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El. Older than you, probably. Or younger, idk, I don’t know your life.
Planetary fetus gestating in the amniotic effluvia of terminal industrialism and militarism.
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i think the aesthetic echo chamber created by tumblr is more dangerous than the political one bcs im self aware enough to kno my politics r radical but then me and the girlies are on here reblogging body horror and very weird erotic poetry and i get offline and interact w a real person and jokingly say something like fungus is tangibly divine in the way it facilitates the eternal dance of creation and destruction which is really creation as or by destruction and theyre like what the hell are you talking about freak. the aesthetic barrier between me and a girl in a vineyard vines tee is literally insurmountable. i find the trout to be a very nietzschean fish

If you are on the East Coast and trying to figure out what all of these air quality warnings mean and what you should do, here is what the colors and corresponding AQI numbers mean. The updated AirNow map is at this link:

Edit: this was posted at 10:50am on June 6 2023 and the screenshots were taken around 9am.

This map shows wildfire locations:

(NASA Earth Observatory image of the Quebec wildfires by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview)

And if you're wondering why all these wildfires seemed to come out of nowhere:

While we are on the topic, since I've seen some comments in the notes! If you have been getting air quality warnings from your weather app but not much else of use about why the sky looks weird, or have otherwise been dissatisfied or confused about where to get reliable information about why the sky is orange, you should be aware that virtually everything that for-profit weather companies like AccuWeather and the Weather Channel show you is simply repackaged taxpayer-funded data from the National Weather Service (NWS) (and more broadly, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that is home to the NWS). Private companies have a vested interest in making sure they have a vital chokehold on the flow of weather information in the US, to the point of heavy lobbying about what and how NWS can communicate to the public; the former AccuWeather CEO (and Trump nominee for head of NOAA 😬) spent years arguing that NWS should be "entirely forbidden from delivering any weather-related knowledge to any American who might otherwise wind up a paying customer of Accuweather."

To paraphrase Michael Lewis and his book "The Fifth Risk," which does a deep dive on the services that the federal government carries out, private companies that rely on publicly funded data essentially scam you into paying for the same information twice - once as a taxpayer supporting public investment into necessary services like weather monitoring, then again when you are forced to pay for the results of that investment.

I recommend you find your local NWS weather office and get set up so that you get your weather alerts straight from them:

It won't be as slickly packaged, perhaps, but all the critical information (and more!) is there, free of ads and free of the often bogus forecasts and sketchy content that these companies add on to attract an audience: