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There is a petition on behalf of @ZackPolanski on the 38 Degrees platform against palantir being involved in the NHS.
I've just signed this petition. Will you add your name and share too?
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@DarkOptimism/115720005925845085
I just enrolled on this myself, despite the overlap with our own ongoing #SurvivingTheFuture:#TheDeeperDive.
It simply feels a bit unmissable!! 😍 ✊
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@DarkOptimism/115525692449127859
Looking forward to listening in on #RogerHallam, #DanaFisher, #JeremyLent and #JamesDyke discuss collapse and dark optimism from 5:30pm, and then rounding off the festival with my workshop on how to live into it from 6:30pm today 🙂
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I'm horrified to hear that after killing #SchumacherCollege (my blog post about that here: https://www.darkoptimism.org/2024/08/31/death-and-rebirth-farewell-dear-schumacher-college-hello-new-friends/ ) the #DartingtonHallTrust is now looking to evict #MartinCrawford and uproot the finest forest garden in the temperate world; a place that was a personal inspiration to #MarkBoyle and me.
Needless to say, such places cannot quickly be moved or restored.
Learn more and join the defence:
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Looking forward to opening #TheDeeperDive with Nate Hagens on Tuesday.
He and I have been doing these together for six years now, and the community it's birthed has become a real support in everything we're all doing to reshape our futures around the world ❤️
I'm feeling thankful, and excited to meet the new cohort!!
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It's not given to me to know how the dead feel about their birthdays, but I today raise a glass to my late friend #DavidFleming, who would have been 85 today 🍻
For the legacy of inspiration which led, among so much else, to our whole #SurvivingTheFuture community, which another 50 folk will join next week
It's also not given to me to know how my life might have gone without him. Or if that question even makes sense..
But my gratitude is profound — thank you, dear man!
https://mstdn.social/@DarkOptimism/113000449581507193 -
@Hellybootwader @pvonhellermannn @robloblaw @shusha @CoolBlenderKitten @StingrayBadger @cavyherd @matthewskelton @CelloMomOnCars @phil_stevens @cavyherd @run_atalanta @Janet_52square
Since that powerful article has received so much love overnight, thought some of y'all might also enjoy this wonderful new #WaterIsLove movie out of #Tamera, grounded in that very same understanding, which they've been acting on for decades 💧❤️
Website: https://www.waterislovefilm.org/
Full movie: https://www.darkoptimism.org/WaterIsLove.mp4
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@pvonhellermannn
Ah, absolutely my pleasure Pauline.This short piece perhaps best sums up the strength that I too find in the realisation:
https://www.darkoptimism.org/2013/01/20/the-secret-truth-behind-environmentalists/My late friend #MichaelDowd called it the 'post doom' space, which is another term I love. If of interest, here's our very first conversation — I guess it's #postdoom meeting #darkoptimism and, perhaps unsurprisingly, finding we had a lot in common..!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR0C8h7go40 -
So delighted to be able to add #IainMcGilchrist to our list of confirmed guests for this winter's Deeper Dive into #SurvivingTheFuture!
He joins Vandana Shiva, Lyla June, Nate Hagens, Isa Frémeaux and Rob Hopkins who'll be joining us (and you?) in conversation:
https://www.darkoptimism.org/2023/10/09/surviving-the-future-the-deeper-dive-2024/ -
My piece about Sterling College's forthcoming #SurvivingTheFuture: #TheDeeperDive
With me, #VandanaShiva, #LylaJune, #NateHagens, #IsabelleFrémeaux, #RobHopkins and others!
Just an amazing experience, with spaces going fast..(also a small conversational gathering later today, 7-8pm BST) 😊🤫
https://www.darkoptimism.org/2023/10/09/surviving-the-future-the-deeper-dive-2024/
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In an hour's time I'll be chatting about #SurvivingTheFuture: #ConversationsForOurTime (https://www.ce.sterlingcollege.edu/surviving-the-future) with a few alumni, as part of the wonderful #ReimaginingEducation online event.
Join us if you're curious!
https://www.darkoptimism.org/events/ -
From January, over 8 weeks, we'll build a small online community of 50 and discuss our times with the likes of #NateHagens, #StephenJenkinson, #IsabelleFrémeaux, #MarkBoyle, #SherriMitchell, #TimDeChristopher, #RobHopkins & #VandanaShiva.
