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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