Avsides
@avsides.bsky.social
he/him | 🏳️🌈 | degrowth communism etc
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When someone shows you how good their opinions are, believe them the first time
November 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
When someone shows you how good their opinions are, believe them the first time
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The Norwegian Petroleum Museum in Stavanger: good on history of politics & econ of industry but ends on a fantasy note: techno-optimist, green growth, no mention renewables being additive + crazy focus on individual action for climate change 🫣 State/Petroleum ideology in action?
October 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The Norwegian Petroleum Museum in Stavanger: good on history of politics & econ of industry but ends on a fantasy note: techno-optimist, green growth, no mention renewables being additive + crazy focus on individual action for climate change 🫣 State/Petroleum ideology in action?
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honestly … Trump killing off carbon-capture boondoggles that Big Oil was just gonna leverage for tax writeoffs and expanded drilling is probably the least objectionable thing he's done this term
🚨 Breaking: Heatmap has obtained a new internal DOE grant termination list that includes the two major DAC hub awards — Oxy/1PointFive's South Texas DAC Hub and Heirloom/Climeworks' Project Cypress in Louisiana.
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Trump to Cancel Direct Air Capture Hubs in Texas, Louisiana
A new list of grant cancellations obtained by Heatmap includes Climeworks and Heirloom projects funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
heatmap.news
October 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
honestly … Trump killing off carbon-capture boondoggles that Big Oil was just gonna leverage for tax writeoffs and expanded drilling is probably the least objectionable thing he's done this term
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Degrowth has never been a coherent political perspective, nor has it had an agreed political strategy. This interview with Jason Hickel and reply by Vincent Liegey, Anitra Nelson, and Terry Leahy pair well to highlight the dividing lines. Links below.
October 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Degrowth has never been a coherent political perspective, nor has it had an agreed political strategy. This interview with Jason Hickel and reply by Vincent Liegey, Anitra Nelson, and Terry Leahy pair well to highlight the dividing lines. Links below.
I'd guess i'm poltically aligned slightly more towards Liegey et al's decentralist/pluralist politics, but i do think saying that degrowth is a movement and not primarily a theoritical framework used mostly by academics is wishful thinking
Degrowth has never been a coherent political perspective, nor has it had an agreed political strategy. This interview with Jason Hickel and reply by Vincent Liegey, Anitra Nelson, and Terry Leahy pair well to highlight the dividing lines. Links below.
October 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I'd guess i'm poltically aligned slightly more towards Liegey et al's decentralist/pluralist politics, but i do think saying that degrowth is a movement and not primarily a theoritical framework used mostly by academics is wishful thinking
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Head over to www.break-down.org for a sneak peak of the first part of The Long Heat!
More importantly, please do subscribe to the magazine! The Break Down is a fantastic source of cutting-edge, critical writing about climate change and capitalism. It deserves your support.
More importantly, please do subscribe to the magazine! The Break Down is a fantastic source of cutting-edge, critical writing about climate change and capitalism. It deserves your support.
October 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Head over to www.break-down.org for a sneak peak of the first part of The Long Heat!
More importantly, please do subscribe to the magazine! The Break Down is a fantastic source of cutting-edge, critical writing about climate change and capitalism. It deserves your support.
More importantly, please do subscribe to the magazine! The Break Down is a fantastic source of cutting-edge, critical writing about climate change and capitalism. It deserves your support.
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by ig:costanzaization
September 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage
September 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage
the impact of America: Scandinavian public broadcaster Live-streaming the kirk memorial service
September 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
the impact of America: Scandinavian public broadcaster Live-streaming the kirk memorial service
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yeap, the mighty trade block can only bully Global South countries into unfavourable trade deals.
In the face of the most blatant trade coercion since at least 1945, the EU has failed to even activate its anti-coercion instrument, designed, as the name indicates, precisely for this purpose. It has let down trading partners less able to stand up to Trump's bullying and weakened multilateralism.
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July 28, 2025 at 6:48 AM
yeap, the mighty trade block can only bully Global South countries into unfavourable trade deals.
