#löss — Public Fediverse posts

between always and never: going back in time

https://mylittlehawk.com/2026/08/21/between-always-and-never-going-back-in-time/

Eroding the true spirit of beauty
Social media attracting ‘unmanageable’ crowds

* "The issue is "the algorithms ruining the mountain environment by funnelling crowds into beauty spots.The mountains are not a playground."

"Hundreds of people overwhelmed a mountain hut in the Italian Dolomites, not for the panoramic views but in search of a creamy pastry, reigniting the debate about social-media-driven tourism."

“The main problem is those who visit the mountains without knowing or respecting them. Until five or six years ago we did not witness overtourism in precise points or at certain moments in the Dolomites. Now there are iconic places where it is no longer possible to appreciate the beauty as we’re surrounded by dozens of people who take selfies and are only there for that.” >>
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/19/italy-krapfen-friedrich-august-dolomites-tourists-social-media-influencers

* "Italian town clamps down after TikTok star draws ‘unmanageable’ crowds...It also happens, and unexpectedly, in less renowned destinations which are not accustomed to huge flows of visitors..." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/30/italian-town-roccaraso-clamps-down-visitors-tiktok-tourism
#crowds #OverTourism #tourism #harm #algorithm #FunnellingCrowds #SocialMedia #selfies #quest #experience #loss #pollution #traffic #landscape #environment #NeverNever #Bellingen
Image: Bellingen mountains before the tourist season

Chan urrainn dhut mo thionndadh gu fuath.
Faodaidh tu fearg a dhùsgadh nam chrìdhe,
faodaidh tu mo chur air bhoile —
ach bidh gaol agam ort gu bràth,
ge b’ e dè cho cruaidh ‘s a dh’fheuchas tu.

#Gàidhlig #ScottishGaelic #Bàrdachd #Poetry #Gaelic #emotions #loss

USA's biggest weakness is its POTUS, the commander-in-chief. Replace the current one and it will be substantially off better no matter who the replacement is.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/forty-five-reapers-lost-irans-225000686.html

#impeach #felon #POTUS #TraitorMAGA #TraitorGOP #warcriminal #warmonger #USPolitics #USPol #government #war #drone #loss

Spatiotemporal Distribution, Climatic Factors, And Seasonal Precipitation Patterns Characterizing 66 Years Of Widespread Shallow Landslide Events In Piedmont (Northwestern Italy)
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https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2026.1884300 <-- shared paper
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“Widespread shallow landslide events constitute one of the primary drivers of recurrent societal and economic losses in mountain regions. Although the influence of climate variability on landslide frequency and magnitude has been widely recognized, long-term, event-level analyses linking spatiotemporal landslide patterns to precipitation climatology at the regional scale remain scarce. This study presents a statistical analysis of 128 widespread shallow landslide events recorded in Piedmont, northwestern Italy, over the 66-year period 1960–2025, cross-referenced against the regional precipitation climatology. Events were characterized by season, primary physiographic unit, provincial coverage, and an ordinal magnitude index (scale 1–7) encoding combined spatial extent and estimated landslide count. Results indicate that no statistically significant monotonic trend in event frequency was detected over the study period (mean rate: 1.97 events yr⁻1); however, a moderate positive correlation was established between event magnitude and the number of provinces affected (R2 = 0.51, p < 0.00), validating the magnitude index as a proxy for spatial footprint. Mean event magnitude reached its highest value in the 2010s (3.71), while all five events of magnitude ≥ 6 occurred in autumn. The summer fraction of the catalogue increased markedly, from 6% in the 1960s to 31% in the 2000s and 25% in the 2020s, concurrent with stable or declining summer mean precipitation totals, consistent with Clausius–Clapeyron amplification of convective intensity under documented regional warming. Cross-analysis with regional records identifies three tiers of rainfall–landslide coupling: a stationary direct seasonal coupling; a non-stationary, strengthening intensity-mediated summer coupling; and a structural susceptibility-mediated spatial decoupling whereby the driest provinces generate the highest landslide occurrence frequencies due to the lower triggering thresholds characteristic of Tertiary Piedmont Basin sedimentary environments. A post-hoc assessment of the triggering thresholds used for regional shallow landslide early warning system demonstrates superior detection performance for high-magnitude autumn events (hit rate up to 89% for the 2000–2025 sub-period) and identifies sub-daily convective accumulation windows in summer as the primary domain requiring threshold recalibration…”
#massmovement #landslide #engineeringgeology #Italy #Piedmont #NorthernItaly #weather #rainfall #precipitation #climate #risk #hazard #corrleation #relationship #earlywarningsystems #damage #loss #community #infrastructure #mountain #spatiotemporal #mapping #spatialanalysis #statistics #geostatistics #climatology #regional #scale #weatherpatterns #physiography #geomorphology #water #hydrology #hydrogeomorphology #geology #soils

Juliette, 2013–2026.

