‘m just glad we’re having rain again.

The Cyber Show has just mentioned climate change.

Assuming we can somehow make up for those long dry spells (or droughts) – though it doesn’t work that way, you cannot “catch up” – we need to learn our lessons and reject waste of energy, pollution etc.

This time for real?

T seems like we’re getting only drizzles lately, no heavy rains. It’s worrying because the birds are literally banging their body’s against my doors for attention, they desperately want food. Today we fed several flocks in our way to and back from Town. They were “happy clappy” about it (we clap to get their attention).

Seeing the yellow ‘grass’ (if that can even be called “grass” at this point; it seems dead everywhere, many bushes and plants too, maybe not trees) is profoundly saddening. If it becomes this bad every year, and if all we have to show for it is chatbots (pyramid scheme basically) and useless data centres, then our species is doomed already.

HIS morning I finally (belatedly) began pavement-cleaning season. It’s a hard, tiring task, using metal brushes to remove a ton of dirt, moss, and sometimes birds’ poo. It’s almost done now (I’ll do a second – and hopefully final – pass some other day).

Today we’ll go visit the birds again. We nearly forget that we promised ourselves to do this. The birds at the park seem hungry and across the whole region I see them struggling to find food. They seem frustrated and desperate.

The struggle isn’t limited to humans, flora and fauna too can feel climate change. The lack of resources is a priority issue (competition), it seems like GAFAM and energy-wasting plutocrats are hoarding all the scarce resources while shattering the environment.

Cruelty comes in many forms.

was just reading your article “Less Shopping Centres, More Parks”, someone has told me, noting “the line about water shortages at the end.”

I said: “Water shortages are also becoming a matter of urgency across Europe. This is climate change in action.”

In IRC he shared “the good, the bad, and the ugly….”

It said (headline) “Europe’s Record Heatwave Kills 25,000, Dries Rivers, Shuts Nuclear Plant, Exposes Submerged Warships…”

“How Is the beaver population in the UK?” he asked. “What is happening in the USA might be of help” (The beavers returning to the desert).

In IRC I joked: “let’s build more chatbot centres, we need more chatbots, give them our water and power to cool down… the server, not the elderly… because… chatbots”

We are seeding our own collective destruction.

AM growing increasingly aware of the dietary needs of the snails/shells. They are multiplying fast and now they finish their daily meals within hours, not days.

I still have lots of food for them in store, but if they keep reproducing they will be “over capacity” in this tank. Then I’ll need to think about introducing another, bigger tank.

Those are not expensive though…

‘ve decided that, weather factors taken into account, it would be better to go feed the birds again, not visit Trafford Centre like we originally planned. Or go around Town this coming Sunday.

The birds at the park look very hungry, desperate for food. We want to prioritise them.

Water shortages are also becoming a matter of urgency across Europe. This is climate change in action.

T seems like the clouds reduced the heat somewhat, so 35 degrees felt more like 30 and we didn’t find apples today, only berries. Lots and lots of the latter.

We brought about 2 KG of premium seeds with us to feed the birds and taught the young kids to feed the birds, not to chase and scare them. Rianne gave fistfuls of seeds to about 6 young children, who learned that the birds are “friends”. It was a lot of fun, so we’ll come back there again on Sunday.

It’ll be a lot cooler in the coming few days. I got some strong tan throughout the day today and it felt like I was near the beach. How long before the sixth and seventh heatwave?