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‘Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about the lamb’s.’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2026/feb/12/capitalist-model-climate-growth-capitalism-species-humanity
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please! 🙏
#TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #cooltheclimate #CapitalismKills

Wealth distribution reeks of unfairness and poses as big a threat to the country’s wellbeing as climate change
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/20/britains-wealth-gap-is-growing-its-malign-effects-seep-into-all-aspects-of-life-its-a-national-disaster
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please! 🙏
#TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #cooltheclimate #CapitalismKills

Rising inequality is turning US into an autocratic state, billionaire warns
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/02/rising-inequality-is-turning-us-into-an-autocratic-state-billionaire-warns
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please! 🙏
#TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #cooltheclimate #CapitalismKills

Here's a beautiful depiction of Étaín by Nicholas Kinney: https://x.com/nicholas_kinney/status/1177145845399150592

Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/03/un-de-schutter-outlines-plan-for-redistributive-global-economy
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please! 🙏
#TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #cooltheclimate #CapitalismKills

Do we stop life to allow capitalism to continue, or stop capitalism to allow life to continue?
Read https://www.monbiot.com/2019/04/30/the-problem-is-capitalism/!
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy & #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries, please! 🙏
#TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #cooltheclimate #CapitalismKills

This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on https://zotum.net/profile/ncm.
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏
#CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #stopoil #endfossilfuels #cooltheclimate #JustStopOil #PeopleOverProfits

#FindsFriday: Reconstruction of a #Celtic chariot on a scale of 1:1, State Collections of Lower Austria
Source: MAMUZ Museum

#FindsFriday: `In countries formerly inhabited by Celts, such as France, bones of corvids were repeatedly found – for example in the Gallic sanctuaries of Gournay-sur-Aronde, Ribemont or Digeon (cited after: Balmer 2009, 224). …
It remains to be noted that bones of corvids are frequently found in a special context during excavations, from which a hint at the possible special role of corvids in the #Celtic world can probably be derived. `
Source: Anna und Fritz Preinfalk, Eine latènezeitliche Grube mit Dohlenknochen aus Haselbach, Gem. Perschling. In: P. C. Ramsl, K. Rebay-Salisbury, P. Trebsche (Hrsg.); Schichtengeschichten. Universitätsforschungen zur Prähistorischen Archäologie 328, Bonn 2019, 205 - 225.

#FindsFriday #Celtic: `The number of fibulae with fully plastic bird depiction is relatively small compared to the numerous bird head and double bird head fibulae (Binding 1993, 17). These represent a regular grave good in Early La Tène graves (Bagley 2014, 199–200). A special form of a bird head fibula comes from recent settlement excavations on the Dürrnberg near Hallein. In fibula Fn. 78, the bird head was attached to the foot end by means of a hinge. The foot had two eyes close together, and the end of the bird head opposite the beak also had an eye. A small bronze pin was inserted through all three eyes and thus attached the bird head to the fibula foot, but at the same time allowed mobility of the head (Preinfalk/Preinfalk 2015, D5292–D5293). `
Source: Anna und Fritz Preinfalk, Eine latènezeitliche Grube mit Dohlenknochen aus Haselbach, Gem. Perschling. In: P. C. Ramsl, K. Rebay-Salisbury, P. Trebsche (Hrsg.); Schichtengeschichten. Universitätsforschungen zur Prähistorischen Archäologie 328, Bonn 2019, 205 - 225.

#FindsFriday #Celtic: `Cranes, together with a bull, play a role in the cult of the tri-garanos (three cranes) in the Gallo-Roman region. They appear together with the Celtic/Gallic god Esus, for example on the pillar of the nautae Parisiaci or on a votive stele from Trier (Duval 1973). Both monuments depict a bull and three cranes alongside the deity Esus, who is pruning a tree in each case.`
Source: Anna und Fritz Preinfalk, Eine latènezeitliche Grube mit Dohlenknochen aus Haselbach, Gem. Perschling. In: P. C. Ramsl, K. Rebay-Salisbury, P. Trebsche (Hrsg.); Schichtengeschichten. Universitätsforschungen zur Prähistorischen Archäologie 328, Bonn 2019, 205 - 225.

