Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If you told me anyone could bring anything new to a cover of Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush doing "Don't Give Up" I'd be all NOPE, fight me. But OMG, Willy and Sinead! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADYm... 000
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Any Colin Meloy / Decembrist fans do Connections today? If so, this one's for you. (Spoilers) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/c...nytimes.comNYT Connections Answers for October 1, 2026Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026. 000
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Meta pulled this video from Facebook. Gee, wonder why???? youtu.be/dHKhYL3is5o?...google.comGoogle Search 000
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Oh, and of course, as an added bonus, it distracts from the story that the Narcissist in Chief is a PDF file. 010
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Retaliatory Tariffs? Better strategy: legalize jailbreaks to target the Enshitification Barons that put Trump in power and liberate the internet from America's Monopolist Tech industry. Cory Doctorow's call to adversarial interoperability arms.media.ccc.deA post-American, enshittification-resistant internetTrump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that prevented all... 000
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 29/12/2025The Journalist who originally broke the Epstein story was being tracked by the DOJ of Trump the First. Somebody needs to explain why. 010
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 18/11/2025BREAKING: We won an Anthem Award for the #SpoonfulOfLaughter campaign!! Co-created by Dancing Fox and diaTribe: Curiosity, compassion, and connection are kryptonite to diabetes stigma; comedy is the Trojan Horse that gets all three inside the city gates.anthemawards.comEntry - Anthem AwardsBrought to you by The Webby Awards, The Anthem Awards honors the purpose & mission-driven work of people, companies, and organizations worldwide. By amplifying the voices that spark global change, we’re defining a new benchmark for impactful work that inspires others to take action in their own communities. 110
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 03/10/2025"The Stories we Share" was my subject for the Stronger Roots Conference in Prague yesterday. Incredibly inspiring to hear so many stories of hope from these champions of democracy, freedom, and a just and empathetic civil society. 011
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 17/09/2025And now for something completely different. The wonderful Hilary Barrett interprets an I-Ching reading I cast in 1982, which nudged (or shoved) me to join Greenpeace. Who knew a 3,000 year old book could say "DUH!?!?"open.spotify.comYi’s companionshipI Ching with Clarity podcast – I Ching with Clarity · Episode 020
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Today I learned: About the "Millennial Pause." A Tik Tok phenom that separates people who grew up on video as a staged, prepared, analogue, professionally shot and unspontaneous form and the Gen-Z ers for whom immediate-on phone video is a native format. vm.tiktok.com/ZGdayR... 000
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Trump's Government is corrupt. Shut it down, Dems, shut it down. @chuckschumeryoutube.comStop Acting Like This is Normal | The Ezra Klein ShowIn a few weeks the government’s funding will run out. If Democrats vote for a new spending bill, they will be funding Trump’s autocratic takeover. How can they? Read the full transcript here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/opinion/trump-senate-democrats-shutdown-schumer.html Watch more on @ 010
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 29/08/2025On the train home from working with teen Junk Food activists Bite Back I discover Oli, who was in my workshop yesterday, in my news feed today via the BBC. That's Culture Jamming. @BiteBack2030 #CommercialBreakshare.googleLeatherhead teen calls for Surrey council junk food advert banOli Porter, 18, says he wants to see junk food adverts removed from Surrey County Council property. 000
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 27/08/2025On the Eurostar, preparing a training for the A-MAZING young activists of Bite Back. Their #CommercialBreak campaign is pure campaign improv: they flipped the refusal to run their award-winning ads into a people-powered pivot. #EverythingIsAGift 010
Reposted by Brian FitzgeraldCindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Loving Gavin Newsom’s Trump trolling. Taking him on at his own game. Superbly. His social media team is 🔥… or maybe he’s writing his own? Either way, it’s the first effective pushback I’ve seen from Dems. 261
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 05/08/2025A book that was written when I was 4 years old would one day change my life. Bill McKibben on Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. www.newyorker.com/ma...newyorker.comBill McKibben on Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”Her reporting was quickly attacked by the industry she called into question, setting the playbook for companies that profited from tobacco, opioids, and fossil fuels. 000
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 30/07/2025The 1985 spy story of how the French Secret Service bungled their way across New Zealand to sink the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in order to "anticipate" her protests against nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific. slate.com/news-and-p...slate.comThe Crime Stunned the World. What Came After Seemed More Unbelievable by the Day.The almost unbelievable last days of the Rainbow Warrior. 120
