"You deserve to be free of the demons that shit on your life every day. You deserve to wake up and feel OK with and about yourself. And if at any time you do not, get help." adliterate.com/2022/10/im-not…

Investing in #ActiveTravel infrastructure isn't just good for the environment✅ Research has found that walking and cycling brings significant benefits to the economy, including a boost in retail spend on local high streets and an increase in productivity at work 👇

See what pregnancy tissue actually looks like during first 9 weeks. Clumps of cells, not miniature "babies" forced birth propaganda shows. This is what they claim is worth more than the life of who's carrying it, and removing it is now a murder charge. ➡️theguardian.com/world/2022/oct…

Slowly, slowly making my way through this gem of a book. Highlight from today: In the sacred time of ritual, people can connect with all previous experiences the group has had, or will have in the future. Thanks Billy Matheson for all your years of mahi that's gone into this.

For those interested in the equity side of Aotearoa's Covid-19 response, this event might be up your alley! Starts tomorrow, runs until Friday. manakonui.co.nz

"...customers spent $181 million in the repurposed parking spaces in the summer of 2021. The same spaces would have generated $3.7-million in parking revenue..." theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Thinking back to the time a group of amazing and principled folks try to buy (and failed) to buy a controlling stake in Twitter with the view to turn it into a Platform Co-op. If only...

A few words about decoupling of CO2 emissions from GDP. Lots of people are sharing this plot as evidence that economic growth is universally compatible with emissions reductions. And let's be clear: emissions reductions here are real AND good news. However ...

Making peace with being uncomfortable and immersed in not-knowing is one of the skills all of us need to be good at to constructively deal with what's coming at us. This sounds like an awesome intervention.

Bringing their own music! What an advert for women's rugby this Black Ferns team are. #NZLvENG #BlackFerns #RWC2021

How amazing not only to watch the Black Ferns win, but to see such a stellar team, hearing waiata and all the encouragement for each other, their opponents and the game—all that with small babes on their hip after the game.

In "it's all on now" news, this weeks cases (grey dots, upper right) are not seeing the same kind of drop across the week relative to Tuesday as normally happens

Absolutely love this! The Well-being of Future Generations Act, which Wales is putting into law and practice, is something many countries could follow.

Great thread with insights on how the fashion industry makes its money.

Everyone is returning to normal, except for the millions of people who didn’t make it and the millions more whose health doesn’t allow them to dial back precautions. Everything that did come back is tinged with loss and haunted by ghosts. theatlantic.com/family/archive…

For the second year running I'll be joining a ritual around the Rauhnächte, a special time of midwinter in which the nights are thought to be thin and full of possibilities collectivetransitions.com/twelve-nights

‘British supermarket chain Tesco wants all fresh produce, meat and dairy it sells to be environmentally accredited and audited by third parties from 2025, including that which comes from New Zealand farmers.’ stuff.co.nz/business/farmi…

British trains can't operate because "there's leaves on the tracks".