Lauren M
@elenem.bsky.social
Mum, cricket lover, cargo biker, gardener; always wanting more climate action, always wanting more climate justice. Re-skeets for interest, not always endorsement. Says 'fuck' a lot. Aotearoa/NZ.
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Okay but my schadencoin is skyrocketing
February 6, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Okay but my schadencoin is skyrocketing
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February 6, 2026 at 1:51 AM
We're all laughing but we all remember Matt Shirvington so....
Times article has an incredible illustration
February 6, 2026 at 1:53 AM
We're all laughing but we all remember Matt Shirvington so....
Thinking today about the worst teacher I ever had; an old, arrogant Canadian dude who taught history and would give you shitty marks unless your work/essays were contrarian. These people really believe that intelligence and critical thinking means 'I have to disagree with something'
February 6, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Thinking today about the worst teacher I ever had; an old, arrogant Canadian dude who taught history and would give you shitty marks unless your work/essays were contrarian. These people really believe that intelligence and critical thinking means 'I have to disagree with something'
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This happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.
February 5, 2026 at 11:34 PM
This happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.
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Products deteriorate in quality. Cultural expression focuses on reboots and sequels and nostalgia. Services get worse via extraction without re-investment, because the nominal "investor" actually wants to cash out and pass on the extracted husk to a sucker who doesn't know they're buying a corpse.
February 5, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Products deteriorate in quality. Cultural expression focuses on reboots and sequels and nostalgia. Services get worse via extraction without re-investment, because the nominal "investor" actually wants to cash out and pass on the extracted husk to a sucker who doesn't know they're buying a corpse.
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I would have described it as a "speculation economy" or a "gambling economy," but "scam economy" works well.
Nothing created; fortunes wagered on quarterly line-go-up mining a finite amount of cultural objects that the wagerers believe to be infinite. Investment is a bet on "Can I flip this?"
Nothing created; fortunes wagered on quarterly line-go-up mining a finite amount of cultural objects that the wagerers believe to be infinite. Investment is a bet on "Can I flip this?"
The post-industrial period of a developed economy is characterized by three phases.
Until the 2010s, we were in a service economy. Now we are in a scam economy. And we are about to find out what phase comes next.
Until the 2010s, we were in a service economy. Now we are in a scam economy. And we are about to find out what phase comes next.
February 5, 2026 at 9:45 PM
I would have described it as a "speculation economy" or a "gambling economy," but "scam economy" works well.
Nothing created; fortunes wagered on quarterly line-go-up mining a finite amount of cultural objects that the wagerers believe to be infinite. Investment is a bet on "Can I flip this?"
Nothing created; fortunes wagered on quarterly line-go-up mining a finite amount of cultural objects that the wagerers believe to be infinite. Investment is a bet on "Can I flip this?"
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Moments of crisis allows the public to see the failures of institutions and drives them to alternative sources of authority, usually ones that support what they already believe, which includes believing institutions are dysfunctional or corrupt, further hardening those beliefs.
can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice
February 5, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Moments of crisis allows the public to see the failures of institutions and drives them to alternative sources of authority, usually ones that support what they already believe, which includes believing institutions are dysfunctional or corrupt, further hardening those beliefs.
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"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification.
But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
February 5, 2026 at 9:02 PM
"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification.
But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
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What we’re dealing with is more than just politics, which is an expression of deeper psychological processes.
This is an existential battle that will determine whether the world becomes more cruel and more deadly or if we end cycles of abuse and realize a better future. That’s the whole thing.
This is an existential battle that will determine whether the world becomes more cruel and more deadly or if we end cycles of abuse and realize a better future. That’s the whole thing.
February 5, 2026 at 3:54 PM
What we’re dealing with is more than just politics, which is an expression of deeper psychological processes.
This is an existential battle that will determine whether the world becomes more cruel and more deadly or if we end cycles of abuse and realize a better future. That’s the whole thing.
