@bethpartin.bsky.social
Lover of words, birds, permaculture, food forests, rewilding, and the idea that gender and sexuality are on a spectrum.
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How to connect to the natural world ...
For me, feeling part of the wild world doesn’t come naturally.
open.substack.com
Nature always offers a way in.
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Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
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Read the report here: www.citizen.org/news/three-o...
Three of D.C.’s Biggest Lobbyists Represent Two-Thirds of the Corporate Donors to Trump’s White House Ballroom - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two-thirds of the corporations known to be funding Trump’s gaudy ballroom project – 17 out of 26…
www.citizen.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Read the report here: www.citizen.org/news/three-o...
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Once numbering over 100K, the most regal #bird 👑🐦 in #Tanzania #Congo #SouthAfrica and #Namibia hangs on for survival against Big #PalmOil 🌴 Big #Tobacco 🚬 and #Hydroelectric dams 🚜 Help them survive! #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-b7K
Beautiful creature
Beautiful creature
Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum
Endangered Grey Crowned Cranes are a regal and graceful bird of Uganda, Tanzania, DRC, and Namibia. Help them to survive and join the boycott4wildlife
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November 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Once numbering over 100K, the most regal #bird 👑🐦 in #Tanzania #Congo #SouthAfrica and #Namibia hangs on for survival against Big #PalmOil 🌴 Big #Tobacco 🚬 and #Hydroelectric dams 🚜 Help them survive! #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-b7K
Beautiful creature
Beautiful creature
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🚨DAILY REMINDER🚨
I post this every day so we never forget Jan. 6, 2021. We saw the attack with our own eyes. Later, we watched Trump pardon the very traitors who tried to overthrow our democracy.
Never forget. Never minimize. Never normalize.
#StayWoke
#Pinks 🌸
🎥 @mjfree.bsky.social
I post this every day so we never forget Jan. 6, 2021. We saw the attack with our own eyes. Later, we watched Trump pardon the very traitors who tried to overthrow our democracy.
Never forget. Never minimize. Never normalize.
#StayWoke
#Pinks 🌸
🎥 @mjfree.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🚨DAILY REMINDER🚨
I post this every day so we never forget Jan. 6, 2021. We saw the attack with our own eyes. Later, we watched Trump pardon the very traitors who tried to overthrow our democracy.
Never forget. Never minimize. Never normalize.
#StayWoke
#Pinks 🌸
🎥 @mjfree.bsky.social
I post this every day so we never forget Jan. 6, 2021. We saw the attack with our own eyes. Later, we watched Trump pardon the very traitors who tried to overthrow our democracy.
Never forget. Never minimize. Never normalize.
#StayWoke
#Pinks 🌸
🎥 @mjfree.bsky.social
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Over the past year, Denverite has investigated cracks in the city's winter family shelter system.
Following our reporting, Denver has made several concrete changes in how it plans to shelter families on cold nights over the coming winter.
Following our reporting, Denver has made several concrete changes in how it plans to shelter families on cold nights over the coming winter.
Family homelessness is growing in Denver, but some fixes to the winter shelter system are coming
The goal: ensure Denver families can come in from the cold quickly.
denverite.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Over the past year, Denverite has investigated cracks in the city's winter family shelter system.
Following our reporting, Denver has made several concrete changes in how it plans to shelter families on cold nights over the coming winter.
Following our reporting, Denver has made several concrete changes in how it plans to shelter families on cold nights over the coming winter.
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RAW STORY: “The first woman nominated to lead the Naval Special Warfare command overseeing Navy SEALs had her promotion abruptly canceled — military sources blame Hegseth's hostility to women in combat roles.” 🤔 www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth...
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
RAW STORY: “The first woman nominated to lead the Naval Special Warfare command overseeing Navy SEALs had her promotion abruptly canceled — military sources blame Hegseth's hostility to women in combat roles.” 🤔 www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth...
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Reminder:
Vigil tonight!
November 10, 2025
6 pm - 8 pm
Geo Ice Facility
3130 Oakland St, Aurora, CO
Be prepared to chant and sing
Brass players and protest singers
raise a ruckus!
Bring pots and pans and other noise makers!
Vigil tonight!
November 10, 2025
6 pm - 8 pm
Geo Ice Facility
3130 Oakland St, Aurora, CO
Be prepared to chant and sing
Brass players and protest singers
raise a ruckus!
Bring pots and pans and other noise makers!
