Clare Farrell
@claretotty.bsky.social
Textiles, clothing, environment, active citizen.
@XRebellionUK
@XRebellionUK
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Come join us tomorrow Friday 31st 1-2pm for the launch of GOOD NEIGHBOURS LIVE!, it's EuroTrash meets a zoom call for the arts and culture movement, with guests from the grassroots, Britain's Got Tarot, and much more!
Livestream Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZROj...
Livestream Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZROj...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Come join us tomorrow Friday 31st 1-2pm for the launch of GOOD NEIGHBOURS LIVE!, it's EuroTrash meets a zoom call for the arts and culture movement, with guests from the grassroots, Britain's Got Tarot, and much more!
Livestream Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZROj...
Livestream Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZROj...
Come join me tomorrow Friday 31st 1-2pm for the launch of GOOD NEIGHBOURS LIVE!, it's EuroTrash meets a zoom call for the arts and culture movement, with guests from the grassroots, Britain's Got Tarot, and much more! I'm so looking forward to it :)
Livestream Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZROj...
Livestream Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZROj...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Come join me tomorrow Friday 31st 1-2pm for the launch of GOOD NEIGHBOURS LIVE!, it's EuroTrash meets a zoom call for the arts and culture movement, with guests from the grassroots, Britain's Got Tarot, and much more! I'm so looking forward to it :)
Livestream Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZROj...
Livestream Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZROj...
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What's the research around flags, their impact on us, and what people really think about them? I wanted to take a bit of a dive into the subject and find out. www.absurdintelligence.com/are-we-flagg...
Are we flagging yet?
There’s still much to learn from our relationship with national symbols.
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October 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
What's the research around flags, their impact on us, and what people really think about them? I wanted to take a bit of a dive into the subject and find out. www.absurdintelligence.com/are-we-flagg...
I’m learning all the time about the art of bringing people together. Last weekend I was part of the team that ran Humanity Project’s national gathering, and it filled me with joy to be with such a down-to-earth, diverse, funny and loving group of people: clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/the-art-of...
The art of convening: a Humanity Project national gathering
I'm learning more and more about this practice of bringing people together.
clarejfarrell.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I’m learning all the time about the art of bringing people together. Last weekend I was part of the team that ran Humanity Project’s national gathering, and it filled me with joy to be with such a down-to-earth, diverse, funny and loving group of people: clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/the-art-of...
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Is the climate system more sensitive to CO2 than we thought?
What were the impacts of this summer's heatwaves, and how can cities adapt?
Will extreme weather shocks catalyse climate action?
New episode of News From a World in Flux with @claretotty.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhS7...
What were the impacts of this summer's heatwaves, and how can cities adapt?
Will extreme weather shocks catalyse climate action?
New episode of News From a World in Flux with @claretotty.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhS7...
September 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Is the climate system more sensitive to CO2 than we thought?
What were the impacts of this summer's heatwaves, and how can cities adapt?
Will extreme weather shocks catalyse climate action?
New episode of News From a World in Flux with @claretotty.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhS7...
What were the impacts of this summer's heatwaves, and how can cities adapt?
Will extreme weather shocks catalyse climate action?
New episode of News From a World in Flux with @claretotty.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhS7...
On the release of Roger Hallam from prison - a really good time to remind ourselves of the ongoing problem of police and media collusion. The work to build new institutions that serve the people and not the state continues. Please share if you can. Thanks dears! x
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On Roger's release - my speech at the appeal for the Whole Truth Five
My friend Roger Hallam is out of prison, but the work to build new democratic institutions continues.
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August 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
On the release of Roger Hallam from prison - a really good time to remind ourselves of the ongoing problem of police and media collusion. The work to build new institutions that serve the people and not the state continues. Please share if you can. Thanks dears! x
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Fabulous piece Alanna! Totally agree x
⚽⚽ Women's football makes Britain brilliant - change my mind ⚽⚽ (Or rather change Alanna's, who has penned this fabulous piece on the Lionesses, 'Proper English', national identity & what kind of people we want to be, for @absurdintelligence.bsky.social).
www.absurdintelligence.com/the-lionesse...
www.absurdintelligence.com/the-lionesse...
The Lionesses. Women’s sport makes Britain brilliant
The Euros winners show what it means to love your country.
