Osbert Lancaster

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Podcaster, facilitator and improviser, exploring how people and the rest of nature can thrive, right now and whatever the polycrisis brings.

https://thrivablescotland.com/

đź“ŤEdinburgh, Scotland

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I’m loving how I can share from @skyreader.app - the text I highlighted is shared as an image which doesn’t use any of the post character limit, and the quoted text is also the alt text! Very cool.

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41. Achieving a low-carbon transition, for most countries, will not look like winning a war or marching while waving flags. It is the ability to say "no thank you, we do not want what you are selling" to the petrostates, and walking (or cycling, or taking a bus, or driving an EV) away.

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Powerful stuff! It’s US centric for a US audience, so I’m probably not able to fully appreciate it. I’m puzzled by framing it as a just as a fight. I would have expected more about building support across issues and interest groups in communities on the ground.

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Quote from “The Climate Movement Isn't in Retreat, It's Under Attack...and It's Time to Fight Back | Newsletter”: many public voices on climate are calling not for a fight against fascism or solidarity with immigrants targeted by the ICE crackdown, not for a resurgence at all, but for retreat. Stick to batteries, they advise. Sell people on the glories of clean energy. But what good is clean energy in a fascist technostate kept in line by AI-powered 24-hour surveillance drones?
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HUGE NEWS: A group of top civil rights & free speech lawyers are calling for the $345 MILLION verdict against Greenpeace International and Greenpeace in the US to be overturned. Here’s what really happened and why EVERY activist is at risk 🧵

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Thinking of belonging in the vernacular, in Orkney someone might say “[So & so] belongs to [farm or parish name]”, “John belongs to Grimbister”. Messes with the idea that people owning land is the only way of thinking.

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Sounds weird. I’d write and say “You need more potatoes IN this weather”. Am I the odd one? Is it a date thing?

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In the bigger scheme of things, do you have suggestions on how we might cultivate belongingness at scales beyond the immediate interpersonal?

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Thanks @frankrennie.bsky.social! That makes a huge amount of sense, and feels very attractive personally, given my general sense of rootlessness, largely I think due to a childhood across many countries and including a stint in boarding school.

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Yes indeed! And it’s not a question of me being left behind, it’s me cutting myself off from people and activities that are important to me. It needs a critical mass of people to say “I’ve had enough of Meta!” and switching!

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