Johnny
@johnnyfreitag.bsky.social
Product, Design, Dev / Born @ 350ppm / SolarPunk🍃 / Degrowth advocate / Eco-populist
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”The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ones.”
The U.S. was a great project with good intentions until unregulated capitalism failed.
#Sufficiency
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The U.S. was a great project with good intentions until unregulated capitalism failed.
#Sufficiency
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why the world cannot afford the rich
Equality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ...
www.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
”The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ones.”
The U.S. was a great project with good intentions until unregulated capitalism failed.
#Sufficiency
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The U.S. was a great project with good intentions until unregulated capitalism failed.
#Sufficiency
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This is a great ad. In a „this could only be made by humans“ kind of way.
I had to screen record this one, it’s so bad. A visual artist who has Claude develop a “shot list” from his notes. Embarrassing. Also pretty interesting how little of this is about AI? Three years in and this is the best they’ve got. Embarrassing! Shameful!
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM
This is a great ad. In a „this could only be made by humans“ kind of way.
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I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
What’s interesting about this graph is that it looks like the population income distribution in a late stage capitalist system.
Check out our new insect decline paper. By analysing 36 yrs of German ground beetle distribution data, we show:
- ~80% of species have declined, with significant declines for >50%.
- The decline was similar across species traits and threatened status.
doi.org/10.1111/ddi.... @consbiog.bsky.social
- ~80% of species have declined, with significant declines for >50%.
- The decline was similar across species traits and threatened status.
doi.org/10.1111/ddi.... @consbiog.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
What’s interesting about this graph is that it looks like the population income distribution in a late stage capitalist system.
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There is nothing more dystopian than Palestinians sending me their PayPal links in DMs to receive a lifeline. They are more likely to receive help from strangers on social media than the Western corruptocrats and Zionist butchers that genocided them. SAVE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
October 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
There is nothing more dystopian than Palestinians sending me their PayPal links in DMs to receive a lifeline. They are more likely to receive help from strangers on social media than the Western corruptocrats and Zionist butchers that genocided them. SAVE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
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microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?
me: save to desktop
microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?
me: save to desktop
microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?
me: desktop
me: save to desktop
microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?
me: save to desktop
microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?
me: desktop
October 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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“Becoming anti-business does not mean you are anti-human, in fact the opposite is true: the vast majority of business today is by its definition anti-planet, which effectively makes it anti-human”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
October 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
“Becoming anti-business does not mean you are anti-human, in fact the opposite is true: the vast majority of business today is by its definition anti-planet, which effectively makes it anti-human”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
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When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys
October 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys
Emigration.
How tf is someone without a 110+ IQ supposed to efficiently navigate the US healthcare system?
October 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Emigration.
Notably absent so far: Germany.
Following the drone incident at Copenhagen airport, Denmark has joined the EU's new project to build a drone wall alongside the eastern flank.
Participants so far: 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇵🇱🇷🇴🇧🇬 + 🇺🇦
First meeting on Friday.
Here's the latest.
Participants so far: 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇵🇱🇷🇴🇧🇬 + 🇺🇦
First meeting on Friday.
Here's the latest.
EU calls for drone wall to deter Russia after new incident in Denmark
Denmark has joined Estonia, Latvia. Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria in the project to build a 'drone wall' alongside the Eastern flank. #EuropeNews
www.euronews.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Notably absent so far: Germany.
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ICE vehicles waste a whopping 80% of the energy in their fuel.
Electric vehicles are propelled by entirely different mechanisms. Energy enters the vehicle as electricity, which directly powers the drivetrain: EVs need not convert one form of energy to another resulting in much higher efficiency.
Electric vehicles are propelled by entirely different mechanisms. Energy enters the vehicle as electricity, which directly powers the drivetrain: EVs need not convert one form of energy to another resulting in much higher efficiency.
September 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
ICE vehicles waste a whopping 80% of the energy in their fuel.
Electric vehicles are propelled by entirely different mechanisms. Energy enters the vehicle as electricity, which directly powers the drivetrain: EVs need not convert one form of energy to another resulting in much higher efficiency.
Electric vehicles are propelled by entirely different mechanisms. Energy enters the vehicle as electricity, which directly powers the drivetrain: EVs need not convert one form of energy to another resulting in much higher efficiency.
Yes, shoot them down.
Turkey did it without hesitation.
It’s the only language Putin understands.
Turkey did it without hesitation.
It’s the only language Putin understands.
September 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Yes, shoot them down.
Turkey did it without hesitation.
It’s the only language Putin understands.
Turkey did it without hesitation.
It’s the only language Putin understands.
Hot take: Apple introducing this whole new UI system and at the same time time cluttering the system settings with various options to undo this new look is an indication of how lost their design and product teams are.
September 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Hot take: Apple introducing this whole new UI system and at the same time time cluttering the system settings with various options to undo this new look is an indication of how lost their design and product teams are.
Great thread overall by @jonasnahm.com
I tend to think that the US withdrawal overall will open the doors for more instability and conflict.
But. Much of the US dominated order is based on capitalist colonialism and fossil fuel supremacy. All that can’t end soon enough.
I tend to think that the US withdrawal overall will open the doors for more instability and conflict.
But. Much of the US dominated order is based on capitalist colonialism and fossil fuel supremacy. All that can’t end soon enough.
11/11 At the moment when climate action is most urgent and clean energy is becoming the cheapest power source globally, the US is walking away from the ambition to lead (or participate) in that transition. China is ready to fill that vacuum.