I wrote down what remained of her life and the way it ended.

https://juliette.oliinyk.com

#Grief #Dachshund #PetLoss #Juliette #Fediverse #Blog #Thougts #Loss #Health #Pets #PetsOfMastodon

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/16/it-is-not-only-a-future-certainty-the-disaster-is-already-here-why-we-need-climate-fiction. The problem is, we are faced not just with #climatecrisis, but with #Polycrisis, including, e.g., #resource #depletion, various forms of #pollution, #biodiversity #loss & #overpopulation, as well as the threat of #armed #conflicts. The grotesque #inequality of the #capitalist #system makes it completely #unsustainable, as does its #ecological #parasitism. Failing any successful efforts to change it, it will #collapse. How do you represent THAT in #fiction?

🚨💸 Jane Street just lost $15 billion, which is apparently what happens when you put a toddler in charge of their "situational awareness" department. 🤦‍♂️ But don't worry, Financial Times is here to verify and apologize... if you can enable cookies and JavaScript. 🍪🔒
https://www.ft.com/content/47dd5308-dd17-404a-a615-61046defd697 #JaneStreet #Loss #ToddlerManagement #FinancialNews #SituationalAwareness #HackerNews #ngated

I received an email from Oracle last night stating that the always-free tier had been downgraded or stuff similar to that. Being sleepy-eyed, I logged in and deleted my instance. All my self-hosted services are gone, and I never implemented a backup system for this VPS.

#vps #selfhosting #loss

It's sad for me. It seems like my cat is at the end of his life. I am managing him passing away peacefully, protected by the shelter, which is my home. Too bad I don't even have the money to fund veterinary care for my cat. I'll bury him soon. I am also under pressure from non-supportive household members who are always questioning me about having a cat to care for.

#grief #loss #pets #animals #poverty #compassion #dignity #care #hardship #family #struggle #love #death #vulnerability #Malaysia

A quotation from Carlyle

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
(Attributed)

(Much) more about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/719/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyie #opportunity #humancondition #loss #miss #missout #suffering #tragedy #unawareness

An underwater disaster: Marine heatwaves are cooking our ocean ecosystems – and will only become more common

" Marine heatwaves happen when the ocean remains abnormally hot for an extended period. While they may be invisible from the shore, their impacts can wreak havoc underwater – killing various kinds of coral, seagrass and fish." >>
https://theconversation.com/marine-heatwaves-are-cooking-our-ocean-ecosystems-and-will-only-become-more-common-288400
#FossilFuels #ocean #MarineHeatwaves #HABs #disasters #MassMortalities #MarineEnvironment #biodiversity #lossOfHabitability #loss

A quotation from Euripides

JASON: I go — a father once; now childless.
MEDEA: You grieve too soon. Old age is coming.
 
[ἸΆΣΩΝ: στείχω, δισσῶν γ᾽ ἄμορος τέκνων.
ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: οὔπω θρηνεῖς: μένε καὶ γῆρας.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 1395ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/85377/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #bitterness #childlessness #grief #growingold #lamentation #loss #mourning #oldage #sorrow

In der Nacht zu gestern vor neun Jahren wurde ein mir sehr vertrauter Mensch, den ich auch oft fotografiert habe, nicht weit von hier in ihrem Haus brutal ermordet.

Und ein kleines Mädchen wurde seiner noch jungen Mutter beraubt.

Möge sie in Frieden ruhen. Aber ich bezweifle es. 🖤

Ich vermisse dich.

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Nine years ago on the night of yesterday, a person I knew very well and photographed often was brutally murdered not far from here in her house.

And a little girl was deprived of her still young mother.

May she rest in peace. But I doubt it. 🖤
I miss you.

Yes, below is a photo of the two actually.

#mord #murder #woman #femicide #verlust #loss #trauer #sadness

Today's poem:

Lisbon Revisited (1926)
- by Fernando Pessoa

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/824479641394970624/lisbon-revisited-1926?source=share

#poetry #FernandoPessoa #lisbon #loss #fear #anxiety #indistinct #dissatisfaction #sadness #acedia

