Shadow Sorceress

Trauma therapist (30 yrs), doctoral candidate in Depth Psych. Mystic tending the dark psyche. Fighting fascism. Warding the sacred. Art heals. Words are spells.

[Shadow Sorceress @SmilingSpirit]

Hi new friends, so glad you’re here. This space is part resistance, part refuge. I retweet what needs protecting or amplified, speak what needs saying, & weave in reminders that our humanity is still worth fighting for. Expect an eclectic mix of courage, care, and everyday magic

[Patrick Webb @Patrickwebb]

BREAKING: Cuba has begun distributing weapons to its civilians and is urging them to prepare for a foreign invasion, per CNN.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Such a sad photo. Two scientists on a remote island collect seeds from the last known example in the world of a type of tree, hoping to preserve it.

Imagine being beside the last known of anything in the world. A humbling experience

Photo and story: https://t.co/PwLMhe21w7

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

You can literally feel Monday breathing down your neck by 4pm on a Sunday evening.

[BNO News Live @BNODesk]

BREAKING: Magnitude 8.2 earthquake strikes the Philippines; tsunami threat issued - PTWC

[Diana💫 @durtydixana]

A little louder for the “he should’ve embraced it” people

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

“How did people write essays before ChatGPT?”

You all are young, but there was this thing called doing research, staring at a blank Word document, thinking, writing, rewriting, suffering, and persevering.

[noor୨୧ @wottheberry]

i took a 45-minute uber ride home from the airport last night after a brutal, three-day business trip.

i was completely emotionally and physically drained, and my social battery was at absolute zero.

when i got into the car, the driver.. an older guy named kabir.. didn't say the usual "how was your flight?" or turn on the radio.

instead, he just handed me a small, laminated piece of paper attached to the back of his headrest.
it was a literal "ride menu."
it said:
1. *the silent ride* (total quiet, no pressure to talk).
2. *the therapist ride* (if you need to vent about your day, i am listening).
3. *the tourist ride* (i will tell you cool facts about the city).
4. *the radio ride* (we just listen to old jazz and coast).

i smiled, pointed to number 1, and whispered, "silent ride, please. thank you."

he gave me a warm nod in the rearview mirror, adjusted the AC, and drove the entire 45 minutes in absolute, beautiful silence.

it was the most peaceful, therapeutic boundary i’ve experienced all year. i felt my entire nervous system finally reset.

when he dropped me off, i gave him a massive tip and told him, "that menu is a genius business idea. you must get amazing reviews."

He looked back at me and said, "i didn't make the menu to get better tips, dear.

my daughter has severe social anxiety, and she told me that the hardest part of her day is navigating small talk with strangers when her brain is tired.

she told me it feels like running a marathon.

i made the card so that anyone who gets into my car can feel completely safe dropping the mask for a little while."

i walked into my apartment and just sat on my suitcase.

we live in a world that is constantly screaming at us to perform, to network, to be "on," and to over-communicate.

but sometimes, the deepest form of love and respect you can show another human being is just creating a small, safe pocket of silence for them to rest in.

pay attention to the people who give you permission to be quiet. they are rare.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

I invite you to be new threads to weave new networks that harmonize every aspect of life for a renewed society in which time is imbued with eternity, culture preserves memory and fosters dialogue, education promotes the search for truth with a critical spirit, art awakens wonder and gives rise to noble emotions, business recognizes the dignity of each person, and work continues to be a driving force for hope. #ApostolicJourney https://t.co/2IeHrzWmSb

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Protect the sacred! Donald Trump is trying to auction off nearly 700,000 acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling right now.

Whether it’s Chaco Canyon, Oak Flat, or the Arctic—we stand with Tribal Nations and our communities in the fight to protect sacred and public lands. These lands are not for sale! ✊

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Long summer drives used to leave your windshield plastered with dead bugs. Now it comes back nearly clean. A scientist in Denmark counted the splats on the same roads for 20 years. On one of them, 97 out of every 100 bugs were gone.

