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Leslie Hudson

@lesliehudson.bsky.social
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Musician in a love affair with poisonous plants. They/them. Queer, autistic, enby. lesliehudson.com

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 02/10/2026
Illustrators! Highly recommend you all check out: trueref.io Just signed up for @trueref.bsky.social's free reference pack. Wow! So impressed by the quality, looking forward to doing more sketching for fun (I haven't been doing enough art just for myself lately). Love the diversity of the models.
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TrueRef – Just the reference you were looking for
Real, unretouched figure and pose reference photos for artists. Never AI. Browse packs by aesthetic, model, and style.
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mo chroí! www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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New Irish language tool to help non-verbal children
A new language tool that allows non-verbal children to communicate in the Irish language is being made freely available online.
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S. J. Tucker Music @sjtuckermusic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Bandcamp is not in my good graces at the moment, so instead of caroling about Bandcamp Friday, imma invite yall to enjoy some other cool stuff in some other places for now. Thx, everyone. I’ll have more music directly available on my website soon. Here’s what I got for now! sjtucker.com
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S. J. Tucker
Home page of S. J. Tucker. songs, stories, community, wit, and magic.
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xap @exapno.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's another Bandcamp Friday, where all monies go to the ARTISTS, the creators - helping them live & eat & add to the beauty & wonder we need to keep us going. Share your favs, and find many other filkish/fannish folk at www.mapcase.org/bclinks/ #Filk #FilkMusic #SupportMusicians #SupportMusic
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I love Shrinking, and I love these actors. Happy to see their friendship and work together deepen and grow. www.townandcountrymag.com/society/mone...
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A First Look at Michael J. Fox and Harrison Ford’s Next Must-See Project
The Shrinking stars have paired up again on a campaign for the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
My closetful of CDs says please let this trend continue. Musicians spend so much money creating, recording & distributing music, and see almost nothing come back for it in this streaming age. I still listen to albums beginning to end. I want the artist's story. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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‘It brings me joy’: how young people are making CDs cool again
Compact discs are back, with searches for players up 96% at John Lewis and popular models sold out online
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The Latest Kate @thelatestkate.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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A drawing of a striped orange cat watching a sunset from a windowsill. The caption reads, "hey, sometimes, surviving the day is plenty"
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/07/2026
they’re calling it the least sympathetic complaint in human history
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
National apologies aren't enough. There need to be consequences for this kind of ongoing hatred. www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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Assembly of First Nations calls for criminalization of residential school denialism | CBC News
The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) has passed an emergency resolution that calls on Canada to criminalize residential school denialism. The advocacy organization, which represents chiefs countrywide,...
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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I wrote a bit about Sam Neill. Feeling genuinely sad about it. Who generated more affection? www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
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Remembering Sam Neill: The breadth of Omagh-born actor’s work was extraordinary
The breadth of the Omagh native’s work was extraordinary. Any festival celebrating his work would last for weeks
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 11/07/2026
Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism (Corbin Bolies/Variety) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The diagnosis is "seasonal" affective disorder. I don't get what's so hard to understand. Summer is a season. Crowds & humidity are debilitating to some of us. My SAD switched seasons from winter (in my 20s) to summer (in my 40s). www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...
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Feeling summertime sadness? Seasonal affective disorder is not just a winter thing | CBC Radio
While we tend to associate seasonal affective disorder (SAD) with winter, summer SAD — also known as reverse SAD — is a real struggle for some people. And it can be tough to deal with in a season wher...
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Disaster movie mood: San Andreas, Twister, The Day After Tomorrow, Armageddon.
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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 07/07/2026
If you want to avoid these AI generations of your Instagram posts, without switching your account to private, you’ll have to dig into the app’s settings. Open the Instagram app, tap your profile, and then tap the three lines in the top-right corner of the screen. Then, scroll down to the Sharing and reuse tab. Here is where you should see a section labeled Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta, with a toggle for Posts and one for Reels.
