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Will Tuladhar-Douglas
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mostly ex-professor and activist, now doing some consulting and working on refugee integration for local government. Saguaro Buddhist: empty, green, and prickly […] 🌉 bridged from https://todon.nl/@yetiinabox on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
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LiteralGrill @literalgrill.sakurajima.moe.ap.brid.gy · 3d
Ya know, right now would be an AMAZING time for Mastodon's leadership to break bread with the Black programmers that really wanted to help make this place less racist.

Bluesky just banned a prominent Black user from basically being seen by anyone. **Because Bluesky's CEO is mad about their […]
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Will Tuladhar-Douglas @yetiinabox.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 1d
@LillyHerself

Technically not the first - Samye Ling is a wonderful place, but there was a Kalmyk monastery in Belgrade from the 1920s (!).

And yes, it is weird if you're from the friendly bits of Scotland: some layers of Scottish society are open and tolerant, but some really are not. Here in […]
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Will Tuladhar-Douglas @yetiinabox.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 1d
When I try to describe the routine prejudice we encounter as Buddhists in Scotland, most folk just don't believe me. I have had colleagues at a new job threaten to resign rather than working with me. But Tory MSP Murdo Fraser really capped it ...

Murdo Fraser reported to police over call for […]
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Will Tuladhar-Douglas @yetiinabox.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Protest the billionaires profiting from Home Office refugee housing contracts, not the refugees. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9r5m74de8o
Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper
Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of "terrible" conditions as accommodation provider makes millions.
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Will Tuladhar-Douglas @yetiinabox.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 3d
Replaced hinges on double-glazed window module.

#diyachievementunlocked

for extra credit: drill out rivets (a curse upon the manufacturer!) and replace with screws.

My poor kids had to hold the window module from the outside while I drilled the first pair of holes in the frame.

That is one […]
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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 4d
Citizen: "Hi, I'm an ordinary citizen who believes in reducing their carbon footprint. That's why I recently went vegan. I've installed solar panels, an inverter, and batteries, and have switched to a green energy provider for my grid power. I now also drive an EV. They may be small […]
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Will Tuladhar-Douglas @yetiinabox.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 5d
So is this one storm Exxon, or Sinopec, or Aramco? Does anyone remember? A wall fell apart down the road, and some dunes collapsed...just trying to remember who to blame.
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Sofasophia @sofasophia.fairmove.net.ap.brid.gy · 9d
Über #autismus nachdenken:
Eigentlich ist autistisch zu sein vor allem, eine hochpotenzierte Hoch- und Reizsensibilität zu managen. (Fast) alle sogenannten Symptome resultieren daraus, sind Folgen und Versuche, die zu vielen Reize irgendwie zu ordnen, zu erfassen.
Selbst die sozialen Probleme […]
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Nele Põldvere (PhD) @nelepoldvere.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 14d
Hello everyone! 👋

After having run a project account for a while, I thought it's high time to put a face to my research. So here I am: an English linguist with an interest in the language of fake news and spoken language (not always together, actually I prefer to take a break from fake news […]
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Will Tuladhar-Douglas @yetiinabox.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 10d
it has been way too long since I listened to Black Uhuru.

#sundaycleaningsoundtrack
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Zen Every Day ◯ @zeneveryday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d
"To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist – if you say you are, you probably aren’t."

– Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Daily #zen #buddhism #ferlinghetti #lawrenceferlinghetti
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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16d
@gedankenstuecke As someone who had to take their name off off a paper because I got laid off, and the conference actively prohibited unafilliated scholars from submitting, yeah...
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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 18d
In March this year I gave a talk at #monkigras about how Free Software didn't understand it had invented a labour organising movement, and the the predictable consequences of that realisation. It wasn't recorded.

