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Even moderate levels of warming can unleash extreme climate damage

Some climate futures at 3.6°F (2°C) of warming may be harsher for drought, rain, and fire than average projections at 5.4°F (3°C) or even 7.2°F (4°C), according to a new study.

The findings challenge a common assumption that moderate warming marks a boundary between manageable climate change and severe disruption.

2°C is not moderate. 1.5°C would have been moderate -- causing serious problems, but things civilization could withstand -- except we're far past being able to meet that goal. 2°C is tipping points dumping humans into a global environment unlike what they evolved to live in. 3°C is bend over and kiss your ass goodbye. (Note that many scientists expect a rise of 3°C or more.) But don't worry too much about Earth. It has survived a lot worse. Eventually species will adapt or new ones will evolve.

Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

I have made blackout on my 3-1-26 card for the National Crafting Month Bingo fest.

B1 (smudges) -- "Confident Guesswork and Improvisation" (Frankenstein's Family)
B2 (mended clothes) -- "The Sisters Grimké" (Peculiar Obligations)
B3 (artisan) -- "Nuff Respect" (Polychrome Heroics: Trichromatic Attachments)
B4 (writing) -- "The Expression That Crosses Boundaries" (Polychrome Heroics: Shiv)
B5 (rag rugs) -- "Hidden Opportunities" (Polychrome Heroics and Schrodinger's Heroes)

I1 (ink pens) -- Photos: House Yard
I2 (thread) -- "Our Homemade Safety Nets" (Polychrome Heroics)
I3 (tension) -- "Find a Way Forward" (The Freaks Club)
I4 (upcycling) -- fruit box pots
I5 (lacking storage) -- "Foraging Forever" (A Conflagration of Dragons)

N1 (crocheting) -- studied video tutorials
N2 (time) -- "The Duplicity of Seasons" (The Freaks Club)
N3 (WILD CARD: paint) -- "Become for Us a Highway" (Feathered Nests)
N4 (sewing) -- "A Generous Impulse" (Polychrome Heroics: Iron Horses)
N5 (small spaces) -- "Walnut Park" (Polychrome Heroics: Broken Angels)

G1 (tangles) -- "Whirlwind Romances" (The Freaks Club)
G2 (stone) -- "A Darkness in the Sky" (standalone)
G3 (yarn) -- "Pearls of Wisdom" (Polychrome Heroics)
G4 (tape) -- "Colorful Opportunities" (Arts and Crafts America)
G5 (ribbon) -- "Refusing to Melt" (Alien Romance)

O1 (food) -- "Baked Innovation" (The Freaks Club)
O2 (woodworking) -- "A Proper Community Is a Commonwealth" (Polychrome Heroics: Broken Angels)
O3 (colors) -- "A Confusion of Honeybees" (standalone)
O4 (garden crafts) -- DIY tomato cage
O5 (poetry) -- "The Express Bus to Crazy-Ass Death Land" (Monster House)

Current Mood: accomplished

annavere

Seen via

teratornis and it seemed like a fun post to make. ( Read more... )

Current Music: oh no, Down to the River to Pray is in my head. Time for a shuffle mix!

alchemicink

Got a weird hodge-podge of stuff for this week's summary. Let's just get to it.

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ysabetwordsmith

Beavers are turning rivers into powerful carbon sinks

Beavers might be one of nature’s most unexpected allies in locking away carbon and fighting climate change.

Beavers may be unlikely climate heroes, but new research suggests they could play a powerful role in fighting climate change. By building dams and transforming streams into wetlands, these industrious animals dramatically reshape how carbon moves and is stored in landscapes. Over just 13 years, a beaver-engineered wetland in Switzerland stored over a thousand tonnes of carbon—up to ten times more than similar areas without beavers.

It's not just carbon. Beavers also greatly reduce the impact of droughts and wildfires by storing water in the environment over large areas. As ecosystem engineers, they create many more niches for other species to share the habitats they create -- fish, amphibians, aquatic invertebrates, weasels, minks, otters, wading birds, waterfowl, and so on. Crucially, they do all this work for free. All they need is space, saplings, and a thread of water. So if you see an opportunity for beaver restoration, jump on it.

