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We have already averted truly apocalyptic levels of global warming.
Yes, read that again. Let it sink in. This is what the science now says. We have already averted truly apocalyptic global warming.
To quote David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth, from his huge feature in the New York Times:
"Thanks to astonishing declines in the price of renewables, a truly global political mobilization, a clearer picture of the energy future and serious policy focus from world leaders, we have cut expected warming almost in half in just five years... The window of possible climate futures is narrowing, and as a result, we are getting a clearer sense of whatâs to come: a new world, full of disruption but also billions of people, well past climate normal and yet mercifully short of true climate apocalypse." (New York Times, October 22, 2022. Unpaywalled here. Emphasis mine. And yes, this vision of the future is backed up by the current science on the issue, as he explains at length in the article.)
So we've already averted truly apocalyptic warming, and we've already cut expected warming IN HALF in just the past five years.
The pace of technology, of innovation, of prices, of feasibility, of discovery, of organizing, of grassroots movements, of movements in other countries around the world, have all picked up the pace so fast in the last five years.
Renewable technology and capacity are both increasing at an exponential rate. It's all S-curves, ones that look like this:
-via The Economist, June 20, 2024.
How much more will we manage in another five years? Another ten? Another twenty?
I know the US is about to fucking suck about the environment for the next four years. But the momentum of renewable energy is far too much to stop - both in the US (x) and around the world.
(Huge shoutouts to India, China, and Brazil for massive gains for the environment in renewables, and Brazil for massive progress against Amazon deforestation.)
We're going to get there.
Say it with me. We're going to get there.
what i read in 2024: best of, part one
(previous editions) bold = favourite
class, race, gender, & sexuality
the crisis over american manhood is really code for something else
slash and burn: is private equity out of control?
my elusive pain: living with the enduring pain of postcolonial trauma (france)
socialism for the rich
from tuxedos to tattoos, eleanor medhurst's unsuitable traces a hidden history of lesbian fashion
the political economy of race in singapore
how two single moms escaped an alleged sex-trafficking ring and ultimately saved each other
politics & current affairs
'in my books, it's murder' (australia/afghanistan)
south korea's long history of martial law â and impeachments
"between the hammer and the anvil"
in this police youth program, a trail of sexual abuse across the u.s.
how do 11 people go to jail for one murder? (uk)
cycle of despair (australia)
'lavender': the ai machine directing israel's bombing spree in gaza
utopia brasileira
other
one thing after another: a reading list for lovers & makers of lists
toormina video (comic)
the eugenicist of unesco
inside the surprisingly secretive world of crisp flavours
friend or faux?
your body, your self, your surgeon, his instagram
we all want to live in the golden girls house â don't we?
"he actually believes he is khalid": the amazing 30-year odyssey of a counterfeit saudi prince
the trees that miss the mammoths
what the us invasion did to iraqi archaeology
And speaking of Sophia Tolstoy, her diaries are just so depressing.Â
âI am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman. I try to suppress all human feelings. When the machine is working properly it heats the milk, knits a blanket, makes little requests and bustles about trying not to think [âŠ].â
She wrote this when she was 19, one year into her marriage to Leo and as she was pregnant with the first of his 13 children.
A few years later, when she was 25 or so:
âI am so often alone with my thoughts that the need to write in my diary comes quite naturally ⊠Now I am well again and not pregnantâit terrifies me how often I have been in that condition. He said that for him being young meant âI can achieve anythingâ. For me [âŠ] reason tells me that there is nothing I either want or can do beyond nursing, eating, drinking, sleeping, and loving and caring for my husband and babies, all of which I know is happiness of a kind, but why do I feel so woeful all the time, and weep as I did yesterday? I am writing this now with the pleasantly exciting sense that nobody will ever read it, so I can be quite frank with myself [âŠ].â
During her 12th pregnancy she wrote about taking scalding baths and jumping from high pieces of furniture to try and miscarry. And at one point while reading her husbandâs diary (which he told her to read) she found the sentence âThere is no such thing as love, only the physical need for intercourse and the practical need for a life companion.â In her own diary she wrote âThey ebb and flow like waves, these times when I realise how lonely I am and want only to cryâŠâ
A few years before her husbandâs death, she published a cycle of prose poems titled âGroansâ, under the pseudonym âA Tired Womanâ.
the most depressing quote from her diaries:
âI have served a genius for almost forty years. Hundreds of times I have felt my intellectual energy stir within me and all sorts of desires - a longing for education, a love of music and the arts⊠And time and again I have crushed and smothered these longings⊠Everyone asks, âBut why should a worthless woman like you need an intellectual or artistic life?â To this question I can only reply: âI donât know, but eternally suppressing it to serve a genius is a great misfortune.â
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Give me a ìœìŽìŒ!
your life is not an optimization problem
as in you'll never achieve the perfect daily routine, sleep schedule, coping mechanisms, mannerisms, fashion sense etc. even after years and years of healing and improvement and self-discovery. you will never be so good at life that you manage to utilize every waking moment. its great to be productive and all but sometimes you'll suck ass. sometimes you'll take eight hours to be done with a twenty minute job. you'll prioritize the wrong thing. you'll sleep for 12 hrs just to avoid being awake. you'll relapse. and you'll relapse again. you'll forget to turn in the assignment. you'll order too little food. life is far too large and complex for you to even experience it completely, much less try to make sense of and control it. you can't. please give up on that and be at peace with the hours you lose. they are not separate from your life.
embroidery from peacockandpinecones my friends and I have been losing our minds over all morning.
tiktok: christinajulian_91
audio credit: anthony vincent
That was not the audio I was expecting
I thought I knew by reading the lips. I did not.
