Keep your hopes high and your expectations low

I think it must be, at least partially, because, people hate the imperfect victim. Its easy for so many people to sympathize with someone who never lashed out. Less so for people to sympathize with people who are angry and lash out. Even though its a perfectly sensible reaction to being hurt over and over. I'm sure most people would like to think they would simply never.

Over fifty years of data show a peak in PFAS (also known as "forever chemicals") content in seabird eggs in the 90s, followed by a decrease as regulations went into effect. The most recent findings show a 70% decrease of most common PFAS.

We are making genuine progress! Producers are dramatically altering how much they use PFAS and how much gets released in effluent, but also there's a lot better understanding of how to remove PFAS from the environment!

to wit:

bottom's the raw capture, middle's just flat curve correction to make the footage visible, top is the final coloring with /counts seven adjustment layers to add back in Literally Anything But Yellow

When I said it was birdseed she just went “oh- can they actually eat that? Is that safe?”

I didnt know how to respond like, at all, so I just pointed at the duck and said “bird”

The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.

Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.

I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.

Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.

"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."

"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."

"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"

hi hi! I understand your scepticism, but I lived Here for half a decade:

and nnno we don't call it "winter" when it's december even though we're TECHNICALLY in the northern hemisphere. because it is 35+ degrees during december and 35+ degrees during july and 35+ degrees every other time of the year as well. so it doesn't really make sense to reference the typical northern/southern seasons when you live right on the equator!

Second reblog. tags. #i like the implication that there are multiple other hemispheres #<- prev I know right #do we have posters from mars or something?

A map of 13 countries lying on the equator. Kiribati. Indonesia. Maldives. Somalia. Kenya. Uganda. Democratic republic of Congo. Congo. Gabon. São Tomé and Príncipe. Brazil. Colombia. Ecuador.

Third reblog. Tags. #ehhh that last bit feels like a stretch. #do people in equatorial places really not even reference seasons like just as a way to break up the year?

But in daily life? It’s dry or it’s rainy. You have to choose your clothes and especially your footwear based on if it’s dry or rainy. If you forget your raincoat when it’s dry then you’ll almost certainly be fine but if it’s rainy you’re SOL. By the end of dry season you’re begging for a drop of water to keep the dust on the ground instead of in your eyes, and then a month later you’re realizing that you now have six more months of rain, which somehow always happens to be right when you’re heading to work on important days and right when you’re meeting friends on your days off. (Unless you’re on the Caribbean coast of CR, then you get a few dry reprieves from rainy season, iirc because of the rain shadow of the mountains?)

So yes. In most of the Northern Hemisphere right now we have settled into Summer — except for the really northern places that are just finishing up Spring. And anywhere tropical that’s a month into rainy season. Or anywhere that has different seasons. And then in the Southern Hemisphere it’s starting to be true winter — that’s why so many knitters from AU/AO/ZA/South America are working on winter knits now. Because it’s winter. Because it’s JUNE and that’s wintertime in those regions, for the most part.

HIS ACTIONS HAVE ONLY MADE SENSE FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE

KILLING THE SERVANT WITH INFO. SUMMONING THE TWINS. CAPTURING THE ROYCE CARAVANS. MAKING HIS NEPHEW IN CHARGE OF THE POLICE INVESTIGATIONS.

Primus thought that the first half was going as rehearsed and planned. And then Otto got his hands on the candle and realized he could make a real power move and take out Tachonis.