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Adam Greenfield

@lifehouse.bsky.social

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Endurance athlete, heavy-music appreciator, compulsive greeter of cats. My most recent book is “Lifehouse: Taking Care Of Ourselves in A World On Fire” (2024), available direct from Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2536-lifehouse

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 14h

Timely (if never anything less than relevant)!

A quote from George Orwell painted at about the third storey of the side of a building in the Centro Histórico of Mexico City, October 8th, 2025, with a vaguely ironic cluster of cellular antennae mounted directly above. (The quote is a Spanish rendering of the familiar “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.“)

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 1d

"just show them how brutal the oppressors are. that'll stop them" is pure wishcasting

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

That’s reading material packed.

Paperback copies of Benjamin Labatut’s “When We Cease To Understand The World” and Francis Spufford’s “Cahokia Jazz” nestled in a bed of black clothing, ensconced in turn in the black interior of a Dyneema bag.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

Whisper: Maybe we should stop messing with the radiative balance of Earth.

Plan to Reflect Sunlight to Power Solar Panels at Night Upsets Astronomers

Reflect Orbital aims to launch its first of a planned 4,000 satellites into orbit next year. Scientists worry that it would be “ruinous” for research.

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

All this time I have thought that “do not unto others that which you lament having been done to your ancestors” was a fairly basic, obvious and easy to observe ethical position.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

up betimes and to ye air-porte

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

Forget it, Jake – it’s Bluesky.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

Like, Kash Patel’s “personal” challenge coin? That’s very nearly as diagnostic as Elon’s anime-fantasy fuckbot.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk. Kash Patel. Pete Hegseth. Mike Johnson. What’s in the water in the States? Suddenly the public sphere is ruled by psychoemotionally stunted weirdos – a parade of the developmentally arrested, headed up by the biggest man-baby of them all.

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a powerful dearousal agent. [2/2]

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

It’s every flavor of awful at once and I wish I could comprehensively and decisively nullify its existence. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/technology/elon-musk-grok-sexy-chatbot.html [2/2]

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Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social · 2d

Join us as we remember, reckon, and stand together in our struggle to resist the ongoing Nakba and fight for freedom, justice and equality for all between the river and the sea.

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

btw hello cats

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

Are you having a jouissance, Jack? 😮

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

Just about done with Bluesky after this Link nonsense. I have enjoyed meeting so many new folks, though. Come find me elsewhere, I urge you.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

I hope you don’t think of yourself as “one of the good guys,” beloved. Virtually none of the evil that was ever committed on this planet was done in the conscious name of evil, while a huge proportion of it was done for Good. Don’t be Good.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

This reminds me of the best bit of Carl Sagan’s “Contact,” Jeff – the discovery of a rasterized circle plotted out point by point, out past the quintillionth place of pi.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

Bah!

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

I get how difficult it is for so many of us to think the body as an instrument of pleasure – as a vector of knowledge, experience, enlightenment. In the end, though, I suspect it’s the only game in town.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

MORE CURRENTER MOOD
https://open.spotify.com/track/0I4yYE831a8SW8QIx6bz4x

Crimson & Clover

Tommy James & The Shondells · Anthology · Song · 1989

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

Heh, fair.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

CURRENT MOOD https://open.spotify.com/track/7B7lf3sIze5VR2WuYttn18

I Feel Love - 12" Version

Donna Summer · Bad Girls (Deluxe Edition) · Song · 1979

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

Not trolling, but I’m genuinely unclear why anyone would expect any different, given the alignment of incentives and, well, the observed history of human thought.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

Republican.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

Until, that is, someone arrives on the scene whose thought *is* the outside. This “counterthought” smashes the Image, performs an all-but-literal iconoclasm. [3/3]