This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on https://zotum.net/profile/ncm.
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏
#CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #stopoil #endfossilfuels #cooltheclimate #JustStopOil #PeopleOverProfits

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `For Emer’s sake and theirs #Cuchulain went with her and his friends to the lightsome summer palace, and sat down with the poets and artists and the women-folk to listen to sweet beguiling music and tales of ancient deeds to while away the time.
From that hidden forest glen the sound of joyous revelry and the high, shrill voice of women’s laughter, and the cheerful noise of a great company keeping festival together could be heard.`
Source: Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster, by Eleanor Hull

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `Deirdre loved her life, for she was free as the brown partridge flying over the mountains, or as the vessels with ruddy sails swinging upon the loch. …
One sultry evening in the late autumn, Deirdre and Naisi were resting before the door of her sunny bower after a day spent by the brothers in the chase. Below, their followers were cutting up the deer, and as they brought in the bags of heavy game, and faggots for the hearth, the voice of Ainle singing an evening melody resounded through the wood. Like the sound of the wave the voice of Ainle, and the rich bass of Arden answered him, as together the two brothers came out from the shadow of the trees, gathering to the trysting-place of the evening meal.
Between Naisi and Deirdre a draught-board was set, and Deirdre was winning.`
Source: Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster, by Eleanor Hull

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `The friends of #Cuchulain, and Emer, his dear wife, had taken the hero away with them from his own home at Dun Dalgan to a secret glen in Ulster, that is called the Glen of the Deaf, because no sound of war or tumult reached it, where was a pleasant summer palace retired from mankind. There they entertained him with sweet music and pleasant tales and games of chess, …`
Source: Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster, by Eleanor Hull

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `At the head of fair Loch Etive the sons of Usna had built for themselves three spacious hunting-seats among the pine-trees at the foot of the cliffs that ran landward to deep Glen Etive. The wild deer could be shot from the window, and the salmon taken out of the stream from the door of their dwelling. There they passed the spring and summer months, Usna’s sons of the white steeds and the brown deer-hounds, whose breasts were broader than the wooden leaves of the door. Above the hunting-lodge, on the grassy slope that is at the foot of the cascade, they built a sunny summer home for Deirdre, and they called it the ‘Grianan,’ or sunny bower of Deirdre. It was thatched on the outside with the long-stalked fern of the dells and the red clay of the pools, and lined within with the pine of the mountains and the downy feathers of the wild birds; and round it was the apple-garden of Clan Usna, with the apple-tree of Deirdre in its midst and the apple-trees of Naisi and Ainle and Arden encircling it.`
Source: Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster, by Eleanor Hull

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `It was on a day of the days of summer that Emer, daughter of Forgall the Wily, sat on a bench before her father’s door, at his fort that is called Lusk to-day, but which in olden days men spoke of as the Gardens of the Sun-god Lugh, so sunny and so fair and fertile was that plain, with waving meadow-grass and buttercups, and the sweet may-blossom girdling the fields. Close all about the fort the gardens lay, with apple-trees shedding their pink and white upon the playing fields of brilliant green; and all the air was noisy with the buzz of bees, and with the happy piping of the thrush and soft low cooing of the doves. And Emer sat, a fair and noble maid, among her young companions, foster-sisters of her own, who came from all the farms and forts around to grow up with the daughters of the house, and learn from them high-bred and gentle ways, to fashion rich embroideries such as Irish women used to practise as an art, and weaving, and fine needlework, and all the ways of managing a house. And as they sat round Emer, a bright comely group of busy girls, they sang in undertones the crooning tender melodies of ancient Erin; or one would tell a tale of early wars, and warrior feasts or happenings of the gods, and one would tell a tale of lover’s joys or of the sorrows of a blighted love, and they would sigh and laugh and dream that they too loved, were wooed, and lost their loves.`
Source: Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster, by Eleanor Hull

