Jon Hall

[Jon Hall @jonerichall]

“We are all living in delusion, unable to process the news from science that climate change amounts to an all-encompassing threat. Indeed, a threat the size of life itself.”

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https://t.co/iYUcqumoj2

[Jon Hall @jonerichall]

@nytimes @nytimes If using John R. Lott as a source for the pro-gun position, you need to provide some context for his questionable, unsupported findings and terrible track record.

https://t.co/pMnT1zPjwS

[Jon Hall @jonerichall]

Turning the abortion debate on its ear and holding the #patriarchy to account, @designmom calls for a realignment of our understanding of whose responsible and how to fix it. Gird yer loins fellas.

[Gabrielle Blair @designmom]

If you want to stop abortion, you need to prevent unwanted pregnancies. And men are 100% responsible for unwanted pregnancies. No for real, they are. Perhaps you are thinking: IT TAKES TWO! And yes, it does take two for _intentional_ pregnancies.

[Jon Hall @jonerichall]

I just subscribed to Dracula Daily https://t.co/WMfe0bZ7iN

[Jon Hall @jonerichall]

My kid Natalie, and their new self portrait/icon. Natalie’s creative work is extraordinary, if I do say so myself :-)

[Nana🌱 @drawnbynana]

I updated my icon the other day!! Here’s little me :3

[Jon Hall @jonerichall]

Yesterday Trump posted an image of himself wearing a QAnon pin with Q slogans, featuring “The Storm is Coming,” which Q believers claim will be the day he will take power, round up all of his political enemies and execute them in public.

[Edgar McGregor @edgarrmcgregor]

This is as simply as I can put it:

Despite repeated warnings, the public remains perilously unresponsive to the catastrophically escalating situation along the Colorado River.

[Jon Hall @jonerichall]

All the while, I’m reminded of Albert Camus’ and Viktor Frankl’s insistence that hope, held defiantly against despair, has more than a few times kept us from (or taken us through) the abyss. Let’s hope it can yet again.

[Jon Hall @jonerichall]

“We are all living in delusion, unable to process the news from science that climate change amounts to an all-encompassing threat. Indeed, a threat the size of life itself.”

/thread

https://t.co/iYUcqumoj2

[Jon Hall @jonerichall]

Robinson’s Ministry for the Future, Offill’s Weather, Cook’s The New Wilderness and Morton’s Being Ecological, each in their own way lighting paths forward and holding up mirrors amid the Faustian bargain of the Anthropocene.

[Jon Hall @jonerichall]

Echoing Socrates and Shakespeare, Camus refuses to look away or chase illusions, instead staring into the abyss of existence & finding not despair, but a path forward.

“Lucidity is the clarity and courage of mind which refuses all comforting illusions and self-deception.”

[Jon Hall @jonerichall]

“This world on itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.”
—Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

[Jon Hall @jonerichall]

This is the thesis of much of Camus’ work, and of this extraordinary essay. Formed in the crucible of fascism and Nazi occupation, he acknowledges how absurd the world can appear to us, which in turn can drive us to self-deception and myths of escape.

[Jon Hall @jonerichall]

@rosabeeart These look great!

[Jon Hall @jonerichall]

“Lucidity is the clarity and courage of mind which refuses all comforting illusions and self-deception.” — Albert Camus

[Nana🌱 @drawnbynana]

I’m now on Patreon!! https://t.co/SpVhqG6BqN These are the rewards for March 🍡✨

[Jon Hall @jonerichall]

There’s plenty of turmoil in the world right now (isn’t there always?), but a bit of important insight on our bigger problem, and some hopeful news *if* we act soon: https://t.co/f6VlDGMNtS

[Jon Hall @jonerichall]

Helpful insight from Hess, with an also very helpful book recommendation (Timothy Morton’s Being Ecological). I’m still reeling from Robinson’s Ministry for the Future, looking forward to Morton’s perspective.

[Amanda Hess @amandahess]

As global warming cooks the earth, it melts our brains, exploding the stories we like to tell ourselves—even the apocalyptic ones. I wrote about end-times parable, doomscrolling and the kind of climate denial practiced even by those who accept the science https://t.co/2X3nHXlVGs