Deadline - Samhain 2026

I found this prompt interesting:

Could Pagans, Heathens, animists, and/or polytheists claim a religious exemption if we refuse to use AI in the workplace?

Today's finds include:

A broken car mirror, whiskey minis, hookah supplies, latex gloves, packaging for socks, and a used diaper.

Plogging Comes from the Swedish Term “Plogga”

Stockholm Sweden became the first city to host an organized “Plogga” in 2016. This event combined a jog, jogga in Swedish, with picking up litter, plocka up. Plogga is an association and popular movement where the activity itself is about picking up rubbish while jogging. It is also just as easy to walk, skateboard, cycle, swim or other. Plogging is a change of attitude and plowers are proud garbage collectors who do something for our environment and health before it is too late.

Since then, over 3 million people have participated in organized or solo ploggas. Every day, approximately 20,000 people plog in over 100 countries.

Today's finds include:

Minis (someone really likes sutter home wine, there was a trail of them), plastic bottles, fast food waste, face masks, blunt wrap packages (so many), cigarette butts, bottle caps, and a few socks.

Even before history was recorded in Canada, First Nations, Métis and Inuit people practiced cultural burning, regular, carefully timed, low-intensity fires used to restore ecosystems, open travel routes, enhance food sources and reduce the fuel loads that now feed catastrophic wildfires.

Across B.C.’s Interior and Rocky Mountains, there were intentional fires “every five to 15 years” — “which meant that forests were much more wide open and they actually contained different species”.

“They are mostly sun tolerant species because you'd have a forest where the sun is actually reaching the ground beneath the canopy,” Grenz added.

However, settlers that first came to Canada brought with them colonial forestry practices that fundamentally altered those landscapes by suppressing cultural fire and transforming forests into dense, tree-dominated stands.

Buckthorn Removal Singles Club is a club focused on environmental and community restoration. The group is open to adults of all ages, genders, and sexualities.

Much as the capitalist landscape has led to natural spaces which are polluted, non-diverse, eroding, and choked by invasive species; capitalist management of our social environment has resulted in an online dating scene which is toxic, transactional, and unrooted in community. With online dating accounting for over 50% of new relationships (2025) and all other methods of meeting people in quick decline, it can begin to feel taboo to get friends to set you up on a date or ask out a stranger in public. The aim of this group is to bring people together in community over shared values and provide an alternative to the monoculture of online dating, where friendships and relationships can grow rooted in the nourishing soil of community care.

Retro, a new novel about time travel, is a tonic for readers who struggle with feeling hopeful about the future.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/40166386

What if hunger isn't a failure of the economy, but one of the ways the economy works? From work requirements and SNAP to food banks and political battles over who deserves to eat, we ask whether hunger is simply a social problem or an economic tool. We’ll explore this with co-host Pascal Robert and guests Tanya Denise Fields and Bertrand Cooper.

What if hunger isn't a failure of the economy, but one of the ways the economy works? From work requirements and SNAP to food banks and political battles over who deserves to eat, we ask whether hunger is simply a social problem or an economic tool. We’ll explore this with co-host Pascal Robert and guests Tanya Denise Fields and Bertrand Cooper.