Notices by Pauline von Hellermann (pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green)

#ClimateDiary Morning walk to shops seeing debris of storm #Goretti everywhere i was musing all the small ways in which our lives are crumbling, getting harder than they used to be (for some reason pinning this on Woody Allen films, privileged couples casually having dinner together in restaurants as if it’s nothing - that world, always for the few, doesn’t exist any more) - then saw this wall and thought it was apt! #TheCrumble #CollapseDiary

#ClimateDiary How are you all doing - climate emotion wise? Where are you at? Hope you are doing ok. This is not a call for help or advice - I too get sustance from small things, i am OK in that sense - just wanted to check in on everyone. I have to say after height of activism 2019-23 i am (through personal circumstances, too, but mostly i think through learning and seeing things differently) in a very different space now. No energy, even for just posting here. I realise this is 1/2

#ClimateDiary Report by German researchers (came out in October, missed it then): climate change is accelerating faster than initially assumed; we cannot exclude 3°C warming by 2050

https://worldcrunch.com/focus/green-or-gone/global-warming-at-3c-by-2050-what-s-behind-the-new-german-climate-warning/

@aral This is always the way! Thank you for all the anazing work you do 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

#Gaza The latest, most extreme version kf colonial capitalsm - neoliberal genocide. Sickening beyond words.

“Palestinians would be encouraged into “voluntary” departure. Those who own land would be offered “a digital token” in exchange for rights to redevelop their property, to finance a new life elsewhere.

Those who stay would be housed in properties with a tiny footprint of 323 sq ft – minuscule even by the standards of many non-refugee camp homes in Gaza.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/01/leaked-gaza-riviera-plan-dismissed-as-insane-attempt-to-cover-ethnic-cleansing?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#Gaza Today, another beyond comprehension event in this beyond comprehension genocide:
Israel strikes the aid workers and journalists who have arrived to rescue and document. Four more journalists killed, all live streamed.

https://youtu.be/ncbLbiWNp80?si=b0Mw7CdIgqQMcMeu

There is #KnowTheirName reading in Eastbourne today: we are reading all the names of the children killed in Gaza. I arrived during the reading of 6 year olds. 30min later, still doing 6 year olds. It is just awful. #Gaza

UK close to giving Israel's Elbit £2bn contract to train British soldiers

“for Israeli companies such as Elbit Systems… the ongoing genocide has been a profitable venture”.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-close-giving-israels-largest-arms-company-ps2bn-contract-train-troops

@aral Exactly, exactly this. So well put. My number one cultural reference in the last few years, even pre-genocide, has been and contiues to be The Fire Nation in The Last Avatar (the series). We are the fire nation: so many nice normal people part of an imperial machine destroying everything.

#ClimateDiary Wildfire danger forecasts for Europe 11-17 Aufust. What a map.

439,568 ha burnt since beginning of year in 1628 fires; 14.11Mt of CO2 emitted since the beginning of the year CO2 emissions were 9.59 Mt during the same period of last year.

https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/projects-and-activities/natural-and-man-made-hazards/fires/current-wildfire-situation-europe_en

#ClimateDiary Everything is fine, everything is normal.

Alaska’s capital city of Juneau is urging many residents to evacuate, bracing for the arrival of what could be record floodwaters flowing downstream from a basin dammed by the area’s Mendenhall Glacier, with the event being driven by climate change amid glacial retreat, according to a federal agency.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/13/alaskas-juneau-glacier-flood-record-climate?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

May one day justice come for those who arrest Palestine Action supporters whilst letting the genocide go on and on. May future children be taught in schools how crazy and wrong this was. That seeing these headlines together is our actual reality! #Gaza

#ClimateDiary Only just learned about vast wildfires in Syria these past 10 days. One of many parts of the world where multiple crises intersect and affect each other. But for these situations, too, approaches must somehow be developed. Regional conversations, as suggested here, seem an excellent start.

https://www.thenationalnews.com/opinion/editorial/2025/07/15/syrias-wildfires-show-the-urgent-need-for-a-regional-conversation-on-climate-change/

Children fetching water killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, emergency officials say

Just now. Children fetching water. A few days ago children queing for medicine. It goes on and on and on. #Gaza

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rvxjnvv71o

More than 20 arrested for holding “i support palestjne action” placards; meanwhile lovely Rod Liddle writing in the lovely Spectator:

“ A small yield nuclear weapon, such as the American W89, dropped on Glastonbury in late June would immediately remove from our country almost everybody who is hugely annoying.”

But this is fine, this is normal; no consequences. #Gaza #PalestineAction #UKPolitics #RightWingShits

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/and-now-lets-bomb-glastonbury/

Am reading Naomi Klein’s excellent #Doppelgänger at the moment. This section is about the investigation into residential schools in Canada a few years ago, which revealed up to 25,000 indigenous children died and were buried here. It was declared a #Genocide by the UN.

The parallels with what is happening in #Gaza are striking: settler colonialism involving not just the systematic erasure of indigenous culture but also systematic killing of children.

This week i had a couple of conversations about #Gaza with well-meaning, nice people in which it transpired that they still knew virtually nothing about things that happened before Oct 7.

This factsheet, by the Independent Jewish Voice of Canada, gives a really good overview.

Let’s keep on sharing and informing others. So many here in Europe continue to know very little.

https://www.ijvcanada.org/in-the-week-before-october-7-2023-ijv-factsheet/

@aral @GhostOnTheHalfShell

Sorry and thank you!

#Gaza We watched this last night. It was the most traumatic thing I hsve ever seen. It shows how systematically Israel has destroyed Gaza’s healthcare system and killed doctors. This is ongoing - just yesterday many killed at Indonesian hospital.

I feel irrevocably alienated from all the lovely people around me who choose to just ignore all this. Not watch, not see. For almost two years the most barbaric slaughter, aided by our governments here.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/03/gaza-doctors-under-attack-review-channel-4-crucial-film-stuff-of-nightmares?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Pope Leo XIV is great

“As civilians languish in misery, political elites grow fat with impunity.”