Ian@collapseaphorisms
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Thinking out loud about overshoot, doom, & the pointlessness of being
"I am reclaiming my time by living my one wild and free life like it matters. Because it does. There is much life in the letting go…I won’t be dragged."
(Jordan Perry)
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(Jordan Perry)
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November 26, 2025 at 7:50 AM
"I am reclaiming my time by living my one wild and free life like it matters. Because it does. There is much life in the letting go…I won’t be dragged."
(Jordan Perry)
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(Jordan Perry)
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"Investment funds are going all-in on stocks:
Cash levels in US equity mutual funds have declined to 1.2% of total assets, the lowest in at least 20 years."
(The Kobeissi Letter)
#GoodLuckWithThat
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Cash levels in US equity mutual funds have declined to 1.2% of total assets, the lowest in at least 20 years."
(The Kobeissi Letter)
#GoodLuckWithThat
#collapse
November 26, 2025 at 7:24 AM
"Investment funds are going all-in on stocks:
Cash levels in US equity mutual funds have declined to 1.2% of total assets, the lowest in at least 20 years."
(The Kobeissi Letter)
#GoodLuckWithThat
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Cash levels in US equity mutual funds have declined to 1.2% of total assets, the lowest in at least 20 years."
(The Kobeissi Letter)
#GoodLuckWithThat
#collapse
"Data just dropped from CERES for September, 2025, and yet another record low for Earth albedo was set, with the 36-month reaching below 28.70% for the first time, coming in at 28.693%.
Everything is not fine."
(Prof Eliot Jacobson)
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Everything is not fine."
(Prof Eliot Jacobson)
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November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"Data just dropped from CERES for September, 2025, and yet another record low for Earth albedo was set, with the 36-month reaching below 28.70% for the first time, coming in at 28.693%.
Everything is not fine."
(Prof Eliot Jacobson)
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Everything is not fine."
(Prof Eliot Jacobson)
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Oh look, the U.S. government posted a higher $284 billion deficit for October in a report delayed by the federal shutdown and reflecting record tariff revenues offset by a shift of some November benefit payments into last month’s data, the Treasury Department said on Tuesday.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Oh look, the U.S. government posted a higher $284 billion deficit for October in a report delayed by the federal shutdown and reflecting record tariff revenues offset by a shift of some November benefit payments into last month’s data, the Treasury Department said on Tuesday.
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Oh look, Iraq's Ministry’s CSO reported on Monday that lands classified as desert or threatened by desertification reached 96,500 square kilometres in 2024, accounting for 55.5% of Iraq’s total territory, and fully desertified land rose to 40,400 km², or 23.2%of the country.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Oh look, Iraq's Ministry’s CSO reported on Monday that lands classified as desert or threatened by desertification reached 96,500 square kilometres in 2024, accounting for 55.5% of Iraq’s total territory, and fully desertified land rose to 40,400 km², or 23.2%of the country.
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"On November 22nd, the planet hit 1.81°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, making it the warmest November 22nd on record, and likely the warmest November 22nd in the last 120,000 years."
(Prof Eliot Jacobson)
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(Prof Eliot Jacobson)
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November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
"On November 22nd, the planet hit 1.81°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, making it the warmest November 22nd on record, and likely the warmest November 22nd in the last 120,000 years."
(Prof Eliot Jacobson)
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(Prof Eliot Jacobson)
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"Turkey agreed with the World Bank to begin talks for up to $6 billion in financing to upgrade the country's electricity transmission system, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Monday."
(Reuters)
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(Reuters)
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November 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"Turkey agreed with the World Bank to begin talks for up to $6 billion in financing to upgrade the country's electricity transmission system, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Monday."
(Reuters)
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(Reuters)
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"Canada may be about to do something it hasn’t managed in nearly two decades: clear political space for a brand-new oil pipeline to the Pacific."
(oilprice.com)
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(oilprice.com)
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November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"Canada may be about to do something it hasn’t managed in nearly two decades: clear political space for a brand-new oil pipeline to the Pacific."
(oilprice.com)
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(oilprice.com)
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Oh look, it's that awkward part of collapse where all the black hat doomers are still cackling away at our species' nigh perfectly stupid Icarian miscalculation.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Oh look, it's that awkward part of collapse where all the black hat doomers are still cackling away at our species' nigh perfectly stupid Icarian miscalculation.
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"A “once in 300 year” storm has battered southern Thailand, bringing floodwaters more than eight feet high that in one city cut off access to a maternity ward holding 30 newborn babies, staff and officials said."
(CNN)
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(CNN)
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November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"A “once in 300 year” storm has battered southern Thailand, bringing floodwaters more than eight feet high that in one city cut off access to a maternity ward holding 30 newborn babies, staff and officials said."
(CNN)
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(CNN)
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November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Oh look, between September 6 and November 14, 1443 cases of bird flu viruses have been detected in wild birds across 26 European countries, and these rates are four times higher than they were last year.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Oh look, between September 6 and November 14, 1443 cases of bird flu viruses have been detected in wild birds across 26 European countries, and these rates are four times higher than they were last year.
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"The opening price of gold futures on Tuesday was up 1% from Monday’s close. Here’s a look at how the opening gold price has changed versus last week, month, and year:
One week ago: +2.4%
One month ago: +0.4%
One year ago: +53.7%"
(Yahoo Finance)
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One week ago: +2.4%
One month ago: +0.4%
One year ago: +53.7%"
(Yahoo Finance)
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November 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"The opening price of gold futures on Tuesday was up 1% from Monday’s close. Here’s a look at how the opening gold price has changed versus last week, month, and year:
One week ago: +2.4%
One month ago: +0.4%
One year ago: +53.7%"
(Yahoo Finance)
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One week ago: +2.4%
One month ago: +0.4%
One year ago: +53.7%"
(Yahoo Finance)
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Oh look, almost 3,000 species ranging from birds to lichen are in peril in Wales because they are clinging on in a handful of locations or even fewer, according to a report from Natural Resources Wales.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Oh look, almost 3,000 species ranging from birds to lichen are in peril in Wales because they are clinging on in a handful of locations or even fewer, according to a report from Natural Resources Wales.
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”Each time the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] has reassessed the likelihood of what it used to call large-scale discontinuities in the climate system, it has lowered the temperature at which they become a risk.”
(Tim Lenton)
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(Tim Lenton)
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November 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
”Each time the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] has reassessed the likelihood of what it used to call large-scale discontinuities in the climate system, it has lowered the temperature at which they become a risk.”
(Tim Lenton)
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(Tim Lenton)
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"A second outbreak of highly infectious bird flu has been identified within a week in the Gelderse Vallei, one of the heartlands of the Dutch poultry industry."
(dutchnews.nl)
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(dutchnews.nl)
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November 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
"A second outbreak of highly infectious bird flu has been identified within a week in the Gelderse Vallei, one of the heartlands of the Dutch poultry industry."
(dutchnews.nl)
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(dutchnews.nl)
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"A sanctioned Russian shadow fleet tanker has reached Venezuela’s waters after evading a U.S. destroyer."
(oilprice.com)
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(oilprice.com)
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November 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
"A sanctioned Russian shadow fleet tanker has reached Venezuela’s waters after evading a U.S. destroyer."
(oilprice.com)
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(oilprice.com)
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Oh look, the Global Wildfire Information System estimates that by November, wildfires had burned 47,026 hectares in 2025 in the UK – the largest area in any year since monitoring began in 2012, and more than double the area burned in the record-breaking summer of 2022.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Oh look, the Global Wildfire Information System estimates that by November, wildfires had burned 47,026 hectares in 2025 in the UK – the largest area in any year since monitoring began in 2012, and more than double the area burned in the record-breaking summer of 2022.
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