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A bunch of atoms that are curious about the world, but furious about the society. We should help all humans to have a decent life without any strings attached, so that we can understand us, the atoms, and the rest of the universe. And create a smarter and saner society.

Since 2005 I make documentaries, write books, and enable many trade-free platforms for everyone.

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Sasha Solo Hiking above Caminito del Rey - videos.trom.tf/w/rohi7CzpDDmBg…

Sasha went for a hike above the Caminito del Rey to see how it compares with the main, and paid for, Caminito del Rey hiking that we both did. She got to see some cool eagles, nice high peaks, and beautiful views. And put her life at risk a little bit 😄.

#travel #hiking #nature #travel #caminitodelrey #spain #vanlife #motorhome

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Sasha Solo Hiking above Caminito del Rey

Sasha went for a hike above the Caminito del Rey to see how it compares with the main, and paid for, Caminito del Rey hiking that we both did. She got to see some cool eagles, nice high peaks, and beautiful views. And put her life at risk a little bit :D.

#nature #sPAIN #travel #hiking #vanlife #motorhome #caminitodelrey

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We almost didn't get out of this beautiful place - videos.trom.tf/w/j5wZUdhrLwhLc…

We went to the famous Caminito Del Rey in the South of Spain. But before we had to do the hike, we stopped for a few days in some near-by beautiful places. One particular was very nice, but almost impossible to get out of. This was the most challenging for our Tortuga (motorhome) so far. We also did the laundry again, bought some food, and went for a nice walk around the area.

#travel #vanlife #spain #motorhome #nature #caminitodelrey #offroad

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#nature #sPAIN #travel #vanlife #offroad #motorhome #caminitodelrey

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We found an open Zoo in the middle of nowhere - videos.trom.tf/w/qxr8J6LgSJG56…

Japanese chickens, emus, exotic birds, llamas, dear...we came across this weird zoo-like place. We still do not know why it was there and what's up with it. Perhaps to showcase people these exotic animals. But is it ok to keep them there in a closed space?

On the other hand I, Tio, recognize the irony in the fact that I buy meat and put in the freezer. These are dead animals. But I have severe digestive issues and I can only eat a few things. Meat is one of them unfortunately. I wish this was not the case.

But well, it was an interesting and in a way weird experience for us to see this "zoo". We spent a night there.

#zoo #animals #nature #spain #

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#nature #sPAIN #travel #Animals #Zoo #vanlife #camper #Campervan #motorhome

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Getting stuck in the most beautiful place - videos.trom.tf/w/bxTbZkK2TYaUY…

Masatrigo looks like a volcano, but it is just a beautifully shaped hill with a roundabout around it. It looks so cool from afar, and the entire area is actually super beautiful. But it has been raining in Spain for many weeks and the soil/grass was very wet. We parked in a not so very steep place, but it was enough to get us totally stuck.

Luckily a very nice old man came to our rescue.

#spain #masatrigo #motorhome #vanlife #nature #camping #campervan #camper #europe

Getting stuck in the most beautiful place

Masatrigo looks like a volcano, but it is just a beautifully shaped hill with a roundabout around it. It looks so cool from afar, and the entire area is actually super beautiful. But it has been ra...

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#nature #europe #sPAIN #Camping #vanlife #camper #Campervan #motorhome #masatrigo

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We visited for free this amazing cave. I think it has the tallest formation of stalactites in the world. 32 meters.

There are people in these photos if you look carefully :D

In this care there were people living some 25.000 years ago. Nuts! And cave hyenas. And they discovered cave paintings there that could be the oldest in all human species history, some 42.000 years ago made by Neanderthals. But still they need to confirm this.

The Nerja Cave - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caves_of…

This is me down there...

Mind blowing experience. You have to visit this cave if you can. Put it on your bucket list. The photos do no justice to how amazing the experience was. And from 9:30 every day they provide free tickets if you manage to book them.

Fantastic!

Of course we will make a video about this for our TROMhome channel - videos.trom.tf/c/tromhome/vide…

#cave #nerja #nature #spain

#nature #sPAIN #Cave #nerja

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Rokosun

in reply to Tio • 2 months ago • •

Dude you're making good use of that motorhome haha 😄 Absolutely stunning places! 🤩

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What It’s REALLY Like on a Dolphin Research Expedition - videos.trom.tf/w/qAPES3ALtu17v…

Very well made video. I like when Mara narrates actually, it is quite easy to listen/follow. Plus maybe you can focus more on what you film, edit, the story?

Very interesting project. But I was also wondering how do they support the project? How did you guys join them? Did you pay? Did they train all of those other people for free?

