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It sounds rather elitist to equate heating with wood with poverty and to assume that no one in this thread struggles financially. This isn’t about social class. It’s about everyone’s right to breathe clean air, and you know it.

In the US any wood stove installed after 2020 is required to be EPA certified. Burning wood (or garbage or brush or whatever) is always polluting your neighborhood, usually at hazardous levels, but have the common decency to build a fire that doesn’t smoke. 💚

Map reveals residential wood-burning hotspots in England and Wales Researchers analyse energy performance certificate data to identify areas with potentially high particle pollution

I'm really sorry, but we just need to stop doing this. Your wood-burning hygge leads directly to people's deaths - other people's and perhaps your own.
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The studies that prove that residential wood smoke increases mortality rates are readily available for you to find. There’s no excuse for polluting neighborhood air. One person’s health and quality of life doesn’t supersede another based on finances.

An EPA certified wood stove is required for new installs now in the US. Wood isn’t cheaper if you’re buying it. It’s possible to start and maintain fires responsibly without smoking your neighbors out.

Totally agree. There are much safer and responsible ways to burn but the “I can do whatever I want” crowd can’t be bothered to consider how their pollution affects others

YouTube video by Tiffany's Farm Why Black Farmers Are Not Complaining?

Diabolical

I watched this a few months ago and found it interesting:

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Anger Anger by H. Stearley at Earthwalking So what is this emotion called anger? That strikes like a cobra, Seemingly from nowhere, It’s venom now coursing through my veins. A sequence of chemical reactions – molecular hysteria in the mind. Yet it was external toxicity that gave it birth . . . Thermodynamic non-equilibrium. *** In Metta Feature Image: This image was generated by Wordpress's AI generator.

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Anger by H. Stearley at Earthwalking So what is this emotion called anger? That strikes like a cobra, Seemingly from nowhere, It’s venom now coursing through my veins. A sequence of chemical reactions – molecular hysteria in the mind. Yet it was external toxicity that gave it birth . . .…

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.

Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK

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H/T HAUNTED APPLEBEE'S but I had to fix it.

A printed out poster for the economic blackout on February 28 on a telephone poll across the street from buildings. The poster shows a big red Jack rabbit on an aqua blue back ground. It says economic blackout in hand done black type. There are two black speech bubbles. One says “don’t buy stuff Friday February 28th. The other says we have power. Below it says No Amazon, Walmart, target, gas food, gas. Below that it says OK small business, use cash. Designed by Martha Rich.

Love this! Today’s the day! It’s just the beginning. United we stand, divided we fall. It was nice that a bunch of people asked me if they could use my poster like this.

Dragged: what to know after chaotic CDA town hall A local extremism reporter’s guide to what happened in the viral video of a woman being dragged out of an Idaho town hall by a group of men with no official uniforms.

Play by play timeline of Teresa Borrenpohl’s arrest and release as reported by a local, Idaho news source.

Best truth telling of the day goes to Henry Rollins:
"This is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"

US Army Chorus performed the finale number from Les Misérables for the President and his guests😂🤣😂🤣

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Photo featuring an embroidery hoop with texile divided into twelve sections for the months of the year and with a circle in the middle with the year, each section has many tiny embroidered representations to note particular personal experiences, events or happenings for the maker, such as a flag to represent a journey or a food to represent a festival

In 2021 textile artist Emma Dyer documented her year in embroidery #WomensArt

Susan B. Anthony fought for a right,
Not chocolates, not flowers—just equal might.

Yet we drown her cause in ribbons and lace,
Forgetting that love is love,
justice in place.

Mirrored image of Bansky art on a yellow wall of a light-skinned woman bent over puking red hearts. Her black hair is in a bun. She’s wearing a black, short sleeved, knee length dress, black tights and white sneakers. Above and behind her is written “danke.”

T’was the night before Hallmark Day, profits ran high,
Love stamped and packaged, a corporate lie.

Saint Valentine died for defying the state,
Now his name sells cheap romance and fate.

Lupercalia once ran wild and free,
Now love’s just a card and a shopping spree.

She fought for a right no man had to give,
Not roses, not trinkets, but the power to live.

So keep your chocolates and overpriced wine—
Real love, real change won’t come by design.

Once, Romans danced in the festival’s glow,
Lupercalia’s passion, raw and unchained flow.
Now love’s been tamed, wrapped up in a bow,
A profit machine with nothing to show.

And on this same day, long overlooked,
Susan B. Anthony rewrote the books.

White Clothing tag that says “Bar-F” (or barf) on an orange background shaped like an animal hide. Tag is on a beige, gray and yellow plaid, flannel shirt.

T’was the night before Hallmark Day when all through the stores,
People buying flowers and chocolates galore.

But love wasn’t born in a checkout line,
Nor stamped with a price or a factory design.
Saint Valentine died for a love deemed unfit,
Yet now his name sells cards that don’t mean a bit.

The Nature of Our Power: A Conversation with political scientist Erica Chenoweth By Rebecca Solnit • 8 Feb 2025 View in browser "The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term than relying on institutional checks and balances alone." That's what political scientist Erica Chenoweth told me when I asked them if we could have a conversation (by email, below in full) about the current constitutional crisis/coup attempt and what we can do about it. Chenoweth is a hugely influential scholar of nonviolent social change, best known for their empirical research that not only documents what makes civil resistance work but demonstrates that it works, often extremely effectively. They direct the Nonviolent Action Lab, which studies how people have built movements and developed strategies to resist authoritarianism successfully and documents how nonviolence can be effective. There's no one I wanted to hear from more in this constitutional crisis, and I'm grateful I can share their insights with all of you.

"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term..." meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...

To Use Their Language Is to Endorse Their Lies Every crisis is in part a storytelling crisis, and the current one here in the US is also a language crisis. How we use the language and how we listen for lies that are in single words and phrases as ...

A single word can be a lie. For example, journalists are still calling what Musk and his child army have been doing an operation in pursuit of government efficiency.... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/to-use-their...

Germany is saying no to autogenocide, no to oligarchy, and no to impunity. Thousands are taking a stand against fascism ahead of the election. No matter the results they won't bend the knee to oligarchy. #3E

YouTube video by Eyewitness News ABC7NY U.S. Airforce reverses decision to remove Tuskeegee Airmen history

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I'm not surprised by trump's disgustingly negative attitude about disabled people.

It's who he is, and who he's always been.

This should have been the end.

Replying to @the_savage_lokius The U.S. Air Force has reportedly removed a video about the legendary Tuskegee Airmen—trailblazing Black pilots of WWII—from its basic training curriculum at Joint Base... TikTok video by Harbinger of The Fold

“The U.S. Air Force has reportedly removed a video about the legendary Tuskegee Airmen-trailblazing Black pilots of WWIl-from its basic training curriculum at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, following Trump's executive order banning (DEI) across the federal government.”
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8FKVoTm/

YouTube video by Thom Hartmann Program DID TRUMP LOSE? Shocking Proof Trump Rigged 2024 Election w/ Greg Palast

Concerning voter suppression and the US’s Jim Crow voting system.

Overlooked for decades, mast cells may explain many mysterious environmental illnesses - UT Health San Antonio New paper provides plausible biological mechanism for chemical intolerance Contact: Steven Lee, 210-450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO – A newly published paper provides a long-sought link betwe...

I’m grateful #uthealthsa is doing scientific research on the poorly understood, frequently invalidated illness that derailed my life. Perhaps this will lead to health insurance-covered treatment options and ADA accommodations. tinyurl.com/2v3xr6ac

#utsa #TILT #environmentalillness #MCAS