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Interested in degrowth, ecological overshoot, ecological economics, random different "bits and bobs".
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This is ominous (from Politico):
November 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This is ominous (from Politico):
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"This war can be brought to an end, but the basic logic remains what it always was: the Ukrainians have to be supported so that Russia no longer aspires to destroy their country. That is the foundation. Negotiations will work when that has been achieved."
We hear that Putin and Trump (or their emissaries) have been secretly consulting about a settlement to the war. Given the inherent traps of allowing an aggressor to decide the outcome of his war, I try here to give a sense of how negotiations might actually work.
snyder.substack.com/p/how-to-neg...
snyder.substack.com/p/how-to-neg...
How to Negotiate with Russia
Account for history, law, and above all Ukraine
snyder.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"This war can be brought to an end, but the basic logic remains what it always was: the Ukrainians have to be supported so that Russia no longer aspires to destroy their country. That is the foundation. Negotiations will work when that has been achieved."
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A wise review by Holly Case of an excellent book by Iryna Vushko.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Holly Case · Thin Pink Glaze: Habsburg Legacies
We still live in the long shadow of Habsburg disintegration. In addition to the lingering legacy of 19th-century state...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A wise review by Holly Case of an excellent book by Iryna Vushko.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War
Five Reasons the US should not help Russia subjugate Ukraine
snyder.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
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One of the fastest ways we could improve our digital experience is to pass a law that, for one month, developers and designers in tech are only allowed to connect to the internet via tethering to a phone in a poor signal area
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
One of the fastest ways we could improve our digital experience is to pass a law that, for one month, developers and designers in tech are only allowed to connect to the internet via tethering to a phone in a poor signal area
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I guess one way to distract people from your friendship with a sex criminal is to claim that you are friends with a political murderer.
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I guess one way to distract people from your friendship with a sex criminal is to claim that you are friends with a political murderer.
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Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the country, says historian Giles Tremlett
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
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“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
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Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
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"Fluffy stuff"? In the #HouseofLords my response to this claim that focusing on anything but profits is wrong
November 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
"Fluffy stuff"? In the #HouseofLords my response to this claim that focusing on anything but profits is wrong
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This is fucking horrifying.
Swastikas and nooses are just “potentially divisive”? Are you kidding me?
Swastikas and nooses are just “potentially divisive”? Are you kidding me?
November 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This is fucking horrifying.
Swastikas and nooses are just “potentially divisive”? Are you kidding me?
Swastikas and nooses are just “potentially divisive”? Are you kidding me?
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A House panel is holding a hearing on a proposed ban on Congressional stock trading.
This ban is long overdue. Why should members of Congress be able to use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you?
This ban is long overdue. Why should members of Congress be able to use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you?
November 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A House panel is holding a hearing on a proposed ban on Congressional stock trading.
This ban is long overdue. Why should members of Congress be able to use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you?
This ban is long overdue. Why should members of Congress be able to use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you?
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It’s quite embarrassing to republish that error-ridden essay in 2025. Jason Hickel responded to all the errors in detail in 2020: www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2017/11...
Degrowth: A response to Branko Milanovic — Jason Hickel
In late 2017, Branko Milanovic wrote a blog post titled “ The illusion of degrowth in a poor and unequal world .” He penned it, he says, following a conversation he had with a proponent of degro...
www.jasonhickel.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:33 AM
It’s quite embarrassing to republish that error-ridden essay in 2025. Jason Hickel responded to all the errors in detail in 2020: www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2017/11...
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New policy brief by Research and Degrowth and @waronwant.bsky.social out now:
"Clothing the Planet Within Limits: A Degrowth Approach to Fashion"
degrowth.org/blog/2025/11...
"Clothing the Planet Within Limits: A Degrowth Approach to Fashion"
degrowth.org/blog/2025/11...
Clothing the Planet Within Limits – degrowth.org
degrowth.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
New policy brief by Research and Degrowth and @waronwant.bsky.social out now:
"Clothing the Planet Within Limits: A Degrowth Approach to Fashion"
degrowth.org/blog/2025/11...
"Clothing the Planet Within Limits: A Degrowth Approach to Fashion"
degrowth.org/blog/2025/11...
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The Boomer generation didn’t just "shape society" they strip-mined it.
Free uni, cheap housing, stable jobs… then they voted to burn it all down.
Now they clutch their assets while younger generations inherit debt, precarity and a collapsing planet.
History will not be kind.
#ClimateCrisis #degrowth
Free uni, cheap housing, stable jobs… then they voted to burn it all down.
Now they clutch their assets while younger generations inherit debt, precarity and a collapsing planet.
History will not be kind.
#ClimateCrisis #degrowth
November 19, 2025 at 7:26 AM
The Boomer generation didn’t just "shape society" they strip-mined it.
Free uni, cheap housing, stable jobs… then they voted to burn it all down.
Now they clutch their assets while younger generations inherit debt, precarity and a collapsing planet.
History will not be kind.
#ClimateCrisis #degrowth
Free uni, cheap housing, stable jobs… then they voted to burn it all down.
Now they clutch their assets while younger generations inherit debt, precarity and a collapsing planet.
History will not be kind.
