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appassionato, 1 hour ago to palestine

As Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah struggles to get fuel, its oxygen generators may run out of power, putting the lives of 20 newborns in peril, warns the UN’s children agency, UNICEF.

@palestine
#Gaza
#hospitals
#fuel
#newborns

appassionato, 4 hours ago to Birds

A kingfisher snatches a fish from the water in Yeadon, near Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. The little birds are only 15cm long, but when diving they can travel at 25mph

Photograph: Jamie MacArthur/Animal News Agency

@photography
#birds
#kingfisher

appassionato, 4 hours ago to Birds

Three Atlantic puffins wait for mates during breeding season on Great Saltee Island, County Wexford. The uninhabited Saltee Islands off Ireland’s southeastern coast are a seabird paradise – a crucial breeding ground for fulmars, gannets, shags, kittiwakes, guillemots, razorbills and puffins, situated along an important migration route

Photograph: Artur Widak/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

@photography
#birds
#puffins

appassionato, 4 hours ago to photography

A banded damselfly lands on a leaf in a pond in Brandenburg, Germany

Photograph: Patrick Pleul/dpa

@photography
#insects
#damselfly

appassionato, 4 hours ago to photography

A young giraffe practises drinking at a watering hole in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. The 6ft giraffe, who is just a few months old, spreads its legs at an unlikely angle as it bends down to drink

Photograph: Michelle Guillermin/Mediadrumimages

@photography
#Kenya
#giraffe

appassionato, 4 hours ago to Mexico

A vet holds a baby howler monkey rescued from the jungle after dozens of animal deaths were reported amid a fierce heatwave, in Cunduácan, Tabasco state, Mexico

Photograph: Reuters

@photography
#Mexico
#AnimalRescue
#HowlerMonkey

appassionato, 4 hours ago to spain

‘Sunset over the mouth of the Rio Guadalquivir where it meets the Atlantic – taken while wild camping on the beach in our campervan in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz province.’

Photograph: Damian Connelly

@photography
#sunset
#Andalucia
#Spain

appassionato, 4 hours ago to books

HumanKind: Changing the World One Small Act at a Time by Brad Aronson, 2020

Bestseller and Canadian Book Club Awards Winner is filled with true stories about how one small deed can make a world of difference.

Brad provides dozens of ways you can make a difference through the simplest words and deeds. You'll discover how buying someone a meal or sharing a little encouragement at the right time can change someone's world, as well as your own.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#kindness

appassionato, 4 hours ago to books

Cyber Republic: Reinventing Democracy in the Age of Intelligent Machines by George Zarkadakis, 2020

Science and tech expert George Zarkadakis presents an indispensable guide to making liberal democracies more inclusive, and the digital economy more equitable in the coming Fourth Industrial Revolution.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#democracy

appassionato, 5 hours ago to books

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen, 2020

An incendiary examination of burnout in millennials—the cultural shifts that got us here, the pressures that sustain it, and the need for drastic change**
Do you feel like your life is an endless to-do list? Do you find yourself mindlessly scrolling through Instagram because you’re too exhausted to pick up a book?

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#millenials
#burnout

appassionato, 5 hours ago to books

Believing in Dawkins: The New Spiritual Atheism by Eric Steinhart, 2020

In this book, atheist philosopher Eric Steinhart explores the spiritual dimensions of Richard Dawkins’ books, which are shown to encompass:
· the meaning and purpose of life
· an appreciation of Platonic beauty and truth
· a deep belief in the rationality of the universe
· an aversion to both scientism and nihilism

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#philosophy
#atheism
#RichardDawkins

appassionato, 6 hours ago to astrophotography

ESA's new Sun-orbiting Euclid telescope recently captured the most detailed image ever of the bright star forming region M78. Near the image center, M78 lies at a distance of only about 1,300 light-years away and has a main glowing core that spans about 5 light-years. The featured image was taken in both visible and infrared light. The purple tint in M78's center is caused by dark dust preferentially reflecting the blue light of hot, young stars.

@photography
#astrophotography
#APOD
#M78

appassionato, 7 hours ago to palestine

In the West Bank, another war goes unnoticed.
In the northern refugee camp of Nour Shams, @UNRWA staff told me about the impact of Israeli Forces’ regular operations on their daily lives.

What was once a bustling area with markets and life, lays in destruction now 👇
Houses… pic.twitter.com/rwRuD199iN

— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) May 23, 2024

@palestine
#WestBank

appassionato, 7 hours ago to palestine

Israeli Defense Minister Gallant said: “I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip…No electricity, no food, no fuel. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.”

That is what they have done.

The world community cannot allow this barbarism. pic.twitter.com/tnBHbadX2d

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 24, 2024

@palestine
#Gaza
#Gallant
#Sanders

appassionato, 9 hours ago to palestine

Iyad al-Jabri, the medical director at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, said more than 4,000 litres of fuel was required each day to continue operations and care for patients in the medical facility, which is now in darkness as power generators have shut down.

“We have hundreds of patients including the injured and those that are diagnosed with kidney failure and need electricity for their dialysis treatment.”

@palestine
#Gaza
#hospitals
#fuel

appassionato, 9 hours ago to DadBin

A patient surrounded by family members sits on a bed in a corridor lit by sunlight seeping through a window after a power cut at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, which has run out of fuel to power generators to keep the lights on in the packed medical facility on May 23, 2024 [Bashar Taleb/AFP]

@palestine
#Gaza
#hospitals
#children

appassionato, 9 hours ago to DadBin

A man carries an injured child as wounded Palestinians are brought to Al-Aqsa Hospital following an Israeli attacks on Bureij refugee camp, in Deir el-Balah, Gaza on Tuesday [Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency]

@palestine
#Gaza
#hospitals
#children

appassionato, 9 hours ago to books

Cephalopod Atlas, 1910

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/321903#page/197/mode/1up

via
https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/03/03/cephalopod-atlas-carl-chun/

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#MarineLife
#cephalopod

appassionato, 10 hours ago to Flowers

‘The poppy meadow at London Fields in Hackney.’

Photograph: Jerry Sandler

@photography
#summer
#flowers

appassionato, 10 hours ago to Birds

Lens-watching

‘I went to a protected bird-spotting place and we were hiding in a hut to photograph birds further away. However, this baby wagtail wasn’t too impressed by our large lenses.’

Photograph: Uwe Pfeiffer

@photography
#BirdWatching
#birds
#Germany

appassionato, 10 hours ago to Israel

Hadas Kalderon, a resident of the Nir Oz kibbutz whose children were taken hostage and whose mother and niece were killed, breaks down in tears while looking through her mother’s burnt-out home, 30 October 2023

Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

@palestine
#Israel
#kibbutz
#hostages

appassionato, 10 hours ago to photography

About 60 people cross the Channel on a small boat, 6 March 2024

Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA-EFE

@photography
#EnglishChannel
#migration

being, 20 hours ago to random

I kind of wish anyone here knew anything about Burkina. It gets lonely. I made a Burkina Faso instance but nobody in my life wants to join 😂