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It has been a really neat week watching #Republicans talk about how serious federal gun charges are and #Democrats suggest that it's...

It has been a really neat week watching #Republicans talk about how serious federal gun charges are and #Democrats suggest that it's fine to lie about drugs on your 4473.

Heat is absolutely terrifying

Heat is absolutely terrifying

#heatstroke #climate #climatechange #heat "The Heat Will Kill You First" by Jeff Goodell"On a hot day, the road to heatstroke...

#heatstroke #climate #climatechange #heat

"The Heat Will Kill You First" by Jeff Goodell

"On a hot day, the road to heatstroke looks like this: As soon as you step outside, your blood grows warmer, heated by the sun’s radiation and your own rising metabolism. Keeping your core body temperature at around 98 degrees—the happy place for humans—now requires work. Receptors in the preoptic area of your brain’s hypothalamus start to fire, telling your circulatory system to push more blood toward your skin, where the heat can be dissipated. Your sweat glands begin to pump salty liquid from a tiny reservoir at the base of the gland up to the surface of your skin. You sweat. As the sweat evaporates, the heat is carried away.

But the amount of heat your body can dissipate through sweat is limited. Your blood vessels dilate, trying to move as much overheated blood to the surface as possible. But if you don’t find a place to cool off, your core body temperature will rise quickly. And the harder you are working your muscles, the faster it will rise. Your heart pumps madly, trying to push as much blood as possible to your skin to cool off, but it can’t keep up. As your blood is shunted away from your core, your internal organs—your liver, your kidneys, your brain—become starved for blood and the oxygen it carries. You feel light-headed. Your vision dims and narrows. As your core body temperature rises to 101 degrees, 102 degrees, 103 degrees, you feel wobbly—and due to the falling blood pressure in your brain, you will likely pass out. This is in fact an involuntary survival mechanism, a way for your brain to get your body horizontal and get some blood to your head.

At this point, if you get help and can cool down quickly, you can recover with little permanent damage.

But if you fall onto the ground in a place that is exposed to the sun and lie there, the dangers increase. It’s like falling into a hot frying pan. Ground temperatures can be twenty to thirty degrees above air temperature. Your heart becomes desperate to circulate blood and find a way to cool down. But the faster your heart beats, the more your metabolism increases, which generates more heat, which causes your heart to beat even faster. It’s a lethal feedback loop: As your internal temperature rises, rather than cranking up your air conditioner, your body fires up your furnace. If you have a weak heart, that might be the end for you.

At a body temperature of 105 to 106 degrees, your limbs are convulsed by seizures. At 107 and above, your cells themselves literally begin to break down or “denature.” Cell membranes—the thin lipid walls that protect the inner workings of your cells—literally melt. Inside your cells, the proteins essential to life—the ones that extract energy from food or sunlight, fend off invaders, destroy waste products, and so on—often have beautifully precise shapes. The proteins start as long strands, then fold into helixes, hairpins, and other configurations, as dictated by the sequence of their components. These shapes define the function of proteins. But as the heat rises, the proteins unfold and the bonds that keep the structures together break: first the weaker ones, and then, as the temperature mounts, the stronger ones. At the most fundamental level, your body unravels.

At this point, no matter how strong or healthy you may be, your odds of survival are slim. The tiny tubes in your kidneys that filter out waste and impurities in your blood are collapsing. Muscle tissues are disintegrating. You develop holes in your intestines, and nasty toxins from your digestive tract flow into your bloodstream. Amid all this chaos, your circulatory system responds by clotting your blood, cutting off its flow to vital organs. This triggers what doctors call a clotting cascade, which uses up all the clotting proteins in your blood and, paradoxically, leaves you free to bleed elsewhere. Your insides melt and disintegrate—you are hemorrhaging everywhere."

Whenever I take a flight, I always like to read #stephenking 's The Langoliers. In that same vein, while it's 1 million degrees in...

Whenever I take a flight, I always like to read #stephenking 's The Langoliers. In that same vein, while it's 1 million degrees in #texas I'm reading "The Heat Will Kill You First"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63251778-the-heat-will-kill-you-first

#ClimateCrisis #climatechange

This is the best episode of #KingoftheHill #KotH

This is the best episode of #KingoftheHill #KotH

“The last time the earth was four degrees warmer….. there was no ice at either pole and sea level was 260 feet higher. There were palm...

“The last time the earth was four degrees warmer….. there was no ice at either pole and sea level was 260 feet higher. There were palm trees in the Arctic. Better not to think what that means for life at the equator.” #climate #ClimateChange

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41552709

Tonight’s board game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/274637/unmatched-battle-legends-volume-one

Tonight’s board game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/274637/unmatched-battle-legends-volume-one

I like the end of Pride "month."It's like we finished a dinner party and the uninvited guests leave. We sweep up broken...

I like the end of Pride "month."

