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• Post #4433465

  I don't count the #heatwaves in France anymore. I only look for the "coldest" nights to sleep (under 22°C) and how to survive appointments in the outer oven. At 30°-33°C, I make a happy dance because it feels cooler than up to 40°C. I have overwhelming memories when and how I planted the trees I lost to the #drought. I'm sad to have lost an outdoor season and my natural feeling of time. If you want to count: officially we are at No 5 and no end visible. #climateCrisis #Clima...

• Post #4374213

  I just wanted to cancel an important appointment because the extreme #heat makes me unable to go outside into that oven. Their answering machine was at the limit. They called me back: Yes, everybody wanted to cancel today but your appointment is tomorrow. It will be a little bit cooler then. If not, just call again tomorrow how you feel. This is what the heat does to brains, answering machines, and appointments. #heatwave #ClimateDiary #extremeHeat #ClimateAdaption

• Post #4204368

  Use it whenever you need it: Kim Goodwin with her helpful diagram on how to prevent to be a communication-zero https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180727-mansplaining-explained-in-one-chart (If you try to do it here, I will block you ASAP.)

• Post #4168263

  RE: https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC/116998419699986476 Attention, new #scammers on Mastodon. It's important to report such accounts before blocking, so you help moderators suspend illegal accounts. This guy spams by comments and surely has a scam worse than a "Nigerian prince". I also blocked the instance, if you try to look at it you get some fishy code running. #fraudster #fediblock #scam #admins

• Post #4166655

  🧵 I can’t cry as easily as I used to in former times. Watching our news footage of the fires in the south-west, the tears just streamed down my face. The persistence of the #firefighters and #rescue workers, often followed by trauma that will last a lifetime. How they are left in the lurch by a government that has cut back on everything for years and failed to act. Just like during the pandemic. We haven’t learnt anything from the fact that, at some point, the rescuers themselves need to be

• Post #3897056

  I was wondering about the number of posts about building air filters at the moment. I looked at the world's time zones and understood: Pure air is becoming a luxury even in regions we connect with nature, forests, and ecology. https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-wildfire-smoke-health-risks/ Human made #climateDisaster fueled (yes) by #FossilIndustry is more and more destroying the base of LIFE itself. #climateCrisis #ClimateDiary #wildfires #airquality #ecoGrief

• Post #3724906

  I only half-heard German news. Apparently, France has lent the British an old carpet. OMG, have Brexit and politics made things in the UK that much worse? That they have to borrow old carpets? It was about the Bayeux Tapestry. 🤣 In German, the word 'Teppich' can be used for tapestry as well as for a thinned out old carpet that you use for transporting a corpse. But the news speaker could have talked about a 'Wandteppich' if only he knew. 🤓 #languagelearning #German #BayeuxTapes...

• Post #3624598

  "Les décès ont augmenté de presque 30% en France et de 62% dans la seule région parisienne." #Canicule : à quoi s'attendre durant les prochains jours, alors que les fortes chaleurs reviennent en #France ? – franceinfo https://www.franceinfo.fr/environnement/evenements-meteorologiques-extremes/vagues-de-chaleur-canicules/canicule-a-quoi-s-attendre-durant-les-prochains-jours-alors-que-les-fortes-chaleurs-reviennent-en-france_8094959.html

• Post #3535451

  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 tr...

• Post #3495074

  Sie waren dort im #Auwald so lange ausgestorben, dass wir in der Schule nur Zeichnungen sahen. Wir konnten uns die Vögel kaum vorstellen. "Bei #Rastatt konnten die #Fischadler jetzt schon zum dritten Mal erfolgreich brüten - für den NABU und das Land BW ein Erfolg. Im letzten Jahr hatte vermutlich ein Marder die Eier gefressen." https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/badenwuerttemberg/swr-die-rueckkehr-der-fischadler-in-bw-jungvoegel-luke-und-leia-bei-rastatt-beringt-100.html #con...

• Post #3427040

  It's the first time since I volunteer (10 yrs minimum) that our #museum has to close because of the #heat after some morning hours. The whole WE. I just got the news: no animations. The heat is too much risk for visitors and working colleagues. Heat is similar to a pandemic: it isolates people. Heat closes you up in your room. And for us, it means financial loss: the WE is our main visitor time. #ClimateDiary #heatwave #France

• Post #2514949

  Merke: Wenn sich in einem "journalistischen Artikel" dreimal "Pfade öffnen", dann seid ihr auf dem richtigen Pfad, einem sogenannten "Medienportal" auf den Leim zu gehen, das von vorn bis hinten nur aus LLM /GPT-Schleim besteht. Es entstehen immer mehr solcher Pseudomedienportale. Schaut euch Impressum und eine About-Seite genauestens an. Falls überhaupt Journalist*innen auftauchen, müsste deren Person/Laufbahn extern findbar sein. Meist sind...

• Post #2338952

  A scent of honey, violets, and vanilla #bloomscrolling #silentSunday #florespondence #miniBouquet

• Post #2140660

  When #reality feels like a fake, #writing becomes a challenge even for #journalists: "The answer to my writer’s block was in front of me all along: all I needed to do was to talk to other people - I believe we must try to help people to look up and out instead, to #connect with one another. Good journalism can do this. Forge the kind of #connections that people are missing, that people long for." https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2026/may/06/how-to-survive-the-in...

• Post #2037785

  #Mastodon has gone mainstream: love scams involving ‘US officers’ 🤮 , credit fraud, and phishing attempts by supposed moderators. The good news: our moderators are real people and are actively on the ball. Accounts like these don’t last long. If you have such follow requests: #report them *before* blocking. So you help that others get protected.

