Marc Hudson
@marchudson.bsky.social
Failing/ed academic (socio-technical transitions), climate historian, writer, video maker. Most days I think we're toast. #envhist See also allouryesterdays.info
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Marc Hudson
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· Aug 5
The politics of Tom Lehrer: Noam Chomsky with a Piano?
Tom Lehrer died, aged 97, in late July. Lehrer had written 37 (well, a few more) songs in the 1950s and 1960s, and on the basis of this is still (rightly in my opinion) regarded as one of the…
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Tom Lehrer was a gateway drug for me, I now realise, for Noam Chomsky. Anyone else have the same experience?
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4 photos from the "Defend Our Juries" action outside the Royal Courts of Justice on Weds 26th November, at the beginning of the Judicial Review.
Judge Chamberlain taken off the case for "undisclosed" reasons. I mean, it's not as if the government/security state is nervous they might lose. Nooo...
Judge Chamberlain taken off the case for "undisclosed" reasons. I mean, it's not as if the government/security state is nervous they might lose. Nooo...
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
4 photos from the "Defend Our Juries" action outside the Royal Courts of Justice on Weds 26th November, at the beginning of the Judicial Review.
Judge Chamberlain taken off the case for "undisclosed" reasons. I mean, it's not as if the government/security state is nervous they might lose. Nooo...
Judge Chamberlain taken off the case for "undisclosed" reasons. I mean, it's not as if the government/security state is nervous they might lose. Nooo...
"Over the years I have regularly been fed wildly optimistic figures of construction costs and times and of the resultant electricity supply. At worst we have been consistently lied to. Unlike wind and solar, nuclear costs have consistently gone up for decades."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"Over the years I have regularly been fed wildly optimistic figures of construction costs and times and of the resultant electricity supply. At worst we have been consistently lied to. Unlike wind and solar, nuclear costs have consistently gone up for decades."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
4 photos from the "Defend Our Juries" action outside the Royal Courts of Justice on Weds 26th November, at the beginning of the Judicial Review.
Judge Chamberlain taken off the case for "undisclosed" reasons. I mean, it's not as if the government/security state is nervous they might lose. Nooo...
Judge Chamberlain taken off the case for "undisclosed" reasons. I mean, it's not as if the government/security state is nervous they might lose. Nooo...
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
4 photos from the "Defend Our Juries" action outside the Royal Courts of Justice on Weds 26th November, at the beginning of the Judicial Review.
Judge Chamberlain taken off the case for "undisclosed" reasons. I mean, it's not as if the government/security state is nervous they might lose. Nooo...
Judge Chamberlain taken off the case for "undisclosed" reasons. I mean, it's not as if the government/security state is nervous they might lose. Nooo...
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November 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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💚 @nebriefing.bsky.social lead organiser @sioldridge.bsky.social shared a message to #CANBill campaigners: “Thank you for persuading your MP to come. People heard a story—one that underlined the need to take urgent action and that means emergency legislation like the Climate and Nature Bill.”
November 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
💚 @nebriefing.bsky.social lead organiser @sioldridge.bsky.social shared a message to #CANBill campaigners: “Thank you for persuading your MP to come. People heard a story—one that underlined the need to take urgent action and that means emergency legislation like the Climate and Nature Bill.”
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
Spent several happy days at various archives and libraries (TNA, KCL, British Library).
My take home (sit down, this is a shocker)
We're ruled by average ppl who'll kick a can down the road if they can. They're not particularly smart, evil, far-sighted.
They were warned, often. And shrugged.
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My take home (sit down, this is a shocker)
We're ruled by average ppl who'll kick a can down the road if they can. They're not particularly smart, evil, far-sighted.
They were warned, often. And shrugged.
1/2
November 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Spent several happy days at various archives and libraries (TNA, KCL, British Library).
My take home (sit down, this is a shocker)
We're ruled by average ppl who'll kick a can down the road if they can. They're not particularly smart, evil, far-sighted.
They were warned, often. And shrugged.
1/2
My take home (sit down, this is a shocker)
We're ruled by average ppl who'll kick a can down the road if they can. They're not particularly smart, evil, far-sighted.
They were warned, often. And shrugged.
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I'm an arrestee from yesterday and once again met the most kind, gentle and thoughtful people sitting with placards, making the absurdity of arrests so blatant.
I was sitting close to Adam, who continued pretending he was pro genocide, asking why he wasn't arrested: www.instagram.com/p/DPL2G9iCNth/
I was sitting close to Adam, who continued pretending he was pro genocide, asking why he wasn't arrested: www.instagram.com/p/DPL2G9iCNth/
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I'm an arrestee from yesterday and once again met the most kind, gentle and thoughtful people sitting with placards, making the absurdity of arrests so blatant.
I was sitting close to Adam, who continued pretending he was pro genocide, asking why he wasn't arrested: www.instagram.com/p/DPL2G9iCNth/
I was sitting close to Adam, who continued pretending he was pro genocide, asking why he wasn't arrested: www.instagram.com/p/DPL2G9iCNth/
There are some people very very determined not to see what the people behind Starmer are doing. They resent ppl with eyes and spines and try to waste time/ set up strawmen.
They are to be laughed at and then muted, imo.
They are to be laughed at and then muted, imo.
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
There are some people very very determined not to see what the people behind Starmer are doing. They resent ppl with eyes and spines and try to waste time/ set up strawmen.
They are to be laughed at and then muted, imo.
They are to be laughed at and then muted, imo.
