Very excited to get started on this new book from @alybatt.bsky.social!

I can't help but think of Tim Wintons novel Juice when I see figure 3 in this paper

Listening to Mélenchon is absolutely thrilling coming from the Anglosphere, an immensely thoughtful and knowledgeable man with a deep optimism about our capacity for good youtu.be/6WFTiA_H67g?...

“This, without a doubt, is neoliberalism’s
single most damaging legacy: the
realization of its bleak vision has
isolated us enough from one another
that it became possible to convince
us that we are not just incapable of
self-preservation but fundamentally
not worth saving.”

- Naomi Klein

It is a joy to read this book by @leninology.bsky.social as it feels like a rare instance of someone with great political acuity and a flair for genuinely exceptional prose take seriously the ecological crisis and actually look deeply into evidence that we have about it

Reading the Value of a Whale by @adriennebuller.bsky.social has made me wonder how much time and effort is being wasted in the academic sphere on research that aligns closely with green capitalism, and what knowledge could have been produced instead

Meat Love by Amber Husain delicately skewers a pseudo intellectual tendency I have seen a lot in environmental circles to celebrate meat consumption, I really think this is required reading and helps to bring in animal rights to a conversation that often takes place without it

Here @alybatt.bsky.social eloquently and persuasively articulates a set of ideas that I have been clumsily moving towards for the last few years, this really is a must read and I can't wait for the release of her new book!

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The Western cattle industry requires generous public subsidies and use of public lands to sustain itself, without producing much in the way of tax revenue, jobs, or food. It’s an environmental disaster. The Livestock Saboteur wants to shut it down.

@garyseconomics.bsky.social is building one of the most exciting and optimistic movements out there right now, it really feels like it's gathering pace so if you aren't following him already do it now

The luminaries of tech understand that there is no historical atrocity that can’t be reframed as a net good, and no ratioed post that can’t be turned into profit. From the Archives: @aarontimms.bsky.social on the renegade idiots of Silicon Valley.

New podcast! @profafinlayson.bsky.social and I spend 3 hours discussing reactionary digital politics, the history of the online right and the politics of the platform economy. We also have a row about Bitcoin. It's all here, and in the feeds: culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/01/15/h....

Reading this fantastic book by @jemgilbert.bsky.social and Alex Williams has given me a sense of calm that can only come with the feeling that despite all else, at least you understand the world a little better than before

This is extraordinary and highlights that we must think about the existing power distribution with regards to land for any ecological movement to avert the biodiversity crisis

This is a nice piece that starts to grapple with what it would mean to socialise nature, as I have written about previously on substack, the key issue is that privatised nature by definition excludes collective decision making over not just resource extraction...

This post from the PM is problematic for a number of reasons.

A thread…🧵

Good, thoughtful response from the Landworkers Alliance (which, unlike the NFU, actually speaks for farm labourers, tenant farmers, small-scale farmers) to the Labour budget; ELMS; APR.

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