Andie Wyatt
@andiew66.bsky.social
My special interest is reality, where everything is interconnected, humans are Nature, and right relation matters most. 🌎 also climate & energy
Thread worth reading.
We have to be responsive to pattern-seeking amid uncertainty, efforts to make meaning while grappling with threats, dysregulation, and the effects of social isolation and coercion.
December 13, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Thread worth reading.
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This, more than anything, is what the right realized in the wake of the 2000 election: in a moment of chaos or crisis, they can do anything -- *anything*, no matter how overtly criminal or gross -- & just smooth it over later with "both sides" pablum. "Let's not fight, let's look forward," etc.
December 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This, more than anything, is what the right realized in the wake of the 2000 election: in a moment of chaos or crisis, they can do anything -- *anything*, no matter how overtly criminal or gross -- & just smooth it over later with "both sides" pablum. "Let's not fight, let's look forward," etc.
Class reductionism is not actually opposed to capitalist extractivism it just wants to give different white men a chance to be on top
"Firing racists is a capitalist assault upon the working class" is the kind of galaxy brain take that makes me want asteroids to cleanse the planet.
December 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Class reductionism is not actually opposed to capitalist extractivism it just wants to give different white men a chance to be on top
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There’s a difference between doomerism - “it’s all terrible and there’s no answer” - and the warning given here, which is “it’s currently heading in a terrible direction and we need to *make damn sure* we DO something about it.“
Because we can. But currently we aren’t.
Because we can. But currently we aren’t.
On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four.
I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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December 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
There’s a difference between doomerism - “it’s all terrible and there’s no answer” - and the warning given here, which is “it’s currently heading in a terrible direction and we need to *make damn sure* we DO something about it.“
Because we can. But currently we aren’t.
Because we can. But currently we aren’t.
This is indeed great from start to finish, but “the kind of specific neurological injury that you can only get by paying for an economics degree” was a particular highlight.
December 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This is indeed great from start to finish, but “the kind of specific neurological injury that you can only get by paying for an economics degree” was a particular highlight.
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Putting Elon Musk on the cover of a magazine for anything other than “his illegal government funding cuts have already killed hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children” is propaganda
December 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Putting Elon Musk on the cover of a magazine for anything other than “his illegal government funding cuts have already killed hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children” is propaganda
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I think about this quote from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social a lot:
“The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”
“The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”
We are being poisoned every day, so why do we keep voting for more pollution? Ask a lobbyist | George Monbiot
The dirty industries that dominate politics deceive us into accepting dangerous pollutants such as ammonia as part of life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I think about this quote from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social a lot:
“The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”
“The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”
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I think Trump experiences fear, jealousy, pleasure, disgust, rage, & that's about it, emotionally speaking.
Barely a peg above lizard shit.
Beyond that I think he's basically a glitchy human AI, trying to spit out a facsimile of human-sounding language without any real processing or understanding.
Barely a peg above lizard shit.
Beyond that I think he's basically a glitchy human AI, trying to spit out a facsimile of human-sounding language without any real processing or understanding.
December 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I think Trump experiences fear, jealousy, pleasure, disgust, rage, & that's about it, emotionally speaking.
Barely a peg above lizard shit.
Beyond that I think he's basically a glitchy human AI, trying to spit out a facsimile of human-sounding language without any real processing or understanding.
Barely a peg above lizard shit.
Beyond that I think he's basically a glitchy human AI, trying to spit out a facsimile of human-sounding language without any real processing or understanding.
Agree with the addition that “negative externalities” isn’t a concept in capitalist economics so much as a refutation of it. A system that excludes massive relevant effects from consideration can only possibly be a lie to cover for extraction and abuse of power.
I say this as someone whose entire job is finding the narrow use cases in which AI is actually useful:
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
All the fear about AI, all the reluctance to adopt it, is entirely legitimate, and a product of the fact that it's been foisted on the public with no consideration of its negative externalities.
