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Earthen body, water spirit.

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I strongly believe that you need to qualify your doomerism with active solutions that you believe will help, otherwise you are simply adding to despair which depresses liberation movements.

07.02.2026 14:46 πŸ‘ 201 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2
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Catherine O’Hara, β€˜Home Alone’ and β€˜Schitt’s Creek’ Actress, Dies at 71

Ah geez. So sorry to see this about Catherine O'Hara. What a comedic genius.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/a...

30.01.2026 19:23 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Seeing so many pastors and bishops who once told me that it was wrong to preach on faith and politics now speaking boldly against ICE fills me with gratitude.

...and makes me wonder if their denominations would be declining had they been so clear and forceful all along...

Glad for the shift now.

29.01.2026 20:28 πŸ‘ 107 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Weather map for the upcoming winter storm. It ain't good, folks.

Weather map for the upcoming winter storm. It ain't good, folks.

New pride flag dropped.

21.01.2026 16:56 πŸ‘ 560 πŸ” 101 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 8

By the way, this is why I get furious when people demand more of women artists who are already politically active than the men they have proudly handed prizes to and named as the β€œvoices of their generation.” Far too many men in the arts play it safe but get all the accolades for that safety.

21.01.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 178 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

20.01.2026 01:57 πŸ‘ 21481 πŸ” 5120 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 3554
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In a letter of mourning, Brown president confirms identities of students killed in mass shooting Ella Cook, a sophomore, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman, were killed during a final exam-review session by a shooter who has not been found yet. Nine other students were injured, and the university’s president said most are in stable condition.

The university is still considering plans for how to memorialize the students during the spring semester. In the meantime, most classes, exams, and final papers have been canceled.

16.12.2025 21:28 πŸ‘ 130 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

My son, overhearing me listening to a press conference about this: "What?! This doesn't end at college?" πŸ’”

My heart is with the Brown U community.

16.12.2025 00:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This person took this when they called the race

05.11.2025 06:07 πŸ‘ 28685 πŸ” 6942 πŸ’¬ 482 πŸ“Œ 878

#stopNESE #saynotoNESE

05.11.2025 11:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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05.11.2025 02:41 πŸ‘ 86713 πŸ” 18271 πŸ’¬ 3164 πŸ“Œ 2370
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Save the Amazon or Drill for Oil? Brazil Says It Can Do Both.

Lest we forget that Brazil, the host of #COP30, is also an oil-producing nation...

Shame on them for approving drilling at the Foz do Amazonas!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/w...

04.11.2025 12:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown This book introduces readers to the known psychological aspects of climate change as a pressing global concern and explores how they are relevant to current and future clinical practice. Arguing that ...

Delighted that Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown is now available free online under a Creative Commons licence. Thank you and congrats to Judith Anderson for making this climate psychology book widely available

@climatepsychol.bsky.social

www.routledge.com/Being-a-Ther...

01.11.2025 23:43 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Picture shows a witch and her black cat standing in a pumpkin patch. In the background is a haunted looking house. An owl flies across the face of the full moon. Nearby trees are dropping leaves.

Picture shows a witch and her black cat standing in a pumpkin patch. In the background is a haunted looking house. An owl flies across the face of the full moon. Nearby trees are dropping leaves.

Blessed Samhain / Happy Halloween, everyone!! The Wheel of the Year turns, and brings us to the dark, contemplative half of the year. May the blessings of this season be abundantly with you and your loved ones. πŸ–€πŸŽƒ

(Art by Terri Foss)

#WitchSky #PaganSky #Samhain #Halloween

31.10.2025 17:45 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Come to the Institute for Sacred Music next Th-Fri in New Haven for Water Cosmology! I'll be talking about (what else?) ocean swimming as ecological meditation in the Anthropocene -
ism.yale.edu/events/2025-...

