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‘Soon I will die. And I will go with a great orgasm’: the last rites of Alejandro Jodorowsky
The Chilean film-maker’s psychedelic work earned him the title ‘king of the midnight movie’, and a fan in John Lennon. Now the 96-year-old is ready for the end – but first there is more living to do
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jan/16/alejandro-jodorowsky-interview-film-art-sin-fin-book
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I am taking the flight free challenge! Could you join me?
#FlightFree2026
@flightfreeuk.bsky.social
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Flight Free UK
Fight climate change: make the pledge to be flight free in 2026
https://www.flightfree.co.uk
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Obligatory rubbish phone camera photo of the other nights (super) Wolf moon… 🌝
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Cultivate honorable relationships (Adrienne Rich), resist absentminded busyness (Kierkegaard), tell the world how to treat you (Baldwin), embrace enoughness (Vonnegut), and other worthy resolutions borrowed from worthy humans
www.themarginalian.org/2016/01/04/r...
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Happy New Year? Goodbye and good riddance to 2025 and the first quarter of the 21st century. 🎇
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How to bioluminesce – artist Ash Eliza Williams's reveries of wonder
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Happy Christmas all. Share the meal if you can.
ShareTheMeal.org
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Happy Solstice! Erleichda! 🌍🌞🕯️
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When the sky turned red. This morning on Glastonbury Tor looking out over the Somerset levels. What an incredible sunrise. There might be a few more to follow. 😂
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RIP Rob Reiner. 🕯️ (6th March 1947 - 14th December 2025)
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Here are the books I read this year that clarified and magnified my life, that will stay with me for the rest of it — from art and philosophy to memoirs and children's books
www.themarginalian.org/2025/12/13/b...
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Favorite Books of 2025
Because I read for the same reason I write — to fathom my life and deepen my living — looking back on a year of life has always been looking back on a year of reading. Here are the book…
https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/12/13/best-books-2025/
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Pastel colours at sunrise this morning on Glastonbury Tor. Ribbons of mist floating across the landscape.
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RIP John Carey. 🕯️ (5th April 1934 - 11th December 2025.)
#booksky
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Remember, if/when you lose hope, keep going out of pure spite. 🤘
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If you are in the UK, Ireland or France, you can offset your carbon footprint (for free!) with the Tree App. It’s an easy (and did I mention free?) way to plant trees where they are needed most. Download the app & plant a free tree every day!
www.thetreeapp.org
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#trees
#environment
#greensky
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Treeapp | Tree Planting
Treeapp enables anyone to plant trees in the regions that need it most across the world. Absorb your carbon footprint and regrow the worlds’ most needed forests, today.
https://www.thetreeapp.org
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#GivingTuesday
@wfp.org
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worldaidsday.org
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Home - World AIDS Day
Get Involved There are loads of ways to get involved: in school, college or university, in your workplace or in any other setting.In your school Never too young to raise awareness (and money) to help ...
https://worldaidsday.org
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It's the most bookifull time of the year. NPR's annual 'Books We Love' 2025! 📚
apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
#BookSky
#books
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Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2025
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RIP Udo Kier. (1944 - 2025) 🕯️
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RIP Alice Wong. (1974 - 2025) 🕯️
#DisabilityVisability
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Project Drawdown
2 months ago
💡 In a new piece on the Project Drawdown Insights hub, Heather McDiarmid, Ph.D. breaks down five reasons heat pumps are awesome for your comfort, your community, and the climate! 👉 Dive into the full article:
https://bit.ly/4o9lFot
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https://drawdown.org/insights/five-ways-heat-pumps-are-more-awesome-than-you-think
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Happy World Kindness Day! 🫶
#WorldKindnessDay
findhelp.org
donorschoose.org
unduemedicaldebt.org
treesforcities.org
freerice.com
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In the USA? Need food? (Or want to help those who need food?) Find help dot org
findhelp.org
Find your local food banks. (Get food if you need it. Donate food/money if you have it to spare.)
