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ecopoë | 𝘰𝘪̈𝘬𝘰𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘦̄𝘴𝘪𝘴 𓆃 (= earth/home making) nature, ecology, climate, right relationship, commons, geopolitics, photography, wellness, cats, art, poetry, mindfulness, solarpunk 🌞 bc, canada 🇨🇦 bsky #50,373 my dms don’t work

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mari @amari.bsky.social · Nov 23

Hello! 👋
A lot of new bots & sketchy profiles on here lately. If I don’t follow you back, pls say hi & ask. Also, if you’re skeptical if I’m a bot, or want to know a bit more about me, click below. 👇

mari @amari.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hello to all the lovely ppl who have recently followed me. I’m at an odd career crossroads rn, so my posts are everywhere—but they mostly orbit around Qs on how to actually make a better world for the kids. All the kids.

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 9h

another one bites the dust

Steve Moskal @samoskal.bsky.social · 10h

OpenAI so stupid it doesn’t recognise urgent need to mitigate petro-state #ffagenda fascist caused global warming climate change. ChapGPT doesnt recognise the science or the greed politics causing it ! #dontlookup at the #arctic - #education #stem

Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 23h

OpenAI *really* isn't hiding its intention to power the AI boom with fossil fuels.

New from me @desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 16h

🪶 In the Ojibwe language, the word for chickadee is gijigijigaaneshiinh. To hear it pronounced (it sounds really cool) visit ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/m...

Photo of a Black-capped Chickadee by Chad Hordewel. A speech bubble from the bird's mouth says "Hi, I'm gijigijigaaneshiinh"

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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 11h

“This Administration has made clear that logging and the corporate exploitation of America’s public lands are its top priorities, and the staff needed to facilitate that exploitation must continue to work [during the shutdown].” www.opb.org/article/2025...

Logging in national forests in Oregon continues, despite government shutdown

The U.S. Forest Service plans to auction off trees in the Deschutes, Wallowa-Whitman and Umatilla national forests by the end of the month.

www.opb.org

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 10h

I’ve found Chris Smaje makes a decent case for the counterpoint.

www.kcrw.com/shows/good-f...

Social-scientist-turned-farmer Chris Smaje makes the… | KCRW

Once a social scientist and now a farmer, Chris Smaje offers a defense of small-scale farming and a robust critique of industrialized food production.

www.kcrw.com

mari @amari.bsky.social · 11h

yes! fuzzy shaggy & jelly all at the same time

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 12h

“The sight of this man presenting himself as a great peacemaker, bathing in praise from other nation’s leaders, creates in me whiplash—a sickening level of cognitive dissonance.”

www.americaamerica.news/p/cognitive-...

Whiplash on A Day of Peace

Watch now | Got a Minute or Two? Mad Hattery and Other Outrages

www.americaamerica.news

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

MSNBC from last night.

Debunking the right's obsession with Antifa

Rutgers University History Professor Mark Bray joins The Weekend: Primetime to share why he and his family fled the U.S. over safety concerns amid the Trump administration's broad attacks on Antifa. H...

www.msnbc.com

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 12h

Out hiking after the rains in the Kootenays this weekend I noted the absence of mushrooms on the forest floor, but then, soon after, who should I spot tucked away in a a hollow, but...

what I’m guessing is Pholiota limonella.

🍄 🍄‍🟫 🍄

Photograph of some moss with a small cluster of shiny yellow capped mushrooms with slightly pointy brown dotted at the top and cream flecked around the rim. Stalks are tufted. In the back are brown withered ferns, sticks, leaf litter and bracken undergrowth.

#mushrooms #naturalist #natureconnection #naturephotography #moss

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 13h

it’s a silent, spiky, misty, green, gold, grey, white world in the winter
🎶

Photograph of a dark green interspersed with bursts of bright yellow, coniferous forest canopy going up a slight slope to the left, in the background a greyscale snowy forest mountain rising up into the mists.

