Man With Sign, June 20, 02025

It's not as hot as it's gonna get, but it's plenty hot for 7:30 in the morning. A soloist again (Craige being out with minor health issues), I reach Roosevelt Circle and set up my sign, my speaker, my place on the guardrail. Today I'm holding up my regular Friday message, WE MUST BE BETTER ANCESTORS.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV_iLRzp2j0
#ClimateChaos #ClimateChange #CitizenActivism #HindustaniMusic

Man With Sign, June 19, 02025

Thursday is supposed to be brutally hot, but when I step out the door everything is still cool. I reach Roosevelt Circle at 7:31; it looks like Craige's not here today so I'm a soloist. I set up my large wooden sign, put my speaker on the post, and hold up WEIRD IS THE NEW NORMAL. And does anyone need me to explain why? Jeez.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRG9ZGGeP-8
#ClimateChaos #ClimateChange #CitizenActivism #HindustaniMusic

Man With Sign, June 18, 02025

I rise a few minutes before the alarm and have a little extra time for pre-vigil coffee before getting out of the house, arriving at Roosevelt Circle at 7:30 and setting up. Today's hand-held sign is EVERY DISASTER MOVIE STARTS WITH A SCIENTIST BEING IGNORED. It's very damp, constantly threatening a drizzle but not following through.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSqz-aR9UUY
#ClimateChaos #ClimateChange #CitizenActivism #HindustaniMusic

Man With Sign, June 17, 02025

It's a pleasantly cool morning as I walk up to Roosevelt Circle, arriving at 7:31 entirely thanks to impassable oncoming traffic at the rotary. I greet Craige and set up my signs, today holding up CLIMATE CHAOS INCREASES THE LIKELIHOOD OF THE NEXT PANDEMIC. The weather apps suggest that it's going to rain, but it doesn't happen.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhD5I52CHpA
#ClimateChaos #ClimateChange #CitizenActivism #HindustaniMusic

Oxford: Going with The Flow

A story by Hamish Campbell

Genre: Climate fiction

Setting: Oxford, England – 2030s to 2080s

Themes: Climate migration, class war, migrant displacement, urban decay and adaptation, history repeating, social justice, collapse vs. transformation, DIY survival vs. institutional decay.

A post #climatechaos utopia/dystopia history of a small English town.

Timeline: THE RISING

High Ground, Low Future (2030–2040) • Begin with heavy rains and seasonal flooding becoming semi-permanent. • […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/oxford-going-with-the-flow/

Man With Sign, June 16, 02025

I reach Roosevelt Circle at 7:29 and set up my big sign. Today is Monday, which means it's ALL BLACK signage for the foreseeable future. At first I think i'm a soloist, but Craige arrives around 7:45 and we touch base for a few minutes' conversation before he takes up his position for the rest of the hour.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k48FBQaLFMg
#ClimateChaos #ClimateChange #CitizenActivism #HindustaniMusic

Man With Sign, June 13, 02025

Friday the 13th, eh? Well, I'm a soloist this morning; Craige's not feeling well. I reach Roosevelt Circle at 7:30, set up my stuff, and offer MOTHER NATURE DOESN'T CARE WHAT YOU BELIEVE to the morning commute. It's rather cold, in the mid-50s F, and the skies are grey, soggy, dense.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxshCKY9J-A
#ClimateChaos #ClimateChange #CitizenActivism #HindustaniMusic

“Welcome to climate chaos everyone, I hope y’all enjoy it”:

(Or if you’re a fan of sticking your head in the sand, “just because this sort of thing didn’t used to happen and is now happening increasingly often, and best fits climate change as an explanation, and I don’t have any other credible thoughts on what might cause it (maybe the CIA or Space Aliens though), doesn’t mean that it is climate change and it isn’t happening and la la la, but read this and know how mature and considered I am because I express scepticism about the cause:”)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c14k6vp62zxo

#DontLookUp #ClimateChaos #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #ItHasntGoneAwayBecauseYouGotBored

Man With Sign, June 12, 02025

It's a gorgeous morning, very nice for standing out though probably not as effective when it comes to convincing people of the reality of climate change. I reach Roosevelt Circle at 7:31, greet Craige, and set up my signs. Today's handheld message is SCIENTIFIC IGNORANCE IS A BAD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaer6Tj80ME
#ClimateChaos #ClimateChange #CitizenActivism #HindustaniMusic

@andrewstroehlein IMHO the worst crisis is the #SixthExtinction aka the #BiodiversityCrisis --if we don't do something about that very soon, our entire species is going to go extinct. No more humans on Earth, never again. #OceanAcidification and #ClimateChaos are running wild, pesticides and #PFAS are everywhere, entire biomes are going to collapse if nothing happens very soon. Or rather if things that have been happening for decades don't just stop almost immediately.
#Sudan is part of the whole human drama, and the reason why almost nobody in the richer parts of the world takes any notice is simple: #racism and #antisemitism . #Gaza gives all the antisemites a good excuse to hate the Jews a little more than usual, if you ignore the fact that not all Jews support Netanyahu's extreme right regime, even many Israelis are trying to stop them. OTOH #Hamas gives all the islamophobes a good excuse to hate Muslims more than usual while pretending to be philosemitic. But Sudan? That's just some poor place in Africa, nobody cares.