This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on https://zotum.net/profile/ncm.
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏
#CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #stopoil #endfossilfuels #cooltheclimate #JustStopOil #PeopleOverProfits

#WyrdWednesday @WyrdWednesday #Celtic: `When the children of Lir died, they were buried as Fionnuala had desired; Fiachra and Conn one at each side of her, and Aodh before her face. And a stone was put over them, and their names were written in Ogham, and they were keened there …`
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook

#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: `Finn’s fool Lomna saw Coirpre, a man of the Luigne, go secretly into the house where Finn's wife was.
And when the woman knew he had seen that, she begged and prayed of Lomna to hide it from #Finn. And Lomna agreed to that, but it preyed on him to have a hand in doing treachery on Finn. And after a while he took a four-square rod and wrote an Ogham on it, and these were the words he wrote:—"An alder stake in a paling of silver; deadly night-shade in a bunch of cresses; a husband of a lewd woman; a fool among the well-taught Fianna; heather on bare Ualann of Luigne."
Finn saw the message, and there was anger on him against the woman;`
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook

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#BookologyThursday #Celtic: One day, Fergus mac Leide and a young man of his people went bathing into Loch Rudraige; `and the monster that dwelt in the loch—the sinech (“Stormy One”) of Loch Rudraige—was aware of them. Then she, shaking herself till the whole loch was in great and tempestuous commotion, reared herself on high as if it had been a solid arc hideous to behold, so that in extent she equalled a rainbow of the air. They both, marking her coming towards them, swam for the shore, she in pursuit with mighty strokes that in bursting deluge sent the water spouting from her sides. Fergus allowed his attendant to gain the land before himself, whereby the monster’s breath reaching the king turned him into a crooked and distorted squint-eyed being, with his mouth twisted round to the back of his head. But he knew not that he was so; neither dared any enquire of him what it might be that had wrought this change in him, nor venture to leave a mirror in the same house with him.`
Source: Ancient Irish Tales, ed. by Tom P. Cross and Clark H. Slover

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `For the night when Cu took the sentry to the Fort of Cu Roi it was foretold that the Spirit of the Lake by the fort would devour the whole host of the fort, man and beast.
While he was there far on into the night, tired and sad and weary, he heard the rising upwards of the lake, sounding as if it were the booming of a very heavy sea. However deep his dejection, his spirit could not endure not to go to see what caused the great noise he heard. He then perceived the looming monster, and it seemed to him to be thirty cubits [about 15 metres] arching above the lake. It raised itself on high into the air, sprang towards the fort, opened its mouth so that one of the great houses could go into its gullet.
Then [Cu Chulainn] called to mind his swooping feat, sprang on high, and was as swift as a winnowing fan right round the monster. He entwined his two arms about its neck, stretched his hand till it reached into its gullet, tore out the monster's heart, and cast it from him on the ground. Then the beast fell from the air till it rested on the earth, having sustained a blow on the shoulder. Cu Chulainn then plied it with his sword, hacked it to pieces, and took the head with him into the sentry-seat along with the other heap of skulls.`
Source: The Celtic heroic age by John Koch - literary sources for ancient Celtic Europe and early Ireland and Wales

This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on https://zotum.net/profile/ncm.
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏
#CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #stopoil #endfossilfuels #cooltheclimate #JustStopOil #PeopleOverProfits

#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday: #Lleu Llaw Gyffes was protected from harm by the strange fact that he could never be killed when inside or outside, while on horseback or afoot. Challenged by #Blodeuwedd into such an unlikely position, Lleu received his death-blow from her lover. The unfaithful wife did not go free: she was turned into the nocturnal owl.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`