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aroguexenolith · 1 year

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Waiting in line to vote…I’ve been here half an hour already. Almost all of the polling locations in the county are like this, at any given time of day. It’s worse than Hartsfield-Jackson airport security.

#I wish I’d brought my tea in with me :(#why did I write 2023 in today’s date #why did I do that….#us elections #GA runoff #Georgia runoff

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falloutnewvegastransedmygender · 1 year

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Hey Georgia, if I'm correctly early voting starts state wide tomorrow. I just saw another clip of Walker saying something almost as stupid as his takes on abortion and insulin. So, get out there and get this asshole *gone.*

#us midterm elections #us politics #get out the vote #voters #voting #ga runoff #georgia

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whenweallvote · 1 year

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🚨 Georgia Voters 🚨 If you aren't able to make it to the polls in-person, 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹-𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗡𝗢𝗪 at weall.vote/georgia and remember that your ballot must be received by your county registrar’s office no later than 7pm on December 6, 2022.

#GA #Georgia #Runoff

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barrowsteeth · 1 year

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relieved they're starting to call the GA runoff election for warnock but jfc america, when will we learn?? it should not have been this close.

But congrats to the senator, and to all the people who worked their asses off to get out the vote. 💜💜

#us pol #ga runoff 2022 #and i don't mean to disparage all the people who worked hard for warnock #and to get out the vote #and had to deal with new jim crow laws #and long lines #and shortened voting times #dems should have come out in full force for warnock #and when i say dems #i mean white dems #we all know we're the problem in many states #and yet this happens again and again

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no-passaran · 3 months

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Genocide experts warn that India is about to genocide the Shompen people

Who are the Shompen?

The Shompen are an indigenous culture that lives in the Great Nicobar Island, which is nowadays owned by India. The Shompen and their ancestors are believed to have been living in this island for around 10,000 years. Like other tribes in the nearby islands, the Shompen are isolated from the rest of the world, as they chose to be left alone, with the exception of a few members who occasionally take part in exchanges with foreigners and go on quarantine before returning to their tribe. There are between 100 and 400 Shompen people, who are hunter-gatherers and nomadic agricultors and rely on their island's rainforest for survival.

Why is there risk of genocide?

India has announced a huge construction mega-project that will completely change the Great Nicobar Island to turn it into "the Hong Kong of India".

Nowadays, the island has 8,500 inhabitants, and over 95% of its surface is made up of national parks, protected forests and tribal reserve areas. Much of the island is covered by the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, described by UNESCO as covering “unique and threatened tropical evergreen forest ecosystems. It is home to very rich ecosystems, including 650 species of angiosperms, ferns, gymnosperms, and bryophytes, among others. In terms of fauna, there are over 1800 species, some of which are endemic to this area. It has one of the best-preserved tropical rain forests in the world.”

The Indian project aims to destroy this natural environment to create an international shipping terminal with the capacity to handle 14.2 million TEUs (unit of cargo capacity), an international airport that will handle a peak hour traffic of 4,000 passengers and that will be used as a joint civilian-military airport under the control of the Indian Navy, a gas and solar power plant, a military base, an industrial park, and townships aimed at bringing in tourism, including commercial, industrial and residential zones as well as other tourism-related activities.

This project means the destruction of the island's pristine rainforests, as it involves cutting down over 852,000 trees and endangers the local fauna such as leatherback turtles, saltwater crocodiles, Nicobar crab-eating macaque and migratory birds. The erosion resulting from deforestation will be huge in this highly-seismic area. Experts also warn about the effects that this project will have on local flora and fauna as a result of pollution from the terminal project, coastal surface runoff, ballasts from ships, physical collisions with ships, coastal construction, oil spills, etc.

The indigenous people are not only affected because their environment and food source will be destroyed. On top of this, the demographic change will be a catastrophe for them. After the creation of this project, the Great Nicobar Island -which now has 8,500 inhabitants- will receive a population of 650,000 settlers. Remember that the Shompen and Nicobarese people who live on this island are isolated, which means they do not have an immune system that can resist outsider illnesses. Academics believe they could die of disease if they come in contact with outsiders (think of the arrival of Europeans to the Americas after Christopher Columbus and the way that common European illnesses were lethal for indigenous Americans with no immunization against them).

