Caspar Henderson
@casparhenderson.bsky.social
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Bad singer, slow runner, writer. Award-winning knees
https://linktr.ee/casparhenderson
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Moby Dick
about 13 hours ago
But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Howard French
about 23 hours ago
A bracing indictment.
jewishcurrents.org/the-genocide...
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The Genocides The New York Times Forgot
The paperâs Gaza coverage continues its pattern of downplaying US-backed atrocities in Bangladesh, East Timor, and Guatemala.
https://jewishcurrents.org/the-genocides-the-new-york-times-forgot
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Friday motivation from Gotama, courtesy of Stephen Bachelor
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âThe real damage Vincent documents is far more fundamental: It is the damage men learn to do to themselves, often in childhood.â
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/m...
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The âMasculinity Crisisâ Is Real. This Forgotten Book Explains Why.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/magazine/masculinity-crisis-norah-vincent.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
2 days ago
Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.
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âFor both realist and radical critics, fighting the populist far right with Habermasâs rational liberalism is like taking a typewriter to a knife fight. But in the poignant final sections of the book, Habermas refuses to âlet defeatism have the last wordâ.â
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JĂŒrgen Habermas: Germanyâs political and cultural phenomenon
Two new books bring fresh insights into the philosopher who has towered over seven decades of German public life
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/883879bb-8c2a-4305-bdac-6b002fc912af
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EarthSky
3 days ago
Do you remember the famous
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? On Christmas Eve in 1968, William Anders turned his camera toward Earth and captured the legendary photo. It showed humans a new perspective, with the moon in the foreground and Earth floating in distant space. đđđđž
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Naomi Klein
4 days ago
Remember when every leader wanted their picture taken with Greta? She is still that truth teller, they just can't face the truth of their crimes.
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âThe Chinese exported half again as much worth of green tech last year as America did of oil and gas. The force slowing [transition] is the fossil fuel industry which understands the good news for everybody else as the worst possible news for its future prospectsâ
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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âThis is the Costco of energy, man!â: author Bill McKibben on the promise of renewables
The activist and author of Here Comes the Sun discusses rapid advances in solar and wind power and how the US ceded leadership in the sector to its main rival
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/23/bill-mckibben-promise-of-renewable-energy-interview?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Helen Czerski
4 days ago
The natural world is a wonderful place. This is timelapse video from a few years ago of a marine sponge sneezing. It has mucus inside that traps the sort of particles that might clog it up, and expels them in periodic contractions every 3-8 hours. Atchoo!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJqI...
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Timelapse footage shows a sea sponge sneezing
YouTube video by Guardian News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJqIIj_MYK0
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âIn the absence of global governance, we will depend on the integrity of robber barons and authoritarian apparatchiks to build ethical guardrails around systems already being embedded in tools we use for work, play and education.â
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When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr
The US economy is pumped up on tech-bro vanity. The inevitable correction should prompt a global conversation, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/artificial-intelligence-ai-bubble-bursts-humans-take-back-control?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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âDiscovery remains a human endeavor and is propelled by the very human quality to see oddities that donât fit patterns and by probing them more deeplyâ
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/o...
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Opinion | I Asked ChatGPT to Solve an 800-Year-Old Italian Mystery. What Happened Surprised Me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/opinion/ai-florence-baptistery.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Its carbon atmosphere might give it clouds made out of graphite and diamonds at its core. Bands of storms would trace the worldâs lemon-like exterior in the shape of a W while it most likely has a red colour because of dust and soot-like particles formed by the carbon
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/s...
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Lemon-Shaped World Is the Most Stretched-Out Planet Ever Seen
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/science/lemon-planet-pulsar-webb.html
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âThe secret of survival is a defective imagination. The inability of mortals to imagine things as they truly are is what allows them to live, since one momentary, unresisted glimpse of the worldâs totality of suffering would annihilate them on the spot.â John Banville
www.ft.com/content/ce7f...
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The case for denial
In a darkening world, burying oneâs head in the sand is a rational strategy
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/ff855adb-8acf-47ed-a75d-d25c08b5d937
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him)
4 months ago
In related news, the Justice Department also released their version of "Tale of Two Cities."