Monday Night Vigil
November 10, 2025
6 pm - 8 pm
Geo Ice Facility
3130 Oakland St, Aurora, CO
Be prepared to chant and sing
Brass players and protest singers
raise a ruckus!
Bring pots and pans and other noise makers!
November 10, 2025
6 pm - 8 pm
Geo Ice Facility
3130 Oakland St, Aurora, CO
Be prepared to chant and sing
Brass players and protest singers
raise a ruckus!
Bring pots and pans and other noise makers!
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Reminder:
Vigil tonight!
November 10, 2025
6 pm - 8 pm
Geo Ice Facility
3130 Oakland St, Aurora, CO
Be prepared to chant and sing
Brass players and protest singers
raise a ruckus!
Bring pots and pans and other noise makers!
Vigil tonight!
November 10, 2025
6 pm - 8 pm
Geo Ice Facility
3130 Oakland St, Aurora, CO
Be prepared to chant and sing
Brass players and protest singers
raise a ruckus!
Bring pots and pans and other noise makers!
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Northern Muriquis are critically endangered #monkeys 🐵🙉 threatened by #hunting, #palmoil, #soy, #meat #deforestation in #Brazil 🇧🇷😿 Help them survive and be #vegan 🥕🥦 #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife in the supermarket! @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2023/10/01/n...
Northern Muriqui Brachyteles hypoxanthus
Northern Muriquis (AKA Woolly Spider Monkeys) have a striking light brown and golden fur and are known for their rattling vocalisations. They live in large communities and act as critical seed disp…
palmoildetectives.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Northern Muriquis are critically endangered #monkeys 🐵🙉 threatened by #hunting, #palmoil, #soy, #meat #deforestation in #Brazil 🇧🇷😿 Help them survive and be #vegan 🥕🥦 #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife in the supermarket! @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2023/10/01/n...
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This week we share some of the voices from the Nov 5 launch of relentless nonviolent protest in the nation’s capital demanding the removal of the Trump Fascist Regime.
Give a listen 👇
Give a listen 👇
How We Build Momentum to Drive Out The Trump Fascist Regime - Refuse Fascism
Podcast Episode 269: On Wednesday November 5, thousands of determined, beautiful people from across the country came together in the nation’s Capital.
refusefascism.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
This week we share some of the voices from the Nov 5 launch of relentless nonviolent protest in the nation’s capital demanding the removal of the Trump Fascist Regime.
Give a listen 👇
Give a listen 👇
I came across Mercury Desktop Publishers while searching for copy editing clients in a list. They started in Texas in 2021 and have published two titles in English and two titles in French for schoolchildren. THEY DONATE THEIR BOOKS; they do not sell them. Check them out! mercurydtp.org
Mercury Desk-Top Publishers
Austin-based nonprofit publisher of multicultural books for children in English and French.
mercurydtp.org
October 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I came across Mercury Desktop Publishers while searching for copy editing clients in a list. They started in Texas in 2021 and have published two titles in English and two titles in French for schoolchildren. THEY DONATE THEIR BOOKS; they do not sell them. Check them out! mercurydtp.org
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BREAKING: An artillery shell prematurely detonated over Interstate 5 in California damaging JD Vance's security detail.
This is exactly why we must stop sane-washing the headlines from this Administration. I have the latest. Subscribe to support: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
This is exactly why we must stop sane-washing the headlines from this Administration. I have the latest. Subscribe to support: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
Major Breaking News Update
We have to stop sane-washing this Administration and this news cycle.
open.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
BREAKING: An artillery shell prematurely detonated over Interstate 5 in California damaging JD Vance's security detail.
This is exactly why we must stop sane-washing the headlines from this Administration. I have the latest. Subscribe to support: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
This is exactly why we must stop sane-washing the headlines from this Administration. I have the latest. Subscribe to support: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
The idea of bison in Boulder is so cool!
www.cpr.org/2025/10/13/c...
www.cpr.org/2025/10/13/c...
His Cheyenne ancestors were pushed out of Colorado in the 1800s. Now he’s among the leaders of Colorado’s Indigenous land back movement
Hundreds of years after most of Colorado’s Indigenous tribes were forcibly removed from the state, a movement emerges to bring them home.
www.cpr.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The idea of bison in Boulder is so cool!
www.cpr.org/2025/10/13/c...
www.cpr.org/2025/10/13/c...
Who can resist a fluffy rodent?
