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Would be funny if he got so mad he choked on that bun and died.

Also I can't draw good backgrounds so don't look to closely at anything and everything will be fine

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Bamboo dragon

#76 - 竹子 (zhúzi / bamboo) - They camouflage nicely into a bamboo forest 🎋🌿🌱

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is it tho? assuredly unrelated?

like i think the related part is very key to this problem if i'm being honest

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As relentless rains pounded LA, the city’s “sponge” infrastructure helped gather 8.6 billion gallons of water—enough to sustain over 100,000 households for a year.

Earlier this month, the future fell on Los Angeles. A long band of moisture in the sky, known as an atmospheric river, dumped 9 inches of rain on the city over three days—over half of what the city typically gets in a year. It’s the kind of extreme rainfall that’ll get ever more extreme as the planet warms.

The city’s water managers, though, were ready and waiting. Like other urban areas around the world, in recent years LA has been transforming into a “sponge city,” replacing impermeable surfaces, like concrete, with permeable ones, like dirt and plants. It has also built out “spreading grounds,” where water accumulates and soaks into the earth.

With traditional dams and all that newfangled spongy infrastructure, between February 4 and 7 the metropolis captured 8.6 billion gallons of stormwater, enough to provide water to 106,000 households for a year. For the rainy season in total, LA has accumulated 14.7 billion gallons.

Long reliant on snowmelt and river water piped in from afar, LA is on a quest to produce as much water as it can locally. “There's going to be a lot more rain and a lot less snow, which is going to alter the way we capture snowmelt and the aqueduct water,” says Art Castro, manager of watershed management at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. “Dams and spreading grounds are the workhorses of local stormwater capture for either flood protection or water supply.”

Centuries of urban-planning dogma dictates using gutters, sewers, and other infrastructure to funnel rainwater out of a metropolis as quickly as possible to prevent flooding. Given the increasingly catastrophic urban flooding seen around the world, though, that clearly isn’t working anymore, so now planners are finding clever ways to capture stormwater, treating it as an asset instead of a liability. “The problem of urban hydrology is caused by a thousand small cuts,” says Michael Kiparsky, director of the Wheeler Water Institute at UC Berkeley. “No one driveway or roof in and of itself causes massive alteration of the hydrologic cycle. But combine millions of them in one area and it does. Maybe we can solve that problem with a thousand Band-Aids.”

Or in this case, sponges. The trick to making a city more absorbent is to add more gardens and other green spaces that allow water to percolate into underlying aquifers—porous subterranean materials that can hold water—which a city can then draw from in times of need. Engineers are also greening up medians and roadside areas to soak up the water that’d normally rush off streets, into sewers, and eventually out to sea...

To exploit all that free water falling from the sky, the LADWP has carved out big patches of brown in the concrete jungle. Stormwater is piped into these spreading grounds and accumulates in dirt basins. That allows it to slowly soak into the underlying aquifer, which acts as a sort of natural underground tank that can hold 28 billion gallons of water.

During a storm, the city is also gathering water in dams, some of which it diverts into the spreading grounds. “After the storm comes by, and it's a bright sunny day, you’ll still see water being released into a channel and diverted into the spreading grounds,” says Castro. That way, water moves from a reservoir where it’s exposed to sunlight and evaporation, into an aquifer where it’s banked safely underground.

On a smaller scale, LADWP has been experimenting with turning parks into mini spreading grounds, diverting stormwater there to soak into subterranean cisterns or chambers. It’s also deploying green spaces along roadways, which have the additional benefit of mitigating flooding in a neighborhood: The less concrete and the more dirt and plants, the more the built environment can soak up stormwater like the actual environment naturally does.

As an added benefit, deploying more of these green spaces, along with urban gardens, improves the mental health of residents. Plants here also “sweat,” cooling the area and beating back the urban heat island effect—the tendency for concrete to absorb solar energy and slowly release it at night. By reducing summer temperatures, you improve the physical health of residents. “The more trees, the more shade, the less heat island effect,” says Castro. “Sometimes when it’s 90 degrees in the middle of summer, it could get up to 110 underneath a bus stop.”

LA’s far from alone in going spongy. Pittsburgh is also deploying more rain gardens, and where they absolutely must have a hard surface—sidewalks, parking lots, etc.—they’re using special concrete bricks that allow water to seep through. And a growing number of municipalities are scrutinizing properties and charging owners fees if they have excessive impermeable surfaces like pavement, thus incentivizing the switch to permeable surfaces like plots of native plants or urban gardens for producing more food locally.

So the old way of stormwater management isn’t just increasingly dangerous and ineffective as the planet warms and storms get more intense—it stands in the way of a more beautiful, less sweltering, more sustainable urban landscape. LA, of all places, is showing the world there’s a better way.

