Frimmin' on the jim-jam, Frippin' at the krotz ...

“My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.” — J. B. S. Haldane

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[portalibis]

 Splendor solis, c. 1582

[rjzimmerman]

The world has entered a new reality. Global warming will soon exceed 1.5°C. This puts humanity in the danger zone where multiple climate tipping points pose catastrophic risks to billions of people. Already warm-water coral reefs are crossing their thermal tipping point and experiencing unprecedented dieback, threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of millions who depend on them. Polar ice sheets are approaching tipping points, committing the world to several metres of irreversible sea-level rise that will affect hundreds of millions. 

Every fraction of additional warming increases the risk of triggering further damaging tipping points. These include a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) that would radically undermine global food and water security and plunge northwest Europe into prolonged severe winters. Together, climate change and deforestation put the Amazon rainforest at risk of widespread dieback below 2°C global warming, threatening incalculable damage to biodiversity and impacting over 100 million people who depend on the forest. 

These climate tipping point risks are interconnected and most of the interactions between them are destabilising, meaning tipping one system makes tipping another more likely. The resulting impacts would cascade through the ecological and social systems we depend upon, creating escalating damages. Humanity faces a potentially catastrophic, irreversible outcome. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights recognises the right of humans to a safe climate, hence preventing irreversible harm to the climate system is a legal imperative. 

How hot we let it get and for how long really matters in preventing climate tipping points. The magnitude and duration of global temperature overshoot above 1.5°C has to be minimised. To achieve that, global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions must be halved by 2030 (compared to 2010 levels) and then reach net zero by 2050. This requires an unprecedented acceleration in decarbonisation, rapid mitigation of methane emissions and other short-lived climate pollutants and fast scaling of sustainable carbon removal from the atmosphere. 

[beauty-funny-trippy]

SAD FACT: President Trump and Health Secretary RFK Jr are much more dangerous to Americans than all the people on the FBI's most wanted list combined.

[rjzimmerman]

2025 Wildfires Were the Costliest Ever, Researchers Say. (New York Times)

Even though the total area burned was relatively small, 2025 was the most economically damaging wildfire year on record, according to a new analysis published on Sunday.

The Los Angeles fires and a handful of severe blazes in other countries, including South Korea and Spain, drove up losses worldwide to at least $54 billion, the study estimates. It was the highest level of insured losses on record.

That figure does not include all indirect losses like missed work days, business closures and added pressure on health care systems. It is also a conservative estimate, because insurers do not typically share proprietary data and the damage can be difficult to assess in some countries.

When estimates of indirect losses are factored in, the fires that hit the Los Angeles area alone would add at least $100 billion to the total, according to the study.

Those fires tore through at least 90 square miles early last year, killing at least 31 people and forcing more than 150,000 residents to evacuate their homes. Some experts estimate that hundreds more died from indirect causes such as smoke inhalation.

The researchers gathered data on wildfire area and damage from 2025 events in the EM-DAT database, which is the product of a global, communal research effort to track disasters and their costs to society and to the natural world. It is not a complete picture, but it provides researchers and policymakers with minimum estimates for damage from fires, floods and other disasters.

The fire damage set a record despite the fact that only about 1.3 million square miles were burned worldwide, the second-lowest area hit by wildfire since 2002.

Severe, hard-to-control wildfires that hit populated areas drove last year’s losses.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first. Nationalism is when hate for people other than your own comes first. Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism.”

Charles de Gaulle

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[intothewildsstuff]

Majority of Americans Support Ban on Surveillance Pricing and Electronic Shelf Labels https://share.google/2mN4BymSnLCGDbvvv

Majority of Americans Support Ban on Surveillance Pricing and Electronic Shelf Labels

Surprisingly, 3% saying it would make them more likely to shop at a store.

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

[tomorrowusa]

^^^ What's not to dislike about Todd Blanche?

He's Trump's personal lawyer.

He met face to face with convicted pedophile Ghislaine Maxwell just prior to her transfer to a luxury prison in Texas.

He's still withholding portions of the Epstein Files.

He's supervising groundless prosecutions of Trump's political opponents and perceived enemies.

He's the would-be administrator of Trump slush fund for terrorists.

Blanche is likely to remain Trump's Acting Attorney General indefinitely. A real Attorney General would require confirmation by the US Senate. Trump knows that a MAGA über-toady like Blanche would have a difficult time being confirmed nowadays and would have an impossible time if Democrats flipped the Senate in November.

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[weantuniverse]

(via (99+) (via Facebook) – @madam-paradox on Tumblr)

[comtedemoney]

[saywhat-politics]

Researchers say the Trump administration is finding new ways to punish science

Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The c

Standing in his laboratory, Harvard professor Sean Eddy gazes at a row of vacant work stations. More than a year ago, this lab was filled with over a dozen researchers. On a given day they might be working independently on analyzing genomic sequencing or gathered around the group table, drinking coffee and helping each other troubleshoot questions about genomic data from different species.

Now, after his funding was terminated under the Trump administration, the computer screens are gone and the room is silent. He's one of the last people left.

" Seeing these labs empty — this is not the way it's supposed to be," he says. "This was a very vibrant lab."

[depsidase]

[afromagick]

When we do it, they call it theft and a crime. When they do it, they call it business and innovation. Weird how that works.

[nuckgirl16]

ButButBut he needs a bulletproof ballroom to have safe events in

🙄 hypocrisy

White trash administration doing white trash nonsense

[liberalsarecool]

Wage theft is the oxygen of capitalism.