TIL there was no single burning of the historic Great Library of Alexandria. The “single burning” story is just myth.

Instead, the Library of Alexandria was slowly defunded and its librarians, intellectuals purged from Alexandria. Over generations its prominence and scholarship slowly faded away, and the collection was likely slowly lost to corruption, war, plunder, dilapidation, or dispersed across other private and public collections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria

Remember: you’ll do more for musicians if you delete Spotify, pirate all your mp3s and buy a single album every month on a platform with fairer percentages (Bandcamp, formaviva, heck even iTunes).

#music #spotify #bandcamp

Lilongwe, Malawi

Scientists expressed fear at rampant ice melt, floods, cyclones, more temperature rise - loss and damage triggered by adverse impacts of climate change. Institutions have failed, social inequality is ubiquitous

Scientists are scared! #UniteAgainstClimateFailure

🟠 Forest fire in #Arctic circle, Russian Federation, affected about 200-300 km2 within the last two weeks.

🛰️ #Copernicus Sentinel-2, 19-07-2023
📷 Full-size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/191444271@N08/53060661632/in/dateposted-public/

Image is about 60 kilometers wide.

Alert: https://niklas.social/@disasters/110752255830690685

#RemoteSensing #OpenData #SciComm #Wildfire