Notices by Petra van Cronenburg (naturemc@mastodon.online)

After the #extremeHeat in France, the danger of #wildfires is enormous. #Heatwave and #soil #dryness didn't change much for the plants this week - with "cool" 30°C and full sunshine.

#Trees try to resist by getting "dried" #leaves. At a certain heat temp., the process starts at the exterieur like burnings. Then the green vanishes to the centre until #photosynthesis is stopped. If the plant can't get soon enough rain to regenerate, it can die. Food crops die before trees.

#oak #ClimateDiary

@dalias Show me better searchmachines. @stragu @ecosia @futurebird @doomsdayrs

@futurebird To be free from Google, the EU invests into an own search machine which is a cooperation of #Ecosia and #Qwant.
No free community would have the financial power you need for such a project!

@doomsdayrs

@stragu Yes, this website is also connected to European AI alternatives.

But for the search machines, you can easily deactivate AI functions. They already work as two but need more data input. Kwant e.g. works quite well for French data but needs more global ones. The searchmachines:
@ecosia with https://ecosia.org
And Qwant https://qwant.com

@futurebird @doomsdayrs

@beep Your last sentence: this is what I wish, too!
We have several factors for these problems beside account size: belonging to a group like women (mansplaining is horrible here), POC etc
Or write about/for media, politics, polarising themes.
That's a problem everywhere in big groups of people, but as you say Bsky is better in protection.

I have no problems to filter my TL but when I don't see a hate-comment, all others will see it nevertheless.
@michaelcoyote

@quixoticgeek 1. The EU has an official plan to phase out fossil fuels (even if some countries have watered it down).
2. It was just in the media: In Germany, a US-company wanted to built a data-center with gas turbines. They got so many protests from all sides (including regional politicians) that they gave up the plan.
3. The EU doesn't allow them in that form but the USA tries hard with lobbyism: https://www.desmog.com/2026/04/29/inside-the-plot-to-cover-europe-with-gas-powered-ai-data-centres/
4. The EU now plans sustainability standards: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/eu-plans-energy-standards-data-centres-amid-concerns-over-soaring-power-use-2026-06-03/

@quixoticgeek For more infos, if datacenters with gas turbine power in their car parks exist somewhere in Europe etc., you could ask @gerrymcgovern

Be aware that there's a big difference between 'Europe' and the 'EU'!

@gerrymcgovern thank you for the facts! @quixoticgeek @CorioPsicologia

@dalias I just had the problem on the telephone: 3 times in vain telling the artificial voice that I have to answer a call of a human being. It took 5 hours the real human called me back.

Do you have an effective method for that "fuck off" perhaps? 😂 (Rhetoric question).

@falcennial @Rhodium103

Times are difficult. Are you angry, nearly on fire? Do you need elegant #insults for not so elegant politicians/techbros/whateveryouwant? 😈

Beside my favourite #insult dictionary on Merriam-Webster https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/insults and weird German mushroom names http://www.gifte.de/Giftpilze/pilznamen_deutsch.htm I warmly recommend the literary bot @shakespearean_Insults

"I only quoted #Shakespeare!" Your lawyer will love it. 🤭 😂

#followFriday #relieve #Wellness #feelGood #WortSchatz #languageLearning

@dalias You can look at the directory of every instance: https://mastodon.cloud/directory - always: instance-name / directory

@jerry

🧵 A new project for our #museum animations (a table with volunteers working on different embroidery ideas. Everybody is invited to ask curious questions or to learn how to stitch.)

#Embroidery on gauze and/or paper for an #artBook. Working title: Blessures - injuries - Verletzungen. I'll add the coming photos as a thread.

#intuitiveArt #intuitiveStitching #stitching #broderie #Sticken #artJournal #mixedMedia #textileArt #AtelierTetebrec #artist #ecoDye #FrenchKnots

@laescude Was probably the training material for the AI ...
@selzero

@GustavinoBevilacqua Yes, that's an African agama species https://www.steveshamesphotos.com/photo/serengeti-african-agamid-lizard/ but *no chamaeleon*
And most photos of the agama in these extreme colours come from an AI platform. In nature, they are often paler.
@selzero Therefore, it's always important not just to steel photos but name the source!

@laescude

@selzero I'm here for nature facts, sorry.

@selzero An agama is no chamaeleon.

@selzero so it's not your photo? You took it from somewhere else?
@Chaft

@selzero Is it real? Is it your photo? It's not a chamaeleon's face nor eyes. It's a lizard's body. Please share the source if you took that photo from somewhere else.
I can't check it at the moment but it looks like#AISlop.

Big compliments to the #moderators of mastodon.online and mastodon.social!
I just #reported a very cheesy account, completely AI generated (also the comments). They wanted to collect people's #DNA (and you had to pay 20 something $ for it!). it was intended to give the impression being something official from the EU. At best, it was a scam; at worst, extremely dangerous.

It took only minutes and the account was pulverised. 😊 This service you don't get on big platforms!

#Mastodon #moderation

I’m struggling with asking for some help, I feel terrible to do so.
But winter is dragging on longer than I’d hoped; we’re still having sub-zero temperatures. With someone in my care and myself in a waiting lists for therapy against my pain, I haven’t been able to work. What I’m suffering from is called ‘energy poverty’: the bills!
Everything helps, from a coffee, or buying my zine: https://ko-fi.com/s/700d3d3138 or donations https://ko-fi.com/naturematchcuts/goal?g=5
Only if you are able - with warm thanks!

#mutualAid