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Marc Hudson

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Academic (socio-technical transitions), climate historian, writer, video maker. Most days I think we're toast. #envhist See also allouryesterdays.info @allouryesterdays.bsky.social

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Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · Aug 5

Tom Lehrer was a gateway drug for me, I now realise, for Noam Chomsky. Anyone else have the same experience?

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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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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 3d

It's Nobel Prize week! A good time to remember that the economics prize was created by Swedish bankers in 1968 (67 years after the 5 original Nobel prizes) against the wishes of the Nobel family, partly to legitimize neoclassical economics in the public eye and partly to help banks avoid regulation.

Philip Mirowski - Why Is There a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics?

YouTube video by New Economic Thinking

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Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 4h

Will have a listen! Ta for reposting.

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 12h

The Fascist Menace

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Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 12h

Hi @andreassieber.bsky.social - you might like my @allouryesterdays.bsky.social account, which is in support of my allouryesterdays.info climate histories project.

Welcome - All Our Yesterdays

Welcome “All Our Yesterdays” (here’s why it’s called that) Every day since December 31 2021 I’ve been posting at least one “on this day” blog post – sometimes more, and sometimes interviews and essays...

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Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 1d

They are in batshit crazy lunacy, stepped so far that returning were as tedious as go o'er.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

"Many oil and gas companies advocating for [carbon capture and storage[ in UK have simultaneously raised issues with the technical feasibility and commercial viability of CCS in other countries when faced with regulation"

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a three panel meme with a dog holding ball in its mouth

First panel: dog says "CCS?"
Second: hand taking ball, dog says "NO BUILD CCS"
third: "ONLY CCS" with angry eyebrows

Based off the 'no take only throw' comic satirising the contradictions of dogs who do not like the taking off the ball but like the throwing of it

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 2d

Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:

"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 2d

Smug stenographers to power. A very few have spines and brains. For the rest, courtiers, court jesters, regurgitators of junk tank talking points - ugh.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 2d

Is it relevant that the National Press Club sponsors include at least 5 corporations who work with the Israeli arms industry??
Incl:
Lockheed Martin
KBR
Raytheon

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 2d

It looks very much like the National Press Club statement lied about their cancellation of Chris Hedges. His appearance WAS confirmed, and even listed on the website, according to this.
(Hedges believes his talk on Gaza was cancelled following pressure from the pro-Israel lobby):

Statement on Cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club of Australia — Australian Friends of Palestine Association

AFOPA is responding to the Statement published on 4 October 2025 by the National Press Club of Australia ( NPC) in relation to their cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National ...

www.afopa.com.au

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Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 2d

Took me ages To get to o where I am…

Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 3d

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Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 3d

Oh you young people and your memes.

Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 3d

I am sure it already is!

Once I can juggle five balls, I was thinking of taking up a different hobby.

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Skeet shooting - Wikipedia

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Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 3d

??

In any case, in future I will be more diskeet in my use of the word.

Sorry, discreet.

Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 3d

So if I use it again I am skeeting on thin ice?

Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 3d

Philip Larkin could write poems.

That's it, that's the skeet.

allpoetry.com/At-Grass

At Grass by Philip Larkin - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry

Comments & analysis: The eye can hardly pick them out / From the cold shade they shelter in, / Till wind distre

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Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 3d

Have you read Jack London's novel "The Iron Heel"?

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The Iron Heel - Wikipedia

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 3d

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN CHINA Almost 40C

Up to at 39.3C Jiannang,39.0 Jiangde,38.7 Quzhou,38.6 Chagshan,38.5 Jiangshan and Shangrao,48.4 Yunhe,38.3 Lanzi and Yushan,38.2 Nanfeng etc
83 new records of October highest temperature (36 Maxes+47 Mins)
Almost 1000 in East Asia already!

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 3d

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline

People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

www.technologyreview.com

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Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 3d

I brandish "So Late in the Day" by Claire Keegan to the two female librarians.

"If you're looking for a book that will make you feel disturbed about men".

They both burst out laughing and tell me they don't need the book...

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Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 3d

"You make a very good point about neurodivergence. Living in Cambridge, I tend to forget that other types of men exist!"

[snorts]
From the comments under a review of a rather good (deeply unsettling) short story called "So Late in the Day"
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Claire Keegan – So Late in the Day

In a desperate attempt to read at least one book by an Irish writer before the end of the month, I remembered that I had Claire Keegan’s novella – well, effectively a short story, So La…

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Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 3d

Fulvous - reddish yellow; tawny.

Good scrabble word, that!

From reading Just-So Stories, specifically "How the Leopard Got his Spots".

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Do you like Kipling?

“I don’t know, I’ve never Kippled”. Ba-doom tish. I recently read 27 short stories in 27 days and am going to keep going, but instead of a blogpost per story, I am going to …

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Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 4d

We could meet up for practice sessions?! Newcastle Under Lyme work for you? DM me...

Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 4d

Juggling update - I can now semi-reliably "flash" 5 balls (i.e. throwing them up and catching them). Let's see how long it takes, with 15 mins daily practice, to be able to, well, juggle 5 balls.

Then will pivot back to clubs, and try to get to 4.

Gravity is a cruel mistress...

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Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 4d

And from "How the Camel got his Hump" (spoiler- by refusing to be a drudge for Man) I got this word

Indaba is a Zulu word for “important meeting” that seeks “to gather the right people together at the right time to discuss."