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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
@blogdiva@mastodon.social

this one’s for #asstodon ―which i guess we should be translating as #burrostodon or #burrodon:
https://www.20minutos.es/madrid/hoy-dia-normal-burrolandia-gran-noticia-instinto-les-puso-salvo_6236211_0.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

due to #wildfires raging across Europe, people had to evacuate Burrolandia, a sanctuary for burros & other equines. it’s also a farm, so they left all the animals out of their stalls. when they came back, they found the burros had organized all the animals in the middle of the farm to avoid the fires & smoke that luckily stopped meters away from the property.

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
@blogdiva@mastodon.social

BTW southern #Europe is being consumed by #wildfires #incendies #incendios this summer.

France has seen more than 17,000 hectares of forest go up in flames in the #Aude region. that’s basically the size of Brooklyn turned to ashes:

via @Le_Parisien@flipboard.com:
“Incendie dans l’Aude : la mobilisation des pompiers reste « très intense » pour éviter les reprises de feu - Le Parisien - https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/incendie-dans-laude-la-mobilisation-des-pompiers-reste-tres-intense-pour-eviter-les-reprises-de-feu-11-08-2025-MDM2JZMJIVCJPLCBYLMXX2JB4Y.php

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
@blogdiva@mastodon.social

via @euronews@mastodon.social, Greece has been hit with 150 #wildfires in the last 48 hours:

https://fr.euronews.com/2025/08/13/grece-plus-de-150-incendies-en-48-heures-et-le-pire-est-peut-etre-encore-a-venir?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
@blogdiva@mastodon.social

publications like @NatGeoEsp@flipboard.com
https://www.nationalgeographic.com.es/medio-ambiente/riesgo-extremo-casi-toda-espana-por-incendios-amenaza-creciente-por-cambio-climatico-es-principal-vector-que-esta-condicionando-comportamiento-diferente-estos-megaincendios_26007?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

and @dtpnews@mastodon.social
https://www.dtpnews.com/2025/08/13/espanol/dtpnews/incendios-en-europa-imagenes-de-incendios-actuales-en-grecia-portugal-italia-y-espana/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

point to the obvious main vector for #wildfires: #climateChange

but there’s some like @theconversationes@newsie.social that go into more specifics: the abandonment of rural economies.
https://theconversation.com/fomentar-la-economia-rural-el-mejor-antidoto-contra-los-incendios-261935

and those rural areas have been controlled by the largest conservative party in the country, which is why their opposition have started to point fingers to them:

via @ElConfidencial@flipboard.com
https://www.elconfidencial.com/espana/2025-08-13/puente-acusa-pp-desmantelar-servicios-reafirma-tuits-incendios_4190647/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
@blogdiva@mastodon.social

the #wildfires consuming #Spain are also consuming Portugal because the fires started in their shared Galicia region and it’s extended from there.
https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/pais/portugal-em-alerta-a-evolucao-da-resposta-a-incendios-ao-minuto_e1676063

apparently #Portugal doesn’t have firefighting airplanes to deal with the fires and has had to ask Marruecos #Morocco for help:
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.abc.es/sociedad/portugal-aviones-fuego-pide-ayuda-marruecos-luchar-20250812173042-nt.html

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
@blogdiva@mastodon.social

and, then there’s Italy, where the #wildfires have been raging along Mount Vesuvio:

via @WiredItalia@flipboard.com
https://www.wired.it/gallery/incendio-a-cipro-le-immagini-delle-fiamme-che-stanno-devastando-lisola/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

via @ilPost@flipboard.com
https://flipboard.com/@ilpost/italia-geogjiogz/-/a-S_HHq6oEQHSkeQny466k9A%3Aa%3A2183656918-%2F0

via @LaStampa@flipboard.com
https://flipboard.com/@lastampa/le-notizie-dall-italia-e-dal-mondo-qaku7blvz/-/a-FOWzvOOJRYq6ygL9CNtSGA%3Aa%3A174132866-%2F0

i’ve spent time in this news curation exercise ―a reporting practice i helped pioneer more than 20 years ago on my blogs and social media― to show y’all that the #fediverse is a place to get the news. and that’s in part thanks to one company: @Flipboard@flipboard.social

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
@blogdiva@mastodon.social

we need now to convince citizen journalists, bloggers and hyperlocal publications that having a presence in the #fediverse is, in the era of AI slop and #enshittification, more important than ever.

i would need to switch VPN localities to have access to the amounts of headlines from spanish, french, italian sources i get here ―on #Mastodon’s own search engine― than on ANY www search engine. they all rely on either Google or Bing slop. Mastodon doesn’t.

#journalism #media