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mastodon 4.7.3Alt account, so all the usual stuff - books, music, gardens, politics, history, folklore and all the other good stuff.
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This is how to do it.
Every major highway in Bolivia is blocked today - the third day of a national strike - calling for the resignation of neoliberal president Rodrigo Paz.
More people from every town and village are joining the march as protesters head for La Paz.
Boosted by @gvenema@fairmove.net
"The Greenland shark is the planet's oldest vertebrate, reckoned to be somewhere between 272 and 512 years old. They are slow, as befits a fish so venerable. They live deep-down and secret lives.
I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don't have enough thoughts to fill five hundred years. But I find the very idea of them hopeful. They will see us pass through whichever spinning chaos we may currently be living through, and the crash that will come after it, and they will live through the currently unimaginable things that will come after that: the transformations, revelations, the possible liberations.
That is their beauty, and it's breathtaking; they go on. These slow, half-blind creatures are perhaps the closest thing to eternal this planet has to offer."
from 'The Golden Mole and Other Hidden Treasures', by Katherine Rundell
#Nature #Bookstodon #Oceans #Poetry
Seen on the entrance to Spain's exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
Twenty-seven pavillions closed their doors, in protest at the prescence of Israel at the festival.
Some good news from the US.
The Lakota Youth, who chained themselves to drilling equipment at the sacred site of Pe' Sla, are victorious!
#DirectActionWorks #USPolitics #ClimateCatastrophe #LandBack
"Here, at this half-ass state park without a sign,
with its cracked concrete bench and triangle of dying
cottonwoods, the Missouri joins the Mississippi,
meeting not like a ballet, or a twisting
of silk scarves, but maybe like construction workers, shaking
hands before a building forever half-built.
And what is there to do now but love this unfinished work
of the river, carrying everything it has ever been
given: snow-melt streams like a cold bandana circling
its neck, shreds of styrofoam cooler catching
in its teeth, sturgeon eggs blooming with their translucent
tails, nitrates, and phosphates, and soil glittering
with bone, and this single mountain dew bottle
eddying in a green-tinged foam, and the ashes
of Oceti, reddening in all of our throats. I sit with my knees
tucked to my chest, listen to the ducks call
each other from either side of what will be
the same water, and River, you and I both know
that despite your dams, you will go on
to grow deadly algae in the Gulf, to feed rich
alluvial plants, shelter alligators and hellbenders and mudpuppies,
to have done to you and to do the most beautiful
and terrible things. We know the word end
is never an end, but always a mouth instead."
'Confluence, after Standing Rock' by Teresa Dzieglewicz
Taken from the collection Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency
#Poetry #Bookstodon #Rivers #ClimateEmergency #Nature
Morning Mastonauts ✊ 👋 🏴
"Summer on the high plateau can be delectable as honey; it can also be a roaring scourge. To those who love the place, both are good, since both are part of its essential nature. And it is to know its essential nature that I am seeking here. To know, that is, with the knowledge that is a process of living. This is not done easily nor in an hour. It is a tale too slow for the impatience of our age, not of immediate enough import for its desperate problems. Yet it has its own rare value. It is, for one thing, a corrective of glib assessment: one never quite knows the mountain, nor oneself in relation to it. However often I walk on them, these hills hold astonishment for me. There is no getting accustomed to them."
from 'The Living Mountain', by Nan Shepherd
Keir Starmer's "values".
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al On a related note, did you see that story last week about Anthropic buying up thousands of rare books, digitising them and then burning the original paper copies?
"But, in the end, whether people know how small a portion of time is given to the butterfly, how large a portion to the caterpillar, does not matter. For they can never infect the caterpillar with their anxious urges to 'Become!'. A small apple-green caterpillar who somehow loses a foothold while walking across a stem to get to a leaf, slips and is hanging on by only two crotchet-hooked feet, is not thinking: 'Alack! I shall fall into the icy water! I shall be swallowed by a fish! I will never, now, wrap myself in silk and wake up with powdery, iridescent blue-and-green wings, fly away with them to fields of cornflower.'
Rather, it thinks, 'I'm swinging, I'm swinging, I'm swinging.'"
from "Things That Are", by Amy Leach
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@dissident@mastodon.scot @aral@mastodon.ar.al Found that post - you're quite right, it was entirely based around an incorrect reading of that very article.
