So @robintransition has been taking Devize Lit Fest time travelling with a look to the future and the good news is we won 🥰#climateSuccess read his book “How to Fall in love with the future” - it brings hope ‼️So much good stuff happening eg Aussie renewables switch🫶

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began. The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start. Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have. If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

I am of another dimension. I am on this planet because people need me. (Sun Ra)

Tony Blair. What the billionaire class have paid for.

Whatever world Tony Blair inhabits appears to be one without climate change & where UK temperature record for May hasn’t just been smashed by over 2C. How else to explain his extraordinary dismissal of net zero & erroneous claim that fossil fuels are cheaper than renewables? 🙄

Does anyone wake up in the morning, read a story in the news and think "hmm, I wonder what Tony Blair thinks about this?" No, thought not.

The Sahel is at record temperatures. India is baking at 45°C. 90 dead in Uttar Pradesh from flooding. This is not a forecast. This is not a warning. This is now. Every week, another record. Every week, more bodies.

Large parts of the UK/France are forecast to be around 12°C above average. Places like London could reach 35°C with UHI and it’s still May. The UK Climate Committee has warned that 40°C summers are now on the horizon. The climate is changing faster than systems are prepared for.

RT @MayorofLondon: Name a better engineer than a London beaver. We’ll wait. 🦫 These incredible creatures were reintroduced to the city and…

The most dystopian part of AI isn’t the technology itself. It’s the sheer amount of electricity and water being burned so corporations can automate things nobody asked to automate. Entire rivers diverted so an app can generate “funny medieval Breaking Bad images.” So LinkedIn users can produce motivational posts written in the tone of a traumatized flight attendant. We are constructing cathedrals of computation to eliminate the burden of having an original thought. And they keep selling this as progress. Meanwhile the actual physical world decays. Bridges collapse. Cities rot. Public transit looks post-apocalyptic. Young people can’t afford houses. But thank God the machine can generate 9,000 fake podcast clips per second. Civilizations used to build aqueducts and railways. Now we build data centers.

Today we celebrate the anniversary of the Interplanetary arrival of Sun Ra to planet earth. space is the place. (22 May 1914 - 30 May 1993) #SunRa

Why The War on Dreams Must Inspire Us to Build the Greatest Desire Machines the World Has Ever Seen robhopkins.net/2025/02/27/wh… via @robintransition

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Palantir has been granted “unlimited access” to NHS patient data. This is the same company that is involved in mass surveillance and genocide. We did not consent to this. Get Palantir out of our NHS, now.

watch/listen to the full ep with @robintransition here: betterfuturemedia.substack.c…

A man blinded by a flag about to step off into emptiness might be Banksy's best work ever.

Two Women in A Garden, Eric Ravilious, 1932. Painted at Brick House, Great Bardfield in #Essex, it depicts Tirzah Garwood, Eric’s wife, and Charlotte Bawden, who was married to artist Edward Bawden. The original artwork is in the collection of @FryArtGallery.

if right now it seems like the end of the world is easier to imagine than the end of capitalism… maybe it’s time to fill our imaginations with stories of the post-capitalist future we could build together. @robintransition on the Better Future Pod:

Dear @Eurostar . I just went to buy a London to Paris ticket on your website for £114. The code to verify my bank card didn't come in time, it cancelled the order, I started again, and in that time the price was now £156. For the same ticket. How is that OK? #dynamicpricing?