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Amber Massie-Blomfield
@ambermb.bsky.social
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Arts and climate. Born at 344 ppm.

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My new business many-hats.org is LIVE.

Professional development for freelancers, with workshops led by some amazing people including @ambermb.bsky.social @verybrinteresting.bsky.social @cloreleadership.bsky.social @katbrownwrites.com @mazhedgehog.bsky.social @nadpatel.bsky.social

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October 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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@timjackson.org.uk hi Tim I enjoyed your Clore fellowship speech very much. So much so that I’m now writing my final provocation piece for my fellowship on post growth & the arts. Would you have time for a quick conversation? Thanks
June 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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@jasonhickel.bsky.social Jason I am just reading your BRILLIANT book - and underlining everything. Do you know of any writers/thinkers who have attempted a defence of growth in the context of climate emergency, explicitly - ie have attempted to reconcile the two? Curious about the counter argument.
June 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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janrosenow.bsky.social
China is on track to become the world’s first “electrostate”—with clean electricity driving growth and coal’s decline looking inevitable.

As China builds energy self-sufficiency and dominates key tech supply chains, its influence on the future of global energy is only set to grow.
June 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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jenchenko.bsky.social
Please read the important blog by Jess Thom of Touretteshero. Ableism and moral bankruptcy from a supposed ‘Labour’ government who keep telling us they want people to get to work while making it impossible for disabled people to do so.

Solidarity with Jess

www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a...
A Career-Ending Decision?
Fifteen years ago, I co-founded Touretteshero as a creative response to the increasing impact that my tics were having on my life. I also started writing this blog. Over the years I’ve tackled some tr...
www.touretteshero.com
May 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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rupertread.bsky.social
Following my recent appearance on #GBNews, in which I called out the corruption of the fossil-fuel-owned ‘news’ outlet, I thought it best to do a deep-dive on just why UK energy bills are so high. Read now!

rupertsreads.substack.com/p/so-why-are...
So, Why Are Britain’s Energy Bills So High?
What are the real reasons we're paying more than other countries for our energy?
rupertsreads.substack.com
May 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
ambermb.bsky.social
‘We’re up to our neck in shit, it’s true, and that’s why we walk with our heads held high’ - Dario Fo
dalevince.com Dale Vince @dalevince.com · May 19
Thames Water has us up to our necks in poo while bills skyrocket. The CEO believes he’s actually doing a great job - WTF?
May 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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daisyhunguk.bsky.social
Was feeling a bit low today, so went browsing through @blackwelloxford.bsky.social and found a couple of books to energise me for continued activism and resistance ✊ @ambermb.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙
‘Changemaker: A Data-Driven Guide to Being an Effective Activist’ book and ‘Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create a Better World’ book placed on a bench in a park with a Blackwell’s Oxford bag.
April 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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clarered.bsky.social
An open letter to the Equality and Human Rights Commission from the Culture Sector, in solidarity with Trans, Nonbinary and Intersex communities. Sign your name here: tinyurl.com/ehrcletter Please share widely, and if you are not able to sign for your organisation, please share with someone who can
April 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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davidrvetter.bsky.social
The US rep to the IEA said that "pursuing offshore wind power would make countries reliant on China." It's instructive to explore this sort of claim, in particular for what it reveals about those claiming it. Two points:🧵
At energy security talks, US pushes gas and derides renewables
The US envoy to the IEA's energy security summit pushed gas and criticised renewables, arguing that they cause power cuts
www.climatechangenews.com
April 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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angelinabeeb.bsky.social
It’s another week of brilliant opportunities for artists & theatre talent this week, from Sheffield to Doncaster and Newcastle to Basingstoke!

Lots here for writers this week, but also stuff going on for actors and other theatre creatives. Good luck if applying!

#theatre #theatresky #careers #cpd
April 26, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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climate.skyfleet.blue
Lifesize herd of puppet animals begins climate action journey from Africa to Arctic Circle #Climate
Lifesize herd of puppet animals begins climate action journey from Africa to Arctic Circle
The Herds project from the team behind Little Amal will travel 20,000km taking its message on environmental crisis across the world
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Edouard Manet

Moss Roses in a Vase, 1882
Oil on canvas
April 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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thesaintoftous.bsky.social
Words to live by.
Screenshot of a tweet by @louisethebaker The text reads, "I’m almost 50, and here is the best thing I have learned so far: every strange thing you’ve ever been into, every failed hobby or forgotten instrument, everything you have ever learned will come back to you, will serve you when you need it. No love, however brief, is wasted."
April 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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baratunde.com
Can’t express how satisfied I am with myself for this joke. Enjoy! Laugh a bit in the apocalypse
bioneers.org Bioneers @bioneers.org · Apr 23
💬 Our polycrisis has reached a level of ridiculousness. @Baratunde.com advises we treat the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves with care — this narrative shapes how effectively we show up as citizens. ▶️ Watch his full talk: buff.ly/lmZaMZ5
April 24, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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tutusntinyhats.bsky.social
"...the art of resistance asks - what does it mean to be alive right now? Where are the contradictions in how we are living? What does a truly just world look like? What's stopping it from becoming a reality?"

- @ambermb.bsky.social
The book Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create a Better World by Amber Massie-Blomfield, leaning against a colorful abstract throw pillow. The book cover is yellow, red, and black, and features a collage of squares with photos of eyes and geometric shapes
April 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
“If I die, I want a loud death. I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear.”
She was about to get married; a film about her life in Gaza had just been finished.
10 of her family were killed with her.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike
Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family
www.theguardian.com
April 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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amywestervelt.bsky.social
I’m gonna say something that is going to sound crazy, but when has that ever stopped me from saying something publicly: there is a way in which the U.S. chucking its position in the world could actually fast-track energy transition. A few things that have me thinking this way 🧵
April 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
ambermb.bsky.social
‘We should astound catastrophe with the little fear it causes us’ - Victor Hugo
April 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
ambermb.bsky.social
@khosla.bsky.social dear rajat, forgive me for the out of the blue contact. Is there any chance you could suggest a contact at WHO who could advise on a person who has been given permission for medical evacuation of Gaza but is stuck because of Rafah border closure? A friend is suffering there.
April 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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channel4.bsky.social
As retaliation for the Tariffs we will now be showing any American made TV show without the last five minutes. Good luck finding out how Frasier got out of that one.
April 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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markdishman.bsky.social
V proud of my pal @danzep.bsky.social, whose new book, Overnight, is out now. Among the fascinating stories within - bats, boats, helicopters, healthcare - our sleepless summer sojourn to Le Mans and the Porsche pit garage. What an adventure!
An LMP2 car on the start/finish straight at Le Mans Overnight by Dan Richards
April 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
ambermb.bsky.social
This is the central challenge for artists and creatives now. Our work is shaping the collective imagination.
georgemonbiot.bsky.social George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Apr 2
1. I've come to detest the defeatist claim, attributed to various authors, that “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”. Of course you can't imagine the end of capitalism if you don’t know what it is! But as soon as you clearly define it, you can see how it ends. 🧵
April 2, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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simongandrew.bsky.social
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM