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All my friends are doomers but they think you're pretty hot
If you think we should never make judgements, that changing our forms of life is only possible through some anthropological revolution or totalitarian control, then I'm not sure you have any business on the left.
November 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
If you think we should never make judgements, that changing our forms of life is only possible through some anthropological revolution or totalitarian control, then I'm not sure you have any business on the left.
Things I've learned on bluesky today:
1. People just like the things that they like. There is literally nothing you can do about that, except transforming human nature, or control their behaviour. Forms of life can't otherwise be changed.
2. You can never judge people for what they do.
1. People just like the things that they like. There is literally nothing you can do about that, except transforming human nature, or control their behaviour. Forms of life can't otherwise be changed.
2. You can never judge people for what they do.
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Things I've learned on bluesky today:
1. People just like the things that they like. There is literally nothing you can do about that, except transforming human nature, or control their behaviour. Forms of life can't otherwise be changed.
2. You can never judge people for what they do.
1. People just like the things that they like. There is literally nothing you can do about that, except transforming human nature, or control their behaviour. Forms of life can't otherwise be changed.
2. You can never judge people for what they do.
There is no credible pathway that maintains current global North living standards while achieving emissions and resource use reductions necessary to address the climate and overshoot issues we already face.
November 16, 2025 at 11:17 AM
There is no credible pathway that maintains current global North living standards while achieving emissions and resource use reductions necessary to address the climate and overshoot issues we already face.
I think this sums up where we're at and is a near explainer of why we aren't going to adapt to overshoot or climate change. We are, in fact, going to lose.
Also I will go further: if you cant reckon with the fact that people Enjoy Consuming and think about how to accommodate that then the planet will, in fact, die, and the green project will, in fact, lose.
Accepting that people like them and seeing how we can accommodate that while still reducing emissions is not rocket science
November 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I think this sums up where we're at and is a near explainer of why we aren't going to adapt to overshoot or climate change. We are, in fact, going to lose.
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The list of things being sacrificed for shareholder profit is endless.
It’s literally everything that makes life worth living.
And, of course, it’s life itself.
Heartbreak & rage are the only rational responses.
It’s literally everything that makes life worth living.
And, of course, it’s life itself.
Heartbreak & rage are the only rational responses.
World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’, says nature photographer
Margot Raggett, whose latest compilation shows animals scrubbed from natural habitats, calls for rethink on UK accelerated housebuilding
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:41 AM
The list of things being sacrificed for shareholder profit is endless.
It’s literally everything that makes life worth living.
And, of course, it’s life itself.
Heartbreak & rage are the only rational responses.
It’s literally everything that makes life worth living.
And, of course, it’s life itself.
Heartbreak & rage are the only rational responses.
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And yet, they live with a sense of impending doom.
Because their doom, at the hands of increasingly strenuously-denied climate collapse, is impending, in visible ways they can’t keep out of the back of their minds, however hard they try. But they can blame the wrong people for that feeling, and do.
Because their doom, at the hands of increasingly strenuously-denied climate collapse, is impending, in visible ways they can’t keep out of the back of their minds, however hard they try. But they can blame the wrong people for that feeling, and do.
Almost universal across the west. Voters have never had it so good. But they feel more was promised. And isn't just the cost but the difficulties of life, and the sense of a class that doesn't face these.
Difficult to sort in low-growth times. www.ft.com/content/7913...
Difficult to sort in low-growth times. www.ft.com/content/7913...
November 8, 2025 at 7:31 AM
And yet, they live with a sense of impending doom.
Because their doom, at the hands of increasingly strenuously-denied climate collapse, is impending, in visible ways they can’t keep out of the back of their minds, however hard they try. But they can blame the wrong people for that feeling, and do.
Because their doom, at the hands of increasingly strenuously-denied climate collapse, is impending, in visible ways they can’t keep out of the back of their minds, however hard they try. But they can blame the wrong people for that feeling, and do.
I really feel that the people involved in Yorp aren't motivated by anything but the desire to be Seen To Be Important
November 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I really feel that the people involved in Yorp aren't motivated by anything but the desire to be Seen To Be Important
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This might be one of the best remakes I’ve ever heard.
November 1, 2025 at 6:47 AM
This might be one of the best remakes I’ve ever heard.
This is simply untrue. I've maintained since day one of his leadership, Keir Starmer looks like a ginsters pasty
October 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This is simply untrue. I've maintained since day one of his leadership, Keir Starmer looks like a ginsters pasty
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I’ve been saying it for ages, what we’re seeing is a repackaging of the “ain’t no Black in the Union Jack” nationalism of the 60s, 70s and 80s
History doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes
Britain beat the far-right then, and we’ll do it again
History doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes
Britain beat the far-right then, and we’ll do it again
October 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I’ve been saying it for ages, what we’re seeing is a repackaging of the “ain’t no Black in the Union Jack” nationalism of the 60s, 70s and 80s
History doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes
Britain beat the far-right then, and we’ll do it again
History doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes
Britain beat the far-right then, and we’ll do it again
I can't believe I just sat through the whole thing!
Plating!
October 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I can't believe I just sat through the whole thing!
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A joint study by European Space Agency & NOAA concludes we have gravely underestimated ocean acidification.
We’ve already crossed the planetary boundary, shattered it for the Arctic, & eliminated 43% of coral habitat.
Stopping emissions cannot reverse this.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We’ve already crossed the planetary boundary, shattered it for the Arctic, & eliminated 43% of coral habitat.
Stopping emissions cannot reverse this.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Ocean Acidification: Another Planetary Boundary Crossed
In this study, employing a detailed analysis of ocean carbonate system observations, models and biological assessments, we demonstrate that by year 2020, the average global ocean conditions had alrea...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A joint study by European Space Agency & NOAA concludes we have gravely underestimated ocean acidification.
We’ve already crossed the planetary boundary, shattered it for the Arctic, & eliminated 43% of coral habitat.
Stopping emissions cannot reverse this.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We’ve already crossed the planetary boundary, shattered it for the Arctic, & eliminated 43% of coral habitat.
Stopping emissions cannot reverse this.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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We have such an idiotic civilization
October 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
We have such an idiotic civilization
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Notice how quickly we've moved from deporting "illegals" to the idea of deporting any migrant whose face doesn't fit, irrespective of legal status. Next stop: some form of ostracisation for any person whose face doesn't fit, whether they were born here or not?
We're deep in National Front territory
We're deep in National Front territory
October 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Notice how quickly we've moved from deporting "illegals" to the idea of deporting any migrant whose face doesn't fit, irrespective of legal status. Next stop: some form of ostracisation for any person whose face doesn't fit, whether they were born here or not?
We're deep in National Front territory
We're deep in National Front territory
So the left just keeps oscillating between horizontalism and electoralism — trashing the last phase and repeating what failed before it? Forever? Cool.
October 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
So the left just keeps oscillating between horizontalism and electoralism — trashing the last phase and repeating what failed before it? Forever? Cool.
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This graph says it all: instead of starting to go down, the *annual increase* of atmospheric CO2 is setting new records. We're making climate change worse at a record rate.
Turning this around should be our top priority, and it's not.
From: www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...
Turning this around should be our top priority, and it's not.
From: www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...
October 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This graph says it all: instead of starting to go down, the *annual increase* of atmospheric CO2 is setting new records. We're making climate change worse at a record rate.
Turning this around should be our top priority, and it's not.
From: www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...
Turning this around should be our top priority, and it's not.
From: www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...
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Great piece by Andreas Reckwitz capturing the kind of politics taking shape as, for the first time, the West sees the future as loss and regression.
It’s an excellent summary of possible avenues for action:
It’s an excellent summary of possible avenues for action:
Opinion | The West Is Lost
www.nytimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Great piece by Andreas Reckwitz capturing the kind of politics taking shape as, for the first time, the West sees the future as loss and regression.
It’s an excellent summary of possible avenues for action:
It’s an excellent summary of possible avenues for action:
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Not a comfortable read—but sugar-coating does not help. No countryis currently on track to meet 1.5°C Paris target. To reach it, individual lifestyle emissions in high-income countries must fall by up to 94%. Transport & nutrition remain largest sources of emissions.
hotorcool.org/publications...
hotorcool.org/publications...
A Climate for Sufficiency: 1.5-Degree Lifestyles Report
The report “A Climate for Sufficiency ” examines how lifestyles, shaped by infrastructure, policy, and culture, must transform to align with planetary limits.
hotorcool.org
October 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Not a comfortable read—but sugar-coating does not help. No countryis currently on track to meet 1.5°C Paris target. To reach it, individual lifestyle emissions in high-income countries must fall by up to 94%. Transport & nutrition remain largest sources of emissions.
hotorcool.org/publications...
hotorcool.org/publications...
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"To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating."
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
"To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating."
I'm sure dressing in black shirts isn't referencing any particular historical phenomena
Evangelical, right-wing ‘King’s Army’ group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district
Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district
A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.
www.thepinknews.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I'm sure dressing in black shirts isn't referencing any particular historical phenomena
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None of us are safe in a world where basic norms in respect of the sanctity of human life are blithely disregarded. Those norms must be enforced, and enforced visibly. There must be political and legal consequences for every politician who made the genocide possible. The alternative is unthinkable.
The foreign secretary says the UK has been contributing to the peace process.
No. What the UK govt has been contributing to is the extermination of the Palestinian people.
No. What the UK govt has been contributing to is the extermination of the Palestinian people.
October 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
None of us are safe in a world where basic norms in respect of the sanctity of human life are blithely disregarded. Those norms must be enforced, and enforced visibly. There must be political and legal consequences for every politician who made the genocide possible. The alternative is unthinkable.
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru. I urge you.
October 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru. I urge you.
If you have a firm grip on what's going on I'm really worried about you
October 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
If you have a firm grip on what's going on I'm really worried about you
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genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos
Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."
October 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos