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Doer of things at Centric Lab | Dogwalker and butler to BIGGIE | Frequently having weekends ruined by Arsenal

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Josh Artus @joshartus.bsky.social · Nov 13

Seeing this last night was emotional for me.

I graduated in Fine Arts in 2008 (great timing) and had to turn away from being a "creative", yet here I was, as part of @centriclab.bsky.social, exhibiting creative works on air pollution x social justice x data viz.

Pls go to the show if you can ✌🏻

Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · Nov 13

VITAL SIGNS: another world is possible is live!

Last night was the private view for Vital Signs, an exhibition at the Science Gallery London.

We were invited to contribute work around our relationship to Air and the determinants of pollution.

london.sciencegallery.com/sgl-events/v...

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Doughnut Economics Action Lab @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social · 11d

DOUGHNUT 3.0 IS HERE! 🎉

Today, DEAL is launching the latest update of the global Doughnut, now monitoring trends in social shortfall and ecological overshoot across the 21st century.

#DoughnutEconomics
Check out the link below to see all the resources and dive in:

Doughnut 3.0 is here | DEAL

The Doughnut, updated, now monitors global trends in social shortfall and ecological overshoot over the 21st century

doughnuteconomics.org

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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 14d

The AfD continued its losing streak today in Germany's most populous states. In all three cities where the party had reached the runoff for mayor, it lost in a big way. In Gelsenkirchen 67-31, in Duisburg 79-21, and in Hagen 72-28.

More please!

Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 14d

Die AfD setzte sich heute in NRW ihre Verlustreihe fort. In alle drei Städten wo sie in eine Stichwahl für das Oberbürgermeisteramt gekommen ist, hat sie kräftig verloren. In Gelsenkirchen 67-31, in Duisburg 79-21, und in Hagen 72-28.

Weiter so!

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 15d

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

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Cities & Health @citiesxhealth.bsky.social · 18d

Community Health Impact Assessment by @joshartus.bsky.social et al.
🔍 #CityKnowHows
🔍A case study in developing a Health Impact Assessment from the eyes of a Community

www.cityknow-how.com/how-migratio...
#Cities4Health #HealthyCities #Community #HealthImpactAssessment

How migration and climate crisis impact the health of migrant populations in Santiago, Chile – City Know-how

www.cityknow-how.com

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Josh Artus @joshartus.bsky.social · 16d

Big moment for us at @thecentriclab.com (and me personally) in the publication of this case study in the @citiesxhealth.bsky.social journal.

Cities & Health @citiesxhealth.bsky.social · 18d

How migration and climate crisis impact the health of migrant populations in Santiago, Chile – City Know-how

www.cityknow-how.com

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · Aug 25

So I went on holiday to the Vendee, about a third of the way down France’s west coast, and it made me think a lot about @duncanrobinson.bsky.social’s “Britain, accept you’re a hot country” argument…

Map of the departements of Metropolitan France, with the Vendee highlighted. It’s on the west coast, just below Brittany (depending on whose definition you use) and the Loire Estuary

A farmland track in the Vendee, with a large piece of irrigation equipment in the foreground and a town with church spire and water tower in the background

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Josh Artus @joshartus.bsky.social · Jul 15

New thinking from the Lab 👇

Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · Jul 15

A Case for Health Reparations For Communities Affected by Air Pollution.

This work lays out pathways and theories to nurture our communities, create infrastructure for autonomous healing processes, and live through this epoch with dignity.

www.thecentriclab.com/stories-prov...

What are health Reparations?
The creation of infrastructure for Peoples who have directly experienced structural violence to autonomously create pathways to repair and fortify community health.

We are presenting pathways, philosophies, and strategies for community-led healing to safeguard against air pollution through Health Reparations.

The full reporting can be found on our website, under Health Reparations and Air is Kin work.

Josh Artus @joshartus.bsky.social · Jul 14

Morning guys! With the arrival of:
"quick footed" Zubimendi,
"speed-merchant" Madueke, and
"channel-running-shoulder-barging" Gyokeres,
do you see us playing more in transition?...dare I say a Plan B! @gunnerblog.bsky.social @arseblog.com #arsecastextra

Josh Artus @joshartus.bsky.social · May 24

Fuck this unimaginative Star Wars copying asshole of a human being.

I hope she lives her life perpetually unhappy given the harm she's causing innocent children trying to live in a messed up world her greedy ass is making worse.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · May 24

Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people.

There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · May 24

Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people.

There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

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Josh Artus @joshartus.bsky.social · May 22

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Earth Agora @earthagora.bsky.social · May 21

In ‘Major Win,’ Trump Administration Ordered to Restore $176 Million in Community and Environmental Grant Funding
www.ecowatch.com/environmenta...

In ‘Major Win,’ Trump Administration Ordered to Restore $176 Million in Community and Environmental Grant Funding - EcoWatch

In a huge win for environmentalists, a judge ruled that the Trump admin must restore $176 million in grants to six cities and 13 nonprofits.

www.ecowatch.com

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · May 22

Oh look, another cis lesbian assaulted for using the women’s bathroom. I’d like to send a gigantic fuck you to every lesbian TERF who helped create this situation www.outsports.com/2025/5/21/24...

PWHL hockey icon Madison Packer 'told to go to men’s restroom' - Outsports

After a 'humiliating' experience, Madison Packer calls bathroom policing a by-product of anti-trans propaganda.

www.outsports.com

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Josh Artus @joshartus.bsky.social · May 22

Oh goody

Michael Peel @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social · May 21

NEW: West Nile virus found in mosquitoes in UK for first time

Discovery shows how climate change is driving spread of tropical diseases to new regions

www.ft.com/content/9d23...

Register here to read some FT articles free:

www.ft.com/register

West Nile virus found in mosquitoes in UK for first time

Discovery shows how climate change is driving spread of tropical diseases to new regions

www.ft.com

Josh Artus @joshartus.bsky.social · May 17

Let Families Inherit State Pension Contributions — Our Money, Our Right

chng.it/RGL7gqZNjQ

We Can Make an Impact.

Let Families Inherit State Pension Contributions — Our Money, Our Right

chng.it

Josh Artus @joshartus.bsky.social · May 12

@arseblog.com @gunnerblog.bsky.social
Going through highlights of Saka & Martinelli goals and they're often more central - not wide. I feel that not having overlapping full-backs forces S&M to stay wide, get double-teamed, and we lose their attaching potency.

What do you think?
#arsecastextra

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · Apr 24

If you're in the UK, come join me at the Sheffield Festival of Debate on Tuesday: festivalofdebate.com

Festival of Debate 2025: Join the conversation

festivalofdebate.com

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Josh Artus @joshartus.bsky.social · Apr 16

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Haris @afcmhr.bsky.social · Apr 16

Josh Artus @joshartus.bsky.social · Apr 14

So...how have you all been hiding Terry Reid from me...

It's like Neil Young, Rod Stewart and Gram Parsons all got in Jeff Goldblum's fly machine...

Wow.

open.spotify.com/track/6TcmSJ...

Brave Awakening

Terry Reid · Seed Of Memory · Song · 1976

open.spotify.com

Josh Artus @joshartus.bsky.social · Apr 7

"It is understood to have rejected a £500m state rescue package."

Imagine if the government spent £500m on an infrastructure to make places sustainable: from community food growth, energy projects, retrofitting homes, social infrastructure..

...just imagine.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

‘It will cripple the town’: Scunthorpe ponders life after steel as 2,700 jobs at risk

Business owners say they are already struggling and furnace closures would make trading worse, but some residents say it’s time to move on

www.theguardian.com

Josh Artus @joshartus.bsky.social · Mar 17

Interested to learn more about our thinking at @thecentriclab.com?

Check out this thread on developing an abolitionist strategy into our air pollution project Air is Kin.

Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · Mar 17

Air Pollution and Abolition.

How might we approach this?

Follow this thread to see some of our thinking...

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Mar 14

I'd put it the other way round. Scientific method, as a human practice, is intrinsically value laden. What you choose to investigate, what you decide to measure, how you measure, what you ignore, how you deal with uncomfortable results, even who you allow to do it, are all soaked in values.

Tom Spoors @tomspoors.bsky.social · Mar 14

Scientific method may be as close to value free as any human activity but scientists have values, foibles and favourites, and are often funded by companies or governments which most certainly are not.

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Josh Artus @joshartus.bsky.social · Mar 10

Why fund community organising?

Great piece by Martha Mackenzie of Civic Power Fund.

medium.com/civic-power-...

“Community organizing is not just a neighborhood thing, not just a minority thing, not just a 60’s thing. Many — especially those uncomfortable with a particular community organizing effort because it’s confronting them at the time — seek to ‘label’ organizing as somehow out of date or out of place. The fact is that the method, the strategy the science of community organizing has been applied all over the world in situations as disparate as Solidarity in Poland, Welfare Rights in the US and ‘communidades del base’ in Brazil. The simple principles of community organizing are being applied right now in the barrios of San Antonio and in the ghettos of Baltimore. They are winning victories and building power.”

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Josh Artus @joshartus.bsky.social · Mar 3

"Voters support cutting aid budget to fund higher defence spending, poll suggests"

TRANSLATION

"Our Imperialist, racist, and xenophobic mindset is still strong and important to us"

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Voters support cutting aid budget to fund higher defence spending, poll suggests – UK politics live

65% of Britons support prime minister’s decision to cut aid budget to fund defence spending

www.theguardian.com

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Nataly Allasi Canales @allasicanales.bsky.social · Feb 27

Proud to be releasing my piece/essay that explores the aspects of my potato research that fascinate me so much. The essay focuses on my time working alongside Indigenous agricultural and botanical experts in the Andean regions of Bolivia and Peru.

Big thanks to @thecentriclab.com for their support

Bharath Nair (ഭരത് നായർ) @bharathabnair.bsky.social · Feb 27

www.healingimaginations.org/imaginations...

Cool piece sharing the Andean cosmovision @allasicanales.bsky.social @thecentriclab.com. A blueprint for us to build a sustainable future 💡.

Bitter Potatoes — Healing Imaginations

www.healingimaginations.org

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Josh Artus @joshartus.bsky.social · Feb 24

What I find funny and infuriating is that for all the Corbyn haters out there, this is the sh*t he stood for fighting. Why is that money being given to private hands?

For all their talk on hating governments that waste tax payers money, this is what *their* governments do.