Meaghan C

Meaghan C

@therealmeaghan.bsky.social

Conservationist, organizer, producer, creative, interested in climate and class consciousness, practical politics, giant puppets, fungi, forests, kid's theatre, stories and songs, protecting watersheds and building community through rabble rousing.

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In Seoul, the restored waterway doesn’t just provide a peaceful refuge from the city’s busy streets, it serves as a cultural corridor with year-round festivals and performances, while helping cool the surrounding neighbourhoods, fighting air pollution and managing increasingly intense monsoon floods

theguardian.com‘Everyone thought it would cause gridlock’: the highway that Seoul turned into a streamCheonggyecheon stream in the South Korean capital has become an attraction – and helps with flood management, fighting air pollution and cooling the city

"!t’s easy to assume that the best way to lift your spirits when you’re feeling down is to do something nice for yourself. A hot-stone massage, perhaps? An online shopping spree? However, research suggests that altruistic acts work better"

theguardian.comI was in despair about the environmental crisis. Then I volunteered to clean up my local park‘Instead of sobbing in front of your computer screen,’ my counsellor said, ‘go out and do something’

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Unsolicited writing advice, #17171617: Don't just write. Read books. Watch films. Look at paintings and sculpture. Play games. Go to plays. Listen to music. Think about how these things make you feel. Making art is a two-way stream. To make art, you have to consume art.

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Ursula K. LeGuin: "American science fiction has assumed a permanent hierarchy of superiors and inferiors, with rich, ambitious, aggressive males at the top, then a great gap, and then at the bottom the poor, the uneducated, the faceless masses, and all the women."

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

How did the tech bro crowd, growing up on stories of sci-fi, transhumanism, virtual reality and limitless ability to modify one's body, "biohacking," etc. end up becoming so viscerally anti-transgender? Truly boggles my mind.

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