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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's a sign that you need to lie down and rest

Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🐷 They use a wide range of oinks, grunts, and squeals to communicate with each other. 🐷 These animals are incredibly smart—they can differentiate between objects and even recognize their own "artwork" versus that of fellow pigs.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🐷 They are more intelligent than a three-year-old human. So it’s no surprise that Peppa could teach your kid! 🐷 Pigs enjoy playing with toys and can even learn to play simple video games.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

⁠#AnimalSentience Whose children used to watch or are currently watching Peppa Pig? Here are a few facts about pigs 👇

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why is the world in such a rush? It’s only the beginning of October, but shops are already full of Christmas stuff 💔 Please, just slow down. Let me enjoy autumn and all these pumpkin vibes

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🐟 They pass down knowledge from generation to generation. 🐟 The "three-second memory" is a myth—they actually have long-term memory.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#AnimalSentience #AnimalWelfare #AnimalAdvocacy Here are a few interesting facts about fish: 🐟 They experience positive and negative emotional states, much like mammals. 🐟 Some of them enjoy playing, even with their human caretakers 👇

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#FactoryFarming has to end. #AnimalWelfare is an important reason, and the horror is clearly illustrated with this farrowing crate on @humaneworldorg.bsky.social stall at #GreenParty conference

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Want to learn more? Check out "How to clean up the world's dirtiest industry" by Joojin Kim 🙌

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And one of the problems that is often treated as secondary is the material ships are made of: steel. 🤔 What is the problem with steel? Well, most of it is made using dirty coal, and steel production accounts for another 8% of global emissions.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#ClimateAction #Emissions Did you know that if shipping were a country, it would be the sixth-largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world? Some ships are not only powered by fossil fuels—they are built with fossil fuels and transport fossil fuels.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh, #Duolingo just reminded me that I don't have any friends at all 🫠

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For the past 3d, russian drones have been bombing Kyiv nonstop. russia is particularly targeting education infrastructure. This horrifying photo shows people escaping a massive fire through a window in the National Academy of Science of Ukraine. russians also bombed 2 schools and 2 kindergartens.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mission completed: spot the cat in Poděbrady 🐈

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Parasol mushroom 🍄‍🟫

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A TV series won’t stop extreme weather, of course. But, as the authors argue, it may help make these risks feel less distant.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They ask whether Force of Nature could do something similar for extreme weather—bringing the reality of heatwaves, wildfires and other extreme events to audiences who might never read a scientific paper.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The authors draw a comparison with Blue Planet II, which in 2017 helped turn plastic pollution from a niche environmental issue into a kitchen-table conversation.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m planning to watch #ForceOfNature in October, so I was interested to come across this piece about the series in The Conversation 👇

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Even natural fibres such as cotton and wool can be found as pollutants in rivers, oceans and the air. There is NO perfect fibre. Maybe the better question isn’t “natural or synthetic?” but: what happened to this material along the way and where will it end up?

theconversation.com

The surprising chemical footprint of your clothes

Two garments made from the same fibre may have very different environmental footprints depending on how they were processed and finished.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A garment’s environmental footprint depends not only on the fibre itself, but also on how it is grown or produced, which chemicals are used to process it, how it is worn and washed, and what happens to it at the end of its life.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Natural fibres are always better for the environment.” It sounds logical: cotton instead of polyester, wool instead of acrylic, linen instead of nylon. 🙅‍♀️ But it’s not that simple.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And if global warming reaches more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels, fire-weather conditions in many regions could become almost unrecognisable compared with recent history. Wildfires aren’t just a future climate threat. The conditions that make them more likely are already changing.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Climate change is already reshaping wildfire risk. Since the 1980s, the global fire-weather season has become 27% longer on average, while days with extreme fire weather have become 54% more frequent.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It seems like dreams can come true even when you are 27. Feeling so excited, like a real Hogwarts student! So grateful to have the opportunity to study at @ujop.bsky.social in the Czech Republic. I will try my best 🤓

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thank you, Faunalytics, for today’s Fauna Connections 2026! If you’re interested in animal protection, please consider supporting this amazing organisation @faunalytics.bsky.social 🐓

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Source: The Conversation, “Wildfires: why media coverage doesn’t always make the climate connection”⁠ #ClimateJournalism #EnvironmentalJournalism #ClimateChange #Wildfires

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The solution isn’t to stop reporting the event. Fires are news. It is to give the event a memory: report the conditions beforehand, connect it to previous events, return after the flames are gone, and follow recovery and adaptation.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

And I think this has a lot of relevance beyond climate journalism. The same problem appears whenever environmental destruction is reported primarily as a spectacular event rather than as a process. A disaster has a date. Ecological change often doesn’t. Journalism has to connect the two.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I also found the discussion of French media particularly interesting. The shift from describing heatwaves as exceptional heatwave towards climate disruption is more than a change in vocabulary. It changes the frame.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

That matters because an article can be completely factually accurate and still give a misleading picture. If we report the fire, the evacuations and the damage, and leave out the conditions that made such an event more likely, we may be accurate about the day while being misleading about the decade.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Each wildfire arrives as breaking news, while the previous ones disappear from the news cycle. Coverage effectively starts from zero again.The trend is left for readers to reconstruct themselves.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

And this creates a strange asymmetry in climate reporting: we get plenty of incident, but much less process.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As Specht puts it, a fire can be explained by “today’s barbecue, yesterday’s wind direction, a dry spring, four decades of land use change, or a century of emissions.” These explanations aren’t necessarily competing with each other. They operate on different timescales.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The problem is partly structural: news is built around events. A wildfire starts today. People are evacuated. Flights are cancelled. The flames make for dramatic photographs. But the conditions that made the fire more likely may have been building for months, decades or even longer.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

📄 To Kill an Animal, To Make a Man: Speciesism, Domination, and Masculinity in Ecuador

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

10/10 I find the central question genuinely useful: What if we stop asking only “Why are humans violent towards animals?” And also ask: “What kinds of humans—and what kinds of masculinities—are produced through violence against animals?”

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

9/10 This means masculinity isn’t produced only between humans. It can also be produced through relationships with other animals. And animals aren’t completely passive in this process: they flee, freeze, charge, struggle and resist — sometimes disrupting human intentions.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

8/10 One of the paper’s key concepts is “interspecies habitus.” Borrowing from Bourdieu, the authors argue that relationships with other animals can become embodied dispositions — ways of feeling, acting and perceiving learned through repeated practice.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

7/10 🔪 Slaughterhouse work: enduring masculinity Here, masculinity is associated with toughness, endurance, and the ability to manage emotional responses to killing. Interestingly, compassion doesn’t necessarily disappear. It may simply have to be controlled or suppressed.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

6/10 The bull becomes more than an opponent. It becomes a kind of mirror against which masculinity is demonstrated. The more dangerous and powerful the animal appears, the more meaningful the display of courage can become.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

5/10 🐂 Bullfighting: spectacularised masculinity Masculinity is built through confrontation with an animal seen as powerful, wild and dangerous. Bravery, self-control, and the ability to dominate life and death become part of the performance.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

4/10 🐓 Cockfighting: competitive masculinity The rooster becomes an extension of the man himself. Winning can mean honour, status and recognition among other men. The animal’s performance becomes tied to its owner’s masculine identity.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

3/10 In other words, violence against animals can become a way of “making a man.” The study identifies three forms of masculinity, each connected to a different relationship with animals.

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Dora @otter-dora.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

2/10 The authors ask how these practices shape masculine identities. Their argument goes beyond “men are violent towards animals.” They suggest that relationships with animals can become part of how masculinity is learned, performed, and recognized.

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