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pattrose

These are from Steven Wright. I loved him.

I spilled spot remover on my dog, now he’s gone.

What’s another word for Thesaurus?

If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving isn’t for you.

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time

These ones are from someone else.

1. My wife told me to stop impersonating a flamingo. I had to put my foot down.

2. I went to buy some camo pants but couldn’t find any.

3. I failed math so many times at school, I can’t even count.

4. I used to have a handle on life, but then it broke.

5. I was wondering why the frisbee kept getting bigger and bigger, but then it hit me.

olivermoss

* Hilary Knight is off of LTIR and is expected to play today. Let's fucking go! Yeah, I'm headed out to watch the game at Sports Bra in a bit.

* Vibes around the NHL right now. I don't know how accurate that is for other teams, but for the Kraken? Very accurate!

neonvincent

It took too long to write My Saturn Awards votes and predictions vs. the winners, so I didn't feel up to including this video.

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Current Mood: tired
Current Location: House in the woods at the edge of town
Current Music: Sims 4

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alightbuthappypen

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umadoshi

Media intake for the last week or so boils down to "a couple chapters of various non-fiction [nothing new] and Thursday's The Pitt." We'll probably try to get an episode or two of Frieren in tonight, before Dayjob swallows me whole for another week.

My main goal for this weekend has been accomplished: today

scruloose and I decanted some spices from bags into jars (including the cinnamons and chai spice baking blend replenished from Silk Road* since the last time we batch-prepped for banana bread) and then did a round of bagging up dry ingredients for nine quadruple batches of my breakfast banana bread while actually baking a tenth batch. It's only the second time we've done it, and having the dry ingredients bagged and ready makes such a difference, but the prospect was more exhausting than it had any right to be. (Actually doing it was fine. This time we [reversing how we did it last time] went with me reading off the amounts for each ingredient and rotating the bags while

scruloose did the actual measuring and dumping ingredients in.)

*Last time we didn't have nearly enough of any one spice for ten quadruple batches, so some go the chair spice blend and some got the Vietnamese Saigon cinnamon and some got the Indonesian Korintje cinnamon. We also have some of their third type, the Sri Lankan true cinnamon, but the description on the jar says its flavor is pretty delicate, so it didn't seem likely to really shine in the banana bread.

(My erratic spices fascination has resulted in us currently having four kinds, actually, but little idea of what to make that will actually showcase the different types so I can really tell the difference. ^^; [The fourth is the Royal Cinnamon from Burlap and Barrel in the US.])

Current Mood: exhausted

ysabetwordsmith

Today is sunny, breezy, and cool.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches. A flock of blackbirds is flying around and singing.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 3/29/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 3/29/26 -- I trimmed brush around the Japanese maple tree.

EDIT 3/29/26 -- I trimmed brush between the parking lot and wild cherry grove, trying to reestablish a mow path there.

EDIT 3/29/26 -- I trimmed more brush along the mow path.

EDIT 3/29/26 -- I trimmed more brush along the mow path.

I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, plus a fox squirrel.

EDIT 3/29/26 -- I filled a trolley with sticks and dumped it in the firepit.

I am done for the night.

Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

"'We were there in the 80s for the crash, and this is definitely crashier.'"

guess I can get where they're coming from, but I don't think the current video game industry crash feels, specifically, "crashier." It feels worse and bigger, most definitely, which is what they meant, I'm sure, but it doesn't really feel much like an actual "crash" at all, at least not in the usual sense of such things.

This discussion post links to the original article about problems in the video game industry.

Current Mood: busy

ruuger

This is to let you know that I have now joined the ranks of Taskmaster RPF writers, except not in a way that I think most people do. I got the idea for this fic last year when listening to the Taskmaster live shows, where Greg and Alex joked about a dark version of the show and Greg being a dictator, and somehow this dystopian political satire just popped into my head, fully formed. Resemblance to any governments, British, American, or otherwise, are purely coincidental.

