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Novelist: ANY HUMAN POWER Mytho-political thriller. Also Boudica: Dreaming Podcaster @AccidentalGods (R)Evolutionary Economist, Regenerative Smallholder #Thrutopian narratives: toward a future we'd be proud to leave behind #Shropshire #LBTQIAA+ #Writer

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www.rawstory.com 'Malevolence and incompetence': Ex-FBI chief James Comey reams DOJ as indictment tossed

'Malevolence and incompetence': Ex-FBI chief James Comey reams DOJ as indictment tossed

24.11.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

FFS 😑

FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS

Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!

Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu

24.11.2025 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 250    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 10

IF this DOJ were smart, they'd let the Comey case go. It's a dog case anyway, and then the judge won't have to issue another opinion w/ findings about all the misconduct in the grand jury investigation.

That's if they were smart. So of course they will do the opposite - appeal and attack the judge.

24.11.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 577    πŸ” 83    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 2
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Of Beetles' wings and Brittlestars: using Biomimicry to co-create a flourishing future with Michael Pawlyn What is humanity for?Β  What happens if we rethink not just the way we plan buildings, but our entire role as beings on a living planet?Β  These are the central questions driving Michael Pawlyn's third ...

How would it feel to wake every morning knowing that you were here to help all life to flourish? That as a species, we could still become self-conscious nodes in the web of life, to act for the good of all?

accidentalgods.life/of-beetles-w...

#accidentalgods #Podcast
#biomimicry
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11.10.2025 11:40 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Building the roots of a world that will work - with Victoria Hurth, co-author of Beyond Profit We exist in a world where the ultra-rich are getting richer, powered by a system we call 'the economy' which is serving to funnel power and value up to an ever-shrinking core of wounded individuals wh...

β€œEach of us was put on this earth at this time to personally determine the fate of humankind. Do you think you were put here for something less?”
Chief Arvol Looking Horse

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#Accidentalgods #Podcast
#BeyondProfit
#RegenerativeLeadership

15.10.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 68    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Walking the wild, mythic Edge of Being with visionary elder and soul initiator Bill Plotkin What is the true vow of your life, the one it would kill you to break? This phrase comes from the poem 'All The True Vows' by David Whyte, but there can be no better introduction to this week's guest,...

What is the true vow of your lifeβ€”the one it would kill you to break?

How do we discover what we are here for, what is our unique gift to the world, and how can we bring this to the table in ways that will transform our broken systems?

accidentalgods.life/walking-the-...

#Accidentalgods #podcast

05.11.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
Two books side by side

on the left, 'THE RADICAL PATH OF SOMATIC DHARMA' by Will Johnson

on the right, 'REIMAGINING CAPITALISM' by Rebeccas Henderson

Two books side by side on the left, 'THE RADICAL PATH OF SOMATIC DHARMA' by Will Johnson on the right, 'REIMAGINING CAPITALISM' by Rebeccas Henderson

New additions to my (stupidly tall) #Book TBR pile

#BooksofBlueSky
#Reading
#Writers

24.11.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And while the cases were dismissed without prejudice, the statute of limitations has passed, for Comey at least. So he theoretically can’t be charged again.

Not that Trump’s Department of Crime cares about silly things like rules and laws.

24.11.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Magic of Darkness: learning to love life in the night with author Leigh Ann Henion Do you love the dark? Do you yearn for sunset and the amber glow of a fire with the night growing deeper, more inspiring all around you? There's a world out there of sheer, unadulterated magic that is...

Do you love the dark?

Do you yearn for sunset with the night growing deeper all around you?

Our ancestors knew the world of magic that is only revealed when we put aside the lights, phones, torches and step out into the night

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19.11.2025 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Trump is calling for the execution of military veterans in Congress for reminding troops to follow the law, not his orders. This is a psychotic break and a direct threat to our republic. He must be impeached now before this authoritarian fever dream destroys our democracy.
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24.11.2025 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Starting in the Ruins: Of Lions and Games with Crypto-Advocate and Changemaker Andrea Leiter This week's guest, Andrea Leiter is one of those polymaths who brings not just breadth, but astonishing depth to the work of bridging the worlds of technology, biodiversity and international law bring...

How do we bridge the worlds of technology, biodiversity and international law and bring them together in service of a new way of being built from the ruins of collapse?

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#ReFi
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12.11.2025 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
yanis varoufakis on bold politics this wednesday 26/11 and helena nojusticemtg on bold politics this friday 28/11

yanis varoufakis on bold politics this wednesday 26/11 and helena nojusticemtg on bold politics this friday 28/11

This week on Bold Politics: the truth about our nuclear weapons, who really decides what goes in Reeves' budget and how the UK left will need to work together to take on fascism.

