Margieadams
@madams08.bsky.social
I care about the world and all its people. I do art things, read and grow vegetables.
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A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms
Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:50 AM
A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Late afternoon…seedheads
September 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Late afternoon…seedheads
Another interesting post shared by RS….all I ever read was that young men were weakened by WW1 but this explains much more.
"A significant biological explanation for high mortality among young adults in 1918 involves a “cytokine storm.” This occurs when the body’s immune system, in its effort to combat a pathogen, mounts an excessively strong and uncontrolled inflammatory response."
What Caused the 1918 Flu to Affect Young Adults Most?
Explore the puzzling reasons why the 1918 flu disproportionately affected healthy young adults, delving into both biological and circumstantial factors.
biologyinsights.com
August 31, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Another interesting post shared by RS….all I ever read was that young men were weakened by WW1 but this explains much more.
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"A significant biological explanation for high mortality among young adults in 1918 involves a “cytokine storm.” This occurs when the body’s immune system, in its effort to combat a pathogen, mounts an excessively strong and uncontrolled inflammatory response."
What Caused the 1918 Flu to Affect Young Adults Most?
Explore the puzzling reasons why the 1918 flu disproportionately affected healthy young adults, delving into both biological and circumstantial factors.
biologyinsights.com
August 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"A significant biological explanation for high mortality among young adults in 1918 involves a “cytokine storm.” This occurs when the body’s immune system, in its effort to combat a pathogen, mounts an excessively strong and uncontrolled inflammatory response."
Lovely post…everything in perspective from RS, as usual
Had a fun time writing about bread and circuses vs. bread and roses and whether in crises we're allowed to have fun. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/circuses-vs-...
Circuses vs. Roses: Notes on Pleasure and Scold Culture
Someone made this extra-grumpy meme about the fact that football player and podcaster Travis Kelce proposed to pop superstar Taylor Swift and now they're engaged, or rather about the fact that of cour...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Lovely post…everything in perspective from RS, as usual
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Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
August 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
What to do when you get up in the morning…
‘American greatness has produced a society whose members know not what to do with the freedom and abundance earlier generations secured. We are now witnessing the squandering of this inheritance and it is even more idiotic and vulgar than anyone would expect.’ www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...
The West is bored to death
Our nihilistic politics are a product of the crushing ennui and spiritual vacancy of modern life.
www.newstatesman.com
August 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
What to do when you get up in the morning…
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Wonderful to see my friends @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social and @sunaura.bsky.social in the same paragraph in this essay drawing from both their recent books.....
If rivers can be legal persons, then surely they are queer and disabled.
Flow like the San Juan - High Country News
If western rivers have been recognized as legal persons, they must be queer and disabled persons.
buff.ly
August 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Wonderful to see my friends @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social and @sunaura.bsky.social in the same paragraph in this essay drawing from both their recent books.....
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1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...
The Renewable Illusion: Why Fossil Fuels Keep Winning
Global renewables hit records in 2024, but fossil fuel use still rises. Here’s why solar’s surge isn’t enough—and what the latest energy data really shows.
www.forbes.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:13 AM
1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...
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An energy revolution is underway in this century, though it’s unfolded in ways slow enough and technical enough for most people not to notice (and I assume it’s nowhere near finished). It is astonishing – a powerful solution to the climate crisis... [Wrote it a while ago; came out yesterday.]
The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology | Rebecca Solnit
An energy revolution is underway in this century, though most people have not noticed it
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
An energy revolution is underway in this century, though it’s unfolded in ways slow enough and technical enough for most people not to notice (and I assume it’s nowhere near finished). It is astonishing – a powerful solution to the climate crisis... [Wrote it a while ago; came out yesterday.]
….and everything else is hope
youtu.be/7yngZU-W2zk?...
youtu.be/7yngZU-W2zk?...
Rebecca Solnit - Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
YouTube video by Bioneers
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July 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM
….and everything else is hope
youtu.be/7yngZU-W2zk?...
youtu.be/7yngZU-W2zk?...
A walk up the coast…
July 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
A walk up the coast…
World’s highest court delivers historic protection for our world’s future
THIS IS VERY EXCITING! HUGE THANKS TO THE LAW STUDENTS OF VANUATU, JULIAN AGUON, BLUE OCEAN LAW, AND EVERYONE ELSE WHO WORKED ON IT.
Huge news from the International Court of Justice in the Hague – the start of a new era of climate accountability
The court confirms that states are obliged to act on the climate crisis, and that the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is fundamental for all other human rights
The court confirms that states are obliged to act on the climate crisis, and that the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is fundamental for all other human rights
July 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
World’s highest court delivers historic protection for our world’s future
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First they rewrite the past.
