Wendy Goonan
@wgtheo.bsky.social
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During WW2, four brothers from a Jewish family signed up to fight against the Nazis. Only one of the four brothers survived.
His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky
His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky
March 1, 2025 at 7:01 AM
During WW2, four brothers from a Jewish family signed up to fight against the Nazis. Only one of the four brothers survived.
His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky
His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky
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It is all the same old serpent,
Abraham Lincoln said.
Sunday Letter from Ukraine
this week, in addition to key news,
takes you back 900 years.
The roots of the war
are hiding there,
in Kyivan Rus.
Free to read:
www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...
Abraham Lincoln said.
Sunday Letter from Ukraine
this week, in addition to key news,
takes you back 900 years.
The roots of the war
are hiding there,
in Kyivan Rus.
Free to read:
www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...
February 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
It is all the same old serpent,
Abraham Lincoln said.
Sunday Letter from Ukraine
this week, in addition to key news,
takes you back 900 years.
The roots of the war
are hiding there,
in Kyivan Rus.
Free to read:
www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...
Abraham Lincoln said.
Sunday Letter from Ukraine
this week, in addition to key news,
takes you back 900 years.
The roots of the war
are hiding there,
in Kyivan Rus.
Free to read:
www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...
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I chose to be here today,
in the heart of Kyiv
where flags cry for the
fallen heroes.
I chose to stay in Ukraine
on February 24, 2022.
When I can, I choose.
in the heart of Kyiv
where flags cry for the
fallen heroes.
I chose to stay in Ukraine
on February 24, 2022.
When I can, I choose.
February 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I chose to be here today,
in the heart of Kyiv
where flags cry for the
fallen heroes.
I chose to stay in Ukraine
on February 24, 2022.
When I can, I choose.
in the heart of Kyiv
where flags cry for the
fallen heroes.
I chose to stay in Ukraine
on February 24, 2022.
When I can, I choose.
A precious voice, in words and in sound
"Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
The story behind Dylan Thomas's beloved poem and a rare recording of the poet himself reading it
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
The story behind Dylan Thomas's beloved poem and a rare recording of the poet himself reading it
The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece
“Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
www.themarginalian.org
February 2, 2025 at 2:23 AM
A precious voice, in words and in sound
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Sick of #insiders? From Feb 16, you will have an alternative! @theshot.net.au is launching The Sunday Shot - join @davemilbo.bsky.social & me & some of Australia's best independent journalists at 9am every Sunday as we dive into the key issues of what is going to be a volatile election campaign.
February 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Sick of #insiders? From Feb 16, you will have an alternative! @theshot.net.au is launching The Sunday Shot - join @davemilbo.bsky.social & me & some of Australia's best independent journalists at 9am every Sunday as we dive into the key issues of what is going to be a volatile election campaign.
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We need to root for this kid.
January 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
We need to root for this kid.
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In case you missed it yesterday, Emmy Rakete on Neil Gaiman.
"The rich — all of the rich, every last one — directly financially benefit from having built a world in which poor women have no choice but to submit to being raped."
"The rich — all of the rich, every last one — directly financially benefit from having built a world in which poor women have no choice but to submit to being raped."
Neil Gaiman and the political economy of rape - Overland literary journal
The interactions between Gaiman, Palmer, Pavlovich, and the couple’s young child are all outlined in Shapiro’s article. There is, though, another figure in the narrative whom the article does not name...
overland.org.au
January 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
In case you missed it yesterday, Emmy Rakete on Neil Gaiman.
"The rich — all of the rich, every last one — directly financially benefit from having built a world in which poor women have no choice but to submit to being raped."
"The rich — all of the rich, every last one — directly financially benefit from having built a world in which poor women have no choice but to submit to being raped."
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Half a century before there was Rick Rubin, there was Arthur Koestler and his book "The Art of Creation," in which he pioneered a theory of how creativity works based on a psychological process he called "bisociation"
How Creativity in Humor, Art, and Science Works: Arthur Koestler’s Theory of Bisociation
“The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it.”