#nature #research #volunteer #france #animals #whales

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in reply to Tio • 2 months ago •

They have some funds and grants. But also part of the funding comes from volunteers who joins their missions or go trough the training. Normally you have to pay, but since we were making video we paid only for the food on board.

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Ok maybe it is good to include these things into the video so people understand how to join just by watching your videos.

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Dima

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There is link under the video, and Mara at the end saying if you want to know more or join, there is a link

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Ya I know it is a link, I clicked it, it was in french. Could not figure it out how they make money or if these volunteers have to pay to participate. All Im saying is that for your videos would be useful to include some basic info about this - because both I and Sasha were wondering after seeing the video if you guys had to pay for the training for example.

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Yes, whenever we saw some plastic we were taking it out.

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Wow I thought my photo of the Moon had some artifacts....it seems no....those are the Pleiades...

Had to zoom in:

Then took my binoculars to get closer:

Not the best quality but still :).

#nightsky #sky #astrophotography #nature

#nature #sky #astrophotography #nightsky

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The last one is amazing!

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Really cool

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I have added more photos to my gallery here tiotrom.com/photos/

I will share a few here too:

#nightsky #sky #astrophotography #nature #photography

#Photography #nature #sky #astrophotography #nightsky

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#nature #documentary #documentaries #bbc #biology #fungi

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Managed to capture the Milky Way "core" last night, for the first time :)

Made an 8 hours timelapse as well :). Will be part of a future video for our TROMhome channel - videos.trom.tf/c/tromhome/vide…

All with a Pixel 4a with CalyxOS, gave to me for free by @aaron :)

#astrophotography #nightsky #sky #milkyway #galaxy #nature #calyxos #pixel

#nature #pixel #sky #astrophotography #calyxos #milkyway #galaxy #nightsky @aaron

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@Tio amazing shot! :)

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Thanks @aaron - I am trying to value the phone you gave me as much as possible. Thanks for that! :)

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I rarely see such articles:

"Enough with unicorns and dinosaurs – show children the magic of real, living animals instead" - theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Congrats. We need more of these! And TROMnews is meant to bring such articles to light.

The real world is many times more mindblowing than any movie, book, or story humans have invented. Not to mention it is real. If we want people to care about it, then they have to know about it. Expose children to real wonders, real stories, real life.

#nature #education

Enough with unicorns and dinosaurs – show children the magic of real, living animals instead

Put up pictures of lemurs, penguins and wolves, and introduce tomorrow’s environmentalists to the amazing nature in our world, says author Isabel Losada

^{Isabel Losada (The Guardian)}

#Education #nature

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Dinosaurs are real, and a big pathway to STEM careers for kids.

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in reply to Angela Miller • 3 months ago •

Of course dinosaurs WERE real, but the living creatures are far more important and complex. No need to push the "dinosaurs" so much into people´s faces. Read the article please. This is not Facebook where you only have to read the title of a shared link.

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Angela Miller

in reply to Tio • 3 months ago • •

I did, actually.
Surprised to see.Dino Park near Dumfries name checked as its pretty small and not terribly serious.
My point is thereare a lot of people lured into STEM through Dinosaurs, so it's hardly invalid.
Neither is imaginary stuff like Unicorns, because that leads into Story Telling and mythology, which are perfectly valid interests too.
Actually reeks a little of snobbery, especially since kids can love those AND real creatures too.

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Kids are exposed to nonsense fantasy a lot more than real stuff which is many times more complex and important. That is the point. Fantasy has its place, but it has become the main or only stimulant for kids and adults too. The real world is something that is not much at all showcased to kids.

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Angela Miller

in reply to Tio • 3 months ago • •

As a librarian, I beg to differ. Kids books not only cover everything in both fiction and nonfiction, but kids love exploring the nonfiction and non fantastic just as much as anything else.
I genuinely think the article is a bit biased and not really based in what is going on with kids.
Dinosaurs are popular still though. Particularly in non fiction.

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in reply to Angela Miller • 3 months ago •

My experience and of many people I know from other parts of the world, is different. Libraries are one thing, what kids are exposed to is another. If you look based on numbers what is popular among kids is definitely not nature documentaries, or similar things related to the real natural world, but mostly silly fantasy.

Dinosaurs are popular and the article was arguing that is not ok if you put it in perspective to the creatures that exist. Why make dinosaurs so well known and popular while the creatures that exist today not? Probably Hollywood and movies like Jurassic Park made dinosaurs a lot more popular.

Point is kids, and all humans actually, should be exposed more to the real and wonderful world we live in rather than fantasies that are mostly made by those who want to sell (movies, books, art).