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Agree with the addition that “negative externalities” isn’t a concept in capitalist economics so much as a refutation of it. A system that excludes massive relevant effects from consideration can only possibly be a lie to cover for extraction and abuse of power.
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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Saying "it's good that this is happening" isn't the same as saying "the people who are doing this are good."
Scumbag politicians figuring out what the progressive base wants and giving it to them is an essential part of making the country better. Always has been, always will be.
Scumbag politicians figuring out what the progressive base wants and giving it to them is an essential part of making the country better. Always has been, always will be.
December 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Saying "it's good that this is happening" isn't the same as saying "the people who are doing this are good."
Scumbag politicians figuring out what the progressive base wants and giving it to them is an essential part of making the country better. Always has been, always will be.
Scumbag politicians figuring out what the progressive base wants and giving it to them is an essential part of making the country better. Always has been, always will be.
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There are 56,000 of them, the wealthiest 0.001% of the planet with at least €254 million in assets. Together, they now own three times more than the poorest half of humanity or 2.8 billion adults …Back in 1995, the 0.001% held "only" twice as much as the poorest half.
www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...
www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...
The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth, report shows
The wealth of the ultra-rich is undergoing a historic surge. This is the key takeaway of the third major report of the World Inequality Lab co-directed by French economist Thomas Piketty, which emphas...
www.lemonde.fr
December 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
There are 56,000 of them, the wealthiest 0.001% of the planet with at least €254 million in assets. Together, they now own three times more than the poorest half of humanity or 2.8 billion adults …Back in 1995, the 0.001% held "only" twice as much as the poorest half.
www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...
www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...
@quigley.house.gov Signing on? Your constituents (hi!) need you to support this as soon and as strongly as possible.
🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
December 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
@quigley.house.gov Signing on? Your constituents (hi!) need you to support this as soon and as strongly as possible.
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🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
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It's a weird psychosocial terror of being feminized by penetration, but the penetration is "your feelings being affected by people you care for," a basic element of being a social creature. They want to amputate a key chunk of human nature in the name of being totes alpha masc bros.
December 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's a weird psychosocial terror of being feminized by penetration, but the penetration is "your feelings being affected by people you care for," a basic element of being a social creature. They want to amputate a key chunk of human nature in the name of being totes alpha masc bros.
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🧵 Also: Much legal theory seems to be based on a fantasy Congress.
The administrative state grew because Congress, which has a limited number of people with extraordinary time demands, delegated to specialists.
It now has the same number of people, demands are worse and tasks are more complex.
The administrative state grew because Congress, which has a limited number of people with extraordinary time demands, delegated to specialists.
It now has the same number of people, demands are worse and tasks are more complex.
1/ A few thoughts about @williambaude.bsky.social’s comment in yesterday’s NYT chat that, “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
Opinion | At the Supreme Court, Scenes From a Judicial Backlash
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
🧵 Also: Much legal theory seems to be based on a fantasy Congress.
The administrative state grew because Congress, which has a limited number of people with extraordinary time demands, delegated to specialists.
It now has the same number of people, demands are worse and tasks are more complex.
The administrative state grew because Congress, which has a limited number of people with extraordinary time demands, delegated to specialists.
It now has the same number of people, demands are worse and tasks are more complex.
MAGAts believe disasters are good for weeding out the weak and undeserving and for giving deserving rich white men opportunities to grift and profit from suffering, safe in their enclaves and bunkers. By their measures, this asshole has all the merit. (Climate messaging people should take note.)
SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
www.thehandbasket.co
December 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
MAGAts believe disasters are good for weeding out the weak and undeserving and for giving deserving rich white men opportunities to grift and profit from suffering, safe in their enclaves and bunkers. By their measures, this asshole has all the merit. (Climate messaging people should take note.)
This is extremely my jam. My law review article was on soil protection. Soil is magic. 🍂🍄🟫🪨🐌🪱
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
This is extremely my jam. My law review article was on soil protection. Soil is magic. 🍂🍄🟫🪨🐌🪱
Seriously, conservatives DO NOT MIND BEING CONDESCENDED TO. Obviously. They mind being condescended to by people they don’t respect as their superiors. And they’re very superficial, very big on big dick-swinging appearance. We can only make inroads by compromising LESS, not more. Know thine enemy.
