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Marc Hudson

@marchudson.bsky.social

Failing/ed academic (socio-technical transitions), climate historian, writer, video maker. Most days I think we're toast. #envhist See also allouryesterdays.info @allouryesterdays.bsky.social

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Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 2h ago

Tiger tiger sitting tight "What is this? I'll have a bite" In the compound there at York "That tastes quite odd - is it pork?" With apologies to Bill Blake

Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 3h ago

I am glad there isn't a fourth panel.

Three panel cartoon.
First panel - Blofield, with an evil glare, is sat in a chair, with his white cat asleep in his arms. He is watching James Bond, strapped to a table. A laser gun is pointing at the table just near Bond's feet
Second panel. The laser gun is switched on, emitting a bright red laser. The cat woken up because of this, is still in Blofield's arms
Third panel. the cat is leaping from Blofield's lap to chase the laser. Blofield is looking upset, seeing what is coming...

Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 4h ago

Well, this is nice to read. About my CCS book - www.routledge.com/Carbon-Captu...

Strengths
The book’s primary strength is its historical depth. Hudson provides a comprehensive, detailed
chronology of CCS policy in the UK, establishing a valuable reference. His clear prose, vivid

metaphors, and narrative style make complex technical and political issues accessible to non-
specialists, while still engaging academics. The use of the multiple streams approach and hype

cycles offers readers new tools for understanding both CCS and broader trends in climate
governance. Hudson’s balanced and candid voice, including his own skepticism and
recognition of CCS’s potential, lends the work intellectual honesty and analytical nuance.

Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 4h ago

Not bad from Jonathan Cook. jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-the-bb...

How the BBC sets a trap to make sure leftwing politicians never get a fair hearing

There’s a reason why so few truly leftwing politicians are visible in public life. Because the media’s role is to weed them out, discredit them, place them beyond the pale

jonathancook.substack.com

Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 21h ago

"The authorities have responded with consultations, promises, and police. It is an unusually comprehensive lesson in the relationship between the curriculum and the institutions that deliver it." Bourdieu would be laughing like a fucking drain. thebattleground.substack.com/p/students-a...

Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 2d ago

At least five journalists were arrested while covering a pro-Palestine Action protest in Leicester yesterday They were held on the scene for two hours by Leicestershire Police before being de-arrested pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/fi...

At least five journalists arrested at Palestine Action protest

At least five journalists were briefly arrested while covering a pro-Palestine Action protest in Leicester on Thursday.

pressgazette.co.uk

The Onion @theonion.com · 2d ago

40-Year-Old Not Active Enough To Realize Body Falling Apart https://theonion.com/40-year-old-not-active-enough-to-realize-body-falling-a-1847782934/

Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 2d ago

More Private Eye rejects 1/2 marchudson.net/2026/10/09/m...

More rejected Private Eye submissions

I’ve been fascinated by Private Eye since late 1995, when my late friend Dev Cropper introduced me to it (or explained it better than I was currently understanding). Yes, it is not perfect, b…

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Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 3d ago

@audreygray.bsky.social thanks for following. I don't know if you're aware, but I do a climate histories website called allouryesterdays.info bsky - @allouryesterdays.bsky.social

Welcome - All Our Yesterdays

Welcome “All Our Yesterdays” (here’s why it’s called that). This is a resource for people who want to know more about the long long history of warnings about carbon dioxide build-up in the atmosphere....

allouryesterdays.info

Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 3d ago

Important reminder of why these are called beautiful firetails 🥰

Gorgeous little black barred grey finch with a spread tail with a fire red rump

Close up of the red rump of the beautiful firetail

Close up of the face of a beautiful firetail with its red beak and blue eye skin and gorgeous black barring

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 4d ago

This be the verse ("Larkin' about in the Fafocene")

Two poems side by side - The first is Philip Larkin's "This be the verse" The second is an update for the Fafocene.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.

