Tim Hollo
@timhollo.bsky.social
Climate, democracy, ecology, music, dad jokes
Author of “Living Democracy: an ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it.”
Blogging at http://in-between-days.ghost.io
He/they
On stolen Ngunnuwal land
https://linktr.ee/timhollo
Author of “Living Democracy: an ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it.”
Blogging at http://in-between-days.ghost.io
He/they
On stolen Ngunnuwal land
https://linktr.ee/timhollo
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Not new information, apparently, but TIL:
"Australia arrests more climate protesters than any other country in the world"
"Australia arrests more climate protesters than any other country in the world"
Just here to remind you that, with “net zero”, we’re having a meaningless argument about a meaningless frame in order to distract from the single most important and meaningful issue confronting us.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
Net zero reality and the extinction of politics-as-usual
On words without meaning, meaning without worlds
The sheer inanity, the ecocidal banality of our current political discourse was encapsulated perfectly this morning on the floor of the House of Repre...
in-between-days.ghost.io
November 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Not new information, apparently, but TIL:
"Australia arrests more climate protesters than any other country in the world"
"Australia arrests more climate protesters than any other country in the world"
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Thank you for writing this, @timhollo.bsky.social. I've been very critical of COPs for a long time, and you've articulated the fundamental issues with precision.
"A globe of sovereign states is no true globe...a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."
"A globe of sovereign states is no true globe...a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."
All (climate) COPs are bastards.
I've been threatening to write this for years. Here it finally is.
"Just as communities, acting together in concert for common security, can make the cops obsolete, a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."
I've been threatening to write this for years. Here it finally is.
"Just as communities, acting together in concert for common security, can make the cops obsolete, a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."
All (climate) COPs Are B*stards
On the need to "Defund the COPs"
The ACAB slogan has always jarred with me somewhat.
I understand (and respect) it as a systemic critique, intended to reveal that it's impossible for any individual,...
in-between-days.ghost.io
November 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Thank you for writing this, @timhollo.bsky.social. I've been very critical of COPs for a long time, and you've articulated the fundamental issues with precision.
"A globe of sovereign states is no true globe...a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."
"A globe of sovereign states is no true globe...a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."
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COP is compromised.
November 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
COP is compromised.
All (climate) COPs are bastards.
I've been threatening to write this for years. Here it finally is.
"Just as communities, acting together in concert for common security, can make the cops obsolete, a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."
I've been threatening to write this for years. Here it finally is.
"Just as communities, acting together in concert for common security, can make the cops obsolete, a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."
All (climate) COPs Are B*stards
On the need to "Defund the COPs"
The ACAB slogan has always jarred with me somewhat.
I understand (and respect) it as a systemic critique, intended to reveal that it's impossible for any individual,...
in-between-days.ghost.io
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
All (climate) COPs are bastards.
I've been threatening to write this for years. Here it finally is.
"Just as communities, acting together in concert for common security, can make the cops obsolete, a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."
I've been threatening to write this for years. Here it finally is.
"Just as communities, acting together in concert for common security, can make the cops obsolete, a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."
ACAB includes climate COPs
Want to read a piece I’ve been slowly working on for ages that explains why I say that? It’ll be going live tonight, I hope.
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Want to read a piece I’ve been slowly working on for ages that explains why I say that? It’ll be going live tonight, I hope.
Subscribe to my blogletter here:
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In Between Days
Thoughts between the no longer & the not yet
in-between-days.ghost.io
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
ACAB includes climate COPs
Want to read a piece I’ve been slowly working on for ages that explains why I say that? It’ll be going live tonight, I hope.
Subscribe to my blogletter here:
in-between-days.ghost.io
Want to read a piece I’ve been slowly working on for ages that explains why I say that? It’ll be going live tonight, I hope.
Subscribe to my blogletter here:
in-between-days.ghost.io
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Shutting down sustainable industry to protect a filthy one
Lobster fishery off Bruny Island in TAS closed on eve of the opening of fishing season due to antibiotic use by the salmon farms.
No indication of how long for. Must be a devastating blow for fishermen approaching Xmas.
No indication of how long for. Must be a devastating blow for fishermen approaching Xmas.
Crayfish Closure Follows Salmon Antibiotic Deployment - Tasmanian Times
The commercial rock lobster fishery south of the D'Entrecasteaux Channel is now closed effective 15 November 2025
tasmaniantimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Shutting down sustainable industry to protect a filthy one
Who’re you calling slow?
