Tim Hollo

Ahhh, just got some news which should be exciting but I mostly feel as a great relief amidst the sadness of some stupid institutional decisions. Vague-posting, sorry, but there you are.

Phew The planet breathes a little easier Thank you, Brazilians

Incredible

Horrifying and devastating to hear of the attack on the wonderful Helen Haines Desperately hoping for good news

100% agree with this: @timhollo.bsky.social “The hard truth is that life will be harder and the easy (for a given group of mostly white mostly men, to be clear) post-WWII world isn't coming back. A harder truth is waiting for us in the climate reality.” in-between-days.ghost.io/telling-the-...

A partial reply to a partial truth in an important post from @kossamaras.bsky.social What truths do we need to tell in politics? How deep can we go? Have we returned to an old world? Or have we entered something radically new? What possibilities remain? in-between-days.ghost.io/telling-the-...

Good piece

“A harder truth is waiting for us in the #climatereality. #Politics can promise us nothing. Its slogans will be washed away in the next flood of its lies, or burnt to ashes in the heat of its antagonisms. But the #truth might set us free of the expectations of politics & its slogans.” #auspol

A partial reply to a partial truth in an important post from @kossamaras.bsky.social What truths do we need to tell in politics? How deep can we go? Have we returned to an old world? Or have we entered something radically new? What possibilities remain? in-between-days.ghost.io/telling-the-...

Ouch.

After championship faffing and procrastination, I rediscovered the pomodoro technique today. Got 1250 words of this paper written. Finally. Same again next few days and it’ll be in good draft form. Huzzah

The Hunter Valley approval has done something to people. Tim Hollo sharing George Woods on the moment faith in public institutions gives way is worth sitting with, because that is the feeling organisers will be working with for the foreseeable future.

I wrote this on Tuesday The result for @zackpolanski.bsky.social is worse than expected. My instinct is that the low turnout is a sign that a bunch of potential Greens voters didn’t bother, partly coz of the motion, partly coz the momentum has evaporated. How many times will we repeat this cycle?

If your new language is “highly accepted”, why do you need to declare those who won’t use it “the enemy”?

HUGE news Kind of shocking that it's up to the High Court to make decisions democratic governments are proving incapable of making. And kind of shocking that it was a split decision. But massive congrats to everyone who made this happen. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Sad news. Absolutely the voice of my childhood. He always seemed so genuinely lovely.

This post won't necessarily make me popular, but I wrote it anyway. in-between-days.ghost.io/zionism-is-a...

As is so often the case, this powerful piece from Tim Hollo is so important. And I would add: If not now, then when? If not us, then who?

A post in which I pretend to talk about Arendt and temporality, but mostly want to just share some photos of gorgeous #orchids I took this morning :-) And make a #DadJoke in the title... in-between-days.ghost.io/well-this-is...

A post in which I pretend to talk about Arendt and temporality, but mostly want to just share some photos of gorgeous #orchids I took this morning :-) And make a #DadJoke in the title... in-between-days.ghost.io/well-this-is...

I see so much of the effort of the #climate movement is once again being effectively contained by the obsession with the global Climate COP approaching. Re-upping this piece I wrote last year (after threatening to write it for years), systematically detailing why I believe it's a waste of time.

In which Tim fairly effectively argues that the COP is about as useful as a Climate League of Nations. To what effect we can actually do WITHOUT the coercive power of nation level state in driving action is a bit more of a question for me.

I see so much of the effort of the #climate movement is once again being effectively contained by the obsession with the global Climate COP approaching. Re-upping this piece I wrote last year (after threatening to write it for years), systematically detailing why I believe it's a waste of time.

Today, the NSW Independent Planning Commission approved the largest coal project in the state's history, in a move Lock The Gate called "catastrophic system failure". That's the context in which @davidshoebridge.bsky.social takes on the leadership of the Australian Greens. Some thoughts here

I don't want to unnecessarily alarm you, but 2026 is now 3/4 through.

“The approval of the HVO mine continuing is not just another climate failure among many. It is the failure that finally broke my faith in the capacity of public institutions to serve the public interest.” The brilliant George Woods www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Nobody is coming to save us. Its up to us. We will have to cultivate new governing systems that are capable of making decisions that prioritise life. And we will have to put our bodies between the coal corporations and the planet as we do so." - @timhollo.bsky.social

George Woods summarises the context of NSW IPC's approval of HVO's coalmine extension (809 MtCO2e pollution) and the profound institutional failure it represents "our systems of government stand condemned. They have shown themselves to be incapable of dealing with the threat of climate change"

Today, the NSW Independent Planning Commission approved the largest coal project in the state's history, in a move Lock The Gate called "catastrophic system failure". That's the context in which @davidshoebridge.bsky.social takes on the leadership of the Australian Greens. Some thoughts here

I strongly believe in grassroots membership election of the leader of a party that believes in grassroots democracy. I co-wrote this with @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social a few years ago. If Mehreen wins, she’ll be the first leader of the Greens to be on the record supporting it.

I’m backing Cassian Andor and Leia Organa for co-leadership of the Australian Greens. They bring the right mix of insurgency and establishment to appeal to a large cross-section of voters across the galaxy at a moment like this. Plus, gender balance is crucial.

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Sending love to lovely @larissawaters.bsky.social for standing up with integrity when we needed her. And really wishing the Greens had direct member election of the leader. A contest over politics is what we need right now.

If, for some reason, you are using this tech to do something for you, just - and I cannot stress this enough - don’t.

I read this story and can’t help think of the breathless coverage media has given these delusional fantasies about superintelligent AI killing humanity in ten years, when companies are releasing tools coaching mass shooters and helping people kill themselves. People need to wake the fuck up.

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

“Should we worry?”

In the light of Mark Carney again being LeaderOfTheFreeWorld TM at the UN, here's a piece I wrote early this year about his Davos speech declaring the old order dead... and proudly presenting the new order, same as the old. in-between-days.ghost.io/no-one-saw-t...

They’ll also contribute to mass death and destruction. But investment returns are probably more important. Ahhh, Malcolm…

The idea of proximity to coercive power is so utterly corrosive of basic brain function

This year's El Niño event is moving into record territory, with the daily Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) tying the record previously set during the 2015/2016 super-El Niño. My latest over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...

A few weeks old and peripheral to Mann’s point, but… Well done to The Independent for illustrating #climatechange #heat with people sweltering on a bus, rather than picnicking in the park or playing on the beach