@chenoaanderson.bsky.social
Contemporary flutist, permaculture gardener, Butterflyway Ranger, knitter 🧶
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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6 medics face trial for climate action at time of record temperatures
We need your help to defend 6 health workers facing trial. They acted out of a duty to protect public health & planet, as politics and corporations fail to deliver their climate commitments.
www.crowdjustice.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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"Proclaiming someone’s or something’s defeat contributes to it. It’s a form of sabotage."
(And a way of giving oppressive powers exactly what they want.)
(And a way of giving oppressive powers exactly what they want.)
There's a pretense that despair/defeatism/doomerism is some kind of solidarity, when it's actually quitting while others face the horrors and resist succumbing to them. Wrote about that here.
Why climate despair is a luxury
Those facing flood and fire can’t afford to lose hope. Neither should we.
www.newstatesman.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"Proclaiming someone’s or something’s defeat contributes to it. It’s a form of sabotage."
(And a way of giving oppressive powers exactly what they want.)
(And a way of giving oppressive powers exactly what they want.)
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My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
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For years, Ken Casey has cared for a forest upstream from Edmonton. Now conserved, his donation to NCC is a gift to all, and "will support generations to come.” www.devondispatch.ca/news/local-n...
Local man donates beloved section of land near Genesee Lake to NCC
An Edmonton man has donated his section of land near Genesee Lake — located West of Devon, in Leduc County, to Nature Conservancy of Canada.
www.devondispatch.ca
December 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
For years, Ken Casey has cared for a forest upstream from Edmonton. Now conserved, his donation to NCC is a gift to all, and "will support generations to come.” www.devondispatch.ca/news/local-n...
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New Music Edmonton presents Through Closed Doors – Ukrainian New Music – a portrait of some of the incredible new work being created by composers of the Ukrainian descent diaspora.
newmusicedmonton.ca/through-clos...
newmusicedmonton.ca/through-clos...
Through Closed Doors – Ukrainian New Music - New Music Edmonton %
December 5, 7:30 PM, Mile Zero Dance. Hear some of the incredible new work being created by composers of the Ukrainian descent diaspora.
newmusicedmonton.ca
December 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
New Music Edmonton presents Through Closed Doors – Ukrainian New Music – a portrait of some of the incredible new work being created by composers of the Ukrainian descent diaspora.
newmusicedmonton.ca/through-clos...
newmusicedmonton.ca/through-clos...
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The Third Thing – poet Donald Hall on the secret to lasting love www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/13/d...
The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love
“Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The Third Thing – poet Donald Hall on the secret to lasting love www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/13/d...
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Posts about urban biking in Dutch cities are routinely replied to with comments like “well, they have the big advantage of being relatively flat.”
The Dutch also have the big advantage of not constantly making excuses about why they can’t make clearly smarter city-making decisions. #Leadership
The Dutch also have the big advantage of not constantly making excuses about why they can’t make clearly smarter city-making decisions. #Leadership
November 29, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Posts about urban biking in Dutch cities are routinely replied to with comments like “well, they have the big advantage of being relatively flat.”
The Dutch also have the big advantage of not constantly making excuses about why they can’t make clearly smarter city-making decisions. #Leadership
The Dutch also have the big advantage of not constantly making excuses about why they can’t make clearly smarter city-making decisions. #Leadership
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AI slop. it's what's for dinner. Thanks tech overlords! Keep looking in the mirror while you sing the song about your utopian genius!
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
AI slop. it's what's for dinner. Thanks tech overlords! Keep looking in the mirror while you sing the song about your utopian genius!
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business
Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...
www.cnn.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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Thanks – W.S. Merwin's ode to the defiant courage of gratitude in a broken world, the true thanks-giving
Thanks: W.S. Merwin’s Ode to the Defiant Courage of Gratitude in a Broken World
It is not easy, in these lives haunted by loneliness and loss, menaced by war and heartbreak, witness to genocides and commonplace cruelties, to live in gratitude. And yet it may be the only thing …
www.themarginalian.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thanks – W.S. Merwin's ode to the defiant courage of gratitude in a broken world, the true thanks-giving
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People looking for signs of change often assume the change that matters most, the watershed, the rubicon, the turning point will be a dramatic event. But a case can be made that the changes that matter most happen in minds and hearts, and the events follow from that.
Revolutionary Weather (and the Baboon in the Ruins)
Everything changed in the last few weeks. The Republicans, assumed by themselves and too many others, to be unstoppable got stopped again and again. Public opinion manifested in many ways: as an elect...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
People looking for signs of change often assume the change that matters most, the watershed, the rubicon, the turning point will be a dramatic event. But a case can be made that the changes that matter most happen in minds and hearts, and the events follow from that.
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📢 For the first time in over a decade, Canada has been shamed at #COP30 as the “Fossil of the Day” — the most dishonourable award given during COPs to the countries “who are the best at being the worst and doing the most to do the least.”
Read our press release:
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Read our press release:
shorturl.at/hSGvm
Canada shamed as “Fossil of the Day” at COP30, for the first time in more than a decade - Climate Action Network Canada (CAN-Rac)
Belém, Brazil, 18 November 2025:
Today at COP30, international civil society denounced Canada as Fossil of the Day—the first time since 2014 that Canada has been singled out for this dishonour.
