for at least one victory:

Excerpt from this story from the New York Times:

Bristol Bay is a place defined by salmon. For those of us who live and work in this region of wetlands, rivers and tundra, our lives revolve around this amazing fish. This spring the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a ban on the disposal of mining waste — a widely celebrated move to protect the bay and its salmon from the infamous Pebble Mine project, which has sought to extract precious metals from beneath the bay for decades. But this ban, while powerful, will not, on its own, fully protect Bristol Bay if it’s approved.

History has not been kind to wild salmon. Most places that once had healthy wild salmon runs now have few fish return to spawn. Bristol Bay is one of the last strongholds for all five species of Pacific salmon, particularly sockeye. But Bristol Bay’s salmon now face threats, too. The most immediate one is the proposed Pebble Mine, which, if built, would exploit a large copper, gold and molybdenum deposit that straddles two watersheds critical for Bristol Bay’s salmon runs. If permitted to move forward, Pebble could be one of the largest open pit mines in North America, if not the world.

Scientific studies have shown that the development and operation of a mining project like Pebble on Bristol Bay could cause irrevocable damage to the region’s salmon. The Environmental Protection Agency notes that one likely impact is the “permanent” loss of approximately 100 miles of streams that support salmon. Mining operations, which could last from 20 to over 100 years, would also generate approximately 10 billion tons of waste rock, according to the partnership behind the project.

In May, E.P.A. proposed to restrict Pebble’s use of certain waters within three important watersheds as the disposal site for mine wastes under the Clean Water Act. The agency held hearings in Alaska about the veto and is accepting public comments until Sept. 6. The veto, if put into effect, would be a major step toward blocking the current mining proposal. But without legislation from Congress and land conservation, E.P.A.’s regulatory protection won’t be enough. And this fight against Pebble, which started nearly two decades ago, could continue for decades longer.

AP News: Feds use rare veto to block Alaska copper, gold mine plan

finished my refs for the siblings! plus an alt robeless pebbles

Artificer gets brushed by local supercomputer

A lil ooc i think but the espressos deserves to not be depressos this time :)

I’m not dead, hi! I made an effigy today of everyone’s second favorite Chilly Guy in his pre-chilliness state.

And ritually sacrificed him, as is tradition.

𖦹⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ 5sos + ocean jellycats 𖦹⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

thunk

A conversation I had with a friend, Kyojuro is really questioning himself with the second one…me too…

I love how you draw Sig and Suns dancing. The poses are so fluid and it’s adorable Yippee!

That’s all, I go back into the shadows now٩(ᐛ)و

COME BACK -DRAGS U HERE-

I was legit gonna draw this rabbit man bc I saw this last night and lost my shit

I WANT ONE- I WANT TO SQUEEZE HIM RDFTYG AND UR ECLIPSE SIGS IS SO PREBBY- LEGIT BRO URE THE REASON WHY I DRAW SIGS MORE SQUARE NOW SERDTFYWHUSIj

I - LOVE UR WORK- SO- THANK U ////

tadaaaaaaaaa anatomy notes for my iterator (mostly puppet) takes!! or at least what i have going on as of right now

n here's some scug noodles as bonus

when the development is unfortunate

anyways. anyways. day 31. I AM FREE

The villain: *gives the hero, who has finally reached their lair, a scolding on how they've fallen and turned away from the light of their divines by killing the villain's minions and showing anger* The hero: *trying really hard not to laugh and failing harder and harder every passing moment* The villain: what are you laughing at? Have you gone mad? The hero, grinning like a cat: I thought you were supposed to be smart and you bought into everything! All that purity talk is just propaganda for the peasants - "opium for the people" and all that - it's all junk - actual divine powers have nothing to do with it. The villain: *stands there with their mouth open* The hero: I thought you knew - and here you are - mx "I'll kill millions for world domination" giving me a morality lecture - which I didn't care for by the way. If I were you I'd be saying prompt farewells to my head because it'll be departing from your body in the nearest future. The villain: what? The hero, casting a 'divine' light from their hand and cutting the villain's head clean off with one motion: what?

Father dying slowly and painfully in the background while his cries for help fall on deaf ears 👍👌🙌🤌👏