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Due to my job as an electrical engineer in R&D in large-scale industry, I ended up in geology in 2010 out of interest and learned a lot there. My knowledge about natural climate change has also increased as a result.

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𝓖ö𝓷𝓰𝓾 𝓓ó𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓻 ©®__ 🦋 _ 🐘 @gongudottir.bsky.social · 22m

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And now something very nice and partly funny against the frustration ..... or also nice against stupid

Comedy Wildlife Awards 2025 – in pictures

Here is a selection ( 3/21 ) of the finalists in this year’s Nikon Comedy Wildlife awards.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Headlock
The photographer writes: These guillemots were nesting on a small rocky cliff ledge where space was at a premium. The nests were all crammed in close together, which is not a good recipe for being good neighbours as guillemots are fiercely territorial. Aggression and battles are frequent over nesting space and I captured this image of this bemused looking bridled guillemot, its head firmly clamped in his/her neighbour’s beak. I liked the way the guillemot was looking directly into my lens, its white eyeliner eyes highlighting its predicament! Sometimes you just want to bite your neighbours head off … literally!
Photograph: Warren Price

The frog prince of the grapevine
Meet the frog prince of my little garden – he’s been lazing around guarding my grapevine, waiting for a kiss, but I think he is just here for the grapes. This charming amphibian seems to have mistaken the vine for his royal court, lounging among the plump fruit as if he’s the monarch of the orchard.
Photograph: Beate Ammer

Squirrel airborne: surrender mode
A few years ago, a simple wooden hide was available for rent in a forest near my home, known for its lively red squirrel population. I had visited the spot several times before, and eventually began experimenting with capturing squirrels mid-jump. This resulted in countless blurry shots but also a few fun and quirky moments – including the one I submitted. Sadly, the forest has since been cut down due to an infestation of bark beetles, but I still cherish the images I captured of these agile and comical little acrobats. I thought this flying squirrel looks like it’s throwing in the towel mid-air, arms wide, total surrender!
Photograph: Stefan Cruysberghs

𝓖ö𝓷𝓰𝓾 𝓓ó𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓻 ©®__ 🦋 _ 🐘 @gongudottir.bsky.social · 38m

Good day, dear friends 👋 🤗 🥰

this should be very interesting .... stay tuned for the next months / years

Is Shell to blame for a ‘super typhoon’ ?

Philippines survivors to sue oil giant in legal first

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

#climateaction #Shell #suing #climatechange #fossilfuels

The claim argues that Shell’s polluting business has contributed to anthropogenic climate change, which intensified the typhoon’s impact. Using Philippine laws, it asserts that the firm has violated the constitutional rights of the claimants to a healthy environment, and that it caused harm by failing to mitigate its emissions and engaging in climate disinformation and obfuscation of climate science. The case also seeks potential injunctive relief to prevent further violations to human rights.

Leaked internal documents suggest Shell knew of the extensive negative impacts of fossil fuel production and consumption at least 60 years ago but continued to expand and significantly profit from its business.

𝓖ö𝓷𝓰𝓾 𝓓ó𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓻 ©®__ 🦋 _ 🐘 @gongudottir.bsky.social · 15h

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I wish you a lovely evening ... and yes, parents have it tough and make soooo many mistakes ( it's all a matter of perspective ... )

We'll see each other again tomorrow - unless something very specific happens 🤗 🥰 👋

heyokyay @heyokyay.bsky.social · 19h

This comic, created by heyokyay, consists of two panels on a black background.

In the first panel, two stick-figure children are walking together. The child on the left is wearing bright clothes—a yellow coat, green shoes, and a yellow and pink hat with a green pom-pom. The other child is dressed in darker colors with a white hat and boots. The child in bright clothes says, “My mum bought me some bright clothes, so I am easy to see on the way to school…” The child in darker clothes replies, “Isn’t that quite risky?”

In the second panel, both children continue walking. The brightly dressed child looks anxious and says, “Yes — now I’m easy prey for monsters and zombies!!” The child in darker clothes, looking annoyed, adds, “These grownups never think about our safety.” The artist’s name, “heyokyay,” appears in the bottom left corner.

𝓖ö𝓷𝓰𝓾 𝓓ó𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓻 ©®__ 🦋 _ 🐘 @gongudottir.bsky.social · 16h

Motivation 😀

Kaum jemand hat dieses Paper gelesen ... die, die es gelesen haben, lesen Sie nicht und wissen nicht, dass Sie es gelesen haben ...

Bringen Sie Ihre Geschichte .... es handelt sich letztendlich nur um ein paar Tage

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Ich befasse ich mit Geologie - Mutter Erde macht das auch immer 🙃

𝓖ö𝓷𝓰𝓾 𝓓ó𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓻 ©®__ 🦋 _ 🐘 @gongudottir.bsky.social · 16h

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Thanks to AI & the 💰 earned from it, this could just be the tip of the iceberg, even for other areas ...