Foss...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
📢 For the first time in over a decade, Canada has been shamed at #COP30 as the “Fossil of the Day” — the most dishonourable award given during COPs to the countries “who are the best at being the worst and doing the most to do the least.”
Read our press release:
shorturl.at/hSGvm
Read our press release:
shorturl.at/hSGvm
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I needed this today, perhaps you do too: E.B. White's letter to a man who had lost faith in humanity www.themarginalian.org/2014/05/06/e...
E.B. White’s Beautiful Letter to a Man Who Had Lost Faith in Humanity
What sailors teach us about hope and the resilience of the human spirit.
www.themarginalian.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I needed this today, perhaps you do too: E.B. White's letter to a man who had lost faith in humanity www.themarginalian.org/2014/05/06/e...
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"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How to love the world more – artist and poet Rachel Hébert’s breathtaking catalogue of gratitudes, one of the most moving, miraculous things I have ever encountered: www.themarginalian.org/2025/11/16/r...
How to Love the World More: Artist and Poet Rachel Hébert’s Breathtaking Catalogue of Gratitudes
Here we are, living these lives bright and perishable as a poppy, hard and shimmering as obsidian. We know that they are entirely improbable, that we bless their bright improbability with each flas…
www.themarginalian.org
November 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
How to love the world more – artist and poet Rachel Hébert’s breathtaking catalogue of gratitudes, one of the most moving, miraculous things I have ever encountered: www.themarginalian.org/2025/11/16/r...
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Starbucks workers in the US are on strike. Think twice before you pop in to grab a peppermint mocha. Respect the picket line and help workers secure a fair deal.
Worker rights anywhere are worker rights everywhere.
jacobin.com/2025/11/star...
Worker rights anywhere are worker rights everywhere.
jacobin.com/2025/11/star...
Unionized Starbucks Workers Are on Strike Across the US
Starbucks workers at 65 stores in 40 cities across the US walked out Thursday, striking against what they describe as unfair labor practices and the company’s stonewalling at the bargaining table. The...
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November 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Starbucks workers in the US are on strike. Think twice before you pop in to grab a peppermint mocha. Respect the picket line and help workers secure a fair deal.
Worker rights anywhere are worker rights everywhere.
jacobin.com/2025/11/star...
Worker rights anywhere are worker rights everywhere.
jacobin.com/2025/11/star...
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Excellent piece by @howrhearolls.bsky.social in The Independent.
Tools are never neutral, and #artificialintelligence has no place in social justice work, writes Rhea Rollmann.
🍞🌷 Read Rhea's latest Toast & Tulips column 👇
theindependent.ca/commentary/t...
🍞🌷 Read Rhea's latest Toast & Tulips column 👇
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It’s time for equity consultants and community organizers to ditch AI – The Independent
Tools are never neutral, and artificial intelligence has no place in social justice work
theindependent.ca
November 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Excellent piece by @howrhearolls.bsky.social in The Independent.
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Next time you find yourself fevered by a sense of helplessness, apply this Ellen Bass poem like a cold compress: www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/26/e...
Poet Ellen Bass’s Antidote to Helplessness
There is no greater remedy for helplessness than helping someone else, no greater salve for sorrow than according gladness to another. What makes life livable despite the cruelties of chance —…
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November 15, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Next time you find yourself fevered by a sense of helplessness, apply this Ellen Bass poem like a cold compress: www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/26/e...
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“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
But there is time for Toni Morrison, timelier than ever: www.themarginalian.org/2016/11/15/t...
But there is time for Toni Morrison, timelier than ever: www.themarginalian.org/2016/11/15/t...
No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear: Toni Morrison on the Artist’s Task in Troubled Times
“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
But there is time for Toni Morrison, timelier than ever: www.themarginalian.org/2016/11/15/t...
But there is time for Toni Morrison, timelier than ever: www.themarginalian.org/2016/11/15/t...
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«If you object that we’re not in a zombie movie because there are no brain-eating cannibals, let me reassure you, there are.»
– @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
– @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Turns out the zombie apocalypse isn’t as fun as they said it would be – Rebecca Solnit on our dangerously disconnected world
A population numbed, dazed, present-but-not-present – had it happened overnight it would be a sci-fi horror movie. And if you looked up from your phone for long enough, you might notice it’s started a...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
«If you object that we’re not in a zombie movie because there are no brain-eating cannibals, let me reassure you, there are.»
– @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
– @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
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The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppress...
skywriter.blue
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 AM
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
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oh boy.
Not only did the AER's CEO unlawfully interfere with the hearing process for Summit's Mine 14, he called the Minister's office for "input" pretty much as soon as the application for reconsideration came in. That's a foul.
#abpoli #ableg @cpawsnab.bsky.social
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
#abpoli #ableg @cpawsnab.bsky.social
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Documents related to Summit coal decision raise more questions about Alberta Energy Regulator’s independence
Regulator’s CEO sought ‘input’ from Energy Minister’s chief of staff on a motion to cancel hearings about a proposed mine
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
oh boy.
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Watch Alicia Proudfoot's Palpate from Now Hear This Festival of New Music 2025 on Vimeo!
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November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Watch Alicia Proudfoot's Palpate from Now Hear This Festival of New Music 2025 on Vimeo!
vimeo.com/1118452971
vimeo.com/1118452971