#we are united

[whx-m]

I will NEVER FORGET the Palestinian delegation showing up to Standing Rock. NEVER. THEY SHOWED THE FUCK UP EVEN FROM A WORLD AWAY.

[asktheartpone]

I know things are hard. I don't think they're going to get better. But we're all in this together. Women, colored folk, LGBTQIA+ community- all of us. We have to keep fighting for what we believe in. We have to keep fighting for our rights. We cannot let them win.

Stay strong everyone. We can make it. We won't give up. Together we're strong.

[pinkfloyd-musicartnaturelove]

Starting the day off with the sounds of Pink Floyd and the images of David Gilmour......makes my heart happy. Even after all these years, the love is enduring. Hope you all have wonderful moments. We might have varying opinions and likes, but we are united in our appreciation for one hell of a band. Let's practice what is for the greater good and not get caught up in overthinking and in our egos wanting to be right and better. Peace!

[sketch-mer-6195]

I know I'm a day late. But that doesn't make me less of an American to not remember what had happened on 9/11/2001. I remember being with my dad and baby brother. I was just 6 years old and my dad watching the Today Show per his morning routine. And all of a sudden, our local news station showed the images of first tower billowing smoke.

My dad called my grandmom asking if she was seeing what was happening. At the time, she was living in her apartment in New Jersey and could see the smoke across the Hudson River. I hardly remember all that had happened. But I remember going to our Unitarian Church that following Sunday and how our pastor explained to all the children that we were safe, we were okay, and that we pray to those who were lost or in pain.

Every year since then, my brother and I always stayed either close by or away from our dad because he was mad, sad, and in grief of what had happened to his home and so many friends and loved ones that he knew were gone. It had grown to the point where I told my dad that we stop watching documentaries or movies about 9/11 because it would bring his rage and we wanted him to be at peace.

On February 2008, we traveled from where we live now to New Jersey for a fishing convention that my dad was invited too. Staying with family and enjoying our time in the melting winter, snow, and loved ones my Uncle took us to New York City as a treat for my brother and me as we never been. Taking the train from Jersey and into NYC the very first stop that we made and got off at was at the World Trade Center. Before the Freedom Tower was constructed and when the memorial was even finished. I remember my brother and I excited to see one of the two perfect squares in the blue sky. All I could say, for a 12 year olf at the time would say.

"Wow, now that's a big hole in the sky!"

But my uncle gently pulled us away from the chain linked fence that separated the platform from the construction site and ushered us to our dad who was crying. His sister-in-law, my aunt, and our little cousin were hugging my dad who was sobbing in the middle of the place and my brother and I were soon told that we were at where the Twin Towers stood proudly until that fateful day.

From there, I will never forget the site how it was before the created the infinity pools and the memorial museum. Two huge dirt holes in the most magical city the world has ever seen. Yeah, many would say otherwise. And many have told me that its not all that cracked up to be. But it holds a special place in my heart. Not because my dad is from the Big Apple. But my family started their lives in that magical city. We have our family name on Elis Island's records. And I may be from the deep south...

I am proud to say I'm a New Yorker as well.

Please, if you have never watched the live showing. Watch this with open hearts. Forget what you think about New Yorkers. They are people, from all walks of life. And we, as a country, ran in to help our fellow neighbors.

Never forget and love each other.

[lilybug-02]

Chocolate man!! https://www.youtube.com/c/amauryguichonchef

🥺 Amaury Guichon ❤️

[fly-chicken]

A Pragmatic and surprisingly comforting perspective about the Trump 2nd Presidency from the ACLU

***Apologies if this is how you found out the 2024 election results***

Blacked out part is my name.

I’m not going to let this make me give up. It’s disheartening, and today I will wallow, probably tomorrow too

AND

I will continue to do my part in my community to spread the activism and promote change for the world I want to live in. I want to change the world AND help with the dishes.

And I won’t let an orange pit stain be what stops me from trying to be better.

A link to donate to the ACLU if able and inclined. I know I am

[worm-on-my-way]

hc that danny just sees wanda and cosmo's true forms

[destielmemenews]

"School districts currently work with processing companies to offer cashless payment systems for families. But the companies can charge “processing fees” for each transaction. By law, students who are eligible for reduced price meals cannot be charged more than 30 cents for breakfast and 40 cents for lunch. With processing fees, however, families can end up paying 10 times that amount. Processing companies charge as much as $3.25 or 4% to 5% per transaction, according to a recent report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau."

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[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.

[expelliarmus]

[remindertoclick]

Your reminder to Click for Palestine today!

And/or donate directly to the UNRWA if you have the means!

[littlematchagirlll]

you know what, fuck joe biden. fuck joe biden. i am so deeply enraged tonight. thousands of palestinians have been murdered in a genocide funded by US tax dollars, and his administration thinks it's a good time to post memes?? most young people i know are living paycheck to paycheck (or debt to debt), and they think they can appeal to us by posting goddamn memes? at least one hundred people were killed in rafah due to an israeli air strike during the superbowl, and biden posts a dark brandon meme? what the absolute fuck? over twelve thousand children have been murdered in cold blood by the israeli military, funded by the united states, funded by my goddamn taxes, and biden tweets about seats on airplanes? i can't afford to buy meat, but thank god part of my paycheck is being spent on bombing children. i am ashamed i voted for him. if i ever met the man, i would spit on him. i would throw both my shoes at him. i am disgusted and angry. god fucking damnit

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF stickers for next month,,

[egophiliac]

do skully have pokemon?

Pumpkaboo is the obvious one, but y'know, sometimes the obvious one is the right one! (we'll say SUPER SIZE Pumpkaboo, just for fun. big pumpkin for big skeleton boy.) and another person actually also suggested Greavard, which I somehow hadn't considered, but feels so perfect that I feel like I should have. dangit.

(they can also have little Nightmare Suit costumes :D)

[reality-detective]

A Minnesota woman shares how many people in her state feel about Tim Walz. 🤔