NotaRealCat

Usually swearing & drinking coffee. ⚽️🏀🥎 She/her

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Let me explain wildfires and climate change for the slow learners in the back.

More heat means thirstier air.

♦ Carbon emissions trap heat globally.
♦ Hotter air acts like a sponge.
♦ It sucks moisture out of plants.
♦ It sucks moisture out of soil.
♦ Dry plants turn into perfect tinder

Fire seasons are now longer.

♦ Snow melts much earlier in spring.
♦ Autumn rains arrive much later now.
♦ The dry period lasts weeks longer.
♦ Longer dry periods mean more fires.

Bugs are making it worse.

♦ Warmer winters fail to kill pests.
♦ Pine beetles are multiplying rapidly now.
♦ Pests kill millions of forest trees.
♦ Dead trees create massive fuel piles.

Extreme weather creates spark triggers.

♦ Climate change shifts atmospheric jet streams.
♦ This causes more frequent dry lightning.
♦ It also creates much stronger winds.
♦ Winds fan tiny sparks into infernos.

Climate change is the amplifier.

♦ Campfires and arson still start fires.
♦ Human carelessness triggers the initial spark.
♦ But climate change prepares the fuel.
♦ It turns small fires into monsters.

You're welcome.

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

This is extremely grim news, and confirms that the US is aligning with Putin's "sistema" approach of advancing far-right allies throughout Europe and in the US.

In short: pay your allies; marginalize and persecute your enemies.

[Jasmine('s boobs hurt) @Ranting_Trans]

One of the most humiliating things to happen when you die, is for someone else to die at the same time and the entire world mourns them instead of you.

Anyway rip to Sam Neill you bloody legend

[Habeas Corpus Linguistics @HabCorpLinguist]

Someone should invent a version of Outlook that can search for emails and find them.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Doris got sheared this summer, which is to say she was manhandled onto her backside by a stranger, stripped of a coat she never agreed to part with, and turned back out onto the fell with nothing to show for the indignity but a lighter step and a face like thunder.

The shearer comes round every June. Doris, being a hefted Texel with firm views on personal space, treats the whole thing as a miscarriage of justice. She goes stiff. She sighs. She fixes the man with the stare she usually saves for weather coming in off the west, then it's over in ninety seconds and she's off up the hill eight pounds lighter, cool for the summer, clean of the flies and the strike that a full fleece in July invites. Brian, watching from over the wall where he keeps his log of these things, marked it down as a net gain for Doris and a dead loss for everyone else.

Because here's the wool. That fleece, the real thing, grown on grass and rain and hefted patience, the fibre that kept these islands warm for a thousand years and clothed the men who built them, is now worth so little it costs more to shear off than it sells for. So it sits in a barn.

Meanwhile the world it was replaced by has gone and dressed itself head to toe in oil. Fleece jackets spun from petroleum. Base layers, gym leggings, the lot, extruded from the same barrel as the diesel, shedding a little plastic into the wash water every time they spin, off down the drain and out to sea and eventually back onto your plate in a fish. Renewable, they call the sheep, when they want a stick to beat her with. Then they zip themselves into a crude oil derivative and lecture the ewe on her footprint.

Doris grows a new one every year out of nothing but hillside. Fully compostable, entirely renewable, comes with its own forecast. And we let it rot in a barn because a bin bag full of oil undercut her.

She doesn't know any of this. She's up on the top, freshly done, glaring at the horizon, growing next year's out of pure spite.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

You know who'd love Meta glasses? Serial killers, pedophiles, stalkers, voyeurs, blackmailers, and losers.

[tern @1goodtern]

Another heatwave predicted here for about ten days time.
Maybe worse than the current one.

We should start naming them the way we name storms, and name them after climate deniers and fossil fuel companies.

[MJdowntheshore @MJdowntheshore]

Just sayin'. Fingers crossed.

[kristina. @cosmepolitics]

AI Data Centers don’t need water.

They’re just cheap.

[Flappr @flapprdotnet]

Happy Father's Day to all of you magnificent kings.

Level up.

[Rituparna Chatterjee @MasalaBai]

I saw a reel where a woman said "where are the trad wives who are 40, 50 years old? Why aren't they making these barefoot in the kitchen videos? Why is it always a 20 something year old?" Every woman knows the answer.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I learned something new today. 🐶

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Name a better take than this on the Iran war, I’ll wait.

[Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt]

I would give anything to be this carefree

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[jo @jojojo7654]

@itstuff48 Twitter misogynists are speedrunning the creation of a new radical feminist movement lol. They’re just saying the evil shit they believe out loud now and women are realizing the feminists were always right

[NotaRealCat @dinkaffekompis]

@sherlockdefi .

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

A lesson on social democracy that is not from a lying billionaire.