#by which I mean like 10 minutes but like

[reasonsforhope]

"In an unprecedented step to preserve and maintain the most carbon-rich elements of U.S. forests in an era of climate change, President Joe Biden’s administration last week proposed to end commercially driven logging of old-growth trees in National Forests.

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, issued a Notice of Intent to amend the land management plans of all 128 National Forests to prioritize old-growth conservation and recognize the oldest trees’ unique role in carbon storage. 

It would be the first nationwide amendment to forest plans in the 118-year history of the Forest Service, where local rangers typically have the final word on how to balance forests’ role in watershed, wildlife and recreation with the agency’s mandate to maintain a “sustained yield” of timber.

“Old-growth forests are a vital part of our ecosystems and a special cultural resource,” Vilsack said in a statement accompanying the notice. “This clear direction will help our old-growth forests thrive across our shared landscape.”

But initial responses from both environmentalists and the logging industry suggest that the plan does not resolve the conflict between the Forest Service’s traditional role of administering the “products and services” of public lands—especially timber—and the challenges the agency now faces due to climate change. National Forests hold most of the nation’s mature and old-growth trees, and therefore, its greatest stores of forest carbon, but that resource is under growing pressure from wildfire, insects, disease and other impacts of warming.

Views could not be more polarized on how the National Forests should be managed in light of the growing risks.

National and local environmental advocates have been urging the Biden administration to adopt a new policy emphasizing preservation in National Forests, treating them as a strategic reserve of carbon. Although they praised the old-growth proposal as an “historic” step, they want to see protection extended to “mature” forests, those dominated by trees roughly 80 to 150 years old, which are a far larger portion of the National Forests. As old-growth trees are lost, which can happen rapidly due to megafires and other assaults, they argue that the Forest Service should be ensuring there are fully developed trees on the landscape to take their place...

The Biden administration’s new proposal seeks to take a middle ground, establishing protection for the oldest trees under its stewardship while allowing exceptions to reduce fuel hazards, protect public health and safety and other purposes. And the Forest Service is seeking public comment through Feb. 2 (Note: That's the official page for the proposed rule, but for some reason you can only submit comments through the forest service website - so do that here!) on the proposal as well as other steps needed to manage its lands to retain mature and old-growth forests over time, particularly in light of climate change.

If the Forest Service were to put in place nationwide protections for both mature and old-growth forests, it would close off most of the National Forests to logging. In an inventory concluded earlier this year in response to a Biden executive order, the Forest Service found that 24.7 million acres, or 17 percent, of its 144.3 million acres of forest are old-growth, while 68.1 million acres, or 47 percent, are mature."

-via Inside Climate News, December 20, 2023

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Note: This proposed rule is current up for public comment! If you're in the US, you can go here to file an official comment telling the Biden administration how much you support this proposal - and that you think it should be extended to mature forests!

Official public comments really DO matter. You can leave a comment on this proposal here until February 2nd.

#united states #us politics #conservation #climate change #sustainability #forests #old growth forest #national forest #carbon emissions #climate action #climate crisis #forest service #biden #biden administration #public comment #good news #hope #it took me soooo long to hunt down the actual public comment link #by which I mean like 10 minutes but like #that's too long! especially considering I am way better at navigating language and bureaucratic websites like this #than A LOT of people #why tf can't you just comment on the Official Website For Public Commenting? #aka regulations.gov #baffling #anyway the good news is I did find it so pls do go ahead and submit a comment if you can

[conscydraws]

My first 15 hours in Death Stranding

#conscydraws #death stranding #sam porter bridges #illustration #artists on tumblr #video games #meme #when i went out today the weather was pretty much like that. worse even. #i came back in 10 minutes fully soaked #thought how nice it would be to have clothes alike Sam's #it's also fair to say that i'm slowly moving towards a personal artstyle #been playing with lasso and airbrush and found out that it's much more effective and quicker than anything i did prior #which means i will be able to make moar art! :)))) #about the illustration. i was keeping one particular location in mind from the first part of the map. there i died several times #although i depicted the stones not so accurately can you guess where it is? 😁 #i still haven't finished the game btw #death stranding fanart

