Ariella @ellabellafull@librem.one

Once again, Business As Usual has produced exactly what we have come to expect — another month of record-breaking heat.
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Last month was the hottest June on record across the globe, the EU's climate monitor said Monday, capping half a year of wild and destructive weather from floods to heat waves. Every month since June 2023 has eclipsed its own temperature record in a 13-month streak of unprecedented global heat, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said.

"This is more than a statistical oddity and it highlights a large and continuing shift in our climate," said the service director, Carlo Buontempo.

This was "inevitable" as long as humanity kept adding heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, he said.

Scorching heat has blanketed swathes of the world from India to Saudi Arabia, the United States and Mexico in the first half of this year.

Relentless rain, a phenomena scientists have also linked to a warmer planet, caused extensive flooding in Kenya, China, Brazil, Afghanistan, Russia and France.

Wildfires have torched land in Greece and Canada and last week, Hurricane Beryl became the earliest category five Atlantic hurricane on record as it barrelled across several Caribbean islands.
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FULL STORY -- https://phys.org/news/2024-07-june-hottest-high-eu-climate.html

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

https://technicallywewrite.com/2024/07/08/wordperfect

WordPerfect was a powerful desktop word processor that ruled offices throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s.

Here's a fond look back at WordPerfect for DOS, including some sample laser printer output.

I admit as I wrote this article, I forgot how much power was in WordPerfect's styles.

@tillybridges
I've been asked in the past if I'm an LGBTQIA+ ally, and I always say it's not for me to apply that designator- all I can do is show I am an ally by words and actions, as far too many "allies" are anything but.
@timo21

I'm not gonna jump in on that thread about 'all men' but I am gonna say this:

While it's true that not all men do X, it is absolutely more true that patriarchy socializes ALL MEN to accept or be blind to certain truths about their position, importance, and relevance in the world.

Almost everything all men think of as 'natural' about their status in the world is not, in fact, true.
It was crafted through oppression, suppression, and violence.

It is also true that it takes an enormous amount of deliberate de-conditioning to throw off patriarchal thinking and praxis.

Those for whom 'not all men' truly apply (which is a small enough number to be sad and pitiful) know this to be true.

And so do the rest of us.

I have said repeatedly: by all means, Israel should go arrest and prosecute Hamas members for acts of terror. But that doesn't require destroying entire cities or blowing families to bits. That's how cowards and murderers do things. You know, like Hamas.

a super important bit from this week’s trans tuesday you may have missed

y’know this amazing speech about the impossible standards women are held to?

all of it applies to trans women too, but when we can’t meet them we get punished even *more* for it

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CBqlDWHkdHk

From IETF RFC 1392
hacker (n):
A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular. The term is often misused in a pejorative context, where "cracker" would be the correct term.

There's no reason for digital books or **any** other digital media to have the limitations of physical media arbitrarily imposed on them. Digital "lending" is a solved problem: https://u.fsf.org/3eg #DayAgainstDRM #Libraries #ebooks

The Big Bang to open-world RPGs: Ultima VI

#amiga #commodore #retrogaming #vintagegaming #rpg #fantasy #gaming

#Starfield

I can’t carry any more

Sarah: but-

YOU can’t carry any more

Sarah: …

it had to go somewhere

Sarah: Why do you even have this stuff?

…reasons?

Sarah: what could you possibly need a plunger for in space?

don’t go in the cargo bay if you don’t want to find out