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PhD researcher at Leiden University - researching the temporal dynamics of environmental heterogeneity and biodiversity - https://josephgent.substack.com/

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Very excited to get started on this new book from @alybatt.bsky.social!

30.09.2025 15:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I can't help but think of Tim Wintons novel Juice when I see figure 3 in this paper

12.09.2025 12:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Andre Gorz has some interesting reflections on choosing self regulating ecosystems over centralised technology in Ecology as Politics

07.09.2025 10:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Europe’s Elites Are TERRIFIED Of This Man | Aaron Bastani Meets Jean-Luc MΓ©lenchon
Europe’s Elites Are TERRIFIED Of This Man | Aaron Bastani Meets Jean-Luc MΓ©lenchon YouTube video by Novara Media

Listening to MΓ©lenchon is absolutely thrilling coming from the Anglosphere, an immensely thoughtful and knowledgeable man with a deep optimism about our capacity for good youtu.be/6WFTiA_H67g?...

31.08.2025 06:18 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThis, without a doubt, is neoliberalism’s
single most damaging legacy: the
realization of its bleak vision has
isolated us enough from one another
that it became possible to convince
us that we are not just incapable of
self-preservation but fundamentally
not worth saving.”

- Naomi Klein

22.08.2025 11:11 πŸ‘ 243 πŸ” 76 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 4
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It is a joy to read this book by @leninology.bsky.social as it feels like a rare instance of someone with great political acuity and a flair for genuinely exceptional prose take seriously the ecological crisis and actually look deeply into evidence that we have about it

08.08.2025 10:02 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Reading the Value of a Whale by @adriennebuller.bsky.social has made me wonder how much time and effort is being wasted in the academic sphere on research that aligns closely with green capitalism, and what knowledge could have been produced instead

04.08.2025 18:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Meat Love by Amber Husain delicately skewers a pseudo intellectual tendency I have seen a lot in environmental circles to celebrate meat consumption, I really think this is required reading and helps to bring in animal rights to a conversation that often takes place without it

20.07.2025 09:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-value-of-nature/

Here @alybatt.bsky.social eloquently and persuasively articulates a set of ideas that I have been clumsily moving towards for the last few years, this really is a must read and I can't wait for the release of her new book!

t.co/zI1kIIghpk

17.06.2025 10:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Wrenching the Ranchers | Christopher Ketcham In the American West, grazing by cattle has come at a devastating ecological cost. One man wants to upend itβ€”at whatever cost.

The Western cattle industry requires generous public subsidies and use of public lands to sustain itself, without producing much in the way of tax revenue, jobs, or food. It’s an environmental disaster. The Livestock Saboteur wants to shut it down.

14.04.2025 23:01 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@garyseconomics.bsky.social is building one of the most exciting and optimistic movements out there right now, it really feels like it's gathering pace so if you aren't following him already do it now

23.03.2025 09:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How to Become an Intellectual in Silicon Valley | Aaron Timms Speaking uncomfortable truths such as these will not win you any friends. But it will win you the future.

The luminaries of tech understand that there is no historical atrocity that can’t be reframed as a net good, and no ratioed post that can’t be turned into profit. From the Archives: @aarontimms.bsky.social on the renegade idiots of Silicon Valley.

10.02.2025 21:44 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Has Musk Won? Reactionary Digital Politics In this episode, Alan Finlayson joins Jeremy for a 3-hour discussion of the genesis, reality and possible futures of the online right. We cover the history of reactionary digital politics, the chan…

New podcast! @profafinlayson.bsky.social and I spend 3 hours discussing reactionary digital politics, the history of the online right and the politics of the platform economy. We also have a row about Bitcoin. It's all here, and in the feeds: culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/01/15/h....

15.01.2025 15:57 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4
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Reading this fantastic book by @jemgilbert.bsky.social and Alex Williams has given me a sense of calm that can only come with the feeling that despite all else, at least you understand the world a little better than before

21.12.2024 12:51 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

This is extraordinary and highlights that we must think about the existing power distribution with regards to land for any ecological movement to avert the biodiversity crisis

03.12.2024 09:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

but also the regulating, supporting and non-material aspects of nature such as its spiritual value. If we are to change anything, moving away from this, including the privatised model of conservation, is essential.

28.11.2024 09:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a nice piece that starts to grapple with what it would mean to socialise nature, as I have written about previously on substack, the key issue is that privatised nature by definition excludes collective decision making over not just resource extraction...

28.11.2024 09:49 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This post from the PM is problematic for a number of reasons.

A threadβ€¦πŸ§΅

21.11.2024 22:15 πŸ‘ 1683 πŸ” 777 πŸ’¬ 148 πŸ“Œ 231
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REFLECTIONS ON THE 2024 AUTUMN BUDGET ANNOUNCEMENTS - Landworkers Alliance We are a union of farmers, growers, foresters and land-based workers with a mission to improve the livelihoods of our members and create a better food and land-use system for everyone.

Good, thoughtful response from the Landworkers Alliance (which, unlike the NFU, actually speaks for farm labourers, tenant farmers, small-scale farmers) to the Labour budget; ELMS; APR.

landworkersalliance.org.uk/reflections-...

19.11.2024 10:46 πŸ‘ 176 πŸ” 86 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 13