His name is Anders Møller. On a second road, the drop was 80 percent. He checked the splats against bug nets and sticky traps to be sure the glass was not lying. It was not.

The same thing keeps turning up wherever people look. Near Düsseldorf, a club of amateur bug collectors had been setting the same insect traps in German nature reserves since 1989. Scientists later weighed 27 years of their catch. The flying insects had dropped by more than three quarters, and even more in high summer. This was inside protected land, the one place bugs are supposed to be safe.

The newest count comes from Britain. A project called Bugs Matter asks drivers to tally the splats on their license plate after a trip. Across more than 25,000 trips, the splats are down 59 percent since 2021. That is about a fifth fewer bugs every year, and the latest reading came after a warm summer that should have helped them.

Then there are the birds. As the bugs left Møller's windshield, the birds that eat them left too. Barn swallows, house martins and sand martins all dropped off at the same time. In the lean years, parent swallows flew home with less in their beaks for the chicks. And it reaches your own table: about one in every three bites of your food, the UN's food agency says, comes from a plant an insect had to pollinate.

Several things are piling up at once, part of why it is so hard to fix: bigger farms, fewer wild hedges and meadows, a hotter climate, and bug sprays. One family of those sprays took over farming in the 1990s, right when the cartoon begins. They are roughly 7,000 times more deadly to insects than DDT, the poison banned decades ago for harming wildlife.

It is not this grim everywhere. A big 2020 study pooled 166 long-running counts worldwide and found land insects falling more slowly, closer to 9 percent a decade. Insects in rivers and lakes were actually climbing back as the water got cleaner. But over farm country, where most of us do our driving, the windshield has been telling the truth.

The cartoon says humanity has not noticed. The people who would notice first have been counting for decades, on the same kind of glass you wipe down every summer. The clean windshield is the proof.

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

Here’s how El Niño impacts the Galapagos. 82-83 was particularly bad.

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

There’s been a lot of chatter about the cold blue blob in the North Atlantic lately. @rahmstorf just published a paper very recently. The cold blob (warming hole) is not new. But perhaps against the backdrop of blazing red El Niño maps, people are noticing it more. That’s good. It’s a big deal, a canary in the coal mine. Here’s a level headed discussion on the latest science on the #AMOC - potential collapse - yes the cold blue blob in the N Atlantic is very likely due to a slowing of that vital circulation which is responsible for 25% of Northward heat transport. That’s a lot. So any major disruption is a major problem. Maybe watch it at like 1.25-1.5X the speed because my pace was a little slow.

[🐝 @beha_hun]

If they cut Social Security, I want every single penny they have taken from my paychecks since the very first day I ever started working.

[☠️ Lilith Lovett ☠️ same @ on 💙☁️🦋 @LilithLovett]

This is all so a handful of men could get more money than they could ever possibly spend, by the way.

[🤘Stormy🤘🔜DL Fest, F1 BGP, Metallica Cardiff @MetalFolf]

Isn't that like...illegal??? the local government said no? so how'd they get building permits????

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

We’re already facing the worst student loan crisis in history: nearly 1 in 4 borrowers are in default.

Now Trump wants to make it even worse.

On July 1, he’ll eliminate the most affordable repayment plan and raise costs by as much as $4,000 a year.

We can’t let that happen.

[HispanTV @Nexo_Latino]

‼️¡El pueblo albanés se niega a abandonar calles y regresar a sus hogares!

🔺Miles de albaneses siguen en las calles para protestar contra lo que consideran la apropiación de tierras nacionales por parte de Jared Kushner y su esposa, a quienes vinculan con intereses israelíes.

[Gary Sinise @GarySinise]

Thank you to all who fought and sacrificed in freedoms defense all those years ago. Incredible footage here. Blessed that both my uncles survived and will never forget the over 400,000 who did not come home.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Colombia has drawn a hard line: Bullfighting will be banned nationwide by 2027. Cockfighting by 2028. These public arenas will be turned into spaces for music, sports, and culture. We can move past animal cruelty as a tradition.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

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