Richard Douglas
@maitrereynard.bsky.social
Research Fellow, Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, University of Surrey. Wombles. Yes, and armchair Spurs. Go Thorns. Commanders. Trying to see the positives. https://cusp.ac.uk/about/fellowship/r_douglas/
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The Meaning of Growth: Anti-Environmentalist Rhetoric and the Defence of Modernity
Since the Limits to Growth report was published in 1972 it has been widely known that a commitment to endless growth was putting us on course for environmental disaster—so why have we failed to take d...
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In my new book, The Meaning of Growth - published 30 September by @routledgebooks and featuring a foreword by @timjackson.org.uk - I investigate the roots of the political resistance to environmental science and policy, and suggest a new approach to overcoming it. www.routledge.com/The-Meaning-...
Watching Olivia Moultrie develop into a world class talent has been one of my favourite things in football this year.
Olivia Moultrie with an inch perfect pass to find Reilyn Turner 📐
Portland takes the lead in the Quarterfinals! #NWSLPlayoffs
Portland takes the lead in the Quarterfinals! #NWSLPlayoffs
November 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Watching Olivia Moultrie develop into a world class talent has been one of my favourite things in football this year.
Er… @afcwimbledon1889.bsky.social WHAT is going on?
November 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Er… @afcwimbledon1889.bsky.social WHAT is going on?
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any policies that impede the uptake of solar impede resilience
"Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said."
Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
any policies that impede the uptake of solar impede resilience
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This week in 1986:
Marco Van Basten and one of the greatest volleys since records began.
Holy Scissorbastard. What a goal.
Marco Van Basten and one of the greatest volleys since records began.
Holy Scissorbastard. What a goal.
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This week in 1986:
Marco Van Basten and one of the greatest volleys since records began.
Holy Scissorbastard. What a goal.
Marco Van Basten and one of the greatest volleys since records began.
Holy Scissorbastard. What a goal.
This is the biggest point: no one can say what all these new data centres are *for* - other than the vaguest idea that this is the future and we have to keep up.
^^ The effect we're seeing in regions w/ high DC development is that extremely important demand growth, like electrification, or trying to keep people alive during fossil-fuel-caused heatwaves, has to compete with computer buildings that operate with zero clarity or obvious purpose, beyond slop
November 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This is the biggest point: no one can say what all these new data centres are *for* - other than the vaguest idea that this is the future and we have to keep up.
Off and on over the past couple of years I’ve been working my way through all the old Dr Who episodes from the beginning. This week it was time to say goodbye to Jon Pertwee.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC One - Doctor Who (1963–1996), Season 11, Planet of the Spiders: Part 1
The Doctor receives a mysterious package from his old companion, Jo Grant.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Off and on over the past couple of years I’ve been working my way through all the old Dr Who episodes from the beginning. This week it was time to say goodbye to Jon Pertwee.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
Oh the Traitors - I thought for all the world that final episode was going to be an anticlimax. But how wrong I was. It kept delivering right to the end. What television.
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Oh the Traitors - I thought for all the world that final episode was going to be an anticlimax. But how wrong I was. It kept delivering right to the end. What television.
Been listening again to @robertrotifer.bsky.social’s brilliant album The Cavalry Never Showed Up these last couple of days, and especially this, the stand out track - youtu.be/pYXu_dbBmi0
Rotifer, Black Bag, The Lexington, London 140413
YouTube video by Mark Sewell
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November 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Been listening again to @robertrotifer.bsky.social’s brilliant album The Cavalry Never Showed Up these last couple of days, and especially this, the stand out track - youtu.be/pYXu_dbBmi0
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Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
A truly despicable performance from AFC Wimbledon there. Like 11 plus blokes who’d never met each other before. Well done to Gateshead and their fans - a lot to feel good about on the way home.
November 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A truly despicable performance from AFC Wimbledon there. Like 11 plus blokes who’d never met each other before. Well done to Gateshead and their fans - a lot to feel good about on the way home.
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The Sixties were a failed spiritual revolution. A nominalist revolt against the religion of mankind (the state/the people/the nation/the Man/das Man), it succeeded ultimately in replacing it with the religion of the individual - an illusory religion of subjectivity which is now collapsing into chaos
October 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The Sixties were a failed spiritual revolution. A nominalist revolt against the religion of mankind (the state/the people/the nation/the Man/das Man), it succeeded ultimately in replacing it with the religion of the individual - an illusory religion of subjectivity which is now collapsing into chaos
Radio 3’s Night Tracks is an abomination. Its celebration of the banality that classical music is a soothing escape from the fast-paced everyday world of the present makes a travesty of the entire station. I do hope a rearguard action was fought against the self-serving idiot who pushed it through.
October 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Radio 3’s Night Tracks is an abomination. Its celebration of the banality that classical music is a soothing escape from the fast-paced everyday world of the present makes a travesty of the entire station. I do hope a rearguard action was fought against the self-serving idiot who pushed it through.
