Herefordrob

My #3goodthings
* Sunshine
* Community
* Love is everywhere

My #3goodthings
* Light mornings (BST).
* Dandelions, adding colour like daffodils.
* The wind adding movement to trees.

I recently decided I was am pragmatic optimist. So I was reassured its a real thing.
https://www.proventushr.com/chasing-the-bright-side-pragmatic-optimist

Attributed to Marie Curie in 1933 lecture
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less."

If you don't fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel lost and ashamed- it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud. We need to be radical, diverse and deviate.

The Chandogya Upanishad reminds us, “As vast as the infinite world beyond is the world within the lotus of the heart.” There are worlds within us.
This is consciousness we can each access it.

Science has shown that the ripple effect is real, through mirror neurons, for example. So it's inevitable, we can choose to add to it whatever we wish, let's make it a kindness, patience.
What action will you take?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/mirror-neurons

The word 'prevail' could be a whole conversation. The truth is our elected so called "leaders" are denying the second part of this principle.

Is vicinity.social a fediverse entity?
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

“I strongly condemn the illegal Israeli and US aggression against Iran, in violation of the most fundamental rule of international law and the United Nations Charter – the ban on the use of force. This is not lawful self-defence against an armed attack by Iran, and the Security Council has not authorized it. Preventive disarmament, counter-terrorism, and regime change on this scale constitute the international crime of aggression. All responsible governments should condemn this lawlessness from two countries who excel in shredding the international legal order.” Ben Saul, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/23/iran-in-the-light-of-the-nuremberg-principles/

Ubuntu is a term that originated in southern Africa to mean the sense of community with others. In the Novasutras movement, we have expanded this definition to include the broader connections between all things, binding together the more-than-human world. It incorporates our duty as conscious humans to participate in this community with reverence, joy, generosity, gratitude, and loving-kindness.
#universalJustice #universalequality #UnityInDiversity #univeraleducation
#universalequity

Extinction is not just a scientific concept. It is an emotional reality.

Each species lost represents a unique evolutionary history that will never be repeated.

It carries intrinsic value, independent of its usefulness to humans.

This debate is not merely semantic. Words shape perception, and perception shapes action.

Calling the crisis a mass extinction underscores its severity and urgency.

At the same time, acknowledging that we are in the midst of the process, rather than at its conclusion, emphasizes that there is still time to change course.

https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/the-6th-mass-extinction-are-we-currently-living-through-it

"Dignity, freedom should never depend on geography, identity, or power, or ethnicity. And that's what we need. as one world, because we live in a world where we all are potential victims. No one is far from risk. Any conflict anywhere spreads everywhere. Conflicts, war, diseases, and these pandemics, they cross barriers." Dr. Isoldein Aboulaish,
https://thecharterforcompassion.substack.com/p/refusing-to-hate-in-the-face-of-tragedy?publication_id=5726105&post_id=193538474&r=3ih2ml&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&showTranscript=true

My #threegoodthings for today:

• My wifes empathy, even when she finds another person in her life has cancer.

• I am breathing I am alive.

• I have fresh running water in my home.

A picture for the history books but also to learn from.

What does the UN Secretary-General actually do? 🌍

They are more than a global figure — they are the voice of diplomacy, the bridge between nations, and a key leader in tackling the world’s biggest challenges.

From peace and security to climate action and human rights, their role helps shape the direction of our shared future.

And yet… since 1945, there has never been a woman in this position.

Representation matters. Leadership matters. Change is overdue.

#GWLVoices #UN #SecretaryGeneral #NextUNSG

Without two wings working together we cannot reach our full potential.
#universaljustice #universalequity
#unityindiversity

Consensus is important. The process of reaching it is of equal significance, in terms of cohesion, transparency, unity of participation & action... These things need practice, time, patience, self-awareness, compassion...
#UnityInDiversity #univeraleducation #universalparticipation
This political perspective has I believe potential to bring domination and adversariality to an end. This would I have to say include #patriarchalcapitalism

We can all practice compassion.

