The year 2024 saw contrasting wildfire activity across the globe: Records in parts of South America and intense fires in North America, near-to-average in Europe and Oceana, below average in most parts of Asia. Read our full summary here: atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cams-global-...

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— Copernicus ECMWF (@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social) December 6, 2024 at 6:12 AM

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Chaplinesque.

"That now familiar feeling of missing someone who died while also being relieved they don't have to live through this." --@maudnewton.bsky.social

"Only about 50 million customers of America’s reigning medical monopoly might have a motive to exact revenge upon the UnitedHealthcare CEO." (via @bonniehonig.bsky.social)

         "Bavarian Gentians

   Not every man has gentians in his house
   in soft September, at slow, sad Michaelmas.

   Bavarian gentians, big and dark, only dark
darkening the day-time torch-like with the smoking blueness of Pluto's gloom,
ribbed and torch-like, with their blaze of darkness spread blue
down flattening into points, flattened under the sweep of white day
torch-flower of the blue-smoking darkness, Pluto's dark-blue daze,
black lamps from the halls of Dis, burning dark blue,
giving off darkness, blue darkness, as Demeter's pale lamps give off light,
   lead me then, lead me the way.
Reach me a gentian, give me a torch
let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower
down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness,
even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September
to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark
and Persephone herself is but a voice
or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark
of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom,
among the splendour of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the lost bride and her groom."

--D H Lawrence

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