[lindonwald]

quick sketch because I forgot how much I love this guy

#hetalia #aph poland #hws poland #doodle #I really mean quick this was like 10 minutes hahahaha #also very messy panel redraw from the panel where him and liet meet #yknow the one #it’s where he says show me your dick #YKNOW WHICH ONE I MEAN

[doctor-octiddius]

Hey, since I've been hyperfixated on and off on Willy Wonka for years now, and maybe there's a bigger crowd now for this character, here are some headcanons (and maybe some kinda canon stuff) I wrote down a while back !!! (I'm very normal about him, I swear. Also I like to add bits of myself to my fave characters so if it's cringe then so be it.)

Spends way too much time in the Wonkavator, nyooming around the factory whenever he has free time

Took a long break from candy making - Learnt a bunch of languages, probably made one or two up too - Learnt a bunch of different instruments - He just likes to learn new stuff all the time, give him any fun facts and he'll stare at you like the autism creature

Starved from any sort of human interaction, please someone hold him

Allergic to dogs

On a similar note: invented chocolate that dogs can eat - Has yet to figure out a way to make the chocolate make the dogs hypoallergenic - I think it would be funny to say that his favourite dogs are chocolate labs

Asexual and maybe a little gay, who knows

And autistic - C'mon man, look at him.

Type of guy to never chew on chocolate, he lets it melt in his mouth

Misophonia haver

Incredibly naïve when he was younger, immense trust issues when he’s older - That candy making career sure broke a man !!!

#if you would've seen my twitter in 2020 #i was going INSANE over wonka #he truly means the world to me #and it's so funny to see how much of a different sort of audience he now has thanks to the new movie #WHICH I LOVE. I LOVE THIS MOVIE. #i have a 10 minute video about the 70s movie i made... sigh... #and then youtube didn't let me upload it but then i saw like two 2005 version videos that same day so... rude. #felix fickelgruber i am free every day btw #willy wonka #wonka #wonka movie #wonka 2023

[adashofniallandasprinkleoflunacy]

home from work

#if I speak… #one of the girls walked out yesterday #the best worker we have is on the verge of blowing up on this bitch’s leaders bc since he can do everything quick and efficiently already #they’re putting 3 to 4 ppl’s workloads on him to see how far they can extend his worth and then they’re over his shoulder the whole time #micromanaging him so today he almost lost it and was literally walking around mumbling about his disrespectful they all are (facts) #and how if they don’t think he’s doing it right then they can do it and I know for a fact one of the ladies heard him #bc he wasn’t even trying to hide it at this point and like this dude is cool he has a lot of patience and helps out any way he can #so if HE’S on the brink of snapping then the rest of us don’t stand a chance LMFAO #anyways today was a fucking mess those leaders know nothing about our store yet so they have us making less than what we need until we need #it so we get behind constantly and they made prep a disaster bc again they think they can just prep a bunch of stuff in the morning #and it’ll last the whole day and yes that works in theory but the reality of the situation is every day is different and today #we sold double what we did yesterday so they had to move me to prep to fix their mistakes bc we were running out of stuff 4 hours in lmfao #and I’m the only one left who knows how to do everything on prep bc the other girls had never done it before #we’re supposed to prep 20 mac n cheese trays in the morning for the whole day #we open lunch at 10:30 tell me why I go into the cooler at 12 put more in the oven and there’s only 5 left #it’s been less than 2 HOURS and you’re already running out of macs which means those idiots prepped barely anything just to try and save mo #*money to cut down waste but that gag if you’re losing money bc now you’re short on everything and customers are leaving bc they’re having #to wait a long time for their food #and macs take 40 minutes to cool LMFAO #I get over there they’re out of parfaits they’re out of fruit cups they’re out of kale salads the front is coming in and having to take #stuff as I make it bc they keep getting orders and it’s all just a fucking mess #I have to make a custom wrap and what happens?? those morons didn’t pull the flatbreads out of the freezer like they’re supposed to every #night so now we have no flatbread and I had to run back there and put them in the warming drawer to defrost and we lost an order bc I had #nothing to make the wraps with <3 #I go back there to get more cold chicken SPOILER ALERT they didn’t have anyone make any this morning so now there’s no chicken for the wrap #and salad and it has to be grilled and then chilled for 2 FUCKING HOURS before it can be used #they’re a fucking disaster like 😭 #was the store perfect before?? ofc not but it ran quickly and efficiently as it should and now it’s literally just a mess #this bitch hasn’t even owned it for a full week yet and has already fucked it all up #womp womp!!!!!!

