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The Lifeboat Academy

@lifeboatacademy.bsky.social

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Our mission is to support the creation of a fleet of "lifeboats" - place-based resilience networks that share information, resources and aid as we collectively navigate social and economic collapse.

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The Lifeboat Academy @lifeboatacademy.bsky.social · 16d

#artofliving

Roland Maurice @rolandmau.bsky.social · 16d

#terrypratchett #metacrisis #socialjustice #climatejustice

"Thematically speaking, the most important thing Terry Pratchett taught me was the concept of militant decency. The idea that you can look at the world and its flaws and its injustices and its cruelties and get deeply, intensely angry, and that you can turn that into energy for doing the right thing and making the world a better place. He taught me that the anger itself is not the part I should be fighting. Nobody in my life ever said that before." - @serialephemera

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The Lifeboat Academy @lifeboatacademy.bsky.social · 4h

Change doesn’t descend. It grows.
#WhenThePeopleRise #Commons #Reciprocity #Farmastery #decolonization

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: "When the people rise from the ground up, the world changes. Top down doesn't work. It’s regular people who always end up doing the most extraordinary things imaginable." — Isaac Murdoch

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Roland Maurice @rolandmau.bsky.social · 2d

There Is No Plan B by Gregg Deal, 2016 (mixed media)
#greggdeal #art #Indigenousidentity #decolonization #socialjustice

Gregg Deal is a Pyramid Lake Paiute street artist and activist.
The piece depicts the United States Capitol Building with the text "THERE IS NO PLAN B" spray-painted over it.
The artwork is part of Deal's body of work that focuses on Indigenous identity, decolonization, and social justice.
The phrase "There Is No Plan B" is often used in the context of climate change activism, suggesting that there is no alternative planet to live on.

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The Lifeboat Academy @lifeboatacademy.bsky.social · 1d

Making trouble doesn’t always mean fighting. Sometimes it’s the quiet labour of care — stirring the waters and rebuilding the calm.
#DonnaHaraway #farmastery #lifeboatacademy #resilience

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent responses to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places.” ― Donna Haraway

The Lifeboat Academy @lifeboatacademy.bsky.social · 2d

“What we need most are saints who are just kind people who do good because it feels right.”

#soilandsoul #collapseaware #metacrisis #farmastery #livingthequestions

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: "You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society." ― Kurt Vonnegut

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The Lifeboat Academy @lifeboatacademy.bsky.social · 3d

Truth lives where our words and actions meet.
#QuietRevolution #LivedTruth #FractalPractice #LifeboatAcademy #metacrisis

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." ― George Orwell

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The Lifeboat Academy @lifeboatacademy.bsky.social · 4d

#adriennemareebrown #artofliving #collapse #metacrisis #bethechange

$A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “In a fractal conception, I am a cell-sized unit of the human organism, and I have to use my life to leverage a shift in the system by how I am, as much as with the things I do. Each day should be lived on purpose.” — adrienne maree brown (excerpt)$

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The Lifeboat Academy @lifeboatacademy.bsky.social · 5d

#davidsuzuki #metacrisis #climateaction #socialjustice #humanrights #rightsofnature #wereallinthistogether

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “We all live downstream.” — David Suzuki

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The Lifeboat Academy @lifeboatacademy.bsky.social · 6d

#robinwallkimmerer #metacrisis #reciprocity #wereallinthistogether #climatejustice #socialjustice #societalcollapse

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together. All flourishing is mutual”. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

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The Lifeboat Academy @lifeboatacademy.bsky.social · 7d

#iansomerhalder #metacrisis #collaboration #climateaction #societalcollapse #reciprocity

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: “Collaboration – the ultimate intertwining of skills, passions, and knowledge – is what concocts the most shatterproof forms of changemaking.”
— Ian Somerhalder

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The Lifeboat Academy @lifeboatacademy.bsky.social · 8d

#lifeboatacademy #metacrisis #mentalhealth #ClimateAction #socialjustice #societalcollapse

A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: When I feel stuck, fearful, or anxious, I'm learning to pause and ask myself, “What do I love more than my fear?”
— R.M., Lifeboat steward

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The Lifeboat Academy @lifeboatacademy.bsky.social · 9d

Bullies, stooges, lackeys… and the rest of us. Everything you need to know about world politics, you learned in elementary school.
#FractalPolitics #StandUpSpeakOut #wereallinthistogether #socialjustice #fightoligarchy