Notices by Ciara (ciarani@mastodon.green)

All the Comedy Wildlife Photography award finalists are so good that it’s hard to pick a single favourite. I laughed literally out loud at Diego Perez' ‘Sexy mantis’

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/oct/03/comedy-wildlife-photography-awards-2026-in-pictures

#SilentSunday

"A West of Ireland data center objected to by novelist Sally Rooney had its planning permission overturned on the grounds that it breaches Irish national climate policy.

Rooney lodged an objection in January, writing to Mayo County Council that permission for the centre would increase carbon emissions, cause risk of blackouts, and that “climate change represents an immediate & unprecedented threat to our way of life in Mayo and the future of human life round the world.”

https://lithub.com/sally-rooney-just-defeated-a-data-center/

A Fediverse bot that posts a GIF at 10 minutes to midnight of your server administrator saying "Time now, everybody - last toots at the bar." At 5 minutes to midnight, Eugen flashes the lights. At midnight, Mastodon plays your national anthem. You stand. You finish singing the last line with a little cheer and go to bed. Your home timeline transmits the Test Card. The Fediverse will resume transmission at 0600 hours. Even the reply guys will come back well-rested.

#SilentSunday

'Hope in a hopeless time'

'Lift & listen'

The Pssst Postbox. You post a note about something hopeful for the world. Once a week, a local theatre group collects the post and records the messages. When you lift the letterbox flap, you hear the different messages of hope being read by children & adults. Nice project. I heard someone wishing for more social projects; someone feeling hopeful because more people are adopting better climate habits; and someone encouraging everyone to dance.

#Aarhus

@minorusaba That's a lovely vintage model. The Hoover hoover I remember was a 1970s upright model with a gigantic dustbag attached to the handle.

This is one of those things I shouldn’t have said out loud, isn’t it.

‘Trousers’. I admired Miele for having such a specific setting. I’m glad I never got around to writing that letter to them asking why there wasn’t one for skirts.

My hoover is about 20 years old. For 20 years, I’ve wondered who are these people who hoover their trousers. Today I realised that those are curtains.

#SilentSunday

I’ve been giving my tomato plants tender loving care since April. Making sure they get enough sun, enough shade, enough water. Protecting them from the wind. Talking to them. Here are the fruits of my labour. Of their labour. The full five-month harvest. Well, that'll get me through the first 11 minutes of the climapocalypse, I suppose. Once again, my balcony harvest reminds me how important farmers and communal food sources are.

14,147 people have signed the Danish citizen petition ’Get Rid of Palantir’ so far. The deadline for signatures is this Sunday. To be tabled in Folketinget (parliament), a petition needs 50,000 signatures. The Palantir petition won't reach the threshold. But over 14,000 people isn't nothing either. The petition to reinstate a beloved public holiday abolished in 2024 closes two days later and has 1,628 signatures. So at least the Palantir problem seems to be on the radar.

https://www.borgerforslag.dk/se-og-stoet-forslag/?Id=FT-22854

About 20 years ago, I sought an alternative to Amazon. A friend recommended Kennys.ie. A physical bookshop with the oldest book webshop in the world. A family-owned, family-run, tax-paying bookshop. New and used books. An independent bookshop in Galway, beloved for supporting authors and the local arts. The first books I ordered arrived with a bookmark and a handwritten note signed by one of the Kennys. I swear I could smell the Atlantic Ocean waft out of the parcel. The opposite of Amazon.

#SilentSunday

I know it's rude to brag, but I saw some nice ropes.

@stalbaum @HistoPol My problems with this are all on Android, all in the past year or two.

@stalbaum @HistoPol Thank you - and the same to you :-)

@HistoPol This resonates. I gave up Tusky because it kept crashing. Then tried Moshidon and Phanpy, but had the same problems. If I looked away for a second before actually posting, the toot just disappeared. I got tired of rewriting image descriptions, especially when tip-tapping on a phone keyboard. So I gave up apps and stick to Mastodon via browser now. If you want to stay with Tusky, I hope they fix it - it is frustrating to lose the posts!

Two tiny things I've started doing since the heatwaves became social small talk.

I use the phrase 'climate collapse'. Klimakollaps. Not climate change.

When anyone moans about the heat in isolation, as if it's just a rare hot day today, I mention the death toll and wonder aloud: 'What are we going to do about climate collapse?' Just to bring it into the conversation.

I know it's very Old Woman Yells At Climate Collapse. But it's just weird that we refuse to even mention it.

#ClimateDiary