#SNAPbenefits
#governmentshutdown
#helpsky
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findhelp.org by findhelp - Search and Connect to Social Care
Search and connect to support. Find financial assistance, food pantries, medical care, and other free or reduced-cost help in your area, anywhere in the US.
https://findhelp.org
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Help Jamaica recover from Hurricane Melissa
supportjamaica.gov.jm
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Support Jamaica – Official Disaster Relief & Recovery Portal
Join hands with the Government of Jamaica. Support national disaster relief, locate shelters, and stay informed on Hurricane Melissa updates.
https://supportjamaica.gov.jm
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Things Become Other Things – walking, forgiveness, and belonging in the mountains of Japan
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Things Become Other Things: Walking, Forgiveness, and Belonging in the Mountains of Japan
Steps are events, experiments, miniature rebellions against gravity and chance. With each step, we fall and then we catch ourselves, we choose to go one way and not another. The foot falls and worl…
https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/08/09/things-become-other-things-craig-mod/
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Happy World Food Day! 🍎🍐🍊🍌🍇🫐🥝🥦🌽🥕🫒🥐🥯🧇🍕🥙🥗🍝🍣🥧🍪
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The Floating Hotel That Creates More Energy Than it Uses?! Join Imogen Bhogal (of the Everything Electric show) as she travels to Botswana to experience the Pangolin Voyager, Africa's first all-electric, solar-powered houseboat.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf0l...
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The Floating Hotel That Creates More Energy Than It Uses?!
YouTube video by Everything Electric TECH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf0lDwe5Au8
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The winds the other day created a pear-fect storm.. 🍐
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3 months ago
This interview is incredible. Congrats to László Krasznahorkai & his publisher, the excellent New Directions, on the Nobel Prize for Literature ❤️
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RIP Dr Jane Goodall. 🕯️ (3rd April 1934 - 1st October 2025)
janegoodall.org
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Project Drawdown
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The Drawdown Explorer is the world’s most powerful platform for science-based climate solutions. 🔗 Explore now at
drawdown.org/explorer
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Happy Autumn Equinox to all in the northern hemisphere! 🍂🍎🍐 Here is an atmospheric photo of the full moon from two weeks ago (Corn Moon, September 7th 2025) 🌝
#AutumnEquinox
#Mabon
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UK’s climate aid spending on nature protection and restoration reached record levels of nearly £800m last year
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
#greensky
#UKsky
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Analysis: UK foreign aid for nature hits £800m record due to cash for carbon credits - Carbon Brief
The UK’s climate-aid spending on “nature protection and restoration” reached record levels of nearly £800m last year, according to government figures
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-foreign-aid-for-nature-hits-800m-record-due-to-cash-for-carbon-credits/
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Congratulations to the new US poet laureate, Arthur Sze!
#poetrysky
#booksky
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Library of Congress Names Arthur Sze the Nation's 25th U.S. Poet Laureate
The Library of Congress today announced the appointment of Arthur Sze as the nation’s 25th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2025-2026.
https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/library-of-congress-names-arthur-sze-the-nation-s-25th-u.s.-poet-laureate/s/b8413b7b-50b4-4284-9e0e-b0adbde0b70b
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Link to donate to the Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance appeal:
www.dsairambulance.org.uk/Appeal/2ndheli
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#Somerset
#Dorset
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"Things take the time they take. Don’t worry." Mary Oliver would have been 90 today. Her immortal meditation on how to live with maximum aliveness:
www.themarginalian.org/2015/02/09/m...
