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mandascott.bsky.social
@mandascott.bsky.social
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Novelist: ANY HUMAN POWER Mytho-political thriller. Also Boudica: Dreaming
Podcaster @AccidentalGods
(R)Evolutionary Economist, Regenerative Smallholder
#Thrutopian narratives: toward a future we'd be proud to leave behind
#Shropshire
#LBTQIAA+ #Writer
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New additions to my (stupidly tall) #Book TBR pile

#BooksofBlueSky
#Reading
#Writers
Two books side by side on the left, 'THE RADICAL PATH OF SOMATIC DHARMA' by Will Johnson on the right, 'REIMAGINING CAPITALISM' by Rebeccas Henderson
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
mandascott.bsky.social
naahhhhh

cats have priority.

😂

(besides - it's cold out here...)
Image of 15 week old dark red- brindle lurcher pup in a snowy field, facing camera, ears half up.
November 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Essential reading

journalijecc.com/index.php/IJ...

#COP30
#ClimateChaos
#OceanDeath
November 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
mandascott.bsky.social
#Reading for the week:

#booksofBlueSky
#economics
#ecocivilisation
#RegenerativeFuture
#weboflife
Two books side by side. on the left, 'Cocreating with a living intelligent Earth: Pathways towards kincentric leadership' by Jusine Afra Huxley and Anna Kavasna on the right Protocols for Postcapitalist Expression by Dick Bryan, Jorge Lopes and Aksell Virtanen
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
mandascott.bsky.social
Quiet Sunday Afternoon...

#CatsofBlueSky
#DogsofBlueSky
November 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
mandascott.bsky.social
Cool how the weather is *always* our fault, eh?

Beautiful cats, though.

Mine are pretending not to notice the pup...

#CatsofBlueSky
#DogsofBlueSky

#DomesticHarmonyRules
A brown classic tabby Maine Coon and a silver blue tabby Maine Coon lie in front of a lit log burner, either side of an 11 week old red brindle lurcher pup who is staring longingly at a twitching tail...
October 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
mandascott.bsky.social
So this morning, we remember that pupster doesn't know about clocks going back - so the 7am wake-up call (following the midnight and 4am wake-up calls) was, in fact at the new time of 6 o'clock...

Who me?

#DogsofBlueSky
#PuppySunday
October 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
mandascott.bsky.social
Indeed.
White block capital text on a black background: END ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION OF WESTMINSTER
October 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
mandascott.bsky.social
This from @jules.su (found it on FB)
A meme with a background of a campfire in a forest and white text on the dark ground saying: America does not have a far left movement. our far right are fascists our centre-right are extremist nationalist. our centre-left are classical conservatives our far left are moral centrist modreates Any objective political compass would place politicians like Sanders or Warren barely left of center. a real far-leftist movement would be advocating for force property seizure by the working class instead our far-left is like 'don't let people die in medical poverty, please'
October 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
mandascott.bsky.social
peaceful #puppy moment

#DogsofBlueSky
#PupsofBlueSky
#DogSunday
An 11 week old red brindle lurcher pup lies on a cushion besides a beautiful gnarled wood doorstop
October 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Solidarity in Resistance

#NoKings
Text from Sara Whitmer "I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to pring this week contianed criticism of the Whitten regime and IU's further slide into Fscist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, the Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it goether. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
October 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
mandascott.bsky.social
Yup
Tweet from @DavidMerrill21 Galbraith, when asked about neoliberalism: "Austerity is a theology, not a solution. It masks, in every case, an ulterior agenda which is not to 'fix' the functioning of the economy but to strengthen the predator classes at the expsnse of the working and retired populations."
October 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Raising you a Proof of Pup...
10 week old red brindle lurcher puppy sitting on a cushion looking up at the camera
October 16, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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#PuppySpam

Because we can

#DogsofBlueSky
11 week old red brindle lurcher pup lying on a blanket next to a toy.
October 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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River-cat (Maine Coon) totally *not* ceding lap space to the new pup...

#Caturday (late)
#CatsofBlueSky
#DogsofBlueSky
#NewPup
Silver blue Maine Coon hogging person's lap with small red brindle lurcher pup to the side learning who has priority space.
October 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Quiet reading for #NewPupDay

😃💜🍀🌈🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾

#DogsofBlueSky
Two books and a mug on a wooden table. The essential reading one is HOW TO RAISEXA PUOOY by Stephanie Rousseau and Turid Rugaas. The other one is TENDER PAWS by Wendy Lyon’s Sunshine
October 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
mandascott.bsky.social
Puppy peace time

#DogsofBlueSky
October 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
mandascott.bsky.social
if that's him in the picture, he looks positively adorable. We have achieved quiet sleep with her in the pen and me outside, which feels rather more significant than it probably is.

I swear I won't keep spamming you with pictures. But this is A Milestone. 😂
10 week old brindle sports lurcher puppy ASLEEP on her bed in a pen with her new person outside...
October 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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well... since you asked.... I am, of course, hopelessly in love. Also trying to establish Puppy Culture rearing and feeling I need to go back to the books because theory and practice are not matching...
small brindle sports bred lurcher pup on her first day in her new home - sitting on the floor looking down at the tied-fleece toy in red and blue and pink. small brindle sports bred lurcher pup eating a chew on her bed outside.
October 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
mandascott.bsky.social
Hmmm

answers, anyone?
Tweet from 'thetnholler' in response to Trump's threat to Mamdani "If Trump is openly planning to withhold federal funds from New York over anti-Zohran politics, at what point do New Yorkers - who put in far more than they take out - get to stop paying federal taxes? this is now a full blow constitutional crisis.'
September 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
mandascott.bsky.social
Found this from @kornetzke.bsky.social re-posted on Substack

No idea where the original came from, but endeavouring to find out

Brilliant
By Oliver Kornetzke August 18, 2025 Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul- all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Nota president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but has always been- arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America's shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn't just lose its soul- it sh*ts out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.
September 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
mandascott.bsky.social
Indeed - from Dave Mixon on Substack
"I don't give a damn about men transitioning to women. I'm much more concerned with republicans who are transitioning to nazis."
September 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
mandascott.bsky.social
From Andy Coombes on FB
"Fascism is capitalism's emergency solution when the ruling class can no longer govern through liberal democracy." - Antonia Gramsci - (white text on a red background)
September 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
mandascott.bsky.social
Indeed
Tweet from Angela Dennis "Racism and racist ideology is not a "political view". it's not about left or right, it's about right and wrong. Framing them as differences of opinion is dangerous because it minimises the harm, violence and inequality it produces. Political debates are about policy. Racism is about stripping people of their humanity and denigrating their existence. Don't confuse the two.
September 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Yep - this:
An image of Kirk opposite a young person with two BlueSky posts down the centre: First from @beyerstein: "The CK hagiography shows our society's empty workship of form. He held debates so he was a free speech hero. Never mind that these were rigged events where he'd tempt unwary college kids to spar with him and then humiliate them with cheap rhetorical tricks and put the footage online. response from @johnrogers This gest to something that as a former standup I recognised but couldn't name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn't debate, it's crowd work. It's debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.
September 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM