Notices by Anne Ominous (rustoleumlove@mastodon.online)

@pvonhellermannn

feels like a great time to recommend the book
Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World, (2023)
by Canadian-American journalist John Vaillant.

It details the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire which destroyed a lot of that town, & caused 88,000+ of its residents to flee.

@ai6yr yeah, here's the geophysical institute saying pottenital Kp 8 between 10pm to 1am.

it took a Kp9 for me to see it in Chicago, but i'll be lookin out for sure.
if only we could get everyone in the city to turn out their lights 😂

@ai6yr this seems to be the only thing most democrats are capable of now.

and the worst part is we have decades of evidence showing that it only ends up turning the country into right-wing hell

don't you love construction in America?

really excited for this project that MIGHT be coming to my city STARTING in 2029.

i'll be an old woman by the time this thing is open. #Chicago

Views from the California Zephyr Amtrak passing through Colorado, and aloongside the Colorado river

#train #nature #photography #USA

#SilentSunday #Madagascar #Africa

@QasimRashid

the DNC might as well send me a text that says "The Democratic Party is totally corrupt, and refuses to change"
D. Hogg is practically the ONLY good one among the party leadership, IMO.

it is so, so completely obvious that almost the entire party is beholden to interests other than their constituents - namely, that of corporations, billionaires, and Israel

BANFF!
what a spectacular fuckin place...

i fought thru tough arthritis flares for this incredible view and a few amazing days of hiking and biking.

#Canada #Banff #nature #photography

@petersuber

science in the US is done.
(honestly, i saw the writing on the wall during COVID - lotta mistrust, lots of 'disbelief' and undermining)
and no one likes to hear this but we were the world leader. maybe one of our last bastions of achievement.

there is no country... not even the entire EU could absorb even half of our scientists and keep their work going.

there is simply no funding for that. we're talking billions of dollars, every year.
irreplaceable, and now, GONE

#bloomscrolling

this country [USA] has no ideals, no ethics, no moral compass, no humanity.

we are a hollow, capitalist shell run by greedy, hateful morons.

#USPol #news #USA

https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-protester-ruling-deport-fd9e80583af3109d7de0a5264e79ea61

@douglasvb @ai6yr

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@douglasvb @ai6yr

yikes. interesting for sure but also scary.
i'm old enough to remember privacy.
it's getting wild out here.

@douglasvb

right?!?!

i have been trying to get a company to delete my purchase history from their data for the past few weeks and they won't respond to me.

Eid Mubarak!

#Istanbul #photography

@OGjester @gerrymcgovern

sure, the actual data agrees that there is way less coal being mined in the US.

but there is also still a lot of coal being mined -- 800,000 thousand 'short tons' in 2023

maybe a better statement is in the middle - the energy transition that is happening is slow and may be too slow to mitigate climate change at the current transition rate, as demand also accelerates.

@cian @OGjester @gerrymcgovern

good points

the thing about solar power that ppl tend to ignore, which really bugs me, is what rare earth mining has done to places like the Congo. truly horrific.
a river in Zambia was just 'killed' the other day when a tailings pond for a Chinese mine collpased

& copper.. lmao. not enough copper at the current rate to feed demand. so i shudder to think what'll happen at the supply level to meet it (spolier alert: it wont be recycling)

https://news.umich.edu/copper-cant-be-mined-fast-enough-to-electrify-the-us/

@ai6yr you

well, one more reason to never fly without a mask, i guess... the fumes from your burning aircraft.

i do not wanna know how toxic this smoke is

@ai6yr @CStamp @douglasvb

💯

this is a guy who was married to kimberly guilfoyle

(another rank oppurtunist)

@douglasvb

😂 i know, right?