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Mary Oliver on the Measure of a Life Well Lived and How to Magnify Your Aliveness
“Do you need a prod? Do you need a little darkness to get you going?”
https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/02/09/mary-oliver-blue-horses-fourth-sign-of-the-zodiac/
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Booked my winter 2025 flu and COVID jabs today. Too much hospital time this year already. I'm not taking any chances with the killer colds. Stay safe and healthy (as best you can.) 😷
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RIP Graham Greene. One of the best voices in cinema. Elevated everything he appeared in. Opened doors for native artists and native representation on screen. The GOAT. Travel well, sir. You will be much missed. x
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“I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.” Remembering Oliver Sacks, who left us 10 years ago today, with his beautiful wisdom on life and death
www.themarginalian.org/2015/11/24/o...
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Oliver Sacks on Gratitude, the Measure of Living, and the Dignity of Dying
“I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/11/24/oliver-sacks-gratitude-book/
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UK Government Moves to Legalise Human Composting
terramation.uk/2025/06/11/u...
#envirosky
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UK Government Moves to Legalise Human Composting – Terramation UK: The Home of Human Composting in the UK
https://terramation.uk/2025/06/11/uk-government-moves-to-legalise-human-composting/
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If we lived in a better timeline, River Phoenix would’ve turned 55 on Saturday (August 23rd.) 🕯️
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@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
Thought you might like to know I just had a stent removed (kidney to bladder, after three weeks) and I took my copy of ‘The Butchering Art’ along in my hospital bag for.. good luck? (Maybe not the right term.)
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Women in Ukraine have been left fearful of childbirth after more than 80 attacks on maternity units since the invasion, leading to the world’s lowest birth rate and the highest mortality rate
#Ukraine
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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‘Russia is targeting us deliberately’: how attacks on maternity hospitals fuelled a birth-rate crisis in Ukraine
Women have been left fearful of childbirth after more than 80 attacks on maternity units since the invasion, leading to the world’s lowest birth rate and the highest mortality rate
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/21/russia-ukraine-war-childbirth-demographics-targeting-attacks-maternity-hospitals-kharkiv-sloviansk-khersonbirth-crisis
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Ilya Kaminsky on Discovering Poetry as a Deaf Child in Ukraine
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Ilya Kaminsky on Discovering Poetry as a Deaf Child in Ukraine
This essay comes from Owning It: Our Disabled Childhoods in Our Own Words, out now from Faber US, the definitive anthology for children on what it’s like to grow up disabled, featuring twenty-two a…
https://lithub.com/ilya-kaminsky-on-discovering-poetry-as-a-deaf-child-in-ukraine/
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@mishacollins.bsky.social
Happy birthday, Misha! 🎉🎁 PS- The elusive third option..?
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Are you an otrovert? Why this personality type could be your greatest gift
Feel like you don’t belong? Crave emotional independence? Constantly come up with original ideas? Like Frida Kahlo, Franz Kafka and Albert Einstein, you could have a distinct case of otroversion ...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/aug/20/are-you-an-otrovert-why-this-personality-type-could-be-your-greatest-gift
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“The fact that we are connected through space and time shows that life is a unitary phenomenon, no matter how we express that fact.” The visionary evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis on the spirituality of science and the interconnectedness of life
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Evolutionary Biologist Lynn Margulis on the Spirituality of Science and the Interconnectedness of Life Across Time, Space, and Species
“The fact that we are connected through space and time shows that life is a unitary phenomenon, no matter how we express that fact.”
https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/04/19/lynn-margulis-talking-on-the-water/
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Tig Notaro, Mae Martin and Fortune Feimster pay tribute to the late great Andrea Gibson on the Handsome Podcast..
youtu.be/yUBT25E75v4?...
handsomepod.com
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Handsome remembers a friend and ponders the afterlife
YouTube video by Handsome Podcast
https://youtu.be/yUBT25E75v4?si=yyIMa56Rh3jnFjF2
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Lilac dawn. Photograph taken on Glastonbury Tor.
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The stent is staying in for another week. 😣 🤒 I am grateful for ice packs, painkillers, lorazepam, my bed, my fan, my mum and poetry books. I am resentful of the stent. Boo the stent. Accursed noodle.
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