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Because traditions matter - even if they're only 6 years old - here's my round-up of books, poetry, podcasts—and one magazine—that have maximally impacted my year (not including those on the podcast)

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#BooksofBlueSky
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Word Magic 2025 - Accidental Gods' pick of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and podcasts through the year
Mandas' pick of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and podcasts through the year...
accidentalgods.life
December 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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greenparty.org.uk
Read Rachel's full thoughts here: bylinetimes.com/2025/12/18/i...
I Met Migrant Women in Calais Hoping to Reach the UK and This Is What I Learnt
It is time to move away from a politics in which cruelty is always portrayed as “toughness” and moral abdication as “realism”, argues Green Party Deputy Leader Rachel Millward
bylinetimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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greenparty.org.uk
"These women in Calais are in crisis, but they are not a crisis. Each is a person. And how we treat them tells us everything about the kind of country we are choosing to be."

@rachelmillward.bsky.social reflects on meeting migrant women in Calais and the alternative choices we could make in 2026.
Rachel Millward Green Party Co-Deputy Leader "The woman I met in Calais will give birth soon. Her child's first experiences of this world are in our hands. Whether they are shaped by fear and isolation, or by welcome and support, is a political choice." Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
December 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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mandascott.bsky.social
How do we create the stories that will bring a whole new generation back to the web of life, that will help people find hope again, and lean into their heart’s yearning for connection, relationship, being and belonging?

accidentalgods.life/wild-new-sto...

#AccidentalGods
#Podcast
#Thrutopia
Wild new stories: Weaving New Myths for a New Way of Being with Ally Kingston of Agency for Nature
How do we create the stories that will bring a whole new generation back to the web of life, that will help people find hope again, and lean into their heart's yearning for connection, relationship, b...
accidentalgods.life
December 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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mandascott.bsky.social
How would an #economy function if it was *actually* oriented to the flourishing of people and planet, regardless of the profits, rather than the death cult that aims for profit regardless of the impact on people and planet?

accidentalgods.life/barefoot-eco...

#AccidentalGods
#Podcast
#Economics
Barefoot Economics in a world of Hobnailed Boots with storyteller Inze Aponte
If we are to build systems that meet our real needs we have to first understand what those needs are and start growing the stuff that will allow us to thrive: good food from healthy soils, safe and su...
accidentalgods.life
December 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Hard Rain Books publishes razor-sharp texts for nonviolent revolution, cutting through climate denial, failed politics, and empty reform.

Strategy, truth, and courage for the century ahead.
Read. Organise. Rebel!
rev21.earth/books/
Hard Rain Publishing
The Revolution will be Smart Hard Rain Books is the publishing arm of Revolution in the 21st Century (Rev21), dedicated [...]
rev21.earth
December 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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mandascott.bsky.social
How do we become Good Relatives - to the land, the Web of Life, each other... ourselves?

How do we heal the predations of the Trauma Culture and rediscover the confidence and connection of Initiation Culture?

accidentalgods.life/dreams-as-a-...

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Dreams as a Way of Life - Becoming a Good Relative with author Hilary Giovale
Our Trauma Culture has spread across the globe with terrifying speed and ghastly efficiency.  But the tide is turning and people of good heart in many nations are beginning to understand that what we ...
accidentalgods.life
August 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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mandascott.bsky.social
What is an #EcoCivilisation?

What are its values?

Why do we need one and what will the Establishment do to maintain business as usual?

Most importantly, what can each of us do to live an #EcoCivilization into being?

accidentalgods.life/eco-civilisa...

#AccidentalGods #Podcast
Eco-Civilisation: the future we deserve and how we will get there with Jeremy Lent
What is an eco-civilisation? What are its values and what are the frames within which it works? Why do we need it in the first place and what will the Establishment do to maintain business as usual? M...
accidentalgods.life
October 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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climatemajority.bsky.social
NEW REPORT: We Need To Talk About Adaptation

The UK must move from talk to real-world adaptation: protecting people, places & futures.

Read the full CMP and @theglaciertrust.bsky.social report:
📄 usercontent.one/wp/climatema...

#Adaptation #ClimateResilience #SAFER #ClimateMajorityProject
October 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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rogerhallam.com
1/3 Lee is a good friend of mine - with family from Jamaica.

Dear colleagues and friends,

Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the region, has now struck Jamaica with catastrophic force.
Sign the Petition
Calling on UK PM Keir Starmer to provide emergency aid for Jamaica.
c.org
October 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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mandascott.bsky.social
How do the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves, each other and our place in the web of life shape our world?