Here's a repeat I gave at #pyconau this week. ENJOY! […]
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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 19d
"I finally saw the bleeding obvious: you cannot speak truth to power if power controls your words" – George Monbiot

This also is the truth.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/20/journalist-40-years-forces-profession-power
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Ailantd Sikowsky🔻 @ailantd.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 19d
Image of the GL-Justice after being illegally attacked by Ziontis criminal settlers in international space, while transporting first aid supplies to Pralestine Mayor.
Once again, the corrupt Galaxy Council offered a feeble condemnation but did nothing.

#spaceship #shiptember
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Will Tuladhar-Douglas @yetiinabox.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 22d
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02980-2

The authoritative scientific journal says: more trains, now.
Make trains great again — for the sake of people and the planet
As railways enter their third century of service, research must support their renaissance for more-sustainable travel that supports human development.
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Will Tuladhar-Douglas @yetiinabox.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 27d
al-Jazeera wrote this: "Nepal has grappled with political and economic instability since the abolition of its monarchy in 2008" . Simply not true. The monarchy after Birendra (assassinated in 2001) has been one of the most destabilizing forces in the civil war and after - Gyanendra and his son […]
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Will Tuladhar-Douglas @yetiinabox.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 27d
Israel bombed Doha. The Russians sent drones into Poland. Nepal is going through a particularly violent change of elites. We might have found evidence for life on another planet.

Every USAian on here is obsessed with one particular gun killing of the several that happen every day there, and I […]
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Glen Malley @glen-malley.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 29d
So help me, I laughed
#shitpost #meme #distractedboyfriend
A variation of the "distracted boyfriend" meme. In this version, everyone is in wearing togas, and the boyfriend has been turned to stone as he looks back at a passing Medusa.
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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission @collectifission.greennuclear.online.ap.brid.gy · Sep 7
Have to say: solid W for the UN here.

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/09/07/un-general-assembly-votes-overwhelmingly-to-move-from-nyc-to-geneva-after-us-bans-palestine-reps/
UN General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to move from NYC to Geneva after US bans Palestine reps
### 154-2 vote against US-Israeli arrogance The ‘Judging Freedom’ podcast on the vote. The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has voted overwhelmingly to move its September session from New York City to Geneva after the US government refused entry visas to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and dozens of other senior Palestinian officials – a rare show of defiance to the US regime and its relentless support for genocidal Israel. The US State Department had claimed it had denied the visas for “national security,” and that the Palestinian Authority was “undermining peace efforts” because it had dared to appeal to the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice at the Hague against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The US ban is a clear violation of the 1947 UN Headquarters Agreement, which requires the host country to provide access for _all_ accredited delegations. The vote carries echoes of the UN’s 1988 decision to move its session to Geneva when the US denied entry to then-Palestine Liberation Organisation head Yasser Arafat. The new move will help a segment dedicated to Palestinian rights, scheduled for 22 September, to proceed without interference and with the relevant representatives present. Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez described the US visa denial as “unjust”. Only the US and Israel voted against the resolution. Britain abstained. The UK ‘mainstream’ media have largely ignored the vote. ### Share this: * Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn * Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr * ### Like this: Like Loading... ### _Related_
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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 7
Something interesting is happening to the fedi, I keep running into more accounts of people based in my side of the world, those close to East Africa (I even saw a Shona poem today, from further down south). I know it's not a mass migration but it's a snail spreading the word. Not a cheetah. So […]
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Will Tuladhar-Douglas @yetiinabox.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5
Fresh plums, picked today.
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David Ho @davidho.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · Aug 30
Who knew? The same monk, Gyoro Nagase, has been responsible for caring for the London Peace Pagoda in Battersea Park for the past 41 years. And he lives in the pagoda! […]
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Will Tuladhar-Douglas @yetiinabox.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · Aug 24
Over the weekend, I set myself to read _Solastalgia_ (ed. Paul Board, 2023). The writing was sometimes really very good, and foregrounded a wonderfully wide range of voices, but I couldn't get past the undiscussed wall around it: all the writers wrote from places of privilege in North America […]
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