#ClimateCrisis #degrowth
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“ #Degrowth can be understood as an ideology in the making, a social imaginary. By this, a system of values emerging within the contradictions of a dominant ideology, which, in this case, poses economic growth as a natural societal goal.”
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November 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“ #Degrowth can be understood as an ideology in the making, a social imaginary. By this, a system of values emerging within the contradictions of a dominant ideology, which, in this case, poses economic growth as a natural societal goal.”
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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I seriously cannot get over how stupid it is to be cutting back on research right now #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
CSIRO 350 job cuts a damning indictment on Government priorities, misses 'golden opportunity' on research
The announcement this week that CSIRO are to cut 350 research jobs is another damning indictment on Australia’s ongoing failure to prioritise research and development.
thepoint.com.au
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I seriously cannot get over how stupid it is to be cutting back on research right now #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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Green Party is the future...I hope! #VoteGreen 💚
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Green Party is the future...I hope! #VoteGreen 💚
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Pass the phone… to the 40,000 Young Greens! 📲 💚
We now have the largest youth and student movement in UK politics - AND the biggest Young Greens group in Europe 🥳
This is the generation that’s done waiting. Join us. ⤵️
We now have the largest youth and student movement in UK politics - AND the biggest Young Greens group in Europe 🥳
This is the generation that’s done waiting. Join us. ⤵️
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Pass the phone… to the 40,000 Young Greens! 📲 💚
We now have the largest youth and student movement in UK politics - AND the biggest Young Greens group in Europe 🥳
This is the generation that’s done waiting. Join us. ⤵️
We now have the largest youth and student movement in UK politics - AND the biggest Young Greens group in Europe 🥳
This is the generation that’s done waiting. Join us. ⤵️
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For anyone feeling deep despair - I get it.
There is hope, though. And Green Party membership is continuing to rise every single day.
That's thousands and thousands of people coming together to demand change & to make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
There is hope, though. And Green Party membership is continuing to rise every single day.
That's thousands and thousands of people coming together to demand change & to make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
For anyone feeling deep despair - I get it.
There is hope, though. And Green Party membership is continuing to rise every single day.
That's thousands and thousands of people coming together to demand change & to make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
There is hope, though. And Green Party membership is continuing to rise every single day.
That's thousands and thousands of people coming together to demand change & to make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Our "friend and ally", and #ArmsSales customer. Don't expect #HumanRights or the #RuleofLaw.
“When we appeared in court, there was no lawyer for us; no one stood on our side,” said Hassen Jemal Abdala, an Ethiopian man on death row"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/w...
“When we appeared in court, there was no lawyer for us; no one stood on our side,” said Hassen Jemal Abdala, an Ethiopian man on death row"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/w...
As Saudi Arabia Cracks Down on Drugs, Executions Near a Record High
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Our "friend and ally", and #ArmsSales customer. Don't expect #HumanRights or the #RuleofLaw.
“When we appeared in court, there was no lawyer for us; no one stood on our side,” said Hassen Jemal Abdala, an Ethiopian man on death row"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/w...
“When we appeared in court, there was no lawyer for us; no one stood on our side,” said Hassen Jemal Abdala, an Ethiopian man on death row"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/w...
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With every day that passes the crises in Gaza and Sudan grow more dire; the government must take concrete action to ensure the distribution of much-needed humanitarian aid into Gaza and to press those supporting the RSF to stop the horrific mass killings.
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
With every day that passes the crises in Gaza and Sudan grow more dire; the government must take concrete action to ensure the distribution of much-needed humanitarian aid into Gaza and to press those supporting the RSF to stop the horrific mass killings.
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Tobacco companies have spent decades using brand-stretching tricks to dodge advertising rules. The WHO says we need an effective ban on all promotion — direct or indirect. Government must close every loophole the merchants of death try to slip through.
#PublicHealth #TobaccoControl
#PublicHealth #TobaccoControl
November 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Tobacco companies have spent decades using brand-stretching tricks to dodge advertising rules. The WHO says we need an effective ban on all promotion — direct or indirect. Government must close every loophole the merchants of death try to slip through.
#PublicHealth #TobaccoControl
#PublicHealth #TobaccoControl
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Have you just joined @greenparty.org.uk, or thinking about joining the rush?
With perfect timing @wiltonsquare.bsky.social has published the Second Edition of #ChangeEverything, setting out, in accessible, easy-to-read form, Green political thinking
wiltonsquarebooks.com/products/cha...
With perfect timing @wiltonsquare.bsky.social has published the Second Edition of #ChangeEverything, setting out, in accessible, easy-to-read form, Green political thinking
wiltonsquarebooks.com/products/cha...
Change Everything
A practical and hopeful guide for anyone who wants a route map to a fairer, greener future, by a veteran former Green Party leader
wiltonsquarebooks.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Have you just joined @greenparty.org.uk, or thinking about joining the rush?
With perfect timing @wiltonsquare.bsky.social has published the Second Edition of #ChangeEverything, setting out, in accessible, easy-to-read form, Green political thinking
wiltonsquarebooks.com/products/cha...
With perfect timing @wiltonsquare.bsky.social has published the Second Edition of #ChangeEverything, setting out, in accessible, easy-to-read form, Green political thinking
wiltonsquarebooks.com/products/cha...