which is modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps, created in the 1930s by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, as part of the New Deal...

Lawmakers Weigh In

More than 50 Democratic lawmakers, including Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, had also encouraged Biden to create a climate corps, saying in a letter on Monday that “the climate crisis demands a whole-of-government response at an unprecedented scale.”

The lawmakers cited deadly heat waves in the Southwest and across the nation, as well as dangerous floods in New England and devastating wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui, among recent examples of climate-related disasters.

Democrats called creation of the climate corps “historic” and the first step toward fulfilling the vision of the Green New Deal.

“Today President Biden listened to the (environmental) movement, and he delivered with an American Climate Corps,” a beaming Markey said at a celebratory news conference outside the Capitol.

“We are starting to turn the green dream into a green reality,” added Ocasio-Cortez, who co-sponsored the Green New Deal legislation with Markey four years ago.

“You all are changing the world,” she told young activists.

Program Details and Grant Deadlines

The initiative will provide job training and service opportunities to work on a wide range of projects, including restoring coastal wetlands to protect communities from storm surges and flooding; clean energy projects such as wind and solar power; managing forests to prevent catastrophic wildfires; and energy efficient solutions to cut energy bills for consumers, the White House said.

Creation of the climate corps comes as the Environmental Protection Agency launches a $4.6 billion grant competition for states, municipalities and tribes to cut climate pollution and advance environmental justice. The Climate Pollution Reduction Grants are funded by the 2022 climate law and are intended to drive community-driven solutions to slow climate change.

EPA Administrator Michael Regan said the grants will help “communities so they can chart their own paths toward the clean energy future.”

The deadline for states and municipalities to apply is April 1, with grants expected in late 2024. Tribes and territories must apply by May 1, with grants expected by early 2025."

-via Boston.com, September 21, 2023

[tragedy-machine]

[yujateaandpi]

Gobbled up the Dandadan anime and manga recently and absolutely adored it all. Not only does it feature the most likable and strongly written female characters I’ve ever seen in a shonen, it discusses extremely pertinent themes about consent and bodily autonomy from a lens of female solidarity while also elevating healthy relationships with kind communicative male characters who respect boundaries. It’s wacky, fun, gorgeous, and super refreshing. 

[not-the-living-ghost]

One thing that i really appreciate about dead boy detectives is that they never treat platonic relationships as if they are less important than romantic ones. charles’ “rejection” on the staircase is never truly treated as a rejection, because he loves edwin back in all the ways that matter. in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't really matter if they are dating or not because charles and edwin will always be charles and edwin no matter what

[sitting-on-me-bum]

A hippo emerges from the water covered with greenery in the Masai Mara nature reserve, Kenya

Photograph: Ann Aveyard/Animal News Agency

[alltimefail]

Yeah for me this is enough to keep fighting. This cast is right alongside us and they're telling us to keep up the good work.

(Source)

I will forever be grateful to Jayden for his portrayal of Charles Rowland and for all the love he has shown this fandom. Never has a character meant so much to me. This show and these people are worth fighting for.

You heard the man... let's save our ghost show! Love ya'll 💀🔎💜

[gameo-archive]

"Hi guys, love your work in Dead Boy Detectives, this show's been a joy and a comfort for me. Thanks for this chance. In a hopefully future episode of DBD, is there a skill that you wish you could use, or a cool thing (stunt?) you’d like to get to do?"

Transcript under the cut:

Jayden: Hello Michela! Thank you so so much for requesting this cameo from me and yours truly. We are currently reporting to you live from London in the office at the desk, I know it looks a bit different, don’t ask, uh, yeah. George: Yeah, this is us, thank you so much for being a part of this special cameo week, we’re having a lot of fun reliving and relearning some things Dead Boy Detectives thanks to the die-hard fans such as yourself, Michela. Thank you so much for your request, let’s have a look, so you’ve said: “Hi guys, love your work in Dead Boy Detectives, this show has been a joy and a comfort for me”. Us too, Michela, but we’re thrilled to hear that. “In a future episode of Dead Boy Detectives is there a skill that you wish you could use or a cool thing you’d like to get to do?” Jayden: Oh George: Well, I have two things that I pitched: I wanted to see Edwin fencing, ah, and there are two fencing helmets in the office actually, ehm, so I, I think that’s not beyond the realm of impossible, and I would want to see Edwin riding a ghost horse. Imagine seeing him in riding gear, chef’s kiss. Jayden: I would want to see Charles have a, a proper fight with somebody, like a good, like, two minute long, fist fight with someone George: Mmm, fist fight? Jayden: yeah, like proper, proper fight, I mean we get to see him do the kick in the pilot and obviously we get to see him flying around that cricket bat like a madman but I think being able to, like, have a proper fight George: proper fight Jayden: with somebody and throw a punch, I think that would be quite fun. George: We have, fun fact, we actually did have a boxing tutorial, I did, he didn’t need it, I did, Jayden: [laughs] George: before the boxing scene, because that was the OG, original first scene of the pilot Jayden: yes, it was George: fun fact, for you, and that’s also the scene where I wear a wig. Thank you for your question, Michela, and have a lovely week. Goodbye

[tunamayuuu]

colored ver of my previous post about aku with cutie eyeliner credit again to @adhdhiguchi for the idea! i couldn't get it out my head

[reasonsforhope]

"The sleeping giant of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has stirred.

