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Category Archives: Reblogs
Donate to fund dogs in the Serengeti
Originally posted on Learning from Dogs:
This plea came in from Mr. Pedantry! This came in yesterday and I thought for some time that I wouldn’t be able to publish it quickly owing to me getting my knickers in a…
Posted in balance, Biodiversity, crowdsourcing, Environment, Reblogs, Strategy
Tagged dogs, elephants
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The Koala Conspiracy
Originally posted on Adaptive Diversity:
Do marsupials even exist? The word of the year for 2016 is officially “post-truth.” It seems a lot of folks just don’t care very much for facts. Instead, they form beliefs based on subjective feelings…
Posted in balance, Communication, Core thought, GCD: Global climate disruption, perception, Reblogs, Science, Strategy
Tagged Alternative Facts, belief, cognition, post-truth, truth
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Daryl Davis Is Still Going Strong
Originally posted on Filosofa's Word:
In 2017, Keith and I both wrote about a man named Daryl Davis, a Black man who is doing more than his share to help white supremacists stop being white supremacists, one at a…
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Communication, Core thought, People, perception, Phlyarology, Reblogs, Strategy
Tagged Change, Daryl Davis, perception
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From 1985: Warnings from Carl Sagan and Al Gore (Take Two)
Climate deniers will have a hard time explaining these to their grandchildren, the kids who are now woke to the disasters they’ve been served by blindness and greed. Astounding find by climatestate. Source: Climate Denial Crock of the Week I … Continue reading
Posted in balance, Biodiversity, Climate, Core thought, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, Reblogs, Science
Tagged AGW, Al Gore, Carl Sagan, climate change, cognitive dissonance
15 Comments
Happy World Bee Day!!! 🐝
Originally posted on Filosofa's Word:
This is a re-post of the one I wrote last year for World Bee Day, but some of you haven’t yet seen it, others may have forgotten it, and it says everything I would…
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Biodiversity, Core thought, Education, Environment, Phlyarology, Reblogs, Strategy
Tagged bees
9 Comments
The clock is ticking
Originally posted on The Mind of Brosephus:
https://youtu.be/yRlvHYrXUTg I’m guessing that you’ve seen this video by now. If not, take a few minutes to listen or you can read the article about it that was posted on Mother Jones. Here’s…
Posted in ... wait, what?, Communication, Core thought, memetics, News and politics, Reblogs
Tagged Democracy
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Even the pessimists got it wrong, revisited
The perception, the ‘ideal’ and… the reality. If democracy had teeth, the 1% would be quaking in their boots instead of laughing all the way to the bank. Eight years ago, almost to the day, I reblogged a post by … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Business, Capitalism, Communication, Core thought, Education, illusion, Phlyarology, Reblogs
Tagged 'common' sense, cognition, cognitive dissonance, inequality, perception
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Scribble: Rant – No Variations on the Theme, revisited
The preamble to the preamble I spent three hours (!) this morning talking with ‘a’ WordPress Happiness Engineer, (to whom I shall refer as ‘HE’ and ‘they’, for reasons that will become apparent, should you actually make it that far; … Continue reading
Scribble: Rant – No Variations on the Theme, redirector
Addendum 22Jun2021 Well, well, well… plus ça change; plus la même chose. It seems that WordPress has fixed (at least some of) the problems with the reblog facility. The ‘white space between paragraphs problem’ is clearly no longer present here … Continue reading
Bezos Doubles Wealth as Amazon Essential Product Prices Rise 1000% Amid Pandemic
Originally posted on The Most Revolutionary Act:
A report by Public Citizen found that “Amazon is engaged in price gouging on products it sells directly” through its Amazon Essentials line, with products like facemasks and corn starch seeing elevenfold increases…
Posted in ... wait, what?, Communication, Core thought, People, Phlyarology, Reblogs, Strategy
Tagged inequality, Jeff Bezos, Rich bastard
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