Robin Boardman
@robinboardman.com
🪧 @extinctionrebellion.uk Youngest Cofounder
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Robin Boardman
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· Nov 28
After the dark billionaire circus of robots and censorship, it’s time to join the light, Bluesky.
Hi I’m Robin - the youngest cofounder of Extinction Rebellion and a disabled writer on revolution, strategy and community.
Here’s a thread all about how fossil fuels flipped my life upside down 🧵
Hi I’m Robin - the youngest cofounder of Extinction Rebellion and a disabled writer on revolution, strategy and community.
Here’s a thread all about how fossil fuels flipped my life upside down 🧵
May we all enjoy such peace as Tung Yuan paints here in 10th century Nanjing 🏔️
December 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
May we all enjoy such peace as Tung Yuan paints here in 10th century Nanjing 🏔️
Such as you are I was, and such as I am you will be. Wealth, honour and power are of no value at the hour of your death
December 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Such as you are I was, and such as I am you will be. Wealth, honour and power are of no value at the hour of your death
Canada’s PM Mark Carney has backed a new crude oil pipeline, sending tankers through BC’s fragile coast and trying to lift a hard-won tanker ban. One minister resigned. Last Generation Canada says clearly: build it, and face nationwide resistance.
December 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Canada’s PM Mark Carney has backed a new crude oil pipeline, sending tankers through BC’s fragile coast and trying to lift a hard-won tanker ban. One minister resigned. Last Generation Canada says clearly: build it, and face nationwide resistance.
Negotiations inside. Sirens outside.
As MPs debate a new climate law that ignores 80% of emissions and builds 15 new highways, rebels blocked a major Copenhagen road.
Business as usual is the real crime!
As MPs debate a new climate law that ignores 80% of emissions and builds 15 new highways, rebels blocked a major Copenhagen road.
Business as usual is the real crime!
December 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Negotiations inside. Sirens outside.
As MPs debate a new climate law that ignores 80% of emissions and builds 15 new highways, rebels blocked a major Copenhagen road.
Business as usual is the real crime!
As MPs debate a new climate law that ignores 80% of emissions and builds 15 new highways, rebels blocked a major Copenhagen road.
Business as usual is the real crime!
Never seen this chap on Telly but enjoying his accessible handbook on men's mental health. Merry Christmas to any other troubled minds 🙏🏼🎁
December 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Never seen this chap on Telly but enjoying his accessible handbook on men's mental health. Merry Christmas to any other troubled minds 🙏🏼🎁
Christmas cheer is here!
Accompanied by my trusty migraine icecap (stylish, I know), plus fresh pajamas for keeping clean of sweaty nightmares.
We persevere into the new year! 🕛
Accompanied by my trusty migraine icecap (stylish, I know), plus fresh pajamas for keeping clean of sweaty nightmares.
We persevere into the new year! 🕛
December 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Christmas cheer is here!
Accompanied by my trusty migraine icecap (stylish, I know), plus fresh pajamas for keeping clean of sweaty nightmares.
We persevere into the new year! 🕛
Accompanied by my trusty migraine icecap (stylish, I know), plus fresh pajamas for keeping clean of sweaty nightmares.
We persevere into the new year! 🕛
Over 1,100 lives lost across Southeast Asia after Cyclone Ditwah.
Floods, disease outbreaks, rivers reshaped.
Those least responsible for emissions are paying first — and paying with their lives. Climate injustice is killing now.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Floods, disease outbreaks, rivers reshaped.
Those least responsible for emissions are paying first — and paying with their lives. Climate injustice is killing now.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Sri Lanka and Indonesia deploy militaries as Asia floods death toll passes 1,100
Millions of people affected by torrential rainfall in Sri Lanka and large parts of Indonesia’s Sumatra, southern Thailand and northern Malaysia
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Over 1,100 lives lost across Southeast Asia after Cyclone Ditwah.
Floods, disease outbreaks, rivers reshaped.
Those least responsible for emissions are paying first — and paying with their lives. Climate injustice is killing now.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Floods, disease outbreaks, rivers reshaped.
Those least responsible for emissions are paying first — and paying with their lives. Climate injustice is killing now.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
I’ve worked closely with and deeply respect the team at Resilient Uprising. They’re training grassroots leaders in nonviolent resistance. They’re €4,200 short to make it happen, including a Kenya scholarship. If you can, please chip in: tinyurl.com/supporteduca...
December 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I’ve worked closely with and deeply respect the team at Resilient Uprising. They’re training grassroots leaders in nonviolent resistance. They’re €4,200 short to make it happen, including a Kenya scholarship. If you can, please chip in: tinyurl.com/supporteduca...
Reposted by Robin Boardman
1/ We are living through the most dangerous period in human history, yet the public conversation about climate breakdown is trapped in liberal euphemism and self-censorship.
