Siobhán
@siofri.bsky.social
Prodding the stories that harm us and the planet 🌏👈🏼 🗣️🦓
Work That Reconnects facilitator 🌀
Mental health practitioner 🧠 🦋
Teachers: Saturn transits & a tomato plant 🍅🪐
📝 siobhanfriel.substack.com
📍Éire —UK—Aotearoa/NZ 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🇳🇿
Work That Reconnects facilitator 🌀
Mental health practitioner 🧠 🦋
Teachers: Saturn transits & a tomato plant 🍅🪐
📝 siobhanfriel.substack.com
📍Éire —UK—Aotearoa/NZ 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🇳🇿
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It is a very particular thing with this Government that businesses are the only things that drives economic growth, whereas people just, I dunno, have babies and breath too much.
Just about everything Nicola Willis is announcing in this budget is bad for our future, bad for climate, bad for our society.
Taking money from essential workers in female dominated industries, young families having new babies, KiwiSavers. It’s madness.
Taking money from essential workers in female dominated industries, young families having new babies, KiwiSavers. It’s madness.
May 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It is a very particular thing with this Government that businesses are the only things that drives economic growth, whereas people just, I dunno, have babies and breath too much.
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This government is undermining climate policy by slashing funding to independent Climate Commission
every year (in real terms - much bigger in nominal terms)
2022: 16 million
2023: 19 million
*Election*
2024: 17 million
2025: 15 million
#ScorchedEarthBudget #BackwardsBudget #Budget2025
every year (in real terms - much bigger in nominal terms)
2022: 16 million
2023: 19 million
*Election*
2024: 17 million
2025: 15 million
#ScorchedEarthBudget #BackwardsBudget #Budget2025
May 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
This government is undermining climate policy by slashing funding to independent Climate Commission
every year (in real terms - much bigger in nominal terms)
2022: 16 million
2023: 19 million
*Election*
2024: 17 million
2025: 15 million
#ScorchedEarthBudget #BackwardsBudget #Budget2025
every year (in real terms - much bigger in nominal terms)
2022: 16 million
2023: 19 million
*Election*
2024: 17 million
2025: 15 million
#ScorchedEarthBudget #BackwardsBudget #Budget2025
Pōneke friends, can you get to parliament on Tuesday:
May 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Pōneke friends, can you get to parliament on Tuesday:
Can all ma friends in Aotearoa make sure you’re not letting this vvvvvv important article pass you by, which may be buried under the inane pieces we normally call “news”
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May 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Can all ma friends in Aotearoa make sure you’re not letting this vvvvvv important article pass you by, which may be buried under the inane pieces we normally call “news”
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Advert for (Microsoft product) windows 11 within an article about Microsoft (maker of product in advert) selling advanced AI (hmmmm) to Israel military (currently causing a genocide)? Really @stuff.co.nz ????
May 17, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Advert for (Microsoft product) windows 11 within an article about Microsoft (maker of product in advert) selling advanced AI (hmmmm) to Israel military (currently causing a genocide)? Really @stuff.co.nz ????
Alt title: “How to Co-habit With Someone Who Is Realising That Everything Is Connected & That Is Looks Nothing Like Any of Us Were Taught in School, & You Might Have to Be Very Patient While Your Person Reframes Their Entire Existence”
Tip:have cake ready
siobhanfriel.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...
Tip:have cake ready
siobhanfriel.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...
Part II: The Connecting ⚡️💡
The second part of The Earnestly Incomplete Non-Guide for the Disillusioned, the Lost and the Totally Bewildered
siobhanfriel.substack.com
May 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Alt title: “How to Co-habit With Someone Who Is Realising That Everything Is Connected & That Is Looks Nothing Like Any of Us Were Taught in School, & You Might Have to Be Very Patient While Your Person Reframes Their Entire Existence”
Tip:have cake ready
siobhanfriel.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...
Tip:have cake ready
siobhanfriel.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...
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Possibly this issue is also related to the fact that Descartes was wrong. Animals are not machines, and do not behave predictably like machines
phys.org/news/2025-04...
phys.org/news/2025-04...
Up to 42% of insect behavioral experiments not reproducible across laboratories
If an experiment is repeated under similar conditions, the results should be the same. In reality, the situation is often different—scientists speak of a "reproducibility crisis," which affects differ...
phys.org
May 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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What the bejesus is happening in Aotearoa NZ — " tax breaks for tobacco companies are being funded by cutting women's pay rises and backpay"
THANK YOU to all my friends out there at the snap protests
THANK YOU to all my friends out there at the snap protests
These are the pay equity claims that the government wiped out in just two days to make its budget balance. It's appalling that tax breaks for tobacco companies are being funded by cutting women's pay rises and backpay.
