Helle Abelvik-Lawson
@drhelleal.bsky.social
Writer. Proud Green Party member. PhD Indigenous Peoples' rights vs lithium mining. Assoc. Ed. Int'l Jnl of Human Rights. Sustainable Fashion Week. Unicorn mum. Bristol-based. 🍉! You probably need a Snü 😷 www.snuhq.co.uk
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"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-God damn it, you've got to be kind." -Kurt Vonnegut, "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater."
December 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-God damn it, you've got to be kind." -Kurt Vonnegut, "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater."
This feels relevant to politics now. Pick a side. Fight for it
December 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This feels relevant to politics now. Pick a side. Fight for it
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This is the world we are allowing.
December 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This is the world we are allowing.
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We must think carefully about the fundamentals of the production of knowledge, while steaming headlong into gen-AI & losing the nuances of freedom of thought before it disappears (or is beaten out of us) forever.
It's not just philosophy, but power analysis: think about who is pushing it, & why 🤔
It's not just philosophy, but power analysis: think about who is pushing it, & why 🤔
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Haitian scholar and author of Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995).
www.bostonreview.net/articles/rem...
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December 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
We must think carefully about the fundamentals of the production of knowledge, while steaming headlong into gen-AI & losing the nuances of freedom of thought before it disappears (or is beaten out of us) forever.
It's not just philosophy, but power analysis: think about who is pushing it, & why 🤔
It's not just philosophy, but power analysis: think about who is pushing it, & why 🤔
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1. I hate to see good people wasting their time and energy. And there’s perhaps no greater waste of time and energy than seeking to change the trajectory of the human population. It’s not just futile, but also a massive distraction from things we CAN change. This thread seeks to explain why. 🧵1/12
December 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
1. I hate to see good people wasting their time and energy. And there’s perhaps no greater waste of time and energy than seeking to change the trajectory of the human population. It’s not just futile, but also a massive distraction from things we CAN change. This thread seeks to explain why. 🧵1/12
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Poppy anemone
December 6th 2025
December 6th 2025
December 6, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Poppy anemone
December 6th 2025
December 6th 2025
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December 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Grid bottlenecks aren’t a failure of the energy transition — they’re proof it’s working.
Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.
Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.
December 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Grid bottlenecks aren’t a failure of the energy transition — they’re proof it’s working.
Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.
Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
December 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
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any time someone says “don’t start” to me i have 100 percent already started
December 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
any time someone says “don’t start” to me i have 100 percent already started
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They've done an interesting thing in Oxford which is to bring in a small congestion charge in the city and at the same time make the park and ride super cheap with a free return bus ticket. It seems to have changed people's habits very quickly. Make public transport a no brainer and people use it!
December 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
They've done an interesting thing in Oxford which is to bring in a small congestion charge in the city and at the same time make the park and ride super cheap with a free return bus ticket. It seems to have changed people's habits very quickly. Make public transport a no brainer and people use it!
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This is Uni. She has ridden to work with her human every day in their bike basket for the last seven years. Has been offered many other forms of transportation, but refuses them all in favor of the Honey Baked Ham Express. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: unihalo)
December 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is Uni. She has ridden to work with her human every day in their bike basket for the last seven years. Has been offered many other forms of transportation, but refuses them all in favor of the Honey Baked Ham Express. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: unihalo)
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To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.
December 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.
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did… did the dog write this recipe
December 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
did… did the dog write this recipe
I'm not crying you're crying! 🥹🥹😊
December 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I'm not crying you're crying! 🥹🥹😊
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that everyone who tries to minimise Palantir's role in public life gets branded as a conspiracy theorist at some point, but look! Yet again! It's all here! Very clearly! And still, govts will
work hard to accommodate and legitimise Palantir
work hard to accommodate and legitimise Palantir
Opinions that confirm the public's intuition that Silicon Valley leaders are evil: "legalizing US war crimes would open up a whole new market."
futurism.com/future-socie...
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Palantir CEO Says Legalizing War Crimes Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Alex Karp recently rhapsodized that US air strikes on Venezuelan civilians would be good for business, if only it were legal.
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December 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
It is a truth universally acknowledged that everyone who tries to minimise Palantir's role in public life gets branded as a conspiracy theorist at some point, but look! Yet again! It's all here! Very clearly! And still, govts will
work hard to accommodate and legitimise Palantir
work hard to accommodate and legitimise Palantir
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sex is great but have you ever had a new coach say "you've done this before"
December 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
sex is great but have you ever had a new coach say "you've done this before"
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Thread
Tomorrow marks two years since the Israeli military killed beloved Palestinian professor, writer, and activist Refaat Alareer in an airstrike on his sister’s home.
December 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Thread
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“Gaza narrates so that people might not forget. Gaza writes back because the power of imagination is a creative way to construct a new reality. Gaza writes back because writing is a nationalist obligation, a duty to humanity, and a moral responsibility."
December 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
“Gaza narrates so that people might not forget. Gaza writes back because the power of imagination is a creative way to construct a new reality. Gaza writes back because writing is a nationalist obligation, a duty to humanity, and a moral responsibility."
When they come from outer space & say "take me to your leader", I'll be proud to point them in Zack's direction 🥰
December 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
When they come from outer space & say "take me to your leader", I'll be proud to point them in Zack's direction 🥰
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I arranged these hellebores and catkins in a terracotta jug in order to paint a still life painting.
#FlowersonFriday
#FloralFriday
#Bloomscrolling
#ArtAdventCalendar
#Advent
#Photography
#FlowersonFriday
#FloralFriday
#Bloomscrolling
#ArtAdventCalendar
#Advent
#Photography
December 5, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I arranged these hellebores and catkins in a terracotta jug in order to paint a still life painting.
#FlowersonFriday
#FloralFriday
#Bloomscrolling
#ArtAdventCalendar
#Advent
#Photography
#FlowersonFriday
#FloralFriday
#Bloomscrolling
#ArtAdventCalendar
#Advent
#Photography
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It’s my last day in Brazil, and I feel so lucky to have spent two months of the year in this beautiful country. I’ve learned so much about political movements, ecology, the Indigenous people, music, art, myself! I can’t wait to be back!
December 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It’s my last day in Brazil, and I feel so lucky to have spent two months of the year in this beautiful country. I’ve learned so much about political movements, ecology, the Indigenous people, music, art, myself! I can’t wait to be back!