Stuart Capstick
@stucap.bsky.social
Environmental social scientist | Climate-terrified | Haphazard activist | Recovering academic | World-weary melanchole
We published a chapter in Greta Thunberg's Climate Book that looked at some of this:
October 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
We published a chapter in Greta Thunberg's Climate Book that looked at some of this:
Odd that a 'unite the kingdom' march seemed to have only union jacks and England flags. Could it possibly be that Wales, Scotland and N Ireland want absolutely nothing to do with this bullshit?
September 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Odd that a 'unite the kingdom' march seemed to have only union jacks and England flags. Could it possibly be that Wales, Scotland and N Ireland want absolutely nothing to do with this bullshit?
Proof that a rainbow beats a St George's flag any day of the week.
September 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Proof that a rainbow beats a St George's flag any day of the week.
As @kevinclimate.bsky.social has pointed out till he's blue in the face, including overshoot in scenarios and policy + relying on tech to deal with it, has always been about what's politically palatable / kicking can down the road (including by scientists) not what is known to be effective and fair.
September 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
As @kevinclimate.bsky.social has pointed out till he's blue in the face, including overshoot in scenarios and policy + relying on tech to deal with it, has always been about what's politically palatable / kicking can down the road (including by scientists) not what is known to be effective and fair.
Ahem... clear my throat here... now what was it I wanted to say? Ah yes: IT'S RACIST
August 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Ahem... clear my throat here... now what was it I wanted to say? Ah yes: IT'S RACIST
@peteknapp.bsky.social put this as succinctly as I've ever heard: flying is a past time of the rich, at the expense of the poor.
August 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
@peteknapp.bsky.social put this as succinctly as I've ever heard: flying is a past time of the rich, at the expense of the poor.
An Oxford university consultant surgeon on recent experiences in Gaza, noting UK govt complicity in genocide, as well as multiple Israeli war crimes of the most grotesque kind, including soldiers using children for target practice. ('Eye-witness report' Private Eye 1655 @privateeyenews.bsky.social )
August 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
An Oxford university consultant surgeon on recent experiences in Gaza, noting UK govt complicity in genocide, as well as multiple Israeli war crimes of the most grotesque kind, including soldiers using children for target practice. ('Eye-witness report' Private Eye 1655 @privateeyenews.bsky.social )
I travelled the world to document how people are fucking up the world. I just... I can't even 🤦🏼♂️
July 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
I travelled the world to document how people are fucking up the world. I just... I can't even 🤦🏼♂️
My back yard might look messy but in one tatty nasturtium there's a whole 🐞 festival going on with a lively 🐛 support act.
July 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
My back yard might look messy but in one tatty nasturtium there's a whole 🐞 festival going on with a lively 🐛 support act.
Starmer: we'll save money by taking it from the old, the poor and the sick.
Macron: Tiens ma bière.
Macron: Tiens ma bière.
July 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Starmer: we'll save money by taking it from the old, the poor and the sick.
Macron: Tiens ma bière.
Macron: Tiens ma bière.
Loads of these in a field in Wales I frequent. Are they marsh orchids, maybe?
July 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Loads of these in a field in Wales I frequent. Are they marsh orchids, maybe?
I've no love for them, but did spot this by Kenan Malik in The Observer (about Bob Vylan but anyway...)
July 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I've no love for them, but did spot this by Kenan Malik in The Observer (about Bob Vylan but anyway...)
We'd move indoors, much like the Saudis have.
June 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
We'd move indoors, much like the Saudis have.
New paper - incl author Claire Mellier of Global Assembly - based on our research into UK & French climate assemblies. We like them too, but find a lot of what came out of them derived from how they're designed & framed. Not as citizen-led as they might appear...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
June 26, 2025 at 9:44 AM
New paper - incl author Claire Mellier of Global Assembly - based on our research into UK & French climate assemblies. We like them too, but find a lot of what came out of them derived from how they're designed & framed. Not as citizen-led as they might appear...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
With this level of publicity anyone else performing Saturday 4pm Glastonbury might as well just give up and go do something else.
June 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
With this level of publicity anyone else performing Saturday 4pm Glastonbury might as well just give up and go do something else.
Same shit different day
June 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Same shit different day
Easy way to tell who gets the good morning?
June 13, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Easy way to tell who gets the good morning?
This week's Private Eye would seem to back up her general point that the UK govt continues to permit massive arms/military exports to Israel - £127.6m in last quarter of 2024 alone.
May 30, 2025 at 10:21 AM
This week's Private Eye would seem to back up her general point that the UK govt continues to permit massive arms/military exports to Israel - £127.6m in last quarter of 2024 alone.
You don't hear 'right to defend itself...' much these days.
May 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
You don't hear 'right to defend itself...' much these days.
Do senior UK politicians ever do their photoshoots anywhere other than places churning out planet-wrecking machinery? Maybe pop over to a solar panel plant or something, or is that all just a bit too woke.
May 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Do senior UK politicians ever do their photoshoots anywhere other than places churning out planet-wrecking machinery? Maybe pop over to a solar panel plant or something, or is that all just a bit too woke.
This one seems to have pretty much moved into the place that makes the bloody things.
May 9, 2025 at 8:28 AM
This one seems to have pretty much moved into the place that makes the bloody things.
List of things (A) where no one ever argues for not doing it because “it makes no difference on a global scale”. List of things (B) where some smartarse always feels the need to argue action is pointless because “it makes no difference on a global scale”.
April 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
List of things (A) where no one ever argues for not doing it because “it makes no difference on a global scale”. List of things (B) where some smartarse always feels the need to argue action is pointless because “it makes no difference on a global scale”.
This post from N***l F****e back in early 2024 is ageing like a fine wine. Or blue cheese. Left on top of a bin.
April 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This post from N***l F****e back in early 2024 is ageing like a fine wine. Or blue cheese. Left on top of a bin.
Keep reading how Tr*mp has enduring support despite being a total arse - ppl want to burn down the system, punish the out-group, are hooked on Fox etc. But when you look at his actual approval ratings they're worse than recent presidents, and set to go below his own in 2017. Source: The Economist.
April 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Keep reading how Tr*mp has enduring support despite being a total arse - ppl want to burn down the system, punish the out-group, are hooked on Fox etc. But when you look at his actual approval ratings they're worse than recent presidents, and set to go below his own in 2017. Source: The Economist.
At this rate all we'll leave behind is lifeless devastation. Oh look, some colourful socks!!!
March 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
At this rate all we'll leave behind is lifeless devastation. Oh look, some colourful socks!!!