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Natasha G🍂dwin @natashagogo.bsky.social · 15h

Anyway, hope this helps! Keep going 🌿

Natasha G🍂dwin @natashagogo.bsky.social · 15h

Both articulate something I think is important: the social sciences have done an excellent job discouraging creativity and imagination; and in doing so, have handed their ability to shape the future to people who are less qualified and more bold. Hence, now.

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Natasha G🍂dwin @natashagogo.bsky.social · 15h

Found H.G. Well's 1902 Talk "The Discovery of The Future" helpful, too. www.gutenberg.org/files/44867/....

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Discovery of the Future, by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

www.gutenberg.org

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Natasha G🍂dwin @natashagogo.bsky.social · 15h

Geoff Mulgan's work helped me identify why I lost self-confidence and find a way forward. Highly recommend this paper and his book "Another Word Is Possible: Reigniting Social and Political Imagination."

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Possibility space: The role of social sciences in understanding, mapping and shaping the future - Geoff Mulgan, 2023

Social science no longer does enough to map out the possibilities for the future, at a time when there is a serious need for more options. There are many reason...

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Natasha G🍂dwin @natashagogo.bsky.social · 15h

I had this problem after college. A decade later, I'm watching the "dubious" predictions I made in a thesis come true, except I'm not in a position to do anything about it, because I got discouraged from pursuing it further. 2025 has been very painful for me. So, hard-relate to your thread.

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Mackenzie 📖🍵 @mackenziespocket.bsky.social · 1d

This is so well deserved!! LUNAR BOY is so good 🫶🏻❤️

#BookSky 🌈📚🌎📚🪐

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 1d

The #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Comics Team: Jes and Cin Wibowo for LUNAR BOY

2025 Winner Outstanding Comics Team: LUNAR BOY by Jes and Cin Wibowo

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Natasha G🍂dwin @natashagogo.bsky.social · 1d

There's nothing quite like finding a tree with the perfect toehold after a long search. Here's my twenty-minute attempt to capture the experience. #Peachtober2025 #Comics

(Highly recommend Kevin Lucbert's work, btw. Learned a lot about capturing light from him: www.kevinlucbert.com/index.php?/m...)

A three-panel comic drawn in ink.

1. A forest floor, with patches of light hitting the ground.
2. A toe finds the perfect position on a tree for a climb.
3. A woman climbs up the tree.

Sketched by Natasha Godwin on October 12, 2025 for the Peachtober 2025 challenge.

Natasha G🍂dwin @natashagogo.bsky.social · 2d

I've stopped reading pieces by other Americans at this point, at least non-immigrants who don't have any direct experience with radical regime change or economic collapse. Was happy to see this essay published by the Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t

Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed.

www.theatlantic.com

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Adam 🪿 @vexnir.bsky.social · 3d

That’s such a fluffy, sleepy pumpkin 🧡

#art #cozyart #caturday

Watercolor illustration of a bunch of colorful pumpkins, with a beige striped cat sleeping on top of them curled up into a ball, slightly resembling the round pumpkins itself.

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Natasha G🍂dwin @natashagogo.bsky.social · 3d

I'd actually start with the Protestant Reformation and discuss how those values unfolded over time, in relation to economics, science, and technology. But that's only if you want to take a narrative approach.

In terms of concepts: theories of knowledge, mind, growth, and most importantly, time.

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Natasha G🍂dwin @natashagogo.bsky.social · 3d

An Aesop's fable for our time. What a line: "What is sport to you is death to us."

An Aesop's fable called "The Boys and The Frogs":

"Some mischievous Boys were playing on the edge of a pond, and, catching sight of some Frogs swimming about in the shallow water, they began to amuse themselves by pelting them with stones, and they killed several of them. At last one of the Frogs put his head out of the water and said, "Oh, stop! stop! I beg of you: what is sport to you is death to us.""

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 4d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Natasha G🍂dwin @natashagogo.bsky.social · 5d

“Leaf” 🍁 #Peachtober2025

Still hate colored pencils, but experimentation’s worth it 🧚🏻‍♀️

A colored pencil sketch of five types of leaves, including Japanese maple, maple, and magnolia, changing colors during autumn. Drawn by Natasha Godwin on October 8, 2025.

A colored pencil sketch of a woman sitting on a bench, surrounded by falling leaves, and staring at her phone. A telephone booth is beside her, covered in autumn leaves. Drawn by Natasha Godwin on October 8, 2025.

Natasha G🍂dwin @natashagogo.bsky.social · 5d

Omg, this is amazing!!! I've wanted to learn how to dive since finding this National Geographic issue in a tiny library and listening to the companion podcast in 2022. Had a lot of medical to get through first, but I hope to get in the water before year's end or next spring!

A hand holding the March 2023 issue of National Geographic, with Tara Roberts on the cover, waiting in the water under the title "Into The Depths: Searching For Shipwrecks From Slavery's Hidden Past To Help Heal The Present".

Natasha G🍂dwin @natashagogo.bsky.social · 5d

When you see something other people don't, how should you go about developing your ideas? Where do you draw the line between crackpot theory and research-worthy hunch?

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 6d

if you were to teach a class on the pre/history of AI in terms of key concepts ideas, what would they be? the mind/body problem? abstraction vs materialism? history of the database? automation?

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Natasha G🍂dwin @natashagogo.bsky.social · 7d

Had some time to doodle tonight. #Peachtober2025

Line drawings by Natasha Godwin, inspired by the word “ring”: tree rings, rings on fingers, a phone ringing in an apartment, ringlets of hair on a woman reading a book, years pictured as interlocking rings.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 8d

if you'd like to hear my #othernetworks talk and/or gather virtually with likeminded people who are part of @metagov.bsky.social, please join us Wednesday Oct. 8th 10am MDT! luma.com/4kfjgd6a

Seminar: Other Networks with Dr. Lori Emerson · Zoom · Luma

For this seminar, we will welcome Dr. Lori Emerson (from the Media Studies Department at University of Colorado Boulder) to give a talk about some of her…

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Natasha G🍂dwin @natashagogo.bsky.social · 7d

This looks amazing! I hope you offer another session in the spring 🌸

Natasha G🍂dwin @natashagogo.bsky.social · 7d

Beyoncé-Taylor comparisons are so Kanye 2009. You can like both. Or neither. Or one over the other. No need to tear down people’s sanctuaries.

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Natasha G🍂dwin @natashagogo.bsky.social · 7d

How magical 😌✨! Ya’ll are living the dream!

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Natasha G🍂dwin @natashagogo.bsky.social · 8d

It’s raining like it snows today. You can barely see or hear the drops, only feel them.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 8d

Resistance. Refusal. Ridicule. Those are the ingredients to bring down regimes and among them ridicule is arguably the most delicious. The emperor isn't just naked; his goon squad is afraid of an inflatable frog.
Portland is TOO FABULOUS FOR FASCISM.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 9d

wizard frog is insane

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Natasha G🍂dwin @natashagogo.bsky.social · 8d

Peachtober promots from @furrylittlepeach

1. Acorn
2. Kite
3. Slug
4. Gingham
5. Poppy
6. Ring
7. Strawberry
8. Leaf
9. Rope
10. Critter
11. Seagull
12. Bark
13. Marble
14. Brush
15. Aquarium
16. Hatch
17. Whistle
18. Toad
19. Melon
20. Truck
21. Snowflake
22. Web
23. Paper
24. Spots
25. Stripes
26. Bear
27. Axe
28. Button
29. Sour
30. Whisker
31. Ghost

Natasha G🍂dwin @natashagogo.bsky.social · 8d

Joined #Peachtober2025 yesterday. No plans to do it everyday: weekends are enough. Our prompt was “gingham”.

A three-panel comic by Natasha Godwin.

1. Light shines across trees during sundown.
2. Leaves fall toward an orange gingham blanket, where a coffee cup waits to be held.
3. A woman, wrapped in a gingham blanket, reaches for her coffee while gazing at a lake. Her back is facing the viewer.

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