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"It’s hard to picture Powell as the smiler with the knife"
Renewal co-editor Morgan Jones (@morganj0nes.bsky.social) has written for the Guardian about Lucy Powell's victory in Labour's deputy leadership election, and what it means for the future of the party
Renewal co-editor Morgan Jones (@morganj0nes.bsky.social) has written for the Guardian about Lucy Powell's victory in Labour's deputy leadership election, and what it means for the future of the party
Keir Starmer won’t be surprised Lucy Powell is his new deputy leader – but he should be very worried | Morgan Jones
Labour members – and Caerphilly voters – have made their feelings clear. When will the PM realise that his strategy just isn’t working, asks Morgan Jones of Renewal
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October 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"It’s hard to picture Powell as the smiler with the knife"
Renewal co-editor Morgan Jones (@morganj0nes.bsky.social) has written for the Guardian about Lucy Powell's victory in Labour's deputy leadership election, and what it means for the future of the party
Renewal co-editor Morgan Jones (@morganj0nes.bsky.social) has written for the Guardian about Lucy Powell's victory in Labour's deputy leadership election, and what it means for the future of the party
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Trump Defends Demolition Of Yggdrasil, Ancient Tree Of Life https://theonion.com/trump-defends-demolition-of-yggdrasil-ancient-tree-of-life/
October 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Trump Defends Demolition Of Yggdrasil, Ancient Tree Of Life https://theonion.com/trump-defends-demolition-of-yggdrasil-ancient-tree-of-life/
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I tried to cover a lot of ground here. A few points developing the argument, regarding current government's "Pride in Place" etc: basically I like this stuff, but worry a bit about lack of realism about what they might achieve in isolation.
📖 @npjgarland.bsky.social pens our next 10-year anniversary essay, exploring the history of past regeneration efforts to help guide today’s public policy, and offering three lessons as the government pursues its new Pride of Place agenda.
Read: http://bit.ly/4qoNpXz #PowerToChange10
Read: http://bit.ly/4qoNpXz #PowerToChange10
October 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I tried to cover a lot of ground here. A few points developing the argument, regarding current government's "Pride in Place" etc: basically I like this stuff, but worry a bit about lack of realism about what they might achieve in isolation.
Trump’s doing more damage to that building than the Royal Engineers managed in 1814
ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.
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abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
October 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Trump’s doing more damage to that building than the Royal Engineers managed in 1814
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Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
October 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
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A really interesting conversation about posting and politics with politics poster Will Stancil:
October 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
A really interesting conversation about posting and politics with politics poster Will Stancil:
It’s more important than ever these days to do what you can to lift the spirits of those around you. And that’s why I’m proud of giving the gift of laughter to my U14s by going completely a over t in goal tonight. One of those where trying to stay on your feet only makes it funnier.
October 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
It’s more important than ever these days to do what you can to lift the spirits of those around you. And that’s why I’m proud of giving the gift of laughter to my U14s by going completely a over t in goal tonight. One of those where trying to stay on your feet only makes it funnier.
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In his new blog, CUSP researcher @maitrereynard.bsky.social explores the spiritual roots of political climate denial and society’s attachment to growth—and how defending growth has become a defence of modernity itself. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/m/blo...
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Climate denial and the defence of modernity | Blog by Richard McNeill Douglas
What we are lacking is an inspiring vision of our lives, collective futures, and spiritual reality in a world in which we cannot keep growing forever. As mu ...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
In his new blog, CUSP researcher @maitrereynard.bsky.social explores the spiritual roots of political climate denial and society’s attachment to growth—and how defending growth has become a defence of modernity itself. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/m/blo...
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cc #postgrowth #modernity #limitstogrowth
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cc #postgrowth #modernity #limitstogrowth
Iain McGilchrist in @jonathanrowson.bsky.social's Spiritualise report. I have much the same thought every time some AI assistant tries to justify its existence by popping up and asking if I want it to summarise whatever I'm reading.
![“McGilchrist puts it like this: “There’s a danger, in my terms, of the left hemisphere [of the brain] having to collapse things too quickly into something familiar, ‘what is it precisely?’, leaving, therefore, no place for the intuited and the implicit, through which alone all great ideas in art, in religion, and in our lives are communicated. Making things more explicit doesn’t actually make them easier to understand: it means we understand something other than what it is we are seeking to know.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5ye523fps3n6ignty3dwhsuj/bafkreie2rfsncbvxtqo23ivyard54mqcqzzb3xyzu6sqawvjjv2anunqtu@jpeg)
October 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Iain McGilchrist in @jonathanrowson.bsky.social's Spiritualise report. I have much the same thought every time some AI assistant tries to justify its existence by popping up and asking if I want it to summarise whatever I'm reading.
I said to my daughter shall we watch something together? She gave me five minutes so I showed her the cabin scene from A Night At The Opera.
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Ordering Dinner and Crowded Cabin Scenes YouTube
YouTube video by Ronald van tienhoven
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October 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I said to my daughter shall we watch something together? She gave me five minutes so I showed her the cabin scene from A Night At The Opera.
youtu.be/PFu0KyrNAAA
youtu.be/PFu0KyrNAAA
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"I wanted to address a recent interview in which I was egregiously misquoted as saying: 'I legit can’t wait to fire these ungrateful poors with our company’s new AI agent.'"
A Clarification on AI from Your CEO
"Elijah Clark, a consultant who advises companies on AI implementation, is blunt about the bottom line. ’CEOs are extremely excited about the oppor...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"I wanted to address a recent interview in which I was egregiously misquoted as saying: 'I legit can’t wait to fire these ungrateful poors with our company’s new AI agent.'"