I'll be running '#SurvivingTheFuture: #TheDeeperDive' through Vermont's #SterlingCollege.
25 places still available, and *all on a trust-based inclusive basis* to ensure money's no obstacle to participation.
Today's blog post on't:
https://www.darkoptimism.org/2022/11/27/surviving-the-future-the-deeper-dive-2023/ -
From January, over 8 weeks, we'll build a small online community of 50 and discuss our times with the likes of #NateHagens, #StephenJenkinson, #IsabelleFrémeaux, #MarkBoyle, #SherriMitchell, #TimDeChristopher, #RobHopkins & #VandanaShiva.
I'll be running '#SurvivingTheFuture: #TheDeeperDive' through Vermont's #SterlingCollege.
25 places still available, and *all on a trust-based inclusive basis* to ensure money's no obstacle to participation.
Today's blog post on't:
https://www.darkoptimism.org/2022/11/27/surviving-the-future-the-deeper-dive-2023/ -
From January, over 8 weeks, we'll build a small online community of 50 and discuss our times with the likes of #NateHagens, #StephenJenkinson, #IsabelleFrémeaux, #MarkBoyle, #SherriMitchell, #TimDeChristopher, #RobHopkins & #VandanaShiva.
I'll be running '#SurvivingTheFuture: #TheDeeperDive' through Vermont's #SterlingCollege.
25 places still available, and *all on a trust-based inclusive basis* to ensure money's no obstacle to participation.
Today's blog post on't:
https://www.darkoptimism.org/2022/11/27/surviving-the-future-the-deeper-dive-2023/ -
From January, over 8 weeks, we'll build a small online community of 50 and discuss our times with the likes of #NateHagens, #StephenJenkinson, #IsabelleFrémeaux, #MarkBoyle, #SherriMitchell, #TimDeChristopher, #RobHopkins & #VandanaShiva.
I'll be running '#SurvivingTheFuture: #TheDeeperDive' through Vermont's #SterlingCollege.
25 places still available, and *all on a trust-based inclusive basis* to ensure money's no obstacle to participation.
Today's blog post on't:
https://www.darkoptimism.org/2022/11/27/surviving-the-future-the-deeper-dive-2023/ -
From January, over 8 weeks, we'll build a small online community of 50 and discuss our times with the likes of #NateHagens, #StephenJenkinson, #IsabelleFrémeaux, #MarkBoyle, #SherriMitchell, #TimDeChristopher, #RobHopkins & #VandanaShiva.
I'll be running '#SurvivingTheFuture: #TheDeeperDive' through Vermont's #SterlingCollege.
25 places still available, and *all on a trust-based inclusive basis* to ensure money's no obstacle to participation.
Today's blog post on't:
https://www.darkoptimism.org/2022/11/27/surviving-the-future-the-deeper-dive-2023/ -
For those interested to know more about life here around our free inn #TheHappyPig 🐷 , here's the 45 minute episode of #BenFogle's #Channel5 show #NewLivesInTheWild where he came to stay and hang out with #MarkBoyle:
https://www.darkoptimism.org/NewLivesInTheWild.mp4Or a 4 minute taste of the place by actress and model #LilyCole, in which I appear:
https://www.nowness.com/series/retreats/retreats-marble-hill-lily-cole-mark-boyle-the-moneyless-manMore info at:
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@DarkOptimism/116224229406939212
This is precisely the kind of thing we're talking about, when we're talking about #digitalSovereignty - even if Palantir wasn't a very dubious organisation, we still shouldn't be sending our citizens data to overseas orgs. The risks are too great, and the outcomes are permanent.
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Just started to devour #leanLogic and had a blast reading this bit: https://leanlogic.online/glossary/gaia/
Coincidentally a sublime mix of science, activism, spirituality and a very good read.
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otherWise is for the weary activist, the horizon watchers, the tinkering transitionist, the reluctant realist, and so many more.
otherWise is a #cosmolocal learning #community, offering small, place-rooted gatherings and deep, slow virtual inquiry.
