#Insects are often forgotten during a #heatwave #drought. Not all can walk on deep water in #birdbaths. I use flowerpot coasters filled with some stones and fallen mossy branches. When a lot of moss fell down from an old tree, I filled one mainly with the dried moss. Surprise: it slowly gets green again and much smaller insects can land and drink, even butterflies come! And bigger animals ...

#drinktips #mosstodon #gardening #biodiversity #paperwasps #water #biodiversity #NatureMatchCuts

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jensorensen/117021791005366522

This is why I will probably stop buying things at all in the near future, except groceries which I can touch and smell in the shop.

@fubsepude
I play a trumpet and a few drums...

Together with @pacific06 , we continue dreaming to start a Green Brass Band in the future to help boost the environmental awareness message through music. (very long story)

You can find more players in my recent toot;

https://mas.to/@ethan256/116896530784043101

cc//
@gijslevelt
@grrrr_shark
@sebastianhahn
@cobic
@teacher_rick
@MostlyDrawing
@TommyTorty10

You know what doesn’t get shut down when heatwaves and droughts dry up the rivers?

Wind and solar.

Climate change is exposing a weakness in nuclear power.

Lack of water in the Danube has closed two reactors in Romania and one in Hungary. Similar problems have shut three in France. At least eight others in Europe are having to operate on reduced power.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/low-danube-river-levels-force-romania-shut-down-both-its-nuclear-power-reactors-2026-07-29/ #nuclear #solar #wind #energy

The beauty of #Alaska changed me. I had never seen an old-growth forest or walked through a temperate #rainforest before. Standing among trees that had lived for centuries, surrounded by the biodiversity of so many plants, fungi, and animals, shifted something in me. I started noticing the natural world in a way I never had. And somewhere along the way, I fell in love with being alive in a way I hadn’t felt before.

For a long time, I thought purpose was something I had to find one day. Instead, I found it by paying attention: learning the names of trees and mosses and mushrooms; watching a bear scratch its back on a tree; or just sitting quietly and noticing Stellar Jays bullying smaller birds away from the feeders. I realized the woods are full of stories, and it’s up to us to slow down and notice them.

Paying attention became an act of gratitude. Curiosity became how I moved through life. Slowly and quietly, my mental health started to heal.

Putting this out there again, because I'm unsure how reach works in the Fediverse and how I can connect to the people I want to find:

Any SFF/horror writers out there writing in unorthodox styles, formats, or mediums? Mild or extreme, books with other stories in the footnotes, flash fiction universes, or stories told via geocache, doesn't matter. I wanna connect!

#Writing #WritingCommunity #Indie #IndieAuthor #Fantasy #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Horror #HorrorCommunity #FlashFiction #Microfiction

24.417 Menschen haben in Bayern ein Zeichen gesetzt. Unsere Petition wurde an den Bayerischen Landtag übergeben. Jetzt ist die Politik am Zug.

Als Nächstes folgen Sachsen-Anhalt und Rheinland-Pfalz. Parallel sammeln wir weiter Unterschriften für Thüringen.

Jetzt unterschreiben!
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I'm looking for professionals in a variety of areas to interview for my upcoming book, Recovering After Gen AI.

With their expertise, they should hopefully have theories or educated guesses as to what might happen in the wake of Gen AI's demise.

So obviously, clankers/techbros need not apply.

If you are in one of these professions or know people who are, please let me know:

- Psychologists (in regards to cognitive and psychological harm)
- Engineers (dealing with abandoned datacentres, e-waste, damaged electrical and computing infrastructure, tech debt, related topics)
- Technicians (dealing with abandoned datacentres, e-waste, damaged electrical and computing infrastructure, tech debt, related topics)
- Developers and IT (tech debt, bugs, related areas)
- Sociologists (societal harm done by chatbots, AI image slop "revenge porn" and CSAM, loss of job skills in the population, related areas)
- Economists (no University of Chicago types, please, and Marxists preferred)
- Artists and other creatives (harm done to culture by Gen AI)

Reply to this post, email me at kim.crawley at stopgenai dot com, or message me on Signal via crowgirl.84

Thank you!

#NoAI

In England und Wales sind jetzt zwei Tests zugelassen worden, die es ermöglichen #Endometriose nahezu sofort zu diagnostizieren. Ich hoffe inständigst, dass diese Tests bald auch hier eingeführt werden und vielen Frauen damit langjähriges Leid und Schmerzen erspart werden können.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/07/rapid-endometriosis-tests-to-be-made-available-on-nhs-in-england-and-wales

Two of my closest Zimbabwean trans friends who've been living together for some time now are facing eviction on THE FIRST OF AUGUST. They are pillars in my community and I cannot let them sleep outside. Please help! 🔁

Update: Overdue rent paid! Landlord still being weird, but this is great. Thank you all 💕

($928/1500) 🥳

All art bought from the store goes to the fund.

https://ko-fi.com/imp3tuz/shop/africuz
#blackmutualaid #blackmastodon #transmutualaid #mutualaid

@AgroecologyMap Wonderful work, At @econetwork , we believe #agroecology, #permaculture, and #foodsovereignty are key to building resilient communities and restoring #nature.

Wishing you continued success as you empower family farmers and inspire #regenerative change. 💚

Honestly, the only downside I see to electric cars is that they're all new cars, and so are saddled with all the horrors that new cars are saddled with, like touch screens and horrendous software.

In related news, I got to see and sit in our new EV, but we can't have it yet, because bureaucracy.

One day, Alice was at her computer, pondering a tricky programming problem.

Seeing her, Bob remarked: "Poor Alice. If only you knew to pay subscription to AI companies, you wouldn't have to program."

Alice responded: "Poor Bob. If only you knew how to program, you wouldn't have to pay subscription to AI companies."

Bigita is a man who lives in #Kampala, the capital city of #Uganda, but he owns miles of land in Kyankwanzi District. At one point, he refused to allow the electricity company to install power poles on his land.

As a result, many communities beyond his large property have been left without electricity until now.

I don't know if maybe the actions of some #capitalists are well known by the government officials. 🥺

#anticapitalism #inequality #systemchangenow #wealthinequality

Bigita is a man who lives in #Kampala, the capital city of #Uganda, but he owns miles of land in Kyankwanzi District. At one point, he refused to allow the electricity company to install power poles on his land.

As a result, many communities beyond his large property have been left without electricity until now.

I don't know if maybe the actions of some #capitalists are well known by the government officials. 🥺

#anticapitalism #inequality #systemchangenow #wealthinequality

@NilaJones @pacific06 I heard a brain scientist recently say that vit d can be taken to help with normalizing sleep, we have vit d receptors in our brain stem and the brain stem controls our automatic functions

Zo, wat een toffe website, vooral die interactieve wereldbol! 🌍
https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/117015869802466513

Join me and countless others who are exhausted by capitalism.

#capitalism

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/117015869802466513

Join me and countless others who are exhausted by capitalism.

#capitalism

Raise your hand if you too are tired of capitalism.