[michi-chelle-draws]

there, fixed the ending cg

#room no. 9 #daichi kobayashi #seiji azumi #fanart #screencap redraw #seiji you absolute coward #hold his hand goddammit that’s your whole bestie he’s literally crying and reaching out to you for support after a life-changing experience #like i don’t think it’d be that out of character for seiji to grab daichi’s hand in that moment of vulnerability lol #esp considering they’d already jerked each other off like 10 minutes prior even tho it was sorta kinda against their will but anyway #me holding this game: i can fix this *removes the homophobia and baiting and gives the characters and their relationship proper development* #tho my fujoh ass acknowledges that the homophobia is pretty much what’s supposed to make their dynamic and their situation spicy #like a ‘it’s hot because it’s wrong’ type of trope which i mean sure i get it i guess but i just need seiji and daichi to wed that’s all #room no 9

[brutal-out-here]

Me crying to the new Percy Jackson trailer once more, this show is actually going to kill me

#raineyrambles #percy jackson #percy jackson series #what do you mean something I’ve loved for 10 years is getting a faithful adaptation!?!? #also I haven’t read the 1st book again in those 10 years and I guarantee I’ve forgotten some parts #so I decided when it was first announced I’d spend the few weeks before reading it again #so right after exams I will be diving into reading it #which I will probably either finish it in 2 days or like 5 minutes before the show releases lol

[idissectgermanwords]

Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz (noun, neutral):

Rind (noun, neutral); bovine

Fleisch (noun, neutral); flesh, meat

Etikette (noun, feminine); etiquette

-ung (suffix, feminine); used for the nominalization of verbs

über- (preffix); over

wachen (weak verb); guard, watch

-ung (suffix, feminine); used for the nominalization of verbs

auf- (prefix); on, to

geben (strong verb); give

über- (prefix); over

tragen (strong verb); carry

-ung (suffix, feminine), used for the nominalization of verbs

sitzen (strong verb); sit

#i was wondering if i could do this in around 30 minutes. more like 15 minutes #also i did this in the worst way possible. 'gesetz' means law. but it also comes from the word 'setzen' which comes from 'sitzen' which #means sit. and because i dissect words. i dissect them so far that i get down to the original word. mostly #now fully. i decided to also go with 'Etikette' instead of 'Etikett' because the word for label (Etikett) comes from 'Etikette'. which come #from the french word étiquette because i thought that was funnier #exclusively for myself. i need the enrichment. otherwise why would i decide to do this word? it was quite enjoyable #noun #13 parts #this law doesn't even exist anymore. you are all 10 years late. and so am i. but i don't care about being on time #fixed something

[m00ngbin]

I feel like barf and I spent a bunch of time stress studying for a bunch of exams that are two months to a year away so I can't say that my commentary is going to be spectacular and everything that these next two chapters deserve but by god I'm going to try and that's all that I really need to do anyways

#give me 10-20 minutes to see if i stop being nauseous and if yes ill do it today and if not ill still do it today #just probably less than normal #urgh i feel like im about to pass out #I MEAN FALL ASLEEP #people always think i mean PASS OUT pass out but i always mean fall asleep where im sitting #has nobody ever heard being super tired described as feeling like youre about to pass out #is that really not a thing #today was too much #i know only maybe two people read these things anyways but thats ok #they and i are pretty much my target audience anyways #i like reading my thoughts back to myself which is like. kind of weird #but maybe its not #maybe its so so so so so normal

[reasonsforhope]

Tumblr just completely ate an hour's worth of posts that I was finishing up front my drafts!!! What the fuck!!!