Explore in-person and online offerings on a wide range of topics, from gardening and motherhood to grief work and care and creativity at the margins: https://otherwise.one/
#explore #grief #edgework #postgrowthalliance #postgrowth
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2/2 But I AM optimistic about community and strength in the growing realisation that #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateCollapse is happening right now and that this is where we need to act from; that we still have each other, and this is not nothing.
I love the community we have here on #ClimateDiary. And I will be doing the #SurvivingTheFuture module with @DarkOptimism
this spring. Very much looking forward to it! -
CW: #Trust #Transparency #Realness * with #Anonymous / ID Protective people on #Fediverse especially *
What is missing on Fediverse and everywhere now certainly in real life for various reasons mentioned... which doesn't make anonymous people guilty of a crime or bad, but almost the regular opposite though systems or people can assume otherwise without name, age, birth etc info which makes people uneasy without.
So I CC: you here as alternate way of saying some of what we talked about before and alternate evidence (not just my experience and testing with people / you).
CC: Chris H #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic
CC: @freemo QOTO admin
CC: @freeschool (me)
CC: Amiya Behera #FBPPR @amiya_rbehera
CC: Joost van Baal-Ilić
@joostvb
CC: @DarkOptimism (audio speaker)Feel free to boost if you think others can comment on this as further opinion...
DEEPER VERSION BELOW
FOR THOSE ABLE TO BELIEVE....This audible version says my heart what many of us say in various ways, which I can accept is a better interpretation or needed as various medium to bridge to each other. Audio shows underlying #psychology and even main problems of why problems continue (!)
Again many ways can lead to similar ways but the same / ID ways online can often lead but it's "safety" to the same limited bad ways for 'good' 'spam-free' filters people's brain does online... all this is great for for States and System's when people reveal themselves online (Scholars I understand a bit more if out there or career making) but often assume there is no other way and makes it too easy for Capitalism to see / pin comms, and then work on preventing them. I could give you examples but jail time for speaking out (without violence, without much) is actually enough evidence itself (unless you don't believe there are people sitting in jail now too easily from their own evidence - could have been a bit better and assumed one day it would come to that).
Much like a wing-man or wife speaking for their partner, people like Shaun Chamberlain @DarkOptimism (whose work I really recommend) are needed to talk for us (and OK more credible as representative of principles / not titles as much as that shows some skill) and show others a more accepting or measured way to get us all there and what we anon feel excluded from and able to do (if not block us after!).
Shaun helps people see and bridge their own gaps (it is your gap not mine but I don't mean everyone listed here or that I'm perfect).
But you're able to do more with me / other / anon people, spam-looking even who still hold logic, persistence, usable energy etc and include them and not just ignored based on pseudo-name, nickname, username,... or dodgy looking links you don't even test
Not people defining themselves by capitalism's "work", not just in tech (where it can help see another pure coder) but everywhere now less are doing the caring work and head in computers (the hard stuff and what coders might be avoiding / running from because we are reliably imperfect - and human, but doesn't make us bad or helping humanity get better by not doing more of or coding ever more disposable code). Humans also transfer many things reliably and in the now.
Robotic and too safe / sterile
= less trust, friendship, practise, ...Not doing the deeper human work then yes you're part of a culture in decline...
...yes even without name or passport control or answering adequately "where are you from?' questions... all of that can be too much now we are culturally / historically raped, all mixed or sterilised in some form, or just disconnected. And wish to focus on other stuff first... maybe even therapy of all that along the way for everyone...
We shed identity of Capitalism's kind and Capitalism also raised the bar of being complicit in 'system' #war / #extractive #factory types of uncaring #systems
🛂 ID is the same copy and paste for uncaring Capitalism as a conditional start (and end) to everything, so make note of that. 📔
Those questions are even not so needed (but ok if some want to answer but accept some don't) We also most certainly will offer it later don't worry - just not in your order currently.
You need to have better faith than me at least- and if you don't - justify it... so that our survival in the future isn't just about people who didn't try with genuine people (assume 99% are or testable as-you-go to understand what their type IF it not clear from profile or first messages).
Can't ignore anonymous real responsive logical people, activists who know what we use online, and good reason for being protective (nothing to do with you directly) and yes almost a curse we have on ourself to bare like not having Facebook but hold highest principle of self-protection from system holding close because we know data collecting and mapping and whatever is all future 'prevention' in the making from our comms and *IDentifying* people.
Repeat this audio a few times.
And find more chance for us to do more. Or tell me more why now.
Thank you.========
WITH "more anonymous" in mind people like me .... i.e. Less defined by role in society (since anyway we are rejected) and less ID or less passport upfront means even #activists don't understand a different version of #activism - such that activist-scholars don't understand or want to understand other too well - which means they can't practise without psychological unrelaxedness even when a genuine anonymouse comes a long. Staying inside activist-scholar realms is also dangerously easy to shut down.
I could tell you how but I think those than almost dox themselves are also needed and part of it - each can work in their own way.And instead play it so safe it can play our reasoning or even coming out of boxes and assumptions.
The reasonable expectation and interactions
Because I / we are frequently ignored based on prejudice of holding back our exact identity or profession (we are protective from system more than anything but doesn't mean we want to attack everyone we contact and profile says a lot about a person which make us no totally anon / random / without principle)
The value of being yourself more than your position in Capitalism or Scholarly position *first*... can be seen by people who don't reply back for x/y reason (mostly not taking the time to check even though they might want to do that anyway - I could put a better front fascia but at least honestly I don't)
The quality of believing in people, Trust-as-you-go or "at the speed of Trust" and increasing reassurance rather than ignore or shut comms down.
#Trust #Transparency #Realness
* with #Anonymous / ID Protective people on #Fediverse especially *Others I thought of:
CC: Chris Adams
@mrchrisadams Science and Justice. #Green #Web #ClimateChange #Climate
#ExtinctionRebellion
CC: @gabriel -
@Lylamehta i like this very much, #Sufficiency! Very elegant, very good to think with (and more appealing than #Degrowth, if I am honest). I will read this, and more!
I also like #FrugalAbundance, coined here on Mastodon a little while back - not the same, but just wanted to bring the two together here.
Actually, #Sufficiency also chimes with #LeanLogic and #LeanEcobomics which @DarkOptimism introduced me too - really must read that, too
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On Saturday 9th May, from 7pm Irish time (UTC+1), I'll be closing #RogerHallam's full-day ‘#FestivalofRevolutions' (8am-8pm) with a free one hour workshop on 'Finding Your Path Through Times of Collapse'.
Come along, and bring your quandaries!?
Registration + details of the full event:
https://events.zoom.us/ev/Ai8HMAHYvL4lnzlE5OcIUgxoocYKRGUGveWqyWQgBN23qNQX2JpV~AlaipGSR8Yyn5CBSfBs-PXPgDM7g3NxIwqpQJHJZgDhQBq4ai7nhhGAxMQ -
I guess I'd be ashamed too if I in any way identified with the monarchy or the British state.
To my eyes, as an Englishman, both are representatives of the hierarchy of scumbags who #enclosed the commons that our ancestors lived off, driving them from the land of their birth.
Which leaves my feelings more an intensification of the desire to be rid of the lot of them than any kind of personal shame.
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I guess I'd be ashamed too if I in any way identified with the monarchy or the British state.
To my eyes, as an Englishman, both are representatives of the hierarchy of scumbags who #enclosed the commons that our ancestors lived off, driving them from the land of their birth.
Which leaves my feelings more an intensification of the desire to be rid of the lot of them than any kind of personal shame.
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I guess I'd be ashamed too if I in any way identified with the monarchy or the British state.
To my eyes, as an Englishman, both are representatives of the hierarchy of scumbags who #enclosed the commons that our ancestors lived off, driving them from the land of their birth.
Which leaves my feelings more an intensification of the desire to be rid of the lot of them than any kind of personal shame.
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I guess I'd be ashamed too if I in any way identified with the monarchy or the British state.
To my eyes, as an Englishman, both are representatives of the hierarchy of scumbags who #enclosed the commons that our ancestors lived off, driving them from the land of their birth.
Which leaves my feelings more an intensification of the desire to be rid of the lot of them than any kind of personal shame.
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I guess I'd be ashamed too if I in any way identified with the monarchy or the British state.
To my eyes, as an Englishman, both are representatives of the hierarchy of scumbags who #enclosed the commons that our ancestors lived off, driving them from the land of their birth.
Which leaves my feelings more an intensification of the desire to be rid of the lot of them than any kind of personal shame.
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@blog Highly recommend #BrettScott's exceptional piece on this: