Notices by Petra van Cronenburg (naturemc@mastodon.online), page 4

No #bookfair in your town? At the moment, the #Fediverse has its #fedibookfair. Find tons of #reading tips or show your own #books in every language. You can subscribe to the hashtag so you don't miss anything. @writers #bookstodon #books #bookwyrm

@tinderness bezahlte, wurde offen verwünscht, einen schrecklichen Übergang zu haben. Wer Süßes gab, bekam eine geschnitztes Rübengesicht, bevor es Kürbisse gab. Das leuchtete im Fenster, oder am Haus. Abends beim rituellen Essen legte man für die Verstorbenen ein Gedeck auf und redete mit ihnen. Erinnerte sich. Diese Art des Totenfestes gab es in ganz Frankreich.
Wir zeigen das im Museum, die Leute haben die eigene Geschichte völlig vergessen. Aber diese Feste sind älter als der US-Brauch!

@tinderness Es ist ein Mythos, dass das ein US-Mythos ist. #Halloween, keltisch #Samhain, kommt ursprünglich aus Europa, fand über Irland in die USA. Wir haben ähnliche Bräuche aber in allen ehemals keltischen Landstrichen gehabt. Hier im #Elsass z.B. ganz bekannt, aber dann von der Kirche als Brauch zerstört. Genau deshalb findet das Totenfest so leicht zurück, denke ich.
Im Elsass haben Kinder vor allem bei Kranken geklingelt, um ihnen mit einem Lied Linderung zu wünschen. Wer nicht mit Süßem

@feditips I think that most people use link shorteners *because* they (not only the tracker company) can track their visitors.😉

@aral Thanks. Sorry for double questioning, one time your link was empty. @hyde

@aral I understood by your comments what you wanted. But again my question: Can you give us an *independent* source for the numbers, please? Too much in this war is propaganda from both sides. @flowerpot

@aral independent sources? @hyde

@aral Do you think that we boost without alt text?
Putting your Post in my filter "no CW". 😜

@Sustainable2050 It shakes me to the core every time that we can nowadays watch #live and in real time the #extinction of #glaciers and #species. We share it like cat pictures and then sink back into #cognitiveDissonance. 😭
#biodiversityLoss #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary

@aral Best wishes!

So often I just want to scream out loud at #Wikipedia about the #genderBias, the #sexism you find there all the time. After all, they named Wonderwoman and quoted Heinlein with diapers. But if you search "competent #woman" you get redirected to this article! Could anyone fix this please? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competent_man @wikipedia #WikipediaMembers #WikipediaEditors
No mansplaining in comments! This article is for improving! BTW, I searched for #polymath #women examples ... #WomenInSTEM

@glitzersachen You may do it if not too often (some people spam in this way). If you use hashtags your posts become like timeless. People search them or even subscribe to them. So they read your post after search or when the subscription comes into their timelines. I often got feedback to very old posts.
@ailuridae @fonecokid @pluralistic @franksting

@clacke In France, old recipes still measure in cl = centilitre. 1 cl = 10 ml. But Millilitre/litre are the norm today. Besides that, we have approximate (!) measurements varying to your kitchen equipment: 1 tablespoon, 1 coffeespoon (like in Germany we prefer coffee) or a pinch. As Ross says, it's simply object-oriented (the size of a pinch varies with the size of your fingers) and means: A very tiny amount = pinch, more than a pinch = small spoon, less than a handful = tablespoon. No norms.

@clacke Someone should write a cultural history about cups around the globe!

@iko Fun fact: In the metric system, we cook with tea- and tablespoons, too, but they have a different size. 😂 Greetings from France!

I'm not saying I'm old but when we demonstrated and made sit-down #strikes, peaceful #civilDisobedience was considered one of the highest goods of #democracy. Every school taught that #demonstrations are a fundamental right. Only old Nazis and CSU-members called environment #activists with worst swear words. We had no glue but chains. Companies changed their politics because of the protests (e.g. ban of FCKW/Flue-gas desulfurization). #activism #OldPeopleOfMastodon

@nadia_z Bitte Massenmedien sagen, nicht Qualitätsmedien. Der Spiegel ist schon urlang kein Qualitätsmedium mehr.

@Mina @nadia_z Ich lese die natürlich auch. Aber ich weiß auch, dass die meisten Menschen, die Posts lesen, sowas gar nicht mehr erkennen. Ich erlebe täglich pauschale Medienschelte der übelsten Art (Berufskrankheit 😎 ). Drum lege ich online wert drauf, bis zum Erbrechen zu differenzieren, damit die Leute merken: DIE Medien sind sehr unterschiedliche Medien. Auch so ne Berufskrankheit.😁

@aral It's even worse: you serve them your data. You gift your data to the Nazi bar and help them to play even a majority-illusion.

@BBCRadio4 @neilhimself Best news: "from everywhere in the world." In France, I am so often sad about geoblocking. Thanks for this opening!