And on top of all of this, the project might destroy the environment and the indigenous people just to turn out to be useless and sooner or later be abandoned. The naturalist Uday Mondal explains that “after all the destruction, the financial viability of the project remains questionable as all the construction material will have to be shipped to this remote island and it will have to compete with already well-established ports.” However, this project is important to India because they want to use the island as a military and commercial post to stop China's expansion in the region, since the Nicobar islands are located on one of the world's busiest sea routes.

Last year, 70 former government officials and ambassadors wrote to the Indian president saying the project would “virtually destroy the unique ecology of this island and the habitat of vulnerable tribal groups”. India's response has been to say that the indigenous tribes will be relocated "if needed", but that doesn't solve the problem. As a spokesperson for human rights group Survival International said: “The Shompen are nomadic and have clearly defined territories. Four of their semi-permanent settlements are set to be directly devastated by the project, along with their southern hunting and foraging territories. The Shompen will undoubtedly try to move away from the area destroyed, but there will be little space for them to go. To avoid a genocide, this deadly mega-project must be scrapped.”

On 7 February 2024, 39 scholars from 13 countries published an open letter to the Indian president warning that “If the project goes ahead, even in a limited form, we believe it will be a death sentence for the Shompen, tantamount to the international crime of genocide.”

How to help

The NGO Survival International has launched this campaign:

From this site, you just need to add your name and email and you will send an email to India's Tribal Affairs Minister and to the companies currently vying to build the first stage of the project.

Share it with your friends and acquittances and on social media.

Sources:

India’s plan for untouched Nicobar isles will be ‘death sentence’ for isolated tribe, 7 Feb 2024. The Guardian.

‘It will destroy them’: Indian mega-development could cause ‘genocide’ and ‘ecocide’, says charity, 8 Feb 2024. Geographical.

Genocide experts call on India's government to scrap the Great Nicobar mega-project, Feb 2024. Survival International.

The container terminal that could sink the Great Nicobar Island, 20 July 2022. Mongabay.

[Maps] Environmental path cleared for Great Nicobar mega project, 10 Oct 2022. Mongabay.

#shompen #genocide #stop genocide #india #indigenous #indigenous peoples #indigenous rights #human rights #anthropology #stateless nations #end occupation #andaman and nicobar islands #nicobar islands #great nicobar #💬#asia #geopolitics #ecocide #sustainability

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wreckedtodeathandback · 1 year

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Thank you again Georgia 💙

#GA runoff 2022

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reasonsforhope · 10 months

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"Marginal improvements to agricultural soils around the world would store enough carbon to keep the world within 1.5C of global heating, new research suggests.

Farming techniques that improve long-term fertility and yields can also help to store more carbon in soils but are often ignored in favor of intensive techniques using large amounts of artificial fertilizer, much of it wasted, that can increase greenhouse gas emissions.

Using better farming techniques to store 1 percent more carbon in about half of the world’s agricultural soils would be enough to absorb about 31 gigatons of carbon dioxide a year, according to new data. That amount is not far off the 32 gigaton gap between current planned emissions reduction globally per year and the amount of carbon that must be cut by 2030 to stay within 1.5C.

The estimates were carried out by Jacqueline McGlade, the former chief scientist at the UN environment program and former executive director of the European Environment Agency. She found that storing more carbon in the top 30 centimeters of agricultural soils would be feasible in many regions where soils are currently degraded.

McGlade now leads a commercial organization that sells soil data to farmers. Downforce Technologies uses publicly available global data, satellite images, and lidar to assess in detail how much carbon is stored in soils, which can now be done down to the level of individual fields.

“Outside the farming sector, people do not understand how important soils are to the climate,” said McGlade. “Changing farming could make soils carbon negative, making them absorb carbon, and reducing the cost of farming.”

She said farmers could face a short-term cost while they changed their methods, away from the overuse of artificial fertilizer, but after a transition period of two to three years their yields would improve and their soils would be much healthier...

Arable farmers could sequester more carbon within their soils by changing their crop rotation, planting cover crops such as clover, or using direct drilling, which allows crops to be planted without the need for ploughing. Livestock farmers could improve their soils by growing more native grasses.

Hedgerows also help to sequester carbon in the soil, because they have large underground networks of mycorrhizal fungi and microbes that can extend meters into the field. Farmers have spent decades removing hedgerows to make intensive farming easier, but restoring them, and maintaining existing hedgerows, would improve biodiversity, reduce the erosion of topsoil, and help to stop harmful agricultural runoff, which is a key polluter of rivers."