#kootenays #forest #autumntrees #octoberdays #canada

mari @amari.bsky.social · 13h

on the hillside, bush
brightly burning

Photograph, landscape orientation. Kootensy Mountains along the Crow’s Nest Highwst, BC, Canada.

Looking up sage dotted, dirty gold grassy slope past a wire fence up to a grove of dk green conifers growing in a small patch along a sinuous ridge, and in a small clearing in front of them is a bright pinkish orange flame 🔥 coloured bush, rekindler of faith in small wonders.

#natureconnection #hiking #optoutside #exploremore #winterishere #naturelovers #ecologicalidentity

mari @amari.bsky.social · 14h

trees abstracting

Photograph, tall portrait orientation. Bottom 2/3 is 5 tall trees with yellow to green fall foliage fm l to r, and in the upper third a more distant dark coniferous forested slope is peppered with snow.

#trees #treelovers #nature #landscape #treescape #photography #naturephotography #abstract #westcoastkin #eastcoastkin #explorebc #britishcolumbia #canada #roadtrip

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16h

Among the most hideous & ubiquitous historical fables taught in this country are about the “discovery” of America and the “settling” of North America by pioneers. But there’s even more.

This Indigenous People’s Day,decide to learn.Ned Blackhawk & @rebeccanagle.bsky.social’s works are extraordinary.

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 16h

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

www.cnn.com

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 15h

I can’t even imagine what this family must be going through. The international community needs to take a stand w consequences against the Trump regime’s child harming human rights violations. @mark-carney.bsky.social @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 1d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 16h

"The remaining Canadians who were among the international human rights defenders aboard the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) vessel Conscience have now been released from Israel’s unlawful detention."
@freedomflotilla.bsky.social
#Flotilla #Palestine

canadaboatgaza.org/2025/10/12/3...

3 Remaining Canadians among the International Freedom Flotilla Volunteers Freed from Israel’s Unlawful Detention - Canadian Boat to Gaza

The remaining Canadians who were among the international human rights defenders aboard the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) vessel Conscience have now been released from Israel’s unlawful detention. K...

canadaboatgaza.org

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 16h

Project 2025, Silicon Valley & Tech's AI War on Democracy.
New Nerd Reich podcast episode with @ebharrington.bsky.social and @adambecker.bsky.social

Come for the analysis of tech fascism, stay for the laughs.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2eh...

Project 2025, Silicon Valley & Tech's AI War on Democracy | The Nerd Reich Podcast Mailbag

YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran

www.youtube.com

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 23h

First snow of the season driving through Paulson Pass, west Kootenays, British Columbia, Canada.

Photo down a highway dusted with snow bordered by a snowy forest heading down towards a slope w yellow deciduous and coniferous trees, all covered w snow.

#winterishere #snow #landscape #westcoastkin

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 1d

Oooh! You have the Libra C? I was looking at that one. Do you use the stylus? Could you use it to take decent notes in books or on pdfs? I heard the notes are also exportable now, and notes was one of the reasons I got kindle before.

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 1d

i hope assifa won a prize

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

#lifeduringwartime #portland

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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PixelPusher @drpixelpusher.bsky.social · 1d

Stay strong! commonslibrary.org/defending-de...

Defending Democracy with Humor and Dilemma Actions Tactics

The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.

commonslibrary.org

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 1d

lol 💀

Minor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 1d

You used to [eject information packets] me on your [rough endoplasmic reticulum]

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Rachel Frazin @rachelfrazin.bsky.social · 4d

Today marks six months since my book, Poisoning the Well, was published.

ICYMI: @sharonudasin.bsky.social and I took a deep dive into a family of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ that have become a pervasive environmental crisis

#PFAS #GreenSky #BookSky

A cover of the book "Poisoning the Well" by Rachel Frazin and Sharon Udasin. It's a yellow cover with a barrel of chemicals in the middle with an american flag on it

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R. A. Wadland @misterman70.bsky.social · 1d

Poehemian Rhapsody

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 1d

What kind do you have? My old kindle is pooched and I’m looking to divest fm Amazon, so I was looking at kobo options.

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