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esthelle18 · 1 month

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I—

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y’all this episode is a HYPE TRAIN

#interstitial infinity #this might be my favorite episode yet for the sheer amount of character growth/regression everybody’s getting #and the action/atmosphere #mob going 100 was incredible and it somehow wasn’t even the most intense development #it’s increasingly obvious that this group is genuinely dedicated to one another’s characters and overall story fulfillment and it’s FUN #between shadow and audrey co-lecturing mob and al wrangling small apex kids #the ‘emergency parenting’ vibes are immaculate today #trish is in her villain era and I love that for her but I’m scared to find out what her number is #the active in-character use of meta and genre awareness is extremely clever #also #the team dynamic keeps shifting and it’s fascinating. like a multi-genre kaleidoscope #I am now even more commited to these relationships I didn’t know existed before this podcast

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reasonsforhope · 2 months

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As relentless rains pounded LA, the city’s “sponge” infrastructure helped gather 8.6 billion gallons of water—enough to sustain over 100,000 households for a year.

Earlier this month, the future fell on Los Angeles. A long band of moisture in the sky, known as an atmospheric river, dumped 9 inches of rain on the city over three days—over half of what the city typically gets in a year. It’s the kind of extreme rainfall that’ll get ever more extreme as the planet warms.

The city’s water managers, though, were ready and waiting. Like other urban areas around the world, in recent years LA has been transforming into a “sponge city,” replacing impermeable surfaces, like concrete, with permeable ones, like dirt and plants. It has also built out “spreading grounds,” where water accumulates and soaks into the earth.

With traditional dams and all that newfangled spongy infrastructure, between February 4 and 7 the metropolis captured 8.6 billion gallons of stormwater, enough to provide water to 106,000 households for a year. For the rainy season in total, LA has accumulated 14.7 billion gallons.

Long reliant on snowmelt and river water piped in from afar, LA is on a quest to produce as much water as it can locally. “There's going to be a lot more rain and a lot less snow, which is going to alter the way we capture snowmelt and the aqueduct water,” says Art Castro, manager of watershed management at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. “Dams and spreading grounds are the workhorses of local stormwater capture for either flood protection or water supply.”

Centuries of urban-planning dogma dictates using gutters, sewers, and other infrastructure to funnel rainwater out of a metropolis as quickly as possible to prevent flooding. Given the increasingly catastrophic urban flooding seen around the world, though, that clearly isn’t working anymore, so now planners are finding clever ways to capture stormwater, treating it as an asset instead of a liability. “The problem of urban hydrology is caused by a thousand small cuts,” says Michael Kiparsky, director of the Wheeler Water Institute at UC Berkeley. “No one driveway or roof in and of itself causes massive alteration of the hydrologic cycle. But combine millions of them in one area and it does. Maybe we can solve that problem with a thousand Band-Aids.”

Or in this case, sponges. The trick to making a city more absorbent is to add more gardens and other green spaces that allow water to percolate into underlying aquifers—porous subterranean materials that can hold water—which a city can then draw from in times of need. Engineers are also greening up medians and roadside areas to soak up the water that’d normally rush off streets, into sewers, and eventually out to sea...

To exploit all that free water falling from the sky, the LADWP has carved out big patches of brown in the concrete jungle. Stormwater is piped into these spreading grounds and accumulates in dirt basins. That allows it to slowly soak into the underlying aquifer, which acts as a sort of natural underground tank that can hold 28 billion gallons of water.

During a storm, the city is also gathering water in dams, some of which it diverts into the spreading grounds. “After the storm comes by, and it's a bright sunny day, you’ll still see water being released into a channel and diverted into the spreading grounds,” says Castro. That way, water moves from a reservoir where it’s exposed to sunlight and evaporation, into an aquifer where it’s banked safely underground.