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âA lot of the times it feels like youâre being suffocated. Lots of things change about you, the condition of your skin, you start to turn grey, both in terms of the hue of your skin but also you notice more grey hairs, everything manifests physicallyâ
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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âIt feels like being suffocatedâ: Palestine Action activist vows to continue hunger strike
Teuta Hoxha says she remains determined despite growing fears for her health and five other prisoners staging protest
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/20/palestine-action-activist-vows-continue-hunger-strike-teuta-hoxha?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Three lines from the Diamond Sutra, however, inspired Bi Gan to begin writing a new project: âthe mind of the past is unattainable, the mind of the present is unattainable, and the mind of the future is also unattainable.â
www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
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Bi Ganâs Dream Factory
With âResurrection,â the director has made a surrealist epic not just about Chinese history but about the cinema itself.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/bi-gans-dream-factory
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The impact of machines on writing was not the main topic of a talk I gave back in November under the title 'Why Write? A Case for Human Being', but it lowered over it. Looks like the novel-writing machines of '1984' really are with us. More/stranger to come
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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What if Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction?
If economic and technological transformations have changed our relationship with literature before, they could do so again.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-if-readers-like-ai-generated-fiction
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"Polymathic in the best sense.â Almost tripped over my cor-blimey trousers when I learned this morning from this very kind article by John Mitchenson that I am a Zeitgeister. The editor spells my name wrong two out of three times in the first paragraph
subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/81/z...
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Simon Spanton
7 days ago
Two fantastic books. One full of fabulous imagined beings. The other full of real, but no less fabulous, beings.
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Not to be confused with oenophiles
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Good Law Project
9 days ago
Eight Palestine Action activists are being left to die in prison â all without even facing trial. We must force the government to act, before itâs too late âŹïž
https://goodlaw.social/3e3320
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
9 days ago
Matthew Goodwin objects to prosecuting this: âI think itâs time for the British to gang together, hit the streets and start the slaughter. Violence and murder is the only way now. Start off burning every migrant hotel then head off to MPsâ houses and Parliament, we need to take over by FORCE.â
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âThe UK has been planning without the tools to test against worst-case scenarios. Weâve now given decision-makers what they need to prepare for climate outcomes they hope never happen, but canât afford to ignore.â
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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âMassive disruptionâ: UKâs worst-case climate crisis scenarios revealed by scientists
Scientists say government must prepare for âplausibleâ 4C rise in temperature and a 2-metre rise in sea levels
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/18/massive-disruption-uk-worst-case-climate-crisis-risks?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Moby Dick
10 days ago
how then can this one small heart beat
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âIt is obscene how quickly the right has seized on this horror to advance an Islamophobic, anti-Palestinian agenda⊠almost gleeful at the opportunity to distract from [a] genocidal onslaught in Gaza by using our pain and grief as a political weaponâ
www.972mag.com/bondi-massac...
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After the Bondi massacre, we don't have the luxury to grieve silently
Before the blood had dried, the deadliest attack on Australian Jews was being used to justify repressing Palestine solidarity and retribution against Muslims.
https://www.972mag.com/bondi-massacre-australia-jews-antisemitism/
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âReal gratitude does not shrink the circle of love. It enlarges it.â
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Reith Lectures - Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution - 4. Fighting for Humanity in the Age of the Machine. - BBC Sounds
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman gives his fourth and final Reith Lecture.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002nhld?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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âIt was a humanitarian act, more than anything else. It was a matter of conscience ⊠Heâs very proud that he saved even one life.â
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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âIt was a matter of conscienceâ: Ahmed al-Ahmedâs family reveal why he risked his life to disarm alleged Bondi shooter
Family say al-Ahmed âdoesnât discriminateâ and would have done anything to save lives during the attack
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/15/man-who-tackled-alleged-bondi-gunman-couldnt-bear-to-see-people-dying-cousin-says-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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âLetâs not forget the other communities that are on the receiving end of horror right now.â Philippe Sands on BBC Radio 4 this morning
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Farrukh
13 days ago
7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed A 43 year old married father of two He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland No experience with guns He was walking past He has two bullets in his arm
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Beautiful footage from MLK of a murmuration yesterday on Otmoor
youtu.be/VE5876-1PS4
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Otmoor: In the eye of the Sema
YouTube video by MLK
https://youtu.be/VE5876-1PS4
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âThe âwilderness of monkeysâ is beautifully indistinct, and being indistinct it allows our own minds to wander around the image. We canât let it go. In doing that, we touch the mind of Shylock, we understand him to have a mental hinterland of his own, strange images that occur and recur.â
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âclimate deniers understand the consequences of the science, so they don't accept the science. They know what it means if it's true, so they won't allow it to be true. I think we can learn from [them]â
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Oscar Berglund
14 days ago
We (
@crossdale.bsky.social
, Christina Pantazis,
@roxana-pessoa.bsky.social
, TiĂȘ Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Today in âHumans are mad apes who will destroy themselves, trash the planet and make the angels weepâ
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device in the Himalayas?