Did you know that leeches were once used to predict storms? Well, a tornado warning just dropped and my squad is climbing
@takemetoturch
My dad is a meteorologist and he has never once warned me about an incoming storm. My leeches, however......
https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/19/weatherwatch-forecasting-tempest-prognosticator-storm-leech
*urgently* Lads, the leechometre is at 12 bong, I repeat, 12 bong!
"tempest prognosticator" absolutely sounds like some kind of arcane device a wizard would have lying around in his workshop
This is literally the most heart warming story I have read on Twitter so far. I think this is exactly what friends should do, and I feel everyone deserves people like this.
A barn rasing:Â a collective action of a community, in which a barn for one of the members is built or rebuilt collectively by members of the community.
because you cannot, you CANNOT, build a barn on your own, and without it, you will not be able to survive.Â
What a fuckinâ gem of a sentence. âWhat we did today was a barn rasinâÂ
This just made me cry. Iâm at a point in my life where I may need to ask for a barn raisinâ, and this is just so beautiful.
Posting the archived version of this on tumblr so it never disappears from my sight ever again. And also because I love it so much and I've been trying to look for it for almost a year. It's a thread on fujoshi and the history of it so people can stop bashing fandom enjoyers for just. Existing.
[link to thread]
[A tweet reading, "As a japanese mlm... Please don't spread more misinformation about the word fujoshi. đ It's simply a woman who likes BL. It's also a reclaimed word in Japann so making it a bad word again is not nice. Plus BL is very important to LGBT movement in Japan."]
@homophobicranch @sjwromanroy
Got curious
https://neosciencehub.com/man-spends-93-days-under-the-atlantic-sea-becoming-10-years-younger/
For a groundbreaking investigation, retired navy commander Joseph Dituri was required to submerge himself for more than three months. Researchers sought to understand the impact of submerged life in a pressurised environment on the human body. And guess what? After spending more than three months submerged in the Atlantic Ocean, scientists were astounded to discover that Dituri had become âten years youngerâ when he emerged from his little pod.
Following diagnostic evaluations, it was discovered that Dituriâs telomeresâthe DNA caps at the ends of chromosomes that normally shorten with ageâhad grown 20% longer than they had three months prior.
In addition, his stem cell count had increased and his general health had undergone a dramatic metamorphosis. Dituri also reported better-quality sleep. His inflammatory indicators decreased by half, and his cholesterol plummeted by 72 points. According to medical professionals, the underwater pressureâwhich is recognized to have several health benefitsâcaused these alterations. Dituri subsequently discussed the need for these kinds of encounters.
âOne of these locations that are isolated from outside activities is what you need. The British newspaper Daily Mirror cited him as stating, âSend people down here for a two-week vacation, where they can get their feet scrubbed, relax, and experience the benefit of hyperbaric medicine.â He said that his metabolism had also significantly improved.
Rare new form of beneficial pressure discovered
old timey doctors sending you to the seaside for your health were so, so close.
Yo, okay, stop tellin boys that their height is funny if theyâre short. Stop rebloggin things about boys who are under 6ft tall with the intention of laughing at them.
Stop telling boys to man up.
Stop telling boys that they should just move on and get over emotionally/physically traumatic experiences.
Stop telling boys that their girlfriends are âalways right because women are always right.â
Stop making fun of boys for parts of their body that they were literally just born with an HAVE no control over.
BOYS. NEED. EMOTIONAL. SUPPORT. TOO. BOYS. HAVE. BODY. IMAGE. ISSUES. TOO.
Fuck.
Still relevant
Infinitely, permanently relevant
Also let them cry!
Crying is an important physiological process. When people cry due to overwhelming emotions, it is the body literally removing the hormones from the body so the person can process and then navigate the situation better. If people donât cry when they need to, it will be harder for them to find a healthy, effective next-step to whatever they are dealing with.
Furthermore, it promotes human bonding and increases the likelihood of receiving aid. Emotional tears serve the function of communicating distress so other humans can perceive it and offer support. Humans are social creatures that function best when in communities. That requires an ability to communicate distress and receive external support.
Also, above all, boys are people. Why would you tell a person that theyâre not allowed to utilize an efficient human tool to feel, process, and bond with others? That helps no one and has lasting, significant, and negative psychological effects. It increases a sense of isolation. Theyâre more disconnected from others and themselves. The pain they donât process will continue to have negative impacts until they let themselves examine and feel it so they can move on. Not being allowed to cry on the basis of your gender is a sucky, lonely, self-condemming, and alienating way to live.
Itâs not kind, wise, or fair to treat people like that.
Utility of Emotional Tears
Love seeing something from TikTok and going âgirlie that is literally what led to the downfall of the Papal Statesâ
Jewish baby named Edgardo Mortara is seemingly about to die in Bologna, 1851
Catholic nanny secretly baptises him to save his soul, which sheâs not exactly the kind of authority who can do that, but w/e, itâs interpreted by the church as valid later
Kid survives
1857 her secret gets out, a baptising makes a kid a Catholic according to the Church and a Catholic canât be raised in a non-Catholic household in the Papal States, so the church authorises the police to kidnap Edgardo from his family
Raised personally by Pope Pius IX, Jewish family not allowed to take him back due to Church doctrine, this action destroys the family with grief and despair
This case gets international infamy with the Pope not understanding why everyoneâs shiting on him for doing this, including allies
Emperor Napoleon III shifts from opposing Italian unification to supporting it as a direct consequence
Bologna falls the next year, 1859
Kingdom of Italy forms 1861
By 1870 Rome is lost to the Italians and the Papal States are no more
(Edgardo Mortara goes on to become Father Mortara)
(He dies in Belgium in 1940 three months before the Nazis occupied the nation, which if heâd have lived he wouldâve been persecuted as a Jew)
Wikipedia confirms