Ryan Elizabeth
@sevenintheocean.bsky.social
Writer, chicken-keeper, marathon runner.
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Sorry November but I can’t do this current news cycle AND cold toes at the same time, one of you has got to go
November 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Sorry November but I can’t do this current news cycle AND cold toes at the same time, one of you has got to go
Gosh, Josh, this was a DELIGHT to read. I laughed (on billionaires: "So put up or shut up...or put up and shut up. You're fine. You'll never not be fine.") & I got misty-eyed (on losing 💙ed ones to MAGA: "You are not required to build a bridge to a place you don't want to go in the first place.") 👏🏻
In this week's newsletter I wrote about losing a parent (to bad politics) and good tv shows and the billionaires who pretend they're going to leave a city if their taxes go up by an amount that will never make their lives worse.
#158. New York's Billionaires and You
Hi everyone,
We are still firmly in what any calendar would tell us is the middle of November, and yet I feel like the year is basically over. It's not that I'm winding down for the holidays. Quite t...
www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Gosh, Josh, this was a DELIGHT to read. I laughed (on billionaires: "So put up or shut up...or put up and shut up. You're fine. You'll never not be fine.") & I got misty-eyed (on losing 💙ed ones to MAGA: "You are not required to build a bridge to a place you don't want to go in the first place.") 👏🏻
Omg I laughed so hard. Women Ruin Things, someone get on that book title! 🤣 (as a woman, I find this ironically funny)
THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Omg I laughed so hard. Women Ruin Things, someone get on that book title! 🤣 (as a woman, I find this ironically funny)
I am so tired of how ppl are using cynicism to justify shitty positions. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social nails it - "Cynicism is often just premature defeatism about what can happen all dressed up as confidence about what will happen..."
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/categories-a...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/categories-a...
Categories Are Leaky (Over-Generalizations are Dangerous)
Many people seem to love sweeping generalizations. Not all people, but lots of people I come across trying to discuss the politics of our time fall back on pretending that a category of people is homo...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I am so tired of how ppl are using cynicism to justify shitty positions. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social nails it - "Cynicism is often just premature defeatism about what can happen all dressed up as confidence about what will happen..."
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/categories-a...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/categories-a...
I also yearn for this! "I yearn for more films that show how the world actually does get changed – and less nonsense about violence on the left." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/no-kings-no-...
No Kings, No Violence: On the Ongoing Misrepresentation of the Left
Portlanders deploying inflatable animal costumes, a brass band, mass ukulele renditions of “This Land Is Your Land,” naked bike rides, and other tactics in their ICE protests are undermining the Trump...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I also yearn for this! "I yearn for more films that show how the world actually does get changed – and less nonsense about violence on the left." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/no-kings-no-...
An upcoming training opportunity for helping professionals who support women experiencing partner abuse. I had the chance to sit in on this course back in February and found it so moving! I want everyone to take it. #WhenLoveHurts www.whenlovehurts.ca/product/trai...
Certified Training for Professionals Supporting Women Experiencing Partner Abuse | When Love Hurts
Training for helping professionals to provide a proven framework and comprehensive guide to strengthen their practice and enrich the support they offer women who have experienced partner abuse.
www.whenlovehurts.ca
October 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
An upcoming training opportunity for helping professionals who support women experiencing partner abuse. I had the chance to sit in on this course back in February and found it so moving! I want everyone to take it. #WhenLoveHurts www.whenlovehurts.ca/product/trai...
More of this in the world, plz! So beautiful! @loveheylola.bsky.social 💛
I’m editing photos for our next jewelry drop & I’m so obsessed with my own work here. These are made from things I find on the side of the road during clean-ups and/or things that can’t be traditionally recycled (that I collected or were donated) - straws, lemonade lids, bottles, & school folders.
September 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
More of this in the world, plz! So beautiful! @loveheylola.bsky.social 💛
Discovered this, from @99pi.org, through a recent @civileats.com salon, during which a convo sprang up about what constituted a #FoodSwamp. This, of course, led us to talking about #FoodDeserts, which also brought up an interesting convo about #FoodApartheid. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/634-...
Food Deserts - 99% Invisible
Woonsocket, Rhode Island was once home to many locally owned and regional grocers. There were small stores such as Fernandes Produce and Big D’s. The city also had supermarkets from classic New Englan...
99percentinvisible.org
August 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Discovered this, from @99pi.org, through a recent @civileats.com salon, during which a convo sprang up about what constituted a #FoodSwamp. This, of course, led us to talking about #FoodDeserts, which also brought up an interesting convo about #FoodApartheid. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/634-...
"What they need, in other words, is something far less curated. Something more like a layered, unruly, unapologetically useful ecosystem." -- layered and unruly! Yes! I love this. 🐝
ediblevancouverisland.ediblecommunities.com/food-thought...
ediblevancouverisland.ediblecommunities.com/food-thought...
Your Flowers Are Pretty, But the Bees Are Starving - Edible Vancouver Island
How to build a true pollinator pantry that feeds bees, butterflies, and other essential species year-round.
ediblevancouverisland.ediblecommunities.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
"What they need, in other words, is something far less curated. Something more like a layered, unruly, unapologetically useful ecosystem." -- layered and unruly! Yes! I love this. 🐝
ediblevancouverisland.ediblecommunities.com/food-thought...
ediblevancouverisland.ediblecommunities.com/food-thought...
I keep hearing about the YouTube show, ‘Surrounded,’ and have only seen/heard a few clips from it. My sense is that this is not a productive way to have discourse. Interesting to hear the takes on Commotion w/ Elamin Abdelmahmoud this week. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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August 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I keep hearing about the YouTube show, ‘Surrounded,’ and have only seen/heard a few clips from it. My sense is that this is not a productive way to have discourse. Interesting to hear the takes on Commotion w/ Elamin Abdelmahmoud this week. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Excited to be bringing Trouble in the Headwaters to communities across BC! Here's all the info for the Penticton screening on Sept. 8th.
"Trouble in the Headwaters" is a powerful 25-minute documentary exploring the root causes behind the devastating floods in Grand Forks, BC. Sept 8 - 6:30-8:30 PM
Oasis United Church 2964 Skaha Lake Rd Penticton *by donation Flimmaker, UBC prof, local ecologist in panel discussion. Please share.
Oasis United Church 2964 Skaha Lake Rd Penticton *by donation Flimmaker, UBC prof, local ecologist in panel discussion. Please share.
August 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Excited to be bringing Trouble in the Headwaters to communities across BC! Here's all the info for the Penticton screening on Sept. 8th.
JFC. How many people will needlessly die before someone realizes, “hey wait a minute that cancer research was maybe a good idea?” 🤬
Chat, is cancer research woke? The Trump administration seems to think so, having erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research in a move that seems to be part of its anti-DEI, anti-trans, and anti-vaccine agendas.
How Trump Killed Cancer Research
Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research.
wrd.cm
July 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
JFC. How many people will needlessly die before someone realizes, “hey wait a minute that cancer research was maybe a good idea?” 🤬
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BC Wants Value-Added Mills. We Discovered a Big Obstacle via @thetyee.ca
Great investigative reporting by Ben Parfitt: thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...
Great investigative reporting by Ben Parfitt: thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...
BC Wants Value-Added Mills. We Discovered a Big Obstacle | The Tyee
Why does so much community forest timber end up as wood chips instead of higher-end products? A Tyee investigation.
thetyee.ca
July 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
BC Wants Value-Added Mills. We Discovered a Big Obstacle via @thetyee.ca
Great investigative reporting by Ben Parfitt: thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...
Great investigative reporting by Ben Parfitt: thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...
Exactly this: “While the MAHA Commission is seeking to address a serious problem, whether it can successfully prevent and treat chronic disease depends on which factors the members deem to be driving the problem, what policy solutions they will choose to pursue, and who they will hold accountable.”
Op-ed: The Big Beautiful Bill Won’t Make America Healthy Again
Op-ed: The Big Beautiful Bill Won’t Make America Healthy Again
The second MAHA report is due next month. Here’s how the Trump administration's actions have directly contradicted MAHA's goals so far.
buff.ly
July 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Exactly this: “While the MAHA Commission is seeking to address a serious problem, whether it can successfully prevent and treat chronic disease depends on which factors the members deem to be driving the problem, what policy solutions they will choose to pursue, and who they will hold accountable.”
Wish I could be there! ✊
Vancouver-based The Metals Company is trying to start mining the seafloor—so we’re bringing them our message in full colour. #StopDeepSeaMining
🎨 Mural-painting event this Friday at TMC's HQ in Vancouver.
Come block deep-sea mines with bold lines.
Info/RSVP 👉 act.gp/44dsw8P
🎨 Mural-painting event this Friday at TMC's HQ in Vancouver.
Come block deep-sea mines with bold lines.
Info/RSVP 👉 act.gp/44dsw8P
Mural painting: The ocean is not for sale!
Hey, Vancouver! On July 4th, the day of US Independence Day, we’ll gather in front of the headquarters of a Vancouver-based mining company to expose their rogue behaviour: The Metals Company is teamin...
act.gp
July 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Wish I could be there! ✊
Fight cynicism! -- "When you don't assume the outcome, you recognize that you may be able to participate in shaping it," says @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social.
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cynicism-is-...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cynicism-is-...
Cynicism Is the Enemy of Action
We have distant enemies, the enemies of truth, justice, human rights, and environmental protection, and they are easy to recognize and oppose. We also have near enemies, the cynics and defeatists amon...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Fight cynicism! -- "When you don't assume the outcome, you recognize that you may be able to participate in shaping it," says @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social.
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cynicism-is-...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cynicism-is-...
