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mandascott.bsky.social
@mandascott.bsky.social
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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What does it mean to (re)orient our entire culture around the power of love?

How can we understand the balance so that we move forward in kin-centric leadership, bringing all that we are in service to Life?

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#Podcast
#SpiritualWarrior
#Love
Dance of the Spiritual Warrior: Balancing Love and Power with Jamie Bristow
What does it mean to (re)orient our entire culture around the power of love? To answer this, we have to understand the nature of love and of power and how both of these have many meanings in our cultu...
accidentalgods.life
November 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
" #Thrutopian punks are rage-filled [+] refuse the binary of obedience vs rebellion

...we step out of its rules entirely, and build something power can’t comprehend: relationship, regeneration, and irrelevance to control."

bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/more-than-...

@rupertread.bsky.social
More Than a Mohawk: Why Thrutopian Punks Don’t Just Burn It Down
Feature by Rachel Pryor
bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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What is the true vow of your life—the one it would kill you to break?

How do we discover what we are here for, what is our unique gift to the world, and how can we bring this to the table in ways that will transform our broken systems?

accidentalgods.life/walking-the-...

#Accidentalgods #podcast
Walking the wild, mythic Edge of Being with visionary elder and soul initiator Bill Plotkin
What is the true vow of your life, the one it would kill you to break? This phrase comes from the poem 'All The True Vows' by David Whyte, but there can be no better introduction to this week's guest,...
accidentalgods.life
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Today's Budget was a real victory for some of the brilliant groups across civil society campaigning to help people in this country.

The end of the two-child benefit limit, a tourism tax - policies we are proud to have done our bit in calling for.

Compass in @theipaper.com.
November 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Wonderful to see @maxkennerly.bsky.social speak about it.
The training/socialization of men starts instantly and goes hard. Everything you might like is too gay, too feminine. You are required to hate yourself for being insufficiently masculine, to blame others for that feeling, and to hate everyone who doesn't "respect" your manliness.
November 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Wrote about that in The Mother of All Questions.
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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I have often seen masculinity, conventional version, as a constant renunciation, in return for corrosive power. All the things you're not allowed to like, enjoy, do, say, wear, but (metaphorically speaking) this straitjacket comes with a gun.
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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How do we bridge the worlds of technology, biodiversity and international law and bring them together in service of a new way of being built from the ruins of collapse?

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#RegenerativeEconomics
#ReFi
#DAO
#TechForGood
Starting in the Ruins: Of Lions and Games with Crypto-Advocate and Changemaker Andrea Leiter
This week's guest, Andrea Leiter is one of those polymaths who brings not just breadth, but astonishing depth to the work of bridging the worlds of technology, biodiversity and international law bring...
accidentalgods.life
November 12, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Do you love the dark?

Do you yearn for sunset with the night growing deeper all around you?

Our ancestors knew the world of magic that is only revealed when we put aside the lights, phones, torches and step out into the night

accidentalgods.life/the-magic-of

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#NightMagic
The Magic of Darkness: learning to love life in the night with author Leigh Ann Henion
Do you love the dark? Do you yearn for sunset and the amber glow of a fire with the night growing deeper, more inspiring all around you? There's a world out there of sheer, unadulterated magic that is...
accidentalgods.life
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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DOJ on the March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights: “After receiving … legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador.”

At Law Dork, I cover what happened Tuesday:
DOJ lawyers state that DHS Sec. Kristi Noem made decision not to return March 15 flights
Also Tuesday, ACLU lawyers name Emil Bove, now a federal judge, as a possible witness in Boasberg's contempt inquiry over the flights. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
www.lawdork.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The most striking thing about the White House's proposal was its seriousness. But it became apparent that the president’s team had not fully checked in with a key party: congressional Republicans.

The latest edition of The Breakdown from @citizencohn.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/48AqvFH
Trump Discovers, Yet Again, That Health Care Policy Is Hard
He’s floating compromise ideas on Obamacare subsidies, but Republicans in Congress aren’t interested.
lnk.thebulwark.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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🔴‘Scrapping Jury Trials Is an Attempt to Fix a Broken Justice System by Smashing It to Pieces’

Taking away the fundamental right to be tried by a jury of your peers would be a disastrous move by Keir Starmer’s Government, argues barrister Gareth Roberts

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/s...
'Scrapping Jury Trials Is an Attempt to Fix a Broken Justice System by Smashing It to Pieces'
Taking away the fundamental right to be tried by a jury of your peers would be a disastrous move by Keir Starmer's Government, argues barrister Gareth Roberts
bylinetimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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We are moving inexorably to the end point of electoral chaos - five parties all tied on 19% in the polls, election to be decided by blindfolded chimps chucking coloured darts at a constituency map
Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 25% (-2)
LAB: 19% (=)
CON: 18% (+1)
GRN: 16% (-1)
LDM: 15% (+2)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @yougov.co.uk, 23-24 Nov.
Changes w/ 16-17 Nov.
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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More to Scotland than you think.

#independence #Scotland #YouYesYet
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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More to Scotland than you think.

#independence #Scotland #YouYesYet
November 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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More to Scotland than you think.

#independence #Scotland #YouYesYet
November 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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the degree to which Labour have limboed under my lowest expectations for them is remarkable.
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Hi all,

A modest proposal on the contours and future of Decolonial Archaeology (open access). Grateful to all who inspired the ideas! I would welcome all feedback and critique.

A decolonial archaeology of refusal, care and repair | Antiquity | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A decolonial archaeology of refusal, care and repair | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
A decolonial archaeology of refusal, care and repair
www.cambridge.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Can you guess who he's talking about?

I bet you don't need a clue, but
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Don’t buy a self-help book this Christmas. Get a help-others book.

Mike Dickson’s 'How to Be a Better Human' is a guide to finding light in an increasingly overcast world.

Use our xmas discount code at check-out: TISTHESEASON

👉 subscribe.bylinetimes.com/product/how-...
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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The modern requirements of England and Scotland are entirely different.

Smaller countries are also MUCH more successful, as any league table of Country v Per Capita Wealth, will show.

Only foolish Scots continue to ignore these mountains of clear evidence.

Scottish Independence is vital.
November 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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‘Drone operators are hunted. You feel it from your first day’: the female pilots on Ukraine’s frontline
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘Drone operators are hunted. You feel it from your first day’: the female pilots on Ukraine’s frontline
As casualties mount, recruitment is expanding. Three women talk about life in a male-dominated combat environment
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:21 AM