31.10.2025 11:55 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

GDrive > top right gear:

Manage Apps > uncheck Gemini
ALSO
Privacy > Manage Workspace smart feature settings > two Gemini settings, toggle off

(Gemini AI is on by default and it explicity scans and "shares" or "uses" your info and activity across Google products)

27.10.2025 20:36 πŸ‘ 113 πŸ” 71 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 5

It's probably ridiculous to go on BlueSky to complain about LinkedIn, but truly,
πŸ€– if you're using AI to write simple social media posts,
βœ… with silly little bullet point emojis,
πŸ‘Ž I am now thinking less of you professionally and I'm not liking your post.
πŸ“ Do your own writing, at minimum.

23.10.2025 09:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How Wellness Spirituality Erases Justice: A Reading List You’ve probably heard the term β€œEarth School” floating around wellness spacesβ€”the idea that our souls voluntarily incarnated here to learn specific lessons through life’s hardships.

"When we reframe structural injustice as individual spiritual growth opportunities, we’ve stopped talking about collective responsibility and started talking about victim-blaming dressed up in Eastern religious language."

Reading list available here:
lizbucar.substack.com/p/earth-scho...

22.10.2025 20:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pope gives Venezuela reason to celebrate by canonizing beloved 'doctor of the poor' Venezuela's first two saints were canonized Sunday: JosΓ© Gregorio HernΓ‘ndez, revered by millions for his dedication to poor people, and Mother Carmen Rendiles MartΓ­nez, founder of a Venezuelan religio...

Pope Leo XIV canonized Venezuela's beloved "doctor of the poor" Sunday, Oct. 19, before tens of thousands of people, offering the South American nation one of its first saints and a reason to celebrate amid a yearslong economic crisis and new tensions with the United States.

21.10.2025 00:01 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This Wednesday, Oct. 22, is the first of this year's Lament with Earth cycle. Register to take part in this community holding grief and hope together.

20.10.2025 23:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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OpenAI's New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says OpenAI's planned AI data center projects would consume as much as the entire city of New York City and San Diego combined.

That sounds like a lot of power. I hope we’re doing useful things with ChatGPT. πŸ™ƒ

02.10.2025 10:03 πŸ‘ 369 πŸ” 149 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 17
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Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

01.10.2025 18:38 πŸ‘ 2048 πŸ” 508 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 62
Tumblr post from every-lemon 
Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

Tumblr post from every-lemon Sep 8 so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff. they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed. I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

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every-lemon
Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

Follow up tumblr post every-lemon Sep 9 it was a smash hit. a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud. he was home by 6:30am.

dudes rock

22.09.2025 13:59 πŸ‘ 8351 πŸ” 1891 πŸ’¬ 87 πŸ“Œ 242
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Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle

#bbnj
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c...

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19.09.2025 01:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Charlie Kirk's extremism was fossil fueled Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theoriesβ€”as well as other extremist views.

Big Oil has no problem funding people who say the Civil Rights Act was "huge mistake” or that Ketanji Brown Jackson was "a diversity hire" or that trans people are responsible for inflation.

As long as β€œclimate change is fake” is part of it, they don’t care about the rest.

18.09.2025 18:37 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Tired: The biodiversity of the deep sea rivals the biodiversity of tropical rainforests.

Wired: The biodiversity of the deep sea rivals the combined biodiversity of the entire rest of the planet.

18.09.2025 14:47 πŸ‘ 206 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1
257. The Commission recommends that all Member States:
(a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip;
(b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide;
(c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law;
(d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide;
(e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court:
(a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants;
(b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.

257. The Commission recommends that all Member States: (a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip; (b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide; (c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law; (d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide; (e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. 258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court: (a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants; (b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.

As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.

End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

16.09.2025 13:34 πŸ‘ 37052 πŸ” 12749 πŸ’¬ 709 πŸ“Œ 553

Today is the National Day of Remembrance for boarding schools in the United States. Not sure what boarding schools are? You are not alone. Only 4 states include the history boarding schools in their curriculum.

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