Deb Friesen
🇨🇦 Studying history of religion and architecture for a book, working title “Confessions of an Atheist Architect.” Meshes history, philosophy, anthropology, cultural evolution, psychology, memoir and imagining architecture in harmony with the environment
- Happy Winter Solstice ☀️
- In winter’s hush, notice what remains essential. #GoodCheer #EthicalSTL
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- Tell Doug Ford to keep the Reagan tariff adds going. They’ve obviously had an impact.
- A very informative and inspiring episode. Listen to it!
- It’s our 10th Anniversary! To mark the occasion, we are rejoined by @kingsmillbond.bsky.social and Daan Walter of @ember-energy.org for 2.5 hrs of deep thoughts on what the past decade of our work has been about, and what the next ten years will require. xenetwork.org/ets/episodes...
- A must listen!
- Ember's Kingsmill Bond, Daan Walter & Sam Butler-Sloss joins The Energy Transition Show to share how electrotech is enabling the emerging market leapfrog to better energy systems and reshaping geopolitics. loom.ly/h_SJ9Gw
- Pope Leo XIV denounced people who deny climate change today, arguing that they are contributing to the destruction of God's creation.
- Good for him for speaking up.
- what the hell did Tylenol ever do to this guy?
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- I hope they sue
- Well, at least Trump is clear about what he has always stood for. Hate.
- Priceless! 🤣🤣🤣
- Really enjoyed listening to this and as a local humanist group organizer I will now have to check out Alastair’s blog
- New episode of the Beyond Atheism podcast! Ep. 74: Humanism and Neurodiversity – Alastair Lichten In this episode, we are joined again by Alastair Lichten, a humanist community builder and the author of the blog, Humanist Dad (@humanistdad.bsky.social).
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- Following 😁
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- Really enjoyed this podcast. Fascinating discussion and I’m interested to check out Manvir’s work on narrative also.
- We often treat religion and shamanism as fundamentally different. But the two are deeply enmeshed, and a push and pull between them has played out repeatedly across history. Just one of the topics discussed in latest episode, with @manvir.bsky.social! Listen: disi.org/the-shaman-w...
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- Oh no Nathan, I’m so sorry. I just saw that your podcast is back, was looking at your account for more info and saw this. I can only hope your treatment is effective. It’s not fair.
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- Sounds great. I’ll email you the link. Our coordinator Thomas Doyle usually sends a reminder email the day before including the link, I’ll get him to include you in the reminder.
- If you’re game, I can send you the zoom link in a DM
- Or send it to the email address on your website
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- Having you join the Zoom meeting would be great, we have had authors join us in the past. I didn’t want to ask since I think you are in the UK? The meeting is Oct. 7 at 7 pm EDT so that would be midnight for you? If you’re a night owl . . .
- Hey Will, your book has been selected as the October read for the Humanist Canada Zoom book club (on my recommendation)
- Thought-provoking podcast. Less land for agriculture means more land for nature, so more efficient farming methods are better for the environment.
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- Good grief. I didn’t know it was that bad, even though so recently met one of those conservative climate change deniers. Very concerning to say the least.
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- Humanist Canada doesn’t have a Bluesky account yet - they need to get one!
- An important announcement about the 2026 World Humanist Congress that American Atheists was scheduled to host in Washington, D.C.
- Welcoming you to Canada with open arms and hearts! ❤️🇨🇦
[Not loaded yet]- I’m so very sad for you. It’s crazy this is happening. But very happy and excited to welcome you all to Canada!
- It simply is no longer viable for us to hold the 2026 World Humanist Congress in Washington DC as planned, with the US in the state it is. Delighted to announce that we will instead be hosted by the wonderful people of Ottawa, Canada!
- I’m very sad for our American friends that it has come to this. Such an upside-down time we are living in that this is happening in the “land of the free.” But very excited and happy to welcome HI to Canada!
- Just finished Why We Believe by Agustin Fuentes, a good follow up to David Sloan Wilson’s Darwin’s Cathedral. An interesting read although he lost me a bit near the end in the discussion of “scientism” which I don’t really think is a thing. Next up Will Gervais, Disbelief.
- Recommended read (non-fiction by the author of the excellent novels American War and This Strange Paradise)
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- Me too. Really good, insightful.
- Want to help solve the climate crisis + save money? When you need to update your heating system get a heat pump. When you need to update your car, get an EV. More efficient and less costly to run. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...
- I wondered about this when I Iistened to the CBC Ideas podcast “Techno-Utopia or the Billionaires Wet Dream” that featured Emile P. Torres.
- "If God manifested himself as a human in the form of Jesus Christ, then why not as a posthuman in the form of superintelligent AI?" I'll post a lot more about this tomorrow, but for now, here's my latest article for Truthdig. I think you'll like it: www.truthdig.com/articles/mac...
- "If God manifested himself as a human in the form of Jesus Christ, then why not as a posthuman in the form of superintelligent AI?" I'll post a lot more about this tomorrow, but for now, here's my latest article for Truthdig. I think you'll like it: www.truthdig.com/articles/mac...
- Great article. Scary stuff.
- Sickening
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- Kudos to Carney for managing to compliment Trump without throwing up in his mouth and to the whole Canadian delegation for a Herculean effort at not rolling their eyes through Trumps ridiculous self-serving rants
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- Class vs no class
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- Not surprising
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- So true. Very sad to see him go.
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- Nonsense. PP sabotaged himself. He was already losing before Ford weighed in.
- Thank you @brucefanjoy.bsky.social for your hard fought successful campaign to kick PP to the curb! Oh Canada! ❤️❤️🇨🇦🇨🇦
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- Good grief, it’s awful to think that my use of the long dash might lead someone to think my writing was AI generated, especially after the great pains I went through to learn the keyboard shortcut.
- The Chiang affair is taking up too much oxygen. Paul Chiang needs to withdraw his candidacy so the campaign can get on with discussing the issues.
- Looks like Chiang has done the right thing, hallelujah.
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- The Paul Chiang affair is taking up too much oxygen and hurting the Liberal campaign. Chiang should step down or be dropped so the media can get back to the issues. Stop giving the conservatives ammunition.
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- And they think they can run a government?
- I think Trump is treating Carney with more respect than Trudeau because he’s not jealous of Carney’s hair.
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- Terrific interview with Jason Stanley on CBC’s The Current today 🔥
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- Loved this. Have to read the book now.
- Climate change need not/should not be a left/right divisive issue. Decarbonization is good for business as well as for human survival as discussed in this excellent, as always, Transition Show podcast about Australia’s progress.
- Ep. 246 continues our miniseries on Australia and discusses how the government is working with the grid power sector to plan and execute its #energytransition while maintaining system reliability. They're doing it right down under! xenetwork.org/ets/episodes...
