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On Roger's release - my speech at the appeal for the Whole Truth Five

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 9d

Is the climate system more sensitive to CO2 than we thought?

What were the impacts of this summer's heatwaves, and how can cities adapt?

Will extreme weather shocks catalyse climate action?

New episode of News From a World in Flux with @claretotty.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhS7...

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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · Aug 15

On the release of Roger Hallam from prison - a really good time to remind ourselves of the ongoing problem of police and media collusion. The work to build new institutions that serve the people and not the state continues. Please share if you can. Thanks dears! x

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My friend Roger Hallam is out of prison, but the work to build new democratic institutions continues.

The Lionesses. Women’s sport makes Britain brilliant

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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · Aug 1

Fabulous piece Alanna! Totally agree x

Alex Lockwood @alexlockwood.bsky.social · Aug 1

⚽⚽ Women's football makes Britain brilliant - change my mind ⚽⚽ (Or rather change Alanna's, who has penned this fabulous piece on the Lionesses, 'Proper English', national identity & what kind of people we want to be, for @absurdintelligence.bsky.social).

www.absurdintelligence.com/the-lionesse...

The Euros winners show what it means to love your country.

Is Climate Justice possible? Part 3

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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · Jul 26

I want to ask you to reflect on a basic human experience of wanting to fit in, and how, in many parts of culture, why we don't grow out of those immature behaviours, and how action on climate has been caught up in this - including calls for Climate Justice clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/is-climate...

Justice requires elder wisdom and a willingness to be vulnerable, not an immature willingness to fit in at any cost.

Message discipline works - well done Gary

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Alex Lockwood @alexlockwood.bsky.social · Jul 17

Just a big-up to Gary Stevenson who came back to his YouTube channel this week to find how effectively his call for message discipline around a wealth tax has worked out. My latest for @absurdintelligence.bsky.social

www.absurdintelligence.com/message-disc...

When you have a clear, consistent message and a powerful messenger, you can shift the political weather.

Is Climate Justice possible? Part 2

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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · Jul 15

Last night I watched Mean Girls, and it made me realise quite a lot about climate justice. It's a teen comedy but it's good! It says a lot about human behaviour, consumerism, and how our sense of safety is woven with our sense of identity. Part 2 of 3: clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/is-climate...

Mean Girls and memetic desire have helped me understand what happens when you try to change someone's mind about justice.

Is Climate Justice possible? Part 1

Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · Jul 7

Let me just say, I'm not trying to start a fight! Even if the algorithm wants it... but I do think there's an important conversation to have around where we're at with "climate justice" in a time of almost certain collapse.

Wld love you to read and share x
clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/is-climate...

This post is in three parts, to take some time and depth to properly grapple with a complex and important issue in the climate and democracy movements.

Nothing makes sense any more - in solidarity with Palestine Action

Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · Jun 28

Nothing makes sense any more when nonviolent dissent is made a false equivalence with erasing an entire people.

Please share before Monday, when doing so could be illegal and end you up in prison.

With love and support for @palaction.bsky.social 🇵🇸

open.substack.com/pub/clarejfa...

Everything is out of proportion because it suits those who abuse power to keep it that way.

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Alex Lockwood @alexlockwood.bsky.social · Jun 25

A report from @oceanrebellion.bsky.social interventions at #UNOC2025 for those who want to deep dive into how creativity, humour & confusion work in our favour as we perform our civic duty to disobey unjust laws & immoral profiteering: Don't Touch My Bottom www.absurdintelligence.com/dont-touch-m...

Don’t touch my bottom

Absurd Intelligence and Ocean Rebellion members Clive Russell and Roc Sandford recount five manic days on the Côte d'Azur.

The imbalance of freedom: part 2

Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · Jun 17

It took time to think about Vance’s speech in Munich on ‘the retreat of free speech’ but going via Timothy Snyder, Hannah Arendt and others I’m convinced that the imbalance of freedom can be rebalanced with the ‘right to be listened to’.

Please share, thanks loves! x substack.com/home/post/p-...

To regain our freedom, we have to act free and demand our right to be listened to

Educating myself on violence

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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · Jun 4

As friends of mine continue to get locked up for nonviolent resistance for fighting the climate disaster, it's our job to educate ourselves on both nonviolence and violence. There's no better place to begin than with Hannah Arendt. My thoughts. Please share! Tx

open.substack.com/pub/clarejfa...

The 1969 book On Violence by Hannah Arendt is essential for those of us who advocate nonviolence as an approach to conflict and peace.

open.substack.com

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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · May 29

What else is going on with the idea that we're an 'island of strangers'. Is it valid? Is this how people feel? Spoiler: it's not immigration, sorry Keir/Nige.

Why do we feel isolated & alone. My friend Alanna @absurdintelligence.bsky.social gets into it: www.absurdintelligence.com/island-of-st...

Island of strangers?

The outrage over echoes of Enoch are valid, but the deeper question remains: where *are* our communities?

Exponential x Existential = The Problem

Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · May 26

Most of us don't think much about why we're here. We've abandoned institutions that help us have those conversations about what being means.