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August 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Fabulous piece Alanna! Totally agree x
I want to ask you to reflect on a basic human experience of wanting to fit in, and how, in many parts of culture, why we don't grow out of those immature behaviours, and how action on climate has been caught up in this - including calls for Climate Justice clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/is-climate...
Is Climate Justice possible? Part 3
Justice requires elder wisdom and a willingness to be vulnerable, not an immature willingness to fit in at any cost.
clarejfarrell.substack.com
July 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I want to ask you to reflect on a basic human experience of wanting to fit in, and how, in many parts of culture, why we don't grow out of those immature behaviours, and how action on climate has been caught up in this - including calls for Climate Justice clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/is-climate...
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Just a big-up to Gary Stevenson who came back to his YouTube channel this week to find how effectively his call for message discipline around a wealth tax has worked out. My latest for @absurdintelligence.bsky.social
www.absurdintelligence.com/message-disc...
www.absurdintelligence.com/message-disc...
Message discipline works - well done Gary
When you have a clear, consistent message and a powerful messenger, you can shift the political weather.
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July 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Just a big-up to Gary Stevenson who came back to his YouTube channel this week to find how effectively his call for message discipline around a wealth tax has worked out. My latest for @absurdintelligence.bsky.social
www.absurdintelligence.com/message-disc...
www.absurdintelligence.com/message-disc...
Last night I watched Mean Girls, and it made me realise quite a lot about climate justice. It's a teen comedy but it's good! It says a lot about human behaviour, consumerism, and how our sense of safety is woven with our sense of identity. Part 2 of 3: clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/is-climate...
Is Climate Justice possible? Part 2
Mean Girls and memetic desire have helped me understand what happens when you try to change someone's mind about justice.
clarejfarrell.substack.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Last night I watched Mean Girls, and it made me realise quite a lot about climate justice. It's a teen comedy but it's good! It says a lot about human behaviour, consumerism, and how our sense of safety is woven with our sense of identity. Part 2 of 3: clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/is-climate...
Let me just say, I'm not trying to start a fight! Even if the algorithm wants it... but I do think there's an important conversation to have around where we're at with "climate justice" in a time of almost certain collapse.
Wld love you to read and share x
clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/is-climate...
Wld love you to read and share x
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Is Climate Justice possible? Part 1
This post is in three parts, to take some time and depth to properly grapple with a complex and important issue in the climate and democracy movements.
clarejfarrell.substack.com
July 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Let me just say, I'm not trying to start a fight! Even if the algorithm wants it... but I do think there's an important conversation to have around where we're at with "climate justice" in a time of almost certain collapse.
Wld love you to read and share x
clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/is-climate...
Wld love you to read and share x
clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/is-climate...
Nothing makes sense any more when nonviolent dissent is made a false equivalence with erasing an entire people.
Please share before Monday, when doing so could be illegal and end you up in prison.
With love and support for @palaction.bsky.social 🇵🇸
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Please share before Monday, when doing so could be illegal and end you up in prison.
With love and support for @palaction.bsky.social 🇵🇸
open.substack.com/pub/clarejfa...
Nothing makes sense any more - in solidarity with Palestine Action
Everything is out of proportion because it suits those who abuse power to keep it that way.
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June 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Nothing makes sense any more when nonviolent dissent is made a false equivalence with erasing an entire people.
Please share before Monday, when doing so could be illegal and end you up in prison.
With love and support for @palaction.bsky.social 🇵🇸
open.substack.com/pub/clarejfa...
Please share before Monday, when doing so could be illegal and end you up in prison.
With love and support for @palaction.bsky.social 🇵🇸
open.substack.com/pub/clarejfa...
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A report from @oceanrebellion.bsky.social interventions at #UNOC2025 for those who want to deep dive into how creativity, humour & confusion work in our favour as we perform our civic duty to disobey unjust laws & immoral profiteering: Don't Touch My Bottom www.absurdintelligence.com/dont-touch-m...
Don’t touch my bottom
Absurd Intelligence and Ocean Rebellion members Clive Russell and Roc Sandford recount five manic days on the Côte d'Azur.
www.absurdintelligence.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
A report from @oceanrebellion.bsky.social interventions at #UNOC2025 for those who want to deep dive into how creativity, humour & confusion work in our favour as we perform our civic duty to disobey unjust laws & immoral profiteering: Don't Touch My Bottom www.absurdintelligence.com/dont-touch-m...
It took time to think about Vance’s speech in Munich on ‘the retreat of free speech’ but going via Timothy Snyder, Hannah Arendt and others I’m convinced that the imbalance of freedom can be rebalanced with the ‘right to be listened to’.
Please share, thanks loves! x substack.com/home/post/p-...
Please share, thanks loves! x substack.com/home/post/p-...
The imbalance of freedom: part 2
To regain our freedom, we have to act free and demand our right to be listened to
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June 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM
It took time to think about Vance’s speech in Munich on ‘the retreat of free speech’ but going via Timothy Snyder, Hannah Arendt and others I’m convinced that the imbalance of freedom can be rebalanced with the ‘right to be listened to’.
Please share, thanks loves! x substack.com/home/post/p-...
Please share, thanks loves! x substack.com/home/post/p-...
As friends of mine continue to get locked up for nonviolent resistance for fighting the climate disaster, it's our job to educate ourselves on both nonviolence and violence. There's no better place to begin than with Hannah Arendt. My thoughts. Please share! Tx
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Educating myself on violence
The 1969 book On Violence by Hannah Arendt is essential for those of us who advocate nonviolence as an approach to conflict and peace.
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June 4, 2025 at 6:58 AM
As friends of mine continue to get locked up for nonviolent resistance for fighting the climate disaster, it's our job to educate ourselves on both nonviolence and violence. There's no better place to begin than with Hannah Arendt. My thoughts. Please share! Tx
open.substack.com/pub/clarejfa...
open.substack.com/pub/clarejfa...
What else is going on with the idea that we're an 'island of strangers'. Is it valid? Is this how people feel? Spoiler: it's not immigration, sorry Keir/Nige.
Why do we feel isolated & alone. My friend Alanna @absurdintelligence.bsky.social gets into it: www.absurdintelligence.com/island-of-st...
Why do we feel isolated & alone. My friend Alanna @absurdintelligence.bsky.social gets into it: www.absurdintelligence.com/island-of-st...
Island of strangers?
The outrage over echoes of Enoch are valid, but the deeper question remains: where *are* our communities?
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May 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
What else is going on with the idea that we're an 'island of strangers'. Is it valid? Is this how people feel? Spoiler: it's not immigration, sorry Keir/Nige.
Why do we feel isolated & alone. My friend Alanna @absurdintelligence.bsky.social gets into it: www.absurdintelligence.com/island-of-st...
Why do we feel isolated & alone. My friend Alanna @absurdintelligence.bsky.social gets into it: www.absurdintelligence.com/island-of-st...
Most of us don't think much about why we're here. We've abandoned institutions that help us have those conversations about what being means.
In the midst of a crisis that's existential AND exponential, to me it's catastrophic not to talk about why we 'are' clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/exponentia...
In the midst of a crisis that's existential AND exponential, to me it's catastrophic not to talk about why we 'are' clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/exponentia...
Exponential x Existential = The Problem
Most of us don't have a sense of why we're here; that's stopping us from dealing with crisis.
clarejfarrell.substack.com
May 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Most of us don't think much about why we're here. We've abandoned institutions that help us have those conversations about what being means.
In the midst of a crisis that's existential AND exponential, to me it's catastrophic not to talk about why we 'are' clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/exponentia...
In the midst of a crisis that's existential AND exponential, to me it's catastrophic not to talk about why we 'are' clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/exponentia...
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The fab event at Kairos last week with organising legend Marshall Ganz prompted us at @absurdintelligence.bsky.social to get our thoughts about narrative down on paper. In short: stories matter, but only if they get people doing stuff!
Pls read and RT www.absurdintelligence.com/narratives-n...
Pls read and RT www.absurdintelligence.com/narratives-n...
Narratives need enacting, otherwise they’re just words
A theory for story in service to organising: get on the bike!
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May 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The fab event at Kairos last week with organising legend Marshall Ganz prompted us at @absurdintelligence.bsky.social to get our thoughts about narrative down on paper. In short: stories matter, but only if they get people doing stuff!
Pls read and RT www.absurdintelligence.com/narratives-n...
Pls read and RT www.absurdintelligence.com/narratives-n...
