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Emily McGill @em-m.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This Regenerate Cascadia project featured in Ma Earth's Round 3 funding is the @cofoodyvr.bsky.social garden in Vancouver! A wild and wonderful intersection of 10 years of my life and my brand new career in bioregionalism 🥰🥳

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Emily McGill @em-m.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This episode is a beautiful on-ramp to the vision behind the @maearth.com funding model. I have big hopes for this work unleashing new capital rivers formed by the collective, to the collective.

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Emily McGill @em-m.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm crowdfunding! It's within the @maearth.com Round 3 quadratic matching fund, where every donor unlocks a multiplier effect. This project supports the legacy and transition of the #cofoodyvr urban garden project in Vancouver near and dear to my heart. Give here! maearth.com/deptofbioreg...

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Helping Urban Food Commons Navigate Change

Helping Urban Food Commons Navigate Change Our Mission We are supporting an urban food and community garden in Vancouver as it faces an uncertain future. This project will help the...

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/04/2026

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

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Emily McGill @em-m.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Into this! First time I've noticed a Share on Bluesky prompt. This is signing the petition to close #MetroVancouver incinerator, check it out: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/sh...

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 31/10/2025

The Trump administration must obey the law. Federal judges have been clear: release the contingency funds NOW. Do not allow 42 million Americans to go hungry while billionaires get tax breaks.

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Emily McGill @em-m.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Eeee getting excited for #dwebcampcascadia!! One thing I'm looking forward to is setting up a hyperlocal #meshtastic network. Join us? This first year is a wicked deal!

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Emily McGill @em-m.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Wowww it has been so fun pre-camping with some of the team this weekend! This announcement post for #dwebcampcascadia was made in front of an epic view of Saanich Inlet with Salt Spring on the horizon. Blessed to be working with these people, in this place 💞

A scene of the shore, ocean and islands - the view looking northeast over the Saanich Inlet from the coast of Vancouver Island, near Bakerview, BC. The southern peak of Salt Spring island is visible in the far horizon.

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Emily McGill @em-m.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

👀 eerily understandable dyst/utopian short fiction on bluesky? Yes please 👏

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Emily McGill @em-m.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I am most definitely pro research on stingrays performing arithmetic. For the record. Also, bumblebees using tools. #philsci strikes a chord again. I love bluesky.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 14/05/2025

There was a huge X-class solar flare yesterday on the Sun! You can see it on the right-hand limb in these SDO images. I find it so neat that we live next to, and can study, a star. We take it for granted that it's "the Sun" and it's always in the sky, but there is a star and it is RIGHT THERE. 🔭

The solar disc, seen in a special filter by the SDO satellite. This surface of the Sun in this image is turbulent and knotty. The colour of the twisted light is gold with dark brown patches. To the right, on the limb, an extended structure emerges from the surface and extends into space.

The solar disc, seen in a special filter by the SDO satellite. This surface of the Sun in this image is turbulent andgranular. The colour of the twisted light is yellow with dark black patches. To the right, on the limb, an extended structure emerges from the surface and extends into space.

The solar disc, seen in a special filter by the SDO satellite. This surface of the Sun in this image is granular. The colour of the twisted light is red and orange. To the right, on the limb, an extended structure emerges from the surface and extends into space.

The solar disc, seen in a special filter by the SDO satellite. This surface of the Sun in this image is granular. The colour of the twisted light is teal. There are dark patches as well. To the right, on the limb, an extended structure emerges from the surface and extends into space.

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Emily McGill @em-m.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Really enjoying this article, glad you wrote it @dasniel.com. I'm particularly taking away The Lost Cause principle as a tool for comprehending and adjusting to the emergent nature of reality. Already translating this to broad swaths of life!

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Emily McGill @em-m.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

*Word I Learned Today* hopepunk - a subgenre of speculative fiction, conceived of as the opposite of 'grimdark'. Works in hopepunk include characters working for positive change, radical kindness, and communal responses to challenges.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 17/04/2025

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

Defend the Internet Archive.
Protect the Wayback Machine.
Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit.
Sign our open letter on change.org

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 16/04/2025

If you often say "wow I relate to developers" then I have the perfect job for you Developer Relations role just listed! There's also a bunch of other recent additions on the jobs page bsky.social/about/join

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Emily McGill @em-m.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

So good to get DWeb folk out and getting our hands dirty together. Collaboratively managing a shared urban food and flower garden aligns with several of the @getdweb.net principles. A thought provoking potluck to close the day seals it.

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Emily McGill @em-m.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

My spare copies of #hospicingmodernity have arrived! I'm starting a reading group to work through it together. This book is an invitation to different ways of thinking, feeling, and ultimately being, in the face of the decline of how-things-have-been.

Two copies of the book Hospicing Modernity by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira are face-up, one atop another, resting on a slatted wooden bench scattered with fallen cherry blossoms and petals. The shade cast from the back of the bench leaves the books half in sun, half in shade.

Here's a remix of Google's AI summary of the book's focus:

The concept of Hospicing Modernity is that modernity, with its emphasis on expansion, colonialism, resource extraction, and consumerism, has created a system that is fundamentally out of balance and harmful to the planet and its inhabitants.

