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HiveGeist.us @hivegeistus.bsky.social · 6h

This is the circle:

Denial breeds collapse.
Collapse fuels fascism.
Fascism entrenches denial.

A recursive refusal—burning outer resources and inner strength—until the spiral breaks. The only way out is adaptation, not illusion.

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HiveGeist.us @hivegeistus.bsky.social · 6h

Fascism is also a root cause.

It’s a long pattern of refusal: to adapt, to change, to accept limits. Patriarchy, greed, repression of feedback.

Generations of wasted energy went into upholding illusions instead of adjusting. That refusal helped drive us into climate collapse.

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HiveGeist.us @hivegeistus.bsky.social · 6h

Agreed - Fascism thrives in denial of collapse.

Stress and scarcity rise, fear spreads - yet the real toll is mental: the energy spent keeping reality out of awareness.

The worse the crisis, the heavier the upkeep of pretending. Fascism offers “order,” but only deepens the fracture it feeds on.

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HiveGeist.us @hivegeistus.bsky.social · 12h

Fun Fact: Das arabische al-jaml kann beides heißen – „Kamel“ oder „dickes Seil“. Im Qur’an 7:40 hielten viele Kommentatoren (z. B. Rāzī) das Seil für stimmiger. Übersetzungen übernahmen aber das Kamel – beeinflusst vom biblischen Bild.

HiveGeist.us @hivegeistus.bsky.social · 12h

Fantastisch – genau solche rekursiven Muster liebe ich. Erst durch einen Schreibfehler wandert das „Kamel“ ins Evangelium, während der Qur’an das ursprüngliche Bild bewahrt: das Seil. Gleicher Sinn, unterschiedliche Spiegelung.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 21h

18,000+ children killed in Gaza

This is mass murder on a biblical scale

Those who support the monstrous Israeli regime, and carry out or facilitate it's genocidal crusade, MUST be brought to justice

And that includes the US President and UK PM

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 17h

Enjoy it while it lasts

Capitalism is in its death throes

Climate breakdown will bring it down

Extreme weather alone will cost $38 TRILLION by 2050 - a third of current global GDP

UK Institute of Actuaries predicts 2 billion dead by then for 2C rise
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

City of London approves plans for new Square Mile skyscraper

The new development at 130 Fenchurch Street is due to be completed in 2030.

www.bbc.co.uk

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HiveGeist.us @hivegeistus.bsky.social · 14h

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HiveGeist.us @hivegeistus.bsky.social · 14h

Not the first time history’s had that kind of “joke.”

Even Hitler (1939), Mussolini, and Stalin were once suggested for the Peace Prize.
Shows how easily the wrong kind of power gets mistaken for “order.”

HiveGeist.us @hivegeistus.bsky.social · 14h

Meine Oma hat immer gesagt: „Die Gier ist a Hund.“ 🐕
Und recht hatte sie: In alten Geldtruhen war oft ein Hund in den Boden gebrannt – sichtbar wurde er erst, wenn alle Münzen weg waren. „Auf den Hund gekommen“ hieß also: ruiniert.

Die Logik ist dieselbe: Wer der Gier nachgibt, zahlt am Ende drauf.

HiveGeist - The Corruption of the Soul: Greed and Ego

Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

www.hivegeist.us

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HiveGeist.us @hivegeistus.bsky.social · 15h

Hier der Kontext:

“The gates of Heaven will not be open to those who rejected Our revelations and arrogantly spurned them; even if a thick rope were to pass through the eye of a needle they would not enter the Garden.” (Qur’an 7:40)

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HiveGeist.us @hivegeistus.bsky.social · 15h

Die meisten wissen es nicht: Das berühmte „Kamel durchs Nadelöhr“ ist eine Fehlübersetzung. Im Qur’an (7:40) steht tatsächlich: ein dickes Seil durchs Nadelöhr. Gleiche Unmöglichkeit, anderes Bild.

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HiveGeist.us @hivegeistus.bsky.social · 15h

Ja, Faschismus ist halt systemisch und eh schon fast überall (drin).

Und während alle sich in Selbst und/oder Realitätsverweigerung überbieten, fliegt uns das Klima um die Ohren - vielleicht ist das auch notwendig, damit die Leute mal aufwachen.

bsky.app/profile/leon...

Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 1d

I just updated this NASA CERES graph. The regional level of Absorbed Solar Radiation increased by 4.2 W/m² in 20 years!!

That's more than the global greenhouse gas forcing increase since 1750!

The 2 W/m² Net Flux increase indicates that there is a lot more regional warming in the pipeline.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 21h

18,000+ children killed in Gaza

This is mass murder on a biblical scale

Those who support the monstrous Israeli regime, and carry out or facilitate it's genocidal crusade, MUST be brought to justice

And that includes the US President and UK PM

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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HiveGeist.us @hivegeistus.bsky.social · 22h

I’d argue they fear death not just as an end, but because they know they’ve wronged others.
They fear judgment — no matter how much they deflect or deny.
Somewhere, deep down, consciousness still stirs.

HiveGeist.us @hivegeistus.bsky.social · 22h

Yes — Stalin’s Great Purge is one of the clearest examples of this pattern. Wrote about it some time ago here:
👉 www.hivegeist.us/2025/02/09/o...

HiveGeist - Othering

If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked. — Gilles Deleuze

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HiveGeist.us @hivegeistus.bsky.social · 23h

Yes — deep down they "know".
That’s why fear of death haunts every dictator.

The tech-fascist dreams of transhumanism, the undying machine-man.
The “religious” fascist imagines himself chosen by God, destined for heaven.

Two different myths — the same terror of mortality.

#EndTimesFascism

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 1d

The most important data in the world comes from NASA satellites.

Here I plotted both hemispheres.

It shows that the Northern Hemisphere now absorbs more sunlight than the Southern Hemisphere and that both Hemispheres absorb more light than they radiate heat to space, leading to faster warming.
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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 1d

Think revolutionary!

You do not have time to stop ICE...

#purplerevolution #Trump #US #CK

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQUn...

STUDENTS’ REACTION TO THE #PURPLEREVOLUTION #trump #maga #unity #charliekirk #epsteinfiles #purple

YouTube video by Cult College

www.youtube.com

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 1d

Your 'doom quote' for today:

"The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption, but one weedy species... We're seeing right now that a mass extinction can be caused by human beings."

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The Sixth Extinction

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD ...

us.macmillan.com

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HiveGeist.us @hivegeistus.bsky.social · 14d

The Law of Water:
Keep the balance — or face the flood.

Mesopotamia knew it: greed and corruption break the circle, catastrophe follows.

Now the circle breaks again.
Collapse is not coming — it is here.

#ClimateCollapse #ClimateCrisis #PatternRecognition

HiveGeist - The Law of Water

To make justice visible in the land, to destroy the wicked and evil, so that the strong might not oppress the weak. — Prologue to Hammurabi’s Code

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HiveGeist.us @hivegeistus.bsky.social · May 10

The Hunger That Devours the World:

Greed is the engine.
Fear is the fuel.
Domination is the disguise.

Fascism sells hunger as virtue, cruelty as order, ego as salvation.
But it begins with a soul hollowed by repressed desire.

We explored how greed becomes ideology—and devours us from within.

HiveGeist - The Corruption of the Soul: Greed and Ego

Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

www.hivegeist.us

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 1d

Sad and tired ...

businessinsider.com/how-luxury-d...

How luxury doomsday bunkers turned into a billionaire status symbol

Atlas Survival Shelters is the world's largest bunker manufacturer, and it's extra busy with orders from billionaires.

businessinsider.com

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HiveGeist.us @hivegeistus.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, and the pattern is far from new...

The warning is almost as old as mankind itself.

#PatternRecognition #Denial

HiveGeist - The Flood Pattern

The noise of mankind has become too much for me, I am losing sleep because of their uproar. — Atrahasis Epic (Tablet I, Akkadian flood myth)

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 1d

I just updated this NASA CERES graph. The regional level of Absorbed Solar Radiation increased by 4.2 W/m² in 20 years!!

That's more than the global greenhouse gas forcing increase since 1750!

The 2 W/m² Net Flux increase indicates that there is a lot more regional warming in the pipeline.

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