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Roland Maurice
@rolandmau.bsky.social
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Art, food, farming, climate, localism, collapse aware, spiritual curiosity, all wrapped up in one aging queer package.
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Food sovereignty = communities defining their food systems, not only being defined by them.
Holding this alongside our Farmastery lens.

#food #sovereignty #regeneration
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What is food sovereignty? | SeedChange
SeedChange works to reclaim the power of food by promoting food sovereignty: people's right to produce and control their own food systems.
weseedchange.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Hot take:
Ecological care = basic manners.

(The bees agree.)

#EcologicalManners #EnoughIsPlenty #RegenerativeFuture
A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: "The conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners." ― Barbara Kingsolver
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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A note on fear, reciprocity, and learning to transform score-keeping into reciprocity.
The Canary and the Ledger
A note on fear, reciprocity, and learning to transform ledgers into living rhythm.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Details from the installation Sirsasana by Babeth Rambault, circa 2020 (installation, sculpture)
#babethrambault #installationart #sculpture #contemporaryart #art
The sculpture is a composite of different materials and images, including a photograph of scaffolding on a building and an image of nuclear power plant stacks. Detail with the image of nuclear power plant stacks.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Ledger logic is a dead system.

Ben’s new piece: dread is data. Flow is the future.

Read + respond:
emotus.substack.com/p/the-canary...

#Reciprocity #CollapseAware #ReturnOnRelationship
The Canary and the Ledger
A note on fear, reciprocity, and learning to transform ledgers into living rhythm.
emotus.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Le Baiser (The Kiss) by Pablo Picasso, 1967 (pencil on paper)
#picasso #art #drawing #worksonpaper #kiss #abstractart
Two figures are depicted in an intense embrace and kiss. The human forms are highly abstracted and distorted.
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The wheel exists.
The craft continues.
Building is belonging.
#CraftFutures #WeBuild
A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: "We don't have to reinvent the wheel but we do have to build it. - R.M., Farmastery Steward
November 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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On a day like today, the grief is real.
And so is the invitation:
peace isn’t the prize — it’s the practice.

#RemembranceDay #PeaceAsPractice #RelationalRepair #LifeboatAcademy
A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Poppy Field in a Hollow near Giverny by Claude Monet, circa 1885
#remembranceday #claudemonet #poppies
The painting depicts a vibrant landscape with the following features a field of red poppies is painted with thick, visible brushstrokes, creating a sense of texture and movement. A lush, green valley with trees and a small cluster of buildings is nestled between the poppy field and the hills. And gently rolling hills covered in green and yellow foliage lead up to a bright blue sky filled with fluffy white clouds.
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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#martinlutherking #martinlutherkingjr #quotes #climatecrisis #metacrisis #fightoligarchy
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." Martin Luther King Jr.
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Psilocybe Cubensis Field (installation view) by Roxy Paine, 1997 (2200 replicas in epoxy polymer)
#roxypaine #sculpture #installationart #psilocybecubensis #art #contemporaryart
This installation is a meticulous, hand-fabricated replica of a natural environment, featuring over 2,200 individually molded and hand-painted mushrooms of various shapes and sizes. They are arranged in clusters, appearing to sprout from the wooden floor of the gallery space.
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Our economy shouldn’t punish what we love.
We deserve systems that nurture life, not extract it.

#RobinWallKimmerer #SystemsChange #Cultureshift
A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: "We've surrendered our values to an economic system that actively harms what we love." — Robin Wall Kimmerer
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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C.F.A.O. by Martin Puryear, 2006-07 (painted and unpainted pine and found wheelbarrow)
#martinpuryear #sculpture #art #contemporaryart #postminimalism
The sculpture, created in 2006-07, is made from painted and unpainted pine and is mounted on a found wheelbarrow. The central element is a large, white, mask-like form that is surrounded by a dense, cage-like structure of wooden sticks. The title "C.F.A.O." stands for "Compagnie Française de l'Afrique Occidentale," a French trading company that operated in West Africa.
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Solar up. Fossil generation down. Early-2025 energy mix shifts, no storyline attached. What do you notice?
#energy #climate #solarpower
theprogressplaybook.com/2025/10/07/g...
Global electricity generation from fossil fuels declines amid solar surge
The share of renewables in the global electricity mix climbed to 34.3% in the first half of 2025, eclipsing coal (33.1%).
theprogressplaybook.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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B17-04 by Hiroyuki Hamada, 2017 (piezography on archival cotton rag paper)
#HiroyukiHamada #piezography #abstractart #contemporaryart #printmaking
A black and white image of an abstract, rounded form.
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Third thoughts are the ones that watch the world and think all by themselves.
Some nights, the goats get there first.