September 16, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Great thread overall by @jonasnahm.com
I tend to think that the US withdrawal overall will open the doors for more instability and conflict.
But. Much of the US dominated order is based on capitalist colonialism and fossil fuel supremacy. All that can’t end soon enough.
I tend to think that the US withdrawal overall will open the doors for more instability and conflict.
But. Much of the US dominated order is based on capitalist colonialism and fossil fuel supremacy. All that can’t end soon enough.
Simply using the Bluesky app makes me want to learn React Native so bad …
September 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Simply using the Bluesky app makes me want to learn React Native so bad …
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This is why the #Solarpunk movement is so important.
It is a way to get people excited about what an ecologically harmonious future could look like.
Our species is very story-driven and that's why we need stories about radical hope to keep us fighting the good fight.
It is a way to get people excited about what an ecologically harmonious future could look like.
Our species is very story-driven and that's why we need stories about radical hope to keep us fighting the good fight.
October 15, 2024 at 10:07 AM
This is why the #Solarpunk movement is so important.
It is a way to get people excited about what an ecologically harmonious future could look like.
Our species is very story-driven and that's why we need stories about radical hope to keep us fighting the good fight.
It is a way to get people excited about what an ecologically harmonious future could look like.
Our species is very story-driven and that's why we need stories about radical hope to keep us fighting the good fight.
Couldn't agree more.
This ought to also be major part of any discussion about #degrowth. Being pro-degrowth doesn't mean being anti-technology. It's all about prudent, deliberate and democratically determined usage and deployment of tech.
This ought to also be major part of any discussion about #degrowth. Being pro-degrowth doesn't mean being anti-technology. It's all about prudent, deliberate and democratically determined usage and deployment of tech.
Luddites weren't anti-tech.
They were against technology being used by the capitalist class to capture wealth at the expense of the worker.
I am a Luddite, and a tech enthusiast. They're not in opposition. I want technology that makes MY life better, not that sells my life piecemeal to corps.
They were against technology being used by the capitalist class to capture wealth at the expense of the worker.
I am a Luddite, and a tech enthusiast. They're not in opposition. I want technology that makes MY life better, not that sells my life piecemeal to corps.
I hate crypto, I hate online gambling, I hate AI, I hate pay-later, I hate subscription models, I hate the gig economy, I hate ring cameras, I hate drones, I hate self checkout.
I don't want to come off as a luddite but capitalism's hold on tech sucks.
I don't want to come off as a luddite but capitalism's hold on tech sucks.
May 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Couldn't agree more.
This ought to also be major part of any discussion about #degrowth. Being pro-degrowth doesn't mean being anti-technology. It's all about prudent, deliberate and democratically determined usage and deployment of tech.
This ought to also be major part of any discussion about #degrowth. Being pro-degrowth doesn't mean being anti-technology. It's all about prudent, deliberate and democratically determined usage and deployment of tech.
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‼️ Putin seeks to restore Russia as a great empire in Europe and will therefore continue attempts to subjugate the former Soviet republics and collapse NATO, — Opinion in Bloomberg
More effective is to undermine confidence in Article 5 on collective defense, which is the basis of the alliance.
More effective is to undermine confidence in Article 5 on collective defense, which is the basis of the alliance.
May 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
‼️ Putin seeks to restore Russia as a great empire in Europe and will therefore continue attempts to subjugate the former Soviet republics and collapse NATO, — Opinion in Bloomberg
More effective is to undermine confidence in Article 5 on collective defense, which is the basis of the alliance.
More effective is to undermine confidence in Article 5 on collective defense, which is the basis of the alliance.
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Reward yourself for doing daunting tasks. Has improved my life greatly. Makes long days more bearable
4. What is one habit every person should do to increase their overall happiness?
April 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Reward yourself for doing daunting tasks. Has improved my life greatly. Makes long days more bearable
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Why #degrowth is en existential imperative, in one post.
4.2°C by 2100 is possibly an extinction-level event, 2.7°C by 2100 is "just" catastrophic.
4.2°C by 2100 is possibly an extinction-level event, 2.7°C by 2100 is "just" catastrophic.
Roughly:
If emissions rise 1% per year: 4.2 ºC by 2100
If emissions fall 1% per year: 2.7 ºC by 2100.
These are the best estimates, but the uncertainty is fairly large.
If emissions rise 1% per year: 4.2 ºC by 2100
If emissions fall 1% per year: 2.7 ºC by 2100.
These are the best estimates, but the uncertainty is fairly large.
March 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Why #degrowth is en existential imperative, in one post.
4.2°C by 2100 is possibly an extinction-level event, 2.7°C by 2100 is "just" catastrophic.
4.2°C by 2100 is possibly an extinction-level event, 2.7°C by 2100 is "just" catastrophic.
Paris is laser focused on becoming the world's most livable city, apparently.
Yes!!! Mit 66% stimmte Paris gestern für die Umwandlung von 500 Straßen in Fußgängerzonen und für die Abschaffung von 10.000 Parkplätzen. Ein Ja für mehr Platz für Mensch & Natur, ein Ja für bessere Luft und Sicherheit und ein klares Votum für weniger Autos. Der Umbau von Paris geht unbeirrt weiter❤️
March 24, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Paris is laser focused on becoming the world's most livable city, apparently.
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Something to think about
March 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Something to think about