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Can't visualize a thing, so I make it real instead: Puppets!
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New book on puppetry coming out this summer with Routledge. Edited by the amazing team of editors Dassia Posner, Claudia Orenstein, and Alissa Mello. Proud to be among the contributors: tinyurl.com/4m7m4mhx

The Canadian „first past the post“ electoral system holds the same dangers as the US system and urgently needs to be reformed to combat extremist outcomes 1/3

Mae Jemison: “Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Art provides a universal understanding of personal experience.” We need both

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Aristotle: For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with arms, meant to be used by intelligence and virtue, which he may use for the worst ends. 1/2

The importance of an Orbital Perspective vis-a-vis the challenges we face on this planet youtu.be/pJGCAWTgbn0?...

Slade Wentworth: "The recipe isn't always easy, but neither are most worthwhile endeavors. Belonging is a wonderful thing." www.instagram.com/reel/DF-jKX3...

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

True! Bannon Laid it all out. Flood the zone and while we don't know where to look and are getting exhausted trying to make sense of what is happening, take the sledge hammer to everything. Eerily bring to mind Marinetti's Manifesto of the Futurism (1909). 1/2

Musk‘s provocation seems to be ages ago but is not forgotten. A clever montage by Carlo Amleto and ceppe.land

From farmer and writer Georgie Smith of Willowood Farm on the Pacific Northwest substack.com/home/post/p-...

Staatsstreich=Bürokratieabbau? Also genau wie: Brandstiftung="thermische Renovierung" Plünderung="alternatives Einkaufskonzept" Gefängnisstrafe="betreutes Wohnen" Zensur="redaktionelle Optimierung" Raubüberfall="ungeplante Vermögensumverteilung" Geht's noch ARD Tagesschau?

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An "Extinction Burst," a term from the field of psychology, provides a useful lens to to view our current political moment

You can use the app "5 Calls" to find the representatives to call in your district with some sample language to get you started: bsky.app/profile/5cal...

A German supermarket ad from 2017 youtu.be/-fHOIZKSUCc?...

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From „Politics“ By Aristotle. Written 350 B.C.E „Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.“ …. „Again, superiority is a cause of revolution when one or more persons have a power which is too much for the state and the power of the government; …

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Is this where we’re at?

Aus „Der Neinsager“ von Bertolt Brecht: „Warum antwortest du nicht dem Brauch gemäß? Wer a gesagt hat, muss auch b sagen. . . .“ Der Knabe: “Die Antwort, die ich gegeben habe, war falsch, aber eure Frage war falscher. Wer a sagt, muss nicht b sagen. Er kann auch erkennen, dass a falsch war.“