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What if the path to ending fossil fuels looked like the fight to end slavery? Paying off slave owners was an imperfect compromise. But it worked.

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A catoon image offering satirical advice about how to become a better conversationalist. The top text suggests: "Ask people questions that give them an opportunity to talk about themselves." The cartoon shows one character asking, "What the hell is wrong with you?"

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

— Charles Bukowski

Suburbia #etchings

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Colonial inversions and parliamentary takeovers: the strange, surreal photos of Michael Cook – in pictures Conditioned takes a retrospective dive into the Bidjara artist’s oeuvre of layered, stylised photographs, prising open the space between Indigenous and European perspectives and experiences

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography #indigenous #photos #aboriginal #australia

Pentre Ifan Dolmen, Pembrokeshire is a collection of seven stones. The largest is the huge capstone, estimated to weigh 16 tonnes which rests on the tips of three other stones, some 2.5 m off the ground.
#StandingStoneSunday

Standing stones on a rocky slope looking out towards a narrow strait of water and mountains in the distance

The Callanish VIII stones

This circle stands on the edge of Great Bernera island, leaning towards the mainland Isle of Lewis

I always wondered why it would be placed here...

#StandingStoneSunday #archaeology #photooftheday 🏺

The quiet contemplation of a poet Many of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poems speak of silence. These days, silence is a foreign country.

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The quiet contemplation of a poet Many of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poems speak of silence. These days, silence is a foreign country.

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Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

How the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard predicted today’s AI 30 years before ChatGPT Baudrillard’s genius lay in foreseeing what these rudimentary devices like fax machines suggested about likely future uses of technology.

theconversation.com/how-the-fren... #baudrillard #philosophy #AI

Fragment of a yellowish-brown clay figurine depicting a cat playing a harp. The cat is upright, with detailed facial features and textured fur, holding the harp to its side. The surface shows signs of wear and age, and the piece is displayed on a clear stand.

It's time for #Caturday and a timeline cleanse!

A terracotta figurine of a #cat playing the harp.

From #Egypt, #Roman period, late 1st century AD.

On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover.

Have a lovely #weekend!

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Silent Films for the Silent. Abandoned Cinema, Guerigny, France.

Nuclear War Movies Are Back As the last survivors of Hiroshima age and arms treaties expire, a new wave of film and TV is forcing us to confront the ongoing threat of the devastating weapons

“Memories of nuclear attacks may have faded into the rearview, but modern-day geopolitics should bring the reality back into focus.”

@tamaradavison.bsky.social writes for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

man sat on a bench, a woman stands before him seemingly berating him

Greenwich Village, New York City
Richard Kalvar, 1967

A brilliant film.

group photo on a movie set, Monroe, Gable, Wallach etc

Marilyn Monroe and the cast of “The Misfits”, Reno, Nevada
Elliott Erwitt, 1961

Rare earth mining expands into Laos, threatening entire Mekong River BANGKOK — New data show a recent proliferation of rare earth mines across river basins in Laos, potentially posing a transboundary water pollution threat to Vietnam and the entire Mekong River…

Satellite data show at least 27 new rare earth mines have opened across Laos since 2022, mostly in protected areas and many within the Mekong River Basin, raising transboundary pollution risks for Vietnam and the wider Mekong system.

‘We are just waiting to die’: Mining activists targeted as South Africa delays energy transition Environmental justice activists have spoken out against coal and iron mining in South Africa, telling a recent human rights hearing that the industry violently undermines the country’s promised…

Environmental justice activists have spoken out against coal and iron mining in South Africa, telling a recent human rights hearing that the industry violently undermines the country’s promised energy transition.

Potential wind slowdown threatens renewable energy and fuels heat domes Climate change may be causing long-term global wind speeds to slow down, a shift that will likely lead to a dangerous rise in local temperatures, worsening air pollution and disruption to renewable…

Climate change may be causing long-term global wind speeds to slow down, a shift that will likely lead to a dangerous rise in local temperatures, worsening air pollution and disruption to renewable energy systems.

Indigenous communities protect Colombia’s uncontacted peoples Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For more than a decade, two Indigenous communities deep in…

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Indigenous communities in Colombia's Amazon have protected voluntarily isolated tribes like the Yuri and Passé for years. Their vigilance -- blending ancestral wisdom and tech -- led to official recognition of two isolated groups in 2024.

Trump administration finalizes plan to open pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to drilling The Trump administration on Thursday finalized plans to open the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to potential oil and gas drilling, renewing a long-simmering debate over whet...

The Trump administration on Thursday finalized plans to open the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to potential oil and gas drilling, renewing a long-simmering debate over whether to drill in one of the nation’s environmental jewels. https://to.pbs.org/3L2XI3q

“In the past two decades, more than 45,000 (Indian) farmers have committed suicide, primarily due to crop failures, adverse farming conditions induced by drastic climate change, and the corresponding economic impact.”
Anderson Jeremiah's book Words for a Dying World (2020)
#india #climatechange

Archaeologists discover how oldest American civilisation survived a climate catastrophe Experts find artefacts left behind in Caral showing how population survived drought without resorting to violence

www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #archeology #climatechange #history #peru

Peter Watkins: an English film-making revolutionary from a tradition of uncompromising radicalism In films such as The War Game, Culloden and Punishment Park, Watkins pioneered the mock-documentary form and used it to make his historical dramas and up-to-the-minute dystopias all equally immediate ...

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Ancient Greeks and Romans knew harming the environment could change the climate They worried deeply about the impact climate change would have on us as individuals, and on broader society.

theconversation.com/ancient-gree... #history #climatechange #climate

silhouette of a person working on a large map

person working on a large map

map showing a tectonic plate in the atlantic

'Marie Tharp’s 1953 map of the seafloor helped prove the theory of continental drift, but the male geologist she collaborated with took all the credit.'

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