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mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social · Aug 18

In this Great Transformation where the only certainty is uncertainty, what happens if we who yearn to be Good Ancestors began really to speak the quiet part out loud?

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#AccidentalGods #Podcast w Jamie Bristow

#RadicalCompassion
#Mindfulness

Becoming Spiritual Warriors: exploring a politics of radical Compassion with Jamie Bristow

In a world of turmoil where the only certainty is uncertainty, what happens if we who yearn for a future we'd be proud to leave behind began really to speak the quiet part out loud? What happens if we...

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 29m

oh wow they are who we knew they were

Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 33m

"They referred to Black people as monkeys and 'the watermelon people' and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery."

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social · Aug 19

How do we Outgrow the death cult of #Modernity – opening the doors to a future we’d be proud to leave to the generations yet unborn?

accidentalgods.life/co-evolving-

#Accidentalgods #Podcast with Tim Logan
#OutgrowingModernity - Vanessa Andreotti's new #book

OUT NOW!

#BooksofBlueSky #Thrutopia

Co-Evolving Humanity: Outgrowing Modernity with Vanessa and Giovanna Andreotti – and Tim Logan

How do we Outgrow the death cult of Modernity - opening the doors to a future we’d be proud to leave to the generations yet unborn?

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mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social · Aug 20

How can we shift the global narrative from one of extraction, consumption, fear and threat to a #Thrutopian one of co-creating a world we'd be proud to leave as our legacy?

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#AccidentalGods #Podcast

#Thrutopia
#ThrutopianFutures

Popshift: Changing the global Narrative on all our screens with Romain Vakilitabar of Pathos Labs

We are a storied species: Everything we do arises from the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves and each other and our relationship with the web of life. How do we create visions o...

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mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social · Aug 27

How do we become Good Relatives - to the land, the Web of Life, each other... ourselves?

How do we heal the predations of the Trauma Culture and rediscover the confidence and connection of Initiation Culture?

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#accidentalgods
#podcast

Dreams as a Way of Life - Becoming a Good Relative with author Hilary Giovale

Our Trauma Culture has spread across the globe with terrifying speed and ghastly efficiency. But the tide is turning and people of good heart in many nations are beginning to understand that what we ...

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mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social · 1h

We've just hit our first planetary tipping point

hit it

crossed it

beyond it

no going back

Don't let anyone tell you there's time to mess about

because there isn't

www.oceanrising.co/p/breaking-n...

Breaking News: Our planet has hit its first climate tipping point

Coral reefs are dying beyond recovery

www.oceanrising.co

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mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social · Sep 5

How do we #hospice the old system — become #deathdoula to the dying — AND support the #soul #Initiation of the incoming, generative system where we grow into elders instead of languishing in perpetual adolescence?

accidentalgods.life/the-crisis-a

#Accidentalgods #podcast
#Shamanism #spirituality

The Crisis and the Call: Journeys through Species-Wide Soul Initiation with Sara McFarland

As the old system is splitting apart, a few brave souls are already working to hospice this old system, acting as Death Doulas to the Great Dying—as well as helping people to awaken the seeds of a new...

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Cuesta Abajo @bajandoelpico.bsky.social · Sep 6

For more inspiring and uplifting ideas on water, the best I have found is the episode on the River Dôn Project in #AccidentalGods with @mandascott.bsky.social and @jonnydouglas.bsky.social

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mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social · Jul 23

How can we re-forge communities of place, passion & purpose?

The River Dôn Project in #Sheffield is #Bioregionalism in action: #AI & digital mapping to curate care for the river.

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#AccidentalGods #Podcast w @jonnydouglas.bsky.social of @weareopus.bsky.social

Be like Water: Becoming Nature Again with the River Dôn Project and Jonny Douglas

Clean Water is part of our heritage and a basic Right of being alive. We should be able to drink from our river, swim in our seas. This week we explore the River Dôn Project which is working to create...

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mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social · Sep 14

How do we move beyond the predations of the capitalist death cult to a way of sharing, storing and accounting for value that serves a flourishing community on a thriving planet?

accidentalgods.life/step-by-radi

#accidentalgods #podcast
#economics
#modernmonetarytheory
#changeiscoming

Step by Radical Step: The Route to a Flourishing New Economy with Colleen Schneider

Our western (Trauma Culture) economies run on two falsehoods - we might go so far as to call them lies. Our guest this week is someone particularly well positioned to debunk these and show how how mon...

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mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social · 27d

Our Trauma Culture (per Frances Weller) has long posited that humanity is the only conscious species.

In his elegant book - and this podcast - Dr James Cooke explains why all life is conscious

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#AccidentalGods #Podcast
#BooksofBlueSky
#DawnofMind
#Consciousness

A Dawning Mind: Exploring the science of spirituality with Dr James Cooke

Why are we here? How do we think? What is the nature of life? What are the boundaries between ourselves and the rest of the living web—between ourselves and the rest of the universe across space and t...

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mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social · 20d

How do the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves, each other and our place in the web of life shape our world?

How can we craft narratives that can shift the way we see and experience the world?

accidentalgods.life/the-magic-in...

#AccidentalGods #Podcast
#Thrutopia

The Magic in the Tales we Tell: Living new Stories in Service to Life with Paddy Loughman

How do the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves, each other and our place in the web of life shape our world? How can we craft narratives that shift the way we see and experience t...