It's like we finished a dinner party and the uninvited guests leave. We sweep up broken glasses and check what was stolen from our medicine cabinet.

We fold up the chairs of late-to-the-party corporate salesmen who donate to our opponents. We take down cringey ad posters, thought up by PR Gays to pay for their overpriced apartments to sell us. whatever.

We throw away wristbands for "inclusive" events that gouged at the door, where the only folks of color were behind the DJ booth and working security, giving nothing to mutual aids. No more small talk about LGBTQ shows with only light-skinned actors, no more humoring queerbaiting "ally" stunts or politicians who pulled up in rainbow cop cars.

We can stop talking shop on how to buy and sell Pride. We can get back to the good stuff: defending our rights and living our culture.

This cleanup, this cackling while washing wine glasses and rolling our eyes, this unpacking is our real Pride. Ours, year-long, life-long.

Now the real party begins.

- Leo Herrera

#pride #poetry #gay #queer #lgbt

If your friends won’t skip the #wizardgame for you they won’t take up arms against #fascists for you. #harrypotter

If your friends won’t skip the #wizardgame for you they won’t take up arms against #fascists for you. #harrypotter

Someone once told me what their blood type was and I thought that was amazing that they knew and they thought it was wild that I didn’t...

Someone once told me what their blood type was and I thought that was amazing that they knew and they thought it was wild that I didn’t know mine. I started asking people their blood type and everyone that knew it were straight folks and found out by giving blood. Just an interesting difference I thought.

The last 5-6 years have me rooting for the #asteroid https://apple.news/Aqqd6oAUuRFi-HbHzrjxUKw

The last 5-6 years have me rooting for the #asteroid

https://apple.news/Aqqd6oAUuRFi-HbHzrjxUKw

And the #liberal response:"By now you have guessed that I am not the audience for this book. I have a job, and am therefore invested in...

And the #liberal response:

"By now you have guessed that I am not the audience for this book. I have a job, and am therefore invested in building a system where you get paid for your work and pay others for theirs, and then everyone pays taxes to make sure that if these arrangements don’t work out, you can still have a dignified life."

https://archive.is/20221228141044/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/there-no-defense-looting/615925/

A fascinating book that I'm reading.“Indeed, although you might hang out in it, how can a chain convenience store or corporate...

A fascinating book that I'm reading.

“Indeed, although you might hang out in it, how can a chain convenience store or corporate restaurant earnestly be part of anyone’s neighborhood? The same white #liberals who inveigh against #corporations for destroying local communities are aghast when rioters take their critique to its actual material conclusion.”

#looting #rioting #protest #book

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50999303-in-defense-of-looting

I’ve been living under the possibility of layoffs since last summer and I’m noticing that if everything you’re doing is preparing to...

I’ve been living under the possibility of layoffs since last summer and I’m noticing that if everything you’re doing is preparing to be laid off, just stuffing money into a bag, you do not spend much time worrying about the work, or your skills, or learning new things, because how much is this really going to matter in 3 months. #layoffs

https://reason.com/2021/10/27/why-martin-luther-king-couldnt-get-a-carry-permit/

https://reason.com/2021/10/27/why-martin-luther-king-couldnt-get-a-carry-permit/

All cops are bastards especially includes the ATF. #acab #atf

All cops are bastards especially includes the ATF. #acab #atf

The greatest worker solidarity song ever written?#dollyparton #dollyTumble out of bed and I stumble to the kitchenPour myself a cup of...

The greatest worker solidarity song ever written?

#dollyparton #dolly

Tumble out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen
Pour myself a cup of ambition
And yawn and stretch and try to come to life
Jump in the shower and the blood starts pumpin'
Out on the street, the traffic starts jumpin'
With folks like me on the job from 9 to 5

Workin' 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin'
Barely gettin' by, it's all takin' and no givin'
They just use your mind and they never give you credit
It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it
9 to 5, for service and devotion
You would think that I would deserve a fair promotion
Want to move ahead but the boss won't seem to let me
I swear sometimes that man is out to get me

They let you dream just to watch 'em shatter
You're just a step on the boss man's ladder
But you've got dreams he'll never take away
In the same boat with a lot of your friends
Waitin' for the day your ship'll come in
And the tide's gonna turn an' it's all gonna roll your way

Working 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin'
Barely gettin' by, it's all takin' and no givin'
They just use your mind and you never get the credit
It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it

9 to 5, yeah, they got you where they want you
There's a better life and you think about it don't you
It's a rich man's game no matter what they call it
And you spend your life puttin' money in his wallet

9 to 5, what a way to make a livin'
Barely gettin' by, it's all takin' and no givin'
They just use your mind and they never give you credit
It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it

9 to 5, yeah, they got you where they want you
There's a better life and you think about it don't you
It's a rich man's game no matter what they call it
And you spend your life puttin' money in his wallet