Just learned that the largest NOAA climate change data center was moved from New Orleans to Asheville in the 1950s to protect it from hurricanes, so that's good.

Modern conservatives: Oh, hell yeah. We're gonna live forever and nothing's gonna change. We're just like Tolkien's perfect and unflawed elves!

He who makes a beast [cop] of himself gets rid of the pain of being a [hu]man

“Cops are volunteering their own time as part of ongoing disaster response” Oh, I guess they’re actually helping for onc… “In order to prevent people in weather stricken areas from entering grocery stores to secure food and supplies” Oh for fucks sake 😡

Not to be confused with the Little Trans® Pluot

We're four days into the most significant natural disaster in the recorded history of our region. Our community is experiencing an ongoing crisis created by infrastructural collapse and the profound failure of capitalism to value and sustain life. 1/?

If you want to support some incredibly urgent mutual aid work in the part of Appalachia's that getting hit hardest by Helene, here's how. Our communities are going to need a lot of this in the days and weeks to come. Venmo: AppMedSolid Cashapp: Streets1de

I dunno what timeline we are in but watching Helene return North Carolina & TN to the sea get almost entirely ignored while Harris & Trump do more border theatrics & Biden signs on to a regional war in the Middle East is making for some absolutely rancid failed state vibes

This is what no @josie.zone in your McMahon documentary does to a mf

Update from a family member who works for this hospital system (northeast TN). Names/places in the first text are all major hospitals; name crossed out in blue is my brother’s partner, a family MD. As he says, it’s very bad