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M. L. Clark 🕯  

Okay, folks:
Rewind Wednesday! 💫

Here's a piece I hope you'll enjoy. It talks about humpback whales and ancient female writers - two very different topics, you might think!

But joined by the fact that both science and literary studies are sometimes negatively affected by how we go about trying to correct preceding histories.

If we're simply reacting to lousy research in the past, we're not giving ourselves the chance to learn how weird and wonderful our world truly is.
open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/

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M. L. Clark 🕯  

I watched a beautiful movie tonight.

I'll write about it for Monday. I think a few of you will quite enjoy it, too.

But for now--

What a gift good art can be.

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New just dropped.

Well. Didn't drop, actually.

I too would like to chill upside down more often on a wall. Why don't I? 🤔

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I've seen images today that are going to be scored in my mind for a good long while. Not in a good way, and not for the first time.

The things we do to each other.

And the world we could have together, if we didn't.

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Okay, back to work.

Be well, do good crimes, and try not to leave your respective democracies any worse than they were when you found them. 🤞

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"We Be The Humans"  


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How to ‘decouple’ emissions from economic growth? These economists say you can’t.

At least, not fast enough to reach international climate targets.

Instead of making growth greener, economists call for a whole new economic paradigm to address converging social and ecological crises. They call it “post-growth,” referring to a reorientation away from GDP growth and toward other metrics, like human well-being and ecological sustainability.

grist.org/economics/how-to-dec

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Kel  

"If you aren't outraged then you aren't paying attention!"

I vehemently disagree. Outrage is useless. What's required is mindful action, and the outrage you're spewing online actively inhibits action.

It lulls you into a false sense of activism. You aren't having the conversation where it matters because you're too busy foaming at the mouth over whoever disagrees with you.

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Who else here has active forums for their writing/creative work elsewhere on the net?

I'm currently following @LiberalLibrarian's cracking good political blog collective, The Establishment Bar, and @NiveusLepus's book project on RoyalRoad: Second-Tier Sorcery!

Which other CoSonauts should I be jamming to these days?

establishmentbar.blogspot.com
royalroad.com/fiction/81852/se

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One other thing I'm looking forward to with my new schedule is the YouTube pieces. Still have to revamp those video materials in time for Friday's Patreon post, but I'll be doing an SF magazine review this week, and a self-pubbed genre-bending SF by another Substack writer next week.

In other words, I get to reclaim my full range of writing interests now. 👌🏻 Challenging as heck, but also one heck of a privilege if I can pull it off.

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damien kane rigden  

The more I use other social media sites it becomes clear that they try to guide you to make content that fits their ideas for the platform. Hiding content that they “don’t like” and actually showing the “acceptable” content to people. On I make a post and people see it. Seems simple but it makes me feel like I have a voice. Sorry you guys have to keep hearing me talk about my art though!

Grateful for Coso and my fellow .

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"RuPaul summarizes the Great Migration in a paragraph that would be considered too concise even for a Wikipedia entry ...
Aside from breathtaking dismissiveness of the decades of racial violence that made the migration necessary, it’s chilling to see a public figure known as a champion of the marginalized so easily dismiss survivors of Jim Crow-era terror as people who 'hold onto their victim mentality so fiercely; it becomes a defining feature of their identity.'”

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One of the funny-sad parts of a culture that pays lip service to equity is how shocked people are when someone is many things. In SFF, we had a BIPOC lesbian who terrorized other BIPOC writers, & a trans disabled writer who turned out to be a nepo hire for Lockheed Martin... and every time, there's been silly shock at the idea that a marginalized person could be multifaceted.

Ditto with RuPaul, fracking magnate.
This is a fun, weary review of his memoir.

archive.ph/2KUxV

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Tech systems & security folk:

How worried should we be about the damage to four of fifteen pan-continental cables in the Red Sea?

I know experts were shocked to see it happen - four at once is apparently very rare, and the conditions are not great for repair - but is this something we should expect to see get worse in modern warfare?

Or are our fibre-optics networks so integral to global operations that no one would intentionally go after them without shooting themselves in the foot as well?

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Graci ⚧️  

It should have been filled with
The usual ones
Throwing their cash in
To mutual funds

We all had our ski masks
And sawed off shotguns
But how do you plan for
A bank full of nuns

But I guess we panicked
We all have taboos
And they were like zebras
They had us confused

We should be in condos
With oceanfront views
Instead we're most wanted
On the 6 o'clock news

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Tough Times Tuesday is live. 🎉

Today, I use a news item from Colombia to offer a reflection on what's often missing in our news coverage.

Sometimes it helps to think about media literacy at a remove from the news cycles we're following at home--so hopefully looking at how the news reports on Petro's "Total Peace" can help clarify what's often missing in our own news ecosystems.

Are we given the data that best empowers us?

Or just data to scare, anger, and demoralize?
open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/

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Thank you so much, folks, for sharing your own vulnerability in response to me sharing some of my own. It really helped today, and over the last stressful week.

We have the best good eggs here. Top grade. No notes.

🥚⭐

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"We Be The Humans"  

To Watch:

The Psychological Drivers of the Metacrisis:

This is a conversation between Iain McGilchrist, John Vervaeke and Daniel Schmachtenberger. With no planned objective or agenda, the discussion sought to outline the cognitive and spiritual components of the metacrisis. The metacrisis is the total ecosystem of all global crises and the common underlying dynamics that generate catastrophic and existential risks.

youtube.com/watch?v=uA5GV-Xmwt

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Minholkin⁴¹⁸⁷¹² 🇺🇸  

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Everybody has unique experiences which contribute to varying thresholds for distress, depending on the topic and circumstances.

Different news stories disrupt people in different ways and at different times.

If you are distressed by the news, take a moment to care for yourself away from the stimulation that is upsetting you.

If you are not upset, give grace for those who are.

We can never know what nerves are being abraded but we can choose to be kind regardless.

💜

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Graci ⚧️  

@mcfate @MLClark At the state level, tomorrow IS important. Here in NC, for example, we have primaries for Governor, Lt Governor, Attorney General. While not as important as November, granted, but important to get the right ones on that ballot

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