They fucked the Earth, your mum and dad
They didn’t mean to, but they did
They filled the air with carbon - bad!
And of other species they got rid

But they were fooled into the burn
By PR flaks with loads of cash
Who half the time did denial-gurn
And elsewise sold the techno-flash

Man hands on apocalypse to man
It billows like a toxic cloud
There’s absolutely no b-plan
Having kids should be disavowed

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 4d ago

And a haiku for the Fafocene Hairless apes burn coal Incite an endless summer Countless ape corpses

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 6d ago

Vol. 3, no. 2 of CO2 Newsletter, is now downloadable. Founded by American geologist William Barbat, each was 8 pages of excerpts from recent reports, editorials & deeply-researched articles. “Accelerating sea level rise is attributed to climate change” allouryesterdays.info/co2-newslett... 1/9

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 7d ago

"El Nino Digest" Times ("END Times", geddit?) An 8 page round-up of what is happening/about to happen. Front page - from The Climate Brink, a handy impacts map... 1/8

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · last wk.

Here's an 8 page "El Nino Digest" Times (END Times, geddit?) There's impact predictions, quotes, "the three phases of El Nino", excerpts from recent reports, "OMFG of the week" etc etc. allouryesterdays.info/wp-content/u...

Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · last wk.

Marred by the semi-hopey final sentence, but otherwise, omfg it's good stuff. That link again - thebattleground.eu/2026/01/16/s...

lthough this new imperialism calls itself realism, realism has rarely been so fantastical. It assumes that domination can substitute for adaptation, that exerting control over flows can override material limits.

What it really offers is delay, postponing the ecological bill by turning planetary crisis into geopolitical competition. The collective problem of survival is reframed as a contest over who will absorb the damage first. Borders become shock absorbers. Militaries become climate institutions of last resort.

Delay, however, is not durability. Every new pipeline, port, and base is an investment in a future that cannot arrive. Empire transforms stranded assets into protected assets, defended by law, debt, and violence. In doing so, it locks societies into pathways that narrow rather than expand their options.

The defence of the present becomes the foreclosure of the future.

This is the final confession embedded in the new imperialism. It admits that the existing order cannot survive without coercion, that its promises were built on borrowed carbon and borrowed time. Faced with this recognition, states choose not transformation but enforcement. They drill the future, fortify the present, and call it realism.

History is unlikely to be persuaded. Empires that mistake delay for strength rarely survive the crises they prolong.

Climate change will not be subdued by competition, nor growth resurrected by conquest. What lies ahead is not an imperial century, but a reckoning that will judge not who controlled the most territory, but who had the courage to imagine a world beyond expansion.

Marc Hudson@marchudson.bsky.social · last wk.

"Empire no longer arrives draped in civilisational destiny or moral uplift. It comes instead with spreadsheets, climate models, and national security assessments." thebattleground.eu/2026/01/16/s...

Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · last wk.

Nothing has to be banned. Nobody has to announce that philosophy, history, literature, music, anthropology, or theoretical physics are useless. Nobody even has to believe that they are. The machinery requires only a number, a threshold, and a consequence. thebattleground.substack.com/p/thinning-t...

The policy goes wrong in how it converts one legitimate question—Will this program leave its graduates economically secure?—into a proxy for a much larger one: What kinds of knowledge should a society make materially possible?

Although those questions overlap, they are not the same. Once they are treated as interchangeable, however, the consequences extend far beyond the programs that immediately fail the test.

Universities begin learning which kinds of knowledge are safest to produce. Students learn which forms of curiosity carry regulatory risk. Administrators learn to translate intellectual activity into categories legible to the labour market.

The distinction between education and vocational investment becomes harder to articulate because the institutions themselves have been reorganised around a metric that presumes the distinction in advance.

Perhaps this is the deepest sense in which the US Department of Education’s new policy represents an apparatus of capture.

Nothing has to be banned. Nobody has to announce that philosophy, history, literature, music, anthropology, or theoretical physics are useless. Nobody even has to believe that they are.