December 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
1/ We are living through the most dangerous period in human history, yet the public conversation about climate breakdown is trapped in liberal euphemism and self-censorship.
1,100 dead. 800 missing.
Cyclone Ditwah devastated Southeast Asia, unleashing floods, disease and permanent changes to rivers themselves. Governments still treat this as “weather”. It isn’t. It’s systemic climate failure — and it will keep escalating.
Cyclone Ditwah devastated Southeast Asia, unleashing floods, disease and permanent changes to rivers themselves. Governments still treat this as “weather”. It isn’t. It’s systemic climate failure — and it will keep escalating.
December 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
1,100 dead. 800 missing.
Cyclone Ditwah devastated Southeast Asia, unleashing floods, disease and permanent changes to rivers themselves. Governments still treat this as “weather”. It isn’t. It’s systemic climate failure — and it will keep escalating.
Cyclone Ditwah devastated Southeast Asia, unleashing floods, disease and permanent changes to rivers themselves. Governments still treat this as “weather”. It isn’t. It’s systemic climate failure — and it will keep escalating.
Given enough time, nature finds ways to heal. In Toronto, wetlands buried under 25 feet of soil for over 100 years are coming back to life. As soil was removed, scientists found seeds and microorganisms still alive. Give ecosystems space — and they can heal.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront
A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Given enough time, nature finds ways to heal. In Toronto, wetlands buried under 25 feet of soil for over 100 years are coming back to life. As soil was removed, scientists found seeds and microorganisms still alive. Give ecosystems space — and they can heal.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Reposted by Robin Boardman
A co-founder of the likes of Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, Roger Hallam, has spent much of the past decade helping organise civil disobedience in Britain.
But why listen to a 59-year-old man fresh out of prison?
But why listen to a 59-year-old man fresh out of prison?
All sides have learned a lot from Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder
Call it the Roger Hallam extended universe
econ.st
December 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A co-founder of the likes of Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, Roger Hallam, has spent much of the past decade helping organise civil disobedience in Britain.
But why listen to a 59-year-old man fresh out of prison?
But why listen to a 59-year-old man fresh out of prison?
Three Swedish activists were sentenced to prison for a peaceful action at the Finnish Embassy.
Their “crime”? Exposing peat extraction.
Finland even hired private lawyers and claimed to be “offended.” Meanwhile, they destroy ecosystems and fuel the climate crisis.
Their “crime”? Exposing peat extraction.
Finland even hired private lawyers and claimed to be “offended.” Meanwhile, they destroy ecosystems and fuel the climate crisis.
December 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Three Swedish activists were sentenced to prison for a peaceful action at the Finnish Embassy.
Their “crime”? Exposing peat extraction.
Finland even hired private lawyers and claimed to be “offended.” Meanwhile, they destroy ecosystems and fuel the climate crisis.
Their “crime”? Exposing peat extraction.
Finland even hired private lawyers and claimed to be “offended.” Meanwhile, they destroy ecosystems and fuel the climate crisis.
We’re told degrowth is “unelectable”. The science says otherwise.
~75% of people in the US & UK support degrowth principles once people hear what it really means. This is a messaging challenge, not a dead end.
~75% of people in the US & UK support degrowth principles once people hear what it really means. This is a messaging challenge, not a dead end.
December 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
We’re told degrowth is “unelectable”. The science says otherwise.
~75% of people in the US & UK support degrowth principles once people hear what it really means. This is a messaging challenge, not a dead end.
~75% of people in the US & UK support degrowth principles once people hear what it really means. This is a messaging challenge, not a dead end.
Fair play to those like Julie challenging Big Tech! Social media can be a mixed bag, but the current toxicity and addictive elements are overwhelming for young minds. Even my 13‑year‑old self would agree—we’re called the Anxious Generation for a reason.
Julie Inman Grant: Who is the Australian woman taking on the social media behemoths?
She’s drawn the ire of Elon Musk, been doxed, she and her family have received death threats: The perils of overseeing the world’s first social media ban
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Fair play to those like Julie challenging Big Tech! Social media can be a mixed bag, but the current toxicity and addictive elements are overwhelming for young minds. Even my 13‑year‑old self would agree—we’re called the Anxious Generation for a reason.
I believe film can spark change 🎬
I am beginning to track protest cinema, radical storytelling & movies that move people to action. If you’re into film, follow me on Letterboxd for reviews & lists:
I am beginning to track protest cinema, radical storytelling & movies that move people to action. If you’re into film, follow me on Letterboxd for reviews & lists:
Robin Boardman’s profile
Robin uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 389 films watched. Favorites: Selma (2014), The Best of Enemies (2019), Blade Runner (1982), Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984). Bio: Hi…
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December 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I believe film can spark change 🎬
I am beginning to track protest cinema, radical storytelling & movies that move people to action. If you’re into film, follow me on Letterboxd for reviews & lists:
I am beginning to track protest cinema, radical storytelling & movies that move people to action. If you’re into film, follow me on Letterboxd for reviews & lists:
Next time you see a museum ‘brought to you by’ Big Oil or the arms lobby, watch this classic Simpsons clip…
December 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Next time you see a museum ‘brought to you by’ Big Oil or the arms lobby, watch this classic Simpsons clip…
If zoos used honest slogans...