This is an existential battle that will determine whether the world becomes more cruel and more deadly or if we end cycles of abuse and realize a better future. That’s the whole thing.
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At some point many social movements pivot from "whoever would do such a wrong thing is not really one of us" (aka no true Scotsman) to "if one of us did it, it can't be wrong."
This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.
February 5, 2026 at 9:36 PM
At some point many social movements pivot from "whoever would do such a wrong thing is not really one of us" (aka no true Scotsman) to "if one of us did it, it can't be wrong."
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Waitangi 2026. A government of Atlas Network slogans confronts a complex nation unwilling to be neoliberal roadkill. Toitū te Tiriti Toitū te Taiao
February 5, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Waitangi 2026. A government of Atlas Network slogans confronts a complex nation unwilling to be neoliberal roadkill. Toitū te Tiriti Toitū te Taiao
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People are giving Keir Starmer a hard time over his appointment of Peter Mandelson, but I don't think he is given enough credit for his other decisions such as putting Peter Thiel in charge of our NHS data
February 5, 2026 at 8:37 PM
People are giving Keir Starmer a hard time over his appointment of Peter Mandelson, but I don't think he is given enough credit for his other decisions such as putting Peter Thiel in charge of our NHS data
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This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.
February 5, 2026 at 4:33 PM
This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.
This is why we should always be cautious of calls for things like 'social cohesion.' David Seymour wants to sell the country to the highest bidder and enact policies that will cause the deaths of many people. You can't find middle ground with that; he should be publicly shamed #nzpol
Seymour has a massive sook at being challenged as always. He’s squeamish about being held to account for his/ACT’s policies, words and actions.
David’s used to getting uncritical regurgitation of his reckons & does not like the media printing the reality - relentlessly heckled by many. #nzpol
David’s used to getting uncritical regurgitation of his reckons & does not like the media printing the reality - relentlessly heckled by many. #nzpol
February 5, 2026 at 9:32 PM
This is why we should always be cautious of calls for things like 'social cohesion.' David Seymour wants to sell the country to the highest bidder and enact policies that will cause the deaths of many people. You can't find middle ground with that; he should be publicly shamed #nzpol
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Seymour has a massive sook at being challenged as always. He’s squeamish about being held to account for his/ACT’s policies, words and actions.
David’s used to getting uncritical regurgitation of his reckons & does not like the media printing the reality - relentlessly heckled by many. #nzpol
David’s used to getting uncritical regurgitation of his reckons & does not like the media printing the reality - relentlessly heckled by many. #nzpol
February 5, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Seymour has a massive sook at being challenged as always. He’s squeamish about being held to account for his/ACT’s policies, words and actions.
David’s used to getting uncritical regurgitation of his reckons & does not like the media printing the reality - relentlessly heckled by many. #nzpol
David’s used to getting uncritical regurgitation of his reckons & does not like the media printing the reality - relentlessly heckled by many. #nzpol
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The world is going to blow past the 1.5 C goal of the Paris Accords. Even limiting global warming to 2 C will be very hard.
But we might still be able to pull it off if we change tactics, and focus more attention on climate “Emergency Brakes”.
globalecoguy.org/hitting-the-...
But we might still be able to pull it off if we change tactics, and focus more attention on climate “Emergency Brakes”.
globalecoguy.org/hitting-the-...
Hitting the “Emergency Brake” on Climate
There’s a hard truth about climate change: Meeting the Paris Accords — and limiting global warming to 1.5˚C or “well below” 2˚C — requires…
globalecoguy.org
February 5, 2026 at 7:49 PM
The world is going to blow past the 1.5 C goal of the Paris Accords. Even limiting global warming to 2 C will be very hard.
But we might still be able to pull it off if we change tactics, and focus more attention on climate “Emergency Brakes”.
globalecoguy.org/hitting-the-...
But we might still be able to pull it off if we change tactics, and focus more attention on climate “Emergency Brakes”.
globalecoguy.org/hitting-the-...
