I caught Soot spying on the neighbors again... He keeps going on about the neighbor murdering his wife or something idk I think he's spending too much time in the rear window.

#ThisIsJustAMovieReference #YesImOld #SoundOffIfYoureOldToo #CatsOfMastodon #pets #cats #Soot #cat

You can't make this up.

Before we had 2 smaller litter boxes (in this corner) side-by-side and the cats would literally double up both boxes at once with four cats literally brushed up against each other using the bathroom, because they all decided to go to the bathroom at the same time.

So we buy a single, bigger litter box with more space than the two smaller boxes combined.

The little f*ckers now form an orderly queue..

#CatsOfMastodon #cats #pets #funny #funnyCats #Soot #Ash #Arrow #cat

Smoulderscape

Still suffocating in smoke pollution
from the 'agricultural activity' of
post-harvest burning by the cellulose 'plantations'
of the NSW government's Forestry Corporation.

Déjà vu
* " “Rome Plows,” massive bulldozers with an armor-fortified cutting blade, could clear 1,000 acres a day. Enormous concussive bombs, known as “daisy cutters”, flattened forests and set off shock waves killing everything within a 3,000-foot (900-meter) radius, down to earthworms in the soil. " >>
https://theconversation.com/50-years-later-vietnams-environment-still-bears-the-scars-of-war-and-signals-a-dark-future-for-gaza-and-ukraine-254971

* Ecocide and the history of herbicidal warfare in the Vietnam War >>
https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/wars-and-missions/vietnam-war-1962-1975/events/aftermath/agent-orange

#Pollution #Smoke #pollution #HealthHazards #FCNSW #forestry #harm #Bellingenshire #Gleniffer #BellingenLogging #NSW #COPD #AirQuality #breathing #soot #PineCreekStateForest #TuckersNobSF #PostHarvestBurning #agriculture #PileBurning #NSW #EPA #AirQuality #CleanAir #SacrificeZone #extractivism #LoggingIndustry #NegativeExternalities #governance #care #StructuralViolence

Suffocating in smoke pollution
from the 'agricultural activity' of
post-harvest pile burning by the cellulose 'plantations'
of the NSW government's Forestry Corporation.

"You can kill a person with post-harvest burning just as well as with an axe”.
(Bertolt Brech, slightly altered)

"Structural violence
is a form of violence wherein some social structure or social institution may harm people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs or rights."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_violence

When residents express their concerns about the prolonged toxic pollution to the relevant state institutions, the response is along the lines of 'close up your house, stay indoors or move away and shut up.'

Toxic smoke pollution maximising harm >>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/116146034632404631

(The original quote: "You can kill a person with an apartment just as well as with an axe”. Heinrich Zille/ B. Brecht)

#Pollution #Smoke #HealthHazards #FCNSW #forestry #harm #Bellingenshire #Gleniffer #NSW #COPD #AirQuality #breathing #soot #PineCreekStateForest #TuckersNobSF #PostHarvestBurning #agriculture #PileBurning #NSW #EPA #AirQuality #CleanAir #SacrificeZone #extractivism #LoggingIndustry #NegativeExternalities #governance #care #StructuralViolence

Structural violence - Wikipedia

The #EPA is Backing Off on Air #Pollution Prevention
In a new legal brief filed with a federal appeals court in Washington, agency told judges it had made a legal “error” and urged them to wipe the 2024 #soot standard off the books and revert to the older 12-microgram limit from 2020. If court grants request and vacates rule, it is treated as though the stronger standard never existed. EPA’s own analysis projected that tighter soot limits would have substantial benefits.
https://scilight.substack.com/p/the-epa-is-backing-off-on-air-pollution
The EPA is Backing Off on Air Pollution Prevention

And Sidelining Science…Again

SciLight

Time to swap out our heating register filters. The left filter was put in a year ago. The one on the right is it's replacement.

#heating #ducts #soot #filters #stratfordct

Mountain #glaciers are #melting very fast- but why?

A tiny pollutant called black carbon (or #soot) darkens snow, making it melt faster.

In this blog post, the EGU Cryosphere Division explores how this microscopic substance is reshaping entire mountain landscapes.

🧵 Read more: https://egu.eu/82UQAO/

This affirmation may be wrong:
»There may not be a trace of those billions of years left by the time we are done.«

Many tons of #soot will imprint the consequences of man's doing on earth's surface. And the subsurface, altering much of what's been living there, under mounting and finally cosmic pressure, forming new rocks around a sooner or later submerged ocean. New oil, maybe.

And the circle of death has come around.
All because of use instead of life.

#CapitalismIsADeathCult

@kiplet

She is squeaking Cat Slurs at a bug on the ceiling

#CatsOfMastodon #cats #soot