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‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/jun/26/tippping-points-amazon-rainforest-climate-s…

Harvard removes dedicated tutor support for LGBTQ students
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/25/harvard-lgbtq-tutors-removed/

TIL #1:
1. Da die Luft nachts ungefähr bis zum Taupunkt abkühlt, lässt eine morgendliche Tiefsttemperatur von mehr als 15 °C einen schwülen Tag erwarten.
2. Ab Taupunkt über 16°C spricht man von Schwüle
3. Liegt die nächtliche Tiefsttemperatur über 20 °C, spricht man von einer "Tropennacht", welche für viele Mitteleuropäer schwer erträglich ist.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Parliament:
🎵 Do That Stuff
#Parliament
https://thefunkfactory.bandcamp.com/track/do-that-stuff-parliament-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Es7L5xt6GmxZSNoISTW1I

PSA: 🥵 Idk who needs to hear this, but in a heatwave for the love of science use air conditioning. If you don’t have air conditioning, get a portable unit as soon as possible.
The climate is going to get hotter and heat can very easily kill you or a loved one or a pet; or cause permanent disability.
Heat is a lot more dangerous than cold temperatures; even if you’re “young and healthy”.
The climate is already fucked and has long reached a tipping point as far as humans go—our only bet is large-scale CO2 extraction.
Sacrificing your health “to save energy*” for an imaginary fight that we have already lost is stupid. It’s also one of those “individual responsibility” mindfucks—the culprits for pollution are industry maximizing profits and governments that are not acting.
Anyway, stay cool.
*note that AC uses overall a lot less energy than heating does

One of my minor acts of economic rebellion this year: trying to spend a lot less, especially on big things and things ordered online, but tipping exorbitantly. (And by “exorbitant” I just mean “maybe two bucks at a coffee shop where I would normally have tipped one.”)
Hardly hero-level stuff, but I figure that gets a bit more of the money where it needs to go right now.

Loving #thefence
Money's No Object: Money's No Object #1: Missy Flynn (Rita's)
Episode webpage: https://thefence.substack.com/p/moneys-no-object-1-…

Billie Butler becomes first trans woman elected in New Hampshire
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/25/new-hampshire-trans-woman-billie-butler/

How many gay couples have wed since equal marriage ruling?
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/25/same-sex-marriage-us-anniversary/

Trans athlete’s mom gives powerful speech following match boycott: ‘My daughter is not the problem’
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/25/mother-of-ab-hernandez-speaks-out/