So I was scrolling and saw this image in an article about the European heat wave,

And was like, uh, are you missing something there, buddy? Like all that red in northern Africa? Because that's a lot of red.

And I was going to give them the benefit of doubt, since I don't know much about the climate in Northern Africa, aside from Morroco and Egypt, which seem like really hot places, so you know, maybe it's normal there?

But nope, that's not the case:

Some selections from the article:

"The region has been experiencing some of the most intense heat waves in recent years, but in many cases they’ve been under-reported due to misconceptions about Africans’ ability to withstand them.

“Africa is seen as a sunny and hot continent,” said Amadou Thierno Gaye, a research scientist and professor at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, the capital of Senegal. “People think we are used to heat, but we are having high temperatures for a longer duration. Nobody is used to this.”

"The Sahel, for instance, has been heating at a faster pace than the global average despite being hot already. Burkina Faso and Mali, both in West Africa’s Sahel, are among countries that are set to become almost uninhabitable by 2080, if the world continues on its current trajectory, a UK university study found. Its people are especially vulnerable due to shrinking resources, such as water, and poor amenities, and a dearth of trees and parks means there are few options for places to cool off."

so SAG-AFTRA finally released some official guidance for fans, viewers, creators/influencers, critics, and more during the strike. here's what you need to know:

2. they're asking regular viewers and fans to DONATE TO STRIKE FUNDS, SHOW UP TO PICKETS IF YOU CAN, and please do NOT boycott streaming services or movies in theaters.

3. influencers, content creators, cosplayers, and anything in between is still a bit of a grey area, but they're asking people to use their best judgement. "organically" means UNPAID promo (like an invite to a premiere without being paid, being sent a publicity box, letting the company's social media post a photo of you in cosplay, etc).

obviously this doesn't answer every question, and isn't hard and fast rules for fanworks, but it can at least inform how you personally choose to move forward when posting online and moving publically. i hope this helps!

living with ADHD is really like having to parent a toddler but that toddler is your brain. and the toddler doesn’t want to go to bed 😠 or pick up the mess 😠 or brush their teeth 😠 and you have to persuade and TRICK your toddler brain into doing simple everyday easy tasks.

i have to make everything SO easy for myself and it’s so hard and i’m so exhausted and OH the toddler is throwing a tantrum again because they’re overstimulated brb

no one follows the trees warning

You know the parable about how the foolish man built his house upon sand and the wise man built his house upon rock and it’s always about having a sturdy foundation well there is also the fact of location which is that the sand probably used to be rock except it’s been eroded to sediment because it’s a FUCKING FLOODPLAIN

I feel like a dumbass, but @rapidashmascot just revolutionised my understanding of that parable.

My family quotes that parable loudly every time another planned housing community on a former floodplain gets inundated with water.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s okay to love science but also want to go home occasionally⁠ ⁠ #worklifebalance ⁠ #cartoon #cartoons #comic #comics #instacomic #instacartoon ⁠ #academia #science #research ⁠ #errantscience

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“it’s too hard” it’s okay if it can’t be easy!

+ ask people who have made a neocities if you are struggling, many people won’t be aggravated that you send an email asking where or how they learned to set up their webpage! like me and my page! i love emails!

+ start small, have reasonable goals set in mind! there is no such thing as a step too small! it took me several weeks just to figure out basic CSS!

+ don’t focus on it being good or presentable, focus on being able to understand what you did so you can grow from where you left off.

+ if you don’t have enough energy to do what you don’t know yet, have more fun with what you do know! don’t know how to style a page yet, but know how to add fun images, links, and text modifiers? slap some more in there!

+ have fun with your web page! all i post about on my pink little website is video games, dog trivia, with miscellaneous buttons, stamps, and quizzes! it’s my site, my house, my rules, my fun!

+ ask for help, the worst they can say is “i don’t know!”, or “i can’t help you!”

quick tutorial on how I shade with solid black (a lot of people ask, hope this helps)

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this site really hates people with ocd

“reblog this or you don’t support minorities!” “if you don’t reblog this then all of your followers should hate you!” “if you have a bad thought then you actually think that way and you’re a horrible person!” “you can only like ‘good’ things and if you like something ‘bad’ then you’re awful!” i am going to throttle you with my bare hands

It is Disability Pride month and I think it’s time to bring this comic from April back

kellen goff (voice of glamrock freddy, the daycare attendant/sun/moon and funtime freddy) has spoken out on twitter re: ai replicas of his voice. if you continue to produce or consume ai reproductions of his work, you are not only explicitly violating his boundaries, but you are contributing to a culture that will make it more difficult for him to continue to gain sustainable work in the future. now that he's made them known, let's please respect his wishes regarding the matter.

full text of thread beneath the cut for brevity:

hey so maybe switching to threads, infamously managed by one of the worst data scraping companies of all time, isnt the play guys

heres just PART of what they're trying to track when you download the app:

to list what they attempt to track:

please for the love of God, dont download threads.

all workers' strikes are good. yes even if they're inconvenient. even if they're making your life harder. even if you don't get to watch your favourite tv show. workers fighting for their rights is ALWAYS a good thing

what black mirror episode are we in now

you want to help stop tumblr from murdering itself? here's how!

i encourage you to reblog this so we can get as many people leaving feedback as humanly possible. we need to let staff know this is an utterly terrible idea

by the way, tumblr has turned off asks on all of their staff blogs, so this is the only way to tell tumblr how you feel

sag-aftra press conference.

In case you missed it, SAG-AFTRA just finished up a press conference where they talked to union members and the press about what's up.

Here are the big things (that I remember):

I never get tired of the thing where fantasy books name something by just calling it a word but capitalising it. Like oh shit, that person is a Wielder. The supernatural ability to see beyond matter called the Sight. Forces of Light and Darkness. The prohibited art of Knowing. A place simply known as The Blight. Awesome and horrible forces. The Force. You know something's getting bat shit wild when Fantasy Capitalisation comes into the picture. As in capitalising the letters, not the unholy act of seizing fantasy itself in order to churn profit off of it.

That is the work of evil creatures, like The Mouse.

People who like horror movies and games are freaks. "Oh but the gore isn't REAL!" yeah, well, it looks real. Why the hell are you engaging with the kind of content if you "supposedly" don't condone it in real life? Why are you watching torture porn if you don't condone actually torturing real people?

There's no difference between watching someone get tortured to death in a SAW film and watching an actual murder take place. It's all disgusting and ILLEGAL and anyone who watches or creates gore content is BASICALLY a murderer already. DNI you fucking criminal freaks!

It’s not so much that my sarcasm detector is broken, it’s more This Fucking Website, y’know?

I know I made another post about it but reblogging that this is 100% not serious- I was pissed off by someone whining about how “gore is different than SEX!!” So this happened.

the original sounds like something antis would totally write. it's way too realistic. holyshit.

and it's completely the argument made by certain christian groups about video games not that long ago.

See, I'm SO glad you brought up the video game thing because like... I think part of the reason the whole anti-shipping/anti-fiction movement bothers me SO MUCH is like...

I was fucking THERE for that. Like I was there for fandom-specific shit like the fucking downfall of FanFic.net but... I was also around for the "video games cause VIOLENCE!" thing and... I thought that was settled, at least on the side of things most of these young antis claims to be on.

Like. We've been there. We KNOW that fictional violence like video games and movies doesn't fucking cause people to be actually violent. We've been there. We've debated that. And we came out the other side going "yeah, there's no real evidence that shooter games are actually causing people to behave more violently, but there ARE a ton of other, real world things that have an impact, and let's look at all of that."

So it does drive me just a little bit nuts to see so many teens and younger adults like... Just jumping on the same fucking bandwagon as Republicans did when I was like. In grade school. The same bandwagon they've been on about anything queer since before I was born. The bandwagon they're on right fucking now trying to ban "morally wrong" content- aka anything alluding to sex ed or the existence of queer people.

We've settled this. And the logic applies across the board. Seeing something violent or taboo, or even seeing something good in media does not make you more inclined to do the thing. That isn't the way fiction and reality interact. Reading or watching something violent does not make you more likely to go out and do something violent.