Left-liberalism is morally, ethically, intellectually, practically, and aesthetically superior to conservatism. It always has been.
We should worry way less about looking “condescending” than about looking wishy-washy when we’re right—even from the perspective of effective persuasion.
We should worry way less about looking “condescending” than about looking wishy-washy when we’re right—even from the perspective of effective persuasion.
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Seriously, conservatives DO NOT MIND BEING CONDESCENDED TO. Obviously. They mind being condescended to by people they don’t respect as their superiors. And they’re very superficial, very big on big dick-swinging appearance. We can only make inroads by compromising LESS, not more. Know thine enemy.
Left-liberalism is morally, ethically, intellectually, practically, and aesthetically superior to conservatism. It always has been.
We should worry way less about looking “condescending” than about looking wishy-washy when we’re right—even from the perspective of effective persuasion.
We should worry way less about looking “condescending” than about looking wishy-washy when we’re right—even from the perspective of effective persuasion.
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Left-liberalism is morally, ethically, intellectually, practically, and aesthetically superior to conservatism. It always has been.
We should worry way less about looking “condescending” than about looking wishy-washy when we’re right—even from the perspective of effective persuasion.
We should worry way less about looking “condescending” than about looking wishy-washy when we’re right—even from the perspective of effective persuasion.
Sucks for rural kids and blue dots that most of their neighbors are in a death cult.
Two months after President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting H-1B visas, soaring costs are roiling rural health care facilities that have long struggled to find staff.
Rural America relies on foreign doctors. Trump’s visa fee shuts them out.
The Trump administration’s demand for companies to pay a $100,000 fee to hire an immigrant worker using an H1B visa has created turmoil among rural health providers.
wapo.st
December 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Sucks for rural kids and blue dots that most of their neighbors are in a death cult.
I want to face-punch everyone who ever said conservatism meant respect for tradition and prudent caution in the face of change. The only thing conservatives have ever! wanted to conserve is unearned dominance. I’m a leftier-than-left radical and I’m way more “conservative” by that BS definition.
It is really, really hard to get your head around the raw hubris of the majority. They really will be destabilizing the operating structure of the entire U.S. government. Why? Because they believe they have a better idea about how the past century should've been done.
December 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I want to face-punch everyone who ever said conservatism meant respect for tradition and prudent caution in the face of change. The only thing conservatives have ever! wanted to conserve is unearned dominance. I’m a leftier-than-left radical and I’m way more “conservative” by that BS definition.
One of the best three ingredient meals.
roast chicken with schmaltzy cabbage
Cabbage cooked slowly in salty buttery chicken drippings until charred at the edges and caramelized throughout is the real star of this deeply cozy and rewarding three-ingredient roast chicken.
smittenkitchen.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
One of the best three ingredient meals.
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In these cases, AI is being used to solder together the libertarian goal of dismantling administrative capacity with the fascist goal of ever present control and enforcement. This mediating function between contrasting desires is at least as important whether it actually works.
“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
To Root Out Wokeness in the Course Catalog, This Texas University Is Turning to AI
“The AI was upset with my use of the phrase ‘women's rights movement.’”
www.texasmonthly.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
In these cases, AI is being used to solder together the libertarian goal of dismantling administrative capacity with the fascist goal of ever present control and enforcement. This mediating function between contrasting desires is at least as important whether it actually works.
Our education system is structured to prepare students for capitalism and sort the deserving from the undeserving, and sadly no amount of heroic effort from educators to prepare students for society and full humanity, encourage curiosity, and treat them all as deserving can overcome that structure.
December 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Our education system is structured to prepare students for capitalism and sort the deserving from the undeserving, and sadly no amount of heroic effort from educators to prepare students for society and full humanity, encourage curiosity, and treat them all as deserving can overcome that structure.