Then they sell off the future.
The NHS is next
From The Bear
Then they sell off the future.
The NHS is next
From The Bear
Here’s how the Right is softening you up to sell off the NHS
First they rewrite the past. Then they sell off the future. The NHS is next
eastangliabylines.co.uk
July 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
First they rewrite the past.
Then they sell off the future.
The NHS is next
From The Bear
Then they sell off the future.
The NHS is next
From The Bear
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Written this morning. I once noted, "Dante had Beatrice. Orwell had Stalin." Negative muses are a thing. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cynicism-is-...
Cynicism Is the Enemy of Action
We have distant enemies, the enemies of truth, justice, human rights, and environmental protection, and they are easy to recognize and oppose. We also have near enemies, the cynics and defeatists amon...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
July 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Written this morning. I once noted, "Dante had Beatrice. Orwell had Stalin." Negative muses are a thing. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cynicism-is-...
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What he said, and amen to it.
After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.
The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.
www.forkingpaths.co
June 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
What he said, and amen to it.
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The government's Crime and Policing Bill is at Report Stage in the House of Commons. Yet scarcely anyone is alert to the implications of Sections 114 & 115, which (as everywhere's close to a place of worship), greatly increase police powers to shut down protest. Please tell MPs and friendly peers.
June 19, 2025 at 6:03 AM
The government's Crime and Policing Bill is at Report Stage in the House of Commons. Yet scarcely anyone is alert to the implications of Sections 114 & 115, which (as everywhere's close to a place of worship), greatly increase police powers to shut down protest. Please tell MPs and friendly peers.
A problem we don’t even know we have! @georgemonbiot.bluesky.social
Deserts are spreading across Britain, yet scarcely anyone in public life even seems to have noticed. This week's column seeks to open our eyes to something that has been too big to see. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There’s an invader turning huge swathes of Britain into deserts – and these dead zones are spreading | George Monbiot
Vast areas of land are now dominated by one species – purple moor-grass – and good luck with seeing a bird or insect there. How do we revive these habitats, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:12 AM
A problem we don’t even know we have! @georgemonbiot.bluesky.social
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The magic of moss and what attention to it teaches us about the art of attentiveness to life itself www.themarginalian.org/2015/05/13/g...
The Magic of Moss and What It Teaches Us About the Art of Attentiveness to Life at All Scales
“Life [exists] only because of a myriad of synchronicities that bring us to this particular place at this particular moment. In return for such a gift, the only sane response is to glitter in…
www.themarginalian.org
May 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The magic of moss and what attention to it teaches us about the art of attentiveness to life itself www.themarginalian.org/2015/05/13/g...
If you sea this post a beach photo from your phone
May 14, 2025 at 6:55 AM
If you sea this post a beach photo from your phone
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everyone's said pretty much all there is to be said on the 'island of strangers'/'incalculable damage' stuff, so just sharing this by a migrant care worker on how it feels to hear yourself discussed like this while looking after people's loved ones www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Opinion: Migrant workers prop up the UK’s social care system. Now…
Labour’s crackdown will break a promise made to workers like me – and leave the system in disrepair
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
May 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
everyone's said pretty much all there is to be said on the 'island of strangers'/'incalculable damage' stuff, so just sharing this by a migrant care worker on how it feels to hear yourself discussed like this while looking after people's loved ones www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
The most interesting guided visited to the beaver enclosure and the Hartburn, a tributary of the Wansbeck, by Heather from Wild Intrigue #robertmacfarlane
May 2, 2025 at 6:24 AM
The most interesting guided visited to the beaver enclosure and the Hartburn, a tributary of the Wansbeck, by Heather from Wild Intrigue #robertmacfarlane
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Congrats to @theguardian.com for co-launching the #89PercentProject - reminding us yet again that vast majority of world’s people want climate action. The climate denial of the populist right is the minority. The media needs to reflect this & governments urgently need to show far greater leadership
Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Congrats to @theguardian.com for co-launching the #89PercentProject - reminding us yet again that vast majority of world’s people want climate action. The climate denial of the populist right is the minority. The media needs to reflect this & governments urgently need to show far greater leadership
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One of the most powerful forces in politics is the urge to destroy that from which you are excluded. This is why, in the highly unequal US, support for Trump holds up even as he trashes everything that makes a good society. Equality is key to preventing fascism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot
Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:42 AM
One of the most powerful forces in politics is the urge to destroy that from which you are excluded. This is why, in the highly unequal US, support for Trump holds up even as he trashes everything that makes a good society. Equality is key to preventing fascism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...