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lilithtree67.bsky.social @lilithtree67.bsky.social · Aug 3

Water.
#fensalir

Natalja Saint-Germain @nataljastgermain.bsky.social · Dec 29

In the most known Bashkir epic “Ural-batyr”, the world is born out of water in complete darkness.

The first piece of land is wet and swampy, and that primordial swamp symbolizes chaos – the state when the soil and the water are yet to be separated.

#swampsunday #folklore

Depiction of the full moon over a swamp at night (photo in silver white, blue and green)

Credit: Alexandr Kitzenko

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lilithtree67.bsky.social @lilithtree67.bsky.social · 1h

Then it is real. Allow it *its* reality: let go of the reality you wanted.

lilithtree67.bsky.social @lilithtree67.bsky.social · 1h

TBH I think that might be millennia rather than centuries.

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✌️AnthroGurl✌️ @anthrogurl.bsky.social · 16h

This is my very good friend & my son’s ex-partner of 12 years. He has stage 4 terminal cancer at 37 yo with no insurance. If you can help out, I would really appreciate it!

We’re trying to get him some palliative care. 💔💙🌏✌️

✌️AnthroGurl✌️ @anthrogurl.bsky.social · 1d

gofund.me/175b433b1

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lilithtree67.bsky.social @lilithtree67.bsky.social · 11h

Of course an unrepresentative sample but interesting how the women who respond put their arms around the signalling woman and move her away while the man just moves her away and almost stands between her and the 'aggressor'.

lilithtree67.bsky.social @lilithtree67.bsky.social · 12h

Listen to Dad.

Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 1d

WE WILL RUN OUT OF FOOD.

The fact we aren’t using this precious & precarious moment to rebuild our food system around need & not profit - changing what we eat, how we produce food & how we transport it - will prove our gravest & most suicidal mistake.

One year’s worth of bread lost in UK to wrecked harvests since 2020, report finds

Worsening droughts and floods have destroyed wheat for 4bn loaves of bread and forced record levels of imports

www.theguardian.com

lilithtree67.bsky.social @lilithtree67.bsky.social · 12h

But their chaos must have been a bit predictable, if you see what I mean, e.g. drought here now, but water will be in that place if we walk there. What of a chaos of unknown unknowns?

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lilithtree67.bsky.social @lilithtree67.bsky.social · 12h

Doomer classic.

Jack O’Lantern🎃 @47pumpkins.bsky.social · 15h

Reminds me of the end of this superb Aaron Sorkin clip

youtu.be/pNYp6oc37ds?...

The Newsroom s03e03: The Climate Change Interview.

YouTube video by The Poetry of Predicament

youtu.be

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lilithtree67.bsky.social @lilithtree67.bsky.social · 12h

Has that vid been part of it? No need to answer.

Don't know if this is relevant - A/S Frig, just a name; Old Norse Frigg, not much, and conventional interpretation has me going "meh...". But Fensalir, always Fensalir glimmers.

I hope there is one thing that still reaches out to you.

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lilithtree67.bsky.social @lilithtree67.bsky.social · 12h

😮

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lilithtree67.bsky.social @lilithtree67.bsky.social · 12h

@runskra.bsky.social
@valsif.bsky.social
Just came across this, how interesting - battlefield, "the plain where the decrees of fate are executed". And involving wælcyrge/valkyrie?

Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 29d

metod-wang, m.n: the plain where the decrees of fate are executed, a battlefield. (MEH-tod-WONG / ˈmɛ-tɔd-ˌwaŋ)
Image: The First Battle of Lincoln (1141) in Henry of Huntingdon’s Historia Anglorum; England, late 12th century; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Arundel MS 48, f. 168v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD

Medieval manuscript illustration of a battlefield; one soldier leans on an axe, another leads a horse and carries a shield, a crowned soldier gestures with one finger in front of him, and another three soldiers converse amongst themselves.

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lilithtree67.bsky.social @lilithtree67.bsky.social · 13h

That's good. But, if you're *living* in a community, wait to see how who's gonna shift the shit out of the compostable toilet is dealt with and wait until the men speak more (about everything, even washable menstruation pads) and take over directing the discussions.

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lilithtree67.bsky.social @lilithtree67.bsky.social · 13h

Watch, be patient - damnation comes to those who wait.

Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 19h

My latest animation of the global surface temperature anomaly, 1851 - 2025 (current through September).

lilithtree67.bsky.social @lilithtree67.bsky.social · 13h

Slow, but deliberated, for a cobra biting.

a man is standing next to a large snake in a park .

ALT: a man is standing next to a large snake in a park .

media.tenor.com

lilithtree67.bsky.social @lilithtree67.bsky.social · 13h

LMAO. You're bad!

lilithtree67.bsky.social @lilithtree67.bsky.social · 1d

How delightful!

Right, let's go full conspiracy theory!

lilithtree67.bsky.social @lilithtree67.bsky.social · 1d

a post-science, post-fact, post-rationality world, which doesn't mean these things won't exist, they just no longer have the hegemony they had in C20th.

lilithtree67.bsky.social @lilithtree67.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. When it's facts versus the story, 9/10 times the story wins. Furthermore the culture of the supremacy of facts and rationality is historical and arose to advance new ways of wealth-making and the social relations created.

The problem for scientists and others is that we are moving into

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Ina Vandebroek @inavandebroek.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours

The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down

www.theguardian.com

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lilithtree67.bsky.social @lilithtree67.bsky.social · 1d

This is fascinating and tremendously important. Pass it on.

KISSman @kissman.bsky.social · 3d

I didn't know about this Signal For Help hand gesture until today. I'm quite sure that a lot of other people don't know it either (as demonstrated in this video). If you just learned it now too then it was worth posting.

Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_...

lilithtree67.bsky.social @lilithtree67.bsky.social · 1d

I'm just reposting this cos do any of you believe such baloney - "A Chart Climate Denialists Can't Ignore"?
My arse.

Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 1d

Every so often you come across a piece of evidence that feels strong enough to change minds.

This chart from @hausfath.bsky.social is one of those, directly refuting at least 2 standard climate-denier talking points we've heard from Trump recently

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

A Chart Climate Denialists Can’t Ignore

Every now and then you come across a piece of evidence that feels strong enough to cut through the noise and change minds.

www.bloomberg.com

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lilithtree67.bsky.social @lilithtree67.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing is strong enough to change minds if peeps have a very good reason not to change their mind. When will people learn that, ffs.

lilithtree67.bsky.social @lilithtree67.bsky.social · 1d

Keir "I hate tree huggers" (allegedly) Starmer's govt - don't let them know food inflation is here to stay and is gonna get worse.

Ed King @ed-king.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps there's a good reason No.10 blocked the release of a govt report that shows rainforest collapse = higher food $$ in UK... would love to know it...

No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices

Downing Street has vetoed release of an assessment that says the loss of the Amazon ecosystem could drive up food inflation as well as lead to mass migration

www.thetimes.com

lilithtree67.bsky.social @lilithtree67.bsky.social · 1d