SO! here it is! The roof comes off with the rafters attached; the floor for the ‘ground’ level is also removable–remember that this is designed to sit in about 3 inches of litter. The windows are inset so that after this is fired, I can cut and glue in little panes of stained glass.
Would anyone like to join me in my New Year’s tradition of reading about good things that happened this year?
A couple highlights:
There are now ZERO COAL POWER PLANTS in the UK. Zero! Also zero in Slovakia, which closed its last coal plant a full SIX YEARS ahead of schedule! This is great because coal is like, the dirtiest fuel source ever. It’s awful for the planet, it’s awful for our lungs, it’s just The Worst. Goodbye and good riddance!
Last year, EU CO2 emissions fell by 8%, and the data’s not all in for this year yet but they’re on track to drop even more. Yeah, you read that right - the EU may have already passed peak carbon emissions. Excuse me while I do a happy dance over here in the corner - this is a BIG FUCKING DEAL!
This may have been a bad year for abortion rights in the US, but we’re an outlier - over the past 30 years, we are only one of four countries to tighten abortion restrictions, while 60 countries have made it more available. This year, France became the first country in the whole world to make abortion a constitutional right. Seven US states did so too - Colorado, New York, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, Arizona and Missouri. That’s right, Missouri! Shocking, huh?
A drug to prevent HIV infections was 100% effective in trials. That. That’s insane. It’s not a vaccine, but it is the closest we’ve ever been to one.
Deaths from tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease in the world, hit an all-time global low. Hooray for preventing a truly staggering amount of death!
Egypt and Cabo-Verde both eliminated malaria, and 17 countries started distributing the new malaria vaccine - remember that? Remember how insanely exciting it is that was now have a vaccine for malaria? It is saving lives as we speak.
Deforestation in the Amazon is half what it was two years ago.
The largest dam removal project in history was completed - removing four dams from the Klamath River, thanks to decades of activism by the Karuk and Yurok tribes. A month later, there were salmon spawning in the river basin again - for the first time in a century. Nature’s pretty incredible at bouncing back, if we can just give it the chance. I repeat: Largest. Dam removal. In history!
China finished the Great Green Wall
Prewalski’s horses returned to their homeland in central Kazakhstan, where they’d been missing for 200 years!
MY complaint about ai art is that now when you google an animal half the results are not actually pictures of the animal but a blurry facsimile of what people WANT the animal to look like
My good friend @why-animals-do-the-thing is working on a project to help with this problem! Check out her animal photo repository- it’s meant to be a resource for artists, scholars, and anyone who wants to know that they are 100% guaranteed to be looking at a real animal.
wish the human body had like a crash log or something so I could pin shit down. Why am I having a sudden spike of anxiety when I’m just sitting here? Well it looks like there’s a conflict here between my medication and the better foliage mod
“Ugh, people actually BELIEVE what Jin Guangyao said about his situation in the temple scene?”
Apologies, I’m sure it makes for a far better story if He’s Just Evil, Actually and The Witch Hunt Just Picked The Wrong Guy Last Time Around; I’m sure the witch hunt in and of itself is not the problem and I was a fool for thinking Wei Wuxian’s “Hey, they did the same thing to me back then” had any significance whatsoever.
#‘i cant BELIEVE people think this story has nuance or depth! dont they understand that the protag is completely stagnant the whole time??’#'thats what makes it such an AMAZING story!! 😍😍 its about Good Versus Evil and how trying to create systemic change is bad!’#do you HEAR yourselves (via @labyrynth)