I’ve got two pieces I’ve been working on for a while almost ready to go up on the blog/letter: “On the necessity and limits of left populism” and “ACAB includes (climate) COPs”.
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I’ve got two pieces I’ve been working on for a while almost ready to go up on the blog/letter: “On the necessity and limits of left populism” and “ACAB includes (climate) COPs”.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Who’re you calling slow?
I’ve got two pieces I’ve been working on for a while almost ready to go up on the blog/letter: “On the necessity and limits of left populism” and “ACAB includes (climate) COPs”.
Subscribe here to get them in your inbox:
in-between-days.ghost.io
I’ve got two pieces I’ve been working on for a while almost ready to go up on the blog/letter: “On the necessity and limits of left populism” and “ACAB includes (climate) COPs”.
Subscribe here to get them in your inbox:
in-between-days.ghost.io
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ACAB includes climate COPs
By me: One in every 25 participants at Cop30 is a fossil fuel lobbyist, outnumbering every country delegation apart from Brazil, and as Indigenous peoples struggle to get a seat at the table
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
ACAB includes climate COPs
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Just here to remind you that, with “net zero”, we’re having a meaningless argument about a meaningless frame in order to distract from the single most important and meaningful issue confronting us.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
Net zero reality and the extinction of politics-as-usual
On words without meaning, meaning without worlds
The sheer inanity, the ecocidal banality of our current political discourse was encapsulated perfectly this morning on the floor of the House of Repre...
in-between-days.ghost.io
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Just here to remind you that, with “net zero”, we’re having a meaningless argument about a meaningless frame in order to distract from the single most important and meaningful issue confronting us.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
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In advance of the likely abandonment of Net Zero by the Liberal Party I have some personal news.
I will not be competing at any future Olympic Games.
Noone thought I would be, nevertheless, big news.
I will not be competing at any future Olympic Games.
Noone thought I would be, nevertheless, big news.
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 AM
In advance of the likely abandonment of Net Zero by the Liberal Party I have some personal news.
I will not be competing at any future Olympic Games.
Noone thought I would be, nevertheless, big news.
I will not be competing at any future Olympic Games.
Noone thought I would be, nevertheless, big news.
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Has a point
Just here to remind you that, with “net zero”, we’re having a meaningless argument about a meaningless frame in order to distract from the single most important and meaningful issue confronting us.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
Net zero reality and the extinction of politics-as-usual
On words without meaning, meaning without worlds
The sheer inanity, the ecocidal banality of our current political discourse was encapsulated perfectly this morning on the floor of the House of Repre...
in-between-days.ghost.io
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Has a point
And, if you’d like to do something genuinely meaningful about the climate crisis, and building a new world of deep democracy and mutual aid and direct action, register for the @risingtideaus.bsky.social blockade here
www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025rego?r...
www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025rego?r...
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 AM
And, if you’d like to do something genuinely meaningful about the climate crisis, and building a new world of deep democracy and mutual aid and direct action, register for the @risingtideaus.bsky.social blockade here
www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025rego?r...
www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025rego?r...
Just here to remind you that, with “net zero”, we’re having a meaningless argument about a meaningless frame in order to distract from the single most important and meaningful issue confronting us.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
Net zero reality and the extinction of politics-as-usual
On words without meaning, meaning without worlds
The sheer inanity, the ecocidal banality of our current political discourse was encapsulated perfectly this morning on the floor of the House of Repre...
in-between-days.ghost.io
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Just here to remind you that, with “net zero”, we’re having a meaningless argument about a meaningless frame in order to distract from the single most important and meaningful issue confronting us.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
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Basic psychology in this book; the best way to get someone to do something is get them to do it; then the brain rationalises why they did it. Same with good #democratic people's #participation in #government. #auspol.
So if we inspire, encourage & engage people in #livingdemocracy, it will flourish.
So if we inspire, encourage & engage people in #livingdemocracy, it will flourish.
New post - a long review of @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social's book, Don't Talk About Politics.
This is a book that arrived just at the right time for me, helping some difficult ideas slide into place.
It lays out a fundamental challenge to politics-as-usual
in-between-days.ghost.io/the-hitchhik...
This is a book that arrived just at the right time for me, helping some difficult ideas slide into place.