-via Wired, February 19, 2024

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was told I should post this on tumblr

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Yeto's Superb Soup

We made Yeto's soup!! This soup is full of love! And goat cheese! Highly recommend, astonishingly tasty -- warm, creamy, mild, soothing.

Makes about 6 servings.

In a large pot:

1 butternut squash (peeled & diced small)

1 large yukon gold potato or similar (diced larger)

1 yellow or white onion (diced fine)

smallish chunk of ginger (minced)

~4 cloves garlic (minced)

Large pinch of thyme

Dash of salt and pepper

Water to cover

Bring to a simmer and keep simmering 30min or until veg is soft.

Give it a heavy stir or whisk to break up the chunks; exact texture is up to you!

Add:

1 lb salmon fillet (skin off, chunks ~spoon size)

Simmer another 20min or so. In that time, add:

Generous splash or two of heavy cream

6oz or so plain goat cheese, broken up and stirred around so everything mixes

More salt & pepper to taste

This is basically a chowder and can definitely be adjusted to taste! We had it with garlic butter croutons and that was super tasty -- cannot overstate how shockingly delicious it is. Yeto was right, love is stored in the soup ♥

#okay okay i have been peer pressured i have salmon i am going to soup #it is a rainy day a good day for chowder!

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mysterious lotus casebook as screenshots from this compilation specifically

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Springtime in Japan

mblockk

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I stated in my tags in my first post that I felt Liu Qingge should be safe because I felt like this would have occurred pretty early on in Shen Yuan's tenure but then I remembered he was in the Ling Xi caves and so would have been hit with the full force of the new, improved, slut era SQQ all at once. I rescind my original statement. Man never stood a chance

I feel like Shen Jiu was a "robes with necklines up to the chin, five thousand layers" sort of dresser for sure for any number of choose your tragic backstory reasons (scars, social armor etc) though my headcanon is this man MUST have had wild nerve damage—on top of what childhood malnutrition will do to you, whatever went down at Qiu Manor plus all his Qi deviations have to have toasted his nervous system. Which also means toasted thermoregulation! An icicle of a man

All of this is lead up to say I do think a lot about the mass hysteria that must have resulted the first time Shen Yuan got to commission new robes for himself as SQQ. Since he didn't know why the maiden aunt aesthetic I'm sure he chose robes that showed his NECK. Possibly some collarbone. Do you think Yue Qingyuan fainted

#lqg truly was a victim here

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#i read lirael before sabriel so i was a lirael girlie in middle/high school for SURE #i wanted a magical talking dog and to live in a library like nobody's business

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White Crane and Black Lotus

«If you were to compare your partner to an animal, what would they be?”

Without needing to think, Luo Binghe said, “A white crane.”

“I can’t think of an animal,” said Shen Qingqiu. “But I do have a plant. A black lotus.»

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beast peak's shixiong 🐲✨

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I feel like Shen Jiu was a "robes with necklines up to the chin, five thousand layers" sort of dresser for sure for any number of choose your tragic backstory reasons (scars, social armor etc) though my headcanon is this man MUST have had wild nerve damage—on top of what childhood malnutrition will do to you, whatever went down at Qiu Manor plus all his Qi deviations have to have toasted his nervous system. Which also means toasted thermoregulation! An icicle of a man

All of this is lead up to say I do think a lot about the mass hysteria that must have resulted the first time Shen Yuan got to commission new robes for himself as SQQ. Since he didn't know why the maiden aunt aesthetic I'm sure he chose robes that showed his NECK. Possibly some collarbone. Do you think Yue Qingyuan fainted

#i don't think liu qingge would have gotten hit by the wifebeam yet because i assume this must have been pretty early on so he was still safe #still #I'm working on an sqq portrait right now and overthinking his wardrobe obviously #svsss #scum villain #shen qingqiu #shen jiu #I'm back on my bullshit

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"don't let your disability stop you from reaching your goals!" i have no choice but to let my disability put obstacles between me and my goals, you think i just pick and choose when i can/can't do something? it's the literal definition of a disability, it disables you from doing things. how hard is that to understand?

#every time someone asks me why i don't fix my [disability issue] by just doing this ONE MORE THING #i am so tempted to run over their feet with my wheelchair #I'm sorry I'm running on an energy deficit and everything i do takes twice as long as an abled WHY am i going to add extra shit #to my schedule #also no jan i don't think holistic yoga is going to fix my spinal cord injury

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The wrap up trailer for Deng Wei and Xiang Han Zhi's shizunfucker romance xianxia Love of the Divine Tree is MMMMMMMMM.

Bonus:

Oh, and in case you were wondering, he ain't the shizun (in the initial set up at least), he's the shizunfucker. Go get it, boy! :P

#oh no oh no this looks tailor made to absolutely kill me #three caps in and i was already 👀👀👀