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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Yesterday I watched a black bear hang out on a fallen tree, then wander around the long grass that almost swallowed him. #bear #nature #wildlife youtu.be/Oc8gUxFo3rM

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Black Bear Wandering (May 30, 2026)

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Two small orange butterflies (some variety of fritillary, I think) meet on a daisy and seem to merge. #butterfly #butterflies #nature #photography

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It has been many years since we've seen a beaver in this tiny pond, but last night one showed up! He rested for a while on the bank, looking a little sleepy, then slipped into the pond and swam away. #nature #wildlife youtu.be/qujdp6rX6Dg

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Beaver Resting by Pond, Then Swimming Away (May 29, 2026)

YouTube video by Woodland Spirituality

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Love these little birds but they're almost always behind a screen of branches. This time I found an opening! Common yellowthroat on a hemlock sapling. #nature #birds #photography

Small yellow bird with a dark black mask, perched on a branch with tiny hemlock needles. He is framed by a circle of other green leaves, which are out of focus, and there are more green hemlock needles behind him.

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

My preorder just shipped, and I'm so excited to read this! Even though I am in absolutely every meme about buying new books while also being crushed by my to-read pile...

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Cherry Hill Seminary @chseminary.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

What if ancestry went beyond family trees? What if it is a living frequency—one that connects you not only to a human lineage, but also to plants, animals, minerals, spirits, and the vast web of consciousness itself? Sundays in April buff.ly/3baq1nZ

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tenseven @tenseven.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

A helpful description of Belonging was shared with me recently. It really hit home. It’s not just being in physical proximity to others. It is being accepted, respected, valued - and missed when you’re gone.

A circular diagram that shows Ten Dimensions of Belonging: Being Loved, Being Present, Being Invited, Being Welcomed, Being Known, Being Accepted, Being Supported, Being Heard, Being Befriended, Being Needed.

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

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T. Thorn Coyle they/them @thorncoyle.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

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

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

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

It really does pack in a lot for a short book, and is absolutely worth the read!

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Helaena Weatherwax @helaenaweatherwax.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

We are still growing beneath the quiet earth. #witchsky

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.

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Cherry Hill Seminary @chseminary.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

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

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

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

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Emily PhD 🎓 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

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

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

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:

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Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia

A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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.

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Having to get out early means catching some morning mist in the hills before it burns off.

Photo of a wooded hilltop with the sun shining brightly above the trees. Below, wispy mist hangs over an area of grass and shrubs.

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Art by Veya @artbyveya.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

If empathy is a sin, then let me be guilty of it daily. ❤️🌼

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Some days I, too, would like to just climb a tree and threaten to jab anyone who comes too close...

Photo of a porcupine partway up a tree trunk, looking at the camera with a halo of quills around its head.

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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.

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Sometimes owls look majestic and wise. Other times, they look like lumpy muppets.

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.

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Kate 🍄 @kateammann.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Respect the locals! 🦊🤎

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Honey is here to sweeten up your scroll.

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.

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I don't even know what proper supports would look like in my life.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2025

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.”

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.

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

This whole thread of highlights from this book is worth reading (as is the rest of the book, I suspect).

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 27/08/2025

it feels like such a simple ask.

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

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Cottagecore Spider Jerusalem @andyeyeballs.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

OK nerds, I have a challenge for you. @tangledwilderness.bsky.social has just published my Letter to the Trans Teens Thinking About Giving Up as a zine. I want to see how many copies of it we can get into the hands of the people who need to read it, and I need YOUR help.

A title page in handwriting-looking font saying: "A Letter To The Trans Teens Thinking About Giving Up // <3 // by Andy Izenson // #44 -- August 2025"

A screenshot of text reading: "Dear friend,
Throughout all of human history, three things have always been true:
1. There are trans people.
2. There are boring assholes who try to make there not be trans people anymore.
3. They fail."

A screenshot of text reading:
"I want you to know that whatever happens, there is a future for you, because there is a future for us.
I don't know what that future is going to look like, but I know that you're not going to face any of it alone."

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Loved this retelling of Circe's story!

Photo of a paperback book lying on a wooden table. The book cover shows the stylized face of a woman in gold, looking directly out at the viewer. The title "Circe" is below that, with the author's name, Madeline Miller, and the words, "Author of The Song of Achilles."

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

"If you are struggling to fathom or reckon with what’s happening, begin here: who can you help protect, and how?"

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Because everything seems grim right now, and I need a bright reminder from before the air quality turned to shit from wildfire smoke, here is a picture of a tiger swallowtail absolutely stuffing itself into a purple hosta flower. #photography #butterflies #nature

Photo of a black and yellow tiger swallowtail butterfly half visible after crawling deep into a purple flower on a hosta plant. There are many other purple flowers and green stems around it.

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Today I have been juggling academic writing, onboarding for a new work position, event planning, spiritual practice and the necessities of everyday living. Got a martial arts class later tonight, too, just to round things out. Wednesday really needs to be a mid-week day off so I can recover...

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Very glad I went ahead and bought all three Danielle Cain books by @margaret.bsky.social instead of just dipping my toe in with the first one. They're all quick reads and very hard to put down!

Photo of three paperback books by Margaret Killjoy, side by side on a dark wood background. The titles are: The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion, The Barrow Will Send What It May, and The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice.

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AffirmationCoyote.bsky.social @affirmationcoyote.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

You are not alone. There are more decent and helpful people in the world than schmucks and haters. Call out. Work together. Stare down the jerks and start making this a better world. (From @foxes-in-love.bsky.social)

From @Foxes-in-Love

Four panel comic. Black background.

Panel 1:

A red outline of a fox on a black background.

Caption: "Sometimes it feels like the world is full of nothing but darkness and evil."

Panel 2:

The red fox is now in a bubble of white with hazy edges.

Caption: "But if you're here, there's at least one good person here."

Panel 3:

The red fox has been joined by other white bubbles, with other foxes, in the distance.

Caption: "And if you can call out at all, reach out at all, you're not alone."

Panel 4:

There is now a large white bubble, with many foxes in different colors inside.

Caption: "Hope and Justice stand where we build them."

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Both this paper and process sound really interesting! Check out the whole thread.

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Lovely to see social posts telling people about Mars appearing close by the crescent Moon tonight. I think more people should engage with the night sky! But so many posts feature AI slop images that misrepresent...everything.

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

This black bear family has made several appearances this month. Wild neighbors require alertness, but are mostly doing their own thing. youtu.be/dDMvf9MTP1I

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Black Bear with Cubs Walking Up the Brook (July 26, 2025)

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

This looks awesome (in all senses of the word)!

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Helene @helene333.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Important research into a compounding cycle of crises rooted in unregulated industrial exploitation of fresh water. Drought, land subsidence and sea level rise are all linked. We need to stop this recklessness and move into respect for the life-giving systems we are embedded in.

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