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mandascott.bsky.social
@mandascott.bsky.social
Novelist: ANY HUMAN POWER Mytho-political thriller. Also Boudica: Dreaming
Podcaster @AccidentalGods
(R)Evolutionary Economist, Regenerative Smallholder
#Thrutopian narratives: toward a future we'd be proud to leave behind
#Shropshire
#LBTQIAA+ #Writer
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The first thing that happens at COP30, is they need to make sure COP31 is held online instead of flying loads of people all over the world and doing this kind of thing

Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit - BBC News share.google/b3zmuaPoSq2x...
Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit - BBC News
The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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...all they end up doing is creating more carbon credits so rich countries can offset their emissions by sending a bit of money to less polluting nations and calling it "climate action". www.theguardian.com/environment/... It's not cutting emissions at all.
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says
Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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It is a pivotal moment in our history.

So what needs to happen at COP30?

💰 Climate Damages Tax to make the polluters pay
⚖️ Fund climate justice for the Global South
❌ Keep fossil fuels in the ground
🌳 End deforestation by 2030
⏩ Global just transition now
November 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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I thought UK libel laws had a limit of one year and this is over that?
November 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Tools that track specific molecules in neurons have enabled researchers to probe previously unexplored aspects of neurobiology

go.nature.com/4p2hyua
How genetically encoded sensors have lit up neuroscience
Tools that track specific molecules in neurons have enabled researchers to probe previously unexplored aspects of neurobiology — although important caveats remain.
go.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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How would it feel to wake every morning knowing that you were here to help all life to flourish? That as a species, we could still become self-conscious nodes in the web of life, to act for the good of all?

accidentalgods.life/of-beetles-w...

#accidentalgods #Podcast
#biomimicry
#WritersofBlueSky
Of Beetles' wings and Brittlestars: using Biomimicry to co-create a flourishing future with Michael Pawlyn
What is humanity for?  What happens if we rethink not just the way we plan buildings, but our entire role as beings on a living planet?  These are the central questions driving Michael Pawlyn's third ...
accidentalgods.life
October 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Trump is incredibly unpopular here! including amongst Tory voters. What are they doing?
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.

Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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“Each of us was put on this earth at this time to personally determine the fate of humankind. Do you think you were put here for something less?”
Chief Arvol Looking Horse

accidentalgods.life/building-the...

#Accidentalgods #Podcast
#BeyondProfit
#RegenerativeLeadership
Building the roots of a world that will work - with Victoria Hurth, co-author of Beyond Profit
We exist in a world where the ultra-rich are getting richer, powered by a system we call 'the economy' which is serving to funnel power and value up to an ever-shrinking core of wounded individuals wh...
accidentalgods.life
October 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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What is an #EcoCivilisation?

What are its values?

Why do we need one and what will the Establishment do to maintain business as usual?

Most importantly, what can each of us do to live an #EcoCivilization into being?

accidentalgods.life/eco-civilisa...

#AccidentalGods #Podcast
Eco-Civilisation: the future we deserve and how we will get there with Jeremy Lent
What is an eco-civilisation? What are its values and what are the frames within which it works? Why do we need it in the first place and what will the Establishment do to maintain business as usual? M...
accidentalgods.life
October 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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What is the true vow of your life—the one it would kill you to break?

How do we discover what we are here for, what is our unique gift to the world, and how can we bring this to the table in ways that will transform our broken systems?

accidentalgods.life/walking-the-...

#Accidentalgods #podcast
Walking the wild, mythic Edge of Being with visionary elder and soul initiator Bill Plotkin
What is the true vow of your life, the one it would kill you to break? This phrase comes from the poem 'All The True Vows' by David Whyte, but there can be no better introduction to this week's guest,...
accidentalgods.life
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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America's political elite has decided that climate change is no longer that important or worth talking about, but rest assured, it's still happening, it's extremely bad, and yes, it is going to affect you here in America.
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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How do we become Good Relatives - to the land, the Web of Life, each other... ourselves?

How do we heal the predations of the Trauma Culture and rediscover the confidence and connection of Initiation Culture?

accidentalgods.life/dreams-as-a-...

#accidentalgods
#podcast
Dreams as a Way of Life - Becoming a Good Relative with author Hilary Giovale
Our Trauma Culture has spread across the globe with terrifying speed and ghastly efficiency.  But the tide is turning and people of good heart in many nations are beginning to understand that what we ...
accidentalgods.life
August 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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How do you imagine the next decades? Do you want to maintain some sort of technological society but within planetary boundaries? Or a pretty ugly world under multiple wars? An outstanding must read text
@mandascott.bsky.social
@zackpolanski.bsky.social

thehonestsorcerer.medium.com/life-on-the-...
Life On The Slippery Slope
Two scenarios for what a world with a declining resource and energy availability could look like
thehonestsorcerer.medium.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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How do we #hospice the old system — become #deathdoula to the dying — AND support the #soul #Initiation of the incoming, generative system where we grow into elders instead of languishing in perpetual adolescence?

accidentalgods.life/the-crisis-a

#Accidentalgods #podcast
#Shamanism #spirituality
The Crisis and the Call: Journeys through Species-Wide Soul Initiation with Sara McFarland
As the old system is splitting apart, a few brave souls are already working to hospice this old system, acting as Death Doulas to the Great Dying—as well as helping people to awaken the seeds of a new...
accidentalgods.life
September 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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My post on President Trump threatening to sue the BBC will up tomorrow morning.
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Haritakis Papaioannou combines a mountaineer’s know-how with a scientific eye to track the slow recovery of chamois populations in western Greece

go.nature.com/3JUPvOv
Witnessing chamois populations recover
Haritakis Papaioannou combines a mountaineer’s know-how with a scientific eye to track the slow recovery of chamois populations in western Greece.
go.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Also true in PA.

If you want Fetterman out, the best bang for your voting buck is to stay Dem.

Pretty much any blue area with closed primaries, you want to keep that registration Dem if you want to maximize your voting power
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.

Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.

One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Some of the most powerful and well-paid people in the world don't understand a lesson that every schoolchild knows: if you surrender to bullies, they will only bully you more
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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#Election results are stored on USB sticks all over the country. These are just like a USB stick you keep your photos on.

In NYC there are 2 flash drives counting results on each #voting machine. They're supposed to be the same. But sometimes they're not. We got the reports about those differences.
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians

IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy

"rhetoric declaring there was no such thing as an innocent in Gaza seeped down into army ranks"

#Genocide
#Gaza
#WarCrimes
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Schumer and the Hateful Eight Betray America
A New Low For The Democratic Senate

open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
Schumer and the Hateful Eight Betray America
A new low for the Democratic Senate
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM