The pride stuff is PR. Advertising it sends a message. Dropping it also sends a message.

They were also one of the early companies to cave on dropping DEI programs.

The low pressure causes the gasses to leave your blood, rapidly deoxigenating it; leading to hypoxia and death shortly later. It seems no animal has ever survived more than 90 seconds of vacuum exposure.

This page talks about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_spaceflight_on_the_human_body#Vacuum

Most of Brandon Sanderson’s works. His magic systems are widely varied and well thought out.
A couple of examples of worlds:

-The Stormlight Archive is a world styled after a tidepool with anemone like plants.

-Tress of the Emerald Sea takes place aboard ships sailing on a sea of deadly spores. Liquefaction due to decay at the bottom of the “seas” is the mechanism used to allow the ships to sail on what is funtionally sand/dust.