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 what’s 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:
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.)
New Rule: If it’s SFW when a guy does it, it’s SFW when a girl does it.
Guy shirtless is SFW? Girl shirtless is now SFW.
Guy with a noticeable bulge in a speedo is SFW? Girl with a noticeable bulge in a speedo is SFW.
Etc, etc, etc.
I will not be taking any criticisms on this.
Deleting every stupid comment that says:
“Well actually NSFW means Not Safe For Work and-”
Because you motherfuckers know full well what I’m talking about and also know damn well that NSFW has become a blanket term for what is seen as inherently sexual versus what is seen as not inherently sexual.
This is about the fact that women’s bodies are always seen as sex objects regardless of their presentation, intention, or any attributing factors while men’s bodies are not.
“ACTUALLY men can’t be shirtless in places without being told they-”
I can go to comic book stores, game stores, the movies, collectors shops, sports stores, etc and get as many pictures of shirtless men on books, movies, games, trading cards, etc and it’s acceptable and fine.
If I ask for one with a topless woman on the cover I will be told that those either “aren’t sold here” or “are kept behind the counter in a sealed box with secondary covers that don’t show them bare chested”
If you’re watching a movie and in it a man wakes up in a movie after going to sleep and he’s shirtless and someone walks in while you’re watching they won’t say a word, but if it was a woman they’d give you a side eye.
Literally everyone saying “BUT BUT BUT” needs to shut the fuck up.
Y’all, my little nephew, who’s nickname is “Cabbage,” wanted a “punk jacket,” like Uncle Kade’s. (EMPHASIS ON LITTLE, be nice)
So, I asked him what kind of patches he wanted on it, and this is what we came up with. Just need to sew the patches down and line the vest. I can’t wait to finish it and send it to him.
In the second Sonic movie, he refers to him self as ‘hedgehog of the house’ in Tom’s absence instead of ‘man of the house’ further implying his gender is hedgehog
my mental image anytime i see someone leave this comment
Sorry for this post. Sorry. We took him to the park for a day of fun! :^)
[Image ID 1: A comic depicting someone with a sneering expression on their face. They’re saying “I’m sorry, but if that were me? I would not let that thing slide.”
Below is a drawing of a black and white cat sitting at the top of a kiddy slide with tears in his eyes. A large hand is blocking him from sliding down. The cat is wearing a party hat, a ribbon that says B-Day Boy, and holding a balloon that says “get well soon”.
Image ID 2: The same cat, now drawn happily riding a unicorn spring toy, eating a SpongeBob popsicle, playing on a water slide, and eating bubblegum. He has a speech bubble reading “Thanks for letting me have some” with the words distorted to indicate he’s talking with his mouth full. End ID.]
my mental image anytime i see someone leave this comment
Sorry for this post. Sorry. We took him to the park for a day of fun! :^)
[Image ID 1: A comic depicting someone with a sneering expression on their face. They’re saying “I’m sorry, but if that were me? I would not let that thing slide.”
Below is a drawing of a black and white cat sitting at the top of a kiddy slide with tears in his eyes. A large hand is blocking him from sliding down. The cat is wearing a party hat, a ribbon that says B-Day Boy, and holding a balloon that says “get well soon”.
Image ID 2: The same cat, now drawn happily riding a unicorn spring toy, eating a SpongeBob popsicle, playing on a water slide, and eating bubblegum. He has a speech bubble reading “Thanks for letting me have some” with the words distorted to indicate he’s talking with his mouth full. End ID.]
your daily reminder that this is a microblogging website and not every post you see is a sweeping well thought-out hot take for you to consider and many posts are in fact vent posts that blew up on accident
Real life example: My therapy homework blew up and now it’s on pinterest
Bravo also to Robert Eggers for probably the least bad depiction of Transylvania in Western vampire cinematic history:
1. Having actual Romanian actors doing the dialogue in Romanian. You’d think this is a low bar to clear but nope.
2. High quality costume design that looks pretty accurate to 19th century Romanian and Roma peasantry, even down to specific braided hairstyles from the Transylvanian region.
3. Depiction of Roma people but refrains from having them as some typical Hollywood exoticizing role like a magical fortune teller etc. They’re in like half a scene, just chilling and playing music in front of an inn.
4. Use of the word “strigoi” which are actual spirits in Romanian folklore, unlike the term “vampire” which didn’t exist in Romania.
5. Sorry to the Nosferatu moustache haters, but a Romanian nobleman would have had that exact facial hair.
6. Depiction of religion (nuns, churches) that actually looks like Eastern Orthodoxy and not some vaguely spooky goth Christianity.
On point 2, if you’re not familiar with his earlier work, the director commentary on his debut film The Witch is hilarious. Most of it is him complaining about the historical inaccuracies he had to leave in for budget or practical reasons.
IIRC, he goes ‘our goats are incorrect’ and then elaborates that the period accurate goat breed doesn’t exist anymore, the closest simulacra is only raised on a single farm in New Zealand, and they didn’t have the budget to get one.
The level of attention to detail that gets regionally accurate hair braids is something of a mark of his work, and his films are better for it.
This is what sunbathing looks like - they lie down in the sun and expose whatever part of the body, often with stretched wings, to the sunlight. This uses the UV radiation of the sun to help kill or drive out parasites like feather lice.
Shit man, this wizard war is fucked. I just saw a guy clap his hands together and say “the ten hells” or some similar shit, and every one around him turned inside out, had their tibia explode and then disappeared. The camera didn’t even go onto him, that’s how common shit like this is. My ass is casting frostbite and level 2 poison. I think I just heard “power word:scrunch” two groups over. I gotta get the fuck outta here.
one of my worst writing sins is abusing my power to create compound words. i cannot write the sentence “The sun shone as bright as honey that afternoon.” no. that’s boring. “The sun was honey-bright that afternoon” however? yes. that sentence is dope as fuck. i do not care if “honey-bright” is a word in the english dictionary. i do not care if the sentence is grammatically correct. i will not change. i will not correct my erred ways. the laws of the english language are mine.
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