Anand
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calmerfuture.bsky.social
I want to share something I've worked on effectively for most of my life, in different ways.

This vision of a calmer future, and analysis of how we get there, came after working in different sectors, on different continents – and seeing how obvious solutions are not working.

www.calmerfuture.org
Calmer Future
Let's create a better future
www.calmerfuture.org
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calmerfuture.bsky.social
redefines shade-nfreude

at least I'm not that bad, am I…?!
calmerfuture.bsky.social
then there could also be conflicts between invasive species as they start traveling outside their native habitats
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fishergirl.bsky.social
Homelessness, in it's current epidemic form, is what happens when costs outpace pay.
The homeless aren't the working upper mgmt. It's low end workers who don't earn enough to eat & pay rent.
brian-goldstone.bsky.social
Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.

And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.
calmerfuture.bsky.social
I've lost several really precious little friends over the past two years, when I was really isolated — and only one was from old age, died peacefully in my arms

one of the hardest things is feeling like they are forgotten

adding them to this little memorial ❤️‍🩹
calmerfuture.bsky.social
also any random genetic element undermines the eugenic idea of 'superior' bloodlines, breeding, and races
calmerfuture.bsky.social
this book has a theme song 🤯

it's at the end of the interview, and I found the whole thing fascinating and moving

youtu.be/wFPJHtjB9kY
Henry Lien Live at Joe’s Pub NYC
YouTube video by Henry Lien
youtu.be
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cormacscoast.bsky.social
Looks like he's spotted something worrying creeping up behind me 😯🤣🤣

Goniatite fossils in a shale pebble.
County Clare, Ireland.
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aidanwalker.bsky.social
the defining image of the early 21st century is an agent of the state pointing a gun at a person, and a citizen pointing a smartphone camera back at them

we see this scene reenacted every day, around the world
calmerfuture.bsky.social
keeping it weird
johnrogers.bsky.social
ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.
calmerfuture.bsky.social
[at gunpoint, reading demands] blessed are the peacemakers...
jdcmedlock.bsky.social
“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit
calmerfuture.bsky.social
feels like relevant territory, as we struggle to move past historic evasion and euphemism
a quote by Orwell from 'Being Jewish After The Destruction Of Gaza' by Peter Beinart
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
“Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar”

Never forget or forgive that Trump, Rubio, & Musk *chose* to inflict this monumental level of death and suffering on the poorest & most vulnerable people.
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
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sundersays.bsky.social
The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth
calmerfuture.bsky.social
love how Beth Rigby sounds like a deeply disappointed teacher
bestforbritain.org
Among the worse interviews I've seen a politician give. There is no way Badenoch can (or should) survive until May.

- Do you admire Nigel Farage?
- On what basis?
- Do you admire him?
- I don't understand your question.
- What do you think of him?
- Why don't you ask me about Ed Davey?" 😱 ~AA
calmerfuture.bsky.social
to argue that Britishness is a state of exceptional moral superiority over all others was historically a thing, I guess

I mean, all other national cultures are disgustingly inconsiderate, I assume
annettedittert.bsky.social
While I agree that it wd have been a sign of empathy and respect towards the Jewish communities in Britain to pause the protest on this very day, I also do find these attempts to declare who is British and who isn't increasingly worrying.
Who is Starmer to define that ?
Keir Starmer calls student protests on 7 October anniversary ‘un-British’
Prime minister urges students not to protest on the second anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel
www.theguardian.com
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sundersays.bsky.social
The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers
calmerfuture.bsky.social
I think they are arguing that you had to be the 'right sort' of Christian pilgrim, while conveniently forgetting how much those pilgrims were an incredibly fractured judgemental mob, quite aside from those loyal to Britain

and how African American enslaved people outnumbered them all for a while
calmerfuture.bsky.social
I don't want to know if that image is cropped, what the other hands are doing, why he's smiling that weird but knowing smile... 🙈
calmerfuture.bsky.social
his message right as the end about unity was really strong, and felt so authentic throughout
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gillint.bsky.social
Wonderful! Some people have the power to cut through all the crap, and give faith to the rest of us.
thebossross.bsky.social
Love this man. #Hero

#Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: