Matthew Jee
@freedomforall.net
The future is unwritten.
Knowledge + action = power
The most important lesson of Buddhism? - You can change yourself.
Knowledge + action = power
The most important lesson of Buddhism? - You can change yourself.
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Matthew Jee
@freedomforall.net
· Apr 26
Someone rebuked me for saying out loud what everyone knows:
WE NEED A PEACEFUL NONVIOLENT REVOLUTION IN GOVERNANCE, SOCIETY, AND ECONOMICS.
It's not only me saying that. Here's what the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program wrote in October 2022:
#ClimateSky #GreenSky
WE NEED A PEACEFUL NONVIOLENT REVOLUTION IN GOVERNANCE, SOCIETY, AND ECONOMICS.
It's not only me saying that. Here's what the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program wrote in October 2022:
#ClimateSky #GreenSky
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Ten years ago at #COP21 Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social was making climate reality very clear :
'It is too late for even a small chance of avoiding 1.5ºC without highly speculative tech, getting lucky with climate sensitivity and immediate global action'
www.antaisce.org/news/report-...
'It is too late for even a small chance of avoiding 1.5ºC without highly speculative tech, getting lucky with climate sensitivity and immediate global action'
www.antaisce.org/news/report-...
Report 9 from #COP21 - Wednesday December 9, 2015
Our ninth from Paul Price, a member of An Taisce's Climate Change Committee. Paul is a conservation carpenter with a MSc in Sustainable Development.
www.antaisce.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Ten years ago at #COP21 Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social was making climate reality very clear :
'It is too late for even a small chance of avoiding 1.5ºC without highly speculative tech, getting lucky with climate sensitivity and immediate global action'
www.antaisce.org/news/report-...
'It is too late for even a small chance of avoiding 1.5ºC without highly speculative tech, getting lucky with climate sensitivity and immediate global action'
www.antaisce.org/news/report-...
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“We are failing to act on climate change because we did not anticipate and prepare for the obstruction… for those who would block and delay the transition that needs to happen for our species to survive," says @timmonsroberts.bsky.social
india.mongabay.com/2025/11/obst...
india.mongabay.com/2025/11/obst...
Obstruction tactics delay climate action, says global assessment
A new global assessment explores who is blocking action on climate change through coordinated disinformation campaigns.
india.mongabay.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“We are failing to act on climate change because we did not anticipate and prepare for the obstruction… for those who would block and delay the transition that needs to happen for our species to survive," says @timmonsroberts.bsky.social
india.mongabay.com/2025/11/obst...
india.mongabay.com/2025/11/obst...
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Ada, Countess of Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, mathematician & a pioneer of computing; born 1815, died #OTD 1852. #WomeninStem
Painted by Margaret Sarah Carpenter 1836
UK Government Art Collection
Painted by Margaret Sarah Carpenter 1836
UK Government Art Collection
November 27, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Ada, Countess of Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, mathematician & a pioneer of computing; born 1815, died #OTD 1852. #WomeninStem
Painted by Margaret Sarah Carpenter 1836
UK Government Art Collection
Painted by Margaret Sarah Carpenter 1836
UK Government Art Collection
BBC gone mad.
What it looks like in the transcript versus what I actually said.
November 26, 2025 at 8:52 AM
BBC gone mad.
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A brilliant essay by @anandwrites.bsky.social about the insular elite he calls "the Epstein class": "On matters small and big, from the price of eggs to whether the sexual abuse of children matters, what they sense is a sneering indifference. And a knack for looking away."
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 AM
A brilliant essay by @anandwrites.bsky.social about the insular elite he calls "the Epstein class": "On matters small and big, from the price of eggs to whether the sexual abuse of children matters, what they sense is a sneering indifference. And a knack for looking away."
What I see in this world is that we could still target 1.5⁰ but politics. We clearly, collectively, do politics poorly, and have for decades.
#GreenSky #ClimateSky
#GreenSky #ClimateSky
November 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
What I see in this world is that we could still target 1.5⁰ but politics. We clearly, collectively, do politics poorly, and have for decades.
#GreenSky #ClimateSky
#GreenSky #ClimateSky
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The UK has twice as many food banks as branches of McDonald's.
🍔 1,400 McDonald's
🍔 2,900 food banks
Sixth richest country in thw world, apparently
🍔 1,400 McDonald's
🍔 2,900 food banks
Sixth richest country in thw world, apparently
November 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The UK has twice as many food banks as branches of McDonald's.
🍔 1,400 McDonald's
🍔 2,900 food banks
Sixth richest country in thw world, apparently
🍔 1,400 McDonald's
🍔 2,900 food banks
Sixth richest country in thw world, apparently
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Why do COPs fail? Well, one of the most important, COP 15, at Copenhagen in 2009, where the trajectory of the IPCC process was to be set for decades, was undermined by the USA spying on delegates.
And that was under the most law abiding president in the last 25 years.
And that was under the most law abiding president in the last 25 years.
Snowden revelations of NSA spying on Copenhagen climate talks spark anger
Documents leaked by Edward Snowden show NSA kept US negotiators abreast of their rivals' positions at 2009 summit
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Why do COPs fail? Well, one of the most important, COP 15, at Copenhagen in 2009, where the trajectory of the IPCC process was to be set for decades, was undermined by the USA spying on delegates.
And that was under the most law abiding president in the last 25 years.
And that was under the most law abiding president in the last 25 years.
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If russia attacked your country/killed your people, how much of your land would you be okay with letting them keep? Ukraine should get ALL their children and land back and Russia should have to pay to rebuild Ukraine. AND putin should have to face trial for war crimes. Stand up. Speak up.
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
If russia attacked your country/killed your people, how much of your land would you be okay with letting them keep? Ukraine should get ALL their children and land back and Russia should have to pay to rebuild Ukraine. AND putin should have to face trial for war crimes. Stand up. Speak up.
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Oh my god that is the worst possible answer
November 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
😶
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When Zionists go on about "protecting Western civilization", this is what they mean. This is what has become of Western civilization.
#FreePalestine #GazaHolocaust
#FreePalestine #GazaHolocaust
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
When Zionists go on about "protecting Western civilization", this is what they mean. This is what has become of Western civilization.
#FreePalestine #GazaHolocaust
#FreePalestine #GazaHolocaust
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A simple acid test for the difference between war and genocide is that in a genocide the children are murdered. Around 40% of Palestinians killed by Israel so far have been children. Israel in its current form is a genocidal state that must not be allowed to continue.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
A simple acid test for the difference between war and genocide is that in a genocide the children are murdered. Around 40% of Palestinians killed by Israel so far have been children. Israel in its current form is a genocidal state that must not be allowed to continue.
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You’ll want to read every word of this glorious story. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life
This is the story of how a man traded steady, grinding corporate security for a dying craft and, in the process, found his soul.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
You’ll want to read every word of this glorious story. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
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What if we made the panopticon aesthetically pleasing.
Can surveillance tech ever be beautiful?
Swift Creatives' Carsten Eriksen on turning eyesores into art.
www.creativebloq.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
What if we made the panopticon aesthetically pleasing.
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I guess I have no choice but to stop everything I'm doing and listen to this then...
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I guess I have no choice but to stop everything I'm doing and listen to this then...
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Gates and Blair are dangerously wrong and should be ignored on climate.
Bill Gates, Tony Blair, CFR are rethinking climate change in the Trump era: more "realistically." Can we dismiss this trend or do we need to understand what it means global climate politics? 🧵
@fgenovese.bsky.social and I write for @iojournal.bsky.social
#IOFoGG
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@fgenovese.bsky.social and I write for @iojournal.bsky.social
#IOFoGG
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Global Climate Politics after the Return of President Trump | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Global Climate Politics after the Return of President Trump - Volume 79 Issue S1
www.cambridge.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Gates and Blair are dangerously wrong and should be ignored on climate.
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"We’re facing an era where fools are calling for a renewal of colonialism, where descriptions of violence and instability draw on the very colonial language of “barbarism” and “backwardness”. - Aimé Césaire
November 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"We’re facing an era where fools are calling for a renewal of colonialism, where descriptions of violence and instability draw on the very colonial language of “barbarism” and “backwardness”. - Aimé Césaire
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Those lovely folk at China Blue in Totnes are having a party tonight and you’re invited! Choir, free mulled wine and a collection to support our work. See you there🎄🤶
www.facebook.com/share/17hfE8...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Those lovely folk at China Blue in Totnes are having a party tonight and you’re invited! Choir, free mulled wine and a collection to support our work. See you there🎄🤶
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November 20, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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This is superb.
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This is superb.
I've got a bike you can ride it if you like, it's got a basket, a bell that rings, and things that make it look good.
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I've got a bike you can ride it if you like, it's got a basket, a bell that rings, and things that make it look good.
I want to know from anyone with dealings with these people if the face MBS makes when Trump says "He didn't know anything about it." has any particular cultural significance in the Middle East (1m18s mark). To me it is the face of a guilty man scoffing at his own ability to lie to Dictator Don.
Trump defends Mohammed bin Salman over the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi:
"A lot of people didn't like that gentleman... Things happen... He knew nothing about it."
A US intelligence report concluded that bin Salman personally "approved an operation" to "kill or capture" Khashoggi.
"A lot of people didn't like that gentleman... Things happen... He knew nothing about it."
A US intelligence report concluded that bin Salman personally "approved an operation" to "kill or capture" Khashoggi.
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I want to know from anyone with dealings with these people if the face MBS makes when Trump says "He didn't know anything about it." has any particular cultural significance in the Middle East (1m18s mark). To me it is the face of a guilty man scoffing at his own ability to lie to Dictator Don.