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  • Richmond is Melting and So Am I

    By a man who thought Virginia summers were supposed to be charming and full of fireflies, not the actual fires of hell. It is currently 102°F in Richmond, Virginia. That’s not a heatwave—that’s the sun filing a restraining order against us for getting too close. The weather app isn’t even pretending anymore. It just says…

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  • Climate Change: Balancing Skepticism, Truth, and Survival.

    Let’s start with this: ever imagine if global warming is real? Like, properly real. Not just a mildly inconvenient uptick in summer temperatures where the only real consequence is that your ice cream melts before you’ve even left the shop. I’m talking about apocalyptic, California-on-fire, Florida-underwater, polar-bear-now-a-shark’s-lunch sort of real. Terrifying, isn’t it? But equally,…

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