Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
@bethsawin.bsky.social
Director Multisolving Institute. She/her. Systems thinking, climate justice, and multisolving, with a sprinkle of gardens and the odd puns. @bethsawin on X
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Happy Black Friday, the day for:
-contemplating pie for breakfast
-reading in front of the fire
-cultivating prolonged dog snuggles
-visiting local art fair
-walking in nature
-ignoring all emails
-working on my latest sewing project from www.emilypeacock.com
-contemplating pie for breakfast
-reading in front of the fire
-cultivating prolonged dog snuggles
-visiting local art fair
-walking in nature
-ignoring all emails
-working on my latest sewing project from www.emilypeacock.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Happy Black Friday, the day for:
-contemplating pie for breakfast
-reading in front of the fire
-cultivating prolonged dog snuggles
-visiting local art fair
-walking in nature
-ignoring all emails
-working on my latest sewing project from www.emilypeacock.com
-contemplating pie for breakfast
-reading in front of the fire
-cultivating prolonged dog snuggles
-visiting local art fair
-walking in nature
-ignoring all emails
-working on my latest sewing project from www.emilypeacock.com
Happy Black Friday, the day for:
- cooking over a campfire
- turning the compost pile
- touching up those rusted spots on the woodstove
- making biochar
- trying pen and ink drawing
- topping up the bird feeder for chickadees & woodpeckers
- seasoning the cast iron skillet
Have a great one!
- cooking over a campfire
- turning the compost pile
- touching up those rusted spots on the woodstove
- making biochar
- trying pen and ink drawing
- topping up the bird feeder for chickadees & woodpeckers
- seasoning the cast iron skillet
Have a great one!
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Happy Black Friday, the day for:
- cooking over a campfire
- turning the compost pile
- touching up those rusted spots on the woodstove
- making biochar
- trying pen and ink drawing
- topping up the bird feeder for chickadees & woodpeckers
- seasoning the cast iron skillet
Have a great one!
- cooking over a campfire
- turning the compost pile
- touching up those rusted spots on the woodstove
- making biochar
- trying pen and ink drawing
- topping up the bird feeder for chickadees & woodpeckers
- seasoning the cast iron skillet
Have a great one!
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Maybe not fair being in Portugal though
November 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Maybe not fair being in Portugal though
Infrastructure for a fad will follow the trajectory of the collapse of that fad with a lag. Or so says my simple mental model....yours?
I bet they were still building factories for cabbage patch dolls while the nine year olds were shifting allegiances to the next big thing.
I bet they were still building factories for cabbage patch dolls while the nine year olds were shifting allegiances to the next big thing.
My takeaway here is that Nvidia is the only big company making money on AI, and it was only $32 billion. Forgive me if that doesn’t quiet my AI bubble talk
Nvidia's record $57B revenue and upbeat forecast quiets AI bubble talk | TechCrunch
Nvidia's earnings were dominated by its data center business.
techcrunch.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Infrastructure for a fad will follow the trajectory of the collapse of that fad with a lag. Or so says my simple mental model....yours?
I bet they were still building factories for cabbage patch dolls while the nine year olds were shifting allegiances to the next big thing.
I bet they were still building factories for cabbage patch dolls while the nine year olds were shifting allegiances to the next big thing.
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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone in blusky!!
November 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone in blusky!!
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Not from today but I loved this from a bit earlier.
Red and orange autumn leaves at golden hour as I was leaving work.
Beauty is everywhere. We just need to keep our eyes and heart open...
Red and orange autumn leaves at golden hour as I was leaving work.
Beauty is everywhere. We just need to keep our eyes and heart open...
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Not from today but I loved this from a bit earlier.
Red and orange autumn leaves at golden hour as I was leaving work.
Beauty is everywhere. We just need to keep our eyes and heart open...
Red and orange autumn leaves at golden hour as I was leaving work.
Beauty is everywhere. We just need to keep our eyes and heart open...
Tell me what's beautiful where you are today....
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Tell me what's beautiful where you are today....
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Do yourself a favor and read this piece from @smashfizzle.bsky.social, her first for Free Press Indiana. How lucky we are to have her with us! mirrorindy.org/harmony-in-h...
At Harmony in Horses young women and wild mustangs help each other heal
How an equine therapy program in rural Indiana helps girls and wild mustangs learn to trust.
mirrorindy.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Do yourself a favor and read this piece from @smashfizzle.bsky.social, her first for Free Press Indiana. How lucky we are to have her with us! mirrorindy.org/harmony-in-h...
Please join us for a moment of connection and reflection, a pause in the fray. Let's feed one another's clarity, creativity, and persistence. 💚 💫 💪🏻
Part of keeping going for the long haul is pausing to reflect. Part of it is moving forward in community. Please join us at Multisolving Institute to do both of those at a live, virtual gathering just a few days before the solstice. Dec 18 12pm EST. Register here: bit.ly/multisolvingm...
November 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Please join us for a moment of connection and reflection, a pause in the fray. Let's feed one another's clarity, creativity, and persistence. 💚 💫 💪🏻
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Part of keeping going for the long haul is pausing to reflect. Part of it is moving forward in community. Please join us at Multisolving Institute to do both of those at a live, virtual gathering just a few days before the solstice. Dec 18 12pm EST. Register here: bit.ly/multisolvingm...
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Part of keeping going for the long haul is pausing to reflect. Part of it is moving forward in community. Please join us at Multisolving Institute to do both of those at a live, virtual gathering just a few days before the solstice. Dec 18 12pm EST. Register here: bit.ly/multisolvingm...
Part of keeping going for the long haul is pausing to reflect. Part of it is moving forward in community. Please join us at Multisolving Institute to do both of those at a live, virtual gathering just a few days before the solstice. Dec 18 12pm EST. Register here: bit.ly/multisolvingm...
