@qbas81.bsky.social
Interested in degrowth, ecological overshoot, ecological economics, random different "bits and bobs".
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What country will Donald Trump bomb tonight to distract from the Epstein Files?

#EpsteinTrumpCoverUp
January 30, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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Trump appears in the Epstein files more than he appears in Melania's movie.
January 29, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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SUSIE WILES, CHIEF OF STAFF: "These Epstein files are really bad for us!"

TRUMP: "Let's send ICE to invade Minneapolis!"

SUSIE WILES, CHIEF OF STAFF: "These videos of ICE in Minneapolis are really bad for us!"

TRUMP: "Release some more Epstein files!"
January 30, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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The Epstein files are dripping out again.

This one that mentions Trump is incredibly disturbing.
January 30, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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BREAKING: The DOJ just DELETED a document in the Epstein Files that contained allegations made against Donald Trump.

But we saved it. 👇
DOJ Just DELETED This Document from the Epstein Files. We Saved It.
The Trump Department of Justice has done it again.
www.meidasplus.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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Trump swore he cut off contact with Epstein before he was arrested in 2006. So why would Epstein be calling Trump in 2011?
January 30, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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The new Epstein files production features numerous allegations made against Donald Trump and others.
January 30, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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“you didn’t give me the peace prize so now i’m just taking whatever i want”
mad king moment

from the PBS Newshour correspondent
January 19, 2026 at 5:42 AM
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this Greenland shit is fucking insane. it’s fucking insane. the fact that anyone is humoring him is fucking insane. the biggest problem in the world today is that nobody is taking the president seriously for the fucking psychopath he is. this isn’t all some fucking joke
mad king moment

from the PBS Newshour correspondent
January 19, 2026 at 5:53 AM
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The average American cannot imagine life getting worse and that lack of imagination has really bit us in the ass.
January 19, 2026 at 5:57 AM
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Embarrassment implies a capacity for shame
January 19, 2026 at 6:05 AM
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Thinking how best to summarise relationship between cumulative carbon dioxide emissions and functioning of Earth and social systems.
January 13, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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If you have a LinkedIn account, I invite you to urge other users to stop posting on Twitter/X.
www.linkedin.com/posts/jamesg...
January 14, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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More slides for this Friday's seminar.
January 15, 2026 at 10:54 AM
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Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
January 15, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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mad king moment

from the PBS Newshour correspondent
January 19, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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"..steady-state economy offers a blueprint for surviving climate breakdown, tackling runaway inequality, and rethinking the notion of prosperity itself.

Going Steady with Herman Daly - A New Podcast Series www.resilience.org/stories/2025...

#degrowth
January 12, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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"Rather than burning ourselves out Doing — the energy of the capitalist system we are trying to topple — why not try Being, the energy of #degrowth?”

#PostGrowth Fellow, Jane Wang, reflects on her journey from ‘activist’ to something more aligned: medium.com/postgrowth/t...

#taiwan #change
January 12, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology.

Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Nov 30
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting. n.pr/49MFa1M
As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ends, the future of forecasting is AI
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting.
n.pr
November 30, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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The relentless march of ever-falling battery prices continues.

🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
December 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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“Keen’s warning is unforgiving & straightforward: an economy is a physical system, not an algebraic dream & systems that defy the laws of nature eventually collapse.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth

Economic questions: (one of) the Steve Keen question(s)
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
Economic questions: (one of) the Steve Keen question(s)
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been, and what the relevance of that question might be ...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
January 2, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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Another new video that is a great trailer for my upcoming online sustainability and economics course #degrowth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSo_...
Is Degrowth the Only Answer?
YouTube video by Economics Explained
www.youtube.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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Trump is ecofascism. Fascism is authoritarianism to protect elite power and capital, keeping growth at any cost.
Ecofascism is authoritarianism to protect elite power and capital once growth hits its limits.
Same logic of control, different crisis. The alternative is justice, care, and #degrowth.
January 3, 2026 at 5:43 PM