#TerryPratchett #ThirdThoughts #LifeboatAcademy #GoatPhilosophers
A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: "First thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People who enjoy thinking have those. Third thoughts are thoughts that watch the world and think all by themselves." ― Terry Pratchett
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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#a.a.milne #winniethepooh #hanschristianandersen #wisdom #metacrisis
The image is a drawing of a boy and Winnie the Pooh with a quote attributed to Hans Christian Andersen. The quote is: "The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things." The illustration is by E.H. Shepard, who illustrated the original Winnie-the-Pooh books by A.A. Milne.
November 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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#funny #playonwords
The image shows graffiti on a wall with two conflicting messages. The top message, written in red, says "SPREAD ANARCHY" but is crossed out. The bottom message, written in blue, says "Don't Tell me What To Do!!"
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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A tree glorified by lightning stars, posted by Nikon India on August 14, 2016 (long exposure photography)
#art #photography #longexposure
The image is a long-exposure photograph of a dramatic night sky over a grassy field. A large, solitary tree stands in the center of the frame. On the left side of the sky, a lightning bolt illuminates dark storm clouds. On the right, the sky is clear, revealing the bright band of the Milky Way galaxy.
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Collapse isn’t theoretical anymore.
Our last contract is ending. The work only continues with real support.

If relational resilience matters to you, this is the moment to help sustain it.

#RelationalEconomy #PostCollapsePractice #MutualAid #EmergentFuture
Courage in the Cracks
An invitation to the work of re-making an economy that sustains life and living things
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November 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Water teaches us to belong to each other.
Care isn’t a resource — it’s a current.

“Mutual responsibility… our primary spiritual responsibility.” — RWK

#RelationalJustice #WaterSeason #EveningTide #FarmasteryFieldNotes #EarthMutuality #TendTheMoreThanHuman #robinwallkimmerer
A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: "We are investing again in communities of care and compassion, not only for one another, but for the Earth. I think what we’re really leaning toward is a kind of interspecies justice, to say that this mutual responsibility that we have for one another is our primary spiritual responsibility." — Robin Wall Kimmerer
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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A Box of Ku #43, by Masao Yamamoto, 1992 (gelatin silver print)

#masaoyamamoto #photography #art
The image is a small-format, black and white fine art photograph featuring a simple still life: a few small, delicate white flowers on a stem are placed in a clear drinking glass filled with water against a black background.
November 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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If the pattern seems missing, maybe we’re just zoomed in too far.
Louise Erdrich knew scale changes everything.

#LouiseErdrich #LifeboatAcademy #DesignOfTheWild #RelationalIntelligence #BiggerThanWeKnow
A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “There is no such thing as a complete lack of order, only a design so vast it appears unrepetitive up close.” — Louise Erdrich
November 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Untitled (Robert E. Lee Monument Graffiti for George Floyd; Richmond, Virginia, 2020) by Robert Longo, 2021 (charcoal on mounted paper)
#robertlongo #drawing #charcoalonpaper #politicalart #activistart #BLM #contemporaryart
The image is a photograph of the graffiti-covered base of the Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond, Virginia, taken in 2020 during the George Floyd protests. This photograph was the source material for a charcoal drawing by artist Robert Longo.
November 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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If domination worked, we’d be free by now.
Let’s lay the old power games to rest.
Increase the love.
I’ll bring the soil.
#adriennemareebrown
A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “If the goal was to increase the love, rather than winning or dominating a constant opponent, I think we could actually imagine liberation from constant oppression. We would suddenly be seeing everything we do, everyone we meet, not through the tactical eyes of war, but through eyes of love. We would see that there’s no such thing as a blank canvas, an empty land or a new idea – but everywhere there is complex, ancient, fertile ground full of potential.” — adrienne maree brown
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM