look at him. he doesn't even have any money

Up next: chomping on puffy corn snacks in unrealistic flavours while reading an old Poirot

Jony Ive and Marc Newsom are NOT car designers and also not the designers one would pick for continuity of an Italian design language www.theguardian.com/environment/... nonetheless, OH NO WTF LOL

hold on a minute... grauniad is hinting that there might be a claim of a possible imminent right now in a minute deal of peace

This question is the epitome of the lasting impact of the Cartesian mind-body divide which leads to separating humankind from the rest of the natural living environment. This the epistemological error (Laininen 2019) at the heart of western modern science paradigm www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

15 years ago we thought China's runaway industrial machine would eat the environment www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202605/27/...

Touching grass is the new hotness. I still miss my old apartment next door to the urban forest www.nordiclabourjournal.org/denmark-incr... sooooon

the first time I saw a startup pushing a wall full of greenery to office managers I was like WTF kids what are you up to. Since then granny has learnt differently timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/he-t...

I don't have hopes any of you will get this sad little joke but the next thing will probably be a Co-Creation Farm www.sortiraparis.com/en/where-to-...

Hmm, could have been Paris www.sortiraparis.com/en/where-to-... I was part of a Nordic Mission to something

I absolutely cannot recall which country it was I was visiting for an event and as part of a tour for attendees, they took us very proudly to a vertical tomato farm. Poland? Estonia? nonetheless urban farms are now tourist hotspots thebalisun.com/urban-food-f...

The transition to green energy must be understood not as a cost but as an investment in stability, independence and long-term prosperity global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202605/28/...

Bringing life back to literally a war torn landscape global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202605/27/... environmental disaster that rarely gets noticed

Last month's news but it just turned up for me. Are these the new alcohol and tobacco? www.bbc.com/news/article... if so, then we turn from banning things which harm the individual to banning things which harm the life support system

This is nicely put. The machine that subordinates all life to its own algorithm of self-expansion is already operating: It’s called capital. www.newyorker.com/science/anna...

Coal has lost top place after more than a century www.vox.com/the-highligh... For 21 years running, solar has been the fastest-growing source of electricity on the planet.

People are now debating what the proper earring placement is.

What was that odd phrase used by X once? "rapidly self-dismantling"? "accelerated decomposition"? www.scmp.com/news/world/u...

We had a lecture at my Indian design school once on how Bollywood (and its various language specific offshoots) was the only mass communication media capable of reaching the entire nation www.scmp.com/week-asia/li...

Can't attend the leading design reserach confrence in Edinburgh coming up soon because cost of uncertainly unguaranteed application for a UK visa (for my ODI compliant passport) including 75e fees to third party visa processors is = cost of airfare + hotel nights + conference registration fees

😍 the analytical framework mondediplo.com/2026/05/08yiwu "In Yiwu, trade isn’t just about sales, it structures the whole industrial process. stands are not shops ..., but interfaces. An order is placed based on a sample – suddenly whole villages of micro-factories spring into action "

Nobody's asking what hundreds of gold bars and millions in foreign currency was doing hanging out in his office www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Chapeau to the Guardian sub editor who came up with the headline!

I'm now instantly in love with the words Uusi Puu

Did you know snails helped build England's impressive cathedrals? #NationalSnailDay 🏺 #Archaeology Purbeck marble; a fossiliferous limestone composed of snails; was a popular decorative stone and was used in most cathedrals built from 1170-1350. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 📷 14GTR / CC BY-SA 4.0

Today I met a former student from 25 years ago in Chicago who might just become an opponent for my thesis defense in the near future, now that I am a student

www.ips-journal.eu/topics/forei... I hope analysts realize this is an epistemological transformation of the landscape of their operating environment and underpinning assumptions must now be re-examined

It would only be dystopian if I bothered to take it seriously

“fleeing to argentina” u say?

Peter Thiel is trending, so of course we're going to re-up this excerpt from Jonas Staal's brilliant book "Climate Propagandas" "For Thiel, the impending flooded world of climate collapse is not a catastrophe, but raw material for new geo-markets to emerge."

Oh good, US law enforcement has discovered the Luddites

Breaking: the Pope is Catholic www.ft.com/content/5c44...

I've been there. Its *so* exclusive your nose will bleed. www.ft.com/content/361e... Decolonization vs history and heritage, although the former would ask the latter, "Whose?"

@kattullus.bsky.social I wish I had remembered to remind you that you were just starting to talk about the Thucydides trap when I suggested we move into the sunlight

very interesting headline www.ft.com/content/1f08... this theme has become popular lately

I come here not to entertain you but to entertain me during my meal breaks from dissertation revision. mute me ;p

"Our thinking is damage-focused and deficit-laden due to a historical legacy of an epistemological blindspot (Konadu-Osei et al. 2023) embedded in the underpinning foundation of our epistemological and methodological infrastructure" [thesis] www.dw.com/en/african-n...

"Nearly half of the funding raised by companies on this year’s list came from African investors." www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Months after the first tariff-free shipments have left the African continent for China, the tightly-controlled American press wakes up to make it "all about me me me" www.wsj.com/world/africa...

Banning second-hand clothes without any understanding of the 'system of interest' (Ison 2008) which underpins its prominence in the supply&demand ecosystem within the informal sector is a system intervention (Absom et al. 2017) which will consistently fail. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Morocco has ranked first in Africa’s industrialisation index for the first time, overtaking South Africa, which had held the top position since 2010 www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...

"Are we next?" is the question on the top of everyone's mind these days... www.cnn.com/2026/05/27/p...

In other news www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

WWIII will one day be analyzed through the lenses of product development, manufacturing costs, disruptive innovation, and high volume vs profit margin strategies, to be framed as an existential struggle best described as "Temu vs Military Industrial Complex"

I wonder if anyone has interrogated the notion of 'absolute power' in the aphorism about absolute corruption; what if it were only a delusion of absolute power but one is nonetheless corrupted absolutely?

It is indeed difficult to identify systemic causes for inter-related phenomena when you must struggle within the constraints of banning the entire notion of climate change as a systemic shock multiplier ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/05/28/t... Such struggles will only get more complicated