-via The Grist, July 8, 2023

#agriculture #sustainable agriculture #sustainability #carbon emissions #carbon sequestration #livestock #farming #regenerative farming #native plants #ecosystems #global warming #climate change #good news #hope

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dirk2112 · 1 year

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#Georgia #GA #runoff #warnock

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ddejavvu · 9 months

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stepdad!aaron request perhaps

it’s summer and reader is in and out of the pool in the backyard and steps inside to get a drink after a while still dripping wet with a clinging bathing suit and aaron tries to act innocent like he wasn’t staring at r through the window but he can’t help it i mean he’s only a man and how easy would it be to just slide the bikini bottoms out of the way and then r catches him staring (fantasizing) and calls him out and smut follows

today is multiverse monday, send me any au you can think of! :)

this post is 18+ (and so are its characters) and dark, minors dni. (cw: stepcest; don't like, don't read).

the plotline that you described was too long for a blurb so i just took the idea of him seeing her in her bathing suit and did what I could!

Aaron isn't paying much attention to the pool party outside, because there's work to do in the form of numerous reports on his desk. Witness reports that he needs to pair with their crimes, ME reports he needs to sign off on and tuck away into files, budget reports that he needs to stuff with receipts so that the higher-ups know that yes, they did need to stop for gas four times in Florida, the numbers aren't a mistake. His world feels like a never-ending mountain of paperwork until he hears the sliding glass door open, and he glances to his left where he sits in his office to find you sliding your wet flip-flops off onto the pavement before stepping inside.

You're dripping wet, but there's a towel over your shoulders that catches the runoff from your bathing suit. You grin sheepishly at him, muttering a quick, "Hey," as you reach for a packet of chips from the bowl on the counter.

"How's it going out there?" He asks, head suddenly grounded on his shoulders and no longer buried beneath paperwork. He leans back in his chair, all too content to see you take a seat at the barstool to munch on your snack before returning outside. You turn to face him in your chair and the cut of your bathing suit is on full display, wrapped tightly around your thighs and showcasing the droplets of water you'd missed with your towel that rest on the supple skin there.

"Jack and his friends are a handful," You glance back outside, "I wasn't even that hungry, I just needed a break from their splashing."

"I don't blame you," He chuckles, setting his pen down, work long forgotten, "Once you're an adult, splashing isn't as fun as it is irritating."

You grin at his comment, "Are you gonna get out there too, Aaron? I don't think I've ever seen you in swim trunks."

Briefly, Aaron wonders if you want to. Though he's not sure he'd look as good in trunks as you do in a bikini, so he might elect to just watch you from the sidelines.

"I don't even think I have swim trunks," He chuckles, "But I might sit out there for a while and get some sun. Garcia says I'm inside too much, and that I need a tan before I turn invisible."

"She's a smart woman," You laugh at the imagery, "Come on, Aaron, take a break and come sit in the sun with me for a bit." You stand, chips held in one hand and towel clasped in the other, "I need someone to help me reapply sunscreen, anyways, I'm not trying to get skin cancer."

He can't say no to rubbing lotion into your back.

"Alright," He stands, abandoning his paperwork and opening the sliding door for you, a hand on your back as he leads you back outside, "This bathing suit's pretty on you, honey."

You turn back to him and grin from where you're already popping the cap off of the sunscreen, chips set on the table beside the deck chairs, "I knew you'd like it. That's why I bought it, you always like me in red."

You barely give him any time to process your admission before you're turning to put your back towards him once more, holding one hand over your chest while the other tugs at your bathing suit strap to pull it out of its neat bow, "Can you re-tie it after you're done, Aaron? I can't reach."

He takes the sunscreen from you, glad you aren't facing him to watch him both blush and chub up beneath his thick jeans as he smears the sunscreen over your back and begins rubbing the substance smoothly into your skin, "Yeah, sweetheart, I'll tie it."

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cauchys-special-boy · 2 months

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this will be a very funny self own decades down the line if im wrong but im not seeing much reason to care about plastic pollution. maybe there's some knockdown piece of evidence that i missed mixed in with all the hysteria but otherwise it seems like everyone is assuming it's bad bc litter is ugly. like plastic isn't a greenhouse gas, it's not agricultural runoff, it's just some very stable stuff that's gonna be added to a rich tapestry of other very stable stuff various organisms happened on. what's the threat model here

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nutnoce · 9 days

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“These Were Salt Marshes Before” (2024)

11in x 14in acrylic on recycled canvas

“These Were Salt Marshes Before” was submitted and accepted by the SAA for the 18th Inspired by the PEM show! The reception went really well. I gained a lot of insight speaking with various artists about their pieces and how 'Our Time on Earth' inspired them.

