Marc Hudson
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Failing/ed academic (socio-technical transitions), climate historian, writer, video maker. Most days I think we're toast. #envhist See also allouryesterdays.info
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Marc Hudson
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· Aug 5
The politics of Tom Lehrer: Noam Chomsky with a Piano?
Tom Lehrer died, aged 97, in late July. Lehrer had written 37 (well, a few more) songs in the 1950s and 1960s, and on the basis of this is still (rightly in my opinion) regarded as one of the…
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Tom Lehrer was a gateway drug for me, I now realise, for Noam Chomsky. Anyone else have the same experience?
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There are some people very very determined not to see what the people behind Starmer are doing. They resent ppl with eyes and spines and try to waste time/ set up strawmen.
They are to be laughed at and then muted, imo.
They are to be laughed at and then muted, imo.
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
There are some people very very determined not to see what the people behind Starmer are doing. They resent ppl with eyes and spines and try to waste time/ set up strawmen.
They are to be laughed at and then muted, imo.
They are to be laughed at and then muted, imo.
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Best understood, Labour's attack on juries, as a further lurch towards authoritarianism. Who, now, will stand in the way of a State that wants to imprison its opponents?
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Best understood, Labour's attack on juries, as a further lurch towards authoritarianism. Who, now, will stand in the way of a State that wants to imprison its opponents?
Attlee, who rarely gave interviews and never briefed the press, was astounded at what had happened. "Talked to the press?", he said when his adviser Francis Williams explained the facts to him. "Why on Earth did he want to talk to the press?"
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Budget leak uncanny echo of famous incident from 66 years ago
Labour chancellor Hugh Dalton resigned in 1947 after details were published in an evening newspaper before his speech
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November 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Attlee, who rarely gave interviews and never briefed the press, was astounded at what had happened. "Talked to the press?", he said when his adviser Francis Williams explained the facts to him. "Why on Earth did he want to talk to the press?"
www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/mar/...
www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/mar/...
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I was thoroughly marinated in the laissez faire pro-business attitude that prevailed in tech in the early 00s. But consulting Very Big Corporations cured me of the belief that private sector is more efficient simply by the virtue of being private.
Private blunders are just easier to hide.
Private blunders are just easier to hide.
still reeling from the fact that Amazon apparently spent 100s of millions of dollars trying to build a competitor to Steam that no one fucking heard of until some dude on LinkedIn talked about how it had bombed, and, like, they just face ZERO consequences for that waste of money.
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I was thoroughly marinated in the laissez faire pro-business attitude that prevailed in tech in the early 00s. But consulting Very Big Corporations cured me of the belief that private sector is more efficient simply by the virtue of being private.
Private blunders are just easier to hide.
Private blunders are just easier to hide.
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Fascist Reform leader Richard Tice would get REALLY upset if you shared this widely on all forms of social media so lots of people can keep it and bring it out before the next election to show that he is as big a liar as Keir Starmer.
So please don't, he would be *very* upset.
So please don't, he would be *very* upset.
November 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Fascist Reform leader Richard Tice would get REALLY upset if you shared this widely on all forms of social media so lots of people can keep it and bring it out before the next election to show that he is as big a liar as Keir Starmer.
So please don't, he would be *very* upset.
So please don't, he would be *very* upset.
Government was clearly afraid its best lawyers weren’t going to be good enough. So they nobble the referee. Such utter contempt they have for us all (ministers, but also the spooks who run things from the dark corners)
Removal of judge in Palestine Action ban legal challenge ‘deeply concerning’
Removal of judge in Palestine Action ban legal challenge ‘deeply concerning’
Unusual last-minute change means panel of three will now hear case rather than Mr Justice Chamberlain
Concerns have been raised after the judge who was expected to hear a legal challenge to the ban on Palestine Action was removed from the case at the last minute without explanation.
Mr Justice Chamberlain had granted permission for the judicial review and said that he would preside over the trial but it has emerged that a panel of three different judges will instead hear the case, which is due to start on Wednesday. Continue reading...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Government was clearly afraid its best lawyers weren’t going to be good enough. So they nobble the referee. Such utter contempt they have for us all (ministers, but also the spooks who run things from the dark corners)
Tell me again about an independent judiciary
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Tell me again about an independent judiciary
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Land of the free, home of the brave.
I am sure Keir Starmer will be intervening behind the scenes, oh yes.
I am sure Keir Starmer will be intervening behind the scenes, oh yes.
ICE detained Katie, a British woman in the final stages of her green card process, while she was holding her 6 month old son.
She’s married to an American and was following the process, yet at her last immigration meeting they grabbed her.
She’s been detained ever since:
She’s married to an American and was following the process, yet at her last immigration meeting they grabbed her.
She’s been detained ever since:
British woman arrested by ICE agents in California while holding newborn son
Katie was in the final stages of securing her green card when she was detained.
metro.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Land of the free, home of the brave.
I am sure Keir Starmer will be intervening behind the scenes, oh yes.
I am sure Keir Starmer will be intervening behind the scenes, oh yes.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
In astronomy and celestial navigation, an ephemeris (/ɪˈfɛmərɪs/; is a book with tables that gives the trajectory of naturally occurring astronomical objects and artificial satellites in the sky, i.e., the position (and possibly velocity) over time.
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
In astronomy and celestial navigation, an ephemeris (/ɪˈfɛmərɪs/; is a book with tables that gives the trajectory of naturally occurring astronomical objects and artificial satellites in the sky, i.e., the position (and possibly velocity) over time.
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November 23, 1968 – “Hell upon Earth” warning to London audience by Ritchie Calder about environmental destruction, including climate…
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November 23, 1968 - "Hell upon Earth" warning about environmental destruction,inc. climate... - All Our Yesterdays
On this day, November 23, 1968 Lord Ritchie Calder gave a presidential address to the Conservation Society (a British NGO from the mid 60s to the late 1980s). Its cheerful title? Hell Upon Earth. And...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
November 23, 1968 – “Hell upon Earth” warning to London audience by Ritchie Calder about environmental destruction, including climate…
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November 23, 1965 – Walter Orr Roberts “carbon dioxide is clearly rising in the atmosphere”
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November 23, 1965 - Walter Orr Roberts “carbon dioxide is clearly rising in the atmosphere” - All Our Yesterdays
Sixty years ago, on this day, November 23rd 1965, American scientist Walter Orr Roberts gave a speech. In it, this – “Perhaps, through this mechanism, we are already modifying the atmosphere, unknowi...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
November 23, 1965 – Walter Orr Roberts “carbon dioxide is clearly rising in the atmosphere”
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This week I'm hosting two events with campaigner and activist Kate Wilson as she discusses her book ‘Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files’.
Fri 21 Nov, Partisan Collective in Manchester
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Midday Sat 22 Nov at Glossop Labour Club
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Fri 21 Nov, Partisan Collective in Manchester
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Midday Sat 22 Nov at Glossop Labour Club
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November 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
This week I'm hosting two events with campaigner and activist Kate Wilson as she discusses her book ‘Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files’.
Fri 21 Nov, Partisan Collective in Manchester
spycops-manchester.eventbrite.co.uk
Midday Sat 22 Nov at Glossop Labour Club
spycops-glossop.eventbrite.co.uk
Fri 21 Nov, Partisan Collective in Manchester
spycops-manchester.eventbrite.co.uk
Midday Sat 22 Nov at Glossop Labour Club
spycops-glossop.eventbrite.co.uk
I’m trying to keep a level head, summon Kipling. What was it he said?
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
Then you’ve never watched England play cricket
Have you, my son?
Bwahahah
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
Then you’ve never watched England play cricket
Have you, my son?
Bwahahah
November 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I’m trying to keep a level head, summon Kipling. What was it he said?
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
Then you’ve never watched England play cricket
Have you, my son?
Bwahahah
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
Then you’ve never watched England play cricket
Have you, my son?
Bwahahah
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My favorite piece of content today.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My favorite piece of content today.
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Ugh too mad to work. I’m taking a potoo break.
📸Sparkle Motion, Sebastian Lescano, unknown, Melissa Garoo
📸Sparkle Motion, Sebastian Lescano, unknown, Melissa Garoo
November 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Ugh too mad to work. I’m taking a potoo break.
📸Sparkle Motion, Sebastian Lescano, unknown, Melissa Garoo
📸Sparkle Motion, Sebastian Lescano, unknown, Melissa Garoo
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⚠️ When “technology will save us” becomes a climate risk!
A new paper from great colleagues takes a careful look at techno-optimism — the belief that technology will largely solve climate change — and what it means for real-world climate action.
(1/4)👇
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A new paper from great colleagues takes a careful look at techno-optimism — the belief that technology will largely solve climate change — and what it means for real-world climate action.
(1/4)👇
osf.io/preprints/ps...
November 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
⚠️ When “technology will save us” becomes a climate risk!
A new paper from great colleagues takes a careful look at techno-optimism — the belief that technology will largely solve climate change — and what it means for real-world climate action.
(1/4)👇
osf.io/preprints/ps...
A new paper from great colleagues takes a careful look at techno-optimism — the belief that technology will largely solve climate change — and what it means for real-world climate action.
(1/4)👇
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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November 20, 1988 – Will Thatcher pick up the Green Gauntlet? (spoiler: no, no she won’t)
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November 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
November 20, 1988 – Will Thatcher pick up the Green Gauntlet? (spoiler: no, no she won’t)
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Sixty seven years ago today (Nov 19, 1958) – US public health doctor warns of long-term problem of carbon dioxide build-up...
"might even slowly melt the polar ice caps"
Reported in the Times the following day.
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"might even slowly melt the polar ice caps"
Reported in the Times the following day.
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November 19, 1958 - doctor warns of long-term problem of carbon dioxide build-up - All Our Yesterdays
Sixty five years ago, on this day, November 19, 1958, at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting Dr C Leake warns of carbon dioxide build up. This is reported the ...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Sixty seven years ago today (Nov 19, 1958) – US public health doctor warns of long-term problem of carbon dioxide build-up...
"might even slowly melt the polar ice caps"
Reported in the Times the following day.
allouryesterdays.info/2023/11/18/n...
"might even slowly melt the polar ice caps"
Reported in the Times the following day.
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My goodness that Russian ransom attack on the British Library has created so much heartache and extra work for everyone.
Sigh.
Sigh.
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
My goodness that Russian ransom attack on the British Library has created so much heartache and extra work for everyone.
Sigh.
Sigh.