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Adam Greenfield

@lifehouse.bsky.social

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Endurance athlete, heavy-music appreciator, compulsive greeter of cats. My most recent book is “Lifehouse: Taking Care Of Ourselves in A World On Fire” (2024), available direct from Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2536-lifehouse

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1h

You would worry about a relative or other loved one you heard speaking this way. [2/2]

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1h

The thing about the Thiel transcript isn’t that it’s insane, though it is that, and it isn’t even that it’s detached from any actual real concern on a planet with plenty of ‘em. It’s that it doesn’t make sense from one sentence to the next. In places it’s very nearly whipped word salad. [1/2]

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 10h

The long problematic history of Americans (i.e. individuals) in Mexico. The construction in popular culture of the border crossing as the release from obligation, accountability, history, from Burroughs and Welles and “Hey Joe” to Linda Hamilton in the jeep and frat boys in Cabo.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 13h

on Earth?

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 13h

It’s taken me half a lifetime to reconcile myself to this, even where my own embodied being is concerned. [3/3]

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 14h

Lord knows I have my problems with Trots, but there’s something uncanny about being in the space where Stalin’s chekist goons finally caught up with the man himself. [2/2]

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 14h

For obscure reasons – early exposure to “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” followed by the discovery that Emmanuel Goldstein was based on a real historical figure – the Trotsky assassination has loomed large in my consciousness since late childhood. [1/2]

The desk in Leon Trotsky’s study in Mexico City, ostensibly left just as it was on the day NKVD assassin Ramón Mercader assaulted him there, with briefly fatal consequences, in August 1940. October 9th, 2025.

A selection of books ostensibly found on the desk of Leon Trotsky on the day he was attacked by NKVD assassin Ramón Mercader in August 1940, Mexico City, October 9th, 2025.

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes, the brave person has to be you.

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

Godspeed Mark Bray!

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

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Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

And afterward we went to the Trotsky House.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

The lenses on this phone are entirely inadequate to its scale, and these pictures in no way convey the feeling of being there. The most amazing bit is that I’d never heard word one of its existence before yesterday morning. A must-see in Mexico City. [2/2]

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

The Espacio Escultórico at UNAM, a 1979 work of land #art by Helen Escobedo, Manuel Felguérez, Mathias Goeritz, Hersúa, Sebastián and Federico Silva, is one of the most extraordinary places I’ve ever been. [1/2]

Espacio Escultórico at UNAM, view from between two of the monoliths facing the sunken interior.

Espacio Escultórico at UNAM, view of the basin.

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

RFK's goal is to kill children, specifically sick children.

If you assumed that was *not* his goal, you'd think that he was failing at an entirely, completely different goal: not killing children.

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

Pastor David is one of the bravest and most thoughtful people I know. There’s just about nobody I’d rather have emerging as a symbol of the struggle against ICE.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 21d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

If you rate him, that’s good enough for me.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

Timely (if never anything less than relevant)!

A quote from George Orwell painted at about the third storey of the side of a building in the Centro Histórico of Mexico City, October 8th, 2025, with a vaguely ironic cluster of cellular antennae mounted directly above. (The quote is a Spanish rendering of the familiar “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.“)

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 3d

"just show them how brutal the oppressors are. that'll stop them" is pure wishcasting

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 3d

That’s reading material packed.

Paperback copies of Benjamin Labatut’s “When We Cease To Understand The World” and Francis Spufford’s “Cahokia Jazz” nestled in a bed of black clothing, ensconced in turn in the black interior of a Dyneema bag.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4d

Whisper: Maybe we should stop messing with the radiative balance of Earth.

Plan to Reflect Sunlight to Power Solar Panels at Night Upsets Astronomers

Reflect Orbital aims to launch its first of a planned 4,000 satellites into orbit next year. Scientists worry that it would be “ruinous” for research.

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 3d

All this time I have thought that “do not unto others that which you lament having been done to your ancestors” was a fairly basic, obvious and easy to observe ethical position.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 3d

up betimes and to ye air-porte

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 4d

Forget it, Jake – it’s Bluesky.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 4d

Like, Kash Patel’s “personal” challenge coin? That’s very nearly as diagnostic as Elon’s anime-fantasy fuckbot.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 4d

Elon Musk. Kash Patel. Pete Hegseth. Mike Johnson. What’s in the water in the States? Suddenly the public sphere is ruled by psychoemotionally stunted weirdos – a parade of the developmentally arrested, headed up by the biggest man-baby of them all.

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