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Best understood, Labour's attack on juries, as a further lurch towards authoritarianism. Who, now, will stand in the way of a State that wants to imprison its opponents?
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Best understood, Labour's attack on juries, as a further lurch towards authoritarianism. Who, now, will stand in the way of a State that wants to imprison its opponents?
Attlee, who rarely gave interviews and never briefed the press, was astounded at what had happened. "Talked to the press?", he said when his adviser Francis Williams explained the facts to him. "Why on Earth did he want to talk to the press?"
www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/mar/...
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Budget leak uncanny echo of famous incident from 66 years ago
Labour chancellor Hugh Dalton resigned in 1947 after details were published in an evening newspaper before his speech
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November 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Attlee, who rarely gave interviews and never briefed the press, was astounded at what had happened. "Talked to the press?", he said when his adviser Francis Williams explained the facts to him. "Why on Earth did he want to talk to the press?"
www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/mar/...
www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/mar/...
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I was thoroughly marinated in the laissez faire pro-business attitude that prevailed in tech in the early 00s. But consulting Very Big Corporations cured me of the belief that private sector is more efficient simply by the virtue of being private.
Private blunders are just easier to hide.
Private blunders are just easier to hide.
still reeling from the fact that Amazon apparently spent 100s of millions of dollars trying to build a competitor to Steam that no one fucking heard of until some dude on LinkedIn talked about how it had bombed, and, like, they just face ZERO consequences for that waste of money.
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I was thoroughly marinated in the laissez faire pro-business attitude that prevailed in tech in the early 00s. But consulting Very Big Corporations cured me of the belief that private sector is more efficient simply by the virtue of being private.
Private blunders are just easier to hide.
Private blunders are just easier to hide.
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Fascist Reform leader Richard Tice would get REALLY upset if you shared this widely on all forms of social media so lots of people can keep it and bring it out before the next election to show that he is as big a liar as Keir Starmer.
So please don't, he would be *very* upset.
So please don't, he would be *very* upset.
November 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Fascist Reform leader Richard Tice would get REALLY upset if you shared this widely on all forms of social media so lots of people can keep it and bring it out before the next election to show that he is as big a liar as Keir Starmer.
So please don't, he would be *very* upset.
So please don't, he would be *very* upset.
Government was clearly afraid its best lawyers weren’t going to be good enough. So they nobble the referee. Such utter contempt they have for us all (ministers, but also the spooks who run things from the dark corners)
Removal of judge in Palestine Action ban legal challenge ‘deeply concerning’
Removal of judge in Palestine Action ban legal challenge ‘deeply concerning’
Unusual last-minute change means panel of three will now hear case rather than Mr Justice Chamberlain
Concerns have been raised after the judge who was expected to hear a legal challenge to the ban on Palestine Action was removed from the case at the last minute without explanation.
Mr Justice Chamberlain had granted permission for the judicial review and said that he would preside over the trial but it has emerged that a panel of three different judges will instead hear the case, which is due to start on Wednesday. Continue reading...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Government was clearly afraid its best lawyers weren’t going to be good enough. So they nobble the referee. Such utter contempt they have for us all (ministers, but also the spooks who run things from the dark corners)
Tell me again about an independent judiciary
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Tell me again about an independent judiciary
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Land of the free, home of the brave.
I am sure Keir Starmer will be intervening behind the scenes, oh yes.
I am sure Keir Starmer will be intervening behind the scenes, oh yes.
ICE detained Katie, a British woman in the final stages of her green card process, while she was holding her 6 month old son.
She’s married to an American and was following the process, yet at her last immigration meeting they grabbed her.
She’s been detained ever since:
She’s married to an American and was following the process, yet at her last immigration meeting they grabbed her.
She’s been detained ever since:
British woman arrested by ICE agents in California while holding newborn son
Katie was in the final stages of securing her green card when she was detained.
metro.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Land of the free, home of the brave.
I am sure Keir Starmer will be intervening behind the scenes, oh yes.
I am sure Keir Starmer will be intervening behind the scenes, oh yes.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
In astronomy and celestial navigation, an ephemeris (/ɪˈfɛmərɪs/; is a book with tables that gives the trajectory of naturally occurring astronomical objects and artificial satellites in the sky, i.e., the position (and possibly velocity) over time.
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
In astronomy and celestial navigation, an ephemeris (/ɪˈfɛmərɪs/; is a book with tables that gives the trajectory of naturally occurring astronomical objects and artificial satellites in the sky, i.e., the position (and possibly velocity) over time.
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November 23, 1968 – “Hell upon Earth” warning to London audience by Ritchie Calder about environmental destruction, including climate…
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November 23, 1968 - "Hell upon Earth" warning about environmental destruction,inc. climate... - All Our Yesterdays
On this day, November 23, 1968 Lord Ritchie Calder gave a presidential address to the Conservation Society (a British NGO from the mid 60s to the late 1980s). Its cheerful title? Hell Upon Earth. And...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
November 23, 1968 – “Hell upon Earth” warning to London audience by Ritchie Calder about environmental destruction, including climate…
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November 23, 1965 – Walter Orr Roberts “carbon dioxide is clearly rising in the atmosphere”
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November 23, 1965 - Walter Orr Roberts “carbon dioxide is clearly rising in the atmosphere” - All Our Yesterdays
Sixty years ago, on this day, November 23rd 1965, American scientist Walter Orr Roberts gave a speech. In it, this – “Perhaps, through this mechanism, we are already modifying the atmosphere, unknowi...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
November 23, 1965 – Walter Orr Roberts “carbon dioxide is clearly rising in the atmosphere”
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