Mike Webster

All the volcanoes are out today

20.06.2025 05:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

why are we lying to young people about work? hard work isn't the tax you pay for living, it's the tuition for a life worth having -your fav gen z philosopher x

If you read one thing...

open.substack.com/pub/maalvika...

28.05.2025 13:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

From Bali to Java

19.05.2025 15:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Borobodur

11.05.2025 23:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

BP dropping its green ambitions is a travesty. But that’s exactly how capitalism works The failure to deal with the climate emergency is not a problem of greedy individual companies, but a system rigged against positive change, says Brett Christophers, a professor of economic geography

BP dropping its green ambitions is a travesty. But that’s exactly how capitalism works www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

03.03.2025 23:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rice paddies to mega resorts: declassified spy satellite images reveal Bali’s transformation Extent of decades of development is laid bare as Indonesia wrestles with how to control development on the holiday island

Rice paddies to mega resorts: declassified spy satellite images reveal Bali’s transformation www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

24.02.2025 23:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Balinese catholic church, nice blend of styles

16.02.2025 04:20 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Amongst the ghosts of Batavia

12.02.2025 14:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great to see one of my favourite chroniclers of Indonesia review another in another favourite of mine, the LRB!

12.02.2025 13:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Vincent Bevins · Operation Product: Revolution in Indonesia Indonesia was the first country to declare independence in the wake of the Second World War, shortly after the surrender...

Wrote about Indonesia's revolution, and David Van Reybrouck's Revolusi, for the London Review of Books www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

12.02.2025 13:42 — 👍 24    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 2

As Nessa 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 might say, this is a 'tidy' visual showing recycling rates for commonly used metals.

Of particularly note are the low recycling rates of the key technology metals - rare earth elements, cobalt and lithium.

Never bin a battery or electrical - www.recycleyoureletricals.org.uk

13.01.2025 12:33 — 👍 33    🔁 8    💬 4    📌 1