Dom Pates

No longer posting to this site & have deleted the apps. As with Facebook, my account remains active (for now) in case, but won’t be regularly checking here. To those that want to find me, I’m the same user name at the place for tooting & where the sky is blue. Bye bye bluebird!

From Rebecca Solnit: “They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving.  You may need to grieve or scream or take time off, but you have a role no matter what, and right now good friends and good principles are worth gathering in. Remember what you love. Remember what loves you. Remember in this tide of hate what love is. The pain you feel is because of what you love. The Wobblies used to say don't mourn, organize, but you can do both at once and you don't have to organize right away in this moment of furious mourning.
You can be heartbroken or furious or both at once; you can scream in your car or on a cliff; you can also get up tomorrow and water the flowerpots and call someone who's upset and check your equipment for going onward. A lot of us are going to come under direct attack, and a lot of us are going to resist by building solidarity and sanctuary. Gather up your resources, the metaphysical ones that are heart and soul and care, as well as the practical ones.
People kept the faith in the dictatorships of South America in the 1970s and 1980s, in the East Bloc countries and the USSR, women are protesting right now in Iran and people there are writing poetry. There is no alternative to persevering, and that does not require you to feel good. You can keep walking whether it's sunny or raining. Take care of yourself and remember that taking care of something else is an important part of taking care of yourself, because you are interwoven with the ten trillion things in this single garment of destiny that has been stained and torn, but is still being woven and mended and washed.”

@santanuvasant @LTHEchat Cool - am game for that.

@dompates @LTHEchat Thanks Dom, that would be great, I will be in touch soon, thinking of a mini series on ESD 🤔 for #TalkingHE #LTHEChat

Q6: Looking ahead, what are your goals for incorporating ESD within your teaching context and amongst your colleagues in the coming year? Are there any new approaches or initiatives you're planning to introduce? Reply with A6 #LTHEChat and your response

@RosBeaumont @MartinRich106 Thanks Ros! In a tweet then, an interdisciplinary UG module on sustainability and climate change, piloted in one school but taught by (academics from) all schools. Aiming to a) teach students about the issues and b) empower them to take action in their lives. Hopefully! #LTHEchat

A6 #LTHEchat not for the 1st time in these chats I'm tagging in @DomPates who is working on a university-level initiative around providing ESD

@santanuvasant @LTHEchat If you’d be interested in hearing about our new interdisciplinary module on sustainability and climate change, happy to help you fill the #TalkingHE airwaves, Santanu 😊 #LTHEchat

@LTHEchat A6 I would love to have a few guests from #LTHEChat colleagues incorporating ESD in their curriculum on my Podcast in the next academic year, to keep this area in the spotlight. Embedding key initiatives in Quality processes is key.

@HawaiiDelilah Frankly, I’ve no idea why anyone lets him anywhere near a microphone…

What does this even mean? How can this race be tied? My God, he is a fucking fool.

@timbocop One or two…

My son (10) just asked if there have been any technological advancements in the last 20 years and I can't stop laughing 😂

The most important point I'm making here is this: We're used to thinking of climate chaos as a problem that's far away, in the future... and probably someone else's responsibility to worry about. None of that's true anymore. (5/)

@kevinroose If there ever was a podcast that could have been a tweet, eh? 😉

I fed NotebookLM a PDF of my most recent credit card statement. It spit out a 7-minute podcast about how I spend too much on Uber 😭

It’s Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show, Casey reports from Meta Connect, and we talk to author/Googler @stevenbjohnson about NotebookLM, the hit new AI product that can turn any documents you give it into a podcast. It’s really wild.

Thousands of years of Humanity, and you are alive to witness the first photo of a Sunset on another World; Mars.

@allgrungerock @turfwarsradio Might have been in the crowd for that one.

RIP to the legendary Mr Herbie Flowers, bass player extraordinaire ((1938 - 2024). 💔

@Puiyin @gamerlearner @julievoce @Bulgenen @johnbrindletel @hintondm One of the key voices of #ALTcRadio 😂

@gamerlearner @Puiyin @julievoce @Bulgenen @johnbrindletel @hintondm Listened to the full recording already, Colin - loved it! 😊 A radio show makes for quite a different way to present original research…

@Puiyin @julievoce @Bulgenen @johnbrindletel @hintondm Almost done then! As the one running #ALTcRadio, there’s no way I’d want to have to fit prepping for an #ALTc session in as well…

@markchilds She’s not wrong there.

Talking to my mum explaining we had a king now. Which she knew but had forgotten. She paused a bit then said "it's all a bit silly, really, isn't it?" After some questions worked out she meant royalty in general. Yes it is mum. Yes it is.

@LaboratoryMinds @TheAnnaGat Now THAT looks like a fascinating read…

"Things fall apart / the center cannot hold" — our chapter in a new volume from the Strüngman Forum in Frankfurt. A causal taxonomy of how, and why, collaborations collapse  — with case studies ranging from the breakup of the Beatles to the Kyoto Protocol.

Climate change will inevitably stop being a hazy future concern and will someday turn everyday life upside down. At the risk of causing counterproductive doomism, I offer observations and speculations on how the planetary crisis may play out. 1/25 yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/08/when-w…

And thrilled to be providing that full parallel track of conference radio via @thursnight - programme coming together nicely now. #ALTc2024 #ALTcRadio