A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the worldâs highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/13/world/asia/cia-nuclear-device-himalayas-nanda-devi.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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âThey tried to bury us. They didnât know we were seedsâ
youtu.be/GUgtMB4SSUk
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Together For Palestine - Lullaby (Edit) (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Together For Palestine
https://youtu.be/GUgtMB4SSUk
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âHeâd embrace the refugee and cast the fascist out.â
youtu.be/liRd9pjSBDA
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BILLY BRAGG - PUT CHRIST BACK INTO CHRISTMAS
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
https://youtu.be/liRd9pjSBDA
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Sam Bright
16 days ago
đŽ REVEALED đŽ The Institute of Economic Affairs â the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss â was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdochâs media empire. đ Exclusive findings from
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The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked ÂŁ640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) â the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group â received more than ÂŁ640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdochâs media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/10/the-institute-of-economic-affairs-donations-funding-oil-giants-shell-bp-exxon-rupert-murdoch/
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George Monbiot
16 days ago
1. We've had a huge response to the launch of the Earth Rover Program, above all from small farmers, especially in Africa. Farmers all over the world are highly attuned to the need for a better understanding of soil, and have immediately seen the potential. đ§” 1/10
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The Earth Rover Program
The Earth Rover Program unites scientists, farmers, and innovators to monitor, understand, and restore soils worldwide. Advancing food security, climate resilience, and biodiversity through open scien...
https://www.earthroverprogram.org/
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Michael E. Mann
18 days ago
It's not ignorance. It's not malice. It's not that he's owned by petrostates and polluters. It's ALL of these things!
#ScienceUnderSiege
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The overwhelming majority of us may be substantially poorer, but Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and others profited hugely, and I'm good with that
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"We are living through what may be the fastest advancement in weaponry ever... The speed of warfare will soon outpace human ability to control it"
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | This Is the 21st-Century Arms Race. Can America Keep Up?
Innovations in A.I., synthetic biology and quantum computing are set to change war.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/09/opinion/editorials/us-china-military-ai-tech.html
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âCathomas added that Pontresina people sounded slightly different from their neighbors in Celerina. How far away was that? She pointed out the window: âCelerina is the houses over there.ââ
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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A Very Big Fight Over a Very Small Language
In the Swiss Alps, a plan to tidy up Romanshâspoken by less than one per cent of the countryâset off a decades-long quarrel over identity, belonging, and the sound of authenticity.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/08/a-very-big-fight-over-a-very-small-language
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Peak copper
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Running on Empty: Copper
How peak copper arrived and went completely unnoticed
https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/running-on-empty-copper
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Laid in Dagenham
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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White storks to make historic return to London in 2026
Species extinct as breeding birds in Britain since 1416 to be reintroduced in Barking and Dagenham as part of rewilding effort
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/08/white-storks-return-london-barking-and-dagenham-2026-rewilding
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âI find it hard to think of any other form of evidence that is more compelling to demonstrate that this is happening, it has been happening for a long time, and we know why, and we understand it, and we can make credible projections.â
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/a-30...
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A 30-year-old sea level rise projection has basically come true » Yale Climate Connections
Even without todayâs advanced modeling tools, scientists made a âremarkablyâ accurate estimate.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/a-30-year-old-sea-level-rise-projection-has-basically-come-true
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Hope at a time when so many things are dark
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A Parr for the Winterval
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"In a country that has become much safer in recent decades, our failure to address sexual assaults is especially shameful."
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The most neglected problem in Britain?
How to cut sexual offences
https://samf.substack.com/p/the-most-neglected-problem-in-britain
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Brian Goldstone
20 days ago
I've been blown away by the generosity shown to my book this year, and wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the books that meant the most to me in 2025âalong with a few I'm especially excited to see out in the world in the new year. THREAD
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