I always really enjoy chatting to @claretotty.bsky.social but this one on solar geoengineering was particularly fascinating Scary though - what a situation to find ourselves in www.youtube.com/watch?v=c06f...

I can’t quite believe we’re here but we are - as @charliejgardner.bsky.social says - fascinating conversation, tragic situation. I often just think what the actual fuck how could we get to this point?!

Move over Donny and Nigel, there's a new show in town. This week's piece for the @absurdintelligence.bsky.social newsletter: www.absurdintelligence.com/why-a-new-ag... How Zohran and Zack are winning the comms. @zackpolanski.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

"We need to address the causes of the causes." My conversation with Reverend Stephen G Wright was so helpful in the thinking I'm doing about how to shift frames on the climate: from carbon to systems. Please have a read and if you like it, share. Thanks! x clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/lets-addre...

Come join us tomorrow Friday 31st 1-2pm for the launch of GOOD NEIGHBOURS LIVE!, it's EuroTrash meets a zoom call for the arts and culture movement, with guests from the grassroots, Britain's Got Tarot, and much more! Livestream Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZROj...

Come join me tomorrow Friday 31st 1-2pm for the launch of GOOD NEIGHBOURS LIVE!, it's EuroTrash meets a zoom call for the arts and culture movement, with guests from the grassroots, Britain's Got Tarot, and much more! I'm so looking forward to it :) Livestream Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZROj...

What's the research around flags, their impact on us, and what people really think about them? I wanted to take a bit of a dive into the subject and find out. www.absurdintelligence.com/are-we-flagg...

I’m learning all the time about the art of bringing people together. Last weekend I was part of the team that ran Humanity Project’s national gathering, and it filled me with joy to be with such a down-to-earth, diverse, funny and loving group of people: clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

Is the climate system more sensitive to CO2 than we thought? What were the impacts of this summer's heatwaves, and how can cities adapt? Will extreme weather shocks catalyse climate action? New episode of News From a World in Flux with @claretotty.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhS7...

On the release of Roger Hallam from prison - a really good time to remind ourselves of the ongoing problem of police and media collusion. The work to build new institutions that serve the people and not the state continues. Please share if you can. Thanks dears! x substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Fabulous piece Alanna! Totally agree x

I want to ask you to reflect on a basic human experience of wanting to fit in, and how, in many parts of culture, why we don't grow out of those immature behaviours, and how action on climate has been caught up in this - including calls for Climate Justice clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/is-climate...

Just a big-up to Gary Stevenson who came back to his YouTube channel this week to find how effectively his call for message discipline around a wealth tax has worked out. My latest for @absurdintelligence.bsky.social www.absurdintelligence.com/message-disc...

Last night I watched Mean Girls, and it made me realise quite a lot about climate justice. It's a teen comedy but it's good! It says a lot about human behaviour, consumerism, and how our sense of safety is woven with our sense of identity. Part 2 of 3: clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/is-climate...

Let me just say, I'm not trying to start a fight! Even if the algorithm wants it... but I do think there's an important conversation to have around where we're at with "climate justice" in a time of almost certain collapse. Wld love you to read and share x clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/is-climate...

Nothing makes sense any more when nonviolent dissent is made a false equivalence with erasing an entire people. Please share before Monday, when doing so could be illegal and end you up in prison. With love and support for @palaction.bsky.social 🇵🇸 open.substack.com/pub/clarejfa...

A report from @oceanrebellion.bsky.social interventions at #UNOC2025 for those who want to deep dive into how creativity, humour & confusion work in our favour as we perform our civic duty to disobey unjust laws & immoral profiteering: Don't Touch My Bottom www.absurdintelligence.com/dont-touch-m...

It took time to think about Vance’s speech in Munich on ‘the retreat of free speech’ but going via Timothy Snyder, Hannah Arendt and others I’m convinced that the imbalance of freedom can be rebalanced with the ‘right to be listened to’. Please share, thanks loves! x substack.com/home/post/p-...

As friends of mine continue to get locked up for nonviolent resistance for fighting the climate disaster, it's our job to educate ourselves on both nonviolence and violence. There's no better place to begin than with Hannah Arendt. My thoughts. Please share! Tx open.substack.com/pub/clarejfa...

What else is going on with the idea that we're an 'island of strangers'. Is it valid? Is this how people feel? Spoiler: it's not immigration, sorry Keir/Nige. Why do we feel isolated & alone. My friend Alanna @absurdintelligence.bsky.social gets into it: www.absurdintelligence.com/island-of-st...

Most of us don't think much about why we're here. We've abandoned institutions that help us have those conversations about what being means. In the midst of a crisis that's existential AND exponential, to me it's catastrophic not to talk about why we 'are' clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/exponentia...

The fab event at Kairos last week with organising legend Marshall Ganz prompted us at @absurdintelligence.bsky.social to get our thoughts about narrative down on paper. In short: stories matter, but only if they get people doing stuff! Pls read and RT www.absurdintelligence.com/narratives-n...

Context needs to survive, or we won't. But in their lurch to hoard wealth and power, the super-rich and their political elites set out to destroy context, and so destroy us. Democracy dies with no context. So what can we do about it? My new post, please read + share <3 substack.com/home/post/p-...

New episode of News From a World in Flux with @claretotty.bsky.social We discussed fatal wet bulb temperatures, the future of forests, what nature tells us about human migration, activist jail sentences and all sorts of similarly fun stuff

I do this work because I believe in people, love people and trust people. If you reflect the goodness of humanity back at us, then you're the kind of person I want at our convention! Have a read: www.absurdintelligence.com/on-reflectin...

Today's the launch party for my new novel Daddio!, a climate comedy for the ages wrapped up in an old fashioned family drama: how we keep loving during the sh*tshow. If you're in London & fancy coming along, DM me, otherwise... hardart.metalabel.com/release-dadd... (with sounds by Brian Eno!)

The media has never helped us understand that stories are the driving force behind the collapsing climate. That's because it's designed not to. So if we’re governed by dreams and gossip, how should we respond? My latest, please subscribe (freely) and share (also freely!) substack.com/home/post/p-...

Thanks Alex! 🙏

What if we gave away more of our work for free? Would it make a difference to the world we live in? That's what Clive Russell explores for @absurdintelligence.bsky.social in this week's newsletter. www.absurdintelligence.com/work-for-free/

If we're going to pull together, we need to get back to our rituals, writes Daze Aghaji @absurdintelligence.bsky.social. As we go into this highly ritualised Easter weekend, let's pay attention to how we're coming together to connect with something bigger www.absurdintelligence.com/belonging-in...

Our friend and collaborator David Bent, founder of Atelier of What’s Next, dismayed with Trump’s terrible mathematics and with the commentariat’s forgetfulness of the wider agenda, weighs in with some sound algebra of his own. www.absurdintelligence.com/trumps-tarif...

It might sound simple, but convening across difference is the way to work around the "culture wars" that divide the country. Convening means listening and thinking. So @absurdintelligence.bsky.social we offer for your reading: The Network is The Strategy www.absurdintelligence.com/the-network-...

What qualities should the next Archbishop of Canterbury have? Is CJ Cregg the role model?! This is Absurd Intelligence’s inaugural (& fabulous!) guest post by @lzsl.bsky.social the first woman leading the Unitarian General Assembly in its 96 year history: www.absurdintelligence.com/what-qualiti...

BREAKING NEWS: Thames Water executives citizen’s arrested at their offices this morning. It’s time someone held these criminals to account for the harm and disruption they are causing to our lives. Follow for updates. #CitizensArrest #ThamesWater

40 Ways to Reframe Reform, featuring: - Matt Goodwin, Reform's Stormzy to Farage's Ronald McDonald - Ann Widdecombe's off-piste racism - Why the Broligarchy will pile all their money into Farage (or his successor) And what our better story needs to be: www.absurdintelligence.com/40-ways-to-r...

Is @channel4tv.bsky.social paying attention to this?

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 www.absurdintelligence.com/how-do-we-re...

If you want to find out why a bunch of insanely talented people (me excluded of course) would jack in the 9-to-5, throw their careers in the bin, and not look back, read our Alanna’s great piece. 😻 www.absurdintelligence.com/why-we-start...

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