Sarina Naude

[C40 Cities @c40cities]

Cities are already feeling the impact of a hotter, more unforgiving climate.

From opening public areas 24/7 for people to cool down to creating more shade and green spaces, cities like Paris are finding practical ways to protect residents from extreme heat.

@egregoire

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

The biggest mistake we’ve all made is not understanding how fragile everything is. Food. Democracy. War. Peace. Civilisation. The planet.
I’m afraid we’re about to find out.

[South African Government @GovernmentZA]

🚨 LICENCE VALIDITY EXTENDED

Cabinet has approved a ten-year validity period for light motor vehicle driving licences, doubling the current five-year period.

🔗 https://t.co/o9fyThWbYr

#GovZAUpdates #CapableState

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Sarina Naude @gardenercook]

@CityTshwane Could we get an update on the water interruption please?

[WnT @WheelsnToys]

They are selling it as a "conservation" story

But its Amazon getting land the size of a small town

https://t.co/hTwCTmRzn1

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

There’s another heatwave coming in the next 10 days.

I hope im wrong but I think we’re fucked.

People are too stupid and the whole media is just unable to tell the truth.

We literally are seeing temperature and rainfall records falling all over the planet constantly and it’s barely making a dent in peoples consciousness. There should be millions protesting in the street day in day out until global governments change.

But there is no urgency from the useless deadly media who literally think they know more than scientists who’ve studied it for decades.

The public only cares about superficial celebrity nonsense, lifestyle guff and money, even people on the left generally are not very engaged with this issue whereas the right often deny it’s even happening. Only 10% of MPs across the board attended a briefing on climate change by the chief scientist in the UK several years ago.

Politicians don’t understand and don’t care, just like the public don’t. Most people won’t even tweet or discuss it let alone watch a documentary.

Someone asked me recently why I focus more on climate change than gay stuff now. It’s because climate change is the biggest threat to gay people that’s ever existed. Because it’s the biggest threat to all people that has ever existed.

We are talking about the total breakdown of the food system, of law and order and eventually, as David Attenborough says, the collapse of civilisation itself. Mass death, in other words, and with the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere - we put 100 million tons of it out every single day - it can’t return to normal for thousands of years.

The media has turned us into idiots and completely failed to convey scientists warnings about how serious and imminent climate breakdown is. It’s not decades away. It’s here. It’s now. Extreme suffering and violence are incoming.

Video: Monmouth, UK, earlier this year. Scientist Prof Hayley Fowler, video below this tweet, warned last year that the UK could now see 2/3 of years worth of rain, triple what Monmouth experienced, to fall within a day or two, enough to wash homes and cars away and to completely flood the tube system in London if it happened there. No reporting in the media at all.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Así es la esclavitud en las minas en el este del Congo, de donde sale más del 70% del cobalto del mundo, miles de esclavos diariamente extraen el mineral por apenas 2$ al dia para llenar los bolsillos a las multinacionales capitalistas.

El capitalismo que no te enseñan, así es como se sostiene el nivel de vida y de consumo en Occidente, en estas minas al menos hay 40.000 niños esclavizados que pican piedra para que Apple saque 4 modelos de Iphone cada año.

[MO @Abu_Salah9]

صدمة هائلة

قامت شركة جوجل بتحديث خرائطها لقطاع غزة عبر الأقمار الاصطناعية، لتكشف حجم دمار لم تعرفه البشرية من قبل.

[Medwyn Williams @medwynsofangles]

I couldn’t possibly leave Chelsea without shooting this small video of the South Africa display, truly beautiful.

[kowkie_b 👸🏾 @Triciakoki]

The ANC government closed down nursing colleges, artisan college and trade schools we need them back.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Myth: "I only wear vegan fabrics. Better for the animals, better for the planet."

Let's check in on Doris's annual contribution.

Once a year, in late spring, Doris is sheared. The procedure takes approximately three minutes. Doris does not enjoy it. Doris does not, by any visible measure, suffer from it. Doris is, immediately afterwards, a noticeably more comfortable animal in the British summer.

The fleece weighs approximately 3 kilograms. It is sold to the British Wool Marketing Board for, depending on the year, between £0.40 and £2.50 per kilogram. The shearing costs more than the wool fetches. Brian is shearing Doris at a loss.

The wool is then:
- Naturally flame-retardant
- Naturally antibacterial
- Moisture-wicking
- Biodegradable
- Renewable, annually
- Carbon-storing while in use

The replacement, in performance fabrics:
- Polyester
- Polyamide
- Acrylic
- Polypropylene
- All petroleum-derived
- All shedding microplastics on every wash
- All requiring fossil fuel inputs to produce
- All non-biodegradable, with a typical landfill lifespan of 200-500 years

A single wash of a polyester fleece can release up to 700,000 microplastic fibres into the water system. These fibres are now in: every tested water source on earth, every tested human placenta, every tested rainfall sample, the deep ocean, the Arctic ice, and the lungs of marine mammals.

A single wash of a wool jumper releases: nothing. The wool, when eventually disposed of, returns to soil within a few years.

The fabric being marketed as the "ethical" alternative to wool is plastic.

The plastic is "ethical" because nobody has been asked to slaughter the polymer.

The polymer also has not been asked.

Doris, by being a sheep on a fell, is producing the most thoroughly sustainable performance fabric humans have ever made.

Brian is selling it at a loss.

The fashion industry, meanwhile, is selling petroleum at a profit and calling it ethical.

Reject plastic. Wear wool.

Doris is, this morning, growing next year's batch.

[Sarina Naude @gardenercook]

@yomgqashiyo Mercator Projection.

[Sarina Naude @gardenercook]

@EHofmair @AlgoTeacher Black people are a large majority in South Africa. You are a racist talking out of turn.

[Sarina Naude @gardenercook]

@Red_Rogue55 @darren_olivier @boigny4 @1TrueRicardo 😁

[Sarina Naude @gardenercook]

@ZackieAchmat @AprilSnowGoose @geordinhl @darren_olivier @CityofCT Operating under the Department of the Navy, they specialize in land, air, and sea combat, often serving as the first force into hostile areas.

[Sarina Naude @gardenercook]

@ZackieAchmat @AprilSnowGoose @geordinhl @darren_olivier @CityofCT The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the U.S. Armed Forces responsible for conducting amphibious and ground operations, acting as a rapid-response, expeditionary force-in-readiness.

[Sarina Naude @gardenercook]

@darren_olivier @Red_Rogue55 @boigny4 @1TrueRicardo Operating under the Department of the Navy, they specialize in land, air, and sea combat, often serving as the first force into hostile areas.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

BREAKING: scientists are warning that we'll get a taste of what catastrophic 2°C of global warming does to Earth's climate system not by 2100.. but by winter 2026-27