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Only mildly related but this made me laugh
https://sunny.garden/@Theriac@plasmatrap.com/116567826386655918
Quite amazing how Keith can even make a dogfight within his own party over whether he should resign a total snooze-fest.
Cornell University is deeply connected and profits directly from funding via weapons manufacturers and oil companies.
When the war on Gaza began, the chair of the board also sat on the board of a weapons company, whose share price has more than doubled since 7th October 2023.
Students who protest on campus against these companies, or calling for an end of the genocide, are routinely suspended without investigation.
Recently, President Michael Kotlikoff drove his car directly at students. Here they are talking about the University's symbiotic relationship with some of the worst companies on the planet.
#USPolitics #FreePalestine #ClimateCatastrophe #StopFundingGenocide
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al Tbh I don't know. Since the seizure I've got about a 10 minute window before new information gets totally wiped 😂
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@kimlockhartga@beige.party YASSSS! It's impossible to overstate how down I am with this plan 😅
Global uprising in defence of immigration: US edition
People across Texas took to the streets this weekend, condemning Greg Abbot's racist agenda.
Students at the Conservatori Superior de Dansa de València showed their support for striking teachers from the stage of the Palau de la Música last night.
The president of the region was in attendance at the performance.
"Short of some drastic and unexpected intervention, divine or otherwise, it will be a permanent change in the climate. And short of the arrival of some kind of Noah’s Ark, the British university as we know it is destined for extinction sooner rather than later."
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@paullauter@mastodonapp.uk @handmade_ghost@sunny.garden has a really cool meme for it - or they did have, yonks ago. Have you still got it Jess? It says "It is Wrensday my dudes" on it 😁
One of the innumerable things I love about Fedi is the daft hashtags. Do you know about #TinyBalancingSheep?
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@paullauter@mastodonapp.uk Did you know about the #Wrensday hashtag? Fits perfectly with your post :BlobCat_Love:
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@statsguy@mas.to Personally, I'd say it was an unholy combination of a few things:
Several cabinet ministers are part of, or worse than, the Labour Together faction, so possibly have more "clout" within the PLP in terms of getting the necessary numbers;
The arrogance they've shown in believing the reason for the dire election results is a question of "messaging" rather than policy;
The fact that the more "left wing" members of the PLP are cowards;
And that donors/markets and all the other behind the scenes influences will resist or make trouble for any candidate who shows any sign of introducing policies the public want, but they don't (wealth taxes, nationalisation etc).
The situation atm has all the hallmarks of when they tried to get rid of Spaffer. IMO we're in for a long ride with this nonsense.
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al "Can you talk about climate collapse in the context of home-recycling?"
It's just a few baked bean tins.
I fucking hate this argument. I heard it so many times last year I just started muting and unfollowing people who used it.
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@NatureMC@mastodon.online @ExtinctionR@social.rebellion.global Oh, I didn't know any of that! I guess the Japanese pottery thing was the first time I'd heard of it.
Thanks :BlobCat_Love:
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Sounds like yet another version of "don't disrupt the status quo (the one where I'm in the top 10%)".
How long has the corporate media been playing this card now?
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@distinctdipole@tech.lgbt You crazy fool 😁
Every PM/President of every "Western" country since the dawn of time has been a criminal of one stripe or another.
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@patrickhadfield@mastodon.scot I reckon that's code for "I'm going to have to find time to slag off Wales and the Greens on a regular basis, rather than constantly sanitise the far right" 🙄
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@StephenMoore@mstdn.social There's no coverage of it here in the UK either.
That's not a coincidence. It's also why I try to post as much footage from around the world - not just EU/US/UK - that I can find.
“When you have a class of people who are hyper-exploited, then that brings down the conditions of the entire working class.”
Karl Schwartz, a library worker in Newark, speaking from yesterday's picket outside Delaney.
Some good news from last night - all pregnant inmates, and at least two under 21s, have been released (ICE guards were asking all under 21s to identify themselves, but only two releases have been confirmed). The freedom of these categories of prisoner were two of the demands being made by the protesters✊
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@NatureMC@mastodon.online @ExtinctionR@social.rebellion.global I'd never thought about using it for clothes. I think it comes originally from kintsugi, a tradition in Japanese pottery.
And now I'm wondering how many multinationals are quietly supporting Starmer's "closer ties with the EU" so they can pay slavery-level wages here too.
"A social dumping disaster? EU’s ‘ 28th Regime’ plans could help corporations bypass member state rules"
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/social-dumping-disaster-eus-28th-regime