Tim Hollo

More and more of us willing to put our names to this

Oh, Jon Kudelka. Devastating loss. You could never come across a more delightful curmudgeon. But his skills in cutting to the quick of an issue and spearing hypocrisy were second to none. Pour out a whiskey and toast his memory.

I actually see the working for policy outcomes within the crumbling system as the bandaid, and this work as primary health care - helping improve general health. But yeah

Yeah, no, I don’t think at all they’d change the fundamentals of capitalism… But they would maybe help cultivate the foundations of the new world as capitalism crumbles.

Oh yes, the movement needs to be far bigger than the party! It’s always been one of the biggest problems the Greens face. But in this context, it’s crucial that we see the party as one small aspect of the world-building project.

Maybe? I think so? While we still have this very very broken and problematic system of electoral democracy… On our way to some form of municipal confederalism or something…

Typically interesting thoughts from Tim here, looking at both the promise and the limitations of left populism and the imaginative frames it offers.

Zohran, Zack and the necessity - and limits - of left populism 💚 Zohran and Zack 💚 Is there a symbolism we can find in the fact that these two excitingly energetic, righteously angry, charmingly smiling outsiders shaking up global left politics both have names s...

Left populism says politics is broken, government is failing people - and it is. But then it says "vote for us and we'll fix it for you".

I’ve been working on these thoughts for a while. Would love your engagement and thoughts.

Thanks so much, Marie!

About In Between Days In Between Days is a space for personal and political writing about facing up to the world we're living in, "between the no longer and the not yet", launched in October 2025 by me, Tim Hollo. I explai...

Highly recommend this political and philosophical writing by @timhollo.bsky.social where he contemplates the space our world is currently struggling in “between the no longer and the not yet". Worth signing up to.

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Two olive green parrots with blue wings sitting on a hand

How gorgeous are the colours on blue-winged parrots 😍

Oh, that’s interesting! Thank you. I do like the shock, but can imagine that if you were properly sun stroked, that would be bad.

Sreenshot of the Heatmap of Australia 7:02pm Whilst coastal areas are getting a reprieve the area around most of SA, and the SA, NSW and QLD borders is still in purple signify a lot of heat

Wrap of #Heatwave Maximums for 30 Jan 2026.

SA 50.0 °C Port Augusta 2:43pm
NSW 48.1 °C Smithville 3:32pm
Qld 47.3 °C Ballera 1:59pm
Vic 45.6 °C Mildura 6:01pm
ACT 40.4 °C Tuggeranong 4:12 pm

Tomorrow conditions will start to retract then ease on Sunday

Discomfiting heat On sitting in discomfort or seeking simple solutions It's hot. It's hard to think when the heat is so intense. And we need to think. We need to think through some painfully hot challenges. Challeng...

It's hot

It's hard to think when the heat is so intense

And we need to think through some painfully hot challenges to which there are no shortcuts

We have to sit in the discomfort, listening to what it's telling us, holding each other & ourselves in that discomfort, in both care & accountability

Historic heatwave sets all-time records as temperatures exceed 49C The heatwave gripping south-east Australia reached day four on Tuesday and is now unprecedented in many regions.

Because the ABC can't be bothered to tell you, this is happening because we burn shit tonnes of coal and gas and our government keeps approving more pollution www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

You’d think an attempted bombing of an event with 2,000 attendees on the shores of mainland Australia would get a breaking news alert and statement from the Prime Minister of the country.

But it’s blackfullas and people who associate with them, that’s fine.

Needed that laugh!

Went to see this wonderful psychedelic trip of a movie today, at the invitation of a Noongar friend. Highly recommend.

Photo of crowd and speakers at Invasion Day / Survival Day rally on Ngunnuwal Country today

Always was. Always will be.

HISTORIC HEAT IN AUSTRALIA
Climatic history is set to be rewritten with an absolutely deadly week:
Today 48.5C in South Australia,47.2 New South Wales,
45.3 Queensland,45.0 Victoria

‼️We might expect 7 CONSECUTIVE DAYS >46C in New South Wales and we can't rule out 50C.
A HELL

I was trying to figure out how to use that line

"But he [Carney] declared the old world to be over, then presented a vision of ... the old world...vision that is disorienting in its circularity, his solutions...sound kind of like late capitalist modernity...Which, of course, leads straight back to the next Trump."

h/t @lindamciver.adsei.org

As someone who has spent over 35 years trying to explain that violence is inherent to policing only to have most people be OK with this, I could be excused if I decided to just give up. But I'm not. I knew we would be where we are today. I still think that we do not have to live like this.

No one saw the Carney go On the gothic absurdity of the geopolitical circus and the sovereignty salsa Far be it from me, who at primary school was forever "Tim Hollow Head", to make jokes about people's names... But Nick Ca...

Rrrrroll up roll up!

Come see an act where I juggle Mark Carney, Hannah Arendt, Nick Cave, Naomi Klein, and the concept of sovereignty!

in-between-days.ghost.io/no-one-saw-t...

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Charlie Kirk from The Charlie Kirk Show, Oct. 26, 2023:

A graph showing daily temperature anomalies since the 1940s

Not a single day in 2025 was cooler than the 1991-2020 average, on a global scale. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

Yikes

At least there isn’t a plague of locusts yet. Still time!

Stay safe