This has been one of the hottest summers on record here in New Mexico. Temperatures above 38° C (100° F) used to be rare, now they’ve been happening more often than not.
This is #climatechange, caused by human overshoot. Something must change if we want to avoid widespread ecological collapse.
Check this picture by @[email protected]! So tasty... I mean, cute!🥝
#world2 - The Start
I'd like to start a new posting series that I call "World 2". It's all about the Seldon'esque crisis we're facing at the moment. The Climate Catastrophe. I'd especially like to go into three different streams:
Transport: I guess even besides its damage potential for the world climate (and this includes traditional cars and EVs), owning and driving so many cars harms us in many other ways. So it's worth a look on its own.
Diet: Food and food production is one of the big columns of reasons for the climate crisis. Everyone knows that. But it's also the hardest to give up.
Energy production: Another topic with hundreds of side effects. We wage wars and fraternise with despots to get resources to produce energy. And we're ahead of another round of exploitation of the African continent.
I know Nichelle Nichols was well into her twilight years, but damn, this one hits hard.
To the best damn comms officer in Starfleet, R.I.P.
Decided to spend a little time this weekend to whip up a site for a new D&D campaign I'll be running soon. It's not complete yet, but pretty good work for ~5hs of time. https://aramzs.github.io/dnd-campaign-site-defectors/
The site is totally open source, so feel free to use my code for your own campaigns!
Finally deleted my Twitter account because it had become toxic and draining for me.
I learned a hard lesson there, as a “non-leftist” non-binary person: no matter how accommodating, kind, and understanding I was, conservatives still did not accept me. A few begrudgingly “tolerated” me, others rejected and mocked me as one of those “pronoun people.”
I’m done trying to fit in where I’m not wanted. Even though I have some disagreements with leftists, at least they accept me for who I am. 💕
Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura in ‘Star Trek’ franchise, dies at 89
She helped break ground on TV by showing a Black woman in a position of authority and who shared with co-star William Shatner one of the first interracial kisses on American prime-time television
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/07/31/nichelle-nichols-ukura-star-trek-dead/