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Still blue! Hydrangeas, for example are just blue. Same with Lobelia, Evolvulus, Felicia, Delpinium, Hyacinth which are all very blue. But things like petunias, calibrachoa, etc with no true blue equivalent, purple = blue.

for any address to twitter you can replace the “x.com” with “nitter.net” and you will be able to browse as if you have an account. Lifesaver.

This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:

ActionAid India

SEEDS India

GlobalGiving

Image one: a heat map of India with a Land Surface Temperature scale that goes from 10 degrees celcius in yellow, into red, dark red, black, and finally white at 60 degrees celcius. Most of the map is deep red and central India is blotted with black and white.

Image 2: a screenshot of text which says, "I want to explain what 48 degrees actually feels like when you live in a developing country, because it is terrifying.

You cant just 'stay inside and run the AC'. The power grid simply cannot handle the load of millions of people trying tobcool down, so we are dealing with rolling blackouts. Inagine sitting in a pitch dark concrete room that has been baking in the sun for 12 hours, with no ceiling fan, while the ambient temperature inside is still hovering near 40 degrees Celsius at mignight. You dont sleep; you just pass out from exhaustion.

The taps are running dry because the heat evaporates local reservoirs and water usage spikes. People who have to work outside—street vendors, construction workers, delivery drivers—are collapsing. Even the water coming out of the cold tap during the day is hot enough to literally brew tea."

Image 3: news headline reading, "97 of world's 100 hottest cities in India as brutal heatwave pushes temperatures past 45 degrees celcius."

Image 4: news headline and subtitle which says. "Laboring under Delhi's harsh heat, workers much choose health or wages. Severe heatwaves have been hitting India since April, forcing many of the city's essential workers to make tough decisions."

Image 5: screenshot of an article passage which says, "'We estimate that a single day of extreme heat causes approximately 3,400 excess deaths nationally; a five-day heatwave causes nearly 30,000,' the authors said.

Heatwave to severe Heatwave conditions were prevailing in north, central, and east India, woth temperatures consistently exceeding 45 degrees celcius in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, parts of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana over the oast few days.

like the recent estrogen legislation. estrogen should never be made a controlled substance. everyone should have easy access to gender affirming care, including DIY. but when people try to spread awareness for this serious issue by acting like trans men arent as affected by institutional transphobia, it just becomes an argument about disinformation, because testosterone is ALREADY a controlled substance. I want estrogen to remain an uncontrolled substance because I want to save trans women from the bullshit than trans men have been having to deal with for over 30 years. and then you have a bunch of people arguing about this bullshit with each other while the law just plods on thru the government and everyone loses.

What all five of my examples have in common is that they are minor elements in the text; they are not main ideas. In fact, your usual practice of reading which focuses on main ideas would dismiss them all as marginal or trivial. Another thing they have in common is that, although they are minor, they are nonetheless conspicuous, eye-catching: they are either surprising or repeated, set off from the text or too long. Close reading pays attention to elements in the text which, although marginal, are nonetheless emphatic, prominent—elements in the text which ought to be quietly subordinate to the main idea, but which textually call attention to themselves.

Most of you have been educated to ignore such elements. You have been taught to seek out and identify the main ideas, dismissing the trivial as you go. This has had to be trained into you: read to a young child sometime, you will notice she has the annoying habit of interrupting the flow of the story to draw attention to some minor thing. Close reading resembles the interruptions of that child. It is a method of undoing the training that keeps us to the straight and narrow path of main ideas. It is a way of learning not to disregard those features of the text that attract our attention, but are not principal ideas.

polite greeting (it's me, boy)

introduction (i'm the ps5)

establish credentials (speaking to you inside your brain)

establish purpose (leave the girl, we don't need her)