I just bought To Ride a Rising Storm, by Moniquill Blackgoose, on bookshop.org and I am on the verge of tears I'm so fucking excited to read this during my upcoming vacation

It's the sequel to To Shape a Dragon's Breath which was my favorite book I've read in, I dunno, maybe decades?

Check your local library or support the author *and* a local bookstore by buying through bookshop!

https://bookshop.org/p/books/to-ride-a-rising-storm-the-second-book-of-nampeshiweisit-moniquill-blackgoose/c532be7a1116caa9?ean=9780593498309

#books #fantasy #altHistory #dragons #indigenous #nampeshiweisit

“People should use the precautionary principle, which is to minimize exposures,” Thurston said. “An N95 mask would be a good idea.”

He said that research on #air #pollution focuses on cars, power plants & other sources but is lacking on the #health effects of #fireworks-related pollution, as it often passes quickly.

Fireworks contain metals, such as copper, that help to create their vibrant colors but are hazardous to breathe when they enter the air….

#Trump #ClimateChange #law #PublicHealth

With Europe and the US in the grip of atmospheric blocking events / “heat domes”, I’ve seen renewed interest in geoengineering/SRM.

A quick reminder that despite a lot of enthusiasm among laypeople, climate scientists are generally sour on the idea.

A very important detail people don’t seem to grasp is that while geoengineering/SRM could help lower the *mean* temperature, it could actually make extreme heatwaves / “heat domes” worse by disrupting the global circulation of air

https://news.mit.edu/2020/reflecting-sunlight-cool-planet-storm-0602

#ClimateCrisis #geoengineering

How to stay cool without A/C:
20 practical ideas
by @collapse2050
July 1, 2026

"Currently, Europeans are rushing to buy air conditioners and North Americans are running their units on high, burdening the already stretched electrical grid. But consuming more or cranking up what you've already got shouldn't be the first resort. With a little effort, there are several ways to lower the temperature of your home without relying on air conditioning.

Here are 20."

https://www.collapse2050.com/how-to-stay-cool-without-a-c/

#collapse #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #AirConditioning #HeatDome #HeatWave #HeatStroke #HeatExhaustion #polycrisis

Gas plants for US data centers to be major source of climate change-linked emissions, report says.

Dozens of planned gas plants to ​directly power data centers in the United States could emit as much greenhouse gas annually as ‌Australia or France, according to a report by an environmental group published on Wednesday.

The Environmental Integrity Project reviewed 74 gas-fired U.S. power plant projects proposed or planned to provide electricity directly to data centers, which would sidestep the process to connect to the ​U.S. electric grid. It estimated that they would generate 143 gigawatts of electricity and result in 662 ​million tons per year of greenhouse gas emissions.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/gas-plants-us-data-centers-be-major-source-climate-change-linked-emissions-2026-07-01/

#ClimateCrisis #uspol

My message for this month: fuck psychiatry forever, free meds to everybody who wants or needs to take them, no medical coercion ever, no fucking exceptions. Burn every psychiatric prison and carceral monitoring system to the fucking ground and pour bleach on the ashes.

Sabi & elderly mom are $780 from having shelter, due 11AM ET

Also no food

https://Ko-fi.com/SabiLewSounds
https://PayPal.me/SabiLewSounds
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*Add note* "Sabi"

#SabiLewSounds #SupportDisabledArtists #Traumasurvivor #CPTSD #DisabledCreator #DisabilityPride #MutualAid #Poverty #DirectAid #MutualAidRequest #MutualAidBoost #HelpFolksLive2026 #Disability #DisabledMutualAid #DisabledCrowdfund #DisabledArtist #LatinaMusician #DisabilityPrideMonth

TIL it's #DisabilityPrideMonth and that there's a flag to represent disability pride.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability_flag

PlayStation Store for PS3 and PS Vita will also close soon. Make sure to download whatever you need to backup (games, themes, wallpapers etc.)

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/an-update-on-playstation-store-for-ps3-and-ps-vita/

#PS3 #PSVita #Playstation

Carl’s NNMM! vs Odo’s HRMPH!

#CarlTheCollector #StarTrekDeepSpaceNine #Showdown

Big announcement from #Sony today:

"Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles"

While I understand this decision from a corporate standpoint, I'm really not a fan. This is the definitive end of ownership of #videogames on #PlayStation. From here on, you're just paying for a license that can be revoked if they want to.
No resale, no more lending to friends and family and don't get me started about public libraries that have made games accessible to people who don't have the money to buy them.

