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Nature Regeneration, Equity, LivingWage, Redistribution, UBI, Upcycle♻️ Share, Inspire, Grow > People, Planet🌎, Prosperity. Biz Human Rights, Enviro. SupplyESChange. 11yrs in China, Jp, Asia London Cornwall Aotearoa: Sea, Surf, Cycle.Was Councilr

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KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · Jul 21

Maybe 100,000s are starving in Palestine, and it's not enough, but didn't feel right to do nothing (and yes hostages must be freed).
Had a go at 5 things we can maybe do to take action for #palestine and #gaza
Do what we can. Save lives.
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What can You Do for Palestinians in Gaza

Felt super sad today knowing 10,000s, 100,000s, perhaps 2 million Palestinian people are starving in Gaza (21 June 2025). So, it’s not enough, but I’ve written (below) this 5 things you…

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Charlotte Leib @charlotte-leib.bsky.social · 13h

2. Artificial light is a form of fast, slow & forgotten violence—not just upon #birds & animals, but upon humans, too

Overexposure to #light at night contributes to higher #breastcancer rates, for example

Mobilizing around the use of artificial light can be a powerful means of change + #protest...

Some examples of artificial lighting prior to 1800. Left to right (three black & white images, shown in red, blue, and fluorescent green hues): candle guard and lantern; a rushlight made from a meadow rush dipped in fat and mounted in an iron holder; stormy petrels used as “lamps” in the Shetland Isles. / Images, colorized by Charlotte Leib, are from W.T. O’Dea, “Artificial Lighting Prior to 1800 and Its Social Effects” Folklore 62, no. 2 (June 1951): 312–324 (Plates XV and XVII).

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KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 13h

I feeling like I’ve been waiting for this. Was just reviewing again the LinkedIn “verify” request today and it seems so pointlessly intrusive (so I didn’t). Surely our contacts verify us anyway; that’s the whole point of being “linked”In

KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 14h

A beautiful tribute.
Inspiring courageous work by so many of you to stand up for the law, justice, peace, and a better world.

KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 15h

Not until after 10:30pm!
Thought UK Gov wanted a productive country!
That means sleep before 11. Annoyed this is so late

KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 17h

Not until 9pm???

KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 17h

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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 17h

Why is a class action lawsuit against Amazon alleging Prime Day is a scam getting zero coverage by mainstream media?

Could it be because media outlets get a cut when a customer purchases a Prime Day product when clicking through their featured deals?

h/t @juddlegum.bsky.social

UPDATE: Lawsuit alleges Prime Day is a fraud

The federal class action lawsuit has been ignored by major media outlets, which continue to promote Prime Day deals.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 22h

The #1 piece of advice that TransLink's CEO offers other North American transit agencies:

Provide frequent service

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KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 18h

Certainly down in Cornwall the true locals do too.
On the faurrrm…

KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 19h

Non military gov worker kids could have diseases which need medicines which basic pay relies on too...

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 19h

“I’m begging you to pass this legislation. My kids could die. We don’t have the credit because of the medical bills that I have to pay," this woman told Johnson.

Before being cut off, she added, "The audacity of someone who makes six figures a year to do this to military families is insane."

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KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 19h

I'd not be surprised if they found a way around that...

KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 19h

"They imagined a new society before they overthrew the old."

Let's Get Imagining our Fairer, Just, more Equitable, Clean, Green, Eco, sustainable, (did I say fairer?) Society people!

#UBI #upcycle #growlocal #localenergy #cleanenergy #circular #regenerate

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How to Overturn an Oligarchy

We've had some real victories. The FTC is looking into fire truck monopolization, California passed a law against coercion machines, and lobbyists took a big loss last month. America is waking up.

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KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 19h

"that independence from a king was critical to their wellbeing & dignity as free people.
And the revolution was the act of convincing, of gaining the self-confidence to declare independence, far more so than the violence of a war.
They...."

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How to Overturn an Oligarchy

We've had some real victories. The FTC is looking into fire truck monopolization, California passed a law against coercion machines, and lobbyists took a big loss last month. America is waking up.

www.thebignewsletter.com

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KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 19h

"These guys fought a war against the most powerful empire in the world, and won, and they did so because they convinced each other a decade earlier, during deeply distressing economic times, that independence..." www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-to-ove...

How to Overturn an Oligarchy

We've had some real victories. The FTC is looking into fire truck monopolization, California passed a law against coercion machines, and lobbyists took a big loss last month. America is waking up.

www.thebignewsletter.com

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KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 19h

the public opinion was enlightened and informed concerning the Authority of Parliament over the Colonies.”

What Adams wrote has always stuck with me.
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Those guys...

How to Overturn an Oligarchy

We've had some real victories. The FTC is looking into fire truck monopolization, California passed a law against coercion machines, and lobbyists took a big loss last month. America is waking up.

www.thebignewsletter.com

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KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 19h

was effected, from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen Years before a drop of blood was drawn at Lexington.” Adams cited the legislative records, the pamphlets, newspapers, and the public debates “by which...

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KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 19h

"In 1815, John Adams wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson about the American Revolution. “What do We mean by the Revolution?” he asked. “The War? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an Effect and Consequence of it. The Revolution was in the Minds of the People, & this...

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KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 19h

Making friends with all Sorts of votes...
(not!)

KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 19h

I think the whole system of monarchy is utterly absurd and should be abolished ASAP, AND that if they are truly ethical people they would advocate for that;
but parking that, yes,

at least use the voice you have.

KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 21h

Mostly but also their political inclinations, tweets, skeets, memberships, T-shirts, or just plain lack of bowing down to the regime

KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 21h

They’d fix all that asap if this doesn’t get banned / stopped asap

KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 21h

Oh well done 👏!
Congrats! 🥳
So Great to hear about this. I’m a big promoter of WSR in my trainings on biz human rights and supply chains HREDD.
Very best wishes for it

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21h

"Andrew Herrera likened it to a version of a social media brand partnership program....But instead of selling skincare products, the influencers are selling government propaganda." www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-propag...

The ICE Propaganda Campaign Goes Into Overdrive

MAGA commentators are stepping up as soldiers in Trump’s culture war to provoke confrontations against “Antifa” with the backing of DHS.

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KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 21h

Or just a long work task list.
The washing, the dishes, tidy up, sort things.. dust,..