High in the mountains of #Ecuador 🇪🇨 lives a sage-like fluffy #rodent, the Ecuadorean #Viscacha, a critically endangered alpine wonder. Few remain alive due to #climatechange and #meat #agriculture 🥩🔥. Be #vegan for them #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-aoV
Ecuadorean Viscacha Lagidium ahuacaense
High in the remote granite outcrops of Cerro El Ahuaca, #Ecuador the Ecuadorean #Viscacha Lagidium ahuacaense is plump and fluffy #rodent sporting sage-like long whiskers. From their high perch the…
wp.me
October 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Who can resist a fluffy rodent?
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federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
October 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?
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Stay Weird Portland! 🔥 Today Portland had an emergency naked bike ride to the ICE facility. IN THE RAIN.
It was around 50°. Thousands were fully nude, half nude, or wearing costumes.
Portland is VERY dedicated to exposing the absurdities of injustice.
Here are some photos & videos. 🧵👇🏼
It was around 50°. Thousands were fully nude, half nude, or wearing costumes.
Portland is VERY dedicated to exposing the absurdities of injustice.
Here are some photos & videos. 🧵👇🏼
October 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Stay Weird Portland! 🔥 Today Portland had an emergency naked bike ride to the ICE facility. IN THE RAIN.
It was around 50°. Thousands were fully nude, half nude, or wearing costumes.
Portland is VERY dedicated to exposing the absurdities of injustice.
Here are some photos & videos. 🧵👇🏼
It was around 50°. Thousands were fully nude, half nude, or wearing costumes.
Portland is VERY dedicated to exposing the absurdities of injustice.
Here are some photos & videos. 🧵👇🏼
Has anyone else noticed that ICEBlock no longer shows sightings?
October 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Has anyone else noticed that ICEBlock no longer shows sightings?
This article is a few months old but very encouraging. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Somalia's construction boom in Mogadishu gives women high ambitions
Mogadishu's rapid expansion after decades of war is giving unexpected opportunities in a male-dominated society.
www.bbc.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This article is a few months old but very encouraging. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Use the links in this post to oppose America First's petition to require proof of citizenship to vote. Floods of comments support this unnecessary requirement. I first voted in 1980, & until 2010 never showed ID. I gave my name at the polling place, confirmed my address, signed, and got my ballot.
A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote
The U.S.
joycevance.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Use the links in this post to oppose America First's petition to require proof of citizenship to vote. Floods of comments support this unnecessary requirement. I first voted in 1980, & until 2010 never showed ID. I gave my name at the polling place, confirmed my address, signed, and got my ballot.
They took citizen children away from their undocumented parents and claimed they were going to give them into the custody of someone safe. This is human trafficking, just another version of family separation from 2018. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies
U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.
www.reuters.com
October 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
They took citizen children away from their undocumented parents and claimed they were going to give them into the custody of someone safe. This is human trafficking, just another version of family separation from 2018. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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Shame on you @Apple, you fascist enabler. Shame on you.
October 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Shame on you @Apple, you fascist enabler. Shame on you.
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THIS is our leadership? 👀
youtube.com/shorts/mm5bV...
youtube.com/shorts/mm5bV...
WHAT a B
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtube.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
THIS is our leadership? 👀
youtube.com/shorts/mm5bV...
youtube.com/shorts/mm5bV...
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MAGA star Jack Posobiec says voter fraud is a serious issue—yet he has voted for years in Pennsylvania, despite clearly living in Maryland. slate.com/news-and-pol...
MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.
A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.
slate.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
MAGA star Jack Posobiec says voter fraud is a serious issue—yet he has voted for years in Pennsylvania, despite clearly living in Maryland. slate.com/news-and-pol...
I’ve never been to the Okefenokee swamp, but I’m glad it’s better protected now.
augustafreepress.com/news/conserv...
augustafreepress.com/news/conserv...
Conservation Fund's purchase of Georgia/Florida wildlife refuge saves land from mining company
The Conservation Fund has purchased North America's largest blackwater swamp in Georgia and Florida and saved it from deep earth mining.
augustafreepress.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I’ve never been to the Okefenokee swamp, but I’m glad it’s better protected now.
augustafreepress.com/news/conserv...
augustafreepress.com/news/conserv...
This book, the story of a gay sleeping car porter traveling across 1920s Canada, is fabulous. I love the staccato paragraphs in which the porter walks the train and does his chores while trying not to fall asleep.
October 3, 2025 at 1:51 AM
This book, the story of a gay sleeping car porter traveling across 1920s Canada, is fabulous. I love the staccato paragraphs in which the porter walks the train and does his chores while trying not to fall asleep.