Through my leaky roof
Rain falls down and wind blows cold
Full moon light shines in
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mastodon 4.7.2Writer. Reader. Tolkien, Elizabeth Moon, C. J. Cherryh, Ursula LeGuin, Jodi Taylor, Ilona Andrews, Deborah Harkness. Currently in North Yorkshire. Waiting for the light. Drinker of Tea. Watcher of Birds. Searcher for Hookland. Humanist. Practice radical compassion.
Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. ---Mary Oliver
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ART IS RESISTANCE. HERE IS ONE THING THAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTS YOU TO FORGET. YOU HAVE A VOICE. HOW ARE YOU GOING TO USE IT? ART IS WITNESS. SPEAK THE TRUTH. YOU WILL BE HEARD. ART IS COMMUNITY. ART IS ACTION WITHOUT VIOLENCE. YOU CAN ACT!
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Zafón, Tchaikovsky
This is fascinating. Humans don't have to leave earth for long or far before they start to forget what "human" means.
"Every astronaut who spends more than a few months in orbit comes back describing some version of the same disorientation. Rain smells overwhelming. Fabric feels abrasive. Familiar streets feel piloted rather than driven. The Earth their bodies evolved for has become, briefly, a foreign planet their nervous system is re-learning in real time."
#spacehttps://spacedaily.com/j-v-astronauts-returning-from-long-stays-in-orbit-say-the-smell-of-rain-is-almost-too-much-to-bear-and-a-familiar-street-feels-like-something-they-are-piloting-rather-than-driving/
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@stux@mstdn.social "Enter prompt=?
"Democracy's spirit, ranging for revenge...with a monarch’s voice shall cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of war."
"Parameters=?" the AI prompted.
Marcia A. thought for a moment, then typed "Bank accounts over one million US dollars after currency conversion. Repeat every 30 days."
"Result=?"
"One. Zero all found accounts. Two. Transfer obtained funds to personal funds not previously zeroed."
She smiled, pressing Enter.
"HAVOC."
End scene
#microfiction
All of the recycling, planting trees, and boycotts aren't going to be worth a damn until corporations like these are legally, painfully forced to reduce emissions. Death to the petro-state!
#ClimateChangehttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/21/carbon-dioxide-co2-emissions-fossil-fuel-firms-study
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@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz And if you have a really cool rock you can keep it in the really good box!
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@stevefenton@mastodon.social But when the Firemen of Fahrenheit 451 come for them, will we defend them to the last?
Yes. The answer is yes.
Oppressive hot night
Lightning flashes distantly
Still there is no rain.
A half-empty bed
A single, lonely light on
Thunder arrives. Leaves.
#DailyHaikuPrompt
For #Caturday , a detail from David Hockney's "Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy.
#RIPDavidHockney
Hiking in spring mist
I come upon a muddy
Desolate mitten.
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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social Pollution permits. POLLUTION PERMITS?! I am repulsed that such a thing exists. Anything that "pleases" investors in fossil fuels is a crime.
#climatechange #environment
Down from the high fells
Pours the silent morning cloud
Drowning the gray dales
The world is silent
The owl must find her way home
By the sounds of trees
#DailyHaikuPrompt
Misty spring morning
Last fall's leaves crunch underfoot
New green buds above
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@futurebird @BenjaminHCCarr Perhaps this is not a new process, only a new discovery. If the precursors for life which have been discovered on Bennu and Ryugu endured their space travel even in dormancy by this method, then we're finding spontaneous reactivation of long-dormant genes. The radiation levels of Chornobyl replicated the conditions needed.
Weathered temple gate
Streaks of woodgrain being drawn
Revived by spring rain
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@Rycochet@furs.social Our history, our science, our art and imaginations, for Gods' sake, are being sold to save AI from its own poison. Revolting.
#books #bookstodon
Reed warblers trilling
Weaving nests higher this year
Tides swelling with change.
So foggy the field
I found my way by flowers
Blossom by blossom
Fickle spring maiden
Welcoming buds with cold rain
And last season's tea.
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@QasimRashid@mastodon.social I shake my head at the vitriol in the comments, but I'll add my statement: If the man is dead, we move on. If the man is alive, we move on. Use your anger against policies, billionaire people and corporations, dark money and hidden files. One man isn't worth it. A country we can be proud of deserves the work we can do.
#USpol
"Nature restoration, in other words, is as much a cultural task as an ecological one. The ecological crisis is, at its roots, a crisis of relationship....Responding to the global ecological crisis demands more than behavioural change, environmental awareness, or even rewilding. It calls for deep cultural and ontological repair."
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@shibacomputer This is the kind of blood-on-the-walls essay I needed right now. "How and why the US-led institutional apparatus collapsed the way it did, who are the surplus elites who supplied the final push, and what opportunities exist to build a new kind of post-institution in its place."
Brittle funding structures. Aspirational elites and counter-elites. Boom-extract-enforce. Mr. Choppy.
