Josh Artus
@joshartus.bsky.social
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
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...
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...
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 ✌🏻
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 ✌🏻
Amazing work for an org's first year ✊🏻
In our first year, we:
-Trained 2,000 people, incl. 1,200 legal aid lawyers fighting frontline injustices
-Reached countless more via press + podcasts
-Advised people fighting harmful AI in 20 states
-Wrote useful guides seen by 17,000 people
-Grew to a team of 7
Thanks for your support!
-Trained 2,000 people, incl. 1,200 legal aid lawyers fighting frontline injustices
-Reached countless more via press + podcasts
-Advised people fighting harmful AI in 20 states
-Wrote useful guides seen by 17,000 people
-Grew to a team of 7
Thanks for your support!
November 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Amazing work for an org's first year ✊🏻
Aerial photo of North London right now 👇🏻 🔴⚪
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Aerial photo of North London right now 👇🏻 🔴⚪
Byyyyyyeeeee.
If we have to live in a deprived society so that you can be wealthy we'd rather not have that society designed around obscene wealth for the few and pain for the many.
The UK won't get any better pandering to cries from the wealthy.
If we have to live in a deprived society so that you can be wealthy we'd rather not have that society designed around obscene wealth for the few and pain for the many.
The UK won't get any better pandering to cries from the wealthy.
🗣️ "I’m worth £780m at 37 — and I’m leaving Britain for Dubai"
Herman Narula, founder of Improbable, doubts he’ll be the last tech entrepreneur to depart
Herman Narula, founder of Improbable, doubts he’ll be the last tech entrepreneur to depart
I’m worth £780m at 37 — and I’m leaving Britain for Dubai
Herman Narula, founder of Improbable, doubts he’ll be the last tech entrepreneur to leave the UK
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Byyyyyyeeeee.
If we have to live in a deprived society so that you can be wealthy we'd rather not have that society designed around obscene wealth for the few and pain for the many.
The UK won't get any better pandering to cries from the wealthy.
If we have to live in a deprived society so that you can be wealthy we'd rather not have that society designed around obscene wealth for the few and pain for the many.
The UK won't get any better pandering to cries from the wealthy.
They really will do ANYTHING but tax obscene wealth and the loopholes used to extract billions out of the country.
It's evident to see that this "Labour" government got into power by being bought by those who hold financial power.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
It's evident to see that this "Labour" government got into power by being bought by those who hold financial power.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Rachel Reeves considering pay-per-mile tax for electric vehicles in budget
EV drivers would face 3p-a-mile charge on top of other road taxes to offset falling revenue from petrol and diesel cars
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
They really will do ANYTHING but tax obscene wealth and the loopholes used to extract billions out of the country.
It's evident to see that this "Labour" government got into power by being bought by those who hold financial power.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
It's evident to see that this "Labour" government got into power by being bought by those who hold financial power.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Few things summarise our time more than these messages from systems designed for "efficiency" 🤬
October 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Few things summarise our time more than these messages from systems designed for "efficiency" 🤬
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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:
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
October 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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:
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:
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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!
More please!
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!
Weiter so!
September 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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!
More please!
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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.
September 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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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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
🔍 #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
September 25, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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
🔍 #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
Big moment for us at @thecentriclab.com (and me personally) in the publication of this case study in the @citiesxhealth.bsky.social journal.
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
🔍 #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
September 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Big moment for us at @thecentriclab.com (and me personally) in the publication of this case study in the @citiesxhealth.bsky.social journal.
Reposted by Josh Artus
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…
August 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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…
New thinking from the Lab 👇
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...
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...
July 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
New thinking from the Lab 👇
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.
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.
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.
There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.
May 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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.
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.
Reposted by Josh Artus
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.
There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.
May 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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.
There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.
✊🏻
In ‘Major Win,’ Trump Administration Ordered to Restore $176 Million in Community and Environmental Grant Funding
www.ecowatch.com/environmenta...
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
May 22, 2025 at 6:12 AM
✊🏻
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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
May 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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...
Oh goody
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
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
May 22, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Oh goody
@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
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
May 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
@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
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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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
April 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
If you're in the UK, come join me at the Sheffield Festival of Debate on Tuesday: festivalofdebate.com
❤️
April 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
❤️
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...
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
April 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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...
It's like Neil Young, Rod Stewart and Gram Parsons all got in Jeff Goldblum's fly machine...
Wow.
open.spotify.com/track/6TcmSJ...
"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...
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
April 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM
"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...
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...
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.
Check out this thread on developing an abolitionist strategy into our air pollution project Air is Kin.
Air Pollution and Abolition.
How might we approach this?
Follow this thread to see some of our thinking...
How might we approach this?
Follow this thread to see some of our thinking...
March 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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.
Check out this thread on developing an abolitionist strategy into our air pollution project Air is Kin.
Reposted by Josh Artus
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.
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.
March 14, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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.