Behold: Chlorial's Stuff

• Astrophage is seeded all around the stellar neighborhood so fast that every planet's own wizards are too busy to work together right away. The Manual keeps everyone connected (the entry for astrophage is huge and updating constantly)

• Eridians just discovered space so the lone one isn't "Starsnuffer" to them but a bringer of the cold. The Hunter who invented his own function.

• the idea of evacuating earth is discarded because earth isn't the only planet that needs it.

• Project Hail Mary attracts an unusual concentration of wizards. Every team working on the problem has at least one wizard --Carl is Grace's. Carl is not aware Grace didn't volunteer until after launch: he thought Grace volunteered then panicked (book Stratt's story that Grace asked to be knocked out early).

• Movie Stratt's husband is a wizard.

• Adrian is a wizard. They were almost selected for the space mission too, but their larger size prevented it.

• (Rocky wishes Adrian were here. Rocky is thankful to all the Powers That Be that Adrian isn't here. Rocky wishes Adrian were here and Rocky was left behind. Rocky wishes he never wished that.)

• Yaó and Shapiro were both wizards. The Hail Mary is needed for life support on the mission, but there was definitely a lowkey plot that if the human wizards were able to figure out how to solve the astrophage problem, wizards from other worlds were prepared to help get the astronauts home and deploy the solution. This required a wizard on the Hail Mary and with Yaó gone...

• there is a message/information from the wizards of Earth alongside the golden plaques on the Hail Mary (same on the blip-A)

• wizardry is not totally unknown on Erid but seen as really odd. Wizard isn't the same kind of function as science or language or teaching even though wizards can do all those things and more.

• Adrian being a wizard helps Rocky deal with the fact that humans don't have functions the same way Eridians do

• Eridian wizards don't travel off planet that much --Erid as a whole only just discovered the sun. Eridian wizards being into space would be like human wizards treating the Mariana Trench as the showoff destination instead of the moon.

• Rocky's regular complaint of "I wish there was a wizard here" or "a wizard could figure this out" is completely untranslatable to Grace

• Rocky tries breaking "wizard" down into "Life-singer"

• (Grace thinks that means biologist, and insists that he is one. He gets really annoyed when Rocky is like...yeah no)

• the wizards get updates on the status of their ships. The day Yaò and Ilyukina died and the day the Blip-A stopped functioning everything got just a little bit colder.

• Grace's biodome and classroom is protected by xenonite and wizardry, which makes everyone feel safer.

• Eridian wizards build worldgates while the mission is going on, so by the time Grace and Rocky make it back to Erid the food problem is almost able to be solved by travel/trade. It's still deeply inconvenient to worldate directly from Erid to Earth but the Crossings is fine.

Grace tries not to abuse the privilege (his Eridian psychologist is trying to get him to believe he deserves to get to go home whenever he wants). A young lady from Earth stops by to sell him chocolate sometimes. He wants to stay here. He's the happiest he's ever been.

Alternatively:

I cannot express to you how FAST it has gone. I grew up in a world that does not exist now. We're starting on the path to reverse it, globally. You might not know how much solar has EXPLODED in the last decade or two. It's gone from a side thing, a weirdo novelty that was just Not Viable... to whole countries investing in infrastructure. but we have to keep fighting big oil and fascism everywhere we can in order to keep on this road to a new better less scorching burning earth.

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they start talking to a human and the human is like "haha yeah that's a crow!" and the alien researcher is like "you called it a 'bird' earlier, is that a different name?" and the human is like "oh a crow is just one species of bird, there's like, 10 others out there"

"On this planet?"

On Earth, the inhabitants are just. Playing and walking LITERALLY STEPPING ON CARPETS OF ORGANISMS the whole time. the aliens are like "it doesn't hurt them??? Can't you just...move them to a place where you don't have to step on them?" and the humans are like "no of course not, grasses evolved to tolerate being stepped on, and besides, more plants would grow there if we tried to move the existing ones"

Alien: I don't understand...why would you not place the solar farms in an area of the planet with no existing ecosystem?

Human: ...what?

Alien: You have rather sophisticated protective gear and have done some space exploration, surely you could establish them in an area of the planet to which life is not yet adapted?

Human: ...there isn't one.

"I don't think you understand what I'm saying. Only 25% of Earth's species have been formally described, at most."

"that's...that's most of them."

"Yes?"

"Well...I suppose the ocean trenches and abyssal plains must be difficult for you to reach...where did you have to travel for your discoveries?"

"Wait. I believe this is something your language refers to as needing 'unpacking.' The current biodiversity represents a historical low point?"

"Well, a local minimum, as the math people say. But yeah, I think there was some recovery after the Younger Dryas about ten thousand years ago, but for every new species humanity creates intentionally or unintentionally, tens or hundreds have been wiped out. We're not proud of this."

"We will need time to digest this, to the point I'm afraid to ask the next question: NEXT great extinction?"

"Yeah, I forget how many there've been total, and there's some arguing over how bad it has to get before it really counts. A comet or meteor strike 65 million years ago wiped out the majority of life...the majority of species or even genera...there's entire classes of life we didn't know ever existed until we found their fossils a few hundred years ago. And then there's the Permian, when a good chunk of a continent erupted and I think we lost...ninety percent of all species? Maybe more? I'd have to look it up. There was also a mass extinction that just happened because all the continents got pushed together and apparently that was bad for life on land and in the sea. You're looking a little faint...do you need to sit down?"

"But...even a single great extinction has always meant the end of life above the unicellular level, on every world we've visited. This planet has evolved complex incredibly ramified life repeatedly despite three mass extinction events?"

Not saying there's nothing to this, but the news for this whole thing 9-10 months ago and not much has been said about it since.

If nothing else "breaking" is overstating things.

But in the name of I already ran into the sites with this info, here's a page from Israel's embassy

EXPOSED: Official Hamas documents found in the Gaza Strip - now revealed for the first time - prove Hamas’s direct involvement in the funding and execution of the “Sumud” flotilla to Gaza

documents are in the link.

And here's the US treasury department, with their stuff too

Which looks to be laying out the links between the different groups and people.