In the midst of a crisis that's existential AND exponential, to me it's catastrophic not to talk about why we 'are' clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/exponentia...

Most of us don't have a sense of why we're here; that's stopping us from dealing with crisis.

Narratives need enacting, otherwise they’re just words

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Alex Lockwood @alexlockwood.bsky.social · May 22

The fab event at Kairos last week with organising legend Marshall Ganz prompted us at @absurdintelligence.bsky.social to get our thoughts about narrative down on paper. In short: stories matter, but only if they get people doing stuff!

Pls read and RT www.absurdintelligence.com/narratives-n...

A theory for story in service to organising: get on the bike!

Context needs to survive, or we won’t

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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · May 19

Context needs to survive, or we won't. But in their lurch to hoard wealth and power, the super-rich and their political elites set out to destroy context, and so destroy us. Democracy dies with no context. So what can we do about it? My new post, please read + share <3
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Without understanding the context of the world we’re in, the super-rich elite can govern us to our deaths without resistance

Wet bulb disasters, importing trees, and prison update | NFAWIF | XRUK

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · May 13

New episode of News From a World in Flux with @claretotty.bsky.social

We discussed fatal wet bulb temperatures, the future of forests, what nature tells us about human migration, activist jail sentences and all sorts
of similarly fun stuff

YouTube video by Extinction Rebellion (XR) UK

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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · May 16

I do this work because I believe in people, love people and trust people. If you reflect the goodness of humanity back at us, then you're the kind of person I want at our convention! Have a read:

www.absurdintelligence.com/on-reflectin...

On reflecting the goodness of humanity: an invitation

Are you ready to collaborate on how we decide our fate?

Daddio! A Collaborative Novel

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Alex Lockwood @alexlockwood.bsky.social · May 13

Today's the launch party for my new novel Daddio!, a climate comedy for the ages wrapped up in an old fashioned family drama: how we keep loving during the sh*tshow. If you're in London & fancy coming along, DM me, otherwise... hardart.metalabel.com/release-dadd... (with sounds by Brian Eno!)

A man drives his elderly evil-tempered father to a funeral. They never arrive as their dysfunctional family dynamic unravels on a journey overshadowed by a fascist & climate-ravaged future. Daddio! is...

hardart.metalabel.com

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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · May 12

The media has never helped us understand that stories are the driving force behind the collapsing climate. That's because it's designed not to. So if we’re governed by dreams and gossip, how should we respond? My latest, please subscribe (freely) and share (also freely!) substack.com/home/post/p-...

If we’re governed by dreams and gossip, how should we respond?

The media has never helped us understand that stories are the driving force behind the collapsing climate. That's because it's designed not to.

Policied to Extinction – why the think tanks came after the climate movement

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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · Apr 30

Thanks Alex! 🙏

Alex Lockwood @alexlockwood.bsky.social · Apr 30

I'm super glad to be supporting the launch of @claretotty.bsky.social's Substack - her analysis for a real democracy, grounded in not just *thinking* about problems but *doing* something about them. She's one of the smartest people I've met. Go have a read!
www.absurdintelligence.com/policied-to-...

Announcing the launch of Clare Farrell’s Substack, essential analysis for anyone who wants to live in a democracy.

The more of our work we give away for free, the more we create a different (and kinder) culture.

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Alex Lockwood @alexlockwood.bsky.social · Apr 25

What if we gave away more of our work for free? Would it make a difference to the world we live in? That's what Clive Russell explores for @absurdintelligence.bsky.social in this week's newsletter.

www.absurdintelligence.com/work-for-free/

Work for Free

Belonging in fractured Britain: an argument for ritual

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Alex Lockwood @alexlockwood.bsky.social · Apr 17

If we're going to pull together, we need to get back to our rituals, writes Daze Aghaji @absurdintelligence.bsky.social. As we go into this highly ritualised Easter weekend, let's pay attention to how we're coming together to connect with something bigger www.absurdintelligence.com/belonging-in...

If we're going to pull together as a country, we need to get back to our rituals.

Trump’s Tariffs on the X-Y Axis of Evil

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Clare Farrell @claretotty.bsky.social · Apr 8

Our friend and collaborator David Bent, founder of Atelier of What’s Next, dismayed with Trump’s terrible mathematics and with the commentariat’s forgetfulness of the wider agenda, weighs in with some sound algebra of his own.

www.absurdintelligence.com/trumps-tarif...

Our friend and collaborator David Bent, founder of Atelier of What’s Next, dismayed like many with Trump’s terrible mathematics and with the commentariat’s forgetfulness of the wider agenda, weighs in...

The Network is The Strategy, Part Two: in Praise of Fred Hampton

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Alex Lockwood @alexlockwood.bsky.social · Apr 3

It might sound simple, but convening across difference is the way to work around the "culture wars" that divide the country. Convening means listening and thinking. So @absurdintelligence.bsky.social we offer for your reading:

The Network is The Strategy
www.absurdintelligence.com/the-network-...

It’s time to do the previously unthinkable: get over ourselves, and start actually working with each other.