Steve Ridd
@steveridd.bsky.social
Wood Worker, Forest Gardener, Climate Activist. More dirt under the fingernails than shiny shoes type.
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Well worth signing up to Rebecca Solnit newsletter for a longer take on what's going on in the USA right now.
It's easy to feel disorientated in these times, after all that is the intention of Trump/Musk. So taking a deeper look is important.
meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...
It's easy to feel disorientated in these times, after all that is the intention of Trump/Musk. So taking a deeper look is important.
meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...
The Nature of Our Power: A Conversation with Political Scientist Erica Chenoweth
"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democr...
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February 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Well worth signing up to Rebecca Solnit newsletter for a longer take on what's going on in the USA right now.
It's easy to feel disorientated in these times, after all that is the intention of Trump/Musk. So taking a deeper look is important.
meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...
It's easy to feel disorientated in these times, after all that is the intention of Trump/Musk. So taking a deeper look is important.
meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...
Bitterly cold day out there today but worth every moment to be amongst the sunshine on hoare frost
January 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Bitterly cold day out there today but worth every moment to be amongst the sunshine on hoare frost
What a difference a day makes!
Over night went from snow fields to having a moat. Meant we could begin planting up the earth bank where the dying Ash were with hawthorn, crab apple, spindle, elder, rowan to make a more manageable boundary that benefits the creatures we share this space with.
Over night went from snow fields to having a moat. Meant we could begin planting up the earth bank where the dying Ash were with hawthorn, crab apple, spindle, elder, rowan to make a more manageable boundary that benefits the creatures we share this space with.
November 24, 2024 at 5:26 PM
What a difference a day makes!
Over night went from snow fields to having a moat. Meant we could begin planting up the earth bank where the dying Ash were with hawthorn, crab apple, spindle, elder, rowan to make a more manageable boundary that benefits the creatures we share this space with.
Over night went from snow fields to having a moat. Meant we could begin planting up the earth bank where the dying Ash were with hawthorn, crab apple, spindle, elder, rowan to make a more manageable boundary that benefits the creatures we share this space with.
There are days just filled with beauty, and this was one.
Winter has arrived in Tuath Nua, County Mayo, and it was a morning for just being overwhelmed by the gorgeousness of it all.
Winter has arrived in Tuath Nua, County Mayo, and it was a morning for just being overwhelmed by the gorgeousness of it all.
November 21, 2024 at 4:49 PM
There are days just filled with beauty, and this was one.
Winter has arrived in Tuath Nua, County Mayo, and it was a morning for just being overwhelmed by the gorgeousness of it all.
Winter has arrived in Tuath Nua, County Mayo, and it was a morning for just being overwhelmed by the gorgeousness of it all.
Carole Cadwalladr's checklist for survival and resistance.
We will need to build our communities of mutual aid even stronger in the future. It needs connection, to neighbours, colleagues, community groups, unions, marginalised people we meet.
bsky.app/profile/caro...
We will need to build our communities of mutual aid even stronger in the future. It needs connection, to neighbours, colleagues, community groups, unions, marginalised people we meet.
bsky.app/profile/caro...
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
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November 17, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Carole Cadwalladr's checklist for survival and resistance.
We will need to build our communities of mutual aid even stronger in the future. It needs connection, to neighbours, colleagues, community groups, unions, marginalised people we meet.
bsky.app/profile/caro...
We will need to build our communities of mutual aid even stronger in the future. It needs connection, to neighbours, colleagues, community groups, unions, marginalised people we meet.
bsky.app/profile/caro...