In the past month, an avalanche of anti-pollution rules, targeting everything from toxic drinking water to planet-heating gases in the atmosphere, have been issued by the agency. Belatedly, the sizable weight of the US federal government is being thrown at longstanding environmental crises, including the climate emergency.

On Thursday [May 18, 2023], the EPA’s month of frenzied activity was crowned by the toughest ever limits upon carbon pollution from America’s power sector, with large, existing coal and gas plants told they must slash their emissions by 90% or face being shut down.

The measure will, the EPA says, wipe out more than 600m tons of carbon emissions over the next two decades, about double what the entire UK emits each year. But even this wasn’t the biggest pollution reduction announced in recent weeks.

In April, new emissions standards for cars and trucks will eliminate an expected 9bn tons of CO2 by the mid-point of the century, while separate rules issued late last year aim to slash hydrofluorocarbons, planet-heating gases used widely in refrigeration and air conditioning, by 4.6bn tons in the same timeframe. Methane, another highly potent greenhouse gas, will be curtailed by 810m tons over the next decade in another EPA edict.

In just a few short months the EPA, diminished and demoralized under Donald Trump, has flexed its regulatory muscles to the extent that 15bn tons of greenhouse gases – equivalent to about three times the US’s carbon pollution, or nearly half of the entire world’s annual fossil fuel emissions – are set to be prevented, transforming the power basis of Americans’ cars and homes in the process...

If last year’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), with its $370bn in clean energy subsidies and enticements for electric car buyers, was the carrot to reducing emissions, the EPA now appears to be bringing a hefty stick.

The IRA should help reduce US emissions by about 40% this decade but the cut needs to be deeper, up to half of 2005 levels, to give the world a chance of avoiding catastrophic heatwaves, wildfires, drought and other climate calamities. The new rules suddenly put America, after years of delay and political rancor, tantalizingly within reach of this...

“It’s clear we’ve reached a pivotal point in human history and it’s on all of us to act right now to protect our future,” said Michael Regan, the administrator of the EPA, in a speech last week at the University of Maryland. The venue was chosen in a nod to the young, climate-concerned voters Joe Biden hopes to court in next year’s presidential election, and who have been dismayed by Biden’s acquiescence to large-scale oil and gas drilling.

“Folks, this is our future we are talking about, and we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity for real climate action,” [Michael Regan, the administrator of the EPA], added. “Failure is not an option, indifference is not an option, inaction is not an option.” ...

It’s not just climate the EPA has acted upon in recent months. There are new standards for chemical plants, such as those that blight the so-called "Cancer Alley" the US, from emitting cancer-causing toxins such as benzene, ethylene oxide and vinyl chloride. New rules curbing mercury, arsenic and lead from industrial facilities have been released, as have tighter limits on emissions of soot and the first ever regulations targeting the presence of per- and polyfluoroalkylsubstances (or PFAS) in drinking water.” ...

For those inside the agency, the breakneck pace has been enervating. “It’s definitely a race against time,” said one senior EPA official, who asked not to be named. “The clock is ticking. It is a sprint through a marathon and it is exhausting.” ...

“We know the work to confront the climate crisis doesn’t stop at strong carbon pollution standards,” said Ben Jealous, the executive director of the Sierra Club.

“The continued use or expansion of fossil power plants is incompatible with a livable future. Simply put, we must not merely limit the use of fossil fuel electricity – we must end it entirely.”"

-via The Guardian (US), 5/16/23

[salty-an-disco]

everytime someone says a version of "what if Shifty is intentionally manipulative and maybe even evil–" a part of me dies a little inside

[idliketobeatree]

10. in the meanwhile as you chop down our roots measure out D E V O T I O N add lantern oil stir the concoction counter-clockwise. leave it to simmer on the lowest heat. [charles' book of secrets] poem by me art quote by @wordsinhaled

[allthecanadianpolitics]

For decades, JNF Canada had received charity status from Canada’s Revenue Agency (CRA), but this August, the CRA officially revoked it.  After an audit, the CRA concluded that the JNF Canada used tax-exempt money to fund Israeli army bases, which is illegal under Canadian law. It also found the organization couldn’t prove how Canadian money was used in Israel, and did not justify why financial records were only kept in Israel, among other disqualifying concerns. Palestinian solidarity advocates in Canada have long campaigned for this outcome, pointing to the charity’s role in building parks over Palestinian land and its discriminatory leasing of land within Israel. For years dogged by CRA investigators, JNF Canada had pledged to the tax revenue agency in 2021 that it “will not fund projects in the disputed territories.” But the paper trail simply became more hidden. 

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[not-the-living-ghost]

At least he's got the spirit...

[marveltournaments]