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We never met, but Yolen's folktales inspired me to write 4 albums of folklore & myth songs. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
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Jane Yolen obituary
Author who wrote more than 400 books for adults and children and was praised for her inventive retellings of fairytales
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I love the sound of Daisy Chain Fields. It makes me happy this generation will get their own Lilith Fair. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
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Olivia Rodrigo announces all-women Daisy Chain Fields festival | CBC News
Nearly 30 years after Sarah McLachlan launched what would become the massively successful all-women touring festival, Lilith Fair, Rodrigo is starting a festival of her own. It's called Daisy Chain Fi...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/06/2026
Break them
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
New friend Kea who I met on the vending circuit needs some help. This past weekend at the Windsor Ren Faire we had a near tornado miss. Many vendors had to pack up mid-storm, lose income and stock, and head home early. If you can help Kea, please do. They're almost there. gofund.me/78046dc7c
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Donate to Help Kea recover from injustice due to the LTB, organized by Keahna Cox
Hello my name is Kea! I am a queer + autistic artist, and I am raising funds… Keahna Cox needs your support for Help Kea recover from injustice due to the LTB
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Funded. THANK YOU. 💜
Purple map of Great Britain on a darker purple background with a plane's flight path flying over the words FUNDED, and below them, thank you!
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Yesterday we reached 87% funded. SO MANY donations came in. Thank you! 💜❤️💙💚 www.gofundme.com/help-get-me-...
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Donate to Help get me to my Guest of Honour concert in the UK!, organized by Leslie Hudson
My name is Leslie Hudson, and for the last decade music has been my… Leslie Hudson needs your support for Help get me to my Guest of Honour concert in the UK!
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 22/05/2026
This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
60% funded. Thank you, folks. Getting there! Help get me to my Guest of Honour concert in the UK gofund.me/7b7f29c40
A white box overlaid on a purple map of the British Isles, with text saying "Help get me to my Guest of Honour concert in the UK!" Below this a circle graph shows 60% of the circle greened in, with $3,323 CAD raised of the $5.5K goal.
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"Opponents to basic income.. argue that recipients will become less motivated to do any work whatsoever. That isn’t what happened, though. The $ helped artists move time out of work they were doing mainly to survive, and into the creative work they preferred." theconversation.com/we-studied-w...
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We studied what happened when financially struggling artists received $1,000 a month, no strings attached, for 18 months
Opponents of guaranteed-income programs often argue that recipients will simply take the money and be less motivated to do any work whatsoever.
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Catching up on #doctorwho almost through Flux, a smorgasbord of Whovian villainy with one catch phrase: YOU WILLL SUFFFERRRRR. Sigh. We get it. You're evil. We're scared. I'M SO POWERFUL. I SENSE YOUR FEARRRRRRR. Sure, dudes, whatever. Sadists are so very very dull. Better writing, please.
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Update 💙 54% gofund.me/122e33d4c
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S. J. Tucker Music @sjtuckermusic.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Folx, plz consider helping my brilliant friend get to their goal? I can personally vouch that they deserve all the ease & all the success.
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Fuck yeah. Best news I've heard out of the US in a long time. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Polyamorous Americans are celebrating new laws establishing their ‘inherent worth and dignity’
Portland is the latest US city to codify polyamorous rights in housing, jobs and public spaces, and more could follow
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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As fuel prices surge, Canadian artists say touring is unsustainable
Somewhere near Cobourg, Ont., a tour bus powered by recycled cooking oil sputtered to a halt. Inside was B.C. singer-songwriter Miina and her crew, midway through a 24-date cross-country journey built...
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I'm heading to the UK this summer to perform at a wee con, and I need help with the airfare. Help get me there? 💙 gofund.me/8b5e1a9dd
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Donate to Help get me to my Guest of Honour concert in the UK!, organized by Leslie Hudson
My name is Leslie Hudson, and for the last decade music has been my… Leslie Hudson needs your support for Help get me to my Guest of Honour concert in the UK!
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
You want to know what it's like to be autistic? Ask us. We'll show you in all kinds of ways. theconversation.com/why-understa...
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Why understanding autism means looking beyond spoken language – two autistic researchers of communication explain
Beyond diagnosis, the real issue is who gets heard and what counts as knowledge about autistic lives.
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I rented my first keyboard for my first set of gigs at age 20 here. Shopped for my first Roland and never looked back. Bought my first guitar and violin. Music stands and songbooks and gear for decades. Steve's helped make me a musician. 💔 www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
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Steve’s Music Store on Queen Street closes today after nearly five decades. Why music lovers say ‘it’s tragic to see’
Steve's Music Store, the brick-and-mortar retail space that has called Queen Street West home for nearly 49 years, is closing for good on Sunday. Here's what patrons have to say about the beloved musi...
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Canadian musicians: sign the petition! Organized by SOCAN Say No To AI Training on Unlicensed Music nwmd.social/s/copylink/4...
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New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Hold Big Tech accountable www.npr.org/2026/02/18/n...
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to face jury in landmark social media addiction trial
The case is seen as a test of social media's legal responsibility for platform design features that plaintiffs' lawyers say exacerbated mental health issues in young people.
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
GET ICE OUT OF CANADA www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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ICE has offices in 5 Canadian cities. Is your city on the list? | CBC News
The U.S. government’s website lists ICE offices in five Canadian cities: Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Ottawa.
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Starting a blog & limited mailing list to share my mental health journey over the next 6 months. If you'd like to join it, please DM me. There's gotta be a better way to live a creative life than this. I think we can help each other find it (away from here). 💔❤️‍🩹♥️
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
about to take a 6 month hiatus from most platforms to remember what it means to be an artist and not a peddler of content that sucks the soul from everything that actually matters, at least for me #artisticburnout #autisticburnout
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I'll be doing this too. I knew about the CEO funding choices but not the ICE ads. Cancelled my Spotify account a month ago. Pulling my music off the platform is next.
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The only reason I've ever had to visit the Met's American Wing. That is, if you could pay me to cross the border. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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An Indigenous Takeover of the Met Asks Who Should Be Writing Art History
"Encoded,” an unsanctioned AR exhibition is hiding within the Met American Wing’s famed artworks and sculptures.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/10/2025
Atheist proselytizers are the religious proselytizers I’m most likely to come into contact with and they’re just as annoying as all of the other ones I experience
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
#wanderlingwednesday one for every week of the year lesliehudson.bandcamp.com/track/sun-gi...
The silhouette of a young woman walking across a wide, deserted plain, beneath the beating sun, to find a cure for her partner. She walks until she wears out her shoes.
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
The Oatmeal putting it into words better than I could. I hate AI with a depressing monotone of a wearied scream into the corporate void. I've never come closer to quitting making art for a living than I have in 2025. Reading this, helps me put words to thoughts. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
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A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Give Me a Sword has a new lease on life thanks to Das Binky. This song is for all the Li Chi's among us, slaying the monsters we can. PWYC on Bandcamp today lesliehudson.bandcamp.com/album/give-m...
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Give Me a Sword (I'm Gonna Heal), by Leslie Hudson ft. Das Binky
2 track album
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Liam Ó Maonlaí leads tributes to Manchán Magan who has died aged 55 “At the end of the night, the three of us held hands and said a prayer for Manchán on the street. It was before the word came. We got to the B&B and Rónán came in and said: ‘Tá sé imigh’.” www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...
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Manchán Magan: Ó Maonlaí leads tributes to writer and documentary maker who has died aged 55
Author spoke of terminal illness in recent radio interview, saying he did not feel despair
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
#wanderlingwednesday one for every week of the year lesliehudson.bandcamp.com/track/give-m...
Young woman with sword raised and loyal dog at her side, prepares to attack serpent monster who wants to eat them. The serpent guards its hoard of bones.
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Nonbinary Memes and More @nonbinarymemes.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Just sayin. 🤷🏻 #nonbinary #lgbtq
On a purple and gray background with stars, hearts, and rainbows in the colors of the nonbinary pride flag is black text in a variety of fonts that says “If the GENDER BINARY was real, they wouldn’t need to make LAWS to enforce it.”
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I am autistic. I hear colour and taste sound. My brain is a marvel. I sing, write, paint, sculpt, compose, play, perform, imbue, impart, and inspire. I struggle to find my place in capitalism and arbitrary social constructs. I rebel against power. Passion, patterning, and integrity guide me forward.
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
for those of us who wrestle our autonomous creativity from the iron fist of perfectionism, especially when perfectionism is so damn hot #MusicSky #Swanky #BossaNova "repeat after me" new single with @drmaryccrowell.bsky.social lesliehudson.bandcamp.com/album/repeat...
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repeat after me, by leslie hudson ft. mary crowell
1 track album
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 20/09/2025
The word “myriad” can be used as either a noun or an adjective, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. #copyediting
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Writers Sarah Clancy and Naoise Dolan to sail with the flotilla setting sail today. www.thejournal.ie/aid-flotilla...
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'We need to stop this': Aid flotilla carrying Greta Thunberg and Irish activists set to sail for Gaza
Irish actor Liam Cunningham, who is supporting the flotilla, described it as “an indication of the world’s failure to uphold international law”.
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Leslie Hudson @lesliehudson.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Having grown up surrounded by green, gardens, and orchards, raised to immerse myself in the natural world and travel to see its wonders, I helped teach a generation of kids to cherish, explore, and nurture their own connections. It was the most important lesson. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds
Prof Miles Richardson says people risk ‘extinction of experience’ in the natural world without new policies
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