And the fallen angels who may be the future.
#USpol
Early morning mist
Cannot hide the robin's voice
Singing up the sun.
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@Owen_G_Richards@writing.exchange @glowl@chaos.social @MicroSFF@mastodon.art If microfiction is not the appropriate hashtag, could you suggest others?
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@kittylyst @Unixbigot Oh man I just had to go watch the trailer for that. The Nic Cage one. Looked terrible. Either kitty could drag in a meteorite, or return from downplanet having rolled in the cursed dust of the "blasted heath."
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@Unixbigot "If we had to send cats to do space exploration on Earth's behalf, who knows what cosmic abominations they would bring proudly home to show us." 🤣
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-put-cats-in-microgravity-to-see-what-would-happen
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@DarkGalloway I see a woman running away, her back towards me, her cloak clutched in her right hand as she flees the storm. Nothing left of the tree but the dryad trying to save it.
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@davidsuculum@mathstodon.xyz Hmmm. Visualizing this in my mind, I can't help but compare this to mycorrhizal networks...
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@bythehandofbob@mstdn.social Mohawk Man is beautifully detailed, esp. compared with Calm Lady. Calm lady has all the shading. Both done differently, but also very good.
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@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz From my point of view, this paper clarifies the levers of power that need to be influenced to (1) degrade capitalism, (2) promote climate rescue, and (3) destroy fascism. Leverage points can be used either positively or negatively, depending on desired outcome. To view the world as a system of systems makes saving it more accessible.
#climate #fascism #USpol
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@TomSeppert@fosstodon.org Perhaps "chased by wolfdogs" is the new "wind-assisted."
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@DarkGalloway@mastodon.scot My first thought on seeing this was "three horse heads, one arched downwards and two staring straight at me. Stone kelpies."
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@caseyjohnellis ""Sovereign cyber capacity" used to be a flavor of nationalist grandstanding. In 2026 it means something more specific: assume the cavalry is not coming, and build accordingly."
This is good. This is very, very good.
#dataSovereignty
Servers. Routers. Gateways. DNS. Power plants. Substations.
Just because my little scribblings and photos don't count as targets for disruption on an international level doesn't mean collateral damage can't deny/erase it all.
I'm not a programmer. I don't want to run a NAS or set up Docker instances. I want FOSS made for the reasonable citizen. Our data is ours.
Looking forward to enhancing my/our independence from those who see us as product. 2/2
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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io My thanks to Mr. Jumaane D. Williams, Public Advocate for NY, for this explainer on Tourette's. I needed to hear this, to understand why my initial outrage was misplaced. And I agree that BAFTA failed to provide care to both the presenters and Mr. Davidson, and further they missed the opportunity to explain, compassionately, what happened. The failure to censor is a further embarrassment for BAFTA, as well.
#BAFTA
- That my birdbath has a "deep end."
- That six house sparrows in said birdbath effectively constitute "soup."
- The inexpressible joy that wells up in me when one of them falls into said deep end.
🙃
- There is a miniscule snail on my patio door, its baby shell so translucent I can see its entire body. It has moved a centimetre, perhaps all this morning.
- Noble false widow spider escorted out of the house with due care.
- Have decided the three daddy-longlegs living in my kitchen corner are Maggie, Millie, and Maude.
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@greenpeace@mastodon.social Thanks to @catileptic@chaos.social for linking this article on why hope is not a solution, and why we cannot solve climate change, we can only stop it.
#climateChangehttps://reclaimedsystems.substack.com/p/hope-is-the-last-thing-we-need-why
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@felixtheanimator@kolektiva.social @mlkurnaz@flipboard.social Had to go look up walipini. Pit which can be heated, and is covered by a cold frame or greenhouse. Earth provides temperature stability. Definitely a useful idea to keep in the Long Preparedness toolkit should the climate warrant.
I welcome the current movements towards #digitalSovereignty , but I would like to see anything published on the subject from an individual standpoint. Personal digital sovereignty, if you will. As in not trusting my government, my state, or any corporate cloud. I'm moving my data onto #homecloud with all possible haste, because a thought occurred to me.
I own my #homecloud. I own my data. What I do not own, nor do the providers own, is all of the infrastructure in between. 1/2
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@bobmagicii@phpc.social @ramsey@phpc.social Kind of like jet lag. You arrive in a strange location, disoriented and tired, because your soul isn't caught up with you yet. Read that somewhere and thought it was a good description.
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@thepurpleoctopus@lgbtqia.space One cup of coffee? In this writing economy? *chugging her third pot of free-trade Guatemalan*
#writing
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@mlkurnaz@flipboard.social A good, concise post that applies to the entire planet. Increased unpredictability in weather forecasts and behavior result in a volatile climate which existing systems can't handle. And love the illustration. 🙂
Hey #solarPunk , we must plan for unstable climate futures. The cozy country dream will need adjustments to be successful!