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@patrickmeier.bsky.social
Born & raised in Africa Power of Local | Social Entrepreneurship | Inclusive Innovation | Sustainability | Climate Tech | Climate Robotics | Founder | National Geographic Explorer | PhD Broadcasting from Swiss the Alps๐จ๐ญ linkedin.com/in/meierpatrick
Winter in the Swiss Alps ๐๏ธ๐จ๐ญ
(๐ท: me)
Resist and Unsubscribe!
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Crowdsourcing 3D printing for nonviolent civil resistance.
Scalable & Brilliant! ๐
Along with mobile phones & radios, whistles are playing a vital role in community-centered early warning systems across Minneapolis.
๐ท: @mostlybree.kitrocha.com
This is a must-read. Andrea literally wrote the book on the global history of concentration camps.
Please read this ๐
Sending a little peace and quiet from the Swiss Alps tonight ๐๏ธ๐จ๐ญ
30.01.2026 18:39 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. Itโs dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
ICE, F You - A Protest Song for Minneapolis
youtube.com/watch?v=4PUO...
This morningโs sunrise in the Swiss Alps ๐๏ธ๐จ๐ญ
27.01.2026 06:58 โ ๐ 33 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Thanks for sharing!
26.01.2026 20:26 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This finding beats the previous record of oldest cave art by 30,000 years ๐ฎ
โThe findings add to a growing body of evidence showing that early human creativity did not emerge in a single place, nor was it confined to ice age Europe.โ
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โThe story of human creativity is far older, richer and more geographically diverse than we once imagined.โ
The earliest cave art ever found was just (re)discovered in limestone caves on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, dating back 67,800 years!
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phys.org/news/2026-01...
At first brush, Picassoโs The Bay of Cannes looks calm and quiet, but itโs also rebellious: the boats donโt recede into spaceโthey stack almost vertically, flattening the scene. Itโs Picasso in his late years saying, โI know the rules of perspectiveโฆ and Iโm choosing not to follow them.โ ๐จ
25.01.2026 20:34 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โWas I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today?โ
- Waiting for Godot (1952), by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett
Below, from a 2010 NYT article on my early work on crisis mappingโฆ
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www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/w...
"Get it all on record now โ get the films โ get the witnesses โ because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, in April 1945
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What would we know about what passed between Turks and Armenians, between Germans and Jews, if every one of them had had the chance, before the darkness, to declare for all time: โI was here, and this is what happened to meโ?
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www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/w...
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
24.01.2026 20:29 โ ๐ 39771 ๐ 11396 ๐ฌ 765 ๐ 624"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
19.01.2026 19:00 โ ๐ 3860 ๐ 855 ๐ฌ 48 ๐ 54In the Swiss Alps this morning ๐๏ธ๐จ๐ญ
19.01.2026 19:52 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Scenes from the series Andor with the caption : I have friends everywhere
Hey US Friends,
Greetings from Switzerland ๐ ๐จ๐ญ
Check out this local field manual on nonviolent community resistance to the ๐ง occupation in Minnesota. These tactics & strategies can be applied in your cities too:
docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...
See also:
defend612.com/resources
Todayโs time-lapse from the Swiss Alps ๐๏ธ๐จ๐ญ
16.01.2026 19:57 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"Exactitude is not truth." - Henri Matisse
"Real painters do not paint things as they are....They paint them as they themselves feel them to be." - Vincent Van Gogh
Thanks for sharing ๐
I appreciated their point re: itโs not market failure, itโs values failure. Iโd take it one step further and suggest itโs about power and *who* gets to decide the values.
Thanks again!
We walk the talk on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) at beV. Just over 50% of fellows identify as women while more than 50% come from rural, resource-constrained communities. The latter have access to monthly & technology stipends to support their participation in the multi-year fellowship.
12.01.2026 07:14 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Next up: monthly 10-hour train to Berlin to join my team at beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship. We enable young founders from 65+ countries to launch locally-led climate & sustainability ventures: bevisioneers.world
12.01.2026 07:06 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Today in the Swiss Alps ๐๏ธ๐จ๐ญ
11.01.2026 14:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0#grateful ๐๏ธ๐จ๐ญ
10.01.2026 20:52 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0#StormGoretti
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