“They have issues around hunger, poverty, mass unemployment – and we’re getting them to commit towards some fancy projects like using drones and AI.” @lighthousereports.com on The Tony Blair Institute, Oracle, and Larry Ellison. A fairly disturbing read archive.is/mKi7s

@bruces.bsky.social how many arms is the new how many fingers

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

This BBC Radio 4 three-part doc on fascism as a continuous, and continuously opposed, thread in British life is very good and worth a listen. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Writing essays about design, quantum theory, the discovery of mRNA, seagrass, while occasionally popping out to move a tonne of wood, varnish it, cut, cover again. Typing for coins and the Towers of Hanoi: a self-build story.

A first foray into podcast script-writing... helped make this series on what to do now that we're overshooting 1.5c global warming. Presented by Laurie Laybourn and produced by Planet B. More things soon I hope! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

It's morning in America... But I can't see the dawn. www.radioalhara.net on 🔥 this morning fyi

Strawberry Farm, Beit Lahia, Gaza in 2020, and now.

📣 Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds need your help! 🏊‍♀️ 🏊🏊‍♂️ They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat. Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements. hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...

There are spontaneous protests throughout Italy for Gaza happening right now. This is in addition to calls for a general strike this Friday by the country's largest union (see above in thread) Here Napoli/Naples www.instagram.com/reel/DPRlQP9...

Sending love, strength, and solidarity to our friends and comrades on the Global Sumud Flotilla. We watch and hope and pray, because this is what humanity consists in.

We had another funnel cloud today. A pair, in fact, just ahead of the storm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZqf...

First day back on the site, watching a tornado roll over the next island. Good morning.

God these fascists are such dicks, it's such an insufficient thing to say, but it's so overpowering and necessary too. Just go and listen to the song now, do it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I met Hilary and Dan in London this summer. Their Power Station project is an incredible artist-led work showing how we can transform our energy system as well as our societies for better, more livable futures. Please, check them out and support their fundraising if you can! www.power.film

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

What happens when systems of social support fall apart. Not only aid: this is what happens when governments make moving from one place to another a crime. People with the freedom to access housing, healthcare, transport, and work are less reliant on aid. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Chumbawamba à Düsseldorf le 7 avril 1996 : je vous ai sous-titré la vidéo parce que ce banger est plus que jamais d'actualité. ✊️

A huge shoutout to the Zefiro (iyky) and every other ship and crew in the Sumud Flotilla: globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/ There is so much going on right now, but this is what matters. Putting bodies in place for justice. By land, by sea, until everyone is free.

Oh yeah and also I went for my first snorkel after coming home to the island this evening, met two juvenile lionfish just offshore, just hanging there, unprecedented, at 2m deep. Never seen them so shallow, nobody has. Record temperatures this summer; trust your instincts and act accordingly.

Please stop being surprised and make a plan.

Genuine question to people who give talks in public. What do you put on a slide for large tech concepts like "AI" and "the Internet" without resorting to bad stock art? (and not gotchas like the Mechanical Turk or Datacentres either...) Have struggles with this forever.

“The die-offs we are witnessing in our forests this year may be nature’s final alarm bell – a desperate call for action, cooperation and adaptation in how we live and operate, at the local, regional and global levels." www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/127...

On the day that Ofcom releases a report advising the UK's broadcasters to work more with YouTube, maybe worth revisiting this piece on the roots of the attention economy, and what it means for children's media, as well as much else: www.mediatechdemocracy.com/all-work/the...

Still, this. It's not going to stop.

Eight years on and it's hard not to see how prescient Bifo's "Auschwitz on the Beach" was, and how the reaction to it prefigured everything to come: www.dw.com/en/documenta...

‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’ Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action. Online early from our next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

One of my greatest pleasures is reading books by people I know, even a little, and following the thread of those encounters, towards knowledge I would never have found otherwise.

Anyway, dived to 25m off the coast of my home today, for the first time in 18mos. There are more lionfish and newly arrived urchins than ever, it's getting hotter. And there are still streams of fry, sponges, octopuses. Everything changes. God is change. Get into the flow, help shape new worlds.

2 (77) years into a genocide and I'm still getting emails saying I shouldn't have called it an "apartheid wall" in my last book. War, genocide, LGBTQ rights, ecology - it's increasingly hard to tell the actual fascists from the absolute enablers. You're either for love and justice, or you're not.

"In the afternoon, an airstrike hit a crowded cafe on the shore in Gaza City, killing at least 22 people, including women, children and a local journalist."

Feeling incredibly seen by this passage, but yes, it's lovely to read a piece about the LPA. www.the-fence.com/london-psych...

Just arriving in Vienna for the Symposium on Revolutionary Love, tomorrow and Saturday. www.festwochen.at/en/symposium... my act of love was taking five trains, a boat, and a bus to get here over three days.

Speaking of eyes, I was commissioned by Privacy Salon to create an artwork for the @cpdpconferences.bsky.social‬ ("Computers, Privacy and Data Protection") Conference in Brussels, Belgium, on the theme 'The World is Watching'.

Meeting a lot of these guys lately, long-spined sea urchins, the most recent Lessepsian migrant to find its way to our island. Like all urchins, half cute, half terrifying - but now the size of a basketball. And a little anus that looks like an eye

A grassroots movement like Arts Emergency rarely lasts or grows as we have.Our work changes lives, but we rely on monthly donations.Those donations are down £50k since 2021. We've cut all we can, now we're appealing to you for £2/month to plug the gap & go on www.arts-emergency.org/donate%F0%9F...

March to Gaza: marchtogaza.net

Καλό Μήνα και Καλό Μήνα Υπερηφάνειας.

Today we finished raising all the columns (27 of them) and fixing the floor beams (18 of them!) for both buildings of our house. It's looking good. Building is good. I am learning to build; I am building to learn. I am building a house.

See: genocide. For years we argued whether genocides - the holocaust, Rwanda, former Yugoslavia - could have been prevented if more people saw, if more people unarguably *knew* it was occurring. Now we know the answer.

Last year Karl Ove came to visit me, and we climbed the mountain and talked about computers and other things. I don't know then exactly what he was wondering about. Now I do.

Last year Karl Ove came to visit me, and we climbed the mountain and talked about computers and other things. I don't know then exactly what he was wondering about. Now I do.

"At times like this, it is good to gather in community". Felt like every queer and activist in Athens turned out for Judith Butler last night. "As my friends in Argentina say, there are only two genders: Fascist and Antifascist."

Agree with pretty much everything Phineas Harper has to say in this review of the Venice Biennale @artreview.bsky.social - and incredibly proud that our contribution from Vessel gets a (good) mention! artreview.com/venice-archi...

LIFELINES is published today, 25 years after my wife and I arrived in northern Greece with the aim of changing our lives. It's a book about shelter and generosity, borders and brown bears, people and pelicans. It's about how the lifelines of the world hold together the greater home of us all.

Very pleased with this installation of my work Cloud Index (2016) at the Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach, Germany, which opens next week. The work is a multimedia meditation on how we constructs worlds with AI and other forms of intelligence, focussing on the weather: cloudindx.jamesbridle.com

"Actually existing AI" is a phrase I use a lot, to separate reality from hype. "Actually existing solarpunk" is one I might start using. Because I genuinely believe that a general energy transition is *more possible* than general artificial intelligence, and more exciting and more equitable.