If you want context this is what I read before making this post, but is far from the only thing. Just what kicked it off tonight.

We are almost certainly going to hit 2c within a decade (if we want to be doomer, 5 years). I don't know how far 3c is off that. Probably sooner then expected. Billions of people are going to die. Everyone's way of life is going to be upended.

I personally don't want to live through this. I don't want to live through wars, and famines, and whatever else is going to happen.

I am still pretransition. Life kinda sucks. I'm trying to get my shit together a bit, and hope to start E soon, but obviously things are going to take time. Some things might never happen for me.

I have to wonder when, if ever, I'm going to feel happy and content. I definitely haven't felt that way since puberty. I'm hoping that in the next five ish years that it happens. I get far enough in my transition, in my life, whatever. And then we'll hit 2c. That is going to be the beginning of the end. Its going to be so bad. And it will continue to get worse for literally hundreds of years.

And where will I even be. I'll be transitioned, sure, but society is only going to decay further. Climate change getting worse. Fascism. Its all going to fall apart and I will die. Crushed.

I know I should make the most of the time I have or whatever. I'm depressed and dysphoric. I try. But its still hard and sucks. And I worry things will literally just not get better. Or maybe they will be better for a short while. That's my "hope". That I transition, live in a fascist country for a little bit, before the tides of climate change get too close and I quit. That's my future.

Seriously, I fucking hate how this shit got even more convincing compared to like what 2 years ago when this stupid trend started?

This shit has already been abused by the likes of Israel faking gore of literal children and will be used in the future to fake a bunch of shit. Fuck there will probably be court cases of people "comitting crimes" and that used as evidence against them.

Not to mention that a lot of people will be out of a job. I already struggle finding to do commissions for graphic design, digital art and 2D animation. Hell I even spoke to people who have over decades of experience in this shit compared to me and are disheartened seeing flyers and posters both irl and on social media being made by AI.

Even in my college people are glazing It. Hearing from my professors that "It will replace some art forms like the car replaced the horse". FUCK THIS I'M SO SICK OF THIS SHIT

WE LIVE IN ONE OF THOSE MOST UNCOOL AND BORING DISTOPIAS

Hospital staff are scrambling with damage control efforts — implementing emergency masking policies and giving babies as young as three days old injections of immunoglobulin, an antibody that helps their fragile immune system fight off infections.

We estimate that about 80 percent of the Goliathus cacicus population has been wiped out in Côte d'Ivoire if we consider the amount of forest destroyed for cocoa farming. Goliathus regius has similarly lost about 40 percent of its natural habitat.

Dr Philip Huang, director of the Dallas county’s department of health and human services, who told local CBS news affiliate: “There’s concern that some of the people in west Texas are going to spread across the country. It’s not slowing down. This is not over, and there will be more cases.”

https://archive.is/81OIa

Wants lower cost of living? What if you die at 55

I’ve shat on my local organizing group enough on here but I feel like I’m pretty safe to keep continuing to do so. They want to use GroupMe for communication and signal for “on the ground, confidential communication at protests.” I’m sort of the only one pushing back but I’m not a leader, so I have no power whatsoever. Sounds absolutely disastrous

Unfortunately I probably sound very paranoid to most in this group because lot of people do this to make themselves feel better (which you can’t really argue against).

But yeah there is nothing that resembles an organized left in 2025 and I’m starting to feel like there will never be. I’m afraid what I’m describing is happening all over the country, and how could it not be? A lot of people in my (duct-taped) org are holding out for the democrats’ hard shift left. It’s just depressing at this point

paper

Using 300 years of ocean mixed-layer temperature records preserved in sclerosponge carbonate skeletons, we demonstrate that industrial-era warming began in the mid-1860s, more than 80 years earlier than instrumental sea surface temperature records.

Hotter land temperatures, together with the earlier onset of industrial-era warming, indicate that global warming was already 1.7 ± 0.1 °C above pre-industrial levels by 2020. Our result is 0.5 °C higher than IPCC estimates, with 2 °C global warming projected by the late 2020s, nearly two decades earlier than expected.

21% of them still see COVID-19 as a major public health threat, and yet only 4% mask all of the time, with 14% masking “sometimes”, whatever that means — useless when asymptomatic infections exist for all sorts of things.