In the case of this piece, it is inspired by the instant sense of calm 'Our Time on Earth' presents as one enters the exhibit. It’s The first instruction for the exhbit is to stop and breath. As I did so, I imagined a time when the place I stood was a coastal wetland. An type of ecosystem which once thrived along the East Coast of North America, rich in biodiversity and crucial for the region's ecological balance. However, centuries of urbanization and industrialization have devastated these wetlands, with many drained, filled, or paved over for development. Pollution from urban runoff and industry has further harmed remaining habitats. Only fragments of wetlands remain, threatened by sea-level rise, erosion, and ongoing development. Despite these challenges, recognizing the importance of wetlands as barriers against extreme weather and climate change, as well as their role in carbon storage, offers hope for their preservation. Protecting and restoring coastal wetlands not only safeguards biodiversity but also aids in mitigating climate change by sequestering carbon dioxide, contributing to global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Despite this train of thought I was not plunged into the usual dread over the future of our planet. It speaks to to power of these exhibits (and to media as well) that can address the biggest issue on the planet but still have radical, thoughtful, careful hope.

#acrylic painting #peabody essex museum #our time on earth #wetlands #climate change #climate justice #salt marshes #art of mine #artists on tumblr #contemporary art #fine art

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whenweallvote · 1 year

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The Georgia runoff election is December 6, 2022. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵? In-person early voting will begin no later than November 28 — and in some counties, even sooner.

Make your plan to vote early at weall.vote/georgia 🍑

#GA #Georgia #Runoff #Election #MidtermElection #Midterms

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ecoamerica · 25 days

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Watch the American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 now: https://youtu.be/bWiW4Rp8vF0?feature=shared

The American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 broadcast recording is now available on ecoAmerica's YouTube channel for viewers to be inspired by active climate leaders. Watch to find out which finalist received the $50,000 grand prize! Hosted by Vanessa Hauc and featuring Bill McKibben and Katharine Hayhoe!

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illarian-rambling · 1 month

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Happy WBW! I'm finally all caught up with questions and mentions! What is the largest organism in your world? You can do an individual or a species, or both! How did it get to be so big?

Organism is a pretty broad category over in Illaros. Going by the textbook definition, I guess End would be an organism? Maybe the runoff pool of the Araunian desert? Or some of the elder leviathans in the Oresea?

Ok, so the biggest alive thing in my setting is not on the planet of Illaros. There are three habitable planets in the Planar Wheel; Illaros, Daramakt, and Hal'lah. Because of some particular circumstances, the two that aren't Illaros aren't very inhabited, but Daramakt has two very notable exceptions.

Dara and Makt are two massive, bird-like entities. They're the size of continents, with mountains on their backs and prairies on their wings. They ever circle the gas giant planet that carries their names. The few people who call Daramakt home live atop these creatures' backs like societies of fleas. When Dara and Makt go to war, so too do their respective passengers. When they fly together to groom each other, it is a time of peace and trade. Mostly, the two beings ignore each other, so their passengers follow suit.

I really haven't done much more worldbuilding than that. Except for their trades with the Cloud People (who I haven't done much worldbuilding on either), the people of Daramakt don't have any contact with Illaros. The spirits of Dara and Makt (separate from their physical bodies) serve with the rest of the Planar Wheel's gods in the war against End.

Thanks for the ask! I love talking about things that have no bearing on my story, but deserve a spotlight nonetheless :)

#writing #writerscommunity #writblr #my ocs #author

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qqueenofhades · 1 year

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First big mail ballots dumps from Clark County (Vegas/NV) and Maricopa County (Phoenix/AZ) had good news for Team Blue. In NV, Catherine Cortez Masto closed 5k of the deficit from just 14k ballots. Estimated 84k in Clark (slightly less than the 100k Dems hoping for), but also 57k in blue-leaning Washoe (Reno). If she can keep up at that pace (god bless those deep blue mail ballots) she will probably overtake Laxalt.

Democrat Mark Kelly now leads in AZ Senate by 95k votes. Fellow Democrat Katie Hobbs also leads MAGA nutcase Kari Lake in the governor's race by 13k.