Man With Sign, June 11, 02025

It's a sunny morning that promises a much hotter day than the past few. I reach Roosevelt Circle at 7:31, set up my sign and speaker, and hold up WEIRD IS THE NEW NORMAL (because if our new normal ain't weird I dunno what to call it). Craige arrives a few minutes later and we touch base.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZapDr5O8BDs
#ClimateChaos #ClimateChange #CitizenActivism #HindustaniMusic

Man With Sign, June 10, 02025

Another cool morning as I walk up to Roosevelt Circle, arriving at 7:29 and setting up. Today's hand-held sign is CHANGE OUR CONVERSATION / CHANGE OUR CONSUMPTION / CHANGE OUR POLITICS. Craige arrives a few minutes later after almost a week out for health reasons. It's great to see him back again and we chat for a little bit.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28LHC675zko
#ClimateChaos #ClimateChange #CitizenActivism #HindustaniMusic

In my life, I have made thousands of videos on social and environmental issues. So thought it was time to try a different medium https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/MakingHistory/wiki/Story+-+Oxford%3A+Going+with+The+Flow.- A short story on #climatechaos and my local city #Oxford

Man With Sign, June 9, 02025

Monday is cool, in the upper 50s F, and the skies are grey, with an air quality advisory suggesting that if I have asthma I should stay indoors. I don't and I don't, instead arriving at Roosevelt Circle at 7:30 and setting up ALL BLACK signage as usual for the start of the week. No Craige; he's out for health reasons.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzIYiGPZjIA
#ClimateChaos #ClimateChange #CitizenActivism #HindustaniMusic

Man With Sign, June 6, 02025

Friday morning is not uncomfortably warm, but it's muggy and grey, with thickly overcast skies that I'm fairly sure are full of smoke from wildfires in Canada (nothing to see here, folks. move along, move along). A soloist this morning, I arrive at 7:29, set up my big sign & accoutrements, and hold up MOTHER NATURE DOESN'T CARE WHAT YOU BELIEVE.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2KC01-2LWM
#ClimateChaos #ClimateChange #CitizenActivism #HindustaniMusic

Man With Sign, June 5, 02025

Today's gonna be a hot one, I can tell. It's already muggy when I step outside, and by the time I reach Roosevelt Circle at 7:29 I'm feeling it. I'm a soloist again this morning, and I set up my big sign, get my speaker connected, and hold up SCIENTIFIC IGNORANCE IS A BAD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFDDyjkHlCw
#ClimateChaos #ClimateChange #CitizenActivism #HindustaniMusic

Man With Sign, June 4, 02025

Wednesday finds me waking intermittently, then falling back into uneasy sleep until the alarm rings and jolts me into the day, my ears buzzing lightly with the internal cicadas of tinnitus. I reach Roosevelt Circle at 7:30 and clamp my big sign to the guardrail, then set up my speaker and hold up WEIRD IS THE NEW NORMAL. No Craige this morning; I'm a soloist.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTKdQl3MvUQ
#ClimateChaos #ClimateChange #CitizenActivism #HindustaniMusic

Governance, the mess of AI tech-fix path

https://hamishcampbell.com/governance-the-mess-of-ai-tech-fix-path/

Man With Sign, June 3, 02025

It's a beautiful morning this Tuesday, with a few fluffy clouds decorating an otherwise clear blue sky, temperatures ideal for being outside...finally a sense of spring. I reach Roosevelt Circle at...wait, WTF? I have left my phone at home, which means that not only do I not have a drone, I also don't know what time it is.

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#ClimateChaos #ClimateChange #CitizenActivism #HindustaniMusic

Man With Sign, June 2, 02025

Monday morning is cool and clear, with temperatures in the mid-50s. I finish pre-vigil coffee and reach Roosevelt Circle at 7:30. I set up my signs — as usual, Monday's signage is ALL BLACK until sanity returns. No Craige today, which means that I'm a soloist — and also that our plans to start a new song are deferred until tomorrow.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUe1zcKxmD0
#ClimateChaos #ClimateChange #CitizenActivism #HindustaniMusic