You don't get transformative change by operating according to the incentives of the dominant system.

I think the coolest thing you can do right now is live with integrity and care about the people around you, not just your friends and family but your community. Deny the lie they want you to believe, that taking as much as you can while giving nothing back is the goal.

What if rather than being incompetent or inscrutable the media, corporations, and the "opposition" party are faithfully fulfilling their roles in the dynamics unfolding according to their incentives and interests and beliefs. If you let yourself believe that, what then do you see? How do you move?

As climate disasters escalate and dovetail with political polarization, the right uses disinformation/misinformation to divert attention away from climate solutions and towards division. Come learn more! about misinformation and how to address it! www.climatepsychology.us/cpa-workshop...

Grace Lee Boggs: "We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously."

If you need a little hope this morning - the current tween trend involves decorating clothespins with affirming messages, then clipping them on friends' backpacks when they're not looking. Here are a few that my 11-year-old decorated this weekend ❤️

Emerging from the woods after a week with no cell service is always a little weird, but this time it's very very weird. You look away for a moment and the fabric of consensus reality has gotten a fair bit weaker.

Great poem to begin the week!

In honor of a webby morning walk, the poem from Chapter One of my book. The poem is called Web World, I wrote it to remind us that, whether we see them or not, we move always in webs upon webs.

I appreciate my state joining up with others for science-based public health guidance and policy. AND health equity means everybody, in every state (and around the world) should have access to that same standard.

Boosted in Seattle, zero problems. Did I tear up? Yes. Will vaccines - and especially this one - ever stop feeling like a miracle to me? No.

Does creatine give you three hands?

I’m committed to my dinosauric path to extinction and will insist that communities need to relearn (and often learn for the first time) to take on social support functions that do not belong to professional therapists or to an LLM.

sharing for my infectious-disease MD spouse...nice simple graphic

The Power of Delusion and the Delusions of the Powerful. If I wrote the history books that's what this current chapter would be called.

Scoop: FEMA just let the money expire for the group that manages inter-state coordination during disasters. When resources come from other states after a hurricane, fire, or terror attack, that's because of the group that FEMA just stopped paying for.

[1] It’s Friday, you need flowers!

Please join us at our second "Multisolving Moment" a pop up virtual space to together explore the challenges and opportunities of complex systems change in tumultuous times. This time the theme is community building. Sept 25 at 1PM ET www.climateweeknyc.o...

1/x 🧵 🔌💡 #Greensky. Hey climate peeps! Here’s a local victory to celebrate, and some lessons from it. Last night, the Town of Poughkeepsie, NY, voted to overturn its 18-month moratorium (6 months, renewed twice) on grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS).

Fresh off a planning call for this conference September 18 and 19 for those in the northeastern US. It's going to be a good dose of reality, community, taking stock, acknowledging grief, and imagining pathways forward. www.sustainability.d...

ICYMI from @chisholmlegacy.bsky.social, this comprehensive overview of why the solutions we make for the energy system must protect Black women thechisholmlegacyproject.org/wp-content/u...

I’m deeply worried this fall/winter will bring one of the toughest respiratory virus seasons in years. Policy missteps, weakened access to vaccines, and rampant misinformation are setting us up for packed hospitals and preventable deaths. We are priming ourselves for failure.

To speak of vaccines as a tool for our personal or our children’s wellness is to lose before we start. Vaccines keep COMMUNITIES safe. It’s how public health works. My children’s vaccinations protect children we’ve never met. ✨ Higher education was also once understood as a public good, and then…

All you who are parenting in the midst of climate change, mis- and disinformation, economic uncertainty, waves of illness, and the opposite of the ethics you are trying to impart in the highest of places, I see you!

surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity

I had no idea. "Almost all of the AI models showed a preference to escalate aggressively, use firepower indiscriminately and turn crises into shooting wars — even to the point of launching nuclear weapons. " www.politico.com/news/magazin...

please help us spread the word about this mentorship opportunity for writers of color & share it with anyone you think might be interested!

I celebrated this nice recognition for my book Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World by eating a fresh sun warmed peach. You can find the book in bookstores or online. You'll have to find your own peach though! bookshop.org/p/books...

You can't fundamentally solve problems created by guns with more guns. You can't fundamentally solve problems created by weakening the common good by further weakening the common good. You can't fundamentally solve problems created by burning fossil fuels by burning more fossil fuels.

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The basic rights of our allies are not luxury beliefs but the core of any solidarity movement. If you can’t see this, you have bo business trying to take the lead in this moment nor do you have any business telling us what to do with our political power.

Spot on. So-called "bigtech" has a track record on breaking user's trust and twisting in-principle generic digital technologies to support lucrative but unethical business models. There is literally zero chance it will not happen with "AI" as it is the same entities, facing basically no pushback.

This is pretty much what Google did with search advertising, even though it was super obvious along the way, and the visibility had little or no impact.

If I ran an AI company, and people were OK with no transparency about the "black box" and if my goal was wealth, power, and control, I would get everyone to rely on my machine as a somewhat neutral broker and then after a few years of capturing users...

This campaign will help you go electric before federal tax credits end #energysky -- via Canary Media:

Once upon a future time there was a mad king & the skies, were eerie & smoke-filled. There were machines of unimaginable destruction & others sowing immense confusion. That's when the story rose up - all people together in a web, held by & holding a living planet. That story changed everything.

We harvested peach tree number one. Small crop after last year’s bumper crop. But delicious. Some for eating out of hand, some for the freezer… and peach ice cream has been mentioned.

Our sweet potatoes from last fall are keeping amazingly well in the root cellar. Who knows what goes on down there in the dark?

Growing and preserving food is a lot of work, and access to land and time to do so isn't (yet) distributed fairly. But in the pockets where it is possible it's an act of connection, of divestment, of re-investment, and sometimes, healing.

The intricately-carved stone latticework of ‘The Tree of Life’ in the window of 16th-century Sidi Saiyyed Mosque in Ahmedabad, India, named after the Ethiopian nobleman (& ex-slave) who commissioned it

Sometimes a little order is therapeutic. 4 months after we moved the pantry is getting organized

NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty. The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...

Looking forward to this!

oh this made me cry I am a hurt person who has tried to do all these things and now I'm crying because someone knows

AND NOW THE SENIOR CDC LEADERS HAVE JOINED THE WALK OUT! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...

People ❤️ the CDC

Massive walkout at #CDC. Tick tock. Tick tock. RFK Jr. you're time is up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Nothing - even you - is alone in this vastly interconnected web.