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Prepare For Tatl, And Make It Double

@geeselighting

25+ | Nonbinary | They/Them
From the UK, own a tiny farm. Fiber artist.
Tatl is my parrot child and light of my life, a female lilac crowned amazon. Lilo is my Bouvier des Flanders farm not-very helper.
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hylianengineer
86 Stories of Progress from 2024
Not everything that happened this year was terrible.
Fix The News

Would anyone like to join me in my New Year's tradition of reading about good things that happened this year?

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hylianengineer

A couple highlights:

  • There are now ZERO COAL POWER PLANTS in the UK. Zero! Also zero in Slovakia, which closed its last coal plant a full SIX YEARS ahead of schedule! This is great because coal is like, the dirtiest fuel source ever. It's awful for the planet, it's awful for our lungs, it's just The Worst. Goodbye and good riddance!
  • Last year, EU CO2 emissions fell by 8%, and the data's not all in for this year yet but they're on track to drop even more. Yeah, you read that right - the EU may have already passed peak carbon emissions. Excuse me while I do a happy dance over here in the corner - this is a BIG FUCKING DEAL!
  • This may have been a bad year for abortion rights in the US, but we're an outlier - over the past 30 years, we are only one of four countries to tighten abortion restrictions, while 60 countries have made it more available. This year, France became the first country in the whole world to make abortion a constitutional right. Seven US states did so too - Colorado, New York, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, Arizona and Missouri. That's right, Missouri! Shocking, huh?
  • A drug to prevent HIV infections was 100% effective in trials. That. That's insane. It's not a vaccine, but it is the closest we've ever been to one.
  • Deaths from tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease in the world, hit an all-time global low. Hooray for preventing a truly staggering amount of death!
  • Egypt and Cabo-Verde both eliminated malaria, and 17 countries started distributing the new malaria vaccine - remember that? Remember how insanely exciting it is that was now have a vaccine for malaria? It is saving lives as we speak.
  • Deforestation in the Amazon is half what it was two years ago.
  • The largest dam removal project in history was completed - removing four dams from the Klamath River, thanks to decades of activism by the Karuk and Yurok tribes. A month later, there were salmon spawning in the river basin again - for the first time in a century. Nature's pretty incredible at bouncing back, if we can just give it the chance. I repeat: Largest. Dam removal. In history!
  • China finished the Great Green Wall
  • Prewalski's horses returned to their homeland in central Kazakhstan, where they'd been missing for 200 years!
  • 22 species were removed from the endangered list - let's hear it for the Saimaa ringed seal, Scimitar oryx, Red cockaded woodpecker, Siamese crocodile, Narwhal, Arapaima, Chipola slabshell and Fat threeridge mussels, Iberian lynx, Asiatic lions, Australian saltwater crocodile, Asian antelope,  Ulūlu, Southern bluefin tuna, Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog, Yellow-footed rock wallabies, Yangtze finless porpoise, Pookila mouse, Orange-bellied parrots, Putitor mahseer (this is a fish), Giant pandas, and Florida golden aster!

This year was deeply shitty in a lot of ways - but not all of them.

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sexhaver

i know we've long since passed the event horizon of recipe blogs becoming 99% Stuff That Isn't The Recipe but i still occasionally stumble upon an example of this phenomenon in the wild so blatant it makes me snort air out of my nose

#I’m sorry I’m literally crying over “if you’ve been reading this blog for a while - I AM A KILLER”#sudden video interjection to confess to your crimes in the middle of your recipe#SIR. SIR? CAN YOU MOVE YOUR CAR OUT OF MY RECIPE?? SIR?
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maureen-corpse

all right everyone let's hear it for ACETAMINOPHEN let's give it up for STORE-BRAND TYLENOL let me hear you make some NOISE

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louisegluckpdf

i do not care if bedroom fairy lights are forever perceived as a twee millennial thing i can never go back. any light that is not striving to approximate the soft glow of candlelight does not belong in my bedroom

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electricslug
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the-fiction-will-knit-the-real

so I was walking around the city in which I live, and I came across this sign

I know it's a sign for a shop selling ceramic pots, but I feel in my soul that this is the error window that pops up in my brain any time my POTS stops me from doing a thing

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i-am-a-fish

A few weeks ago I ran out of my antidepressants and I thought to myself: "let's see how long I can go without antidepressants" because I like challenging myself and I like doing difficult things

I cannot stress how bad this idea was. please do not be like me. I have gained nothing from this experience, I don't know what I was thinking I would gain. there is no glory in suffering

I should go take my meds

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i-am-a-fish

I think it might have been because of the depression

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662607015

having a freeze response to stress is so funny in the context of normal adult stressors. millions of years of evolution are trying to tell me that the email will not find me if i stay very still and do nothing

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fishdetective

everyone's always making dramatic posts about mountain goats lyrics like "I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me" and "hand in unlovable hand" why does nobody care about "someone's gonna wrap us up in styrofoam and paper and mail us flat-rate right down to hell"

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reasonsforhope

Btw I think it's worth mentioning that I'm like. In some ways an extremely cynical person:

  • Literally, one of my major opinions on humanity is "Humans really seem to like committing genocide???" (Looks, obviously genocide is a fucking atrocity, and I'm in no fucking way diminishing that. It's just also something that people keep fucking committing.)
  • I work professionally with survivors of abuse, rape, and incest.
  • I think that most people are (by design, aka evolution!) fundamentally self-interested (and also that that's usually okay)
  • I am more caught up on the news than like/at least 90% of people.

So when I say that I think that:

  • Hope is real
  • There is real, substantial evidence for hope
  • I think we're going to beat climate change
  • There is a ton of evidence that supports us beating climate change,
  • We're going (continue) making the world a better place
  • The good of humanity and the world ultimately outweighs the bad

It's not because I'm sticking my head in the sand. It's really, really not!

I'm saying that in very real knowledge of how fucking shitty things are and can be.

And despite all that, I'm still hopeful. I'm still optimistic.

I still think hope is going to win.

You don't need to be some huge optimist to have hope.

Anyway here's a link to my masterpost on why we're going to beat climate change,

And here's a link to a great article on all the reasons that this century is, on average, the best time to be alive in human history.