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digital collage of a candle and flame with texture. Poem text of reads: Holy Brigid: In these times of conflagration That engulf the skies at night… Light the fire that guides our way. Kindle within us the flame of inspiration. We speak your name. Holy Brigid: In these times of grief and anger And these days of stolen lives… Pour out the quenching waters from your well. Come, bathe our tear stained faces. We call to you with voices raised. Holy Brigid: In these times of love and rage And these days when hatred stalks our streets… Strike bright metal on your anvil. Forge us tools that we can use to fight for justice. With all our might and breath. Holy Brigid: In these times of fear and division And these days that tear our hearts and souls apart… Wrap your mantle around our shoulders. Remind us we are loved, and we can love. We ask for your assistance. Holy Brigid: Forge us. Shape us. Kindle us. Comfort us. So we rise up, all together, firm and strong. Holy Brigid: Be here now. T. Thorn Coyle 2015/2025
Holy Brigid:
In these times of love and rage
And these days when hatred stalks our streets…
Strike bright metal on your anvil.
Forge us tools that we can use to fight for justice.…
#imbolc #poetry
This sounds so cool!!
It really does pack in a lot for a short book, and is absolutely worth the read!
Winter solstice affirmations I release the urgency to bloom before my roots are ready. I am allowed to pause without explanation. I choose depth over noise. The dark teaches me how to listen to myself. I honor the cycles of my body, my spirit, my life. I carry only what I need into the next season. Even now, especially now, I am growing.
We are still growing beneath the quiet earth.
#witchsky
But service to deities, to the Earth, to humans and other living beings — all of these put us into relationships of reciprocity and obligation that have the potential to transform all involved. --Helene Grogan
Would read!!
the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists
If you’d like to unpack all the lies being told to the public right now, here’s your fact valet —
Acetaminophen doesn’t cause autism&pregnant people w/fever or pain need it.
Leucovorin isn’t an autism treatment& the reason they’re trying to sell you that is explained in the attached thread& posts
Ask yourself, if this lie or unsubstantiated claim was true, would it justify their conclusion? If the answer is no, than this should not be the primary basis of the pushback
With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
So cool!
Those are gorgeous!
Photo of a wooded hilltop with the sun shining brightly above the trees. Below, wispy mist hangs over an area of grass and shrubs.
Having to get out early means catching some morning mist in the hills before it burns off.
Hey folks, please spread the word. I know it is hard in this hyper-connected digital age, but learn how to organize and communicate in ways beyond social media and apps.
If empathy is a sin, then let me be guilty of it daily. ❤️🌼
Photo of a porcupine partway up a tree trunk, looking at the camera with a halo of quills around its head.
Some days I, too, would like to just climb a tree and threaten to jab anyone who comes too close...
This newsletter has been off to an impressive start, and this week's issue is especially important to read before whatever BS statement RFK Jr comes out with about autism.
Photo of a barred owl perched on a dead branch, with woods in the background. The owl is hunched over and looks like a round blob with another round blob for a head.
Sometimes owls look majestic and wise. Other times, they look like lumpy muppets.
Digital illustration showing a variety of woodland animals in between text that says “respect the locals”. The animals featured from left to right are an American Robin, an orange fox, opossum, baby deer, and a grey squirrel on the deers back.
Respect the locals! 🦊🤎
If only!!!
Photo of a brown, black and white mixed breed dog, sitting up against the back of a red couch. Her ears are back and she is looking at the camera with a sweet expression.
Honey is here to sweeten up your scroll.
Important thread:
I don't even know what proper supports would look like in my life.
What could be more obvious than the fact that, whatever intelligence a computer can muster, however it may be acquired, it must always and necessarily be absolutely alien to any and all authentic human concerns? The very asking of the question, "What does a judge (or a psychiatrist) know that we cannot tell a computer?" is a monstrous obscenity. That it has to be put into print at all, even for the purpose of exposing its morbidity, is a sign of the madness of our times. Computers can make judicial decisions, computers can make psychiatric judgments. They can flip coins in much more sophisticated ways than can the most patient human being. The point is that they ought not be given such tasks. They may even be able to arrive at "correct" decisions in some cases-but always and necessarily on bases no human being should be willing to accept. There have been many debates on "Computers and Mind." What I conclude here is that the relevant issues are neither technological nor even mathematical; they are ethical. They cannot be settled by asking questions beginning with "can." The limits of the applicability of computers are ultimately statable only in terms of oughts. What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.
There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with:
“What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
This whole thread of highlights from this book is worth reading (as is the rest of the book, I suspect).
Main message in Ron’s post is that it isn’t either-or. We affect the large scale through our work on whatever scale we work on. Rather than “forget the world, focus on you and yours,” it’s more like "this is *how* we save the world."
We and our direct connections *are* the world, together.
All i WANT iS A FUCKiNG WorLD WHere My frieNDs CaN LIVe WHERE PEOPLE ARE FED, LOVED, safe. WHeRe eVeRyoNe caN AGRee tHAT We SHOULDNT BOMb KiDS and THat the PLaNef is woRTH SAVING
it feels like such a simple ask.
