@EricLawton@kolektiva.social I'm sitting in the picture above (only with central heating), reading the stories about Donald Duck (since my childhood).
In Europe, they are published under licence by different publishers and have changed very much. Donald is still the role model of kindness, love, and curiosity, of course still clumsy.
But the topics have much to do with greed, climate, and environment. Even Scrooge has changed: he has to learn that his behaviour
@clarablackink@writing.exchange @DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social @futurebird@sauropods.win @Dianora@ottawa.place
@EricLawton@kolektiva.social would ruin the world and that he has to act differently. Best teachers: his nephews.
In the title story above e.g., Scrooge dreams to change every tree into a dollar-growing tree. Only Donald and the nephews see that would destroy nature. They fight, and when the trees of greed nearly destroy Scrooge, he has to learn ...
I don't like Disney as a company - but that's also a Disney product. Made in Europe.
@clarablackink@writing.exchange @DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social @futurebird@sauropods.win @Dianora@ottawa.place
After discovering that #cocoa that expired a year ago is still good, I can now enjoy the luxury of a large hot #chocolate. 😋
☕
(At the price it was before the big price increase.)
🧵
#AISlop via #Blogger com: #fake #blogs!
It's happened twice today: I receive a follower request from a blogger. Everything looks harmless, environmental topics, which suits me. I just notice that the blogger advertises their blog a little too often, always using the same sloppy words. At first glance, this also looks harmless; behind the URL is a blogger.com blog.
But how can a new blog have so many ads?
The blog articles are very long and fishy: written in an eternally cycling style, with
🧵 lots of links to ads or other long articles. The "texts" don't tell something new, they only want to provoke clicks, they are not really about environment, only clippings stolen from the internet (oh nowadays techbros speak of training). Pure AISlop, LLM crap!
Digging for the blogger, I find a marketing company and a "marketer" trained by "Digital marketing by IAB Europe – Google Digital Workshops."
Any questions?
Blogger com is infected by AI slop and bloggers are not always writing humans.🤮
🧵 #AISlop via #Blogger com: #fake #blogs!
It's happened twice today: I receive a follower request from a blogger. Everything looks harmless, environmental topics, which suits me. I just notice that the blogger advertises their blog a little too often, always using the same sloppy words. At first glance, this also looks harmless; behind the URL is a blogger.com blog.
But how can a new blog have so many ads?
The blog articles are very long and fishy: written in an eternally cycling style, with
Please CW child abuse!
🧵 who is trained to be tough about photos. But that's precisely why I know what consuming too much violence and brutality in images can do to even stable people. And at some point, the effect of provoking outrage or activism wears off. Readers become numbed.
This morning at breakfast, I saw two horrific photos in my timeline where the victim's face had been insufficiently obscured. I don't know when I'll ever get these photos out of my head. I'm tough, and it was
Please CW child abuse!
🧵 horrifying.
The person who posted it achieved nothing except a few helplessly cynical comments. With CW, I would have been prepared to deal with it appropriately (but not during breakfast). And others, too.
Please show your social skills in social media. It doesn't cost you much.
Please CW child abuse!
🧵 I know, outrage wants to break out. You want to scream in disgust. Point the finger at the guilty parties.
First, take a deep breath. Remember that in a network like the Fediverse, lots of people are vulnerable themselves, they may have experienced traumata. It doesn't cost you much to make a CW: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-content-warnings-cws-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/
Everybody can read your post - but decide before if one's strong enough.
I write this as a journalist,
#Epstein #childAbuse #EpsteinFiles #socialSkills
Please CW child abuse!
🧵 who is trained to be tough about photos. But that's precisely why I know what consuming too much violence and brutality in images can do to even stable people. And at some point, the effect of provoking outrage or activism wears off. Readers become numbed.
This morning at breakfast, I saw two horrific photos in my timeline where the victim's face had been insufficiently obscured. I don't know when I'll ever get these photos out of my head. I'm tough, and it was
Please CW child abuse!
🧵 I know, outrage wants to break out. You want to scream in disgust. Point the finger at the guilty parties.
First, take a deep breath. Remember that in a network like the Fediverse, lots of people are vulnerable themselves, they may have experienced traumata. It doesn't cost you much to make a CW: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-content-warnings-cws-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/
Everybody can read your post - but decide before if one's strong enough.
I write this as a journalist,
#Epstein #childAbuse #EpsteinFiles #socialSkills
Anyone who has ever eaten in France knows how a real garlic butter sauce smells. 🧄
🐌
And that's exactly how our village centre smelled today, and the scent crept through the ventilation system into the car. It has never been so difficult to cross the main intersection. By the time I reached my destination, my stomach was hanging at my knees growling with appetite.
Note to me: use a lot of garlic today.
🧵 Yes, yes, everyone comes out with this now ... but I wanted to mention that I have an account on ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/naturematchcuts and, like many other freelancers, I fuel my storytelling with #coffee! 
So I don't run on fossil fuels and I am purely human in the outer shell and brain.
which is a lie. These tiny little aliens in our body, named #microbiome, don't live only in our gut but also on our skin.
#storytelling #sciComm #biodiversity #NatureMatchCuts #living
#GoodNews “Female #polarBears are really good moms and so they’re just primed for looking after and caring for their offspring,” said Evan Richardson, a research scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada. “We think if there’s a little cub that’s bawling on the coast and has lost its mother, these females just can’t help themselves but to take them on and look after them." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/17/canada-polar-bear-adopts-new-cub
#adoption #animalBehaviour #environment #Canada
Petra van Cronenburg