• Post #1683273

  The most punk thing you can do in times when a handful of people want to dominate all the news and posts: make room for those who deserve it. The world around me is bursting with springtime beauty. #bloomScrolling #florespondence #miniBouqet #springVibes #beauty #ranunculus #geranium #Butterblumen

• Post #1552159

  Well, I lost spontaneously subscribers when my newsletter about #reality was published: https://steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/posts/e8a0beae-5d7c-49a4-a3ce-66f732419a3c I know, it was hard and evil but I'm too much journalist to look only on Brian's Bright Side Of Life. 😉 How can I make amends? Writing about nature - but what? About:

• Post #1550650

  RE: https://halo.nu/@theguardian_us_culture/116448572026482934 Note the name Mathieu Kassovitz: so you know that you can forget that guy already now! Dead drunk by AI-marketing, he says: “Fuck copyright”. But if another guy steals from him: "of course I’m gonna sue them." Better: "Tim Kraft, a leading German copyright lawyer, said there were almost 140 pending cases against AI companies over copyright, mostly in the US, but also in Germany." And now forget...

• Post #1461683

  1/2 Quite a lot of people in my feed create #zines. May I ask what programme you use for the design of pages with more text? Especially for #minizines ? I only know Indesign for professional books, and my last mini #zine was drawn/written by hand, then scanned. Any simple software recommandation just for a hobby? (And I don't have the money to pay Adobe-Stuff). How do you make your zines? ed: thanks to all for the great help! I recommend to read the comments! #zinemaking #zinester #zinem...

• Post #1405293

  Don't visit the #USA. A French woman, aged 86, finally arrived back in France thanks to help from the embassy. "Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé was arrested in her nightgown at the home she shared with her late husband, a retired US army captain" by ICE and imprisoned in a #detention camp. Arriving, "she was still dressed in her detention uniform of orange shoes, sweatpants and a grey sweater covered in stains and holes. ... in a state of shock and exhausted after her...

• Post #1317805

  🧵 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

• Post #1272692

  Ich bin dank vieler Strassensperren heute weit über die Berge gefahren und war mit offenem Fenster fast besoffen: vom Rapsduft, der über dem Sonnengelb der Felder liegt, vom Duft wilder Kirschen an Waldrändern, vom Tulpenduft blühender Rond Points und der scharfen Würze des Wiesenschaumkrauts, das die Strassengräben lila sprenkelt und den Löwenzahn auf Wiesen umschäumt.

• Post #1036759

  One of the most incisive political commentaries I’ve read in a long time: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/08/europe-lesson-donald-trump-era-us-sanity - about an #insane #president who is worse than the pandemic, about the fiction to deal with a #narcissist, about the role of the #EU and why #GB should exit the #Brexit: "Continental #solidarity is not an antidote to chaos amid the waves of a Trumpdemic, but it is the necessary condition for resilience." BTW, I...

• Post #1030372

  Es fällt mir oft schwer, um Hilfe zu bitten; ich fühle mich scheußlich dabei. Aber der Winter zog sich länger hin, als ich gehofft hatte; wir haben auch jetzt nachts noch wenige Grad über Null. Da ich jemanden betreuen muss und selbst auf der Warteliste für eine Schmerztherapie stehe, konnte ich nicht arbeiten. Was mich quält, nennt man „Energiearmut“: die Rechnungen! Mir hilft alles, von kleinen Spenden bis zum Verkauf meines Zines: https://ko-fi.com/naturematchcuts/goal?g=5

• Post #1019247

  "Albeit little-known, plant microbiota or holobionts are essential for plant health and sustainable agriculture. The work of Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse in discovering their role has earned this @cnrs ecologist international recognition." https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/the-super-powers-of-the-plant-microbiota #science #plants #ecology #microbiota #soilLife #soil #agriculture #gardening #foodSecurity

• Post #1014257

  It's still too cold, very stormy, and grey ... but tiny beauties can be found everywhere. Have a fine day and joy, if you are a rabbit or not! #bloomscrolling #miniBouquet #muscari #blue #flowerPhotography

• Post #988209

  I never thought anyone still bought zines these days! But hey, I’ve got my first customers. 🥰 That’s motivating me to come up with a few more, hopefully when things calm down a bit. What would you like to see: My first mini zine after decades: https://ko-fi.com/s/700d3d3138 #zine #zines #naturelovers #nature #biodiversity #sciComm #miniZine #NatureMatchCuts #natureHeals #zinester #zineMaking

• Post #988202

  Another *insert worst swear word you can imagine*: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/07/jd-vance-budapest-viktor-orban-hungary-election-france-nicolas-sarkozy-denmark-coalition-russia-ukraine-europe-latest-updates-news?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-69d4f8c58f088f86f872446c#block-69d4f8c58f088f86f872446c Info for the USA: Orban is one of the most fascist leaders in the EU, trying to destroy the EU. He already destroyed press freedom, LGBTQ+ rights and a lot more of de...

• Post #988201

  I envy the astronauts so much right now. So very much. From a distance, Earth is such a wonderful, unique planet, one worth protecting. Up close, unfortunately, you see the death cultists, the greedy exploiters, and destroyers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49kw-W1uvDk&list=RD49kw-W1uvDk&start_radio=1 #DarkSideOfTheMoon #PinkFloyd #Artemis2 #moon #NASA #Earth

• Post #941855

  I had promised you more #grannies from our Festival of #Wool & #Yarn. The square-bags were new, but I suspect the horrible shades of orange and brown are original 1970s. 🤭 We had a big hype with grannies in the 1960/70s, first with colourful fancy #hippie #fashion, then in the typical colours of rubbish bins (in the early 1970s, everything had that dirty orange: bins, coffee-machines, skirts, wall-papers). @fiberarts #fibreArt #fiberArts #colours #crochet #häkeln