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"Justo" is harvesting lettuce in Madera County CA. He labors 6 days a week, working 8-10 hrs shifts. "It's hard repetitive work. We have to be bent over all the time. We cut the lettuce clean off the extra leaves bag it and put it in a box. I earn minimum wage." #WeFeedYou
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"Justo" is harvesting lettuce in Madera County CA. He labors 6 days a week, working 8-10 hrs shifts. "It's hard repetitive work. We have to be bent over all the time. We cut the lettuce clean off the extra leaves bag it and put it in a box. I earn minimum wage." #WeFeedYou
One more controversial transatlantic pie thought. In terms of full-sized pie, a savoury pie makes so much more sense, because they are filling and can contain all the food groups and nutrients. To have pie as dessert is so disappointing because it's too much after a heavy meal.
November 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
One more controversial transatlantic pie thought. In terms of full-sized pie, a savoury pie makes so much more sense, because they are filling and can contain all the food groups and nutrients. To have pie as dessert is so disappointing because it's too much after a heavy meal.
This may be offensive but the mince pie is so much better than the US pies in terms of utility. For example, you've been out carol singing and you're chilly and hungry and, lo, there's a mince pie: filling, small, sweet. Or you've sat through a lovely children's concert and voila, a mince pie!
November 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This may be offensive but the mince pie is so much better than the US pies in terms of utility. For example, you've been out carol singing and you're chilly and hungry and, lo, there's a mince pie: filling, small, sweet. Or you've sat through a lovely children's concert and voila, a mince pie!
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Conservation and clean energy are issues about which the whole political spectrum in the UK agree. This should be front page news across the board: 43% of the UK's energy needs (3/4 of all homes) was met by wind power last week.
www.energylivenews.com?p=357628
www.energylivenews.com?p=357628
Windpower sets new record for baseload - Energy Live News
Wind supplied 43% of all power last week setting a new record of 22.7 GW
www.energylivenews.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Conservation and clean energy are issues about which the whole political spectrum in the UK agree. This should be front page news across the board: 43% of the UK's energy needs (3/4 of all homes) was met by wind power last week.
www.energylivenews.com?p=357628
www.energylivenews.com?p=357628
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It's funny because before I got Covid, I was running 12 miles a week, and then it took years to be able to do any significant exercise at all (during which time I gained weight, making it even harder to bounce back)
The only way to understand this is to realize that they are eugenicists.
To Survive the Next Pandemic, Walk More, the NIH Says
The agency is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay.
www.theatlantic.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
It's funny because before I got Covid, I was running 12 miles a week, and then it took years to be able to do any significant exercise at all (during which time I gained weight, making it even harder to bounce back)
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"Her radicalism was nowhere more apparent than in her commitment to a free Palestine and her understanding of Palestinian liberation and the liberation of all people struggling to survive war, occupation, colonization and genocide as at the heart of disability justice."
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substack.com/home/post/p-...
Alice Wong was Crips for eSims for Gaza, and Everything to Us
by Jane Shi and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"Her radicalism was nowhere more apparent than in her commitment to a free Palestine and her understanding of Palestinian liberation and the liberation of all people struggling to survive war, occupation, colonization and genocide as at the heart of disability justice."
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
This is a soothing thread for those of us who feel heartbroken today.
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 1:26 AM
This is a soothing thread for those of us who feel heartbroken today.
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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.
And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.
October 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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.
And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.
What I wish people understood is the way that the condition is framed by doctors and "experts" shapes the way family and friends respond, meaning that not only do you suddenly lose your health but also your community. You spend precious energy trying to convince people you're still human.
In the firing line, as ever, are the UK’s hundreds of thousands of ME/CFS patients. As a practitioner once remarked, “the bastards don’t want to get better”. If there is one characteristic all the ME/CFS patients I’ve come across have in common, it is a desperation to get better.
