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tomhill.bsky.social
Environmental economist | Eco-stoicism | Twitcher | Wildlife Gardening | Fellow of the Solonian Democracy Institute 🏳️‍🌈 (he/him) |
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"At some point we are going to need, collectively, to stop encouraging politicians to lie to us. And we are going to have to get lucky, finding a leader able simultaneously to tell the truth and get themselves re-elected." (Don't hold your breath).

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

I think that this is legitimately the most scary video re American politics that I've seen so far. If MAGA does decide to undertake a self-coup then it's folks like those cheering here who'll be enabling/resisting it.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Newsom's speech here feels significant. If things over there escalate I can imagine folks rallying behind him. x.com/GavinNewsom/...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is a lesson for Labour in the UK too “The only thing that can possibly work is a visionary, loud, appealing alternative, rather than a milder form of the same thing that the very charismatic aspiring autocrat is offering.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

A similar illustration of this - my household income is decently top 10%, and having saved a wild share of my income over the past decade, I could probably just about afford to buy the house that my parents, both police sergeants, bought in 1993

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

submitted 5 days ago • 170 comments

Superhero pose. #birds #wildlife #nature #birdphotography #photography #audubonsociety

submitted 7 days ago • 240 comments

I asked ChatGPT to generate images of typical supporters of different UK political parties. I will be repeating this exercise, using the same prompt, at regular intervals / when I remember, to see how things change - if at all. I guess this is 1/? (Turns out only some of them can correctly spell)

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

Each time one of these meetings happens it's morbidly interesting to see how world leaders respond to Trump's complete absence of grace.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Reflecting on @jburnmurdoch.ft.com article re the gender divide in voting and came across this article in Politico. It's interesting and fucked up and troubling all at the same time. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

submitted 10 days ago • 1184 comments