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

Israel expands ground assault on Gaza, vows to seize extensive territory #Gaza

Defence minister announces a major expansion of Israel’s assault on Gaza and says large areas of enclave will be siezed.

https://aje.io/gyap3w

#ClimateDiary Worst ever wildfires in South Korea. I heard about this through my sister. I wouldn’t have known otherwise - completely passed me by. Could be just me, zoning out too much. But it’s terrifying how easy it is to do so.

Do we need to know every climate catastrophe? I think it’s better, in so many ways (not least compassion) if we do. But overwhelm, fatigue is creeping in.. awful. Meanwhile, at least 23 dead in Korea.

https://news.sky.com/story/worst-ever-wildfires-rage-in-south-korea-killing-at-least-18-people-13335898

“How can an obscenity so documented, evidenced and confessed to – an obscenity facilitated by western weapons and diplomatic support – persist for so long? No one in western politics or media circles can plausibly say, “I did not know what was really happening.”

#Gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/19/imagine-silent-terrible-evil-committed-gaza-inaction-censorship?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

@aral what a great piece. I really like your linking of the climate, democracy and personhood emergency. I am just sad I didn’t see this earlier, it would have been perfect for a #Personhood module I wrote and taught 2022-24. I agree, personhood is really important! Now sadly i have been made redundant i can’t teach anymore; nevertheless, good to read even now 😊

@aral thank you for this, Aral, i just listened to the whole thing. Really great to get this short, powerful intro to your work. Hope tht, thanks to you, we can all eventually wean ourselves off big tech.

One of the children just said:

“school is just all about turning us into #NPCs”

(for the uninitiated: non-player background characters in online games, scripted to do the same thing over and over again).

It’s so true!

Honestly, their school is obsessed with disciplining; obedience overrides everything else. None of this equips them for dealing with the challenges they, the world will face in 10 years time. So depressing. #Education

Just a quick note of apology for my silence here; not that it’s needed or that anyone necessarily reads it. It is strange, I seem to have completely lost the desire to share thoughts on social media. It seems to have just evaporated.

Also to even be on here. I am fine, personally,; but I think it might be linked to complete overwhelm with where we are at. Just shutting off lots of stuff, somehow. Hope it will change but just wanted to explain - and feel bad as I hadn’t kept up #ClimateDiary

@aral Hope you will be ok!

#ClimateDiary 'I have nothing to go back to' - LA fires heartbreak

“As a climate reporter, I am used to covering extreme weather events. Just a few weeks ago I was interviewing residents who had fled the Malibu fires. Now I'm on the other side of the story.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0eweel5zg3o

#ClimateDiary
https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/113794994831756437

#climateDiary I take it back. The fires are catastrophic, for so many people it’s far beyond “almost normal”. My sister just told me about a friend who has lost everything for the second time (her first house burned in another California wildfire). Thinking of everyone going through this now.

https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/113791360261342492

@stigatle And we did, too! So nice to think of all of us in different parts of the worls seeing and enjoying the same moon 🌙

#ClimateDiary Wishing everyone here all the very best for 2025.

2024 has been a terrifying combination of catastrophic climate events on a level somehow not quite anticipated yet (by me at least); more and more science showing that past models may have been too cautious; and what feels political deprioritising of climate action across the world.

Not too optmistic right now that
2025 will be different; NYE itself part of this climate impacted reality! BUT 1/2

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2025/jan/01/wind-and-rain-batters-uk-new-years-day-2025-live-updates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Yep, I want that, too
https://aus.social/@firstdogonthemoon/113672421436981163

News to share here!

New York state resident finds complete mastodon jaw beneath lawn 😊

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/18/mastodon-jaw-found-new-york?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#ClimateDiary Just listened to this moving program on French wine making and the challenges of climate change (and falling demand). I knew quite a lot about climate change impacts but it’s something else to listen to a Bordeaux winemaker talk about how she lost everything in a 15min hailstorm.

Right at end in Languedoc:
“Why do you keep going?”
“Because it’s our life”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5mtr?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Death toll from Israel’s war on #Gaza surpasses 45,000

As war approaches 15th month, Palestinians endure ‘unbearable’ loss, with 52 dead taken to hospitals in past day alone

It is UNBEARABLE how the slaughter and devastation goes on and on and on - and how tue genocide has indeed become “ambient” in our lives, as Jonathan Glazer, director of “Zone of Interest”, warned us. Ambient background.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/16/death-toll-from-israels-war-on-gaza-tops-45000

@aral 😄

So nice to be brought back to sanity after being called a “jew hater” in the previous reply for sharing an article that talks about “israel’s war on gaza”. Honestly. You would think at some point these lovely Germans would give up, but they don’t!

#ClimateDiary #ClimateJustice
#CycloneChido #Mayotte

Absolutely awful. The injustice of all this

https://news.sky.com/story/close-to-1-000-people-feared-dead-after-cyclone-in-french-territory-of-mayotte-13274095

#ClimateDiary Cyclone Chido battering French Overseas Territories Comoros Islands, now travelling towards Mozambique.

It is the strongest to hit the area in 90 years, and there is great concern for the many living in makeshift accommodation. The island of Mayotte was hit particularly badly.

Thinking of all those whose lives, houses, livelihoods are destroyed. #ClimateJustice

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/15/africa/cyclone-chido-mayotte-comoros-africa-intl-hnk/index.html