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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Now that's a headline: "Heat dome to broil western US ahead of North American monsoon." Move along, nothing to see here...it'll all be ok... After all, the kids look happy... (PS...that picture is one reason why we're not getting it...)

accuweather.com

Heat dome to broil western US ahead of North American monsoon

A new heat dome is building in the United States this week. This time it will focus on the West first, then shift toward the Midwest. Storms associated with the North American monsoon will follow the ...

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Why I decided to listen to any of this rambling, self-aggrandizing bullshit of a speech is beyond me. But a part of me thinks we should subject every single person in the country to listen to the whole thing.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Merkley had a pretty effective day. Or will have, if you make this go viral.

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The end of the world is nigh... I mean seriously, how disconnected can you get?

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I wish I'd had this example when I was teaching journalism to high school kids. It's not living up to it's "Fourth Estate" calling much these days...

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Seriously, can someone, anyone please tell me why you know who can just order up all of these executive orders without any, zero, nada oversight? I mean, wtaf? I thought we had, ahem, "checks and balances"...

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Anyone who thinks that these "rebounds" in the market are not market manipulation isn't paying attention. Send the Treasury Secretary out after a down day to suggest that talks with China are "progressing," but don't forget to grab some oversolds before you do. Brazen.

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

@chrislhayes.bsky.social breaks down each layer of the "sheer lawlessness" of the Trump deportation case. (1/2)

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

One thing you can do right now to push back against the oligarchs: Stop buying their products. Hell, stop buying new stuff in general. We need an army of non-consumers of all that crap we "want" but don't "need." #justsayin

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I had an amazing interview with seven students and a head of school in Bangalore where kids are actually being told the truth about what's happening in the world and give the space and support to attack those challenges in meaninful and engaging ways. What a concept.

open.substack.com

A School That's Facing Reality and Imagining Harder (Part 1)

A hard yet joyful conversation

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I thought someone was taking care of this...

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Here's what's lighting me up the last couple of days: I've found a couple schools, one in Bangalore and one in Compton, where students are being told the harsh truths about the world and are encouraged to work on meaningful projects to address those challenges. What a concept. Film at 11.

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

My latest on Substack: "Here's the point: it’s ok to feel 'woo-wee.' In fact, it may be required. Feeling yourself as land, or sensing all other life as kin, or allowing it all to “dream through us” is language that’s asking us to go into spaces we aren’t used to going...that's a good thing."

futureserious.substack.com

We Need More "Woo-Wee"

Provocation #6: Getting comfortable with caring

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Dear Whoever Will Listen, Eliminating the US Department of Ed and opening up school choice and giving public funds to private schools and enacting whatever the next move is to kill public education is will not improve the outcomes you are in a panic about and will likely lead to worse results. 1/

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

"Rather then expect tech, the market and the state to "fix" healthcare, we're better off accepting the system has no solutions because the profit streams and power structure are sacrosanct and cannot be touched, even though they're the source of the problem." Amen. We teaching this?

buff.ly

Of Two Minds - What If Tech, the Market and the State Are No Longer Solutions?

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Not sure when I’ve been so profoundly impacted by works of art as these: “Parallel Universes of War and Peace” Just a warning…some of these are pretty disturbing. But we can’t turn away. instagram.com/ugurgallen

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results” – Albert Einstein I mean, just look at the picture associated with this story. Attention #education: This is not how young humans #learn best. But, yeah, let's just keep tweaking...

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I actually talked to a #school founder from Bangalore and one of her Year 10 students this morning, and it's made me more hopeful that we can face the realities of the world with kids, and imagine harder how to prepare them to navigate the shit that's coming their way. #future #education 1/4

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Thank god we have a new president in office who has promised to take care of this... Whew!

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

"Schools were built for a time that no longer exists, and school leaders must widen their perspectives from the constant and specific demands they’re facing to consider bigger questions—much bigger questions..." My new piece with Homa Tavangar in NAIS Magazine. #education

nais.org

NAIS - The Big Questions: Designing an Updated Educational Model and Student Experience

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

“We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost effective.” ~Kurt Vonnegut

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Oh good...now guys with guns are going to be ALLOWED to enter schools to round up immigrant children because, you know, they're a huge threat... Move along. Nothing to see here. It'll all work out.

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I just knew I shoulda kept the laptop shut today...

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Patrick Meier @patrickmeier.eurosky.social · 16/01/2025

Climate change is not just a technical challenge, so the solutions cannot be just technical. They must be social, local, plural, inclusive, and diverse. Let's not fall into the age-old trap of seductive reductivism: brightthemag.com/the-reductiv... [2/2]

brightthemag.com

The Reductive Seduction Of Other People’s Problems

“If you’re young, privileged, and interested in creating a life of meaning, of course you’d be attracted to solving problems that seem…

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The evolution of the planetary boundaries framework: the last 15 years. Hmmm...

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

My weekly provocation is up: "It’s arguable that we are watching #collapse in real time, collapse that has been happening to people and societies around the world for decades but that is now coming to the WEIRD (western, educated, industrial, rich, democratic) parts of the world."

futureserious.substack.com

This Week's Provocation: The Lesson Education Can't Seem to Learn

17-year old whiteboard math that still adds up...

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

"If your child is born this year, they are likely going to live through +1.5°C of warming by the time they are 25. A fact that is likely going to cause a 40% to 50% drop in the global food supply and a reduction of 2.5 to 4 billion in the global population by 2050, at a minimum." #wow

buff.ly

The Crisis Report - 99

We are now “officially” in uncharted territory.

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I'm gonna use this quote to animate my work in 2025. Maybe get it tattooed to my forearm: "Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent responses to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places.” ~Donna Haraway What's your tattoo gonna say? Happy New Year!

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Not fer nuthin, but if you haven't seen the movie "Sing Sing," you should. The best flick I've seen in maybe five years, and maybe the best scene I've seen in 20. #justsayin

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Will Richardson, Future Serious @willbo24.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

“Civilisations die from suicide, not from murder.” ~Arnold Toynbee People...we are doing this to ourselves. We need to act individually, sure, but we need to rethink what an "education" is for now. What conversations about "Why School?" are you starting in your neighborhoods?

theguardian.com

World endures 'decade of deadly heat' as 2024 caps hottest years on record

UN secretary general, António Guterres, says ‘we must exit this road to ruin’ in annual new year message

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