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Contently Jackie
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Comms consultant, copywriter & strategist. Stone circle botherer. Tree hugger. Bookish. Likes spreadsheets. Ex X.
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SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
www.404media.co
August 17, 2026 at 1:23 PM
contentlyjackie.bsky.social
@greatesthitsuk.bsky.social M62 standstill junction 26 eastbound for 20 mins so far. Three police vehicles, one stranded wagon, big tailback.
M62 standstill junction 26 eastbound.
August 18, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Water companies are pumping shit into our rivers & seas and charging us extra for the privilege.

They’re in charge of our vital water security as temperatures hit record levels.

Enough words from the Labour Government.

Time for action.

Nationalise.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thames Water gave finance chief a £1m signing-on fee
The seven-figure payment was given to Steve Buck as part of package to persuade him to join the troubled utility company.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 10, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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alanbaxter.bsky.social
We've survived the entirety of human history without data centres.

We can't survive more than a few days without clean drinking water.
August 4, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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mandascott.bsky.social
What if you knew that almost everyone in our culture cares about the climate crisis - which they do

We need what @liamconnorkavanagh.bsky.social call's Victory Stories to bring us together and weld us into one unstoppable movement.

accidentalgods.life/we-need-a-vi...

#AccidentalGods
#Podcast
We Need a Victory Story: Mobilising the Silent Majority with Liam Kavanagh of the Climate Majority Project
But what if you knew you were not alone in caring about the crises our planet faces? What if you knew that almost everyone in our culture cares about this, they just don't know what to do about it? Th...
accidentalgods.life
July 22, 2026 at 6:23 AM
contentlyjackie.bsky.social
Hey @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social not on your land, but just by the old gate to Thornborough north henge is a plant that's killing your birds. Today I found one dead and another struggling to free itself from the sticky heads of what I believe is ...
By the old gates to Thornborough North henge Dead songbird stuck by it's feathers to an invasive plant
July 21, 2026 at 10:23 PM
contentlyjackie.bsky.social
This is cool.
July 20, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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rupertread.bsky.social
I recently joined @mandascott.bsky.social for another episode of the Accidental Gods #podcast. Alongside fellow guest, @labourlewis.bsky.social, we discussed what the new Burnham-era might hold.

Full episode: accidentalgods.life/grown-up-pol...
July 18, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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mandascott.bsky.social
How do we dream our way to a different future when #AI is accelerating us toward the 6th mass extinction?

Is there any hope amidst the narratives of inevitability and the despair they provoke?

@nathalienahai.bsky.social says there is—

accidentalgods.life/we-need-to-t...

#AccidentalGods
#Podcast
We Need to Talk about Tech: Exploring AI, fresh Hope…and the power of Song with Nathalie Nahai
How do we shift the dial on the future when so many of those whose fortunes are sunk into Tech, and AI in particular, seem to be steeped in the Dark Triad of psychopathy, sadism and narcissism? Is the...
accidentalgods.life
July 15, 2026 at 7:40 AM
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mandascott.bsky.social
He's made WHO Chancellor?

are we living in some kind of parallel reality where there is no climate catastrophe?

@rupertread.bsky.social @compassneal.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social

what on *earth* is happening?
July 16, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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prehistorian.bsky.social
“In a letter to the Office for Students, which distributes the funding, Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, said funding should no longer be given to support nursing, computing, history, creative arts, performing arts, archaeology, and geography courses.”

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https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nursing-and-computing-courses-hit-teaching-grant-cuts-confirmed
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July 9, 2026 at 5:50 AM
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heidi-colthup.bsky.social
Burn the NHS, throw away our cultural and creative industries - all the things the UK is known for and show us at our very best.
Who is this government working for?!
prehistorian.bsky.social Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · Jul 9
“In a letter to the Office for Students, which distributes the funding, Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, said funding should no longer be given to support nursing, computing, history, creative arts, performing arts, archaeology, and geography courses.”

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https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nursing-and-computing-courses-hit-teaching-grant-cuts-confirmed
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July 9, 2026 at 6:37 AM
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guyshrubsole.bsky.social
Devonians were horrified to learn last week of plans for a massive AI data centre near Great Torrington, north Devon.