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May 9, 2025 at 8:41 AM
What the bejesus is happening in Aotearoa NZ — " tax breaks for tobacco companies are being funded by cutting women's pay rises and backpay"
THANK YOU to all my friends out there at the snap protests
THANK YOU to all my friends out there at the snap protests
omigod 👇🏼 gosh, we humans are so ridiculous 🫣
Reminder of how little we have understood of systems we seem determined to mess with
@gmwatch.bsky.social #GMOs #geneediting
phys.org/news/2025-05...
@gmwatch.bsky.social #GMOs #geneediting
phys.org/news/2025-05...
Scientists make discovery that upends our beliefs about how cells divide
Scientists from The University of Manchester have changed our understanding of how cells in living organisms divide, which could revise what students are taught at school. In a study published today i...
phys.org
May 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
omigod 👇🏼 gosh, we humans are so ridiculous 🫣
this makes my soul feel warm and nice
Many British churches have yew trees in their grounds. However many were there BEFORE the church.
Pagan rituals have become Christian in nature through time. Yew trees were used as places of gathering by Druids, so the churches were placed where people always met
Pagan rituals have become Christian in nature through time. Yew trees were used as places of gathering by Druids, so the churches were placed where people always met
April 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
this makes my soul feel warm and nice
If you feel like you’re quietly losing your mind while the world carries on like everything’s normal, then I have good news: You are not only quite sane indeed, but pretty amazing. Let’s be friends.
Why You Might Be Feeling a Bit Crazy: The Maddening Paradoxes of our Time
Listen now (42 mins) | Today we’re talking about the most fundamental of cosmic laws.
siobhanfriel.substack.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
If you feel like you’re quietly losing your mind while the world carries on like everything’s normal, then I have good news: You are not only quite sane indeed, but pretty amazing. Let’s be friends.
It may be 1) surprising then 2) bewildering, then 3) hurtful to realise the people we care for have wildly different opinions on stuff that really matters to us. I hear ya, friend ⬇️
How to Explain Your Terrible Sense of Fear & Dread to Someone Who Really Doesn’t Seem to Care
Why you feel it and why they might not (and what to do next if you need a thing to do)
siobhanfriel.substack.com
April 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
It may be 1) surprising then 2) bewildering, then 3) hurtful to realise the people we care for have wildly different opinions on stuff that really matters to us. I hear ya, friend ⬇️
this makes me a little homesick for Somerset, for spring, for the oaks I used to hide behind when I was young and called in for tea.
Now I am in Aotearoa, and while there are english oak trees here, it's late autumn and they are sleeping. Also, no one calls me in for tea anymore. Which sucks.
Now I am in Aotearoa, and while there are english oak trees here, it's late autumn and they are sleeping. Also, no one calls me in for tea anymore. Which sucks.
Blackthorn blossom comes before the leaves. Their firework display is finishing
Hawthorn leaves come before the blossom. Which means the Mayflowers are ready to wow us 🫠
Hawthorn leaves come before the blossom. Which means the Mayflowers are ready to wow us 🫠
April 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
this makes me a little homesick for Somerset, for spring, for the oaks I used to hide behind when I was young and called in for tea.
Now I am in Aotearoa, and while there are english oak trees here, it's late autumn and they are sleeping. Also, no one calls me in for tea anymore. Which sucks.
Now I am in Aotearoa, and while there are english oak trees here, it's late autumn and they are sleeping. Also, no one calls me in for tea anymore. Which sucks.
Every psychotic system needs a cheat sheet
How to Get Your Citizens to Think They Are The Problem (& Not You): A Cheat Sheet for Psychotic Systems
Making your people blame themselves for your systemic and structural psychosis will help you scale. You got this
siobhanfriel.substack.com
April 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Every psychotic system needs a cheat sheet
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April 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Thanks, wise one
Gotta correct the media again on something. The administration is not sending migrants to a mega prison in El Salvador. They’re sending human beings to a concentration camp.
April 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Thanks, wise one
er, yay? ⬇️
“The scale of the current crisis surpasses any historical precedent and the path forward is uncertain. Nonetheless, by understanding the dynamics of past collapses… there is still potential to navigate the turbulent future” - Stephanie Rost, Gothenburg University
Don’t just collapse - #JustCollapse!
Don’t just collapse - #JustCollapse!
April 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
er, yay? ⬇️
The #WorkThatReconnects network, the organisation that continues to strengthen the practices and principles developed by #JoannaMacy and her colleagues, publishes the bi-annual Deep Times Journal. The journal is filled with heart-led art in service to these times.