I always struggle when reading these kinds of articles - yes, the industrial changes themselves seem allright, but: i feel like these perspectives obfuscate the depth of how much societies need to change? throwing out growth/accumulation also means throwing out capitalist development, etc
A progressive framework for green industrial policy
In the age of ecological breakdown, there is a growing need for ‘green’ industrial policy. However, existing frameworks for green industrial policy fail to address unsustainable growth in energy an...
www.tandfonline.com
July 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I always struggle when reading these kinds of articles - yes, the industrial changes themselves seem allright, but: i feel like these perspectives obfuscate the depth of how much societies need to change? throwing out growth/accumulation also means throwing out capitalist development, etc
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I don't
know
what
to do
at all
and
it's not
because
I don't
see
know
what
to do
at all
and
it's not
because
I don't
see
July 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I don't
know
what
to do
at all
and
it's not
because
I don't
see
know
what
to do
at all
and
it's not
because
I don't
see
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I've become increasingly skeptical of rights discourse from a realist perspective, not because I don't like what these juridical fictions claim to confer, but because they manifestly don't actually do that and stuff like this lets people think something meaningful is happening when it's not
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The UN's top court in a landmark climate decision says a 'clean, healthy and sustainable environment' is a human right.
July 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I've become increasingly skeptical of rights discourse from a realist perspective, not because I don't like what these juridical fictions claim to confer, but because they manifestly don't actually do that and stuff like this lets people think something meaningful is happening when it's not
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Kapitalismus (Symbolbild)
July 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Kapitalismus (Symbolbild)
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Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?
July 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?
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look, i know i made my own history but i swear it was not under conditions of my own choosing
July 9, 2025 at 7:44 AM
look, i know i made my own history but i swear it was not under conditions of my own choosing
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Capitalism is when work has dignity but workers do not
Russ Vought: "The social safety net has become a hammock in the last few years. And as a result, dependency has steeped in, and we want to restore the dignity of work."
July 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Capitalism is when work has dignity but workers do not
note to self: prime example of how degrowth can go astray into romanticising small-scale and having a bad critique of mass production
July 8, 2025 at 6:21 AM
note to self: prime example of how degrowth can go astray into romanticising small-scale and having a bad critique of mass production
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i'm not "over the word limit" i'm embodying an abundance mindset
July 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
i'm not "over the word limit" i'm embodying an abundance mindset
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"Natural scientists have been far too naïve about how their equivocal comments about large-scale CDR and other geoengineering approaches will be used by policy makers to argue against the rapid phase out of fossil fuels." - Prof. @jamesgdyke.info, @gsiexeter.bsky.social
The climate centre is barking mad
The climate movement will fail if it doesn't respect both political and physical realities
jamesdyke.substack.com
June 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
"Natural scientists have been far too naïve about how their equivocal comments about large-scale CDR and other geoengineering approaches will be used by policy makers to argue against the rapid phase out of fossil fuels." - Prof. @jamesgdyke.info, @gsiexeter.bsky.social
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bro chill my attack was symbolic
June 24, 2025 at 7:17 AM
bro chill my attack was symbolic
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Libs: your politics is all about America bad
It never misses though
It never misses though
June 22, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Libs: your politics is all about America bad
It never misses though
It never misses though
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Translation matters by Marx provokes gang clashes today:
June 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Translation matters by Marx provokes gang clashes today:
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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
![the "stop doing math" meme except it says "STOP DRIVING CARS". the meme reads:
* PEOPLE WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ISOLATED IN CAGES
* YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for building ONE MORE LANE
* Wanted to travel large distances anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "TRAINS"
* "Yes please give me NO GREENERY. Please give me INFINITE PAVEMENT" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
LOOK at what Civil Engineers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the concrete and asphalt we built for them
(This is REAL Civil Infrastructure, done by REAL Civil Engineers):
? [Image of the infamously hideous Breezewood truck stop]
?? [Image of a gigantic mega parking lot with thousands of cars]
??? [Image of the infamous I-405 gridlock photo with tens of thousands of cars not moving]
"Hello I would like [Image of a graph of global surface temperatures] climate please"
They have played us for absolute fools](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ywbm3iywnhzep3ckt6efhoh7/bafkreihghfkhhhasmr6sn5mj7uxs53v46wu2cns5saeln64grjp3ltfvpm@jpeg)
May 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
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Economic crisis, a recession looming. We all know what comes next...
Articles in the financial press asking if Marx was right
Articles in the financial press asking if Marx was right
April 7, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Economic crisis, a recession looming. We all know what comes next...
Articles in the financial press asking if Marx was right
Articles in the financial press asking if Marx was right