October 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
What I wish people understood is the way that the condition is framed by doctors and "experts" shapes the way family and friends respond, meaning that not only do you suddenly lose your health but also your community. You spend precious energy trying to convince people you're still human.
How much energy and water was redirected from parched land, blighted because of climate change? Al is less useful to us than water and fuel, resources it gobbles up at an untenable rate. We do not need to care for AI, we need to recognize it as a threat to life.
A psychotherapist treated an A.I. chatbot as if it were one of his patients. What it confessed should worry us all.
Putting ChatGPT on the Couch
When I played doctor with the chatbot, the simulated patient confessed problems that are real—and that should worry all of us.
www.newyorker.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
How much energy and water was redirected from parched land, blighted because of climate change? Al is less useful to us than water and fuel, resources it gobbles up at an untenable rate. We do not need to care for AI, we need to recognize it as a threat to life.
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You can do everything “right” and still become disabled.
You can do everything “right” and have a child who is disabled.
There is nothing wrong with being disabled, and if more of us approached disability with compassion, understanding, and advocacy instead of fear, the world would be better.
You can do everything “right” and have a child who is disabled.
There is nothing wrong with being disabled, and if more of us approached disability with compassion, understanding, and advocacy instead of fear, the world would be better.
September 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
You can do everything “right” and still become disabled.
You can do everything “right” and have a child who is disabled.
There is nothing wrong with being disabled, and if more of us approached disability with compassion, understanding, and advocacy instead of fear, the world would be better.
You can do everything “right” and have a child who is disabled.
There is nothing wrong with being disabled, and if more of us approached disability with compassion, understanding, and advocacy instead of fear, the world would be better.
If you're looking for a church home, check out the intention church - 4pm EST on zoom.
One year in, serving the people at @intentionchurch.com has been one of the most humbling blessings I’ve ever had the opportunity to partake in.
Don’t take my word for it. Listen to the people in this video.
Then come kick it with us at theintentionchurch.com in a lil bit!
Don’t take my word for it. Listen to the people in this video.
Then come kick it with us at theintentionchurch.com in a lil bit!
Happy Anniversary, TIC!
As we look back on the first year of The Intention Church, we look forward to what tomorrow holds.
Want to know what Intention has meant to some people? Check out this video!
As we look back on the first year of The Intention Church, we look forward to what tomorrow holds.
Want to know what Intention has meant to some people? Check out this video!
September 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
If you're looking for a church home, check out the intention church - 4pm EST on zoom.
For #choirs looking for autumnal music, I have a simple four part unaccompanied meditation on November Skies:
drive.google.com/file/d/1XZEJ...
drive.google.com/file/d/1XZEJ...
November Skies.pdf
drive.google.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
For #choirs looking for autumnal music, I have a simple four part unaccompanied meditation on November Skies:
drive.google.com/file/d/1XZEJ...
drive.google.com/file/d/1XZEJ...
How could you trust the UK's ability to remain conservative around AD when at the beginning of the pandemic no less than the prime minister made it clear he was willing to sacrifice the elderly and infirm so that the able-bodied could have more freedom. And this rhetoric has since grown.
I strongly encourage UK MPs and peers to look at what has happened in New Zealand since the introduction of assisted dying. Safeguards are rarely ever as strong as advocates suggest, and the “slippery slope” is a real risk
writes Simon O'Connor, former chair of the NZ parliament's health committee
writes Simon O'Connor, former chair of the NZ parliament's health committee
New Zealand shows why UK politicians must be wary about assisted dying reassurances
I strongly encourage British parliamentarians to look at what has happened in New Zealand since the introduction of assisted dying.
www.politicshome.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
How could you trust the UK's ability to remain conservative around AD when at the beginning of the pandemic no less than the prime minister made it clear he was willing to sacrifice the elderly and infirm so that the able-bodied could have more freedom. And this rhetoric has since grown.
