How are you Sarah? I hope you're doing well!
It’s a mixed bag! Having two jobs while also being a full time grad student is… really hard. Saturdays are my only days with any free time right now, and I’m protecting them with my life. Who knows how much longer I’ll be able to hold on to them… I’m terrified.
But! My counseling work is bringing me much joy. So that’s nice. And my supervisor there is super kind and very impressed with me. Every time I review my caseload with her and update her on my clients progress she’s like “Damn, you’re GOOD.” And I do my best not to cry about it
Thanks for checking in. I appreciate you 💕 I’m deep breathing my way through the chaos
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THE SONG FOR THE LONGEST TIME BY BILLY JOEL TOTALLY MAKES ME THINK OF YOUR SELF SHIP WITH ROBOTUS
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA im perfectly fine what do you mean. I'm so normal about this. definitely not exploding while listening to it. not at all. Ignore the teakettle noise emanating from my head.
The soft Happy Vibe that it has is giving me. Chest Vibrations. My diaphragm is about to rocket out of my chest and hit a pedestrian. If I had to Distill Willie down into one sound it's Happy Background Singers and Finger Snapping.
Who knows how much further we'll go on
Maybe I'll be sorry when you're gone
I'll take my chances
I forgot how nice romance is
I haven't been there for the longest time
This part. specifically. is making my brain invert.
Like yes yes yes yes yes arkgkrKGKRKGRGJGKRJK CAR CRASH NOISES SCREAMING SHOUTING
AB falling in love w/ someone who's got a way shorter lifespan,,,,,,,, but him 'taking his chances' bc he loves Willie and it's worth the eventual grief bc he loves him and AAAAAAA
and like. the contrast. Willie worrying that AB will get bored of him but. not letting himself worry bc he loves him so much,, and even if it's temporary
IM SO UNWELL ABOUT THIS. THIS SONG IS SO SOFT AND LOVEY I. <33333333333333333333333333333
I could literally go on for centuries but. <33 EEE THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS SONG REC WITH ME. IM GONNA BE THINKING OF THIS FOREVER AAAAA HAVE THE MOST LOVELY DAY WEEK MONTH YEAR
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No paywall version here.
"Two and a half years ago, when I was asked to help write the most authoritative report on climate change in the United States, I hesitated...
In the end, I said yes, but reluctantly. Frankly, I was sick of admonishing people about how bad things could get. Scientists have raised the alarm over and over again, and still the temperature rises. Extreme events like heat waves, floods and droughts are becoming more severe and frequent, exactly as we predicted they would. We were proved right. It didn’t seem to matter.
Our report, which was released on Tuesday, contains more dire warnings. There are plenty of new reasons for despair. Thanks to recent scientific advances, we can now link climate change to specific extreme weather disasters, and we have a better understanding of how the feedback loops in the climate system can make warming even worse. We can also now more confidently forecast catastrophic outcomes if global emissions continue on their current trajectory.
But to me, the most surprising new finding in the Fifth National Climate Assessment is this: There has been genuine progress, too.
I’m used to mind-boggling numbers, and there are many of them in this report. Human beings have put about 1.6 trillion tons of carbon in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution — more than the weight of every living thing on Earth combined. But as we wrote the report, I learned other, even more mind-boggling numbers. In the last decade, the cost of wind energy has declined by 70 percent and solar has declined 90 percent. Renewables now make up 80 percent of new electricity generation capacity. Our country’s greenhouse gas emissions are falling, even as our G.D.P. and population grow.
In the report, we were tasked with projecting future climate change. We showed what the United States would look like if the world warms by 2 degrees Celsius. It wasn’t a pretty picture: more heat waves, more uncomfortably hot nights, more downpours, more droughts. If greenhouse emissions continue to rise, we could reach that point in the next couple of decades. If they fall a little, maybe we can stave it off until the middle of the century. But our findings also offered a glimmer of hope: If emissions fall dramatically, as the report suggested they could, we may never reach 2 degrees Celsius at all.
For the first time in my career, I felt something strange: optimism.
And that simple realization was enough to convince me that releasing yet another climate report was worthwhile.
Something has changed in the United States, and not just the climate. State, local and tribal governments all around the country have begun to take action. Some politicians now actually campaign on climate change, instead of ignoring or lying about it. Congress passed federal climate legislation — something I’d long regarded as impossible — in 2022 as we turned in the first draft.
