Leela Sinha

Good ask for a good cause!

hey friends, I've got a big ask, but I really need this

I've got an opportunity to get a mobility aid that would work so much better for my living circumstances than most

for hundreds of dollars cheaper than usual

but it means I need to make $3960 by the end of the month

please help if you can 💙

Let's All Remember When We Saved The World To remind ourselves we can do it again.

I honestly don't think everyone talks enough about how amazing it was when the world came together to fix the hole in the ozone layer, so I wrote this:

everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/lets-all-r...

It's a good reminder of what we're capable of.

The Nut Haus soft open is a hit! 🛖🥜🐿️

In Front-Line Ukrainian Towns, Those Who Stayed Become Moving Targets Three-and-a-half years into the war, the conflict is growing deadlier for civilians, with explosive drones reshaping life in front-line towns and villages.

Small drones are increasingly being used by armed actors to target civilians all over the world, and I really need to figure out how I can devote my time to researching (and thus, trying to somehow address) this horrible problem

www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

Giorgio Armani, whose streamlined fashions ruled the red carpet, dies at 91 He brought refinement to the power suit and transformed contemporary fashion.

Breaking news: Giorgio Armani, the famed fashion designer, has died at 91.

He was the president, chief executive and sole shareholder of his self-titled luxury fashion house.

The best place to read tributes to Andrea Gibson in the middle of the night when I can't sleep turns out to be my substack notes feed.
It is such a good company to long for their exquisite presence in.

The good posts are the prodigy shit that drop at 3am. Like farmers are waking up and breaking the thin pane of ice covering the washbarrel with their giant hands while I'm here with a kinda funny thing I just need to let the world know about before I fall asleep in the sitting position on the couch.

We should be putting a gargantuan amount of money into solar and storage. War economy levels. It should be free to have a guy from the government solar your house up. Electricity should basically cost nothing.

There is currently an NWS flash flood warning in effect for all five boroughs of NYC.

But no City agency has posted it on this platform.

Please help spread the word.

“If you live in a basement apartment or low-lying area, be ready to move to higher ground.”

If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.

Thinking of Andrea Gibson, who died this morning.

Who are five of your favorite poets?

David Whyte
ee cummings
Ntozake Shange
That person who wrote that no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark
Gibson themself
Maya Angelou

Ok that's six but how can you say no to Angelou?

It was 25% when I first rented an apartment.

Ongoing Risk of Dengue Virus Infections and Updated Testing Recommendations in the United States Dengue activity remains high in some parts of the United States and globally.

Coupled with changes in mosquito habitat and survival due to climate change, no AC in parts of the US could result in *huge* infectious disease burden. Malaria and yellow fever used to be common in the southern US; we’re newly seeing locally-acquired dengue there this year.

Three quarters left over. Did we forget?

I spent .decades. fighting my own brain, trying to change its patterns of fatalism. I was told that society didn't approve of letting oneself drop out of the struggle to survive. Apparently though, it has become acceptable to stop humanity trying to survive. It's baffling and not ok.

It appears that we now know the answers and are arguing about whether we should use them, across the board. Sustainable transit, sustainable energy, human rights...

...one can only conclude that some portion of the leadership does not wish humanity to be sustained.

Ed Miliband would let a turbine farm destroy Brontë country. We need net zero, but at what cost? | Simon Jenkins Of course the climate crisis must be confronted, but history, tranquility and beauty must also count for something, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Counter: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a moor in possession of a strong gust shall be in want of a wind turbine. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bike lane opposition is always about vibes. Advocates have hard data about safety, traffic, and economic benefits. Opponents just say things "feel" different. Despite the city's own Better Bike Lanes Project showing no impact on congestion.

People are like “you really think we should normalize air conditioning? That pales in comparison to my plan of insulating houses and providing AC to vulnerable populations and then not insulating houses nor providing AC to vulnerable populations.”

Recalls the family holiday where we all got heat exhaustion at White Sands national monument. US deserts and national parks are a different scale of hot and a different scale of big to anything we’re used to.

Burnout is clinically understood as a combo of 6 factors—work overload, lack of control, insufficient rewards, breakdown in community, absence of fairness, & value conflicts—and only a fraction of it is under your control. Burnout is a systemic problem, so be kind to yourself and hard on the system.

Four young Great Horned Owlets sitting in a nest in a tree.

Earlier this Spring, I found a Great Horned Owl sitting on a nest. After keeping an eye on the location for a few weeks, I was rewarded with getting to watch these four owlets emerge and begin exploring the world. #wildlife #birds #owls

A bee of unknown species curled around the yellow stamens of a coral flower

Please observe this very fine bee. The mallow flower he’s in is about the size of my fingernail.

Yep. I've given up on convincing people that it's a series of sophisticated zeroes and ones and does not feel anything like empathy.

I also think it points to how hungry people are for emotional connection and how weirdly unacceptable we've made it to be emotional with people.

Moral choices do not have a time degradation mechanic. If it's still wrong you still should act accordingly. It's not milk expiring in your fridge.

"There were never any rules, but there were consequences," is something I heard recently regarding women talking about their prior relationships and I never saw it like that, but yeah

What I'm often trying to explain to people is how deeply physical the experience is.