Jack Lowe | Jack | Activity https://jacklowe.com/members/jacklowe/activity/ Activity feed for Jack. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:02:17 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.21.0 en-GB 30 hourly 2 8fbcd555c4cf95a1e83c3a145d366ec0 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2100/#acomment-2102 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:19:35 +0000 Excellent!

In reply to - joethedoomer posted an update https://youtube.com/shorts/koRzvWFs_ng?si=OrAXniVizCw64B4x ]]> 0b4219c5afdc0336280e42f8febb393b Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2099/#acomment-2101 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:17:11 +0000 Thank you too…it was certainly an experience! X

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That’s the end of EIM.

Thanks @Jack for making it such a pleasurable experience. Well deserved hot bath.

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]]> 84ee8e4185c230627515aca016f0da74 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2096/#acomment-2098 Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:47:08 +0000 @dex3703 We can but dream.

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“It’s such a juxtaposition to see the wildlife and the wilderness, then there’s just industrialisation”

Sea Shepherd are now in the thick of their campaign to expose the mega […]

]]> 1da46f6f06a206d0886953b55dc4b5ca Jack posted an update: “It’s such a juxtaposition to see the wildlife and the […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2096/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:26:00 +0000 “It’s such a juxtaposition to see the wildlife and the wilderness, then there’s just industrialisation”

Sea Shepherd are now in the thick of their campaign to expose the mega industrial trawlers wiping out the base of the food chain in the Southern Ocean.

All I feel I can really do is observe this as yet another layer of runaway absurdity and…

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]]> 2 be2c847549a18dd9324e930cb97a6e02 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2094/#acomment-2095 Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:43:12 +0000 Literally laughable

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Take that, straight of Hormuz. We won’t need your stinkin’ oil soon enough 🤪


]]> 65552e422f26a14f200a940d551e45ef Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2088/#acomment-2092 Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:10:10 +0000 @dex3703 That’s a very excellent way of describing the sensation in your first paragraph. I feel it more acutely as each day passes.

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“When the last of the tankers from the Gulf unloads its cargo – sometime in the next week – Europe will have just days before its worst ever fuel shortages occur.”

Tim Watkins’ […]

]]> 05ce62fb700cbf61521531f34f6913a8 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2088/#acomment-2090 Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:50:54 +0000 @dex3703 Yes. It’s starting to feel like it’s really upon us now.

People can’t stop thinking about how expensive fuel will be for their cars and homes and it always feels like a cruel sucker punch when I ask “Never mind the cost, have you considered that fuel/energy might not be available for your car and home?”

I’m not carrying any piety… Read more

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“When the last of the tankers from the Gulf unloads its cargo – sometime in the next week – Europe will have just days before its worst ever fuel shortages occur.”

Tim Watkins’ […]

]]> 76f8be7bfd863c80efde2ddee6d6dc71 Jack posted an update: “When the last of the tankers from the Gulf unloads its […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2088/ Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:29:48 +0000 “When the last of the tankers from the Gulf unloads its cargo – sometime in the next week – Europe will have just days before its worst ever fuel shortages occur.”

Tim Watkins’ latest missive paints a pretty grim and imminent picture:

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A Great Reset of sorts

The current shock is an order of magnitude greater than the shock caused by the 1979 Iranian revolution.

]]> 4 684d3e6b6acadf61a1a4b19295c99c3e Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2084/#acomment-2087 Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:25:13 +0000 @JoeTheDoomer Darn tootin!

In reply to - joethedoomer posted an update ]]> 9a4274ca9bcc0cfe0dc2a110766169a1 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2084/#acomment-2085 Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:19:58 +0000 Erosion of drivers’ rights!

In reply to - joethedoomer posted an update ]]> 4e28eff2aed001c250a9be40bcbbbf20 Jack posted an update: ...at last https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2083/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:14:40 +0000 …at last

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No way out

My recent conversation on the EIM podcast

]]> 0 ad866e84d62b48a87477baaeaf15aec4 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2076/#acomment-2081 Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:34:20 +0000 @Elijah I think that’s what we’re going to get…at least for the foreseeable. Slow and increasingly uncomfortable. But ultimately who knows, eh?