(it was originally supposed to be more of a Squid Games fusion type of thing - hence the title - but then, uh, the real world turned out to be more inspiring in a bad way)

And for the record, it's in an Anonymous collection but not because I don't want it associated with me, but because I know that the Taskmaster production team reads fic on AO3 and I've already been contacted by a British production company once after writing comedy RPF so I wanted to make it at least a little bit more difficult for them to connect it to my fannish identity ;)

The Taskmaster Games - Episode: "We Aim to Please" (3301 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Taskmaster (UK TV) RPF
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Characters: Original Characters, Greg Davies, Alex Horne (British Comedy RPF)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Dystopia, Dark, Satire, Dark Greg Davies, Dark Alex Horne, Minor Greg Davies/Alex Horne, Current Events, Bigotry & Prejudice
Summary:

He'd posted a joke on social media. That was the reason why he was here. Ever since the elections, he'd been more careful with his words. No naming names, no directly calling out the Regime. But he'd still managed to trigger some invisible tripwire and came home from a gig to find the men in black waiting for him.

Welcome to Taskmaster. A show where a broken funny bone isn't just a metaphor.

pattrose

Jokes

* What is it called when you have too many aliens? Extraterrestrials.
* What should you do if you’re cold? Stand in the corner, it’s 90 degrees.
* What does a clock do when it’s hungry? It goes back for seconds.
* Why did Shakespeare always write with a pen? Because pencils made him ask ‘2B or not 2B’?
* What does one eye say to the other eye? Something between us smells.

pattrose

90 discussion prompts

1. Did you have a favorite book as a child? What was it and why did you love it so much?

I did. I loved To Kill a Mockingbird so much. It was the first time I read about hatred towards black people. As a child there were a lot of black families, and some were good friends. I had no idea that life was like that. I was 8 or 9 when I read it. I fell in love with Atticus, Scout and Jem. It was sad, but so good. We discussed it with our friends and no one knew things were like that. I loved what a good man Atticus was. And I loved parts of the book showing how he respected the black families. It was just a wonderful book.

pattrose

March not quite 365 days

Are you allergic, or have an intolerance, to anything?

I am. I'm allergic to sulpha. I took an antibiotic with that as its base and my throat started closing. Once when my grandson was very sick they gave him sulpha. A lot of people spell it with an f, but I use the pH spelling. Anyway, his throat closed. And then it happened to Sam years later. Isn't that weird?

pattrose

Crunchy questions

Do you listen to international music? If so, how did you come about discovering it and can you share some of your favorite artists?

I do if someone posts a link of music from different countries. I enjoy listening to them. I have a favorite from Brazil but I can't think of his name. His voice was beautiful and so soothing to my soul.

pattrose

Just a thought

I was sitting here thinking about favorite movies and one came to mind, that makes me feel good, makes me sing along, and makes me smile during the whole thing. I'm speaking of The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Such a sweet and fun film. I own it and watch once a year. Have you seen it?

flo_nelja

( River of Stars, Yosano Akiko ) 7/10

( L'Art de la Guerre, Sun Tzu ) 7/10

( Monde sans oiseaux, Karin Serres ) 6/10

( Poèmes, Hans Christian Andersen ) 7/10

( L'impératrice du sel et de la fortune, Nghi Vo ) 8/10

( Bungou Stray Dogs : The day I took in Dazai, Asagiri Kafka ) 8/10

( Animaux fantastiques ) 8/10

( Dernières lettres de Montmartre, Miaojin Qiu ) 8/10

Progression : 23/52
"Risques de lecture" : River of Stars, L'Art de la Guerre, Monde sans oiseaux, Poèmes, L'impératrice du sel et de la fortune, Animaux fantastiques, Dernières lettres de Montmartre -> 15/26
Bingo-livres : 20/25

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