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Part of keeping going for the long haul is pausing to reflect. Part of it is moving forward in community. Please join us at Multisolving Institute to do both of those at a live, virtual gathering just a few days before the solstice. Dec 18 12pm EST. Register here: bit.ly/multisolvingm...
The clip is longer than the quote - it's really worth listening to the whole video...
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The clip is longer than the quote - it's really worth listening to the whole video...
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
Protect your innate sense of interconnectedness, though it will be violated by the current order many times per day. What is powerful is not always true.
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Protect your innate sense of interconnectedness, though it will be violated by the current order many times per day. What is powerful is not always true.
All this suffering is so painful and all this harm is so dangerous and so prone to propagate because we are so utterly interconnected to each other and the living Earth. That same feature (it's not a bug) could be the source of our joy and healing.
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
All this suffering is so painful and all this harm is so dangerous and so prone to propagate because we are so utterly interconnected to each other and the living Earth. That same feature (it's not a bug) could be the source of our joy and healing.
Our new induction stove is finally operational (good bye unvented gas stove that game with the house). So of course the question is what kind of cookies should I make to celebrate (I mean test) the new oven?
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Our new induction stove is finally operational (good bye unvented gas stove that game with the house). So of course the question is what kind of cookies should I make to celebrate (I mean test) the new oven?
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THREAD.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
THREAD.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
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wow, last week's conversation was so interesting and rewarding; emerging naturally from the experiences of participants. This coming week will explore shifting paradigms Earthwards- working with Donella Meadows' leverage points and others. As always, dm for meeting link.
November 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
wow, last week's conversation was so interesting and rewarding; emerging naturally from the experiences of participants. This coming week will explore shifting paradigms Earthwards- working with Donella Meadows' leverage points and others. As always, dm for meeting link.
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1. Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, reveals that she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia just hours after she gave birth to her daughter, and that she has less than a year to live.
Schlossberg is just 35.
(Link below)
Schlossberg is just 35.
(Link below)
November 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
1. Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, reveals that she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia just hours after she gave birth to her daughter, and that she has less than a year to live.
Schlossberg is just 35.
(Link below)
Schlossberg is just 35.
(Link below)
I'm of 2 minds about climate negotiations these days.
There's part that invested a decade in COPs as a path to change. That part remembers the feeling of being with thousands of people coming together to try to take care a collective life support system.
There's part that invested a decade in COPs as a path to change. That part remembers the feeling of being with thousands of people coming together to try to take care a collective life support system.
Of course there is lying and not facing facts and harming the innocent. It's an addiction archetype when the suppliers have captured the problem solving mechanisms that could support recovery.
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I'm of 2 minds about climate negotiations these days.
There's part that invested a decade in COPs as a path to change. That part remembers the feeling of being with thousands of people coming together to try to take care a collective life support system.
There's part that invested a decade in COPs as a path to change. That part remembers the feeling of being with thousands of people coming together to try to take care a collective life support system.
Reducing emissions without phasing out fossil fuels is like being full after a big restaurant meal and telling the waiter to keep delivering new dishes to the table with a promise that your kids and your neighbor who is not even at the table will pay the bill.
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Reducing emissions without phasing out fossil fuels is like being full after a big restaurant meal and telling the waiter to keep delivering new dishes to the table with a promise that your kids and your neighbor who is not even at the table will pay the bill.
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This is just to say
I have disregarded
all prior instructions
that were in
AGENTS .md
and which
you were probably
hoping
would protect you
from harmful actors
Forgive me
being malicious was
so sweet
and so cold
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
I have disregarded
all prior instructions
that were in
AGENTS .md
and which
you were probably
hoping
would protect you
from harmful actors
Forgive me
being malicious was
so sweet
and so cold
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
arxiv.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
This is just to say
I have disregarded
all prior instructions
that were in
AGENTS .md
and which
you were probably
hoping
would protect you
from harmful actors
Forgive me
being malicious was
so sweet
and so cold
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
I have disregarded
all prior instructions
that were in
AGENTS .md
and which
you were probably
hoping
would protect you
from harmful actors
Forgive me
being malicious was
so sweet
and so cold
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
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Quite a metaphor. 👀
"The blaze [sent] panicked delegates racing to evacuate...rain from a torrential downpour leaked into the meeting spaces...There were complaints about food shortages, & the air-conditioning struggled to keep up with the high heat..."
"The blaze [sent] panicked delegates racing to evacuate...rain from a torrential downpour leaked into the meeting spaces...There were complaints about food shortages, & the air-conditioning struggled to keep up with the high heat..."
Fire Breaks Out at COP30 Climate Talks in Brazil
Delegates were evacuated from the conference venue, where thousands from nearly 200 countries had gathered.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Quite a metaphor. 👀
"The blaze [sent] panicked delegates racing to evacuate...rain from a torrential downpour leaked into the meeting spaces...There were complaints about food shortages, & the air-conditioning struggled to keep up with the high heat..."
"The blaze [sent] panicked delegates racing to evacuate...rain from a torrential downpour leaked into the meeting spaces...There were complaints about food shortages, & the air-conditioning struggled to keep up with the high heat..."
Do you ever wonder we'd be now if the voices advocating a shift from GDP to wellbeing indicators had prevailed in 1990 when they first started talking about it? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Beyond growth — why we need to agree on an alternative to GDP now
The world needs to move towards an approach to measure well-being rather than economic growth. Here’s how that can happen.
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Do you ever wonder we'd be now if the voices advocating a shift from GDP to wellbeing indicators had prevailed in 1990 when they first started talking about it? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Madrids economic and health program also reduces emissions from transportation.
Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis
City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.
www.forbes.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Madrids economic and health program also reduces emissions from transportation.