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A New Life for Broken Things - Bluedot Living

A Toronto repair cafe is dedicated to helping the community repair household goods, clothing, and other broken things.

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Mike Sowden@mikeachim.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Oh, this is *such* a good idea. climateactapp.substack.com/p/your-daily...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Garden & outdoorsy folk, please spread this news: The great people at Monarch Watch have a program where schools, nonprofits & large restoration projects can apply for FREE MILKWEED (only thing Monarch caterpillars eat, can't have too much of it IMO). Check it out! monarchwatch.org/bring-back-t...

Read the full five part story here: grist.org/project/indi... Reporting: Anita Hofschneider and Jake Bittle Illustrations: Jackie Fawn #Indigenous #Fish #Dams #Justice #Environment

How the Klamath Dams Came Down

Last year, tribes in Oregon and California pulled off the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This is their story.

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Want the climate books written by authors we have on wickedproblems.earth and don't want to give that geld to Amazon? We've teamed up with @bookshop-org.bsky.social to offer you a way to support our authors, independent booksellers, and our work for the show. win/win/win/win.

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buy Canadian. Noble idea. an one I will pursue. But I think we need to really consider applying this tactic to perhaps the most important industry. Media. A thread... 1/

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I don't have to reply to a pitch to write for me when the writer uses "u" instead of "you", do I? I'm thinking ... no.

Beautiful story about one of the many ways in which immigrants contribute to our cities and create community. In this case, by sharing their culture's food: thelocal.to/ivory-coast-...

The First Business in ‘Little Côte d’Ivoire’? | The Local

From Chinatown to Little Italy, every historic ethnic enclave in Toronto began with a single newcomer setting up shop. Can that process still work in 2025?

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Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

"The cruelty is the point."

Bruce Arthur@brucearthur.bsky.social · 2y ago

Nobody wants to actually address homelessness, except to punish those unlucky enough to experience it. Sometimes I wonder what Canada would have looked like post-Covid lockdowns had there been less generous federal income supports. My guess: worse wicked problem, same brutish response.

speaking of pardons.... President Biden still has the power to free Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier.

This Thanksgiving, Biden Should Grant Clemency to Leonard Peltier

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Amnesty International has campaigned for Peltier’s release for decades. The group recently sent a letter to President Biden, reiterating their demand.

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I have my platform biases like everyone. But I’m slightly puzzled how little coverage the global plastics treaty talks is getting. Either we get this right or every other story on each site doesn’t matter www.carbonbrief.org/five-charts-...

Five charts: Why a UN plastics treaty matters for climate change - Carbon Brief

A global treaty on plastics, touted as the most important environmental treaty since the Paris Agreement, will be negotiated in South Korea.

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"Rather than run from climate conversations, Democrats ... should shout with one voice every time a community is poisoned by pollution or a climate disaster leaves a family homeless ... : “Look what these fossil fuel fat cats are doing to you!" 👏 newrepublic.com/article/1886...

The Answer to Democrats’ Class Problem Is Staring Them in the Face

The climate crisis offers one of the strongest fields imaginable for proving fealty to the working class against rapacious elites.

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it's clear now that republican trolls are squatting here. i know it's tempting to engage, but i cannot stress enough that blocking is the only way to preserve this community. block and move on. block and move on. block and move on.

The Local continues to do really great reporting and storytelling. This one about the killing of the Ontario Science Centre: thelocal.to/ontario-scie...

The Killing of the Science Centre | The Local

The 55-year old museum shuttered without warning one Friday in June. Then devastated staff were given four months to dismantle it. A former employee on the last days of a beloved institution.

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Bluesky starting to feel like a great house party where you keep bumping into people you kinda forgot about but are genuinely happy to see again.

Well … can thank the election for sending me back to therapy, and bringing back my need for both a sleep aid and mouthguard so I can’t grind my teeth 😩. Was a nice 4 year reprieve

Starting to think I might want to remove "optimist" from my bio.

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I have 14500 followers on twitter and I post lots of positive gentle stuff there I would dearly like to have that many here on Bsky but it might take years. As an artist who sells my work directly via the web I keep using twitter rather than starving but my goodness I wish I didn’t need to

I’m gonna need all 370 of you who reposted above to share this: www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-wind...

Windmills blow away Trump's denial of Project 2025 involvement

A brief line in the 900+ page authoritarian guide reveals the Republican candidate's fingerprints.

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