Goldenseal
@deevee0013.bsky.social
Organizing resilient communities & progressive movements for collective care. SHARING Mutual-aid resources for courageous post-collapse transition: infusing our politics with acts of radical imagination, compassion and beauty for all ages. How can I help?
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@deevee0013.bsky.social
· Feb 11
BlueSky Starter Packs: Dan’s Selection February 2025
BlueSky Progressive Activist Starter Packs: Dan’s Selection February 2025 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1znI5Yr6jxb0QOOw8FUOL6dQmMVh9mKqEBvnZS2uEkAw/edit?usp=sharing Master list: 16,363 starte...
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BlueSky Progressive Activist Starter Packs:
Dan’s Selection February 2025
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Dan’s Selection February 2025
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Big Phony Schmuck! - Randy Rainbow www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH-5...
Big Phony Schmuck! - Randy Rainbow Song Parody
YouTube video by Randy Rainbow
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Big Phony Schmuck! - Randy Rainbow www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH-5...
15-16 November online festival
with speakers including @jeremylent.bsky.social, @fisherdanar.bsky.social, @jamesgdyke.info, @gailbradbrook.bsky.social, @tzeporah.bsky.social and many others:
rev21.earth/festival/
with speakers including @jeremylent.bsky.social, @fisherdanar.bsky.social, @jamesgdyke.info, @gailbradbrook.bsky.social, @tzeporah.bsky.social and many others:
rev21.earth/festival/
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Small, community newspaper operation in New Denver BC, the Valley Voice, is for sale.
Dan Nicholson and Jan McMurray want you to buy their business. @tyolsen.bsky.social reports. #CdnMedia
A Tiny Town’s Successful Newspaper Faces a Succession Crisis | The Tyee
In the West Kootenays, a beloved local paper needs a new owner. Other small BC papers give reason for optimism.
thetyee.ca
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Small, community newspaper operation in New Denver BC, the Valley Voice, is for sale.
Nerd Reich: extremist blueprints for accelerating corporate autocracy
PM Carney makes it sound like we can insulate ourselves from Silicon Valley tycoons who genuflect to Trump and serve his authoritarian aims.
But how realistic is that as #BigTech hungers for our country?
@harrisonmooney.bsky.social interviews “The Nerd Reich” author @gilduran.com. #uspoli #canpoli
But how realistic is that as #BigTech hungers for our country?
@harrisonmooney.bsky.social interviews “The Nerd Reich” author @gilduran.com. #uspoli #canpoli
The Man Who Tracks Silicon Valley’s ‘Nerd Reich’ | The Tyee
Wonder what US tech titans wish for, Canada? Study their roots, says writer Gil Duran. A Tyee Q&A.
thetyee.ca
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Nerd Reich: extremist blueprints for accelerating corporate autocracy
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These are the kinds of things I like to read and this is why I want more organizers to write. open.substack.com/pub/georgego... [I know that people are busy so understand that adding writing to do lists is often an imposition]
A Time for Clear Calls to Action
Right now, millions of people want to know what to do and how to do it.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
These are the kinds of things I like to read and this is why I want more organizers to write. open.substack.com/pub/georgego... [I know that people are busy so understand that adding writing to do lists is often an imposition]
AI’s massive energy use is giving fossil fuels a lifeline when they should be rapidly phased out.
The Trump administration has cited the power-hungry AI beast as one big excuse for abandoning climate efforts, even as the US leads the world in data center pollution.
The Trump administration has cited the power-hungry AI beast as one big excuse for abandoning climate efforts, even as the US leads the world in data center pollution.
It’s critical that AI become part of global climate negotiations—not as an escape hatch for how it could save the planet, but as an urgent threat to people, wildlife, and the atmosphere, say Jean Su and John Fleming of @biologicaldiversity.org.
Behind AI Hype, Climate Consequences
AI’s massive energy use is giving fossil fuels a lifeline when they should be rapidly phased out in response to the climate emergency.
www.commondreams.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
AI’s massive energy use is giving fossil fuels a lifeline when they should be rapidly phased out.
The Trump administration has cited the power-hungry AI beast as one big excuse for abandoning climate efforts, even as the US leads the world in data center pollution.
The Trump administration has cited the power-hungry AI beast as one big excuse for abandoning climate efforts, even as the US leads the world in data center pollution.
Buying voters rather than providing food and Healthcare
BREAKING: Trump says that Every American, who isn't a High Income earner, will get $2000 in Cash.
In other words he wants to issue a stimulus check because the economy is sucking.
In other words he wants to increase our deficit by $650 BILLION.
In other words he wants to issue a stimulus check because the economy is sucking.
In other words he wants to increase our deficit by $650 BILLION.
November 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Buying voters rather than providing food and Healthcare
Phytomining plant biomass: hyperaccumulators of arsenic, cadmium, cerium, copper, cobalt, lanthanum, manganese, neodymium, nickel, selenium, thallium, and zinc, up to 5% of plant weight.