If Dems can win both these races, Georgia runoff will be for 51 seats in the Senate, and even if we lose, we will still keep our current 50-50 Senate. If we lose one of AZ/NV, we have to win GA to keep 50 seats.

Meanwhile in CO-3, Frisch vs. Boebert remains too close to call. Frisch ahead by only about 300 votes at the moment. Remaining ballots are from Blue areas of the district (good) but may be primarily red Election Day vote (bad or at least iffy). Again, the fact that this is close at all is astonishing. If Frisch pulls it out, Dems still have a path, however narrow, for keeping the House.

Let us send those big blue vibes, y'all.

💙💙💙💦💦💦🌊🌊🌊🌊

#hilary for ts #politics for ts #update!

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revelisms · 9 months

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Excerpt: A Lifetime in the Shadows

Singed conducts a routine check-up.

From a work in progress set before Act 1, following the early days of Silco and his crew. CW: Slight body horror, eye trauma

Far beneath the black belly of the Pilt, the soured stench of decay clings to the air, like a fine dusting of spores powders the melted cavities of a rotted fruit.

Part of it is the runoff: city waste and molded river-roots and oil-smothered fish mingling to a noxious sludge at the river's arteries, clogging her sluggish streams to a rainbowed swath.

Part of it is the death, itself: boats, bodies, beasts.

She devours all in her wake, their river—and births out the strangest creatures, in return. They wear bioluminescent wings the heights of skyscrapers, and bare teeth thick as masts. They glow in the depths, with unworldly colors: blues sharp as lightning strikes, and greens brighter than beetle shells: electromagnetic violets, and sunbursts wild as flames.

This subject's eye, too, glows as vibrant as their own.

A curious reaction.

In most cases, the rot eats organs from the inside out. Skin proves salvageable enough. With the right dosage, the extraction provides a regenerative aid against necrosis: a synthetic barrier laid between life and death. Still, the aftermath of the decay proves a ghastly sight. Areas devoured by the toxins are akin to a corpse repossessed: black-burned ribbons spilt from open wounds, bled like a bruise at the frays.

Nerves are one thing. Veins are another. But the eye housed in a velvet case of blotted flesh is ignited with life that shouldn't be: a spiteful blaze in a deadened fray.

A fitting contradiction, in its own ways.

"Describe what you see." Beneath his finger turns a gas flame, doused with copper sulfate.

Twin wings of steel flutter in his periphery: serrated edges, twirled to a glimmering snap. "Another child's test, is it?" Dry silence, dry as the sanded purl of that tattered voice, ebbs against walls bracketed in concrete. Beyond them, the river hums. The steel twists into another twirl-flutter-snap. "A green light."

His pen stills on a printed line. "Be more specific."

Another pause. "Green firelight, with a blueish taint at the bottom. It's a gas flame, housed in glass." The knife clicks open, stiffly; satins closed. "Sat it on that bloody table that screeches like a poltergeist."

On his clipboard, a carving of notes: Normal sequencing. Clear form. "Distance?"

"Three meters."

He glances over the wire rim of his glasses. Across the room, a burning coal leers through a shock of black hair. Ink swivels into a short observation. "Your depth perception is still depleted."

The subject observes the blade he flicks open, with a wry disinterest. After a breath: "No improvement, then."

"So it seems."

By the first month, he'd deemed the symptoms to have a high likelihood of permanence. Some patients took acceptance by the hand. Others fought it bitterly every step of the way: out of denial, spite, vengeance. He'd had yet to decide where on that scale this one landed.

"I'd advise you to take precautions in low-lighting," he continues. "You should expect delays in your ability to react as desired."

A shadow unfolds from its seat: the amber-glow striking away. The boy does not laugh. The scoff that bleeds through the stillness is close as it comes. "Rest assured, Doctor," he gravels, low as a scaled hiss from the depths, "the dark is no stranger to me. I've spent a lifetime working it, already."

He makes no move to counter that. There's nothing to deny it with, in any of its forms. So the doctor agrees, quietly, "So you have," and thinks, And so you will.

He pinches the lamp's knob beneath his thumb and forefinger.

The flame snuffs to nothingness.

#arcane fanfic #fic excerpt #work in progress #silco arcane #singed arcane #i keep thinking about these two and that ramble i left on that singed and viktor post because like #early silco and singed is fascinating #and there's so much to read between the layers in that first scene we see them in #writing

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