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Dom Pates

@dompates.bsky.social

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Educational Technologist, in HE. Father/husband. Writer. Brightonian/ex-Tokyoite. DJ/podcaster. European. Transitionist. (Occasional) Musician. Not necessarily in that order?

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · May 20

If #NetZero is the simple but complex slogan to define the story of where we want to get to with #ClimateChange - where the carbon cycle is brought back into balance - what’s the equivalent story slogan for sustainability? #CircularEconomy? #NaturePositive? Or is it too complex to reduce like that?

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 2h

Strictly speaking, I’ve been through the outskirts of Glasgow at 4am as a teenager in the 80s, in the back of a car, but don’t think that really counts. Cheers for the tips!

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 6h

That descended quickly!

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 6h

Determination to stick to the old game and not accept that the rules have changed? Oh to be a ‘centrist’ at a time of great polarity! The moment stills calls for an FDR or an Attlee…

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 18h

Well, this would explain a lot.

‘Here’s £bns to spend on CCS. Hope it works one day, but…as you were’.

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 19h

Damn, how exceptionally prescient…

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 1d

Twenty six long years ago. Same amount of time from now as between ‘Union City Blue’ and ‘Hound Dog’ by Big Mama Thornton.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 1d

If America defeats fascism with absurdism - well, that would be just too beautiful. #NoKings

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, 80, eh? Probably my first crush, at 8 years old (‘Union City Blue’ on TOTP).

Delighted to see that they have a new album out next year too.

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 1d

OK, granted that ‘ordinary Germans’ didn’t show up en masse in the streets in giant frog costumes with #NeinKaisers signs in 1933.

Maybe there is some hop(e) this time.

#NoKings

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to be heading to Glasgow for the first time ever, for #ALTc25 next week. I’ll be bringing 48 hours of #ALTcRadio to the event too. Join us at the venue if at #ALTc or in the chatroom if you’re online. Full schedule to come this weekend.

University of Glasgow @uofglasgow.bsky.social · 2d

Glasgow crowned the friendliest city in the UK: 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards
gla.ac/3WaOyUQ

Aerial view of the University of Glasgow’s iconic Gilbert Scott Building at golden hour

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

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No Faux King Idiots @dibblehepcat.bsky.social · 1d

#nokings sing this song youtu.be/Q49BjlSOCGE?...

[We Don't Need This] Fascist Groove Thang (Remastered 2006)

YouTube video by Heaven 17 - Topic

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings

Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 1d

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 1d

Wonder if, on the ground, today’s #NoKings march will become the biggest in US history? There’s certainly a case for it to be…

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 2d

‘Do unto the Earth as you would have the Earth do unto you’.

Purposefully derivative a statement, I know, but is that a thing people say? Feels like it should be.

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 2d

As of yesterday, I understand this post. Had it been earlier in the week, I wouldn’t have done so.

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like if your AI company has to apologize to the estate of Martin Luther King Jr you should just flood your servers and walk into the ocean

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 4d

Looks like I *might* be available for the upcoming November meetings. Will let you know!

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 4d

So good that you’re involved in this, Elinor! A much needed venture (saying this as one hopeful technologist)…

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 4d

As if he’s not representing a totalitarian state…

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 4d

Krugman lays it out pretty starkly. America’s already lost pole position on the world stage, even if Trumpelstiltskin loses power in the coming future…

Conservation Value Solutions @win-with-nature.bsky.social · 4d

One day America will be past Trumpism like it overcame McCarthyism and other dark periods of our history. The consequences of Trumpism for America's place in the world are already disastrous...

China Has Overtaken America

And Trump’s policies guarantee that we will never catch up

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Mark Childs @markchilds.bsky.social · 5d

I hope everyone is getting ready for the #ALTC online stream next week. I've just submitted 5.5 hours of recorded content to @dompates.bsky.social who is master of ceremonies, which should keep everyone entertained. I'm also doing a 2 hour live show. Just follow at the ttns.uk discord channel.

Internet Radio Live Music Eclectic | thethursdaynightshow

Eclectic Internet Radio with online live music and art showings every Thursday Night! www.thethursdaynightshow.com

ttns.uk

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 6d

Delighted to have a question answered by @kateraworth.bsky.social in today’s launch event for the new ‘Doughnut 3.0’ model that is central to #DoughnutEconomics.

I asked ‘What does a more-than-human doughnut look like, and would it be any different?’ Plenty of food for thought in the response.

Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 18d

Lastly, Andrew & I will be co-hosting an online launch event on *October 14 at 12 noon (UK time)*.
Do join us for a presentation & discussion of the latest Doughnut update - bring your questions, comments & suggestions! More info & registration👇 7/
doughnuteconomics.org/events/launc...

Launching: A renewed global Doughnut to monitor a world out of balance | DEAL

Launching an updated Doughnut that monitors trends in social shortfall and ecological overshoot over the 21st century

doughnuteconomics.org

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 6d

In case of the moment when you might just happen to need to use it?

Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 6d

Which fundamentally misunderstands that there are and always have been ‘two Americas’ (essentially, an imperial project and a reaction against imperialism). Perhaps not surprising if he’s only ever chosen to recognise one side of his own country’s psyche.