James Hutson
@jameshutson.bsky.social
Occasional illustrator, former animator of science communication explainers and all round information visualiser.
How the Far-Right Uses Climate Disasters to Build Political Power A Q&A with Astra Taylor, co-author with Naomi Klein of ‘End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World.’ www.desmog.com/2026/10/29/h...
How the Far-Right Uses Climate Disasters to Build Political Power
A Q&A with Astra Taylor, co-author with Naomi Klein of ‘End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World.’
desmog.com
NEW — I spoke to Tom, the guy at the South Carolina Trump rally who compared the president's supporters to the Jonestown Massacre. We talked about his loathing for Trump, his love of death metal, and where he learned his impeccable comedic timing. Read our full chat here:
I talked to Tom, the viral ‘Jonestown’ Trump rally guy
He planned to make good trouble. But he didn't expect to be handed a Fox News mic.
thehandbasket.co
Author Sally Rooney can't sell her books in the UK, academic Andreas Malm can't enter the UK, but there's nary a peep over Dame Claire Fox's prominent conference, Battle of Ideas, attended by many MPs, with a single bookstall from Oldspeak, a bookshop that almost exclusively sells fascist propaganda
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 18h agoClimate academic Andreas Malm barred from entering UK
Les Meules, winter - 1890/1891 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110389
The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.
She seems hell bent on some BS
David Marler@qldaah.bsky.social · 15h agoABC & SBS again reject Jillian Segal's proposal for an external ombudsman for Israel & the Middle East news coverage and said their existing ombudsmen and complaints processes are sufficient. #auspol www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
In spring 1888, Van Gogh began his orchard series. He painted the trees in bloom with rapid, luminous strokes—capturing the fleeting life of spring. His speed became a way of seeing.
You all have to understand that if you move to Alaska you must spend your first year there as a Dan Sullivan with the option to renew if you end up liking it
Rest in Peace, Captain Patrick Stewart, Star Trek actor and acclaimed thespian, dies aged 86 | Patrick Stewart | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
Patrick Stewart, Star Trek actor and acclaimed thespian, dies aged 86
Star Trek: the Next Generation and X-Men actor died at his home after ‘a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia’
theguardian.com
Rabies is virtually 100% fatal in both people and animals once symptoms develop.
The mystery at the heart of California's record rabies year
Rabies is virtually 100% fatal in both people and animals once symptoms develop.
bit.ly
Candy/caramel apples: shit tier, hard pass, no-one's favorite Candy/caramel apples if people sliced the apples longitudinally and THEN coated the SLICES in caramel/candy: perfect ratio, legendarily delicious, game-changing, eye-opening, life affirming
my new reaction image for when i see a sick burn in the comments
NosferaPru@prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · last wk.I don't think these people know how cremations work.
A bit of news. I'm disenrolling from Sydney Uni, following their abolition of the Sydney Environment Institute, and moving to RegNet at ANU. Delighted that my supervisors, Dany Celermajer and David Schlosberg, will stay as my intellectual guides, joined by Sharon Friel and Beck Pearse.
After the no longer - farewell to Sydney Uni
A year to the day since I posted here about how this new blogletter was actually an excuse to help me practice writing and thinking through my doctoral research, I can share today that I am shifting m...
in-between-days.ghost.io
“We've been calling for a minimum 25% tax on gas exports. Australians pay more tax on beer than the gas corporations pay on their war-soaked profits from exports.” - Australian Greens Leader David Shoebridge at the National Press Club earlier today.
Here’s what it’s like to simply exist as Jewish in public. Imagine having the fucking balls to just shout this out in a crowded theater. In what fucking universe does this help Palestine??? This woman doesn’t actually give a fuck about Palestinians. He handled this so much better then I would have
Declaring Halloween bankruptcy. No house decorating for me this year.
Thinking about how for a long time "the internet is forever" was this kind of cautionary truism, and now the scary thing is how fast it is disappearing #Infomocracy
Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · 2d agoSomeone should listen to her. “To see that the current owner is deleting or un-publishing stories about abortion is unconscionable and shows that he is not fit to run this website,” said Susan Rinkunas, a former Jezebel senior writer who co-founded the outlet Autonomy News. archive.ph/fPMoM
Thanks to @retro-ko.bsky.social for finding it - this last panel pops into my head like 5x per day when I am dealing with my own preferences
Mark Truesdale@marktweedale.bsky.social · 5d agoName a piece of comic art that occasionally wanders into your head unannounced and makes you smile. #comics
This confirms what was very widely suspected... now will they still keep their medals? Will there be an appropriate reckoning? Part of why there is even a debate around war crimes is that many feel the officers were let off while troopers get punished (note, they are all culpable).
Australian SAS officers knew about unlawful ‘throwdowns’ on dead Afghans, report says
Nothing done to stop planting weapons on dead Afghans, ADF inspector says, as ‘breakdown of command’ allowed ‘egregious behaviour’
theguardian.com
Because of the economy every trick-or-treater is getting a firm but sincere handshake.
turns out the huge increase in number and size of bigger cars correlates with more drivers killing people who are pedestrians and cyclists. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
Australia's rising road toll reverses hard-won safety improvements
Australia's road toll has taken a deadly turn, with experts warning that unpopular policies may be needed to halt the alarming trend.
abc.net.au
![KABAS: Did you stay for the rest of the event after that?
HOYLE: No, a few minutes later, the Secret Service came up and said they wanted to talk to me, and I said, about what? And they didn't identify themselves as Secret Service, and I'm the type of guy—I don't know who you are. Go away from me, dude. I got stuff to do here. So anyway, they said, can we talk to you for a minute? I said yeah, you're talking. Go right ahead. And the guy said, we want to talk over here. I said, well I don't want to go over there. And then the guy said, well, we do. I said, who's we? And they were all—you know, I'm not a small person. That video probably doesn't relay it, but I'm probably about 6’2”, 210 pounds. And I said, well, I don't want to go anywhere with you. Then the guy said he's with Secret Service, and I said, oh, is this about the concession stand? and he said, what'd you do at the concession stand? I said nothing, but it was closed super early and I'm starving. And uh, he didn't like that. And then they walked me out.
And then the gentleman [at the front door] who tried to weed me out on the way in the door by asking me some questions—I talked him out of keeping me out of the event just by talking in circles about heavy metal and about my shirt—well, that guy was walking in as I was walking out after I was ejected, and I said, “Hey man, you didn't vet me too well,” and I kept walking. So they may not have him do their security in the future.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ejihld4sywvvqwe67cdkn4jq/bafkreia7vkkho4lkcfoba6kg6wbnk3lnda4itwohktup4bg446hxlyz23q)