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today i learned that ski jumpers' heavily regulated ski suits are measured by taking a 3d scan of the size of the skiier's genitals and now some skiiers are being accused of shooting hylauronic acid into their dongs to get more favorable measurements www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
‘Penis injection’ claims in Winter Olympics ski jumping investigated by Wada
Wada is to investigate claims ski jumpers are injecting acid into their penises to game the suit-measuring system
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:57 PM
today i learned that ski jumpers' heavily regulated ski suits are measured by taking a 3d scan of the size of the skiier's genitals and now some skiiers are being accused of shooting hylauronic acid into their dongs to get more favorable measurements www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
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can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice
February 5, 2026 at 6:03 PM
can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice
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The post-industrial period of a developed economy is characterized by three phases.
Until the 2010s, we were in a service economy. Now we are in a scam economy. And we are about to find out what phase comes next.
Until the 2010s, we were in a service economy. Now we are in a scam economy. And we are about to find out what phase comes next.
February 5, 2026 at 6:45 PM
The post-industrial period of a developed economy is characterized by three phases.
Until the 2010s, we were in a service economy. Now we are in a scam economy. And we are about to find out what phase comes next.
Until the 2010s, we were in a service economy. Now we are in a scam economy. And we are about to find out what phase comes next.
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In addition to decimating the Washington Post Jeff Bezos is also the vanguard of a new 'insidious form of climate denial.'
Read @rtakver.bsky.social's fascinating @desmog.com interview with @adambecker.bsky.social about the sci-fi delusions guiding Big Tech.
www.desmog.com/2026/02/04/q...
Read @rtakver.bsky.social's fascinating @desmog.com interview with @adambecker.bsky.social about the sci-fi delusions guiding Big Tech.
www.desmog.com/2026/02/04/q...
Q&A: Tech Billionaires’ AI Space Empire Fantasies Are ‘An Insidious Form of Climate Denial’
Science journalist Adam Becker speaks with DeSmog about how Silicon Valley tech billionaires have invented new forms of greenwashing and climate denial in their quest for ever-more fantastic technolog...
www.desmog.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:08 PM
In addition to decimating the Washington Post Jeff Bezos is also the vanguard of a new 'insidious form of climate denial.'
Read @rtakver.bsky.social's fascinating @desmog.com interview with @adambecker.bsky.social about the sci-fi delusions guiding Big Tech.
www.desmog.com/2026/02/04/q...
Read @rtakver.bsky.social's fascinating @desmog.com interview with @adambecker.bsky.social about the sci-fi delusions guiding Big Tech.
www.desmog.com/2026/02/04/q...
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Contrarianism to the center for its own sake creates the worst brain worms
February 5, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Contrarianism to the center for its own sake creates the worst brain worms
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One dead, 1000s evacuated, I imagine this will affect UK food supplies(?) and it's not even in the UK news ... We have normalised ClimateCrisis extremes far quicker than I thought we would (I know there's a lot in the news just now)
www.euronews.com/2026/02/05/a...
www.euronews.com/2026/02/05/a...
At least one killed as Storm Leonardo tears through Portugal and Spain
Leonardo is the latest in a string of storms to affect Spain and Portugal this year. Severe weather had already killed five people and injured hundreds in Portugal last week.
www.euronews.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:16 AM
One dead, 1000s evacuated, I imagine this will affect UK food supplies(?) and it's not even in the UK news ... We have normalised ClimateCrisis extremes far quicker than I thought we would (I know there's a lot in the news just now)
www.euronews.com/2026/02/05/a...
www.euronews.com/2026/02/05/a...
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Heavy flooding has forced more than 50,000 people to evacuate northern Morocco. Residents say the floods followed weeks of heavy rain after years of drought.
February 4, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Heavy flooding has forced more than 50,000 people to evacuate northern Morocco. Residents say the floods followed weeks of heavy rain after years of drought.
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RIP John Virgo. He's with the angles now.
February 4, 2026 at 12:06 PM
RIP John Virgo. He's with the angles now.