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Angela Miller

in reply to Tio • 3 months ago • •

Really not sure I agree at all. People learn best following their interests, so deciding for people what they should be exposed to will not make them automatically interested in it - quite the opposite. This is a problem encountered worldwide 8n schools because they are expected to take the approach of telling kids what they are to learn. Lots of research into child learning runs counter to that and as a consequence, education is changing, albeit slowly.

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Tio

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Schools are a livestock-like way of "educating" children unfortunately. Teachers have "jobs", kids have parents who work, and so they end up being forced to go to that place and "learn". They are labeled based on how well they do in school and all that.

I cannot see that as "education" as much as "forced" daycare.

That being said yes you should not force kids to learn this or that, you should make them curios. Expose them to real stuff. What you end up being excited about comes from enculturation/upbringing. So we need a saner environment. Part of it is exposing kids to real and wonderful information about the natural world.

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in reply to Tio • 3 months ago from Fedilab •

@Tio @Angela Miller

I don't think fiction and nonfiction should be exclusionary to one another, we can certainly enjoy both. Humans have written about flying long before we actually invented airplanes, and we have written about going to the moon long before we actually did it, and some like dystopian fiction warns us about a future we should avoid - so I do think fantasy and fiction has a place in our world. However I also agree with this statement of yours:

Fantasy has its place, but it has become the main or only stimulant for kids and adults too.

I often feel like documentaries and other nonfiction media is far less popular than fictional stuff. And even the fiction these days lack creativity, just look at Hollywood for example and see how many sequels, prequels and remakes of already popular stuff instead of novel ideas.

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I don't think fiction and nonfiction should be exclusionary to one another, we can certainly enjoy both. Humans have written about flying long before we actually invented airplanes, and we have written about going to the moon long before we actually did it, and some like dystopian fiction warns us about a future we should avoid - so I do think fantasy and fiction has a place in our world. However I also agree with this statement of yours:

Fantasy has its place, but it has become the main or only stimulant for kids and adults too.

I often feel like documentaries and other nonfiction media is far less popular than fictional stuff. And even the fiction these days lack creativity, just look at Hollywood for example and see how many sequels, prequels and remakes of already popular stuff instead of novel ideas.

And let me share my experience with a 3 year old, when I showed her nature documentaries on my laptop she watched it with the same curiosity she has when watching any other stuff, and she often asks questions about the animals or ask me to show her certain animals she likes. I don't think anyone else in the family really shows her documentaries other than me, and that's the point that article was trying to make - we don't expose kids to the real world as much as we expose them to fantasy, so they don't even have a chance to form their interests around real stuff. And don't get me wrong I also show her cartoons sometimes, but I feel like documentaries is not something she often gets to watch.... And the interesting thing is that no matter what she's watching she often gets bored after a while and wants to play in the real world, and I remember entertaining her by spinning a coin on the table one day - she asked me to do that again and again, I got bored after a while.... she did not! 😂 My point is that we often make assumptions about what kids like and don't like but we really have no clue what they could be interested in, we don't need to force kids into liking anything but we certainly do influence them.

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@roko
Definitely. We told ourselves stories of all kinds of fantastical things in the dark evenings for millenia. Imagination is the engine that drives curiously.

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Imagination cannot work without en environment we are exposed to. And often that was the real world - observing birds fly, observing that thing in the sky we called the "moon", and so on. The more we are exposed to the real world, the more of that imagination can become complex and useful.

People could not imagine flying to the Moon without this knowledge.

Martians look like lobsters or human like creatures with eyes and a head, first attempts to fly were by using wings like birds, and so on.

Reality is what inspires humans to think and imagine. Kids and people of all ages are mostly exposed to bullshit content, from movies to videos, books to "entertainment". Of course they become uninterested in the real world.

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Angela Miller

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@roko
Honestly, I think you are going pretty overboard with this. Children literally don't just get exposed to Unicorns and Dinosaurs. Children who aren't compelled by those things won't be forced into them, and Children who are also enjoy other things. They also actually live in this world, so can't avoid it.
Worrying about curating what children are exposed to in this way is a bit redundant.

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Parents have to trade themselves in this society and often do not have much time for their kids. It is easy to let them in front of the TV or a tablet/phone - and since most content is simplistic and fantasy/nonsense produced to get more views (meaning money) since this is also easier than producing good content, the result is obviously unicorns and dinosaurs :)

Same reason why so many movie remakes or based on books that are already popular. If something was selling well, why not continue to do the same content?

We made a book about this - tromsite.com/trombooks/#flipbo…

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@Tio @Angela Miller

I'm just gonna leave this link here 'cause I think this is what happens to a society when the general population gets too detached from science and reality. It's not just about what kids watch or read, we want them to become knowledgeable adults when they grow up so that they don't fall into the same pits of ignorance that many have unfortunately. And you only have to look at the popularity of movies vs science documentaries to see where we're headed right now...

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@roko
Aye. It's literacy and the ability to reason at fault here. It's essentially the method of enquiry that is passed on, not the content of how that's delivered.

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in reply to Tio • 3 months ago • •

BTW, I think we should make a Videoneat for kids one day. Just remove all of the sociopolitical stuff and keep it focused on science and nature documentaries - maybe we can do that by filtering our current catalog by tags. Let me know what you think.

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idk...kids need to know about the society they live in as well. If you mean documentaries for little kids then hm, idk. Maybe. But they need parents to get these documentaries for them so maybe the parents are going to filter them anyway. But we can eventually do that.

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I feel like most of the documentaries about society are rather depressing or too complex for kids to understand the nuances. I don't want any little kids to get traumatized by watching war documentaries and such lol 😅

And yeah I was thinking of making something I can recommend to parents as well for their kids.

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5 months ago •

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Went to a darkish place in Romania, took a few photos :)

Many bad things to say about Romania, but the nature here is likely amazing. Fucked up society, wonderful world :)

#nightsky #astrophotography #telescope #nature

#nature #astrophotography #telescope #nightsky

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I think if I'd live 678 years I would never get bored and I would have new projects to do all the time. I feel like I want to do a lot. And I do a lot every day, but the days are too short for my motivation and drive. The weeks, the months, are flying by so fast. The years, still more ahead than behind, but soon they will balance, and then you'll ride the ones ahead. But it's all about making the best of this ride, even tho too short.

This year we have a motorhome, very little money, and a lot of plans.

Make sure you follow us on Peertube videos.trom.tf/c/tromhome/vide… - we will go chase the darkest skies in Spain, meet with some wonderful friends from the project, volunteer, and do a lot.

#trom #tromsite #motorhome #spain #vanlife #exploring #nature #tromhome

#nature #sPAIN #trom #tromsite #vanlife #exploring #motorhome #tromhome

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A massive thanks to Yair who took me and Sasha with his paramotor for free. Amazing experience! To be above the clouds in such an exposed way :D - this experience will stick with me for a very long time! videos.trom.tf/w/tzAsKoDKqhNKx…

Sometimes you come across some super nice people.... very happy!

We also took him and his daughter for a night with the telescope and they were amazed. We showed them the Orion nebula, the Moon, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars. Quite a show! We had super interesting conversations. :)

Watch the video now! haha

#paramotor #flying #paragliding #clouds #nature #parachute

Fying above the fog

Big thanks to Yair who took me with his paramotor for a long flight over the coastline. It was an incredible experience. It felt like flying. Really nice human!

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#nature #paragliding #clouds #flying #parachute #paramotor

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No I haven't been in a plane before, lol 😂

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it is wicked :D

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Am I Alone ? videos.trom.tf/w/mHgu6vnDpATfB…

More timelapses I did with my Pixel 4a. I wonder, at times, am I alone?

#astrophography #nightsky #sky #timelapse #nature #telescope

Am I Alone ?

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#nature #sky #timelapse #telescope #nightsky #astrophography

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I have added more photos to my gallery :) tiotrom.com/photos/

Here are a few of them:

While kayaking I took this photo. I love how the rock looks like floating on the water.

Holding a 20 million years old spider:

This is the wonderful Moon and the stars:

And the wonderful Sun:

All of the photos are made with a Pixel 4a. And very little tweaks.

#photography #nature #sun #moon #sky #astrophotography #amber #europe

#Photography #nature #europe #sky #astrophotography #moon #sun #amber

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The Grab - videoneat.com/documentaries/26…

Watch this documentary to see how governments and companies go after buying Earth resources from other tribes, in all sorts of terrible ways. From arable land to water. In a crazy race to get enough for their own tribe because of the impacts of climate change that will devastate vast areas on this planet.

This terrible mentality of trying to survive and thrive at the expense of the rest, as if we are not living on the same planet. Same spaceship.

Very telling documentary. Some 10 years in the making.

#documentary #nature #resources #water #agriculture #

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#nature #climatechange #climate #documentary #Water #resources #agriculture #TradeRuinsEverything

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The Moon an hour ago:

#moon #nature #photography #nightsky

#Photography #nature #moon #nightsky

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I found this hairy insect in the amber. It is around 40 million years old and I wonder what it is....hairy mosquito?

Bloody interesting...

#amber #nature #photography #microscope

#Photography #nature #amber #microscope

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Crazy sunspots....took this picture 10 minutes ago:

Tweaked a bit the colors and sharpness. Taken with Pixel 4a and my telescope.

The sun is nuts!

#sun #sunspot #nature #astrophotography

#nature #astrophotography #sun #sunspot

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