The machinery requires only a number, a threshold, and a consequence. The spreadsheet will handle the philosophy.

And because its judgments arrive wearing the neutral language of earnings data rather than the embarrassing costume of ideology, we are encouraged to forget what has actually happened.

Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · last wk.

"The two shortcomings discussed here - the failure to quickly deploy batteries - and also the English incompetence about future windfarms are related. They rest on a rhetorical faith that everything must look like a market as a point of ideology." substack.com/inbox/post/2...

Why batteries and renewable energy need stronger government action and fewer silly markets

As solar and wind grow around the world, more batteries are needed, and the most progress is happening with strong, direct government action to support their growth.

substack.com

Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · last wk.

"Empire no longer arrives draped in civilisational destiny or moral uplift. It comes instead with spreadsheets, climate models, and national security assessments." thebattleground.eu/2026/01/16/s...

Stuck in the 19th Century

Empire, According to Donald Trump

thebattleground.eu

Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · last wk.

The wisteria on the back verandah's still blooming... www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4hp...

Adelaide

YouTube video by Paul Kelly - Topic

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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · last wk.

Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · last wk.

A tough read. An essential read. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is | Moira Donegan

Many men rape; many men giggle encouragingly, or shrug indifferently, when their friends rape. Many men rape, and few seem to think that it’s a very big deal

theguardian.com

Ruth Malone, RN, PhD @remalone.bsky.social · last wk.

I would like to see this strutting bantam rooster actually go to the front lines and walk the walk instead of all the testosterone talk

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last wk.

Feels like skipping past the Civil War and World War II are sorta big tells here? I wonder why he doesn't want to talk about the times the US military waged war against white supremacists. Probably a totally innocent explanation, right? Right?

Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · last wk.

More light comic verses from Phil Larkin- Dockery and son… www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48416/...

Dockery and Son

‘Dockery was junior to you, Wasn’t he?’ said the Dean. ‘And do You keep in touch with—’ Or remember how Black-gowned, unbreakfasted, and still half-tight…

poetryfoundation.org

Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · last wk.

"Gaza City residents bade farewell to the bodies and remains of 105 martyrs recovered from under the rubble of Al-Taj residential block on Yarmouk Street, after a long wait..." english.palinfo.com/news/2026/10... #BDS #Gaza #GazaGenocide #GazaNews #GazaStrip #Israel #News #Palestine #WorldNews

Gaza bids farewell to 105 martyrs as Hamas highlights tragedy’s scale

Gaza City residents bade farewell to the bodies and remains of 105 martyrs recovered from under the rubble of Al-Taj residential block on Yarmouk Street, after a long wait, while other families still ...

english.palinfo.com

Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · last wk.

Complaints about slop and plagiarism machines all the way back in 1979!! "They took the credit for your second symphony Rewritten by machine on new technology And now I understand the problems you could see" www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-...

The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by TheBugglesVEVO

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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · last wk.

Traditionalistischer Faschismus

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord"

Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · last wk.

"[Iran's] elites have been hardened by the war, which killed friends & family members. They see Feb 28, 2026, the same way Israelis see Oct 7, 2023, attack by Hamas—as the moment their enemy proved willing to slaughter them, & thus as proof it must be defeated" www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Why Iran Escalates

Tehran’s strategy to drive America out of the Middle East.

foreignaffairs.com

Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 2w ago

You're so proud now, will you still want to get credit for helping to expand the fossil fuel industry 20 years from now? Shall we name a future killer heat wave after you to celebrate this momentous achievement?

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 2w ago

Canada is building big again. LNG Canada Phase 2 will be the second-largest facility of its kind in the world.

Screenshot of an article from Reuters. The headline reads: Shell-led LNG Canada greenlights Phase 2 expansion, doubling export capacity.

Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · last wk.

Swiss glaciers suffer 'disastrous' year of ice loss, threatening water supplies "…in its simplest form, what we see right now is that we took an ice cube out of the fridge and it's just melting in front of our eyes." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...