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Finding your Activist Friends. Yes, I've linked it before, but it's such a goody from @epilepticrabbit. blog.weareopen.coop/...

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Canva Ads: Phil Agnew cites these as examples of "𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠...the idea that people judge value by the 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 that went into something." They're also very clever, which makes my heart sing more than the cost.

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This is what courage looks like. Don't let tyrants redefine protest as insurrection.

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So in the Netherlands there's a bit of a branding problem with "No Kings" since we have a King, but he's a decent enough fellow who rides a bike and doesn't send armed forces against his own when people disagree with him. #NoTyrants nltimes.nl/2025/06/1...

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+1 cautionary note about messaging Trump Always Chickens Out (TACO). I don't want him pettily deciding "I'll show those Dems" as he contemplates sending Marines to attack domestic protestors, or considers a nuclear strike. Think toddler psychology, people. www.messageboxnews.c...

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"[The crew of the Madleen] knew they wouldn’t reach Gaza. But they also knew that the world needs reminders, loud, visible, defiant reminders, that what’s happening in Gaza is not normal, not justifiable, and not tolerable." -- Yossi Cadan www.greenpeace.org/c...

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"We wake up to the news of Trump considering declaring California a police state, and Netanyahu considering killing Greta Thunberg if she dares to dock her humanitarian aid boat in Gaza." Michael Moore on Chris Hedge's paeon to Colonia Trumpiana. chrishedges.substack...

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Our Climate Needs a Mythology: "This is the great paradox of climate change: it is both the most scientifically documented crisis in human history and the most poorly narrated. We have an abundance of evidence, and a deficit of meaning." solitairetownsend.su...

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"If Sound can signal a change let it be this one." Brian Eno, who created the Microsoft Windows opening chime sound, bites the hand that once fed him for its complicity in genocide in Palestine. www.instagram.com/p/...

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The Land of Hope and Dreams vs Make America Great Again. Great piece on two competing visions of the US. www.nytimes.com/2025...

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Did I ever tell you about the time I fell out of a hot air balloon? If you're in Amsterdam, you can hear the whole story this Friday at the Tell Amsterdam storytelling night at #BoomChicago fareharbor.com/embed...

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I've said it before and I'll say it again: the comments section of the NYT's Connections Puzzle may be the last vestige of my hope for America. ❤️🦋 #Connections @NewYorkTimes

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I saw something extraordinary on stage recently, and it changed me. story4change.substac...

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Biden was "Pushing Upward."

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An Activist, a person with diabetes, and a comedian walk into a bar... Beth Strachan and I do a podcast about How Dancing Fox teamed up with diaTribe to shift cultural narratives around diabetes with sketch comedy and stand up 🥸 #spoonfuloflaughter brooks.digital/healt...

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Fascinating report, wonderful integrity. At the end of the day, no matter who took it, that image shaped & cemented my generation's horror at US actions in Vietnam. It was part of my journey towards peace activism.

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I love this so much: Relax… it's only the climate crisis Oilwell is a wellness app to help you embrace climate chaos. 🔥🔥🔥 https://oilwell.app/

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I recently played a conspiracy-spouting rooster hawking quack cures for bird flu at #BoomChicago. 💥🐓💉 People, I swear: comedy is an undervalued 🐴 Trojan Horse of truth 🐴, improv is an activist's best skill set, and there was a time it saved my ass: story4change.substac...

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It's for days like these that I added an "Explain" link to my HomeAssistant daily #XKCD #HACS widget. www.explainxkcd.com/...

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Great Saturday read: My Miserable Week in the ‘Happiest Country on Earth’ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/m...

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Pretty good diagnosis of the need to recognize that politics sits downstream from culture: "A generation of 70-year-olds who called for the departure of an 81-year-old fail to understand how anyone under 60 gets information about the world." www.nytimes.com/2025...

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Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish woman on a student visa, was grabbed near XKCD author Randall Munroe's home by 6 masked plainclothes agents and sent to detention in Louisiana. Her apparent crime: she signed an article protesting Tuft University's handling of protests over Gaza.

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A community that didn't have a basketball team because of high rates of asthma, how they stopped what would have been the world's largest trash incinerator, and why you've never heard that story. narrativeedit.substa...

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For second year in a row, Iceland won't kill whales this season. Meanwhile, the whale watching industry thrives. Andrew Davies hatched the idea of a reverse boycott in 2004: a pledge to visit Iceland if whaling stopped. Sometimes campaigns take decades. www.ruv.is/english/2...

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Great use of House Media: Johnny Cashew's email footer. When you hit the banner, you go to this teaser to their (if we do say so ourselves) rather wonderfully written Impact Report: johnnycashew.com/che...

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The Hungarian far right government just amended their constitution to limit LGBTQI+ rights even further. This goes completely against the right to protest. ✨ Pride is like glitter, you can never get rid of it. 🌈 We will be in Budapest on 28 June, no matter what. Sign here: www.tilt.green/pride

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Empathy isn't weakness, Elon. The expansion of empathy in ever widening circles to people beyond the borders of ourselves, our family, our tribe, our race, our nation, and our species is the core measure of humanity's progress. #Empathy

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Hey Siri, fail to impress me. Honestly, I was looking forward to Siri getting new intelligence features, but I'm so much happier with the ChatGPT integration I built into my HomeAssistant.

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Does anyone else read the comments for the NYT's Connections puzzle? I love the puzzle, but I ADORE the comments. It's such an oasis of positive idle chit chat and encouragement and collaborative creativity. It's a perfect little desert island in a toxic digital sea. #Connections

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Iris Maerten and I at the International Fundraising Congress, according to ChatGPT.

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OK, the new ChatGPT image generator wouldn't let me portray Vladimir Putin in a negative light, but as long as we agreed to call him Blad Vutin, this is fine...

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War plans on Signal? I worked at Greenpeace for 35 years and Operational Security was better there than in the Trump administration. Competence and merit my ass. www.youtube.com/watc...

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🙏🙏💪🇺🇸🇺🇸 If you recognize that, you're party to a violation of the espionage act. "Under the previous administration we looked like fools. Not anymore." --Pete Hegseth #clowncaropsec

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Yeah. The revolution starts now. wagingnonviolence.or...

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Putin shut down Greenpeace in Russia. Trump is trying to do the same in the US. You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire. And you can't sue a movement. www.nytimes.com/2025...

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The space in front of the wheel causes it to move. Today's little bit of Tao from Simon Hodges' latest, "Ruminating with a Cow," on substack. lindenbower.substack...

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William Shawn probably shaped my life and those of so many friends more than we know. By running Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and John Hershey's piece on Hiroshima in full in The New Yorker, he created two mind-bombs whose shock waves started so many of us down activist paths.

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I miss John Prine so much. This remains, for me, one of his most perfect storytelling songs. Watch for the moment in this when he breaks a string. His joy in the exuberance is just so beautiful. www.youtube.com/watc...

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I ❤️ Wise. Recommended by a fellow freelancer, they've saved me a HEAP of money on international currency transfers. (My bank: €40 Wise: €5!) Use this link to get your first 500 Euro transfers free -- and Wise will throw a little perk my way too. wise.com/invite/dic/...

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An activist friend in Serbia writes: "What's happening in Serbia is a true revolution—mark my words! The students are leading the protests with their youthful energy, humor, persistence, boldness, courage, and determination—I have never seen anything like this." www.masina.rs/eng/

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Best client ever! ❤️❤️ Such a joy to work with. When a brand lives its values, it shows in so many ways. Being sent a copy of a report we worked on, with a gift and a thank you, is wonderful proof of who Johnny Cashew is. Treating people like people rather than a means to an economic end.

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So proud to have been part of bringing Johnny Cashew's Impact Report to life. If you own a Fairphone, love Tony Chocolonely, or care about sustainability and human rights, it's really the only cashew you should buy. Why? Well, check out their impact report! johnnycashew.com/imp...

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"Neuroscience shows us that when we witness kindness, our brain processes it as if someone is being kind to us, which in turn drives us to be kind." Thanks Thomas Coombes for a helpful and hopeful reminder. open.substack.com/pu...

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Joined a truly magical session with Lucy Hawthorne of Climate Play last night, exploring sustainability through Lego Serious Play. Love the way this methodology opens up new modes of thinking and invites people in.

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🤔 WEIRD! I created a #HomeAssistant #Hacs card to deliver the new #xkcd comic every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and deliver a RANDOM comic on other days. I coded it, so I know it's RANDOM. But look what it popped up TODAY, just before Valentine's Day!!! @home_assistant github.com/Brianfit/...

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I'm also calling my congressional reps about USAID dismantlement and Musk's illegal gutting of programmes my ELECTED officials created. Trump thinks he's a king: #DoNotBelieveHim

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Hundreds of thousands of people march in Argentina against fascism and discrimination

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