Jeremy Weate

To the Garden of Easton for espresso and carrot cake after a good shop at Sweetmart- my favourite store in Bristol. Feels like Friday already..

The paradox of the banal and the mundane: we are too blind to see it for what it is in it's rich distinctness, and yet it's specificity defines the boundaries of what we are and how we perceive the world. A foundational blindspot.

NASA Satellites Reveal Abrupt Drop In Global Freshwater Levels An international team of scientists using observations from NASA-German satellites found evidence that Earth’s total amount of freshwater dropped abruptly starting in May 2014 and has remained low eve...

NASA satellites reveals an abrupt drop In global freshwater levels.

Demand for fresh water will outstrip supply by 40% by the end of the decade, because the world’s water systems are being put under “unprecedented stress”

There is no coordinated global effort to address this crisis. #opcanary

YouTube video by Gaz Oakley 7 DAYS with The RASTA People of JAMAICA 🇯🇲

An epic voyage into Ital www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9R4...

Trump’s New Oligarchy Is About to Unleash Unimaginable Corruption The elevation of Elon Musk to a key role suggests that right-wing elites are set to embark on a spree of sordid self-dealing.

Trump’s New Oligarchy Is About to Unleash Unimaginable Corruption. "conditions are ripe for right-wing elites to try to loot the place from top to bottom."

newrepublic.com/article/1884...

#391 — The Reckoning Making Sense with Sam Harris · Episode

Sam Harris' reflections on the US election. The mass revulsion against trans militancy and identity politics is a key point of his diagnosis. open.spotify.com/episode/0S93...

I was reminded of the first 11 lines of this page from Rilke's eighth Letter to a Young Poet earlier today.

A beached whale lies dead on the waterfront in #COP29 host city Baku, against the backdrop of the "Flame Towers" that symbolise Azerbaijan's fossil fuel resources