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ecopoë | 𝘰𝘪̈𝘬𝘰𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘦̄𝘴𝘪𝘴 𓆃 (= earth/home making) nature, ecology, climate, right relationship, commons, geopolitics, photography, wellness, cats, art, poetry, mindfulness, solarpunk 🌞 bc, canada 🇨🇦 bsky #50,373 my dms don’t work

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mari @amari.bsky.social · Nov 23

Hello! 👋
A lot of new bots & sketchy profiles on here lately. If I don’t follow you back, pls say hi & ask. Also, if you’re skeptical if I’m a bot, or want to know a bit more about me, click below. 👇

mari @amari.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hello to all the lovely ppl who have recently followed me. I’m at an odd career crossroads rn, so my posts are everywhere—but they mostly orbit around Qs on how to actually make a better world for the kids. All the kids.

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 9m

Oooh! You have the Libra C? I was looking at that one. Do you use the stylus? Could you use it to take decent notes in books or on pdfs? I heard the notes are also exportable now, and notes was one of the reasons I got kindle before.

mari @amari.bsky.social · 20m

i hope assifa won a prize

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 7h

#lifeduringwartime #portland

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 8h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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PixelPusher @drpixelpusher.bsky.social · 3h

Stay strong! commonslibrary.org/defending-de...

Defending Democracy with Humor and Dilemma Actions Tactics

The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.

commonslibrary.org

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 30m

lol 💀

Minor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 45m

You used to [eject information packets] me on your [rough endoplasmic reticulum]

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Rachel Frazin @rachelfrazin.bsky.social · 2d

Today marks six months since my book, Poisoning the Well, was published.

ICYMI: @sharonudasin.bsky.social and I took a deep dive into a family of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ that have become a pervasive environmental crisis

#PFAS #GreenSky #BookSky

A cover of the book "Poisoning the Well" by Rachel Frazin and Sharon Udasin. It's a yellow cover with a barrel of chemicals in the middle with an american flag on it

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R. A. Wadland @misterman70.bsky.social · 4h

Poehemian Rhapsody

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 3h

What kind do you have? My old kindle is pooched and I’m looking to divest fm Amazon, so I was looking at kobo options.

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 3h

omg so true lol

mari @amari.bsky.social · 12h

bizarre indeed

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

Rep. Jim Himes: "Trump's rhetoric has always been skeptical of the Ukrainians and bizarrely friendly to Vladimir Putin. His actions to date have been insufficient — just as Biden's actions were insufficient."

mari @amari.bsky.social · 12h

well, there is at least an archetypal precedent

two men are talking to each other and one of them says " chaos is a ladder "

Alt: gif. two men are talking to each other and then little finger from game of thrones says " chaos is a ladder "

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 12h

icymi @why.bsky.team

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 12h

Here more than 5,000 people answered the question below (more than 4,200 via quote replies & >800 comments). Lots of interesting stories!

On X, 15 people replied to the same query.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 5d

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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Nancy Bennett 🇨🇦 @nancybennett.bsky.social · 12h

More playing with mud in the studio today. This thin layer of frozen mud tied all the layers together.
#art #mud

While in-progress painting 36x40, horizontal.
Muddy gully with frozen patches of ice at the bottom. Grey-blue sky above. Unpainted, sketched in bright pink are a group of people on the ice with hockey sticks, a line of houses along to top of the gully with bare trees and hydro poles. Yellow masking tape edges the gully and outlines the ice patches.

Close-up of the mud, dots of dark browns, greys and patches of light on a path that winds down to the ice. 1/8” tape is under the paint marking ridges is the mud and swoops of the hills. Yellow masking tape edges along the top of the gully and houses sketched in pink above the tape.

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 12h

Driving through the Kootenays to visit my father, did not expect the bonus beautiful colour therapy, especially in hues of yellow & gold, shining even through cloud & fog.

Photograph
A mountainside sloping right covered in trees and bushes turning bright yellow between conifers with mist rising in the background up into a cloudy sky

#photography #landscape #autumn #yellow #westcoastkin #31daysofhalloween #eastcoastkin #canada #britishcolumbia

Photi across golden long grass and a pale tree trunk to a mountain sloping up to the right covered w soeckled hues of green and gold w rising mist and clouds above.
#mistymilkyfoggymoody

Photo of rolling hills of dark green and hold below a cloudy sky

Photo of a road into the mountains flanked by dk green conifers and bright yellow trees

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 12h

Trump regime: we are facing violent antifa rioters in Portland!!!

The antifa:

mari @amari.bsky.social · 12h

Dear Americans…

Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 13h

By cancelling solar and wind permits, the Trump administration is taking billions of dollars out of your pocket and putting it into the pockets of gas utilities.
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · Jul 9

In an effort to win this contest, China is building hegemony by exporting not just its green products but also in a structural shift exporting its technology, engineering, supply chains, and financing.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.ft.com/content/e517...

China is building 74% of all current solar and wind projects, report says

Beijing is dominating construction of renewable energy sources, according to Global Energy Monitor

www.ft.com

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 12h

What’s going on with the stock market?

Don’t worry about it babe

Ok ❤️
Yay ❤️

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12h

👇🎯 So questions. Much asking. Very shirt.

Mark t-shirt: The mercantilism will continue until morale improves

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 12h

secondary sanctions not only on Russia, but also and other countries (ie China) working w Ru, to pressure Putin to the negotiating table, & “You'd say we're going to do it in 2 months or 3 months' time to effectively force Putin to the trilateral table”

lethbridgenewsnow.com/2025/09/22/f...

Carney said he believes U.S. sanctions on countries or other entities working with Moscow could bring Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table and end the war in Ukraine.

He was asked about the U.S. using secondary sanctions to hit those doing business with specific entities. Canada touched off a long diplomatic spat with China when it arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou for allegedly breaching U.S. secondary sanctions on certain types of business with Iran.

Carney said Washington should proceed with a bill to implement secondary sanctions quickly because that is the "biggest non-military disincentive." He said even the threat of such sanctions would hit Russia's financial sector.
"You'd say we're going to do it in two months or three months' time to effectively force Putin to the trilateral table," Carney said.

Carney was referring to ceasefire or peace talks between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for by U.S.
President Donald Trump.

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 12h

Back in Sept @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu similarly said “We need more pressure on Russia to come to the negotiating table. We need more sanctions… This is Russia's war. And it is Russia that should pay.”
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Similarly @mark-carney.bsky.social said the US needs to step up

And just today we have seen a reckless and unprecedented violation of Poland's and Europe's air space by more than 10 Russian drones. Europe stands in full solidarity with Poland. Putin's message is clear. And our response must be clear too. We need more pressure on Russia to come to the negotiating table. We need more sanctions. We are now working on the 19th package in coordination with partners. We are particularly looking at phasing out Russian fossil fuels faster, the shadow fleet and third countries. And at the same time we need more support for Ukraine.

No one has contributed as much as Europe.Close to EUR 170 billion of military and financial aid so far. More will be needed. And it should not only be European taxpayers who bear the brunt of this. This is Russia's war. And it is Russia that should pay.

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canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 13h

LISTEN & SHARE Global #Indigenous Solidarity with #Palestine on @cbcnews.ca #CBC #Unreserved Rosanna Deerchild talking about the #FreedomFlotilla @freedomflotilla.bsky.social & more with Mskwaasin!

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... @christibelcourt.com @indjewishvoices.bsky.social @yipengge.bsky.social

www.cbc.ca

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 13h

Goes back to the argument I made in the Guardian earlier this year that the world is in danger because the techbros have completely misunderstood a bunch of sci-fi and fantasy...

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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