Appena inviata: 'Sappiamo muoverci nello spazio?'.

https://buttondown.com/LaCapannina/archive/sappiamo-muoverci-nello-spazio/

#corsa #run #running #runnerpigro #ultrarunner #mastorunning #bike #blog #change #pintarest #wordpress #mindfulness #sport #banana
#beer #craft #homebrewing #handmade

Newsletter pronta! Spero che la programmazione questa volta non faccia cilecca e domattina parta! L’iscrizione è gratuita il link è qui: https://buttondown.com/LaCapannina Ci sono delle piccole novità!#corsa #run #running #runnerpigro #ultrarunner #mastorunning #bike
#blog #change #pintarest #wordpress
#coffee #mindfulness #sport #banana
#beer #craft #homebrewing #handmade

Who are the most important world changers? Those who shout 'make XY great again' and walk over dead bodies in their greed? Or the more quiet ones who get together, let tiny seeds slip through their fingers, swap old varieties, and revitalise this important knowledge? https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/025f4904-2364-4711-8907-f7e55841993f

#change : to alter by substituting something else for, or by giving up for something else

- French: saute

- German: die Änderung

- Italian: cambiamento

- Portuguese: mudança

- Spanish: cambio

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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form

"An ethics of probability tends to crowd out an ethics of possibility."

"A technocratic approach can also be self-defeating in policy terms. Render the future too concrete and it becomes harder to think about far-reaching structural change. In the language of the anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, an ethics of probability tends to crowd out an ethics of possibility. Moreover, the precision of targets can make failures more glaring, as goals are missed and deadlines pass.This weakens commitment in adversity – a point made by sympathetic critics of a climate agenda centred on “hitting the carbon numbers”. Arguably one of the preconditions of radical politics is an element of imprecision. The anticolonial thinker and activist Frantz Fanon once warned of the “curious cult of detail” that could afflict the scientific mindset in politics, causing its bearer to lose sight of the bigger picture: “Thus, if a local defeat is inflicted, he may well be drawn into doubt, and from thence to despair.”" Jonathan White
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/18/donald-trump-new-right-centre-left-technocratic
#nature #biodiversity #GBF #BeanCounting #governance #technocracy #science #ecology #mindset #NaturePositive #offsets #ClimateBreakdown #ParisAgreement #targets #FossilFuels #WayofLife #ethics #reflection #change

This is not a popular opinion, but I have come to believe that social movements do not ultimately bring systematic change. Not be a contrarian, but I think it takes the right individual that sparks the final measure that brings about real, fundamental change. Let me give some examples.

Martin Luther King, Jr. I know he didn't do it on his own, but he was a singular force, and that is authentic.

From fiction:

Gabriel Bell from the famous Star Trek: DS9 two-parter, "Past Tense" and the Bell Riots. Yes, he also very much did not do it on his own, but he was a force to be reckoned with.

John Sheridan from Babylon 5. He also did not do it on his own, he had both an immediate crew and an extended crew, but he was hands on and even died only to come back and finish the job. He ultimately made the decisions that changed history.

I know how generic I sound. I know I seem like I lack faith in the collective. Well, having lived with severe disability for 27 years, yes, I do lack faith in people at large. I know what you are willing to do to me when no one else is watching. I know it takes a single soul, the right person who possesses the qualities that the collective claims to be in favor of, but they are never actually capable of those moral values, not personally, they are not. It will take one leader to bring change. The group cannot do it.

A quotation from Orwell [wist.info]

Most revolutionaries are potential tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1939), “Charles Dickens,” sec. 6, Inside the Whale (1940-03-11)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/74967/

You know those digital petition sites, for example, Change dot Org?!

Your government officials have those on their spam list and never receive them - Ever.

Furthermore, many of those sites make money by getting you to boost your petition, which is pointless, because again, your elected official will never receive it. Or by selling all the details of everyone who signed the petition.

#Change #Petition #Government #CivilServices #UnitedStates #Canada #Europe #Asia

Park Rangers should keep going to work and just walk out on their bills. No money in, no money out. No deposits. No rent. Go to corporate grocery stores and walk proudly out.

We must protect the land. Climate change must be faced. It might take a revolution. How about a financial revolution? #jubilee #climate #change #globalpolicy #solarpunk

I just pulled the plug on my FB-account. So now Mastodon is all I've got.
And Friendica.
And Pixelfed, and, and, and...

Feels good!

Next up: Getting rid of Google. There are a lot of fantastic alternatives out there.