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Today's #AWAD #AWordADay: ELSEWHEN
with Anu Garg

❛❛ Unlike a #BlackHole — a region of #SpaceTime from which you cannot escape if you get too close — a #Wormhole is a region into which you would disappear only to reappear #elsewhere or #elsewhen. ❜❜ 2001 May 20 #WaPo

🔗 Wordsmith.org/words/elsewhen.h 2025 Jan 06
🔗 Wikipedia.org/wiki/Anu_Garg#AnuGarg

Wordsmith.orgelsewhenadverb: At another time.

Ever see some queer walking down the street, sporting bright-ass color palettes, and wonder WTF?? (what's that flag)

Well, now it's easy to look it up with this handy reference, so you can know in a flash if they're being flirty or just friendly.

Unless you both happen to be lesbians, in which case it's probably flirting, but neither of you will realize it until well after you've been roommates for twelve years and are both complaining about not dating anyone as you sit on the porch together, your head on her shoulder, her gesturing at some passing couple with her half-empty beer bottle, as you both sigh thinking about how easy it must be for the straights.

prideflags.org/

See also: en.pronouns.page/terminology (credit @funguy2playwith)

www.prideflags.orgPride Flag Identification Guide
#LGBTQ#Pride#Flags
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37/n One idea (another addition to this #COP28 #glossary of sorts) discussed for the last couple of years in this context is that #Africa might #LeapFrog in its #EnergyTransition - ie, that it doesn't have to go through the #FossilFuel stage but can skip it and go straight to clean energy and renewables. One useful summary of this is provided here by Wartsila (a renewable energy company) but there are many critics. Obviously some real #ClimateJustice issues here.

wartsila.com/energy/towards-10

Wartsila.comPathways for Africa's energy future - Wärtsilä EnergyThis report demonstrates that with the right planning and investment, renewable energy can reduce energy costs and increase energy access across Africa.
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#ClimateDiary 16/n apologies for pause in this #COP28 🧵. Now only 6 days to go until it starts (30th Nov) - stepping up again! To continue with #Glossary a bit more: #NationallyDeterminedContributions (NDCs) are what each country pledges to do - voluntarily. There is no binding obligation; this is how the #ParisAgreement finally happened. You csn read more here:

unfccc.int/process-and-meeting

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13/n #ClimateDiary decided to do a little #COP28 #Glossary here: brief explainers of key terms, familiar to many of you no doubt but perhaps useful to have in one place.

Starting with #GlobalStocktake. The #GST was part of the #ParisAgreement: that every 5 years stock would be taken of where global policies and actions are at in terms of reducing carbon/green house gas emissions in order to stay under 1.5°C warming. This will be the first GST, and it’s important

unfccc.int/topics/global-stock