...Anyone know a way to potentially retrieve them? I finished them in drafts and hit "add to queue" and then FOOLISHLY ASSUMED they were added and so deleted the un-modified/unfinished versions in my drafts. Foolishly!

#not news #blog business #an hour's worth of posts technically here means like 3 #they were really good and powerful posts #and therefore very detailed!!! #me #admin #yeah it does typically take me 10-30 minutes per post tbh #which is why I don't post twice a day or anything lmao

[youremyonlyhope]

Weird intense sertraline dreams are super real side effect.

#zoloft #sertraline #i just took a nap from like 9pm-ish to 11pm #i had a dream with a whole bunch of youtubers in it and i have no clue why #i think i made up like half of them just from names i've heard while others were people i either still watch or just used to watch #and there were LEVELS to this dream that i didn't even fully realize until like 30 minutes after waking up #like one youtuber was being called by another name yet they still had drama with another who was there #and it took me remembering the dream to realize that that drama was somewhat real but the different name made me not notice at first #it was WEIRD. also at one point i was living in like a campus or something but there were different climates like every 20 feet #like snow but also multiple pools and a weird like rollercoaster but you walk/slide in it... this is vaguely still coming back to me #also a weird sauna i was in then someone helped me out of it #and LITERALLY as if i was playing the sims i felt my consciousness almost like press buttons to change the POV #and the 'camera' left my eyes and moved to the outside of the sauna so i watched the person carry my sleeping body out #and i'm just NOW remembering that part and being like... what... i mean i literally intentionally changed the camera controls of my dream #guys i am hennaing my hair i was supposed to rinse it out at like 10:30ish but slept through that so i've had it in for an extra hour #which is fine. i like the more intense color. but i've been slowly remembering bits and pieces of this dream #for the last 45 minutes and it's so weird i need to somewhat document it #because it was like 4 different plotlines and the youtuber one was only one of them and the campus thing was another #oh my god i just remembered clark baxtresser from starkid was in the campus part and he was singing and i was like chasing him #through the rollercoaster (or maybe just sliding behind him?) and singing along and i think i dreamt that part due to VHS Christmas Carol #that JUST came back to me. that was such a weird aspect. i think i thought it was weird even in the moment. #i haven't remembered most of the weird sertraline dreams so i'm glad i put down bits of this one

[lettuce-gremlin]

"Neverafter will just be a full season of Baron from the Baronees" "Watching a Crown of Candy to get mentally prepared for Neverafter!" Does the first 30 minutes of The Unsleeping City season 1 mean nothing to you all?

#specifically Pete's introduction to Nod #which is in the last like 10 or so minutes of that 30 minutes #but y'all get what i mean #dimension 20 #neverafter #the unsleeping city

[cloysterbell]

So I'm an RTD girlie who gave up on doctor who somewhere in the moffat era before chibnall even took over and so I've missed all of thirteen's tenure. I don't have it in me to watch all of her seasons at this moment in time but I LOVE Jodie and your gifs look so compelling.

Would you be able to recommend your top 5 episodes with 13 or something so I can rectify the error of my ways, at least a little bit?

Hmmmmmmm I would say that for a complete Thirteen novice you should watch:

The Woman Who Fell to Earth

It Takes You Away

Spyfall pts 1 & 2

The Haunting of Villa Diodati

And probably Fugitive of the Judoon and The Timeless Children just because those are very important series lore episodes that are important to watch even if you very much disagree with most of the choices that Chibnall made

Also probably The Power of the Doctor so you can watch Thirteen's full regeneration episode (and Jacob Anderson <3)

#questionbell #anonymous #i will also admit this openly: the gifs I'm reblogging look compelling because I'm very selectively cherry picking #the best part of each episode to amplify #i love jodie and i love thirteen so much but god are some of her episodes dull #chibnall had no idea what to do with her and the companions offer absolutely nothing #and i mean it. i do say this with love but jodie/thirteen could've been INCREDIBLE if she'd had anything good to work with #which is why she shines when she's up against sacha as the master #he gives her something to bounce off and play with whereas yaz just gawks at her like a bug under a microscope #but i do think the biggest issue is that there are just too many characters in each episode #villa diodati has like 10 characters in it which is far too many to successfully do anything with #because you can't further yaz's storyline while also making us care about shelley and the lone cyberman and the cyberium all in 50 minutes #and that's where i think the chib era suffered the most #it tried to do too much and in doing so accomplished nothing at all #anyway i do genuinely like these few episodes so you should very much check them out and form your own opinion #just don't watch rosa or orphan 55

[beskad]

me every day: yes, I understand that I have ptsd. yes, it will frequently disrupt my life in sometimes (seemingly) random ways. sometimes this will necessitate leaving work or disclosing things about myself to a supervisor or friend or bystander because it's freaking them out and THEY are now panicking and often wanting to call me an ambulance. this is just a fact. it's fine. i'm dealing with it. most years are easier than the ones before them. it's fine.

me when my ptsd is actually triggered: what is happening right now. why can't I breathe. why can't I stand up. why do I feel like I'm about to throw up and die. oh, I know!!! I must be having an allergic reaction to something!!!! I'm suddenly coming down with the flu in the span of 3 minutes!!! this is so weird!!!!!!!

#EDIT: talk of PTSD proceed with caution #it's morphed a little over the years lololol #used to present as very obvious and unmistakable panic attacks with crying and hyperventilating #10 years later and it's quieter. 70% of the time the whole world just shrinks to a 1 foot bubble around me and everything goes dark #at least i didn't actually throw up this time around #and i was able to pinpoint the trigger about 2 hours in #once i was able to think again #and it was a song. 30 seconds of a song. #noticed right away that something felt wrong so i hit stop #but it was too late lmao within 5 minutes it was hard to breathe and the room was spinning and within 10 i crawled upstairs and passed out #but yeah like in the moment i often don't understand what's happening #i don't realize until I've passed out and woken up again #i had to lay down on the floor in the backroom of my retail job once and it scared the shit out of everyone #i usually stay somewhat lucid but i rarely realize I'm reacting to a trigger until after I've recovered #which means then I'm laying on a floor woozily insisting I'm fine #and then have the SUPER FUN TIME of having to explain everything after the fact once my brain and body are working again #I have a few long time coworkers who realize I've been triggered before I do lmao #They're like. Bro. You need to sit down. Right fucking now or you're gonna fall #rray.txt

[somethingwittythiswaycomes]

Friends, wish me luck

we're moving, we found a place last sunday by coincidence and after a bunch of scrambling around put in an offer and it was accepted

i'm not sure when i became the type of person with a realtor and a lawyer, but apparently after being an adult for 12 years you can just end up with these things?

#i'm really excited but also stressed out #bc we need to sell our current house in order to buy the new one #which means i have 12 years of adhd brain mess to clean out of my current place first #also it's so fucking galling that the stupid cleaning projects my brain weasels insisted were 'too hard' or would 'take too long' took like #2 hours tops so far? maybe 3? #i've cleaned the soap scum out of the tub in like 10 minutes #apparently you just need the right product #and the microwave looks like new now and it took 10 minutes? #i swear i've tried to clean it before and it didn't work #but now i've got an external pressure forcing me to find solutions #but i've also declared that we are making room in the budget to hire a cleaning service to come bi weekly to the new place #bc i swear i need help and im in a place now where i can afford it #sometimes the cheapest way to pay for something is with money #theana shhhh

[pikslasrce]

eja dubović i zlatko kićuragović. braća diskać elizij

#i can run you through my thought process its crazy insane i wanted to translate kims surname but i gave up after 10 minutes of searching #i did find what it means but like. its easier to make up something that will kinda have a ring similar to kitsuragi #kim means gold in korean so i roughly translated it to zlatko #as for harry i used his full name and found how the bird hes named after is called in serbian and used that #and for his surname i did the same as w kims which means i just slapped an -ić on what it already was #disco elysium #piksla.txt