Context needs to survive, or we won't. But in their lurch to hoard wealth and power, the super-rich and their political elites set out to destroy context, and so destroy us. Democracy dies with no context. So what can we do about it? My new post, please read + share <3
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Context needs to survive, or we won’t
Without understanding the context of the world we’re in, the super-rich elite can govern us to our deaths without resistance
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May 19, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Context needs to survive, or we won't. But in their lurch to hoard wealth and power, the super-rich and their political elites set out to destroy context, and so destroy us. Democracy dies with no context. So what can we do about it? My new post, please read + share <3
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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New episode of News From a World in Flux with @claretotty.bsky.social
We discussed fatal wet bulb temperatures, the future of forests, what nature tells us about human migration, activist jail sentences and all sorts
of similarly fun stuff
We discussed fatal wet bulb temperatures, the future of forests, what nature tells us about human migration, activist jail sentences and all sorts
of similarly fun stuff
Wet bulb disasters, importing trees, and prison update | NFAWIF | XRUK
YouTube video by Extinction Rebellion (XR) UK
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May 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
New episode of News From a World in Flux with @claretotty.bsky.social
We discussed fatal wet bulb temperatures, the future of forests, what nature tells us about human migration, activist jail sentences and all sorts
of similarly fun stuff
We discussed fatal wet bulb temperatures, the future of forests, what nature tells us about human migration, activist jail sentences and all sorts
of similarly fun stuff
I do this work because I believe in people, love people and trust people. If you reflect the goodness of humanity back at us, then you're the kind of person I want at our convention! Have a read:
www.absurdintelligence.com/on-reflectin...
www.absurdintelligence.com/on-reflectin...
On reflecting the goodness of humanity: an invitation
Are you ready to collaborate on how we decide our fate?
www.absurdintelligence.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I do this work because I believe in people, love people and trust people. If you reflect the goodness of humanity back at us, then you're the kind of person I want at our convention! Have a read:
www.absurdintelligence.com/on-reflectin...
www.absurdintelligence.com/on-reflectin...
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Today's the launch party for my new novel Daddio!, a climate comedy for the ages wrapped up in an old fashioned family drama: how we keep loving during the sh*tshow. If you're in London & fancy coming along, DM me, otherwise... hardart.metalabel.com/release-dadd... (with sounds by Brian Eno!)
Daddio! A Collaborative Novel
A man drives his elderly evil-tempered father to a funeral. They never arrive as their dysfunctional family dynamic unravels on a journey overshadowed by a fascist & climate-ravaged future. Daddio! is...
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May 13, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Today's the launch party for my new novel Daddio!, a climate comedy for the ages wrapped up in an old fashioned family drama: how we keep loving during the sh*tshow. If you're in London & fancy coming along, DM me, otherwise... hardart.metalabel.com/release-dadd... (with sounds by Brian Eno!)
The media has never helped us understand that stories are the driving force behind the collapsing climate. That's because it's designed not to. So if we’re governed by dreams and gossip, how should we respond? My latest, please subscribe (freely) and share (also freely!) substack.com/home/post/p-...
If we’re governed by dreams and gossip, how should we respond?
The media has never helped us understand that stories are the driving force behind the collapsing climate. That's because it's designed not to.
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May 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The media has never helped us understand that stories are the driving force behind the collapsing climate. That's because it's designed not to. So if we’re governed by dreams and gossip, how should we respond? My latest, please subscribe (freely) and share (also freely!) substack.com/home/post/p-...
Thanks Alex! 🙏
I'm super glad to be supporting the launch of @claretotty.bsky.social's Substack - her analysis for a real democracy, grounded in not just *thinking* about problems but *doing* something about them. She's one of the smartest people I've met. Go have a read!
www.absurdintelligence.com/policied-to-...
www.absurdintelligence.com/policied-to-...
Policied to Extinction – why the think tanks came after the climate movement
Announcing the launch of Clare Farrell’s Substack, essential analysis for anyone who wants to live in a democracy.
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April 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Thanks Alex! 🙏
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What if we gave away more of our work for free? Would it make a difference to the world we live in? That's what Clive Russell explores for @absurdintelligence.bsky.social in this week's newsletter.
www.absurdintelligence.com/work-for-free/
www.absurdintelligence.com/work-for-free/
Work for Free
The more of our work we give away for free, the more we create a different (and kinder) culture.
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April 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
What if we gave away more of our work for free? Would it make a difference to the world we live in? That's what Clive Russell explores for @absurdintelligence.bsky.social in this week's newsletter.
www.absurdintelligence.com/work-for-free/
www.absurdintelligence.com/work-for-free/