It really is so few people. I no longer care about being the big communism builder. It takes all of me to survive this madness, and I am barely surviving this blatant negligence and disrespect for health and life. It will happen in our lifetimes, and they’ll cough all over each other to celebrate.

The CDC info doesn't include Florida. It's great that the CDC is a week behind. It's just great.

As of February 27, 2025, a total of 164 measles cases were reported by 9 jurisdictions: Alaska, California, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, Rhode Island, and Texas.

1st case of measles detected in Florida - ABC News

More Measles news. Unvaxxed. This is the second death from this outbreak.

I'm not a huge lover of bugs but I fucking miss seeing them around. When I was a kid only like ten years ago I would go outside and see huge lines of ants and moths flying around and caterpillars in the bushes of my dad's garden. I noticed one summer that I hadn't seen ants in a while, and bees were a precious rare visitor.

The ecological collapse is happening right in front of our eyes and we can't fix or stop it because rich people don't have enough money. We have to just kill everything so that the most evil people in the world can get more money.

As an aesthetic doomerism is over. What once was a delightful tongue and cheek way to explain the reality of the world has effectively been turned into a death cult and a liberal cudgel. Without a clear purpose doomerism in general online spaces is simply another meme based commodity form whose entertainment value undermines any unique world view or political education value it provided previously. In short, it's over, go home.

The progression of doomerism to a death cult has been the most obvious one. It's meme value has shifted from being lived experience of lower class people in a capitalist hellscape to pure copium whose ultimate argument is that you the meme consumer, can die happy knowing you're right. That's it's only current use. The stories have all been told. Doomerism used to explicate the inherent alienation in our modern world, the difficulties in relating to an ever changing world that is always changing seemingly for the worse in unexciting and seemingly permanent ways. Today it's political valence is closer to various anti-civilization anarkiddies, preppers, and the ultra-rich who are burning their cash before the atmosphere rightfully chokes the life out of their lungs.

What doomer has given the craven center left is a lovely thought terminating cliche to defend themselves against accusations of ineptitude. If I'm a center-left presidential candidate who has tons of policy wonks and "documents", but no real plans, doomer is so useful. If anyone asks me:

• You said couldn't be done before what changed?
• You want to do , but what are you going to do against the overwhelming capital opposition?
• Your plan doesn't account for the reality on the ground and it might not even be effective because of that, how can you push this?

I can simply smirk and say "Well I believe that change is possible doomer". I've noticed this a lot of with people whose personalities are often a pastrami sandwich of thinly layered commodity-forms. That anything that is against their toxic optimism is "doomer". Anything that forces them to think critically about how things are, and what we should do? Doomer. Anything statement/art/position that is hard or challenging regardless of any other valence is doomer. Doomer is effectively a cudgel primarily used by cosmopolitan liberals to label you a party pooper.

This creates a ratchet effect for belief systems, in the same sense that Democrats are a rachet for the US government. The more doomerism is used in this way, the less effect political change has, the more problems fester, the underlying problems become harder, prompting a much lower bar for allegations of doomerism in the next cycle.

It's really depressing and infuriating that every class that talks about policy or the social studies and planning parts of environmental science. All conversation has moved away from preventing climate change to reacting to the fallout. It's all about adapting to "the inevitable" rather than prevention.

It's kind of triggering for me and every time I take classes that talk about these subjects I start feeling a sinking sense of doom. Like I'm being told to give up keeping this planet healthy before I even start. It's reminding me about how COVID was mishandled and how much suffering was caused by the "oh well shit happens" approach.

I'm really enjoying the hard science side of this degree though, but I am going to have to start thinking about entering a career in this area soon, and I'm wondering, will I be able to cope when I'm faced with this mindset?

archive.today • Amid Texas’s measles outbreak, vaccine resistance hardens in Seminole - The Washington Post

It's one of the most frustrating and maddening articles I've ever read. I planned to read the whole thing but after I read the first half - I wanted to smash my head into my desk so I figured I better stop reading. It both sides this stuff.

On one side - science, medicine, facts, logic, and reason.

On the other side - woo-woo plus a "golden shield" made out of lemon and honey.

Who's to say which is right?

300,000~ km² under previous February lows:

Another graph showing basically the same thing, look at how fucking flat these last two weeks have been. Not going up at all. Is- is that the peak? Too early to actually call it but- fuck.

La Nina year