A hummingbird visits the garden on one day each year. Yesterday was the day. I was standing outside and I saw it fly down and go to every remaining lavender flower. The iridescent feathers on its back flashed as it flew around the plant about two feet away from me. A huge blessing in our tiny yard.
September 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A hummingbird visits the garden on one day each year. Yesterday was the day. I was standing outside and I saw it fly down and go to every remaining lavender flower. The iridescent feathers on its back flashed as it flew around the plant about two feet away from me. A huge blessing in our tiny yard.
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Fascinated that In Our Time is one of the BBC’s most popular podcasts among under 35s. The young people demand three academics and a peer discussing Demosthenes, apparently. And they’re right to do so.
September 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Fascinated that In Our Time is one of the BBC’s most popular podcasts among under 35s. The young people demand three academics and a peer discussing Demosthenes, apparently. And they’re right to do so.
I saw a great golden digger wasp in my teenie tiny yard today. The purple aster and brown eyed susans were covered in all kinds of pollinators and this huge gorgeous orange-legged wasp lazily swooped and fell among the yellow flowers. Very pleasing.
August 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I saw a great golden digger wasp in my teenie tiny yard today. The purple aster and brown eyed susans were covered in all kinds of pollinators and this huge gorgeous orange-legged wasp lazily swooped and fell among the yellow flowers. Very pleasing.
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I will die on this hill:
it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
August 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I will die on this hill:
it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
Though it is extremely reductive, unprecedented inequality is a primary driving factor.
What's your take on the moment we're living through in 50 words or less. [you able to quote post]
August 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Though it is extremely reductive, unprecedented inequality is a primary driving factor.
You know when you just need some good news. Low cost therapy that can bring relief to some sleep apnea patients!
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Conch blowing could help to alleviate sleep apnoea, study suggests
Experts on condition affecting millions of people in UK give cautious welcome to findings but say more research needed
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
You know when you just need some good news. Low cost therapy that can bring relief to some sleep apnea patients!
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
If you're in SF please go see this. Disabled voices have not been amplified, and, in fact, seem to have been suppressed, in discussions of AD. The impact of AD legislation that fails to take into account disabled voices is truly terrifying.
Next Sunday, I'll be moderating a panel at the Roxie in SF following the screening of Life After, a documentary that explores the topic of assisted suicide and disability. You can buy tickets here. roxie.com/film/life-af...
Life After
Followed by a post screening panel featuring director Reid Davenport and Alice Wong, moderated by Mother Jones’ Julia Métraux! In 1983, a disabled Californian woman named Elizabeth Bouvia sought the…
roxie.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If you're in SF please go see this. Disabled voices have not been amplified, and, in fact, seem to have been suppressed, in discussions of AD. The impact of AD legislation that fails to take into account disabled voices is truly terrifying.
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Next Sunday, I'll be moderating a panel at the Roxie in SF following the screening of Life After, a documentary that explores the topic of assisted suicide and disability. You can buy tickets here. roxie.com/film/life-af...
Life After
Followed by a post screening panel featuring director Reid Davenport and Alice Wong, moderated by Mother Jones’ Julia Métraux! In 1983, a disabled Californian woman named Elizabeth Bouvia sought the…
roxie.com
August 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Next Sunday, I'll be moderating a panel at the Roxie in SF following the screening of Life After, a documentary that explores the topic of assisted suicide and disability. You can buy tickets here. roxie.com/film/life-af...
#longcovid parents (and parents of vulnerable kids) we need a Moms Demand Action type campaign in communities and schools to educate families about the risk and prevalence of long covid/other risks of unmitigated covid. If Violet Affleck has the courage to speak out, so can we.
August 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
#longcovid parents (and parents of vulnerable kids) we need a Moms Demand Action type campaign in communities and schools to educate families about the risk and prevalence of long covid/other risks of unmitigated covid. If Violet Affleck has the courage to speak out, so can we.
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Welp
“So you’d rather segregate all of these people from society instead of mildly inconveniencing yourself?”🫠
August 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Welp