there is no soul of an artist that distinguishes them from some ‘non-artist’ category of person that could simply never comprehend what it is like. anyone can make art. you should know this by now. from ratatouille
Michèle Métail, editor of Wild Geese Returning: Chinese Reversible Poems writes, “The important thing is not so much the exact number of poems, nor how exhaustively we read them, as it is the vertigo that grips the reader facing the open work, facing the infinitely unfurling meaning.”
omg that was exactly the feeling I was having while I was reading even these partial translations in the article!!
@ghadaanqar reached out to me once again, asking me to publish a comic regarding the brutal, ongoing genocide that’s still taking place in Gaza. A name to the artist hasn’t been provided, so I can’t credit them, but if they’d like to reach out, I’m always available.
Even if you can’t contribute financially, I’d really appreciate if you could help Ghada and her family by sharing this as much as you can.
“no stop” “oh no i didn’t mean to do that” “wRONG LAYER” “wait go back” “what line is that?!” “cAN YOU– [irritated noises]” “oh you…bastard” “what..layer is that on??”
she’s so cute djksfh
A gift for your fiancee
oh my god dkfjdhgksdjk
happy 2023 my wife is currently making incoherent angry/confused noises because she painted on a layer somewhere several hours ago and now she can’t find which folder she put it into
you guys it’s almost 2025 and wouldn’t you know it, my wife is still painting on the wrong layer
We have already averted truly apocalyptic levels of global warming.
Yes, read that again. Let it sink in. This is what the science now says. We have already averted truly apocalyptic global warming.
To quote David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth, from his huge feature in the New York Times:
“Thanks to astonishing declines in the price of renewables, a truly global political mobilization, a clearer picture of the energy future and serious policy focus from world leaders, we have cut expected warming almost in half in just five years…
The window of possible climate futures is narrowing, and as a result, we are getting a clearer sense of what’s to come: a new world, full of disruption but also billions of people, well past climate normal and yet mercifully short of true climate apocalypse.”
(New York Times, October 22, 2022. Unpaywalled here. Emphasis mine. And yes, this vision of the future is backed up by the current science on the issue, as he explains at length in the article.)
So we’ve already averted truly apocalyptic warming, and we’ve already cut expected warming IN HALF in just the past five years.
The pace of technology, of innovation, of prices, of feasibility, of discovery, of organizing, of grassroots movements, of movements in other countries around the world, have all picked up the pace so fast in the last five years.
Renewable technology and capacity are both increasing at an exponential rate. It’s all S-curves, ones that look like this:
How much more will we manage in another five years? Another ten? Another twenty?
I know the US is about to fucking suck about the environment for the next four years. But the momentum of renewable energy is far too much to stop - both in the US (x) and around the world.
(Huge shoutouts to India, China, and Brazil for massive gains for the environment in renewables, and Brazil for massive progress against Amazon deforestation.)
We’re going to get there.
Say it with me. We’re going to get there.
Re: a couple people in the notes:
Some real talk for the new year, about where we now stand, and what the next years are going to look like. (Still ends on a “be hopeful or else” kind of note, but definitely gets into some heavy truths about the meaning of recent events.)
even with new administration, there were a lot of things already approved and in the pipeline for this year.
End of 2025, we should have 10x the offshore wind as we did at end of 2024, due to one project that broke the bottleneck for building.
The bottleneck was lack of a specific type of ship operating within US. It’s currently working off Virginia. The prep work for similar project off Connecticut is currently underway, and as soon as Virginia is done, that ship switches up here. And is likely fully booked through 2030 with similar items.
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Intiative has been operating for 15 years, reducing co2 power plant emissions in new England and midatlantic. They did such a good job they hit their 2020 goals in 2018… and set new more aggressive ones for 2030, at least some members shooting for zero power plant emissions by 2030.
Thats 10 members, plus Virginia just joined so just starting that process Pennsylvania and North Carolina may join with next year or two, once legal challenges solved.
RGGI used model of taxing CO2 emmission via permit and permit auction money goes to direct utility assistance for low income folks, weatherization & energy efficiency to reduce demand, and green power projects.
Those green projects are all small, but lots of em. So no one big solar farm, it’s 20 warehouses with solar panels. So invisible infill you don’t SEE happening. But that’s been chugging along for 15+ years and will keep going because it’s a state, not federal, program.
Justice40 under the Biden administration prioritized historically undeserved and economically depressed areas for funding for climate resiliancy projects and green projects. It’s been in place since 2017 so a lot of money assigned to it that’s still working through system and all those will complete in next few years.
Trump could reprioritize how money for those programs is allocated, but it is a lot of very rural areas so he will get push back. Noooo, we need that money! And they do.
Since they’re very poor and undeserved areas, it means you get a much bigger improvement vs better off areas. Swapping out a coal plant from 1940 vs one that upgraded in 1990 is a way bigger potential improvement!
The US military has been putting lots in alternate energy for last few years entirely due to security of being reliant on oil they have to get places, leaves supply lines vulnerable. So they will continue adding capacity for foreseeable future. And anybody complaining about it being “woke nonsense” can get told off about how many fuel convoys get struck in conflicts and how much better on-site solar and wind is than generator use.
So there’s good things in process that likely can’t be stopped. So even if us fed stopped new project funding entirely (unlikely), there’s lots in process that will complete in next few years and continue building capacity.
Keep on your reps about it at the federal level, because msny will still go through. But don’t forget to annoy state reps as well because they CAN keep on those smaller state projects and keep building capacity. And other states already did a lot of the work. These are proven technologies. Copy other states homework.
Thank you so much for the addition! It’s super good to learn about some of these! And it’s so true that there are SO MANY state and local projects underway, the vast majority of which the federal government cannot stop.
you’ve got 2 admit that the oft repeated command to “touch grass” in itself illustrates a great disconnect from the tru wholesomeness of the offline world. unless you meant a kind of wild grass, a lovely tassel cord rush or even the humble rattlesnake grass. but we know that’s not what they mean. to the chronically online, grass = lawn and nothing more. and a lawn is an abomination on par with the worst brainworms big online has to offer. touching a lawn will not help you. You’ve got to go injure yourself on some swordgrass for god’s sake
Counterpoint: If you are so terminally online that touching *manicured suburban monoculture lawn* is an improvement on your connection to nature and reality, then the implications of the statement are magnified
our car got stolen im so late on my credit card payments theyre gonna sue ive reached one year unemployed and i can’t save myself or anyone else
oh okay so its definitely repossessed. fuck. thats worse.
we’re so fucked its unreal just a horrible one two punch on top of our already nightmarish financial situation. if we can’t come up with 11 grand in two weeks the car is gone forever. i doubt we’ll be able to but if we fail we still need to get a new car regardless.
i know this is getting pathetic and it has been so embarrassing doing this all the time. we’re gonna die here. i don’t even know what we can do at this point. we need to start trying shopping for a car. we need to do a million things we just cant do. i need to make a better begpost than this. but please, if anyone can help us.
Since there’s no way we’ll be able to buy back our old car, we need to get a new one. We’ve got a lead on a decent, working used car for $2000, we’re about halfway there right now. We need to lock this in ASAP. If there’s anything anyone can give towards our goal, we’ll be eternally grateful. We need it pretty quickly because in our area you’re sort of screwed without a car. The post is starting to lose momentum, so please, keep sharing and if you can, please contribute. I’m so sorry to do this. I’m hopeful now, though, that we’ll be able to live. Please help me not get proven wrong.
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