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January 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Half a century before there was Rick Rubin, there was Arthur Koestler and his book "The Art of Creation," in which he pioneered a theory of how creativity works based on a psychological process he called "bisociation"
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I dreamt about the snowy heron, and then this divination came. Available as a stand-alone print at https://bit.ly/snowyheron and part of the deck of 100 at https://almanacofbirds.org (where I explain the partly mystical, partly meticulous process behind these and tell the story of how they began)
January 13, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I dreamt about the snowy heron, and then this divination came. Available as a stand-alone print at https://bit.ly/snowyheron and part of the deck of 100 at https://almanacofbirds.org (where I explain the partly mystical, partly meticulous process behind these and tell the story of how they began)
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The most important things we learn in life we have to learn over and over. Here are 18 such things I learned in the first 18 years of The Marginalian and am relearning daily, which now strike me as worthy New Year's resolutions as well:
18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian
Somewhere along the way, you realize that no one will teach you how to live your own life — not your parents or your idols, not the philosophers or the poets, not your liberal arts education …
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January 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The most important things we learn in life we have to learn over and over. Here are 18 such things I learned in the first 18 years of The Marginalian and am relearning daily, which now strike me as worthy New Year's resolutions as well:
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The great Zen teacher and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh on the art of deep listening and the 3 Buddhist steps to repairing any relationship
Thich Nhat Hanh on the Art of Deep Listening and the 3 Buddhist Steps to Repairing a Relationship
“The intention of deep listening and loving speech is to restore communication, because once communication is restored, everything is possible.”
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January 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The great Zen teacher and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh on the art of deep listening and the 3 Buddhist steps to repairing any relationship
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I make a newsletter on international disability news and I need your help.
The two biggest challenges for a project like this are visibility and financing.
Please share, to help others find it.
And if you're comfortable, it runs on pay-what-you-can.
www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/open...
The two biggest challenges for a project like this are visibility and financing.
Please share, to help others find it.
And if you're comfortable, it runs on pay-what-you-can.
www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/open...
December 5, 2024 at 4:00 PM
I make a newsletter on international disability news and I need your help.
The two biggest challenges for a project like this are visibility and financing.
Please share, to help others find it.
And if you're comfortable, it runs on pay-what-you-can.
www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/open...
The two biggest challenges for a project like this are visibility and financing.
Please share, to help others find it.
And if you're comfortable, it runs on pay-what-you-can.
www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/open...
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Don't waste your greening life-force – the 12th-century polymath Hildegard of Bingen's enchanted ecology epochs ahead of its time
Don’t Waste Your Greening Life-Force: Hildegard’s Prophetic Enchanted Ecology
The year is 1174. Gravity, oxygen, and electricity have not been discovered. Clocks, calculus, and the printing press have not been invented. Earth is the center of the universe, encircled by heave…
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January 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Don't waste your greening life-force – the 12th-century polymath Hildegard of Bingen's enchanted ecology epochs ahead of its time
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Barry Lopez, who would've been 79 today, on the cure for our existential loneliness and the 3 tenets of a full life
Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life
“Existential loneliness and a sense that one’s life is inconsequential, both of which are hallmarks of modern civilizations, seem to me to derive in part from our abandoning a belief in the t…
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January 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Barry Lopez, who would've been 79 today, on the cure for our existential loneliness and the 3 tenets of a full life
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Adults with #Aphasia, we want to know what you think of #VirtualReality. It's appearing more in rehabilitation, but do you like it? Does it work for you? Try it out and let us know! Please share with anyone you know in the Sydney (Australia) area.
#Stroke #BskySPEECHIES
#Stroke #BskySPEECHIES
January 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Adults with #Aphasia, we want to know what you think of #VirtualReality. It's appearing more in rehabilitation, but do you like it? Does it work for you? Try it out and let us know! Please share with anyone you know in the Sydney (Australia) area.
