So, Internet, we really do need to talk about Elon. How did we get to a place where a single billionaire with daddy issues could take over and control our global public square?
I picked up my paintbrush as a means to answer that question.
One tactic of the fossil-fuel lobby is to denigrate activists/activism to weaken our challenges to their hoarding of wealth through status quo destructive projects. It's our job to counter that & rehabilitate activism. Great piece by
@nualalam.bsky.social
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I wrote this piece for the Absurd Intelligence newsletter on the deliberate character assassination of climate activists and how, as a movement, we could fight back.
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Is @channel4tv.bsky.social paying attention to this?
How do you say “we told you so” nicely, without screaming?
Without upsetting the comfortable classes who told us we were wrong, or we were over-dramatic, or scare-mongering, or plain mad?
Who put some of the best people in the world in jail FOR BEING RIGHT? A thread 🧵1/12
I think we should take this story from the Times today (and picked up by many other outlets) with an enormous pinch of salt for two reason (mini thread):
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Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵
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Abstract of paper from journal
Anyone who wants to understand the ladder of participation in activism and the differences between climate activists who are engaging in arrestable offenses versus those who are engaging in lawful demonstration must read this new paper by Saunders and Hayes! www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