December 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
If zoos used honest slogans...
Seismology promises to shake up soil research! Sounds like a Eureka moment, with a beer instead of a bathtub.
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Seismology promises to shake up soil research! Sounds like a Eureka moment, with a beer instead of a bathtub.
Just donated to Take Back Power. Youth Demand showed what’s possible, but now we go bigger. The live-streamed horror in Palestine proves we must take back democracy from lobbyists and the rich. Join the 17 Jan launch and support if you can.
chuffed.org/project/take...
chuffed.org/project/take...
Tip the Scales: Take Back Power
Britain is broken because the super-rich are pocketing billions, whilst most of us struggle to get by. Hungry kids, freezing pensioners and unemployed youth is not what we voted for. The UK is…
chuffed.org
December 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Just donated to Take Back Power. Youth Demand showed what’s possible, but now we go bigger. The live-streamed horror in Palestine proves we must take back democracy from lobbyists and the rich. Join the 17 Jan launch and support if you can.
chuffed.org/project/take...
chuffed.org/project/take...
Fast-paced, unsettling, and painfully relevant. One Battle After Another struck me as a brilliant and disturbing portrait of the extremes shaping contemporary American society. Nonviolence is the alternative path of resistance!
A ★★★★ review of One Battle After Another (2025)
Fast-paced, unsettling, and painfully relevant. One Battle After Another struck me as a brilliant and disturbing portrait of the extremes shaping contemporary American society. The film dives…
letterboxd.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Fast-paced, unsettling, and painfully relevant. One Battle After Another struck me as a brilliant and disturbing portrait of the extremes shaping contemporary American society. Nonviolence is the alternative path of resistance!
indigenous protesters were the real heroes of COP
‘We’re true guardians of the forest’: quilombola community near Belém demand land rights and recognition
Short boat ride from Cop30 host, Afro-descendant residents of Menino Jesus say their voices are not being heard
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
indigenous protesters were the real heroes of COP
Fossil fuel firms have won $84bn by suing governments for acting on climate—more than the GDP of 45 nations. Climate finance in reverse, draining countries trying to protect us. And our govt still backs corporations over people.
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Fossil fuel firms have won $84bn by suing governments for acting on climate—more than the GDP of 45 nations. Climate finance in reverse, draining countries trying to protect us. And our govt still backs corporations over people.
On the first day of Christmas, the judge gave a custodial prison sentence.
The crackdown on protest keeps escalating. Last week, four Just Stop Oil supporters were jailed for peacefully climbing gantries over the M25 in 2022, after being denied all legal defences at trial. 1/
The crackdown on protest keeps escalating. Last week, four Just Stop Oil supporters were jailed for peacefully climbing gantries over the M25 in 2022, after being denied all legal defences at trial. 1/
December 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
On the first day of Christmas, the judge gave a custodial prison sentence.
The crackdown on protest keeps escalating. Last week, four Just Stop Oil supporters were jailed for peacefully climbing gantries over the M25 in 2022, after being denied all legal defences at trial. 1/
The crackdown on protest keeps escalating. Last week, four Just Stop Oil supporters were jailed for peacefully climbing gantries over the M25 in 2022, after being denied all legal defences at trial. 1/
The idea of citizens governing together isn’t new — it’s ancient.
African societies once held assemblies that could veto kings, elect leaders, and debate laws.
It’s time to bring that wisdom back. Citizens’ Assemblies are democracy reborn.
open.substack.com/pub/isaacsam...
African societies once held assemblies that could veto kings, elect leaders, and debate laws.
It’s time to bring that wisdom back. Citizens’ Assemblies are democracy reborn.
open.substack.com/pub/isaacsam...
Parliamentary systems and other pluralistic institutions in pre-colonial Africa
The political history of several African kingdoms included systems of governance that were variously referred to as national “assemblies”, “councils,” or “parliaments,” which limited the power of…
open.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The idea of citizens governing together isn’t new — it’s ancient.
African societies once held assemblies that could veto kings, elect leaders, and debate laws.
It’s time to bring that wisdom back. Citizens’ Assemblies are democracy reborn.
open.substack.com/pub/isaacsam...
African societies once held assemblies that could veto kings, elect leaders, and debate laws.
It’s time to bring that wisdom back. Citizens’ Assemblies are democracy reborn.
open.substack.com/pub/isaacsam...