#Stroke #BskySPEECHIES
#Stroke #BskySPEECHIES
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"A request made through ChatGPT, an AI-based virtual assistant, consumes 10 times the electricity of a Google Search"
This isn't a game. This is accelerated destruction via huge usage of power, water, resources etc. Stop using it - especially for messing about!!
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
This isn't a game. This is accelerated destruction via huge usage of power, water, resources etc. Stop using it - especially for messing about!!
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
AI has an environmental problem. Here’s what the world can do about that.
The sprawling data centres that house AI servers churn out toxic electronic waste and are voracious consumers of electricity, which in most places is still produced from fossil fuels.
www.unep.org
December 28, 2024 at 8:02 AM
"A request made through ChatGPT, an AI-based virtual assistant, consumes 10 times the electricity of a Google Search"
This isn't a game. This is accelerated destruction via huge usage of power, water, resources etc. Stop using it - especially for messing about!!
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
This isn't a game. This is accelerated destruction via huge usage of power, water, resources etc. Stop using it - especially for messing about!!
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
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This evening's "O" antiphon:
December 20, 2024 at 9:11 PM
This evening's "O" antiphon:
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I'm seeing some (entirely justified) concern about the possibility of the US no longer having a polio vaccination program given the threat posed by the incoming administration and I feel like this is a really good opportunity to explain some things about polio to clarify what the risks are 🧵
December 15, 2024 at 11:22 PM
I'm seeing some (entirely justified) concern about the possibility of the US no longer having a polio vaccination program given the threat posed by the incoming administration and I feel like this is a really good opportunity to explain some things about polio to clarify what the risks are 🧵
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"Each world bears all the worlds we might find within it."
One of the finest things I read all year:
One of the finest things I read all year:
The Paradise Notebooks: A Poet and a Geologist’s Love Letter to Life Lensed Through a Mountain
“Each world bears all the worlds we might find within it. If you understand one outcropping of stone, or one wildflower, or one hummingbird — if we see our way along the tracery of cause and …
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December 18, 2024 at 6:01 PM
"Each world bears all the worlds we might find within it."
One of the finest things I read all year:
One of the finest things I read all year:
The last song of the world holds potential, with such an evocative cover
I'm *giving away* 3 free, signed books for the holidays! To enter the drawing, just like or repost this so I see you. Let me know in the comments which of the two titles you're aiming for.
Much love to you all. —JF
Much love to you all. —JF
December 18, 2024 at 8:15 PM
The last song of the world holds potential, with such an evocative cover
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The great "O" antiphons begin this evening.
This is the first:
This is the first:
December 17, 2024 at 8:33 PM
The great "O" antiphons begin this evening.
This is the first:
This is the first:
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Rumi returned his borrowed stardust to the universe 751 years ago today, leaving us his immortal wisdom on the art of choosing love over not-love
The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy
“You’ll long for me when I’m gone… You’ll kiss the headstone of my grave… Kiss my face instead!”
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December 17, 2024 at 5:47 AM
Rumi returned his borrowed stardust to the universe 751 years ago today, leaving us his immortal wisdom on the art of choosing love over not-love
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Alvar Aalto and His Three Italian Collaborators: Cultural Cross-Pollination and Architectural Legacy by G. Talamini, L. Placci and P. A. Croset @tandfresearch.bsky.social Mosso, Marconi, Nava, their path to Finland and their roles within Aalto atelier.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Alvar Aalto and his three Italian collaborators: cultural cross-pollination and architectural legacy
This article delves into the synergistic relationship between Alvar Aalto and his three Italian collaborators: Leonardo Mosso, Federico Marconi, and Vezio Nava. By examining their contributions, ex...
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December 17, 2024 at 10:18 AM
Alvar Aalto and His Three Italian Collaborators: Cultural Cross-Pollination and Architectural Legacy by G. Talamini, L. Placci and P. A. Croset @tandfresearch.bsky.social Mosso, Marconi, Nava, their path to Finland and their roles within Aalto atelier.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....