How can we craft narratives that can shift the way we see and experience the world?

accidentalgods.life/the-magic-in...

#AccidentalGods #Podcast
#Thrutopia
The Magic in the Tales we Tell: Living new Stories in Service to Life with Paddy Loughman
How do the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves, each other and our place in the web of life shape our world? How can we craft narratives that shift the way we see and experience t...
accidentalgods.life
September 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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richardjmurphy.bsky.social
So, GDP has been very slightly restated. Does anyone feel better as a result? No? I thought not.

www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
UK economy grew faster than thought in first six months of Labour government – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as Office for National Statistics releases newly updated GDP data
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
The Labour Party are bought and paid for.

Lobbying, cash for access, vested interests. This is who they are.

It doesn't have to be this way.
September 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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mandascott.bsky.social
How do we #hospice the old system — become #deathdoula to the dying — AND support the #soul #Initiation of the incoming, generative system where we grow into elders instead of languishing in perpetual adolescence?

accidentalgods.life/the-crisis-a

#Accidentalgods #podcast
#Shamanism #spirituality
The Crisis and the Call: Journeys through Species-Wide Soul Initiation with Sara McFarland
As the old system is splitting apart, a few brave souls are already working to hospice this old system, acting as Death Doulas to the Great Dying—as well as helping people to awaken the seeds of a new...
accidentalgods.life
September 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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mandascott.bsky.social
How do we move beyond the predations of the capitalist death cult to a way of sharing, storing and accounting for value that serves a flourishing community on a thriving planet?

accidentalgods.life/step-by-radi...

#accidentalgods #podcast
Step by Radical Step: The Route to a Flourishing New Economy with Colleen Schneider
Our western (Trauma Culture) economies run on two falsehoods - we might go so far as to call them lies. Our guest this week is someone particularly well positioned to debunk these and show how how mon...
accidentalgods.life
September 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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richardjmurphy.bsky.social
Advertising tells you every day that you’re too old, too poor, too unfashionable. Why? Because unhappiness sells. In this video, I explain how advertising is deliberately designed to make you feel inadequate.

youtu.be/BXYe2VbUSFo?...
Why Ads Want You to Feel Bad About Your Life
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
August 3, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Excellent news: our legal action has succeeded. The government is changing its policy on the export of waste tyres, to stop them being diverted into highly polluting and dangerous pyrolysis plants. @fightingdirty.bsky.social
is a tiny group, getting big wins.
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Campaign Win! Environment Agency Admits Failings in UK Tyre Export Regulation, Changes to be Introduced Following Fighting Dirty Action | Fighting Dirty
Environmental campaign group Fighting Dirty has today welcomed the findings of a long-awaited internal review by the Environment Agency, which confirms the EA failed to ensure it was fulfilling its le...
fightingdirty.org
August 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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meidastouch.com
Today would be a good day to release the Epstein Files.

Unredacted.

In their entirety.
August 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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jenrubin.bsky.social
Epstein’s monstrous crimes were no “hoax.” The survivors, some whose identities have been revealed (unlike the men who abused them), will carry unimaginable suffering to their graves. govt's argument—“There’s nothing here" is preposterous and unacceptable. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Undaunted Search for the Truth
Julie Brown’s essential reporting on Jeffrey Epstein must be commended
open.substack.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
There's a theme being repeatedly expressed on this platform: "why can't you just protest about Gaza without mentioning Palestine Action?"
I can't believe anyone is so stupid that they cannot understand why we might challenge PA'S proscription. It can only be wilful, which means an instant block.
July 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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richardcorbett.bsky.social
How does the far-right normalise fascistic ideas?
It starts with "a joke"...
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@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot
Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
July 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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jeremycorbyn.bsky.social
There are 4.5 million children living in poverty in the UK.

Meanwhile, there are more British billionaires than ever before.

I think we should tax the rich to lift children out of poverty. Why is that such a radical idea?
July 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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mandascott.bsky.social
Given the ongoing chaos, we urgently need all 8 billion of us to Fall in Love with a Future we’d be proud to leave as our legacy.

Rob Hopkins of the #TransitionTown movement has a new book showing us how

accidentalgods.life/falling-in-l

#AccidentalGods #podcast w @robintransition.bsky.social
Falling in Love with the Future - with author, musician, podcaster and futurenaut, Rob Hopkins
We need all 8 billion of us to Fall in Love with a Future we’d be proud to leave to the generations that come after us. So how do we do it?
accidentalgods.life
July 6, 2025 at 9:36 AM