Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

"The discovery of bodies continued for a third consecutive day in #Karachi amidst an extreme hot weather, with 11 bodies...."

This is a "tip-of-the-iceberg" effect, most heat-caused deaths will never hv been recognised or recorded as weather related, they will be "natural causes" (heart attacks, strokes, renal failure, etc)

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2473959/36-bodies-found-across-karachi-in-three-days-amid-extreme-heat

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Pakistan #SouthAsia #Heatwave #HeatStroke #ClimateDeaths #GlobalSouth #SEA #ClimateDiary

Un sketch de Garfield aurait-il inspiré le plan de communication du RN pour les #electionslegislatives2024 ?

@DrSuzanne It didn't take long, and her post is pretty hilarious in addition to being clear and helpful.

Worth it to read just for the entertainment value, tbh.

@DrSuzanne I wish I could quit too, but being self-employed makes it tricky.

This place is great, but I'm not certain I can develop a network to help with earning a living.

Mattel is making games like UNO more accessible for colorblind players - Blokus, Tumblin’ Monkeys, and UNO are just three of the ga... - https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/25/24185625/mattel-board-card-games-colorblind-accessible-uno-blokus-phase-ten-skip-bo

Just as some people get to be "expats," while other people are "immigrants" or "migrants."

Just to some people trying to survive a disaster get to be "survivors looking for food," while other people are "looters stealing food."

Some voters get to be "undecided," worthy of our attempts to persuade them, and worthy of concessions on their key issues... while other voters are "stupid, low information, selfish, ignorant people," who should "have fun getting lynched when Trump is back in office."

Study identifies 16,825 sites around the world where prioritising conservation would prevent extinction of thousands of unique species

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/25/protecting-just-12-of-earths-land-could-save-worlds-most-threatened-species-says-study-aoe

@hannah oh my gosh, thank you so much!
I hoped that musing about it on Masto would have this result! 😭

@1dalm @sundogplanets
Dunno about climate change, but I'd need to hunt down the paper about it, but apparently the metal particles are not good for the ozone layer.
And that their effect will show up with decades of lag. So there is that.

@ftg @1dalm https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL109280

Worst part of updating my talk: looking up how fucking many more Starlink satellites there were than last time I gave a version of this talk. 200 more than a month ago. Fuck.

There are now 6,209 Starlinks in orbit, fully 62% of the 10,009 active satellites in orbit.

All of these "fully demisable" Starlinks are planned to burn up and deposit their metal in Earth's atmosphere. I just saw multiple 100-pound pieces of another SpaceX "fully demisable" rocket, so I'm sure it'll be just fine.

The# sun warms the Earth, making it #habitable for people and animals.

But that's not all it does, and it affects a much larger area of #space. The #heliosphere, the area of space influenced by the sun, is over a hundred times larger than the distance from the sun to the Earth.

Earth's atmosphere protects life on the planet from the effects of cosmic radiation, but the heliosphere itself acts as a cosmic shield from most interstellar radiation.

#astronomy
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-nasa-interstellar-probe-heliosphere-region.html

Regarding Slack's announcement* that they will be "reducing [their] data storage offering for the free version of Slack [and] deleting messages and files more than one year old from free workspaces", I don't know.

One thing I became much more aware of after I joined the fediverse over a year ago is the unsustainable "infinite growth" of our online spaces that we all got used to thanks to corporate social media.

#slack #internet #InfiniteGrowth

X Window hit the big 4-0 last week!

https://www.talisman.org/x-debut.shtml

HuffPost UK: Exclusive: Majority Of Voters Want Next Government To Take UK Back Into European Union
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclusive-majority-of-voters-want-next-government-to-take-uk-back-into-european-union_uk_6675855fe4b0c18173a87402