It lays out a fundamental challenge to politics-as-usual
in-between-days.ghost.io/the-hitchhik...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Political Psychology?
"The point, in short, is that we need to talk less about politics (in the sense of arguing with people) and instead build a world where those people are likely to encounter more and thus change their ...
in-between-days.ghost.io
November 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Basic psychology in this book; the best way to get someone to do something is get them to do it; then the brain rationalises why they did it. Same with good #democratic people's #participation in #government. #auspol.
So if we inspire, encourage & engage people in #livingdemocracy, it will flourish.
So if we inspire, encourage & engage people in #livingdemocracy, it will flourish.
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sounds familiar 🤔
UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in:
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
sounds familiar 🤔
How good is honey, though, for real. Best. Thank you, bees. 🐝
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
How good is honey, though, for real. Best. Thank you, bees. 🐝
Whitlam Dismissal take
The greatest achievement of the Dismissal has been the crushing of the ALP’s ambition to actually bring a better world into being.
Hawke sealed the deal by making the mark of success decent management of a capitalist economy.
Now it’s just ambition to be in government.
The greatest achievement of the Dismissal has been the crushing of the ALP’s ambition to actually bring a better world into being.
Hawke sealed the deal by making the mark of success decent management of a capitalist economy.
Now it’s just ambition to be in government.
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Whitlam Dismissal take
The greatest achievement of the Dismissal has been the crushing of the ALP’s ambition to actually bring a better world into being.
Hawke sealed the deal by making the mark of success decent management of a capitalist economy.
Now it’s just ambition to be in government.
The greatest achievement of the Dismissal has been the crushing of the ALP’s ambition to actually bring a better world into being.
Hawke sealed the deal by making the mark of success decent management of a capitalist economy.
Now it’s just ambition to be in government.
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New post - a long review of @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social's book, Don't Talk About Politics.
This is a book that arrived just at the right time for me, helping some difficult ideas slide into place.
It lays out a fundamental challenge to politics-as-usual
in-between-days.ghost.io/the-hitchhik...
This is a book that arrived just at the right time for me, helping some difficult ideas slide into place.
It lays out a fundamental challenge to politics-as-usual
in-between-days.ghost.io/the-hitchhik...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Political Psychology?
"The point, in short, is that we need to talk less about politics (in the sense of arguing with people) and instead build a world where those people are likely to encounter more and thus change their ...
in-between-days.ghost.io
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
New post - a long review of @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social's book, Don't Talk About Politics.
This is a book that arrived just at the right time for me, helping some difficult ideas slide into place.
It lays out a fundamental challenge to politics-as-usual
in-between-days.ghost.io/the-hitchhik...
This is a book that arrived just at the right time for me, helping some difficult ideas slide into place.
It lays out a fundamental challenge to politics-as-usual
in-between-days.ghost.io/the-hitchhik...
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The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
New post - a long review of @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social's book, Don't Talk About Politics.
This is a book that arrived just at the right time for me, helping some difficult ideas slide into place.
It lays out a fundamental challenge to politics-as-usual
in-between-days.ghost.io/the-hitchhik...
This is a book that arrived just at the right time for me, helping some difficult ideas slide into place.
It lays out a fundamental challenge to politics-as-usual
in-between-days.ghost.io/the-hitchhik...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Political Psychology?
"The point, in short, is that we need to talk less about politics (in the sense of arguing with people) and instead build a world where those people are likely to encounter more and thus change their ...
in-between-days.ghost.io
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
New post - a long review of @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social's book, Don't Talk About Politics.
This is a book that arrived just at the right time for me, helping some difficult ideas slide into place.
It lays out a fundamental challenge to politics-as-usual
in-between-days.ghost.io/the-hitchhik...
This is a book that arrived just at the right time for me, helping some difficult ideas slide into place.
It lays out a fundamental challenge to politics-as-usual
in-between-days.ghost.io/the-hitchhik...
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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"There’s a direct link between the poverty Gates claims to care so much about and the wealth he fails to mention.
...the ultra-rich thrive on impoverishing other people." #inequality #ClimateCrisis
...the ultra-rich thrive on impoverishing other people." #inequality #ClimateCrisis
This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
"There’s a direct link between the poverty Gates claims to care so much about and the wealth he fails to mention.
...the ultra-rich thrive on impoverishing other people." #inequality #ClimateCrisis
...the ultra-rich thrive on impoverishing other people." #inequality #ClimateCrisis