Critical Minerals? There’s a Plant for That
Could phytomining—using plants to pull metal out of the soil—put the green in “green transition”?
by @sarahdeweerdt.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/critical-min...
Could phytomining—using plants to pull metal out of the soil—put the green in “green transition”?
by @sarahdeweerdt.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/critical-min...
Critical Minerals? There’s a Plant for That - bioGraphic
Could phytomining—using plants to pull metal out of the soil—put the green in “green transition”?
www.biographic.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Phytomining plant biomass: hyperaccumulators of arsenic, cadmium, cerium, copper, cobalt, lanthanum, manganese, neodymium, nickel, selenium, thallium, and zinc, up to 5% of plant weight.
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Running toward the danger in Chicago.
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Running toward the danger in Chicago.
Water crisis in Iran.
November 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Water crisis in Iran.
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One underappreciated aspect of the Sicilian mafia is how wildly hard it was for mafiosi to work together and trust each other, especially after the Corleonesi began their takeover bid. The relevant bits from my first book on trust (also the only bits non-specialists might want to read)
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
One underappreciated aspect of the Sicilian mafia is how wildly hard it was for mafiosi to work together and trust each other, especially after the Corleonesi began their takeover bid. The relevant bits from my first book on trust (also the only bits non-specialists might want to read)
Book bans, driven by AI-automated censorship
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Book bans, driven by AI-automated censorship
$24B of of the $80B in the military budget is going to go to —
This is where the majority of the $80B in the military budget is going to go—- Trump and his cronies. #cdnpoli
WATCH: Green Party Leader Elizabeth May calls out the federal government for handing the largest federal contract in Canadian history to U.S. corporations.
November 8, 2025 at 1:56 AM
$24B of of the $80B in the military budget is going to go to —
Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.”
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Think of the quote in the photo below as you listen to this young man.
November 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 8, 2025 at 1:44 AM
US skips the un's review of its human rights record, since there's no advantage in having its powers constrained.
US joins Israel as only other country to not show for mandatory process scrutinising rights record of UN member states.
United States skips UN review of its human rights record
US joins Israel as only other country to not show for mandatory process scrutinising rights record of UN member states.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
US skips the un's review of its human rights record, since there's no advantage in having its powers constrained.
I need a new SF television show, one where women aren't regularly tortured and where the characters aren't all hateful and amoral. Any suggestions?
Sadly the FB groups where I used to get TV recommendations aren't functional anymore.
Sadly the FB groups where I used to get TV recommendations aren't functional anymore.
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Lula calls for global climate commitments, from the heart of the Amazon. Perhaps next year's COP should be held in the cauldron of a volcano.
“Redirecting revenues from oil production to finance a just…equitable transition will be essential...oil companies worldwide, including Brazil’s Petrobras, will transform into energy companies…a growth model based on fossil fuels cannot last.”President Lula #COP30 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The era of fine speeches and good intentions is over. Brazil’s Cop30 will be about action | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
This is our message to world leaders: make this the ‘Cop of truth’, before people lose faith, says the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Lula calls for global climate commitments, from the heart of the Amazon. Perhaps next year's COP should be held in the cauldron of a volcano.
An emperor needs an Empire. Will the US seize upon any small act of retaliation by Venezuela as justification for a full scale invasion?
The Trump administration's ongoing bombing of boats at sea could be setting the stage for a direct attack on Venezuela or even an assassination of President Nicolás Maduro, warns @nsarchive.bsky.social analyst Peter Kornbluh.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/7/gunboat_diplomacy
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/7/gunboat_diplomacy
November 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
An emperor needs an Empire. Will the US seize upon any small act of retaliation by Venezuela as justification for a full scale invasion?
Hunger as leverage: 42 million Americans who rely on food stamps got nothing on Nov. 1 — the first time in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s 60-year history benefits have been fully halted. The leader of one of the world's most wealthy countries is purposely starving his own people.
The message behind the government shutdown is loud and clear: Hunger is acceptable collateral damage in service of Trump’s agenda.
The President Is Perfectly Fine If You Starve
The message behind the government shutdown is loud and clear: Hunger is acceptable collateral damage in service of Trump’s agenda.
interc.pt
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Hunger as leverage: 42 million Americans who rely on food stamps got nothing on Nov. 1 — the first time in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s 60-year history benefits have been fully halted. The leader of one of the world's most wealthy countries is purposely starving his own people.
Inspirational! Immediately apply these techniques of persuasion to your own needs.
November 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Inspirational! Immediately apply these techniques of persuasion to your own needs.
Comprehensive 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature.
After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live!
No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️⚧️📚 #transbooks
The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️⚧️📚 #transbooks
The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.
Start Here (2025 Edition)
Are you questioning your gender and searching for fiction that’ll help you figure out what a transition might look like? Are you a trans woman or a femmeby who’s never seen herself on the tradition…
thetransfemininereview.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Comprehensive 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature.