Even the UN now notes the role of climate change in making pandemics more likely. So look around you.. does your society seem normal right now? No? #ClimateChange is a factor. #deepadaptation democracynow.org/2020/7/9/delia…

Just read David Cameron’s name and realised I’ve entirely forgotten what he looks like. There’s an empty space in my brain where his face used to be and the best it can do when I try to picture him is show me Piers Morgan.

The response to this economic crisis should not be to do whatever it takes to get people working and consuming, but rather to do whatever it takes to ensure that people are safe, healthy and thriving.

David Graeber's brilliant pamphlet "Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology" had a big impact on me when I was a postgraduate student. The publisher has made it available for free download here: prickly-paradigm.com/titles/fragmen…

"Debt cancellation would not only relieve human suffering, it would also remind us that money is not ineffable, that these are human arrangements and that if democracy is going to mean anything, it is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way." —David Graeber

New research from Queen Mary University shows a link between particle pollution from traffic 🚗💨and susceptibility to 🦠covid infection. It’s clear. We must leave the car behind, travel less and get about on foot and by bike if possible. 🚶🏽‍♀️🧑🏽‍🦯👩🏻‍🦽🤸🚲. standard.co.uk/news/london/lo…

I read a big stack of memoirs by billionaires to better understand their delusional worldviews and find out how they think they make their money. currentaffairs.org/2021/01/how-bi…

Thanks Joel, a pleasure working with you. Looking forward to hearing the podcast!

Enjoyed this engaging (re)introduction to the Foundation series. Joel’s enthusiasm for Asimov’s ideas and writing is infectious (but hasn’t blinded him to the shortcomings of a 1940s vision of the far future in which everything of note is done by men)

”Our relationship with nature is broken. But relationships can change. When we protect nature - we are nature protecting itself.” Thank you Mercy For Animals for sponsoring this film by Tom Mustill and me. #ForNature #BiodiversityDay

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Recipe for a happy designer: engaging subject matter, a clear fun brief with room to play, and a satisfied client who values the work 😄

Lord Foul's Bane Design & Illustration: Mike Topping

🐻 COVER REVEAL 🐻 In a lonely valley, deep in the mountains, a ranger watches over the last surviving grizzly bear. We are excited to reveal the cover for #Extinction by @BradleySomer, publishing next June! Cover designer: Mike Topping ow.ly/K55W50H1Irx

THE ENDS is coming. 7/7/22

The first series of Hi de Hi, broadcast in 1980, was set in 1959. Its equivalent now would be set in 2001. I feel so old.

It would be set at All Tomorrow’s Parties. Gladys Pugh and her glockenspiel would fit right in

THE ENDS is in The Times' 12 Best SFF Books of 2022, nestled alongside some of *my* favourites of the year (Emily St. J. Mandel, Ned Beauman, Adam Roberts, Simon Morden) thetimes.co.uk/article/best-s…

Got a notification from youtube recommending a David Icke video on a channel full of videos called “youtube doesn’t want you to see this” and the like 🤦‍♂️