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Peeps really have no clue about the predicaments we’re in. It feels like we’re about to get some stronger clues, yet it’ll still doubtless be denied…or perhaps it’ll all somehow limp […]

]]> d9087854fad4217e6eacadc29b1808d5 Jack posted an update: James is back with another fascinating conversation […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2080/ Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:29:34 +0000 James is back with another fascinating conversation on matters spiritual and magickal as they pertain to the material plain to which we’re glued for whatever sliver of time. Joe learned the word “telos” and James entertained us with his Rider Waite Tarot deck. We all like Marmite. Somehow we didn’t talk about the war. This recording is…

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]]> 0 9df4123d7d8b1e8eb51a34324dd1340a Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2076/#acomment-2078 Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:18:31 +0000 @dex3703 Yes.

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Peeps really have no clue about the predicaments we’re in. It feels like we’re about to get some stronger clues, yet it’ll still doubtless be denied…or perhaps it’ll all somehow limp […]

]]> 783c3883fd32718a9d8aa38810908390 Jack posted an update: Peeps really have no clue about the predicaments we’re in. […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2076/ Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:46:19 +0000 Peeps really have no clue about the predicaments we’re in. It feels like we’re about to get some stronger clues, yet it’ll still doubtless be denied…or perhaps it’ll all somehow limp on, just a lot more expensive.

]]> 5 4557f75b10d9ac74e1db2e921dc6b3c1 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2073/#acomment-2075 Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:05:31 +0000 @dex3703 Whatever we do, it’s a cluster cuss.

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“Since 2019, more than 11,596 Starlinks have been launched. Of those, more than 1,500 have already reentered the atmosphere as SpaceX retires older satellites to make room for newer […]

]]> 0db95ae2756235b0ba0ab3f3843fd41f Jack posted an update: "Since 2019, more than 11,596 Starlinks have been […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2073/ Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:21:41 +0000 “Since 2019, more than 11,596 Starlinks have been launched. Of those, more than 1,500 have already reentered the atmosphere as SpaceX retires older satellites to make room for newer models. Each re-entry deposits about 30 kg of aluminum oxide into the upper atmosphere–an uncontrolled chemistry experiment on a planetary scale.”

Yay humans!

From …

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]]> 2 6c25af54b88bd64ba043087e6d185750 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2069/#acomment-2072 Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:39:35 +0000 @JoeTheDoomer Ah well

In reply to - joethedoomer posted an update Since I made a clip to share the funny beard man’s comments about bum wiping, I noticed that made almost half my YouTube clips about matters fecal.


]]> 4aa51062e4cb957b5ee01e59cec8519e Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2069/#acomment-2070 Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:35:59 +0000 The water companies should employ him in their PR departments to make their misdemeanours sound palatable! 😂

In reply to - joethedoomer posted an update Since I made a clip to share the funny beard man’s comments about bum wiping, I noticed that made almost half my YouTube clips about matters fecal.


]]> f16dd6341b2cd7ab327e08ed98db0dde Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2065/#acomment-2066 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:54:56 +0000 Perwel sums it up.

In reply to - joethedoomer posted an update https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxPg4XB5zbqoIncmCX1t1oYsXjd75nO2LT?si=5T7Mo_4pJmMp_HRy ]]> 80f91d8e99835f5140fa9f38a64d0ffc Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2060/#acomment-2064 Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:01:12 +0000 @JoeTheDoomer Because I rarely read this kind of stuff now, I noticed how much it was immediately eating my mind so it felt like a particularly destructive and absurd flavour of pointless; a return to the school playground of ‘he said / she said’ only many times worse.

Feels like Cudenec is really having to try hard to maintain his perception… Read more

In reply to - joethedoomer posted an update https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/03/11/the-demented-drive-to-industrial-lies/comment-page-1/#comments ]]> 69a050d0866e6bee6b92f20ce7c49f90 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2060/#acomment-2061 Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:34:58 +0000 Gawd I couldn’t bear more than a few paragraphs. So pointless.

In reply to - joethedoomer posted an update https://winteroak.org.uk/2026/03/11/the-demented-drive-to-industrial-lies/comment-page-1/#comments ]]> b338abf365c0a9591275593c9dfa799a Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2056/#acomment-2058 Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:36:16 +0000 @dex3703 I’ve tried to start reading Riddley Walker several times over the years but my reading habits have improved lately, so I gave it another go and have finally cracked it. Another 20 pages to go and have bloody loved it. It’s a book I’ll come back to again and again, I’m sure. I haven’t read Clockwork Orange but, funnily enough, went for… Read more

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James from Hermitix reviews Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

]]> 7870cba6ad33f2ca02612bf7e33181ac Jack posted an update: James from Hermitix reviews Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2056/ Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:14:00 +0000 James from Hermitix reviews Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

]]> 6 e697b3d38762a0638c127fb8f26ead31 Jack posted an update: In which episode we have a brilliant conversation […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2055/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:40:55 +0000 In which episode we have a brilliant conversation with special guest Tim Watkins whose blog Consciousness of Sheep is essential reading. We cover the multiple absurdities of our collapsing industrial societies, common delusions about energy, lack of governance, the con job that is money, the long descent and all that good stuff.

Our…

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]]> 0 1d612a64bc122afe25edbfec9f585729 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2052/#acomment-2053 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:35:37 +0000 Yes. Good innit? We’re so thick really.

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From Bogna Konior’s The Dark Forest Theory of The Internet, quoting Liu Cixin.

We cant stop the barp 😂


]]> 121eb7853fd2f82a34c8b7e3e5b2c022 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2048/#acomment-2051 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:06:35 +0000 @JoeTheDoomer Dubai chocolate

In reply to - joethedoomer posted an update 🤬🤬🤬 ]]> 9b88bc28bf202180cf121013e6d52ced Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2048/#acomment-2049 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:55:44 +0000 Moremoremoremoremore

In reply to - joethedoomer posted an update 🤬🤬🤬 ]]> 5067b55f0c091199621c150e9dd40ec3 Jack posted an update: This is just the pits. The worst episode ever of […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2047/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:20:53 +0000 This is just the pits. The worst episode ever of any podcast. If you heard a worse one than this, please let us know by post.

You might at least enjoy the starling story in our latest barp though:

]]> 0 143e17c29019c1e0d805b2de616b6d8e Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2044/#acomment-2046 Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:03:32 +0000 @dex3703 I’m so glad I went to see it. At times I couldn’t fathom what I was looking at. I felt so excellently small.

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I’m just back from the outer suburbs to see a magnificent murmuration.

This video doesn’t do it justice but it gives you an idea. There must’ve been tens of thousands of starlings. I […]

]]> 81efa3409e1568aa699a353ef158e032 Jack posted an update: I’m just back from the outer suburbs to see a magnificent […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2044/ Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:25:24 +0000 I’m just back from the outer suburbs to see a magnificent murmuration.

This video doesn’t do it justice but it gives you an idea. There must’ve been tens of thousands of starlings. I wasn’t prepared for the scale or the proximity.

At the end, they all poured like liquid from a bucket into the reed beds towards the bottom left of the frame. The…

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]]> 2 d0a1c3409e56fa24f503e27dba42f20b Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2039/#acomment-2042 Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:41:16 +0000 @JoeTheDoomer IKR…DISSGOSSTIN!

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We were very privileged to host a very erudite and entertaining guest in the person of James, presenter of the Hermitix podcast and Metanomad Blog. Definitely barping above our […]

]]> 418df46de7b747aebb4cefe180130941 Jack posted an update: Book review by James from Hermitix of The Fire Sermon by Darren Allen: https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2040/ Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:14:09 +0000 Book review by James from Hermitix of The Fire Sermon by Darren Allen:

]]> 0 800ce6b46e6f9ea1482c371547d79784 Jack posted an update: We were very privileged to host a very erudite […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2039/ Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:23:07 +0000 We were very privileged to host a very erudite and entertaining guest in the person of James, presenter of the Hermitix podcast and Metanomad Blog. Definitely barping above our weight.

Our latest barpathon:

]]> 2 2e617231e90e29e1efbdf2ea50d640ca Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2033/#acomment-2038 Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:12:18 +0000 @JoeTheDoomer …and Bristol stool fashion 😄

In reply to - joethedoomer posted an update Teehee ]]> e25a8879f48c3e119fbff90a925755a2 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2012/#acomment-2035 Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:30:14 +0000 @JoeTheDoomer Just counselling atm I think

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Cool mini series underway for Sea Shepherd’s latest campaign as they set off from Auckland to Antarctica. They’re very good at communicating their activities IMO.

Three episodes published […]

]]> eab8ae9e415122daf4af61a9a3b088a0 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2033/#acomment-2034 Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:28:59 +0000 Nice to hear everything is shitshape

In reply to - joethedoomer posted an update Teehee ]]> 97ebbf758707c7a966c1afc31663c9e2 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2012/#acomment-2031 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:32:32 +0000 @JoeTheDoomer It’s already here: it’s called AI

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Cool mini series underway for Sea Shepherd’s latest campaign as they set off from Auckland to Antarctica. They’re very good at communicating their activities IMO.