The proposals from company XLinks Ltd would cover 850 acres of farmland.

But who owns the land? I decided to investigate. 1/

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Plans for massive data centre near Great Torrington in Devon
Xlinks wants to build a Devon data campus but is facing opposition from residents.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 5, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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peterwmurphy1.bsky.social
"Something just brushed past my leg!"
— Luke Skywalker, #StarWars
Image credit: tempestkc on Threads
#LincolnMemorialReflectingPool #USA
June 21, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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mandascott.bsky.social
“I have come to believe something that sounds simple and is anything but: if Mothering were the axis around which we revolved, we would liberate the world.”

accidentalgods.life/mothering-th...

#Accidentalgods
#Podcast
#MotheringEvolution
Mothering the Future we'd be proud to leave behind - with author and activist Zineb Mouhyi
"I have come to believe something that sounds simple and is anything but: if Mothering were the axis around which we revolved, we would liberate the world. By Mothering I do not mean the biological ac...
accidentalgods.life
June 17, 2026 at 6:55 AM
contentlyjackie.bsky.social
Oh Ripper.
Ripper Giles
Alt: Ripper Giles in Band Candy as Ripper
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June 5, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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josephfasano.bsky.social
For all the healers working in this world:
The Healers You can hear them moving among the ruins, hear them by their silence in the noisy crowds. You can see them, opening their little bags, opening the shrapneled hearts of strangers, crouching before the body of a child to lean down and whisper her a story, a story in which what's happening is not what's happening. They mend; they stitch; they carry. They work; they weep; they lose. And when nothing can be done among the rubble, they kneel there as the fires fall around them and they cradle the face of the dying, the life that is trying to speak to them, the life that whispers, listen, and they do. —Joseph Fasano
March 8, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Over 1000 civilians dead, and we're letting Trump use UK bases to further his war.

Britain should stand firm against Trump's illegal warmongering, and stop these bombers landing on UK soil.
March 7, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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flintdibble.bsky.social
We are so fucked. Fuck every powerful person who isn't doing anything about this disaster
March 7, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
The events of the past 48 hours have laid bare Keir Starmer's utter inability to stand up to Donald Trump - and this weakness could have serious consequences for the safety of British people.
March 2, 2026 at 7:52 AM
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mandascott.bsky.social
[email protected] You seen this?

@zackpolanski.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk

Snuck out last night so we all missed it

except we didn't.

Hat tip to @rupertread.bsky.social for flagging it up

www.gov.uk/government/p...
Nature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security
This strategic assessment explores how global biodiversity loss and the collapse of critical ecosystems could affect the UK’s resilience, security and prosperity.
www.gov.uk
January 21, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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mandascott.bsky.social
We all know plants grown in living, thriving, life-filled soil, give us living, thriving, life-filled food - how do we make sure this is what we feed our families, communities and ourselves?

accidentalgods.life/roots-to-hea...

#AccidentalGods #Podcast
#RegenerativeAgriculture
#OrganicFarming
Roots to Health - building Food Resilience with Daphne du Cros of the Shropshire Good Food Partnership
We all know by now that plants grown in living, thriving, life-filled soil, give us living, thriving, life-filled food... but the steps to getting there in the face of a multinational industry devoted...
accidentalgods.life
December 3, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
99% of what you need to understand about the relentless murder of our living planet, in one word:

CAPITALISM
December 27, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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mandascott.bsky.social
How would an #economy function if it was *actually* oriented to the flourishing of people and planet, regardless of the profits, rather than the death cult that aims for profit regardless of the impact on people and planet?

accidentalgods.life/barefoot-eco...

#AccidentalGods
#Podcast
#Economics
Barefoot Economics in a world of Hobnailed Boots with storyteller Inze Aponte
If we are to build systems that meet our real needs we have to first understand what those needs are and start growing the stuff that will allow us to thrive: good food from healthy soils, safe and su...
accidentalgods.life
December 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 3:16 AM