[Note: She's talking about the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Act, which despite the names were the two biggest climate packages passed in US history. And their passage in mid 2022 was a big turning point: that's when, for the first time in decades, a lot of scientists started looking at the numbers - esp the ones that would come from the IRA's funding - and said "Wait, holy shit, we have an actual chance."]
And while the report stresses the urgency of limiting warming to prevent terrible risks, it has a new message, too: We can do this. We now know how to make the dramatic emissions cuts we’d need to limit warming, and it’s very possible to do this in a way that’s sustainable, healthy and fair.
The conversation has moved on, and the role of scientists has changed. We’re not just warning of danger anymore. We’re showing the way to safety.
I was wrong about those previous reports: They did matter, after all. While climate scientists were warning the world of disaster, a small army of scientists, engineers, policymakers and others were getting to work. These first responders have helped move us toward our climate goals. Our warnings did their job.
To limit global warming, we need many more people to get on board... We need to reach those who haven’t yet been moved by our warnings. I’m not talking about the fossil fuel industry here; nor do I particularly care about winning over the small but noisy group of committed climate deniers. But I believe we can reach the many people whose eyes glaze over when they hear yet another dire warning or see another report like the one we just published.
The reason is that now, we have a better story to tell. The evidence is clear: Responding to climate change will not only create a better world for our children and grandchildren, but it will also make the world better for us right now.
Eliminating the sources of greenhouse gas emissions will make our air and water cleaner, our economy stronger and our quality of life better. It could save hundreds of thousands or even millions of lives across the country through air quality benefits alone. Using land more wisely can both limit climate change and protect biodiversity. Climate change most strongly affects communities that get a raw deal in our society: people with low incomes, people of color, children and the elderly. And climate action can be an opportunity to redress legacies of racism, neglect and injustice.
I could still tell you scary stories about a future ravaged by climate change, and they’d be true, at least on the trajectory we’re currently on. But it’s also true that we have a once-in-human-history chance not only to prevent the worst effects but also to make the world better right now. It would be a shame to squander this opportunity. So I don’t just want to talk about the problems anymore. I want to talk about the solutions. Consider this your last warning from me."
-via New York Times. Opinion essay by leading climate scientist Kate Marvel. November 18, 2023.
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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Layton Kyouju Series | Professor Layton Series
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ernest Greeves/Katrielle Layton
Characters: Katrielle Layton, Ernest Greeves, Sherl O.C. Kholmes
Additional Tags: Touch-Starved, Established Relationship, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Headcanon, No Spoilers, Ernest is very baby, And Katrielle is the natural predator, they love each other very much your honor, Sherl is comic relief, i think, One-Shot
Summary:
Based on a publication I saw on Twitter (X).
Ernest suffers Touch Starved, but the poor guy doesn't realize it. Not until Katrielle tries to touch his face.
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the way choso/sukuna would definitely say those exact same words, have the same exact look on their eyes as theu fingers your pussy with their long, thick fingers for the first time, as their thumb stroke your sensitive clit, pinch it. their eyes lustfuly watching the way wetness gush out your tight little pussy.
"it's so warm, so good i want it around my cock". "does this feel good? where? here?". "more more i want to hear more of your sounds". "is every human this sensitive or is it just your pretty little pussy?".
their eyes widen as soon as your back arch, and thighs tremble as you squirt out with a scream, hot stream leaving your pussy and spilling on their face- they whimper once they feels the hot liquid, opening their mouth wide, drinking in the hot liquid that kept gushing out, your body shakes- you cry ashamed and turned on by what's happening.
your stream kept going- making their eyes roll back into their skull and cumming undone on your bed sheets, locking their mouth into your tiny pee opening just below your clit, drinking in every last drop.
you lay down twitching every once in awhile as their hot breath lands on your pussy, you wanted to die from how embarrassed you felt- ashamed that you had peed, squirt on them.
"one more please?" they whispers into your pussy giving it kitten licks, staring at you.
we all write about how sukuna wouldn't be a virgin but if we think about it, sukuna definitely wouldn't be sexually active especially, or at least he wouldn't know yet about all the filthy kinks that exist now but it didn't exist at his time so ;3
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