On a smaller scale, LADWP has been experimenting with turning parks into mini spreading grounds, diverting stormwater there to soak into subterranean cisterns or chambers. It’s also deploying green spaces along roadways, which have the additional benefit of mitigating flooding in a neighborhood: The less concrete and the more dirt and plants, the more the built environment can soak up stormwater like the actual environment naturally does.

As an added benefit, deploying more of these green spaces, along with urban gardens, improves the mental health of residents. Plants here also “sweat,” cooling the area and beating back the urban heat island effect—the tendency for concrete to absorb solar energy and slowly release it at night. By reducing summer temperatures, you improve the physical health of residents. “The more trees, the more shade, the less heat island effect,” says Castro. “Sometimes when it’s 90 degrees in the middle of summer, it could get up to 110 underneath a bus stop.”

LA’s far from alone in going spongy. Pittsburgh is also deploying more rain gardens, and where they absolutely must have a hard surface—sidewalks, parking lots, etc.—they’re using special concrete bricks that allow water to seep through. And a growing number of municipalities are scrutinizing properties and charging owners fees if they have excessive impermeable surfaces like pavement, thus incentivizing the switch to permeable surfaces like plots of native plants or urban gardens for producing more food locally.

So the old way of stormwater management isn’t just increasingly dangerous and ineffective as the planet warms and storms get more intense—it stands in the way of a more beautiful, less sweltering, more sustainable urban landscape. LA, of all places, is showing the world there’s a better way.

-via Wired, February 19, 2024

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sanjiswetcigarettes0 · 3 months

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Dawg i started to rewatch opla WITH my family yesterday ( they’re all hardcore religious + dad is a detector searching for something gay on da damn show ) and BELIEVE me when i tell ya i started sweating real because the ENTIRE show IS ACTUALLY KINDA GAY

UHHH

#we are on the 2dn episode and yet all i see is koby flashing heart eyes towards luffy and that guy on buggys team being weird on zoro 😭#like FOR REAL #THAT SHOW IS GAY #like???#i cant even imagine the atmosphere we gonna get when we’ll see koby showing luf his wanted poster!#HOMIE WAS ABOUT TO KISS HIM ON DA LIPS #THE BOAT SCENE #IM NOT EVEN MENTIONING ZOLU HERE #one piece #Opla #one piece live action #AAHHFHFHDD #zolu #roronoa zoro #monkey d. luffy #opla nami #op sanji #op #kobylu

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categorised-art-tutorials-tips · 1 year

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Drawing Interesting Pose Silhouette, Gesture and Dynamicism Tips

Credit: Lomonte (tumblr)

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scipunk · 2 months

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Ruiner (2017)

Riding a motorbike through the futuristic and chaotic streets of Rengkok...

#cyberpunk game #dystopia #futuristic #video games #cyberpunk #neon lights #tech noir #atmospheric #cybernetics #action #metropolis #megacity #futuristic city

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theramblingvoid · 9 months

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There were a few ways I predicted a horticultural show could go wrong. Murderous plants, perhaps! Escaped mandrakes forming a choir! Fungal hivemind infection!

Rocks fall everyone dies, however, was NOT one of them -

#voidrambles #fallen london #estival spoilers #WHATTHEFUCK. JUST HAPPENED TO US #HELP????#it's so seemingly unrelated but it's got to be related SOMEHOW #i can't wait to find out how #the best part is it didn't feel cheap or like. random in a bad way #it just felt. likely. completely unpredictable #and Fairly Dark actually holy shit #if there's one thing fbg knows how to do with a summer event it's create a convincing disaster atmosphere #can't wait to see where this goes #now time to spend all my actions begging Sinning Jenny for help because as per usual she's the only one out here being REASONABLE

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raayllum · 7 months

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10 characters, 10 fandoms, 10 tags

starting a new post cause I'm lazy and was tagged by the lovely @per4mancecheck

Rayla from TDP (by a very small margin)

Aang from ATLA

Kaz Brekker from Six of Crows

Hiccup from HTTYD

MT/Lake from Infinity Train

Percy Jackson from PJO

Chidi Anagonye from The Good Place

Paula from Crazy Ex Girlfriend

Angelica Schuyler from Hamilton

Elphaba from Wicked

I tag @jelzorz, @zuppizup, @numptypylon, @kuno-chan, @thosefiveadoraburrs, @imminent-danger-came, @boasamishipper, @blutopaz15 & anyone else who would like to!

#per4mancecheck #dragons rambles #forbbiden op lore #the good place and ceg my live action four seasons perfectly executed beloveds #it's hard cause there's a lot of things i love but it isn't necessarily for like #the characters as a main draw #like 'every heart is a doorway' is for the worldbuilding; otgw for the atmosphere and like. Everything #y'know?

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smoothsailingthroughstars · 9 months

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*The door opens to the amalgamation sewing Perfectly's mouth shut.*

(Hot tears are rolling down her face at this point, fear having taken over with that gut feeling.)

(They stare at the scene for a long moment, not quite sure what they're processing and seeing. The tears are starting to stop from the surprise of the scene.)

(Their hand moves to their crossbow as they try to make heads or tails of what is what. Something's what they wanted to see. But they are not sure they have the advantage here. But if kids are involved...)

#the actions of the atmosphere #((if this wasn't Blue or Atlas and they don't consent lmk and I'll remove this))

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imblocking-you · 9 months

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Reading Turning (I'm on ch. 131) and I'm so damn curious who Nahan actually is and what's his deal like how he knew so much and so detailed and he got to both the Hartan and the Apeto households earlier than the Cavalry did.

Also, I enjoy the Commander being a cryptic mess and Yuder being oblivious as hell.

#this novel's so fun but it constantly feels like not being let in on a secret almost everybody knows lmao #// maple #the power struggle and politics runs deeper than any action really #like most of the haopenings and details revolve around whether you know something or not and how you could use that to ur advantage #turning #webnovel #manhwa #yuder aile #also i relate to yuder on so many occasions it's alarming #like #sir are we the same person #the tension between kishiar and yuder too like you can feel it zap u sometimes when they talk lmao #i also feel like nahan's intentions were good at first but was just gradually misconstrued #esp considering the atmosphere during those times #the importance of not killinh the perpetrators is to find the reason they do what they do and see a bigger picture #of which nahan seems to not understand since he takes it as yuder protecting 'trash' as he puts it #though what yuder wants is a step closer to slowly knocking down hurdles and trying to slowly knog everyone tgt so they could face an even+#bigger cause of demise #like i just think we should trust the judgement and foresight of ppl from the future no matter how justified a cause had seemed at the time #or how contradictory it had seemed to his character or his values #you know the guy he always moves with purpose #but i'll leave it to Nahan simply not knowing better #i'm interested in where this goes and where it's all stemming from

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noosphe-re · 1 year

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Actions are mountains. Feelings are orchards. Thoughts are atmospheres.

Ahmed Salman

#quote #AHMED #psychology #action #feelings #thoughts #thought #thinking #landscape #nature #mountains #orchards #atmosphere #poetry #poem

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bluesadansey · 11 months

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Happy Father’s Day to Brimstone from Daughter of Smoke and Bone <33

#daily psa to read dosab I’m serious. So many of you would like Dosab if you read it I am positive #many a time when speaking on something I like there’s a “I would but I wouldn’t reccomend it” element not with this everyone read dosab #daughter of smoke and bone #dosab #s speaks #done rereading the first book… now That is how you do ya urban fantasy (although the series is a cross between the urban/paranormal and hig #fucked up that certain paranormal ya from that era (like Fallen Shiver etc.) are getting a resurgence when they could never be what this #Series is I deserve an (animated! we’ll done!) adaptation (but live action my worst fear)#I swear to you the series is like if Cosmic Love by Florence was a book series if you care about my opinion please tbr #+ it’s about a girl who was raised by a monster family and the monster family is w on derful #and Karou and Zuzana’s friendship is everything and the atmosphere is perfect ugh #(Can especially say it’s perfect now given I’m where it’s set rn)#Anyway happy Father’s Day to the Chimeara who saved his pseudo daughter through the power of love and necromancy

