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XR gave us hope. But it was not our last, best hope. There are other ways. See @StartAffinity for one idea. Read XR testimonials about leaving XR at the webpage

[BeyondXR @BeyondXr]

Dear XR (24 minutes) https://t.co/Tv89KDekHm

[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

lack of humanity that even those who claim to care about the climate use to speak about protestors is truly disgusting. disagree with their methods by all means but those who argue for them to be run down, left glued on, kept without water etc reveal themselves to be monsters.

[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

do that then?

[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

don’t think the action is without its faults (main one speaks to JSO as a whole, their lack of interaction with wider ecosystem of activists who could ensure this moment isn’t wasted re: changing narrative, building movements) but most ppl are just having an ignorant whinge imo!

[Marc Hudson @marcsrhudson]

Just Stop Oil and the Van Gogh. Not surprising to anyone paying much attention to them.

As per Feb 2022 - "Anthropologically fascinating, but politically terrifying."

https://t.co/r6scAjk7T8

[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

reminder that there is no art on a dead planet

[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

this slaps as an action but the messaging is just all over the place.

[SK @samjknights]

Unfortunately this will not be distinguishable from all of the university students doing the exact same thing to advertise their underground new crime thrillers.

[BeyondXR @BeyondXr]

If you’re involved in XR or any movement or organisation, keep an eye out for these dynamics.

[Elsie Luna @elsiemaribel]

My post-XR & post-XR Kids thinking.

[PeterGelderloos @PeterGelderloos]

As the world burns, it can be therapeutic to imagine throwing the wealthy on the fire and cackling as they writhe in the flames. (It's been a hard year, lay off). But there's a hitch: using monstrous tactics makes monsters of us.

*Anarchist ethics in the collapse*
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[BeyondXR @BeyondXr]

https://t.co/w8r06b4q9s

[PeterGelderloos @PeterGelderloos]

The problem is, the vast majority of scientists still produce papers for the big journals or participate in govt initiatives, basically lending their credibility to the fox guarding the henhouse. It seems all the XR academics drink from those poisoned waters.
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[PeterGelderloos @PeterGelderloos]

The scientists I know are the same, I just assumed it was a sample bias. What's lacking though, is a historical awareness of how radical change is produced. From the Chenoweth to the Malm end of the spectrum, they are incredibly unscientific when studying social change and the
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[PeterGelderloos @PeterGelderloos]

My new book with @PlutoPress is out!
The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below.
Here's a short thread on what the book is all about, from the critiques of green capitalism to the interviews with effective movements!
https://t.co/hHJxBQrJMA

[BeyondXR @BeyondXr]

@digitalhealthxx Think you tagged the wrong account 😅

[Anarchist 💣Federation ❤️🖤 @AnarchistFed]

XR folks finally listening and doing the direct action where it counts. Props to whoever internally is pushing for these actions instead of juntion occupations and such.

[PeterGelderloos @PeterGelderloos]

@HunttheBismarck @keduzi @PlutoPress The problem is, racism is an every day part of the system that is destroying the planet, and we need to talk about. It really isn't okay for a white person to get upset about criticisms of racism. It's not impolite, it's something we need to be talking about every day.
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[PeterGelderloos @PeterGelderloos]

@HunttheBismarck @keduzi @PlutoPress Yeah that's not exactly the timeline of how things went down. There already were thriving, important ecological struggles when XR formed and which they deliberately chose not to connect with, and even to sideline. The leadership had an elitist/racist approach from the start.

[PeterGelderloos @PeterGelderloos]

I just found out someone has been using Solutions to get chapters of XR and similar groups to move away from the NGO-style, capitalist, and colonial/racist modes the central orgs often un(?)intentionally reproduce, and that feels awesome.
@PlutoPress https://t.co/hHJxBQrJMA