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tomwellborn3rd @patriotprogressive.bsky.social · 7h

Cash-for-deportation on minors: ICE pitched stipends up to $2500 for unaccompanied teens, prompting a legal mobilization. DHS denied the code name but affirmed the payout. Critics warn coerced decisions and compounded trauma for vulnerable kids.

'Freaky Friday': How 'insane' Trump plan to 'bribe' kids mobilized fight

When tips started coming on Oct. 2, warning that the Trump administration was planning to offer financial incentives for unaccompanied immigrant children as young as 14 to self-deport, hundreds of immigration lawyers and advocates gathered on a call.Their aim was to figure out how to protect vulnera...

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mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social · 3d

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?

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#accidentalgods #Podcast
#biomimicry
#WritersofBlueSky

Of Beetles' wings and Brittlestars: using Biomimicry to co-create a flourishing future with Michael Pawlyn

What is humanity for? What happens if we rethink not just the way we plan buildings, but our entire role as beings on a living planet? These are the central questions driving Michael Pawlyn's third ...

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mandascott.bsky.social @mandascott.bsky.social · 10d

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?

accidentalgods.life/let-the-wild

#accidentalgods #podcast
#spirituality
#BooksofBlueSky
#WritersofBlueSky
#Books
#Writers
@tamsintheshed.bsky.social

Let the Wild Gods Rise! Bridging Between the Worlds with Jackie Morris and Tamsin Abbott

Let the Wild Gods Rise. 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? ...

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 10h

The World Transformed showed that top-down gatekeeping of our movement is over

The emergence of new, younger leaders in the form of Zack Polanski and Zarah Sultana summed up this year's The World Transformed: Gen-Z and Millennials will no longer be locked out.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

The World Transformed showed that top-down gatekeeping of our movement is over

The emergence of new, younger leaders in the form of Zack Polanski and Zarah Sultana summed up this year's The World Transformed

www.thecanary.co

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 1d

In case you missed it ...
We never had a ref to leave the Single Market. So we wouldn't need one to rejoin it. You can be in the Single Market without being in the EU. Leaving the Single Market was therefore a POLITICAL decision made by a previous government. Later governments are not bound by it.

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 10h

NEW💥: In breach of parliamentary rules: Reform UK’s Richard Tice...

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/13/r...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h

3) This thing is such a clusterfuck it threatens to implicate the entire DC USAO, from Juicebox Jeanine on down.

I've long been of the belief that criminal discovery will sink these political prosecutions. But the clusterfuck here surprises even me.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h

Understand the background to this case.
1) Reid was arrested for what the FBI agent, who also called Reid a "libtard" said was a boo boo. They tried to charge her with felony assault.
2) That was no billed. So they decided to go ahead w/misdemeanor assault.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11h

Here's what prosecutors--PROSECUTORS!!!--said last week about why they had not given Sydney Reid video to her alleged assault of an FBI agent.

She's seeking to get her case thrown out before it goes to trial this week.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

There can be little doubt that the government failed in its duties, first by failing to collect
contemporaneous statements and other information from the officers from the incident and then
by neglecting to supervise the collection of that information, by relying on the officers’ conclusion
as to what is relevant and not relevant. Still, the government persists in trying to blame the defense.
Even at the hearing, the government deflected blame: “The ambiguity, I think, that arises here is
that we are trying to construct a very mundane incident three months after it happened involving,
I guess for lack of a better word, middle-aged people who just aren't great with technology, just
like everyone else in this courtroom.” Tr. at 10/10/25 at 14

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10h

'They make a desert and call it peace' is a historian's soundbite that has resonated for two thousand years. It was an early effort in what we might call "perspective taking" as the son-in-law of the Roman general gave voice to the opponents of imperial conquest
www.easterneye.biz/uk-communiti...

Comment: The echoes of Gaza and the fault lines of Britain

This ceasefire brings relief after two years of devastating pain.

www.easterneye.biz

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h

Libby, Blagojevich, and Kiriakou are Fitz's cases, the latter in EDVA.

Manafort, of course, was Mueller and McDonnell was supervised by Jack Smith.

So a tidy way of saying the loaner AUSAs are treating Comey more harshly than the prosecutions Trump is trying to avenge.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h

Judge Nachmanoff has adopted Jim Comey's preferred protective order over the one the loaner AUSAs proposed (which would have required Comey have babysitters to access his own discovery).

He also included this footnote.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Reclaim Finance @reclaimfinance.org · 10h

⛔ Coal transition offsets (CTO) to finance the early retirement of coal plants cannot guarantee emissions cuts, and even risk an increase in global emissions, according to the new analysis we publish today with the Center for Energy, Ecology and Development (CEED) in the Philippines.

Our report ⬇️

Plans to use carbon offsets to retire coal power plants risk increasing emissions - Reclaim Finance

Proposals to use coal offsets to finance the early retirement of coal power plants in Asia cannot guarantee emissions cuts, and risk an increase in global emissions.

reclaimfinance.org

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Darren and Benny 🙏🌍💚 @mrmoog.bsky.social · 10h

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11h

Many on the right will try and belittle and undermine what’s happening.

But here’s the truth. Tens of thousands are joining Greens. Polls are at record highs. People are just starting to feel hope again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The truth about the green party's booming membership

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