The Latest Data Confirms - Forest Fires Are Getting Worse
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https://www.wri.org/insights/global-trends-forest-fires <-- shared technical article
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http://alturl.com/efp6m <-- shared (focused) #GlobalNatureWatch web map
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https://science.nasa.gov/earth/explore/wildfires-and-climate-change/ <-- shared NASA technical article, ‘Wildfires and Climate Change’
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https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2022.825190 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505418122 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/add606 <-- shared paper
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https://globalnaturewatch.org/dashboards/global/ <-- shared Global Nature Watch dashboard
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https://youtu.be/-0-pv1Bqm-U?si=IHcZJNiVphosbeVt <-- shared overview video
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https://grist.org/wildfires/the-us-has-lost-a-quarter-of-its-forest-cover-to-fire-since-2001/ <-- shared technical article, ‘Fire is responsible for a quarter of US forest loss since 2021’
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/climate/wri-report-forest-loss.html <-- shared media article
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H/T @ World Resources Institute
[‘topical’ - Europe, North America, indeed globally, more & more…]
“New data shows that forest fires are getting worse, burning more than twice as much tree cover today as they did 20 years ago, largely due to climate change…
The latest data [2nd link above] confirms [that] forest fires are becoming more widespread and destructive around the globe. Updated data from researchers [3rd link above] shows that between 2001 and 2025 forest fires now burn over twice as much tree cover each year as they did two decades ago, and more than three times as much in the tropics.
This increased fire activity has been starkly visible in recent years. Record-setting blazes are becoming the norm, with four of the five worst years for global forest fires occurring since 2021. As fires worsen - including in historically low-risk areas, like rainforests - they are becoming an increasingly prevalent driver of global forest loss…”
#GlobalForestWatch #GlobalNatureWatch #deforestation #fire #wildfire #forest #vegetation #climatechange #risk #hazard #loss #ecosystems #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #global #worldwide #forestfire #damage #destruction #fireactivity #forestLOSS
@WRI | @Global Nature Watch

Restore nature?
From abundance to degradation
A shifting baseline means it’s hard to see what has been destroyed

"Nature is not doing well in Australia. Many unique mammals, birds and insects are struggling. Entire ecosystems are collapsing"

"The tireless burrowing of millions of bandicoots and bettongs once shaped the grassy woodlands of southeast Australia. But foxes and cats, coupled with logging, farming and mining, have largely put an end to their work as ecosystem engineers."

"The global target is to restore 30% of degraded ecosystems. But Australia hasn’t announced a numerical target...Aiming to restore 30% of degraded land would mean working across private lands, public reserves and the Indigenous estate. It would likely take decades and come with a substantial price tag. Our ballpark figure is a little over A$7 billion a year over 30 years. "

"That’s less than a third of what the federal government spends subsidising activities which damage nature annually." >>
https://theconversation.com/australia-has-pledged-to-restore-nature-but-could-we-ever-bring-back-lost-ecosystems-286141
#biodiversity #conservation #ecosystem #degradation #harm #loss #ShiftingBaselineSyndrome #experience #extractivism #farming #logging #mining

A quotation from Franklin

Lost Time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard Improved (1748 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/85…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklin #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #loss #losttime #marchoftime #opportunity #passageoftime #time #wasteoftime #wastingtime

Summer: the season of danger, heat, fire and misery

"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone." Rebecca Solnit

"Once, across much of the the world’s temperate zones, we looked forward to summer as a time of delights, from summer’s bounty of fruits, long days, warmth, school holidays, activities like camping and swimming, travel and adventure. Now many of us dread it."

"Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys loss. An estimated 20,000 are said to have died in the extreme heat in Europe earlier this year, and heat is climate change’s quiet killer, compared to the dramatic violence of death by fire or flood. In eastern Washington, 600 homes have just burned down, and in both Europe and North America, firefighters have died in the effort to contain the climate-fueled firestorms."

"We often talk about what climate change has wrecked in terms of what’s material, tangible, structures lost to fire, flood, or sea level rise, trees dying, species threatened, glaciers melting in warmer weather. But summer was an immaterial treasure and joy that belonged to all of us." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/04/summer-heat-climate-war-zone
#loss #habitability #summer #energy #progress #SacrificeZones #climate

Stephen Wolfram's Wife Has Died

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-thanks-for-36-wonderful-years/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173165

#HackerNews #StephenWolfram #EliseCawley #Tribute #Loss #Reflection

Feral cats likely kill far more Australian native animals than we thought: first DNA analysis. The stomach contents of roaming cats: Australian biodiversity

"Australia’s unique animal species are in sharp decline, with more than 40 mammal extinctions over the past 238 years. This atrocious mammal conservation record is the worst in the world."

"Feral, domestic and stray cats now occupy almost the entire continent and are estimated to kill more than 1.5 billion native animals each year."

"We cannot fence the whole of Australia." But pet owners could contain their free roaming cats (in the Bellingen shire). >>
https://theconversation.com/feral-cats-likely-kill-far-more-australian-native-animals-than-we-thought-first-dna-analysis-287871
#cats #pets #InvasiveSpecies #extinction #loss #biodiversity #NativeFauna #birds #songbirds #microbats #frogs #reptiles #conservation #BellingenShire