Notices by Anne Ominous (rustoleumlove@mastodon.online), page 4

@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?

@ai6yr i think confidence is part of it too. people like this think they are owed the world.

lmfao at the laundery thing. jfc, that is so unimaginable to me.

i'm so far removed from that world.. i have dated a couple people who had friends like that, but i've been more or less separate from the upper class. i dont think i have known anyone who had like, staff.

@ai6yr

politics itself attracts a personality type that seems so vain and self-interested.. completely at odds with the office.
obv there are exceptions.
but power also corrupts.

...have you seen the Wire?
the Baltimore mayor and his ways .. lmfao.. so much the 'type'
and lol - that same actor also plays quite the conniver in game of thrones

@jensorensen
no lies detected.

but i must say, GOP corruption has a long history. my parents HATED reagan & his BS
i was also a child of this era, & i remember well the anita hill hearings, Iran Contra affair
& Reagan's response to AIDS
(my uncle was in the SF scene at that time)
underneath our veneer of exceptionalist propaganda, there's a very deep rot

so maybe not entirely weird for me,
i just didn't wanna live thru this period where we had to face up to who we really are, & pay the price.

@jensorensen your comics are excellent, btw.
kudos.

from one American to a few others:

Fuck Donald Trump
Fuck JD Vance
Fuck the GOP

@kims i'm glad skarsgard made the list for Andor but he should be higher up, IMO.

pleased Keri Russel made it for The Americans. excellent show.

i'm always disappointed that the show ZeroZeroZero isnt more well known too. only one spectacular (and v violent) season
& how the hell did they miss Harrelson & McConaghey for True Detective S01? those guy BECAME those characters.

agree w other comments - maslany is a major oversight, and goldberg for Barry wouldnt have been my choice either

wild weather day for Feb 12, 2025

yellow in the south for tornadoes

dark & light blue for extreme cold i nthe north

purple & pink showing widespread winter weather - that's snow and ice - in central and northeast US & Idaho, a state covered in warnings and watches re: winter weather, along with Kentucky, where warnings mainly pertain to flooding

wind (tan), flooding (green) and winter weather for California too

see https://www.weather.gov/ for more info

#weather #wx #winter #ExtremeWeather

@ai6yr ok i'm remembering the (post-apocalypse) scene in The Last of Us where the guy excitedely sits down at an upright piano and exclaims 'Do you know how much this thing is worth" and the owner replies 'Currently, nothing!'

😩 😂
who woulda thunk, we're there already!

NOAA Global Monitoring Lab page is back up today

really effin cool watching information disappear, reappear, disappear, according to political whim

#ClimateChange

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

@ai6yr @todwest @Catawu

“What we must realise is that the Santorini volcano produces very large explosions every 20,000 years,” Efthymios Lekkas, seismologist & head of the scientific monitoring committee for the Hellenic Volcanic Arc, said last week.

“It’s been 3,000 years since the last explosion, so we have a very long time ahead of us before we face a big explosion.”

LMAO.. apparently, volcanoes are big sticklers about staying on the right schedule

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/4/greeces-instagram-island-of-santorini-rattled-by-200-earthquakes

ugh. so sad to see escalating violence in the Congo

#Congo #DRC #news

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78xvgvy172o

@kims

1. The Thing

5. The Dead Zone was such a good movie

6. Naked Gun lmao

8. Swamp Thing?

10. The Game?

lol are those last two just too obvious?

@WarnerCrocker not sure what 'would be failure' youre referring to, but there is plenty of evidence that reducing speed limits saves lives.

from a literature review:

" 40% lives saved with the introduction of 30 km/h speed limits in cities."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002243752400152X

@ai6yr

i used to have a short talk with any new-to-town coworkers or students at my unis -- there were many of them

i'd stress that if they were ever anywhere in the city & had the sense that something was wrong, or someone was suspicious, they should GTFO immediately. even if that meant breaking into a run or looking foolish or possibly racist. to just get out of a situation if you had any inclination of danger.

Baltimore has problems. but it prepared me so well to deal w the unexpected

@lisamakesstuff from Cal Fire ---

#animals #evacuation #LA #fire #wildfire #palisades #Eaton #PalisadesFire #EatonFire