Academic, agnostic activist. 1) Social movement innovation 2) Politics of soc-tech transitions/incumbencies. 3) 70s eco-disasters He/him Also @our_yesterdays
Staffordshire, UK
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For the first Curiosity Club of 2025 we take a historical perspective to climate change with scientist @KevinClimate and historian @marcsrhudson
What can we learn from the ‘history of climate change’?
7pm, Thu 30th Jan 2025 at the bookshop, book now!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/curiosity…
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Will Adelaide “do a Bradbury” in bidding to host COP 31?
1500 words on
a) what are the COPs? (no, really)
b) South Australia's surprisingly long history around #climate awareness (1970!) and renewable energy policy
#auspol
#SouthAustralia
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Told my dad (66) about incels. His response:
“Since the beginning of time, funny-looking dudes have been getting girls. Short guys, guys with no chin, guys with a small wang, it doesn’t matter. Be nice and make ‘em laugh and you’ll find a lady.”
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Marc Hudson retweeted
Will Adelaide “do a Bradbury” in bidding to host COP 31?
1500 words on
a) what are the COPs? (no, really)
b) South Australia's surprisingly long history around #climate awareness (1970!) and renewable energy policy
#auspol
#SouthAustralia
allouryesterdays.info/2024/1…
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Doing this today - about Carbon Capture and Storage Battles to come - at 1pm GMT
Free, but you have to register (v. quick)
If you're in #Brighton the 25 bus gets you to Falmer campus. Come say hello...
Tuesday November 5th from 1pm to 2pm GMT - a webinar on
"Carbon Capture and Storage battles past, present and future (2025-2030) "
Free . Registration details here-
sussex.ac.uk/research/centre…
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Post-literate society, here we come. Fortunately, climate breakdown will get us first.
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In tomorrow's #Energy & #Climate Seminar, we're talking about Carbon Capture & Storage!
Drawing on his recent book, @marcsrhudson explains what the 20 year history of CCS in the UK can tell us about its future.
More info: sussex.ac.uk/research/centre…
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Tuesday November 5th from 1pm to 2pm GMT - a webinar on
"Carbon Capture and Storage battles past, present and future (2025-2030) "
Free . Registration details here-
sussex.ac.uk/research/centre…
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Hey @guardian - you don't HAVE to be stenographer to power you know?
When @gmpolice says "a collision occurred with a 42-year-old male who was attempting to cross the road" you can say "a car driven by a human hit a pedestrian."
Style guide, much? FFS
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Left and right have similarly sweeping psychologistic analyses of sociopathy and leadership, but often fail to apply them inwards to their own in-groups. As if sociopaths were unable to take advantage of moral hierarchies to dominate NGOs, academia, and bureaucracies.
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"A psephologist is a man employed by the mass media to research into what people think the mass media has told them to think. An ephologist is a man employed by the Observer or BBC to interpret the results of psephology and who makes an ephing good thing out of it."
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Fun fact: On Oct 28th, the Government laid before Parliament The Sentencing Act 2020 (Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Powers) (Amendment) Regulations 2024. Its purpose is to increase the length of custodial sentence magistrates can hand down for a single offence from 6 months to 12
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Alberta is refusing to assess the Pathways Alliance's massive carbon capture project
The communities bearing all the risks deserve to have real answers about the dangers posed to their families
Will the feds step in where AB has failed?
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A horrifying cartoon for Halloween (originally for @GuardianBooks)
ALT Halloween horror! Horrifying: 1. Floating skull 2. Evil fog 3.Slime fiend Utterly horrifying: 1. Floating skull who borrows books and never returns them. 2. Evil fog with some really awful opinions (it is saying we've got the internet so we don't need libraries") 3. Slime fiend who browses bookshops then buys
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WHOOP!! At least one copy of my book has been sold!! (someone just told me they had bought a copy).
This book.
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