Detection firm finds 82% of herbal remedy 📚 on Amazon ‘likely written’ by AI Originality .ai scans 558 titles in herbal remedies section between Jan & Sep

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Only the beginning of the article

Detection firm finds 82% of herbal remedy books on Amazon ‘likely written’ by AI
Originality.ai scans 558 titles in herbal remedies section between January and September

Aisha Down
Wed 22 Oct 2025 19.42 CEST
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With gingko “memory-boost tinctures”, fennel “tummy-soothing syrups” and “citrus-immune gummies,” AI “slop” has come for herbalism, a study published by a leading AI-detection company has found.

Originality.ai, which offers its tools to universities and businesses, says it scanned 558 titles published in Amazon’s herbal remedies subcategory between January and September this year, and found 82% of the books “were likely written” by AI.

“This is a damning revelation of the sheer scope of unlabelled, unverified, unchecked, likely AI content that has completely invaded [Amazon’s] platform,” wrote Michael Fraiman, author of the study.

“There’s a huge amount of herbal research out there right now that’s absolutely rubbish,” said Sue Sprung, a medical herbalist in Liverpool. “AI won’t know how to sift through all the dross, all the rubbish, that’s of absolutely no consequence. It would lead people astray.”

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Rock Lab Strasbourg @rocklabstrasbourg.bsky.social · 22h

Samples of hyaloclastite from Krafla in Iceland 🇮🇸 🌋 These samples are from different depths within the shallow reservoir, and they’re now ready for some physical and mechanical probing in the laboratory!

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Santiago Gassó @sangasso.bsky.social · 19h

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Tom Di Liberto @tdiliberto.bsky.social · 21h

Big news out of @climatecentral.org today! We've brought back NOAA's billion dollar disaster dataset!
Check out our interactive website and bookmark it because there's more to come!
www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

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𝓖ö𝓷𝓰𝓾 𝓓ó𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓻 ©®__ 🦋 _ 🐘 @gongudottir.bsky.social · 19h

🇮🇸 🌋 Krýsuvík 🟩

In the DAS diagram, you can clearly see the M 3.6 - as well as the M 1.8 and M 1.9 before and after, respectively .... the brand new one above is not yet published in the homepage list ( en.vedur.is/earthquakes-... ) ...

Source DAS
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3bb...

𝓖ö𝓷𝓰𝓾 𝓓ó𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓻 ©®__ 🦋 _ 🐘 @gongudottir.bsky.social · 20h

Besser nicht aus den heutigen Sendungen zitieren - alte sind besser - die Teenies zerlegen Sie sonst .....😉 😅

𝓖ö𝓷𝓰𝓾 𝓓ó𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓻 ©®__ 🦋 _ 🐘 @gongudottir.bsky.social · 21h

🇮🇸 🌋 Reykjanes - Svartsengi 🟨

Just because it looks great 😍

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqud...

Pure sunshine - view from the mountain Þorbjörn down over the existing lava field

𝓖ö𝓷𝓰𝓾 𝓓ó𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓻 ©®__ 🦋 _ 🐘 @gongudottir.bsky.social · 21h

Interesting - despite the cancellation and rejection of the posting, these still come through unseen 🤔

𝓖ö𝓷𝓰𝓾 𝓓ó𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓻 ©®__ 🦋 _ 🐘 @gongudottir.bsky.social · 21h

Bluesky seems to be having connection problems... I've tried two different speed tests, and they're fine for me.

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𝓖ö𝓷𝓰𝓾 𝓓ó𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓻 ©®__ 🦋 _ 🐘 @gongudottir.bsky.social · 21h

Is Bluesky having problems right now ?

𝓖ö𝓷𝓰𝓾 𝓓ó𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓻 ©®__ 🦋 _ 🐘 @gongudottir.bsky.social · 23h

Skandinavien .....

Wein aus Skandinavien: Das Gute liegt weit im Norden
Wein aus Dänemark, Schweden und sogar Norwegen ?

Das ist zwar kein Weinparadies, auch wegen des Klimawandels, aber es gibt immer mehr davon.

03.02.2023
www.falstaff.com/en/news/wine...

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Wine from Scandinavia: Good things lie far in the north - Falstaff

Wine from Denmark, Sweden and even Norway? This is not wine paradise, also because of climate change, but there are more and more of them.

www.falstaff.com

𝓖ö𝓷𝓰𝓾 𝓓ó𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓻 ©®__ 🦋 _ 🐘 @gongudottir.bsky.social · 23h

Deutschland ? Österreich ?

Norwegen ....

Der norwegische Winzer Bjørn Bergum spricht mit seinen Weinreben. Sie wachsen auf 61 Grad nördlich des Äquators – weit außerhalb des 30. - 50. Breitengrads, der traditionell als optimal für die Weinproduktion gilt

17.04.2022
www.bbc.com/news/busines...
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Climate change: 'We're making wine in Norway'

Vineyards are moving further north, but new winemakers say they struggle to be taken seriously.

www.bbc.com

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𝓖ö𝓷𝓰𝓾 𝓓ó𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓻 ©®__ 🦋 _ 🐘 @gongudottir.bsky.social · 1d

Here Professor Jackie Caplan-Auerbach,
@geophysichick.bsky.social , has her say

Many cruise ships make their tours in glacier regions - with an increasing trend

But these trips can have fatal consequences - the culprit is massive calving caused by global warming

edition.cnn.com/2025/10/22/c...

Cruise ships are flocking to Alaska to chase ice. But receding glaciers are leaving a new threat behind | CNN

It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.

edition.cnn.com

𝓖ö𝓷𝓰𝓾 𝓓ó𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓻 ©®__ 🦋 _ 🐘 @gongudottir.bsky.social · 1d

One of the biggest lies of our time is that wealth is fundamentally self-earned and poverty is fundamentally self-inflicted.

Ardubancel Quazanga @quazanga.bsky.social · 1d

Eine der größten Lügen unserer Zeit ist, dass Reichtum grundsätzlich selbst erarbeitet und Armut grundsätzlich selbst verschuldet ist.

𝓖ö𝓷𝓰𝓾 𝓓ó𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓻 ©®__ 🦋 _ 🐘 @gongudottir.bsky.social · 1d

Manuel Ostermann, CDU-Mitglied & stellvertretender Bundesvorsitzender der Deutschen Polizeigewerkschaft, hat ein Buch geschrieben

Das ARD-Politikmagazin Kontraste und die Wochenzeitung Die Zeit haben Ostermanns Buch einem Faktencheck unterzogen

SEHR lesenswert !

www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder...

Ein Polizeigewerkschafter und seine steilen Thesen

Der Polizeibeamte Ostermann prägt die Debatte um die Innere Sicherheit mit markigen Aussagen. Doch ein Faktencheck seines aktuellen Buches von Kontraste und Die Zeit zeigt: Viele seiner Aussagen sind ...

www.tagesschau.de

Tja, Herr #Merz, sie sollten sich mal mit der Polizei über das #Stadtbild unterhalten ....... und mit anderen Fachleuten, warum Alkohol so das #Stadtbild verändert 😊

wemeze @wemeze.bsky.social · 1d

Screenshot eines Social-Media-Austauschs zwischen Michael Laut (@MichaelLauter12) und der Polizei Mittelfranken (@PolizeiMFR). Michael Lauts Tweet besagt (sinngemäß): "Darüber darf wahrscheinlich die Polizei nicht reden, aber da unsere 'Fachkräfte' hier sind, vermute ich mal, machen auch ein erheblicher Teil dieser Menschen Übergriffe auf unsere Polizei aus - die Polizei muss das täglich neu 'ausbaden' mit dieser Politik..." Darunter folgt die Antwort der Polizei Mittelfranken: "Wir können ganz offen darüber reden. Der größte Anteil ist männlich, weiß, deutsch und stark alkoholisiert."

Tassen sind reichlich da - nur entweder sind dort zu viele farbenblind und können sie vom Hintergrund nicht unterscheiden, oder sie stehen alle nicht in der richtigen Reihenfolge ...... ich glaube, da müsste mal jemand helfen :)

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Democracy vs dictatorship - yes, many hopes are dying right now

Sometimes the quiet tones are much more effective

AND - God loves EVERYONE

Some conservative commentators are calling Leo the “woke pope”. He should “return to his previous silence”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘They can’t dismiss Leo so easily’: how the pope has confounded conservatives

As pontiff prepares for visit of King Charles, the contours of his papacy are slowly becoming apparent

www.theguardian.com

Sources en.vedur.is/earthquakes-...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3bb...

aflogun.vedur.is/reykjanesskagi

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🇮🇸 🌋 Krýsuvík 🟩

GM, my dears 👋 🤗 🥰

There are many wetlands in this area and many cracks (systems) in the Earth's crust, as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge runs beneath it ... and as Veðurstofa has reported in the past and you can see here, there are subsidences in the area that lead to earthquakes.

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I'll say goodnight to you now, even though I'm not off yet - my little one sent me some holiday photos today from the 4 days they visited me on Rømø / DK

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A photo of me, from behind, creeping across the slightly flooded beach with my walker

My daughters with me on the terrace before sunset

My daughters with me on grassy dunes at a picnic

I found a newer map - unfortunately not the only one with a real link - at Veðurstofa Íslands on FB www.facebook.com/Vedurstofan ⇈⇈ - this one has now marked 24 water cauldrons .....

For my own ( and now also your ) control, I have combined both calderas of Katla into one map ....

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