I love you so much for this.
Thank you for saying that, friend. <3
Location: Colorado
I feel so much dread.
I hike a lot around the Front Range, and the woods are so silent compared to when I moved here in 2002. I used to always see chickadees, nuthatches, woodpeckers, magpies, juncos…it was gorgeous. Now I'm lucky to see a couple of birds within a two-hour hike.
It's a weird, different, quiet world. I miss the birds.
A new Ori game. :/
Could it be one of these? The first picture especially looks similar.
The story of how a woman lost her daughter because the grandmother didn't believe that the girl's coconut allergy was real, despite years of watching the parents trying to find out the allergen so that they could stop the girl from winding up in the emergency room. The grandmother kept the kid overnight and used coconut oil on her hair; the child went into anaphylaxis and died.
The mother said that the grandmother begs her to see her other grandchildren, as they've now cut ties with her; the mom's response was, "You can come over when you bring my daughter with you."
A horrible story of how some people just believe they know better than everyone, including doctors.
What a lovely idea!
Oh my god. This was amazing.
Thank you! I hope you have a wonderful weekend, friend.
MacKenzie Scott, Bezos's ex. She's given more than $14 billion to charity.
I don't think that guy can feel his teeth.
I wish I had just a bit of whatever he's on. Holy shit.
My brother (staunch conservative) once paraphrased Churchill to me: "Anyone who is a conservative when they're young is heartless; anyone who's a liberal when they're old is brainless."
Now that 50 is just over the horizon for me, I say that someone who voted for Donald Trump thinking I'm brainless is a compliment. Also, forgive student debt, give us universal healthcare and a universal basic income, fuck the rich, and come the revolution, may each of you reading this get to throw a Molotov at someone who owns a private jet. 💙
How can there be no trials of the sword?!?
How about "Young Lust" vs. "Great Gig in the Sky" by Floyd? Or pretty much any song from the Syd era.
I have seen many cute things. A cat or two in my time. Bunnies. But that may be the cutest thing I've ever seen.
Emma - You should’ve asked
I dunno, I think Elon leans Chaotic.
He looks really really bad.
Hard relate to Pikachu
Huge colonies of emperor penguins saw no chicks survive last year as sea ice disappears
As rapidly warming global temperatures help push Antarctica's sea ice to unprecedented lows, it's threatening the very existence of one of the continent's most iconic species: emperor penguins.
Four out of five emperor penguin colonies analyzed in the Bellingshausen Sea, west of the Antarctic Peninsula, saw no chicks survive last year as the area experienced an enormous loss of sea ice, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment.
Capital of NWT, Canada, is being evacuated due to wildfires
Yellowknife residents have been ordered to begin evacuating the city immediately as wildfires approach, N.W.T. officials said Wednesday evening.
While the city is not in immediate danger, Environment Minister Shane Thompson said a "phased approach" to evacuating will allow citizens to get out safely by car or by plane.
The evacuation order says residents should leave "according to risk." People living along Ingraham Trail, in Dettah, and the Kam Lake, Grace Lake and the Engle business district in Yellowknife are considered at highest risk and are urged to leave as soon as possible.
Other residents of Yellowknife and Ndilo should leave by noon Friday.
Several months' worth of rain are forecast from Sunday through Monday in SoCal
Link to post is here so you can see the animation.
The average ocean temperature around the world reached 70 degrees in 2023 – the highest ever.
One of the most intense marine heatwaves on Earth has developed off the West Coast of the US, with water temperatures peaking nearly 5°C (9°F) above normal.
A handy site for visualizing various sets of climate change data
Ocean acidification is going to do all sorts of weird things to animals’ sensory perception.
Ocean acidification is going to do all sorts of weird things to animals’ sensory perception.
Acidification threatens to deprive a variety of marine species of crucial chemical cues. Research into this phenomenon is still limited, but as the field develops, the scope of the potential consequences is growing clearer.
Earth Overshoot Day: Humanity burns through planet's yearly resources by 2 August
The date can be pushed back by embracing changes like 15-minute cities, low-carbon energy and reforestation.
Humanity has burned through Earth’s annual budget for resources in under eight months.
The profound loneliness of being collapse-aware
Knowing that civilization is going to collapse can be a profoundly lonely experience. Let’s find one other and enjoy the time we have left.
I feel this SO MUCH.
We just topped the highest recorded 2-meter surface temperature for the Arctic.
Extreme Rain From Atmospheric Rivers and Ice-Heating Micro-Cracks Are Ominous New Threats to the Greenland Ice Sheet
At the current level of human-caused global warming, extreme rainfall from atmospheric rivers, as well as an extensive network of previously undetected micro-cracks, could degrade large parts of the Greenland Ice Sheet faster than expected and accelerate melting toward worst-case projections for ice...
In case you haven't read this…you should. It's an excellent resource to send to the folks you know about why you believe what you do.
Oh, and you can follow the author, Sam Hall, on Mastadon: https://mas.to/@SamYourEyes
Waters were as hot as a hot tub and as high as ever observed.
Almost every single coral in a coral reef nursery in the Florida Keys has died as NOAA raises its coral bleaching warning system to the highest level possible for the area.
Antarctic sea ice extent is now 6.4 standard deviations below the 1991-2020 mean.
Antarctic sea ice extent is now 6.4 standard deviations below the 1991-2020 mean.
Around 2,000 penguins have appeared dead on the coast of eastern Uruguay in the last 10 days, and the cause, which does not appear to be avian influenza, remains a mystery, authorities said.
Alabama lawmakers refuse to create a 2nd majority-Black congressional district
As much of the South bakes, Phoenix blazed past a milestone set half a century ago for consecutive days with 110-degree or higher temperatures.
"We are damned fools": scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come
James Hansen, who testified to Congress on global heating in 1988, says world is approaching a ‘new climate frontier’
"Damned" being the operative word.