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 27/07/2025This is satire as nonviolent direct action. South Park episode goes meta with outrageous (1 of 50) taunt to parent company Paramount & Trump to cancel it "for financial reasons." #ColbertLives www.newyorker.com/cu...newyorker.com“South Park” Skewers a Satire-Proof PresidentThe new season première goes after Trump as never before—and solves a problem that’s plagued comedians since his first term in office. 000
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Outstanding long read from Grist on the story behind Energy Transfer's 666 million lawsuit against Greenpeace. grist.org/project/indi...grist.orgStanding Rock was an Indigenous-led movement. Why did Greenpeace take the fall?The inside story of how Greenpeace stood with water protectors — and got hit with a $666 million court judgment. 110
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Paramount cancels Colbert for "financial" reasons. In unrelated news, Paramount's Star Trek has cast a new Captain, with Donald Trump set "to boldly go someplace where, frankly, a lot of people tell me, a lot of people, that nobody, and I mean nobody, has ever gone before." 120
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Until Dancing Fox worked with #HopeAndHomesForChildren, I generally thought orphanages were a good thing. They really opened my eyes to the need to get kids back to family, and not "warehouse" them in institutions. This story from Ireland is shocking. www.hopeandhomes.org...hopeandhomes.orgTackling a global industrial complex of abuse and neglect - Hope and Homes for ChildrenHope and Homes for Children's CEO writes about the St Mary's institution in Tuam, and how our work gets children Back to Family. 110
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 11/07/2025If they come for Colbert, they'll have to get past the millions of us for whom he's the last bastion of sanity, essential therapy, and the light of hope. Pitchforks at dawn, people. #Paramount #CBS # Shakedown @colbertlateshow latenighter.com/news...latenighter.comReport: Colbert and Stewart on Shaky Ground as Skydance-Paramount Merger Nears Completion - LateNighterA new report from veteran media reporter Oliver Darcy suggests that the pending Skydance-Paramount merger could spell trouble for two of Donald Trump’s most high-profile comedic critics: Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. 000
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 10/07/2025A lot of us elder hippies know exactly where they were on this day 40 years ago. open.substack.com/pu... 140
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 10/07/2025It ain't 4 dimensional chess, it's Improv Donald - the improv game where when he hears the bell, he needs to make a new choice - for example, "I hate dogs" 🛎️ "I hate cats" 🛎️ "I hate authoritarian narcissists" #Improv #Trumpmemes #Trumpsucks youtube.com/shorts/U...youtube.com- YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. 000
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 09/07/2025My personal definition of a civilized city: not just no need for a car, but the same care and attention for the alternatives that car infrastructure gets. 110
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Umm, maybe Brexit is where he should focus his actual anger. "Netherlands down a Nobel Prize as winner loses his Dutch nationality | NL Times" nltimes.nl/2025/07/02/n...nltimes.nlNetherlands down a Nobel Prize as winner loses his Dutch nationalityThe Netherlands has lost one of its Nobel Prize winners. Andre Geim, a Dutch-British physicist awarded the prize in 2010 for discovering graphene, has lost his Dutch nationality, the Volkskrant report... 000
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Shouldn't he be vowing to reward Republicans who show a spine? Money shouldn't be the determining factor in an election, but if you're gonna wield it, wield it to reward integrity rather than a cudgel to do what you demand. 110
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Finding your Activist Friends. Yes, I've linked it before, but it's such a goody from @epilepticrabbit. blog.weareopen.coop/...blog.weareopen.coopFinding your activist friendsSolidarity, common ground, and intersectionality in the climate movement 000
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Canva Ads: Phil Agnew cites these as examples of "𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠...the idea that people judge value by the 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 that went into something." They're also very clever, which makes my heart sing more than the cost. 010
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 13/06/2025This is what courage looks like. Don't let tyrants redefine protest as insurrection. 011
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 13/06/2025So in the Netherlands there's a bit of a branding problem with "No Kings" since we have a King, but he's a decent enough fellow who rides a bike and doesn't send armed forces against his own when people disagree with him. #NoTyrants nltimes.nl/2025/06/1...nltimes.nl"No Tyrants" protest to stage outside U.S. Consulate in Amsterdam on Saturday | NL TimesA few hundred people are expected to take part in a protest Saturday afternoon outside the United States Consulate in Amsterdam. Organizers of the "No Tyrants" event tell NL Times it is in solidarity with similar protests happening across the U.S. and elsewhere in the world. The date coincides with a military parade planned in the U.S. on President Donald Trump's birthday, amid concerns of his administration's attempts to consolidate power. 012
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 11/06/2025+1 cautionary note about messaging Trump Always Chickens Out (TACO). I don't want him pettily deciding "I'll show those Dems" as he contemplates sending Marines to attack domestic protestors, or considers a nuclear strike. Think toddler psychology, people. www.messageboxnews.c...messageboxnews.comShould "Taco Trump" Be on the Democrats' Message Menu?A cautionary note on a very funny meme 010
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 10/06/2025"[The crew of the Madleen] knew they wouldn’t reach Gaza. But they also knew that the world needs reminders, loud, visible, defiant reminders, that what’s happening in Gaza is not normal, not justifiable, and not tolerable." -- Yossi Cadan www.greenpeace.org/c...greenpeace.orgEveryone knew the Israeli military would seize the Madleen. Everyone knew the brave activists aboard would be arrested. And that’s precisely what makes their actions so powerful. 142
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 09/06/2025"We wake up to the news of Trump considering declaring California a police state, and Netanyahu considering killing Greta Thunberg if she dares to dock her humanitarian aid boat in Gaza." Michael Moore on Chris Hedge's paeon to Colonia Trumpiana. chrishedges.substack... chrishedges.substack.comThe Rule of IdiotsIn the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality. 000
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Our Climate Needs a Mythology: "This is the great paradox of climate change: it is both the most scientifically documented crisis in human history and the most poorly narrated. We have an abundance of evidence, and a deficit of meaning." solitairetownsend.su...solitairetownsend.substack.comOur Climate Needs A MythologyWe have enough climate logic, we also need some magic 001
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 01/06/2025"If Sound can signal a change let it be this one." Brian Eno, who created the Microsoft Windows opening chime sound, bites the hand that once fed him for its complicity in genocide in Palestine. www.instagram.com/p/...instagram.comBrian Eno on Instagram: "Not in My Name: An Open Letter to @microsoft from Brian Eno"209K likes, 4,430 comments - brianeno on May 21, 2025: "Not in My Name: An Open Letter to @microsoft from Brian Eno". 010
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 30/05/2025The Land of Hope and Dreams vs Make America Great Again. Great piece on two competing visions of the US. www.nytimes.com/2025... 030
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Did I ever tell you about the time I fell out of a hot air balloon? If you're in Amsterdam, you can hear the whole story this Friday at the Tell Amsterdam storytelling night at #BoomChicago fareharbor.com/embed... 020
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 25/05/2025I've said it before and I'll say it again: the comments section of the NYT's Connections Puzzle may be the last vestige of my hope for America. ❤️🦋 #Connections @NewYorkTimes 001
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 22/05/2025I saw something extraordinary on stage recently, and it changed me. story4change.substac... 000
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 17/05/2025An Activist, a person with diabetes, and a comedian walk into a bar... Beth Strachan and I do a podcast about How Dancing Fox teamed up with diaTribe to shift cultural narratives around diabetes with sketch comedy and stand up 🥸 #spoonfuloflaughter brooks.digital/healt... 000
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Fascinating report, wonderful integrity. At the end of the day, no matter who took it, that image shaped & cemented my generation's horror at US actions in Vietnam. It was part of my journey towards peace activism. 010
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 12/05/2025I love this so much: Relax… it's only the climate crisis Oilwell is a wellness app to help you embrace climate chaos. 🔥🔥🔥 oilwell.appoilwell.appOilwell - Meditate through the meltdownA wellness app to help you embrace climate chaos, created by Edelman, Oil and Gas PR. From Smog Breathing Exercises, to Lifeless Rock Visualizations, to Wildfire ASMR. 121
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 11/05/2025I recently played a conspiracy-spouting rooster hawking quack cures for bird flu at #BoomChicago. 💥🐓💉 People, I swear: comedy is an undervalued 🐴 Trojan Horse of truth 🐴, improv is an activist's best skill set, and there was a time it saved my ass: story4change.substac... 000
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 04/05/2025It's for days like these that I added an "Explain" link to my HomeAssistant daily #XKCD #HACS widget. www.explainxkcd.com/... 010
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Great Saturday read: My Miserable Week in the ‘Happiest Country on Earth’ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/m...nytimes.comMy Miserable Week in the ‘Happiest Country on Earth’ (Gift Article)For eight years running, Finland has topped the World Happiness Report — but what exactly does it measure? 010
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Pretty good diagnosis of the need to recognize that politics sits downstream from culture: "A generation of 70-year-olds who called for the departure of an 81-year-old fail to understand how anyone under 60 gets information about the world." www.nytimes.com/2025...nytimes.comOpinion | I Worked for Harris and Biden. Here’s the Missing Link for Democrats.Opt-out voters don’t buy what we’re selling — and even if they did, we’d have a hard time reaching them. 010
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish woman on a student visa, was grabbed near XKCD author Randall Munroe's home by 6 masked plainclothes agents and sent to detention in Louisiana. Her apparent crime: she signed an article protesting Tuft University's handling of protests over Gaza. 010
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 28/04/2025A community that didn't have a basketball team because of high rates of asthma, how they stopped what would have been the world's largest trash incinerator, and why you've never heard that story. narrativeedit.substa... 110
Brian Fitzgerald @brianfit.bsky.social · 17/04/2025For second year in a row, Iceland won't kill whales this season. Meanwhile, the whale watching industry thrives. Andrew Davies hatched the idea of a reverse boycott in 2004: a pledge to visit Iceland if whaling stopped. Sometimes campaigns take decades. www.ruv.is/english/2... 020