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mejomonster · 4 months

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Babes I am Gonna finish this story draft by January

#rant #by the skin of my teeth etc etc #mejo writing #its gonna be a miracle and Yet Im sure. oh man #if norhing else its cause i wanna write my vampires and faeries SO fucking bad and if i get this one done #then ill at least habe tje core dialogur and actions if i have to do some full style rewrite later ToT #next book in the series im doing nultiple pov. i committed to single pov for this first one and its NOT for me #not my vibe not my style. severely limiting in how i can present this fucking mystery #also. i am as usual a bit baffled by the sort of? intimate? atmosphere i tend to have in my writing

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confessionsofabargainbinaddict · 4 months

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My Favorite Albums of 2023*

*not necessarily from 2023

Last year, I decided that, instead of limiting my "favorite" list to just the past year, I would broaden the scope to include any CD I acquired that year, whether it was released that year or not. Over the past 12 months, I've added 155 CDs to the already over-burdened collection (which may seem like a lot but it's down from 260 last year, so I believe some praise is due). These are my favorite 9, in alphabetical order by album title.

Foo Fighters - But Here We Are

"Times Like These," whether he intended it to be or not, was one of the very few, great post-9/11 songs. And while I might expect that from Springsteen, Grohl didn't immediately spring to mind as a voice of comfort and empathy, so the song's impact may have actually been a bit greater than something akin to "The Rising" (which, don't get me wrong, is an amazing song). And now, a couple decades later, it shouldn't be surprising that a Foo Fighters album dealing with intense and intimate grief would also be stunning, but, like before, I certainly wasn't expecting it and also, like before, I've turned to it a hell of a lot more than I would have thought.

Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You

You know those albums where you really like a bunch of the songs but not all of them but you also know that, with each repeated listen, you're going to find ways into the songs you didn't like as much on previous listens and come up with reasons why you actually do like those songs and therefore, think the entire album is brilliant? Yeah, this is one of those albums.

billy woods and kenny segal - maps

Let me preface this by saying that I am years late to the billy woods party, so I do not have any way of comparing this to his previous, abundant discography, but if it is at all indicative of the rest of his work, I have some major catching up to do! woods is a top notch lyricist with a clear love of language and the ways in which it can be structured. His metaphors and imagery are complex and layered but never so obtuse that they alienate the listener. And all of this verbal brilliance is nestled comfortably on segal's inviting but never settled production. I'll come back to this one often.

Stevie Wonder - Original Musiquarium I

I'm not normally a fan of "best of" compilations but this one, with the addition of the four unreleased tracks capping each "side," is so well put together and clearly thought through, I'm thrilled to have it as a part of my collection. Plus, it's really hard to ever go wrong with Stevie.

Laura Mvula - Pink Noise

Roughly 5 years ago, I heard "She," and was blown away. I added Sing to the Moon to my discogs want list but never got around to snagging a copy. About 3 years ago, I heard "Got Me" and decided to be a bit more active in trying to acquire a copy of Pink Noise, but I think there were some transatlantic issues because nothing seemed to be remotely affordable. Fast forward to midway through this year, the album miraculously pops up on Amazon for under 10 bucks and a day or two later, I'm finally blessed with these 10 fiercely intelligent yet uncompromisingly catchy pop bangers.

Pool Kids - Pool Kids

It's mathy, it's tappy, it's stupidly technical, but if you strip that all away, at its heart, these are 12 solid pop-punk/emo songs. So while the base effort is already worthwhile, the tremendous musicality turns them into something truly special.

Atmosphere - Sad Clown Bad Fall 10

Okay, so it's only 5 tracks but hear me out. I was introduced to Slug and Ant through their brief stint with Epitaph Records and their, imho, brilliant album, Seven's Travels. Over the years, I've picked up an Atmosphere album here and there, but my takeaways have been lackluster and I started to wonder whether they were just a one-off in my book. And then I found this at a used record store in Seattle, and it not only reignited the flame but made me want to revisit the rest of my collection. That's pretty impressive for only 16 minutes of music.

Triple Fast Action - Triple Fast Action

Triple Fast Action were probably the favorite band your favorite 90's alt-rock band (The Colour and the Shape was, apparently, greatly influenced by Broadcaster) and with only two albums to their name, it was a wonderful surprise to discover this treasure trove of unreleased and rare tracks, most of which were recorded in their rehearsal studio. While not everything is great, there's a general bittersweet air hovering around this 2-disc compilation - they could have been big, but for whatever reason, the stars didn't align. At least we now have so much more music.

Ratboys - The Window

Ratboys aren't reinventing the wheel here. They pull upon most of the major indie rock tropes of the past couple of years (Americana, pop-punk, prog rock...) but even with the genre hopping, the album shifts seamlessly from track to track and always feels authentic. What would we do with a new wheel anyway? Wouldn't you rather just get the top-of-the-line version?

Other assorted 2023 stuff

Favorite Albums NOT acquired in 2023:

Proper. - The Great American Novel

Tigers Jaw - I Don't Care How You Remember Me

Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth

Face to Face - Face to Face

Florence + The Machine - High As Hope

Beauty Pill - The Unsustainable Lifestyle

Favorite Live Bands seen in 2023:

The Verve Pipe (City Winery - 4/23)

Home Is Where (Elsewhere - 7/8)

Four Year Strong (Rocks Off Concert Cruise - 10/15)

The Hold Steady (Brooklyn Bowl - 11/30)

Favorite Movies watched in 2023:

Soft and Quiet

Poor Things

Shotgun Wedding

Pearl

Favorite TV Shows watched in 2023:

Alice in Borderland (Season 1)

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Curse

This is Pop

Channel Zero (Seasons 1 and 2)

Evil (Seasons 1 and 2)

The Last of Us

Favorite Books read in 2023:

Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry

In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado

Wraith - Joe Hill and Charles Paul Wilson III

Favorite Podcasts listened to in 2023:

Fearful Symmetry

Love and Radio

Detoxcity

U Springing Springsteen on My Bean?

"Finn and the Bell" episode of Radiolab

"Wake" episode of The Memory Palace

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girlbloggerman · 9 days

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"Anything happens in that five minutes and I'm yours. No matter what. Anything happens a minute either side of that and you're on your own."-The Driver

#Drive 2011 #ryan gosling #The Driver #ultraviolence #movie quotes #Action #slow burn #Atmospheric #Date Movie

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margerymendelsonblog · 11 days

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#confident #girls from games #games #digitalart #jill valentine #action #aiart #resident evil #dark atmosphere #art #ai

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whifferdills · 8 months

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BANDCAMP FRIDAY WHERE ALL PROCEEDS GO TO THE ARTIST! LEAVE THE ALGORITHM FOR THE FAR-OFF LANDS OF 'JUST CHECKING OUT SOME COOL NEW SHIT' HERE'S THE NEW SHIT I'M PAYING CASH MONEY DOLLARS FOR:

Bauhaus via Alkaline Trio. Heavy, stompy goth pop just in time for spooky season

Dreamy droney ambient with a Grouper-ish tendency to put vocals as far back in the mix as possible

unreconstructed street punk. no egg, no chain, just oi oi oi

#perhaps tumblr could take the ad money for one piece live action #and spend it on fixing text formatting #imagine a world where you could save italics in a draft #Bandcamp #atmospheric background music

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