Three episodes published […]

]]> 5ce5ff107b2f621d01477eb1af9143c9 Jack posted an update: In which episode we struggle to stay focused on the […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2028/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:50:11 +0000 In which episode we struggle to stay focused on the topic, as always. We digress to another topic, hauntology, about which we know nothing, as always, and then attempt to address the idea of nostalgia for the future which Joe may or may not have made up but which we’re both incapable of addressing head on, as usual.

Today’s barp:

]]> 0 e0fd6d2eae0ff6cdc18a1ea86d8d9e0e Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2022/#acomment-2027 Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:29:46 +0000 @dex3703 Comparable costs here too: https://www.gov.uk/renew-adult-passport

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Ugh

]]> 3722d8b5cbb51bac2c838930ba113a54 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2022/#acomment-2025 Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:17:55 +0000 @dex3703 Hopefully not as much as $2K though?

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Ugh

]]> c54876f1fca6f9f5baebfadf693b836c Jack posted an update: Ugh https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2022/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:50:28 +0000 Ugh

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The age of slop

Folks sharing AI slop likely do so in good faith, since it fits their preexisting beliefs

]]> 4 9d4246fec66e61cd47f089bc64c52610 Jack posted an update: The UK has been shrouded in a blanket of grey cloud and […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2020/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:17:53 +0000 The UK has been shrouded in a blanket of grey cloud and rain for weeks on end.

At last, we’ve had some direct sunshine over the last few days and reacquainted ourselves with the phenomenon of the shadow.

There’s also been another noticeable phenomenon, an extension of the Leon’s Sun discussions we’ve been having over recent years:

When I’ve been…

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Have You Clocked The White Hot Silvery Sunshine? – Jack Lowe

Have You Clocked The White Hot Silvery Sunshine? – Jack Lowe

]]> 2 40a4541944f03b11b38f1e2a90629a5b Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2010/#acomment-2016 Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:31:29 +0000 @JoeTheDoomer oh I’ve talked about satellites and Kessler too…in this place a little bit but particularly back in ye olde Twitter days

In reply to - joethedoomer posted an update Beckwith is a twit.


https://youtu.be/LuVOM067OOo?si=4MEl1q15v0cYwA8o

]]> cc28c29334ee04d7fbeb870a97fd0b6a Jack posted an update: Cool mini series underway for Sea Shepherd’s latest […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2012/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:16:08 +0000 Cool mini series underway for Sea Shepherd’s latest campaign as they set off from Auckland to Antarctica. They’re very good at communicating their activities IMO.

Three episodes published so far (each one’s only 10-12 mins long)…

https://seashepherd.org/dac-exclusive/

…something I’d love to have done in another life, so I watch on…

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]]> 5 06ff78e61f708f5619920cbaaf88c3d6 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2010/#acomment-2011 Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:06:04 +0000 I’ve been trying to help you feel optimistic about this for ages…yet it takes a twit to finally break through 😂

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https://youtu.be/LuVOM067OOo?si=4MEl1q15v0cYwA8o

]]> 5f408e1794a8c64ba1019f2beddf2fa7 Jack posted an update: To be honest, I can't even find any meaningful […] https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2006/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:56:58 +0000 To be honest, I can’t even find any meaningful boundary between me, my mind, the mind, mind, body, world, consciousness, the sun, a Transit van, the universe.

It’s enough to drive anyone crazy. Who thinks this is fun?

Yesterday’s barp:

]]> 0 f6cd3b767df86682de0583037b34f56c Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2003/#acomment-2005 Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:47:48 +0000 @JoeTheDoomer Yes and we (you and me) are particularly unintelligent 🫠

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James Hermitix speaking to Bogna Konior and her book is here

A very interesting listen IMHO:

]]> 44abafee9bc3f2e6bfc868d9044c1b66 Jack posted an update: James Hermitix speaking to Bogna Konior and her book is https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2003/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:18:29 +0000 James Hermitix speaking to Bogna Konior and her book is here

A very interesting listen IMHO:

]]> 2 4db5fd643984aee071a768225fcb0be0 Jack posted a new activity comment https://jacklowe.com/news-feed/p/2001/#acomment-2002 Sat, 07 Feb 2026 10:51:26 +0000 Wow. This is fascinating seeing how the house of cards is crumbling at every level. I remember my mum once coming home from a frustrating day at work and saying: “Get into crime, son. It pays.” She was a police officer at the time.

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