Quaker Mystic
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Quaker Mystic
@jeannemarie.bsky.social
Unabashed Quaker Mystic posting meditation moments, encouraging heart centered, conscious beautiful resistance. I'm all about eco spirituality and how we bring this spirituality into practical action for nature, for babies and elders, in community.
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NorCal peeps, we need lil jolts of joy to keep us going. You will discover these fine lil guys are now available at Luna Sea in Pescadero! These are a perfect mix of love for nature and whimsy. @sleopoldsullivan.bsky.social #art and #environment #soul #fun
These lil guys headed out to California last week! Find them at Luna Sea Gallery in Pescadero CA.

#glassart #mushrooms #bees #lilguys #tinyart #affordableart #mushroomart #beeart
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Beautiful Resistance!
BREAKING: Stephen Colbert just teamed up with Jesse Wells to destroy ICE
YouTube video by Democratic Wins Media
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December 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Can We Stop Our Digital Selves From Becoming Who We Are? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/o...
Opinion | Can We Stop Our Digital Selves From Becoming Who We Are?
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
So happy to spend time with Friends from Co Mayo as we #Rewild the #Light together in retreat and as an introduction to rewilding eco spirituality as well as introducing Mayo Friends to #ExperimentwithLight
December 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Very #ReWilding our Light together aligned!
Such a salient question. Thank-you for the reminder, Manda. And such a lovely chat with Bill Plotkin, an intro to his oeuvre & ecological methods for pursuing a path to becoming an actual elder, summarized in his diagram below.

This glossary is also helping in wrapping one’s mind
December 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Grid bottlenecks aren’t a failure of the energy transition — they’re proof it’s working.

Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.
December 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.
A few important points here

- Generative AI supercharged data centre growth: lobbyist and substacker lines pretending like this is just streaming are false

- Even when you consider much of the projected growth is speculative, the *likely* projects are still MASSIVE

media.licdn.com/dms/document...
December 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Walking the Wicklow Way I found ancient expressions of life side by side with the need for the forest today in our evening and our lives. Difficult questions are before us all but we can explore this tension and the paradox of mutual care.
December 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Propublica’s investigation drew on a report from @biologicaldiversity.org
that shows half of the 2,400 miles of Southwest streams surveyed showed significant damage from livestock grazing in land designated as critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act.

www.propublica.org/article/graz...
December 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I am learning more and more about the amazing Irish Quaker People. Join this December 7 2025 Donegal gathering to learn more as well!
If you are in the Leitrim/ Donegal area you will be really welcome to join us!
November 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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"Transgender Day of Remembrance is a day of mourning and is a call to action. Too many of our siblings face danger, rejection, and loneliness simply for being who God created them to be. Today, we say clearly: You are loved. You belong. We will walk with you."
Friends General Conference Stands with Transgender People on Transgender Day of Remembrance - Friends General Conference
FGC honors Transgender Day of Remembrance, to lift up lost lives and affirm dignity and safety for all trans, intersex, and nonbinary people.
www.fgcquaker.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Trump released a nightmarish offshore oil drilling plan.😡

“I’m confident that Americans across the political spectrum will come together to fight Trump’s plan to smear toxic crude across our beaches & oceans,” said @biologicaldiversity.org attorney Kristen Monsell.

www.eenews.net/articles/int...
Interior proposes massive offshore leasing expansion
The schedule of lease sales proposed Thursday would allow new oil and gas drilling near California and Florida.
www.eenews.net
November 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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It says a lot about our new President that one of her first public events was with @antaisce.bsky.social to highlight our climate challenge and the need for climate justice 👏

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Moral duty ‘to act now’ on climate change for future generations, says Catherine Connolly
Figures of possible fines of between €8bn and €26bn for breaching emissions targets ‘incredible’, President says
www.irishtimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Yep
And to grow into participants in these communities we need a watershed change in consciousness.
All (climate) COPs are bastards.

I've been threatening to write this for years. Here it finally is.

"Just as communities, acting together in concert for common security, can make the cops obsolete, a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."
All (climate) COPs Are B*stards
On the need to "Defund the COPs" The ACAB slogan has always jarred with me somewhat. I understand (and respect) it as a systemic critique, intended to reveal that it's impossible for any individual,...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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This collection of humans represent the 25 states of the US Climate Alliance. They're probably smiling so much because together they have cut emissions 24% while growing GDP 34%. Collectively they also represent over half of America’s population and 60% of its economy.

https://f.mtr.cool/sdfxtxlkmt
November 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Hmmmm Hate to burst your bubble but...
November 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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"every year, bottom trawling releases 370 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere"

www.euractiv.com/opinion/the-...
The hidden deforestation beneath the waves | Euractiv
Tackling the carbon emissions of bottom trawling is a fast and effective way to forestall climate change while protecting our precious marine ecosystems. But despite the minimal returns, governments across Europe keep subsidising the practice
www.euractiv.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Walking the BallyArr Wood in Co. Donegal, IE, prompted a deeper exploration into the history of this place. The thin veneer of peace peels away to reveal the years and years of occupation. The land speaks....
#LandSpeaks #WatershedWays #Rewild #history
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

More and more attention is centered on the wisdom ways of first peoples. More thought full ways of knowing and being, thoughtful ways of action and thoughtful perspectives on the future.
Less arguing, more action: will Brazil’s unorthodox approach to Cop30 work?
Host uses Indigenous concepts and changes agenda to help delegates agree on ways to meet existing climate goals
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Post Election Day ritual-walk in the urban #wilderness for #authentic mudd slinging! This is way more #fun than hand wringing over political tussles!
November 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Oh my people! We need to step away from the brink of violence. Prayers for the innocents!
Turning Point USA continues to carry on the sainted work of Charlie Kirk by singling out innocent high school teachers for death threats.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Nov 4
Math teachers at Cienega High School in Arizona are facing death threats and calls that they be fired after a Turning Point USA employee falsely accused them of wearing Halloween costumes mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
November 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM