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Kaska Hempel
@scotika.bsky.social
Audio storytelling and conversations for change. Empowering climate action and community voices. Also - plants!
Podcasts (1000 Better Stories, Scottish Communities Climate Action Network), Audio trails, Workshops.
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The Community Learning Exchange fund is now open! Apply for costs to visit other groups and organisations to develop your ideas and practice across Scotland. www.scottishcommunityalliance.org.uk/community-le...
Community Learning Exchange - Scottish Community Alliance
www.scottishcommunityalliance.org.uk
June 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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🚨Internship opportunity 🚨

Do you have:
🌡️ an interest in climate change?
✍️ some experience of writing on a technical topic for a general audience?
🎙️ an interest in journalism and a commitment to the integrity of journalism?

Apply for Carbon Brief’s internship here ⬇️
Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief is offering an exciting opportunity for students, or recent graduates, to work with the team for three weeks this summer.
www.carbonbrief.org
May 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Hero.
I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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"Sanders and AOC are on the very long list of liberal politicians who are mad as hell, but on the very short list of those who aren’t going to take it anymore." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Can You Really Fight Populism With Populism?
The American left’s favorite double act hopes it has the key to rallying the anti-Trump resistance—and timid Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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🔴 Climate Disinformation ‘Normalised’ on French TV and Radio, Report Finds

New findings from an alliance of NGOs challenges the belief that disinformation is confined to social media.

📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social
Climate Disinformation ‘Normalised’ on French TV and Radio, Report Finds
Climate disinformation was routinely broadcast in news programmes across French TV and radio in the first three months of 2025, with 128 verified cases identified by an alliance of NGOs. Using AI to i...
www.desmog.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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I honestly don’t know what’s scarier - the impending apocalypse or the right wing media’s coordinated disinformation campaign to try to make us look the other way so we don’t attempt to stop it. 😢
I've been a journalist for 25+ years and I'm not sure I've witnessed as much wilful (and v likely coordinated) disinformation from certain corners of the UK media than over past few days. Sun, Mail and Telegraph have been truly awful - and seemingly shameless

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Rightwing media falsely blame Ed Miliband for UK steel crisis, experts say
Net zero and clean energy can actually help save the steel industry, experts point out
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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🔥 5 years of replacing billionaire press with homegrown citizen journalism. 🔥

“None of us were proper hacks, even novice ones, or knew our way around the back end of a WordPress website, but we somehow muddled through together… We finally went live on 15 April.”
Britain’s better off with citizen journalism
From lockdowns to letdowns, five years on Anthony Robinson reflects on Brexit, citizen journalism, and a nation still adrift
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
April 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Today is @yorkshirebylines.co.uk and @bylinesnetwork.co.uk 5th birthday and we wouldn't have gotten to where we are without your support.

Please give what you to wish #HappybirthdayYorkshireBylines and we can continue to hold #TruthToPower

bylinesnetwork.co.uk/donate/
Donate - Bylines Network
By donating to the Bylines Network you are helping us become a stronger, more sustainable power for good! Donate directly via your bank account to avoid us paying fees Payments are processed through o...
bylinesnetwork.co.uk
April 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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We kick start our Speaking Truth to Power week with this incredible article from Yorkshire Bylines /1
#TruthToPower

Davis Downside Dossier: the first year

yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...

#TruthToPower @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @anthonybylines.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. If you are planning to enter the US, here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data.
How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact
Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data.
www.wired.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Delighted that in partnership with the British Institute of Energy Economics, the Strathclyde Institute for Sustainable Communities will be hosting the following event:

*The Local Power Plan: Powering a community energy revolution in Scotland?*
January 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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The Scottish Government has committed to delivering the world’s first Community Wealth Building Act. In this report, co-director @miriambrett.bsky.social explores how community wealth building can be a powerful catalyst for achieving a just transition.
Rewiring Local Economies: Community Wealth Building for a Just Transition
This report aims to demonstrate how CWB can be a powerful instrument to achieve a just transition.
www.futureeconomy.scot
February 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Have Your Say on Community Benefits from Renewables

Scotland’s renewables bring community benefit funds—but are they fair? The Scottish Government is reviewing its guidance. Help us shape our response!

🔗 Register and more info:
Community benefits from renewables: give us your views!
Sottish Government Community Benefits Consultation - with Scottish Community Coalition on Energy and Scottish Community Alliance
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February 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Trying to do some work while listening to the Dundee Radio Club festival of delicious community audio...On all weekend at dundeeradio.club - listen out for my story on Sat arvo!
February 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Super excited to kick off our Spring training tomorrow with Launch 🚀 short course for new groups & anyone getting something started in their community.
Also gearing up for our Thrive course 🌱 to help groups to reflect, grow & change direction.
Sign up: transitiontogether.org.uk/training/
February 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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In London and looking for a book? Check out this handy map of bookswap locations.
A map of book swaps in London. These are places where you can:
- Take a book for free
- Leave one for somebody else to enjoy
- Do both!
#maps
londonist.com/london/maps/...
A Map Of London Bookswaps
Little Libraries around the capital | Londonist.
londonist.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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This short and sweet video about Buzz Club activities 2025 will hopefully raise a smile...
youtu.be/OjrHHBXL6II
Buzz Club
YouTube video by Dave Goulson
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January 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Bridgehouse Gardens community group in South London has been on an incredible journey.

Together, they have transformed a disused, vacant tarmac site into a thriving forest garden and built by hand a new community learning space, The Winslade Barn. Along the way, participants have learnt amazing
January 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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A few places left on our free heritage stories podcast workshop! A great opportunity to learn new skills, meet new people, and develop your own audio-visual project. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/47e936f5
January 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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I'm looking for musicians, artists, writers, filmmakers, etc. who are passionate about translating science to a broader audience. The field is at the intersection of geoscience, paleo, climate, biology, and conservation. This is a funded opportunity. Tag your favorite STEAM folks, please!
January 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Lights, Camera, Climate Action! 🎬

As MSPs return to set, we need a new storyline to get climate action back on track for positive impacts on our health, jobs, and planet.

Ask MSPs to write a better script this year.

➡️ sccs.eaction.org.uk/climate

#ScotlandUnitedForClimateAction
January 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
red flesh torn open
rosehip winter sacrifice
to hungry bird beaks

#wlchaiku
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January 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
damp fen darkening
beckons its feathered flocks home
cranes, like clockwork, come

#wlchaiku
@walklistencreate.org
January 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM