Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism
@jksteinberger.bsky.social
Ecosocialist bluestocking. Immigrant & settler 🇪🇺🇨🇭🇺🇸🇬🇧. Social ecology & ecological economics at Uni Lausanne in 🇨🇭. Bad at email. She/her
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2. We need to organise, as citizens. This means recruiting your neighbours, friends, acquaintances and co-workers, and coming together to protect democracy and stable governance. Isolated bellyaching is not a winning strategy, working together is.
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If you are reading this, it probably means you are doomscrolling the authoritarian apocalypse, instead of actually doing something about it. I can't recommend action enough. Switch off social media, limit it to a small bit of time per day, and work on your organising instead.
I still stand by these, even as universities around the world, including my own, brainlessly capitulate to AI.
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.
TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
November 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I still stand by these, even as universities around the world, including my own, brainlessly capitulate to AI.
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"What a world we live in.."
via Fatima Ftouni
via Fatima Ftouni
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
"What a world we live in.."
via Fatima Ftouni
via Fatima Ftouni
Reposted by Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism
If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical, it speaks to how far we have drifted from democracy‘s core promises. Markets will not beat back the far right. An antifascist economics might. Mamdani provides a playbook for democrats around the world.
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Zohran Mamdani shows how Democrats can defeat authoritarians like Trump | Isabella Weber
Democrats have two choices: fight to make life affordable again for ordinary people or watch voters embrace authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical, it speaks to how far we have drifted from democracy‘s core promises. Markets will not beat back the far right. An antifascist economics might. Mamdani provides a playbook for democrats around the world.
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"One of the workshop’s shared diagnoses was that the climate movement must broaden its struggle beyond carbon. This means organising around people’s material realities while confronting the elites and corporations driving destruction."
theecologist.org/2025/nov/12/...
theecologist.org/2025/nov/12/...
November 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"One of the workshop’s shared diagnoses was that the climate movement must broaden its struggle beyond carbon. This means organising around people’s material realities while confronting the elites and corporations driving destruction."
theecologist.org/2025/nov/12/...
theecologist.org/2025/nov/12/...
Reposted by Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism
Understanding and Accelerating Collective Climate Action
Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement
A must read for all climate activists
zenodo.org/records/1758...
Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement
A must read for all climate activists
zenodo.org/records/1758...
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Understanding and Accelerating Collective Climate Action
Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement
A must read for all climate activists
zenodo.org/records/1758...
Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement
A must read for all climate activists
zenodo.org/records/1758...
Reposted by Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism
🔥We've crossed 7 out of 9 planetary boundaries, & global heating is accelerating. What is to be done?
24 scholars, activists & practitioners met at a 5-day workshop to explore how to accelerate collective climate action.
Our summary report is out now ⤵️
🔗 tinyurl.com/cxxembyw
🔗 tinyurl.com/54rmhykx
24 scholars, activists & practitioners met at a 5-day workshop to explore how to accelerate collective climate action.
Our summary report is out now ⤵️
🔗 tinyurl.com/cxxembyw
🔗 tinyurl.com/54rmhykx
November 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🔥We've crossed 7 out of 9 planetary boundaries, & global heating is accelerating. What is to be done?
24 scholars, activists & practitioners met at a 5-day workshop to explore how to accelerate collective climate action.
Our summary report is out now ⤵️
🔗 tinyurl.com/cxxembyw
🔗 tinyurl.com/54rmhykx
24 scholars, activists & practitioners met at a 5-day workshop to explore how to accelerate collective climate action.
Our summary report is out now ⤵️
🔗 tinyurl.com/cxxembyw
🔗 tinyurl.com/54rmhykx
Be still my absolute fecking heart. WOWOWOW!!!!!!
Congratulations to Marcus, his life partner Holly, his partner in civil resistance Morgan, everyone involved in the campaign to keep him home with his loved ones and family. Just so much love.
Congratulations to Marcus, his life partner Holly, his partner in civil resistance Morgan, everyone involved in the campaign to keep him home with his loved ones and family. Just so much love.
🚨 BREAKING: MARCUS WINS DEPORTATION APPEAL
Marcus Decker, who was facing deportation after being handed a prison sentence over 2 years for climbing the QEII Bridge in 2022 with Morgan Trowland, has won his appeal against the deportation order.
Marcus Decker, who was facing deportation after being handed a prison sentence over 2 years for climbing the QEII Bridge in 2022 with Morgan Trowland, has won his appeal against the deportation order.
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Be still my absolute fecking heart. WOWOWOW!!!!!!
Congratulations to Marcus, his life partner Holly, his partner in civil resistance Morgan, everyone involved in the campaign to keep him home with his loved ones and family. Just so much love.
Congratulations to Marcus, his life partner Holly, his partner in civil resistance Morgan, everyone involved in the campaign to keep him home with his loved ones and family. Just so much love.
Reposted by Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism
🚨 BREAKING: MARCUS WINS DEPORTATION APPEAL
Marcus Decker, who was facing deportation after being handed a prison sentence over 2 years for climbing the QEII Bridge in 2022 with Morgan Trowland, has won his appeal against the deportation order.
Marcus Decker, who was facing deportation after being handed a prison sentence over 2 years for climbing the QEII Bridge in 2022 with Morgan Trowland, has won his appeal against the deportation order.
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🚨 BREAKING: MARCUS WINS DEPORTATION APPEAL
Marcus Decker, who was facing deportation after being handed a prison sentence over 2 years for climbing the QEII Bridge in 2022 with Morgan Trowland, has won his appeal against the deportation order.
Marcus Decker, who was facing deportation after being handed a prison sentence over 2 years for climbing the QEII Bridge in 2022 with Morgan Trowland, has won his appeal against the deportation order.
Reposted by Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism
Check out how the UNFCCC is policing the language of civil society at #COP30 along with limiting their access from Zero Hour ED. Tune in to #COPOut to watch the entire episode also with Ingmar Rentzhog from @wedonthavetime.bsky.social & @magnoliae.bsky.social cece.american.edu/cop-out-epis...
November 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Check out how the UNFCCC is policing the language of civil society at #COP30 along with limiting their access from Zero Hour ED. Tune in to #COPOut to watch the entire episode also with Ingmar Rentzhog from @wedonthavetime.bsky.social & @magnoliae.bsky.social cece.american.edu/cop-out-epis...
Hi all, just popping up to ask @gilduran.com @xriskology.bsky.social @katewillett.bsky.social to cover this article and interview its authors. It's made of awesome.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The transformation of epistemic agency and governance in higher education through Large Language Models – toward a future of organized immaturity - Dirk Lindebaum, Eimear Nolan, Mehreen Ashraff, Gazi ...
Why and how does the use of large language models (LLMs) transform epistemic agency and epistemic governance in Higher Education (HE), and why can this transfor...
journals.sagepub.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Hi all, just popping up to ask @gilduran.com @xriskology.bsky.social @katewillett.bsky.social to cover this article and interview its authors. It's made of awesome.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism
"the death-inflicting politics of colonialism: conditions where those in power don’t have to care who lives or dies. The priorities of the colonisers are elsewhere, in land, power and wealth grabs. The colonised are left in conditions where their lives are not even secondary, but irrelevant."
Climate necropolitics
I have been thinking of politics and death recently. In fact it’s all I can think about. I think you should too.
jksteinberger.medium.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM
"the death-inflicting politics of colonialism: conditions where those in power don’t have to care who lives or dies. The priorities of the colonisers are elsewhere, in land, power and wealth grabs. The colonised are left in conditions where their lives are not even secondary, but irrelevant."
Reposted by Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism
“Álvaro López, the electoral coordinator for the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, believes “we need to get away from a ‘holding them accountable’ framework toward a ‘building power’ framework.” hammerandhope.org/article/mamd...
Zohran Got New Yorkers to Hope. What’s the Plan to Deliver?
Organizers who brought him to the verge of victory are looking ahead to the challenges of democratic governance.
hammerandhope.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“Álvaro López, the electoral coordinator for the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, believes “we need to get away from a ‘holding them accountable’ framework toward a ‘building power’ framework.” hammerandhope.org/article/mamd...
Reposted by Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism
“Cataclysm Capitalism” is a term that attempts to grapple with the dizzying speed and acceleration of today's fascist attacks on democracy and our shared environment
To learn more about its workings & functions read our newest f&l blog article by @jksteinberger.bsky.social and @celine.bsky.social!
To learn more about its workings & functions read our newest f&l blog article by @jksteinberger.bsky.social and @celine.bsky.social!
Read the latest Fascism & Liberalism blog by @jksteinberger.bsky.social and @celine.bsky.social
"Cataclysm Capitalism continues neoliberalism’s attack on democracy, and goes even further, dispensing with any illusion of serving the greater good."
➡️ tinyurl.com/4jj2zese
"Cataclysm Capitalism continues neoliberalism’s attack on democracy, and goes even further, dispensing with any illusion of serving the greater good."
➡️ tinyurl.com/4jj2zese
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“Cataclysm Capitalism” is a term that attempts to grapple with the dizzying speed and acceleration of today's fascist attacks on democracy and our shared environment
To learn more about its workings & functions read our newest f&l blog article by @jksteinberger.bsky.social and @celine.bsky.social!
To learn more about its workings & functions read our newest f&l blog article by @jksteinberger.bsky.social and @celine.bsky.social!
Reposted by Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
Reposted by Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism
Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL
The boyfriend of a friend of my son's has spent several weeks in a psych ward due to Chat GPT induced psychosis. He isn't suicidal but AI encouraged him down a toxic and paranoid wormhole until he became completely delusional. Evil stuff.
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL
Reposted by Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
Reposted by Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
Reposted by Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism
Read the latest Fascism & Liberalism blog by @jksteinberger.bsky.social and @celine.bsky.social
"Cataclysm Capitalism continues neoliberalism’s attack on democracy, and goes even further, dispensing with any illusion of serving the greater good."
➡️ tinyurl.com/4jj2zese
"Cataclysm Capitalism continues neoliberalism’s attack on democracy, and goes even further, dispensing with any illusion of serving the greater good."
➡️ tinyurl.com/4jj2zese
November 7, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Read the latest Fascism & Liberalism blog by @jksteinberger.bsky.social and @celine.bsky.social
"Cataclysm Capitalism continues neoliberalism’s attack on democracy, and goes even further, dispensing with any illusion of serving the greater good."
➡️ tinyurl.com/4jj2zese
"Cataclysm Capitalism continues neoliberalism’s attack on democracy, and goes even further, dispensing with any illusion of serving the greater good."
➡️ tinyurl.com/4jj2zese
Reposted by Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism
Watch this wonderfully made short animation film, «no one is an island», with @jksteinberger.bsky.social and several others from the ‘living well within limits’ project!
myhero.com/no-one-is-an...
myhero.com/no-one-is-an...
No One is an Island
Through an animated conversation, scientists explore if everyone can live well without harming the environment and reveal how hope and creativity can inspire change.
myhero.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Watch this wonderfully made short animation film, «no one is an island», with @jksteinberger.bsky.social and several others from the ‘living well within limits’ project!
myhero.com/no-one-is-an...
myhero.com/no-one-is-an...
Finally - the extraordinary animated film "No One is an Island," based on our "Living Well Within Limits" project can be seen! labour of love and care by animator David Bunting & futurist-artist James McKay . You can see it (and vote for it!!!) here. 😍
myhero.com/2025-peoples...
myhero.com/2025-peoples...
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Finally - the extraordinary animated film "No One is an Island," based on our "Living Well Within Limits" project can be seen! labour of love and care by animator David Bunting & futurist-artist James McKay . You can see it (and vote for it!!!) here. 😍
myhero.com/2025-peoples...
myhero.com/2025-peoples...
Reposted by Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism
Vote for No One is an Island (9:36). It's awesome! A short film based on super important degrowth research. @jksteinberger.bsky.social @librand.bsky.social
myhero.com/2025-peoples...
myhero.com/2025-peoples...
2025 People's Choice Award - FINALISTS
Finalists for the MY HERO International Film Festival's People's Choice Award
myhero.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Vote for No One is an Island (9:36). It's awesome! A short film based on super important degrowth research. @jksteinberger.bsky.social @librand.bsky.social
myhero.com/2025-peoples...
myhero.com/2025-peoples...
Reposted by Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism
@desmog.com reviewed US tax records which show Bill Gates’ charity has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by Danish academic and climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:08 AM
@desmog.com reviewed US tax records which show Bill Gates’ charity has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by Danish academic and climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
I am 1 chapter in to @lukekemp.bsky.social 's Goliath's Curse, and it's already one of the best books, and most timely, that I have ever read. Do yourself a favour and pick it up ASAP.
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I am 1 chapter in to @lukekemp.bsky.social 's Goliath's Curse, and it's already one of the best books, and most timely, that I have ever read. Do yourself a favour and pick it up ASAP.
Reposted by Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism
"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week."
This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
November 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week."
This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
All the effing AI bots on every single effing app asking me "how can I help you today?" never do seem to shoot themselves into the sun, it's a failed technology.
November 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
All the effing AI bots on every single effing app asking me "how can I help you today?" never do seem to shoot themselves into the sun, it's a failed technology.