🧵 Some random thoughts about #journalism, #journalists #media, #socialMedia as echo chambers, and our ability to change from #nagScrolling to #solutions.
Have you ever noticed that people get upset about bad journalism or claim that ‘the’ media are not reporting something? They post (supposed) evidence. Who gets the attention? (a good question before boosting!)
In advance: Yes, if we analyze something bad for learning, we need these links and proofs. But I don't talk about that. I talk about
🧵 borders. Now I found an article by a Pakistani journalist which is a good example: It is internationally understandable. It shows the context of climate change from the very first sentence. But it also shows the political interdependencies and the environmental damage: https://globalvoices.org/2025/07/14/deadly-floods-hit-pakistan-as-government-preparedness-faces-scrutiny/
Sharing this good example of journalism, readers can be informed better, learn something new. And we can even take the good example to teach about bad journalism and how do do better. And so we all
I finally started uploading some of my photos to wikipedia as CC-by-SA. Makes it so much easier to find them again when I need them.
This is a star worm from the family Rhagopthalmidae. It looks like a tiny subway train crawling on the forest floor.
Took this with my cheap 25mm 7Artisans manual lens, because the wide apeture could capture the dim bioluminescence. I had a fill light to the right so there is a glimpse of what the animal actually looks like.
#macrophotography #insects
Disco Quoll
“Where their fur is normally fawn or black, under certain wavelengths of light, they exhibit a process referred to as biofluorescence – like nature’s version of a white shirt glowing at a disco.”
#WildOz #Quoll #Science #Photography #BenjaminAlldridge #Australia
#Art #Illustration #Posters #debashish.chakrabarty
https://www.debashishchakrabarty.com/
Debashish Chakrabarty, born and raised in #Dhaka, #Bangladesh, is an artist and author. A graduate of #Pathshala South Asian Media Institute with a focus on #photography, he explores the plasticity of the human mind through science and art. His recent works delve into power relations and civil imagination, examining state mechanisms, power …
https://www.palestineposterproject.org/artists/debashish-chakrabarty
Lemurs leaping! This brave momma crossed a rocky gap at the Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve with baby in tow. See more winning photos from the 2025 BigPicture Competition on Colossal.
Interview: "It looks like I've hit a nerve."
~Francesca Albanese
The US has sanctioned Albanese following her scathing report, which named over 60 companies, including major US technology firms Google, Amazon & Microsoft, involved in "the transformation of Israel's economy of occupation to an economy of genocide".
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/francesca-albanese-defiant-face-trump-sanctions
For those wishing to sign a petition to show her some support (409,000 already signed):
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