Meaghan C
@therealmeaghan.bsky.social
Conservationist, organizer, producer, creative, interested in climate and class consciousness, practical politics, giant puppets, fungi, forests, kid's theatre, stories and songs, protecting watersheds and building community through rabble rousing.
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EMERGENCY PIECE: My piece, out at 6 am today, is the exclusive source for the information that Marko Elez HAD fully read & write access and his access got downgraded to "insert only" a "read and limited write" access according to the best available understanding
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Day Seven of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: “Yours and WIRED's Reporting is Actually Doing Something”
Notes on the Crises pivoted over the weekend into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025
Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4
If you are a current or fo...
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February 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
EMERGENCY PIECE: My piece, out at 6 am today, is the exclusive source for the information that Marko Elez HAD fully read & write access and his access got downgraded to "insert only" a "read and limited write" access according to the best available understanding
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In Seoul, the restored waterway doesn’t just provide a peaceful refuge from the city’s busy streets, it serves as a cultural corridor with year-round festivals and performances, while helping cool the surrounding neighbourhoods, fighting air pollution and managing increasingly intense monsoon floods
‘Everyone thought it would cause gridlock’: the highway that Seoul turned into a stream
Cheonggyecheon stream in the South Korean capital has become an attraction – and helps with flood management, fighting air pollution and cooling the city
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
In Seoul, the restored waterway doesn’t just provide a peaceful refuge from the city’s busy streets, it serves as a cultural corridor with year-round festivals and performances, while helping cool the surrounding neighbourhoods, fighting air pollution and managing increasingly intense monsoon floods
This interview had me smiling. I have no role to play in the upcoming Liberal leadership race but I can only hope that they elect a leader that has a chance to disrupt a Conservative Majority. We'll do our part and elect a great MP (Gord Johns, NDP) who works across party lines to get things done.
Mark Carney - Canada Not Interested in Trump’s Offer & Liberal Leadership Prospects | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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January 15, 2025 at 6:10 AM
This interview had me smiling. I have no role to play in the upcoming Liberal leadership race but I can only hope that they elect a leader that has a chance to disrupt a Conservative Majority. We'll do our part and elect a great MP (Gord Johns, NDP) who works across party lines to get things done.
"!t’s easy to assume that the best way to lift your spirits when you’re feeling down is to do something nice for yourself. A hot-stone massage, perhaps? An online shopping spree? However, research suggests that altruistic acts work better"
I was in despair about the environmental crisis. Then I volunteered to clean up my local park
‘Instead of sobbing in front of your computer screen,’ my counsellor said, ‘go out and do something’
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January 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"!t’s easy to assume that the best way to lift your spirits when you’re feeling down is to do something nice for yourself. A hot-stone massage, perhaps? An online shopping spree? However, research suggests that altruistic acts work better"
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Unsolicited writing advice, #17171617:
Don't just write. Read books. Watch films. Look at paintings and sculpture. Play games. Go to plays. Listen to music. Think about how these things make you feel.
Making art is a two-way stream. To make art, you have to consume art.
Don't just write. Read books. Watch films. Look at paintings and sculpture. Play games. Go to plays. Listen to music. Think about how these things make you feel.
Making art is a two-way stream. To make art, you have to consume art.
January 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Unsolicited writing advice, #17171617:
Don't just write. Read books. Watch films. Look at paintings and sculpture. Play games. Go to plays. Listen to music. Think about how these things make you feel.
Making art is a two-way stream. To make art, you have to consume art.
Don't just write. Read books. Watch films. Look at paintings and sculpture. Play games. Go to plays. Listen to music. Think about how these things make you feel.
Making art is a two-way stream. To make art, you have to consume art.
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It is entirely logical to be furious at the fossil fuel industry, whose decades-long campaign of corrupting politicians, crafting fake science, sowing false doubt, and lying at an industrial scale has brought us to this moment. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...
Opinion | As a Climate Scientist, I Knew It Was Time to Leave Los Angeles
After the Bobcat fire, the area no longer felt safe.
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
It is entirely logical to be furious at the fossil fuel industry, whose decades-long campaign of corrupting politicians, crafting fake science, sowing false doubt, and lying at an industrial scale has brought us to this moment. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...
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Ursula K. LeGuin: "American science fiction has assumed a permanent hierarchy of superiors and inferiors, with rich, ambitious, aggressive males at the top, then a great gap, and then at the bottom the poor, the uneducated, the faceless masses, and all the women."
January 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Ursula K. LeGuin: "American science fiction has assumed a permanent hierarchy of superiors and inferiors, with rich, ambitious, aggressive males at the top, then a great gap, and then at the bottom the poor, the uneducated, the faceless masses, and all the women."
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“Will pay any amount.”
Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
January 8, 2025 at 6:16 AM
“Will pay any amount.”
Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
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Feeling the dopamine hit of posting an actual news / journalism link on social media. That's all I've got for today friends <3 thenarwhal.ca/canada-polic...
Politicians should stop lying about the environment | The Narwhal
Climate conspiracies are now part of every Canadian election cycle. How did it happen — and how do we stop it?
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January 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Feeling the dopamine hit of posting an actual news / journalism link on social media. That's all I've got for today friends <3 thenarwhal.ca/canada-polic...