Big week. Subscribe: linktr.ee/boldpolitics

24.11.2025 10:17 β€” πŸ‘ 118    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

I've just got round to watching the two-part "Hitler's DNA" on Channel 4.

I hope someone squirrels away a piece of fat lad's DNA so scientists can analyse him in 80 years' time. Who will outdo who on the "propensity for psychopathy" scale?

23.11.2025 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It would be harder to find a less sympathetic case, given that her parents paid Β£20,000 for their house which is now worth Β£1.2m. Why is somebody moaning about the very existence of inheritance tax a news story?

24.11.2025 10:26 β€” πŸ‘ 198    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 4

High praise. Surely that should bring in some philanthropic support from a pro-democracy foundation.

24.11.2025 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nuclear Regulatory Review 2025 The Nuclear Regulatory Taskforce has examined all aspects of the regulation of civil and defence nuclear and produced this review.

Extremely good stuff πŸ‘

www.gov.uk/government/p...

24.11.2025 10:30 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Eco-Civilisation: the future we deserve and how we will get there with Jeremy Lent What is an eco-civilisation? What are its values and what are the frames within which it works? Why do we need it in the first place and what will the Establishment do to maintain business as usual? M...

What is an #EcoCivilisation?

What are its values?

Why do we need one and what will the Establishment do to maintain business as usual?

Most importantly, what can each of us do to live an #EcoCivilization into being?

accidentalgods.life/eco-civilisa...

#AccidentalGods #Podcast

29.10.2025 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

This kid is brilliant. Voice of a generation.

22.11.2025 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 11021    πŸ” 3132    πŸ’¬ 407    πŸ“Œ 133

It's Boudica - or actually 'Boudega' And I truly don't know what point you're trying to make any more - so let's stop, this is beginning to feel pointlessly toxic. I was trying to make a point about moving forwards based on where we are, and clearly have failed, so let it go.

23.11.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't speak the language, but I wrote the Boudica: Dreaming books...so I'm fairly versed with the history. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree, but the one thing I'd ask is that we both work with all we've got towards a genuinely 21st century Initiation Culture and not hark back to the past.

23.11.2025 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Avoiding Burn Out, Fall Out, Drop Out (and Freak Out) with Dan McTiernan Our guest today shares straightforward practices that any of us can do to help us with grounding, attunement, opening and integration so that we can be the nodes in the web of life. This is key: we ne...

How do we become the change we need to see in the world? What are the actual, practical steps to grounding, connecting and resonating with the world?

accidentalgods.life/avoiding-bur

#AccidentalGods #Podcast w Dan McTiernan of the Alef Trust and the Being EarthBound podcast.

#ClimateEmergency

12.12.2024 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

/is not remotely there. There's still feudal hierarchy. The Romans annihilated Mona, so 'came and went' is a bit of a blink in terms of what they did to the original indigenous culture: they 'came and went' in East Anglia, too, and it's taken decades to find what little life was left in their wake.

23.11.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

/and what its roots might be. I'd be wary of deciding that any part of mediaeval Europe was a useful basis - there's still a fundamental belief in the core paradigm of scarcity, separation and powerlessness and the sense of co-creation with the Web of Life at landscape scale (per Lila June Johnson)/

23.11.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hmmm - I think the heteropatriarchal monotheist Trauma culture was still embedded though - far more than in Ireland where a kind of matriarchal (or at least not matricidal) 'celtic christianity' survived for much longer.

Core to this is whether we want to create a 21st century Initiation Culture/

23.11.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Let the Wild Gods Rise! Bridging Between the Worlds with Jackie Morris and Tamsin Abbott Let the Wild Gods Rise.Β  Easy to say and harder to do - but if you were offered a portal, a way to step into the other-worlds, to reconnect with all that we have been and could be, would you take it? ...

If you were offered a portal, a way to step into the other-worlds, to reconnect with all that we have been and could be, would you take it?

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04.10.2025 08:37 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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"Groceries," and Other Secrets of Managing Donald Trump - emptywheel Three developments that have befuddled observers -- Trump's fawning praise of Zohran Mamdani, Kirill Dmitriev's latest success at manipulating Trump advisors, and Marjorie Taylor Greene's departure --...

Marcy's take is much better and ties together the three most confusing things going on!

23.11.2025 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 187    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

If members of Congress can have Healthcare for life why can’t the American people?

22.11.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 348    πŸ” 109    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 8
Rebuilding the environmental consensus: Speech from Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party
YouTube video by GreenAllianceUK Rebuilding the environmental consensus: Speech from Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party

This is outstanding

Thank you @zackpolanski.bsky.social of @greenparty.org.uk

www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1aQ...

23.11.2025 12:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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