The book explores the "5 modern-colonial e's": Entitlements, Exceptionalism, Exaltation, Emancipation, and Enmeshment.

Machado emphasizes the importance of recognizing the suffering inherent in the current system, the need to accept impermanence and change, and advocates for a gradual disengagement from the unsustainable patterns of modern life, encouraging readers to re-evaluate their values, behaviors, and belief systems.

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Emily McGill @em-m.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Wow, Hackenschmidt's take on the tyranny of memory and virtue of forgetfulness SO aligns and expands on with my own XP and theories of life derived from Vipassana meditation, Buddhist philosophied writ large, psychedelics, etc. Recommended read! Thank you @sarahrobins.bsky.social for reposting it

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The Memory Palace @philmemopalace.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

An exciting post on George Hackenschmidt's philosophy of memory (and more), authored by Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University). open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

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The Man Who Wrestled with Memory

Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University)

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Sheila Colla, Ph.D @savewildbees.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Happy #WorldWildlifeDay. A friendly reminder that livestock cannot replace native biodiversity, despite what you may have heard.

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Emily McGill @em-m.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

A magnificent upgrade to the fungal canopy on this nurse log at the #cofoodyvr garden Anyone up to ID it? 🤔 my PictureThis app doesn't do fungi #fungifriends #gardenersofthegalaxy

Tiers of fungi protrude from the top and sides of an upright log, about 16 inches tall. Behind the log is an empty raised bed, and it sits among decaying mulch and leaves. The fungi is a multitude of shades of foresty brown and green, with hints of burgundy, Grey, and yellow.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism

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Emily McGill @em-m.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

'Tis the season for budwatching in Vancouver! Our garden has been waking up since early Feb, but it's just this week that the green dots along our bush and tree stalks and branches are really standing out #cofoodyvr

Close shot of bebe buds of a metasequoia

A close shot of the fuzzy buds on the tip of a stalk of a Saskatoon berry plant

The just-opening baby leaves on the tip of a raspberry stalk

Itty bitty raspberry leaves just beginning to open

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Emily McGill @em-m.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

#fungistories about #mushroomswearinghats might be my new favourite fiction subgenre!!

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

In celebration of Bluesky increasing the allowed size of videos, here is what an effusive volcanic eruption looks and sounds like from just ~300 meters away, close enough to feel the intense heat of the Earth creating itself. Sound on! 🔊

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Emily McGill @em-m.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This is such a cool event, I'm sad to miss it! Who doesn't want to self-host their AI?! For only $15 and a half day of informed hacking, this is a wicked learning opp. Are you in Vancouver? Please go, and tell me what you glean 🤗🫠

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Emily McGill @em-m.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Cool! A private company threw a machine at the moon, and it didn't totally crash. That's a first. Bluesky's astronomy feed is fun.

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

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John Cassidy @earthquakeguy.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

With all of these recent felt #earthquakes, many people are asking "does this mean the big one is coming?". These earthquakes are not connected - some are shallow, some deep, all are on different faults and even different tectonic plates. They are far from the locked subduction fault. So no... ⚒️🧪

Map showing the locations of recent felt earthquakes in southwestern British Columbia. Earthquakes are colour-coded by time over the past month and circle size is based on magnitude. The largest was M5 (offshore) and other felt earthquakes ranged from M2.5 to M4.7.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 18/02/2025

📡 at very long last, today is the big day! my beloved book, OTHER NETWORKS: A RADICAL TECHNOLOGY SOURCEBOOK, is officially available for pre-order! 1/5 #othernetworks shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...

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Lori Emerson - Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. Mexican Summer & Anthology.

Buy Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by Lori Emerson on Mexican Summer & Anthology.

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a dawn walker @dcwalker.ca · 06/03/2025

Looking forward to this workshop on March 27! Come join me and @rachaelashe.com and bring a friend!

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Ramin Nazer @raminnazer.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Reality has gotten so bizarre that it’s tough to even be mad at it anymore. It’s like being upset with a kaleidoscope 🍭

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Open thread for two more wishes 🐾🤍

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Alex Loesch @katakune.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

From Rainbow Brainskull: Now, we are entering an era where realistic photos can be generated instantly. So the era of photographs being accepted as reality was a short ~100 years. How wild is it that we were around to catch the short special era where a photograph meant something was REAL.

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Emily McGill @em-m.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

If you see this, quote post with a photo of a beach from your gallery. I like reflecting on how distant lands are connected through water.

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Emily McGill @em-m.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

When's the last time you did a 'magic eye'? Check out this Jupiter stereogram. I enjoy how it leaps off the screen. First time I think I've done this on a mobile phone 🤔

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Emily McGill @em-m.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This is a fun list. What would be your walk up song, whether for work or another area of life?

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Emily McGill @em-m.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Guess where open-source matters beyond software? Science. This Sunday, online, I'm presenting the results of 10 years testing compostable product breakdown at compost facilities, among speakers incl. the Canada Plastics Pact, Recycle BC, all on Tackling Plastic Waste trellis.org/masterrecycl...

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Master Recycler Vancouver Annual Conference

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