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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2025-01-22 at 17:19

Book is Overcoming Burnout, by Nicole Rose, done as a free private podcast feed:

https://solidarityapothecary.org/product/overcoming-burnout-podcast/

(Nicole is a herbalist I admire, who also wrote The Prisoner's Herbal, and Herbalism and State Violence.)

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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2025-01-22 at 17:15

Every now and then an audiobook has a feature I didn't know I needed. This morning I am listening to a chapter about (political) organizing with a chronic illness, and you can hear the author-narrator yawning as she gets through it. Big love from this reader who is also too tired today.

[#]audiobooks #ChronicIllness #MECFS

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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2025-01-21 at 17:50

Not sure Kristianna would call themself a witch, but this is also some really solid time magic for any interested witches.

[#]magic #magick #witchcraft #TimeMagick #spellwork

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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2025-01-21 at 17:49

I appreciate having directions for moving forward instead of spiraling. It is much easier to do "something else" rather than "stop"

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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2025-01-21 at 17:48

I appreciate having a structured, somatic activity to move through a little bit of grief at a time. Keep things moving

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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2025-01-21 at 17:47

Organizing and strategizing are so good for mental and community health! But skipping over grief leads to bad organizing. The combo is much better

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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2025-01-21 at 17:47

I appreciate that it is oriented towards organizing and strategizing, without ignoring or bottling up the pain and grief

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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2025-01-21 at 17:47

I appreciate that you can do longer or shorter versions of this

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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2025-01-21 at 17:46

For anybody who needs support to stop spiralling these days, here is my current favourite active meditation practice for lefties. Kristianna Smith aka Mocha Einstein offers "Grieve, Ground, Imagine, Strategize". Gently redirect that anxiety spiral into forward momentum.

Zine format: https://ko-fi.com/s/9fea20aa2e

Guided video on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCZun9MvRy1

[#]meditation #imagination #climate #USPol #CovidIsNotOver #Hellscape

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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2025-01-20 at 15:49

Via No to SPLOs:

REGISTER IF YOU CAN & SHARE WIDELY!

Emergency Phone / Email Zap Action!

Date: Thursday, January 23

Time: 7pm PT

Closed Captions Available

Register: bit.ly/SupportSD61BCZap

Join Policing-Free Schools (Canada) & No to SPLOs in SD61 (Victoria) and tell Minister Beare: We Oppose the Undemocratic Firing of SD61 Board & Police-in-Schools Does Not Equate to School Safety! Join the Zap Action and learn more about the local issue and what that means for BC and beyond!

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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2025-01-18 at 07:41

Going to take this opportunity to share an FOI investigation about how school liaison officers actually spent their time in schools in 2017, right before the program ended:

https://www.needsmorespikes.com/blog/2019/11/keeping-police-out-of-victoria-and-esquimalt-schools

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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2025-01-18 at 07:22

The #No2SPLO link tree has lots of info and a great email template. If you want to get more involved, send them a note. It's a small group of lovely people!

https://linktr.ee/no2slossd61

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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2025-01-18 at 06:17

This seems like a good time to use my favourite telephone activism method: leave a mean voicemail for someone (the Minister of Education), and then leave several supportive voicemails for other people (the school board, the Victoria Coalition of Parent Advisory Councils, and the Greater Victoria Teachers' Association)

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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2025-01-18 at 06:15

The #SD61 school board's recent letters to the Ministry of Education are incredible:

https://www.sd61.bc.ca/news-events/news/title/board-letters-jan17/

"We must express in the strongest terms how entirely inappropriate it is for the leaders of

municipal police departments or local RCMP detachments to declare their unwillingness to

work with a democratically-elected body, simply because the police disagree with a policy

decision squarely within the scope of that body’s statutorily-assigned responsibilities."

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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2025-01-18 at 06:10

Are people paying attention to the attempted police power-grab happening in #VictoriaBC ?

They have been trying to get the Ministry of Education to fire our elected school board and force police liaison officers into schools, over the objection of the Human Rights Commissioner and the local Teachers Association. That's a local issue that would not stay a local precedent-- anyone in BC can call the Minister about this!

https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/no-police-liaisons-could-soon-mean-no-job-for-sd61-board-members

[#]BCPol #BCPoli #ACAB #AllCatsAreBeautiful

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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2025-01-14 at 02:54

My local library has 9 copies of the new(ish) Rancho Gordo bean cookbook and 29 holds, and I am feeling so warmly about my fellow Victorians for the first time in awhile.

[#]BeansAreBeautiful

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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2024-12-28 at 20:37

Triumph!

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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2024-12-28 at 18:08

Drumroll for the mushroom dye.... It's beige! Good strong colour tho. Dye bath pH was about 8.9; maybe that wasn't alkaline enough to get out of the orange range for this dye. I'll try a stronger alkaline dunk today, but I have to make some washing soda first. (pH approx 10-11)

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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2024-12-28 at 05:02

I am emotionally preparing for it to be beige, despite my following all the rituals of weighing and calculating, measuring pH, mordanting, setting timers...

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Written by Sarah dreams of beans on 2024-12-28 at 04:39

An evening batch of #WeirdSmells because my mum brought me 2 kg of frozen lobster mushroom (Hypomyces lactifluorum) peels she collected from her yard, along with 2 gallons of her alkaline well water. What colour will this turn my yarn? We'll find out in the morning 🍄

[#]FungiFriday #BotanicalDye #NaturalDye #CanadianMetric

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