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Have you ever seen a relaxing X/Twitter thread?

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Have you ever seen a relaxing X/Twitter thread? No, me neither. I hardly ever write them. And when I do, it’s usually about bad news. But I recently tried to transmute some upset into celebration… here is the text of that x/twitter thread. 1/29

A surprise to end the year was @JustCollapse founders Tristan and Kate posting across social media that I am a “far right promoter”. Unfortunately, they didn’t yet reply to my emails about their misunderstandings. But I realised I could take that as an invitation to publicly celebrate my decades of Leftiness 🙂 You might not admire that, but it’s a big part of who I am, so here begins an indulgent Lefty thread! 2/29

A highlight was in 2017, co-writing with Jeremy Corbyn and Marc Lopatin the first speech Corbyn gave about why he sought to become Prime Minister. Biographer Alex Nunns thought his best ever. It was part of a 6 week General Election campaign that gained about 20 points in the polls.  Watch here:  https://youtu.be/P0Cr8CVkdMs 3/29

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Telling Uncomfortable Truths to Progressives

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Despite us having learned to be human within capitalist societies, more of us are breaking free from its limiting ideologies. Those ideologies include deep stories about dominating nature, competitive humans, constricted knowing, and perpetual material expansion, which surround us nearly all the time. That is why those ideologies also express themselves within social movements, political agendas, and some of our friends’ social media postings about latest fixation of legacy media. And as those ideologies shape our habits of thought, to separate ourselves from them can be difficult. Which is why it is so heartening to witness more people breaking free and beginning to live differently – and now calling on others to do the same. Whether staying in their jobs and promoting different ways of working, or quitting to make time to create local cooperatives, permaculture projects, emotional support groups, or to promote needed technologies and public policies, many people are improving their lives and those of others.

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