Duncan Porter

This sound an awful lot like a job for hypothesised taxes on emissions / impact, which would influence both behaviours & investment.

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Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

YouTube video by Sufjan Stevens - Topic Impossible Soul

Impossible Soul - Sufjan mangling a load of notes like it's 3AM, he's had way too much sugar & he needs he needs something extra to stitch together his 25 minute song 👌

youtu.be/RFXzbe2UAR0?...

I forgot this song had such a classic idiosyncratic guitar solo.

I *LOVE* a weird guitar solo so much, I'm going to gradually list out the best ones here, if only for my own procrastinative gratification.

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Missed opportunity for avant gardening.

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Also, this is really great - welcome aboard! 🙂

Honestly, I think this is the very best option right now.

Even if they can't get the votes (& there's no reason why not!) a left surge of the Greens can pull Labour back towards their traditional voter base 🤞

I found 3 bottles of champagne in the cupboard.

One of them is now wet woodland celebration fizzy wine, so get on with it 🙂

I'm 90% sure I can join you.

Wanna lift?

This message is absolutely spot on.

Genuinely excited to see the Green Party growing in size & confidence.

I've been a member for a few years after bailing on Labour. I'm now fully nailed on to help make this change happen & make hope normal again. 💚

It deserves it 👍

I'd love for every person involved in council funding cuts to read this book & understand the massively underestimated value of the incredible people who work in public services.

Evie/Christina thank you for writing this. I loved it completely 🙏

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Just finished reading Ashes to Admin by Evie King / christinamartin.bsky.social

This book is an absolute joy - so funny, so much humanity & you'd be a psychopath if it didn't make you cry, even a little bit.

#booksky

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Sure

I'm not confused thanks.

No one in this thread has suggested mass veganism would be a climate solution - that was the straw-man argument that you "chimed in with" 🙂

Hope that clears up the confusion.

Thanks for pasting the part where I didn't challenge your straw man proposition, thus showing the claim I did was itself also a straw-man argument, in a rare & wonderful straw-manception.

It's like being back on Twitter 😂

Please show me where I challenged your straw man proposition.

I think you need to read the thread a little more carefully. I never advocated giving up meat. In fact, I specifically said advocating reduction is a plan with more chance of succeeding.

With respect, if you think it's about "sharing my preferences" then I'd suggest it's you that's missing the point & failing to engage with the evidence.

Eating less meat isn't a drastic lifestyle change & framing it as "for the worse" is very subjective 🙂

For perspective, there's plenty of great alternative options. I used to eat & enjoy meat. Haven't missed it once.

What makes you believe that's outlandish as a goal?

It's presumably an average?

If you "think" that, surely it's a subjective statement about your perception of others' views?

As a vegan of 5 years (vegetarian for 9), life is absolutely not worse. I find it easy, healthy & the only thing I haven't been able to nail is Yorkshire puddings.

Kooky? 😂 That's sounds like a subjective appraisal.

The thing is, a 50% reduction in meat & dairy would have a massive climate impact. It's a better strategy to advocate for healthy reducing, rather than abstention.

People will discover how easy it is & hopefully go further.

This book is so good. I loved reading about how surly Sean was in the studio.

Hats off to Shute for writing something so utterly grim, yet so compelling. I can understand completely how this book could have changed attitudes towards nuclear weapons during the cold war.

I'm going to need something light-hearted to follow this.

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Just finished reading On the Beach by Nevil Shute - a bit too bleak a choice after Ballard 😬

It's a great book, but very much of it's time. It's completely unsettling how mostly casual everyone is about facing the extinction of all humans (let's go motor racing!)

#booksky

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Reader's Poll - Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1990-9 Have Your Say - Your best album closers of the 1990s

Reader's Poll - Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1990-9
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Vote for your favourite 1990s closing track, please!

#90smusic
#MusicSky
#MusicChallenge
#all50rts
#AlbumClosers
#MusicPoll

There's a wealth of lessons to be learned here.

Reforestation as marketing does more harm than good when done badly. Breweries shouldn’t be planting trees for PR. They should pay into proper ecological renewal through fair taxation, under regulation and legislation.

Thoughts @philsturgeon.com ?

There's an thread throughout where heat & the sun almost has agency. In his afterword, Camus says "Meursault is a poor & naked man in love with a sun which casts no shadow".

That he's in a strange way the hero, yet also instinctively unlikeable is the reflection in the mirror of this story.

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Some fundamental questions around who gets to decide what is normal? What is a "soul"? What happens when you take off the mask?

Again, many parallels to modern life & in particular the internet/ social media, which is often judge, jury & executioner, without drawing a breath.

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