March 2025 | Deep Times Journal
journal.workthatreconnects.org
March 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The #WorkThatReconnects network, the organisation that continues to strengthen the practices and principles developed by #JoannaMacy and her colleagues, publishes the bi-annual Deep Times Journal. The journal is filled with heart-led art in service to these times.
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“We tell ourselves we have time... But by the time catastrophe demands full recognition, it is often too late. Or, maybe one day, we wake up… and realise we have adapted to the point of extinction” -Olimita Roy
#JustCollapse - the only thing that still makes sense
indianexpress.com/article/opin...
#JustCollapse - the only thing that still makes sense
indianexpress.com/article/opin...
We are in the middle of a climate apocalypse. But do we really care?
The problem with the soft apocalypse is that it is still an apocalypse. It still ends in collapse. We tell ourselves we have time, that the worst is always just ahead, that we will act when we must
indianexpress.com
March 29, 2025 at 6:50 AM
“We tell ourselves we have time... But by the time catastrophe demands full recognition, it is often too late. Or, maybe one day, we wake up… and realise we have adapted to the point of extinction” -Olimita Roy
#JustCollapse - the only thing that still makes sense
indianexpress.com/article/opin...
#JustCollapse - the only thing that still makes sense
indianexpress.com/article/opin...
If you're stumbling around, disorientated and alone, on the foggy alpine plateau that is being a human right now.... come and sit by my rock cairn. I have snacks.
An Earnestly Incomplete Non-Guide for the Disillusioned, the Lost and the Totally Bewildered
Oh there you are! Good. Come sit with me a minute
siobhanfriel.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 3:08 AM
If you're stumbling around, disorientated and alone, on the foggy alpine plateau that is being a human right now.... come and sit by my rock cairn. I have snacks.
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It’s Friday and there is no better way than to boost some amazing activists and organizations.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You uphold democracy and freedom.
Please hit follow all and repost
Thank you. I promise to include people who interact on my next pack
go.bsky.app/GQJsZFR
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You uphold democracy and freedom.
Please hit follow all and repost
Thank you. I promise to include people who interact on my next pack
go.bsky.app/GQJsZFR
March 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
It’s Friday and there is no better way than to boost some amazing activists and organizations.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You uphold democracy and freedom.
Please hit follow all and repost
Thank you. I promise to include people who interact on my next pack
go.bsky.app/GQJsZFR
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You uphold democracy and freedom.
Please hit follow all and repost
Thank you. I promise to include people who interact on my next pack
go.bsky.app/GQJsZFR
@greenpeaceuk.bsky.social genuinely grateful for your work, but in response to the email I got inviting me to buy merch... I have to ask how is this aligned with confronting our overconsumption and ecological collapse? Even "ethical" new stuff is still...new stuff. Help me understand. My head hurts.
March 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
@greenpeaceuk.bsky.social genuinely grateful for your work, but in response to the email I got inviting me to buy merch... I have to ask how is this aligned with confronting our overconsumption and ecological collapse? Even "ethical" new stuff is still...new stuff. Help me understand. My head hurts.
please engage with this perspective about the whole #signal thing —as usual, mainstream media is not talking about the part where we see our 'leaders' as depraved, inhumane "warmongering swamp monsters" (as Caitlin poetically puts it) posting 🥳👏🏻🎉 in response to the killing of innocent people
Thoughts On The Trump Team's Signal Chat About Bombing Yemen
These are the kinds of people who rule our world. This is how they think.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/thoughts-o...
These are the kinds of people who rule our world. This is how they think.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/thoughts-o...
Thoughts On The Trump Team's Signal Chat About Bombing Yemen
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
www.caitlinjohnst.one
March 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
please engage with this perspective about the whole #signal thing —as usual, mainstream media is not talking about the part where we see our 'leaders' as depraved, inhumane "warmongering swamp monsters" (as Caitlin poetically puts it) posting 🥳👏🏻🎉 in response to the killing of innocent people
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Criminalizing Dissent: Greenpeace Ordered to Pay $667M to Dakota Access Pipeline Firm over Protests
Criminalizing Dissent: Greenpeace Ordered to Pay $667M to Dakota Access Pipeline Firm over Protests
A jury in North Dakota has ordered Greenpeace to pay more than $660 million in damages for defaming Energy Transfer Partners, the corporation behind the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Texas-based pipeline...
www.democracynow.org
March 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Criminalizing Dissent: Greenpeace Ordered to Pay $667M to Dakota Access Pipeline Firm over Protests