In a world that often feels fragmented-across differences of belief, experience, and identity, the question before us is not simply how to communicate, but how to connect in ways that restore relationship and build trust.
TLC-Talk, Listen, Connect, emerges as a simple yet profound response to this need.

https://charterforcompassion.org

Does anyone care to comment?

Perpetual material/economic growth is just immature thinking.
It is inhumane, unscientific, unjust, unfair, suicidal, the list could be long.
Unlike the list that supports it which is short but includes: it makes rich people and 'entities' richer, it could get us to a hostile empty planet. Aaaaaarrrrrrgggghhhh

This week is national mental health week in the UK, so a question

The original phone was an instrument of communication. The new "hand held device" usually called a phone is an instrument of consumerism and ongoing colonisation, in its many forms, as such we were conned by language into thinking it was a service to the majority.

As I have said on numerous occasions represententative democracy as an experiment has had its day. The present rise of extremism illustrates this to my mind.
The majority of humans are more than capable of representing themselves. So I hope we will learn from history and try another democratic process involving #universaleducation
#universalequality
#universalparticipation would be a step in the right direction.

Compassion in the UK.

You’re Invited — Allies in Action: UK Chat
Please join us for our upcoming UK Chat, part of the Allies in Action series — a welcoming conversation space to connect, share, and reflect together.

These Chats help us strengthen community, deepen relationships, and stay inspired by the many ways compassion is being expressed in lived experience.

https://connect.charterforcompassion.org/civicrm/event/info?id=279&reset=1

https://accidentalgods.life/collective-effervescence-redefining-a-democracy-that-works-with-isabella-roberts-of-antiparty
"Can we separate politics from democracy? Our political system is wholly corrupt and no longer fit for purpose – if it ever was.
What if Citizens’ Assemblies could bring agency to the whole of our population, helping people to find empathy with each other, to engage in conversations in good faith and work together to solve the wicked problems of the polycrisis: social inequity, climate chaos, the death cult of predatory capitalism.
These are so interlinked, we won’t fix one unless we fix them all".
https://accidentalgods.life/collective-effervescence-redefining-a-democracy-that-works-with-isabella-roberts-of-antiparty/

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."
Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind

Maybe we have passed this point, so what choices do we have?

Where else can so many states in, number, political persuasion, varied size, economic standing be seen talking together, trying to develop a better world?

The United Nations for all its shortcomings is the best hope we have as a global governance watchdog (apparently). Needless to say it needs major reforms & restructuring, not least ending the #veto & end present security council failures, they are undemocratic.

We need to experiment with democracy not put it in a box. It let's #civilsociety thrive & people grow.

#worldfederalism #Education #Equality #Justice #worldcitizen #sortition

https://riverasun.com/the-laboratory-of-democracy

This is where we all live together, and so has everyone who has ever lived and you have ever known.
Let's each take action that shows you/I/we care. This is the ripple effect we are all in,right now.

I have just tidied up (deleted) my favourites. It's not personal but just really crowded. It's not personal honest.

"Fostering dependancy" is scorned upon in caring systems, but is the new model for suicidal economic growth.
https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/my-address-to-the-european-parliament?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=6gykt6

Military Keynesianism is an economic policy based on the position that government should raise military spending to boost economic growth. It is a fiscal stimulus policy as advocated by John Maynard Keynes. But where Keynes advocated increasing public spending on socially useful items (infrastructure in particular), additional public spending is allocated to the arms industry, the area of defense being that over which the executive exercises greater discretionary power. This type of economy is linked to the interdependence between welfare and warfare states, in which the latter feeds the former, in a potentially unlimited spiral. The term is often used pejoratively to refer to politicians who apparently reject Keynesian economics, but use Keynesian arguments in support of excessive military spending...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Keynesianism