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Adam Greenfield

@lifehouse.bsky.social

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Endurance athlete, heavy-music appreciator, compulsive greeter of cats. My most recent book is “Lifehouse: Taking Care Of Ourselves in A World On Fire” (2024), available direct from Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2536-lifehouse

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 12m

This kind of nous is fundamental to the work, making it hard for me to imagine how multiple contractors could all get the same thing so badly – in fact universally – wrong. This isn’t Tory incompetence, but something deeper and more troubling. #shiteisland [2/2]

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 13m

Aah.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 13m

This new one is of that ilk, and it’s a doozy: “virtually all” of the tens of thousands of homes insulated under a large-scale government program are allowing moisture ingress, and will need to be redone. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w965gz8zgo [2/2]

Tens of thousands of homes insulated under government schemes need repairs

Insulation programmes costing billions of pounds have led to widespread problems with damp and mould.

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 9h

all right then.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 9h

Where’s ket on the nootropic-steroid axis?

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 13h

The John Zorn’s COBRA of its era, clearly.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 14h

Hit the sweet spot of all that, I will buy it and I will drink it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/opinion/how-to-save-beer.html [2/2]

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 14h

What’s, uh, what’s going on here?

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14h

i don't want to get too bleak but katrina was the warning shot. we are going to live to see perennially internally displaced populations and it will be, like many other things, largely a public policy choice.

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 14h

wat mean?

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 15h

I had to explain the Jewish Space Lasers thing to my dad’s wife, though. And *then* she got it immediately. We shouldn’t assume everyone’s been connecting the dots between her various dog whistles and overt statements with the same assiduity that the more motivated among us have been.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

The MTG Test is basically a test of someone's threshold tolerance for antisemitism; we are once again learning how many people are totally cool with someone being a vicious ideological antisemite.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 20h

Wilhoit only gets more relevant.

eschneider @eschneider.bsky.social · 21h

Admitted drug user calls for war on (some) drug users.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 21h

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

I’m still thinking about “No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament” and desperately wishing Democrat leadership had a fraction of this tactical savvy

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lena @lenazun.bsky.social · 22h

ilustración de la comandanta Ramona con sus palabras rodeándola

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 22h

What we have now isn’t even an ideological project, though. The Trumpist moment is, I think, better understood as a libidinal one: the discharge of a pent-up demand for validation at the whiteness-maleness failson nexus. [2/2]

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

The epistemic category of “this is true I think” is my favorite part of Volkswagenology – the split rear window personally designed by AH and so on. We sift apocrypha, vague recollections, the shadowy hand of DDB, differing positions between markets, etc.

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

I have Lust, and the thing is (ha!) that I bet acquisition and reasonable restoration of one wouldn’t run past four figures. I haven’t had a driver’s license in twenty years, though, don’t live in a place where I want or need a car, and can’t see owning an internal-combustion vehicle ever again. 😭

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

The one I saw in the DF similarly. When they go down, they go down hard. There’s a guy who brings a beautifully maintained one to the Friday-night car show at Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank, though.

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

Beetles are *still* manufactured in Mexico…or at least were until relatively recently. It’s a treat to see one still in near-factory condition beetling around town, partying like it’s 1973.

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

Ahhhh. The Type 181, sold as the “Thing” in the States and as a “Safari” in Mexico. Very nearly a Wehrmacht Kübelwagen in conzept und execution, thus presumably the tasteless emblem. But infinitely desirable for all that.

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

Not…inaccurate, though? (I have always wanted one. Seeing that abandoned and desecrated one on Londres a few blocks from where we met up the other day just about broke my heart.)

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

but made differently – and it’s thrilling. [2/2]

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

You know that famous Graeber line about “the ultimate hidden truth of the world”? That it’s “something that we make, and could just as easily make differently”? That’s just precisely the work Francis Spufford does in “Cahokia Jazz” – the work of imagining a world that’s recognizably our own, [1/2]

A page spread from Francis Spufford’s “Cahokia Jazz,” dappled by palm shadow.

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

ooh! no, ‘twernt me. looks great!

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

I concur!