We must take this seriously -- "Misogyny is not just a cultural or emotional problem. Instead, it increasingly functions as an ideological gateway, connecting personal grievance with broader calls for violent extremism." @karmvirpadda.bsky.social
“These attackers may not belong to formal terrorist organizations, but their writings reveal consistent ideological patterns. Among them, one stands out: misogyny.”
Misogyny Has Become the ‘Gateway Drug’ for Violent Extremism | The Tyee
I read 100 manifestos from violent attackers. There was one common thread.
thetyee.ca
July 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
We must take this seriously -- "Misogyny is not just a cultural or emotional problem. Instead, it increasingly functions as an ideological gateway, connecting personal grievance with broader calls for violent extremism." @karmvirpadda.bsky.social
Vancouverites! Run, don't walk! 🌲
Tickets are going fast for the first Vancouver screening of my new film Trouble in the Headwaters on July 5 at UBC. It's a free event so reserve a seat while you still can. My film will be playing alongside "The Salmon Forest Project" by Bill Heath.
Book here >> secure.campaigner.com/csb/Public/s...
Book here >> secure.campaigner.com/csb/Public/s...
July 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Vancouverites! Run, don't walk! 🌲
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16% of Fraser River water quality impacted by #wildfires, finds study: The research raises questions over how a range of contaminants may start to negatively impact fisheries, shellfish farms and humans that consume them. @northshorenews.bsky.social
www.biv.com/news/environ...
www.biv.com/news/environ...
16% of Fraser River water quality impacted by wildfires, finds study
The research raises questions over how a range of contaminants may start to negatively impact fisheries, shellfish farms and humans that consume them.
www.biv.com
June 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
16% of Fraser River water quality impacted by #wildfires, finds study: The research raises questions over how a range of contaminants may start to negatively impact fisheries, shellfish farms and humans that consume them. @northshorenews.bsky.social
www.biv.com/news/environ...
www.biv.com/news/environ...
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Trouble in the Headwaters, a film by @danieljpierce.bsky.social, transports viewers to expansive clearcuts in the Kettle River watershed — and reveals their hidden impacts downstream. Our latest newsletter:
thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-t...
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Watch: Trouble in the Headwaters | The Narwhal
Trouble in the Headwaters, a documentary by Daniel J. Pierce, links destructive flooding in Grand Forks, B.C., to extensive clear-cut logging in the watershed
thenarwhal.ca
June 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Trouble in the Headwaters, a film by @danieljpierce.bsky.social, transports viewers to expansive clearcuts in the Kettle River watershed — and reveals their hidden impacts downstream. Our latest newsletter:
thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-t...
thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-t...
I love how Dr. Ross says this: "This is where bad news has strong potential to contribute to good news." 🧪 The more we know, the more we can take action.
“Our findings provide a poignant reminder that we all have a role to play in protecting waterways. The silver lining in our report lies in that message" -- Dr. Peter Ross, director of Raincoast’s Healthy Waters program www.raincoast.org/press/bowen-...
Tests on Bowen Island water supply produce surprising results | Raincoast
Cocaine, DEET, and sucralose among the surprising pollutants found in Grafton Lake – the drinking water source for half the island’s 4,000 residents.
www.raincoast.org
June 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I love how Dr. Ross says this: "This is where bad news has strong potential to contribute to good news." 🧪 The more we know, the more we can take action.
Save the grasslands! 🌾 grist.org/economics/ho...
How America's prairie was nearly destroyed — and why it should be restored
A new book traces how the American prairie was nearly destroyed and why its return is so necessary for our future.
grist.org
June 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Save the grasslands! 🌾 grist.org/economics/ho...
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HNC recently convened nearly 200 people from across sectors for a two-day ‘collective action’ event to explore the connections between housing, social health, and resilience. The recap is up + more is coming in our June newsletter! 🫧 www.heyneighbourcollective.ca/2025/05/symp...
Symposium recap: Living Together 2025
Two-day ‘collective action’ event gathers nearly 200 people to dig into the connections between housing, social health and resilience.
www.heyneighbourcollective.ca
June 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
HNC recently convened nearly 200 people from across sectors for a two-day ‘collective action’ event to explore the connections between housing, social health, and resilience. The recap is up + more is coming in our June newsletter! 🫧 www.heyneighbourcollective.ca/2025/05/symp...
Listening to the Canadian Federal candidates' debate. 😵💫 I wonder what this would look like if it were 4 women on stage instead. Bloc Québécois' candidate Yves-François Blanchet saying, "Clean oil is a fairy tale," might be the only thing anyone has said this evening that has made any kind of sense.
April 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Listening to the Canadian Federal candidates' debate. 😵💫 I wonder what this would look like if it were 4 women on stage instead. Bloc Québécois' candidate Yves-François Blanchet saying, "Clean oil is a fairy tale," might be the only thing anyone has said this evening that has made any kind of sense.