#PhysicalMedia #GamePreservation #ConsumerRights #Gaming

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/

It should be illegal to play loud music in a food establishment while simultaneously greeting visitors with a life-size, cardboard cutout person at the door.

#ActuallyAutistic

Thank you to @godotengine for responding to people deluging the #GodotEngine project with #AISlop from #LLMs. Their clear statement of #NoAI policy:

“No autonomous AI agent use or vibe coding. […]
No use of AI to generate substantial pieces of code. […]
No AI-generated text in human-to-human communication. […]
All PRs must be reviewed and approved by a human before merging. […]”

https://godotengine.org/article/contribution-policy-2026/

May more #FreeSoftware projects do the same.

#ArtificialStupidity #HumanLabour #Godot

This is good news!

The scientists behind the new independent organization Climate.us are the same experts Trump fired because they were researching and reporting on climate change.

Formerly NOAA’s http://Climate.gov, they didn’t disappear. They rebuilt.

Now they’re independent and preserving climate data, outside of political interference, with public support and a team of volunteer scientists.

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Science #Research

I feel like the way some folks are expressing annoyance with the goose discourse, that they're not viscerally connecting with the symbolism the way most of us are.

🤔

Like, I *feel* this meme. It's representative of my whole life, of having my lifeforce sucked out of me by parasites until I'm ill at age 50 and have nothing to show for it. It's a rare but accidental honesty from the clueless fucks who rule this world. It's the entire story of each of us and the whole world told in a handful of phrases and images.

"Goose is not valued" feels like a rallying cry for valuable people who are only just now starting to realize...

...that we do have value.

And that the only way they're going to understand our value is if we make them.

#goose #goosetodon #gooseWasNotValued

@helpers

Hi!
I recently tried to install the #Bluesky addon (and it worked fine) but when I disabled it, the following/followers are still listed in my contacts page on Friendica. How can I make the people from Bluesky disappear from my #Friendica contact list? The people I follow and those that follow me.
(I don't even understand if Bluesky followers get content from me, since the addon is disabled but they are still listed as followers)

County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’

https://www.404media.co/henrico-virginia-datacenter-energy-cost-email/

#news #tech #technology #AI #datacenters #aislop #energy #electricity

GoToSocial is a type of Fediverse server which emphasises user safety and being lightweight to host. It's really good, and is particularly popular with those who self-host their Fediverse accounts.

The developers of GoToSocial's software are currently trying to raise money to keep the project going. You can help by donating at:

➡️ https://opencollective.com/gotosocial#category-CONTRIBUTE

Here is more info about what the money is needed for:

➡️ https://gts.superseriousbusiness.org/@gotosocial/statuses/01KW9ZZ72ZQTFH6AWR020VXWH9

You can follow them at @gotosocial

#GTS #GoToSocial

Y'all want a fediverse that's not just big Mastodon instances, right?

If so, you should consider financially supporting #GoToSocial. Even if you don't use it.

https://opencollective.com/gotosocial#category-CONTRIBUTE

I don't know that my (handed-down) Macbook Air from 2011 qualifies as a retro computer (most likely not for another 10 years). But I replaced the battery, and upgraded the hard drive, and with this teenaged laptop (it's 15 years old now) running Debian Linux I can do:

- Game programming (2D) in #godot
- Graphics editing (GIMP)
- Run #waterfox and browse most of the internet, explicitly excluding JS-heavy garbage like Instagram
- Do Python programming with Sublime Text
- Compile open-source software
- Play Zero AD (RTS game) with low graphics settings
- Play movies off my external DVD drive
- Follow up on my favorite blogs/sites with an RSS reader (liferea)
- Run BOINC, a distributed computing project
- Word processing with LibreOffice, and Scrivener (via Crossover)
- Make chiptune music with Furnace
- Video calls with Jitsi
- Emails with Claws Mail
- Sync files between computers with Syncthing

Since I don't use VSCode, LLMs, nor play any AAA games, spend time on CPU-heavy websites, or use Google Chrome, the relatively "meager" 4 GB of RAM is not being gouged by expensive applications, and most of the time, while running Debian, I don't hit max memory usage.

To keep my cpu usage down when browsing the web, I run an adblocker, NoScript (to automatically deactivate Javascript by default) and an image blocker extension to save on bandwidth. Unfortunately, running with a JS blocker and image blocker often gets me flagged as a bot.

The only technical/hardware issue is the wifi adapter. It is slow on 5ghz networks. I get faster network speeds tethering my laptop to my phone or another computer, via bluetooth, than I do via the laptop's wifi.

Let's see how long this lil thing can last!