843
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2026
843 points (98.7% liked)
Solarpunk
8165 readers
236 users here now
The space to discuss Solarpunk itself and Solarpunk related stuff that doesn't fit elsewhere.
Join our chat: Movim or XMPP client.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Anyone willing to share a tl;dw?
I think all the information is pretty well-known in this community, but here's a summary:
Alec's personal views are a relief, I think it's a shame he didn't go deeper into them before (IIRC he had a video where he called out right-wing misinfo but stopped short of any direct calls for action). I suppose the contrast between his usual "tech presenter/science explainer" and this clearly righteous political call for action might get through to some people better.
His social media is very political, he's on bluesky.
Hell his YouTube is quite political if you understand the little p politics he expresses. When he talked about elevators and captioning he's been vocally in support of resources going to making the world more accessible to disabled people (and he puts his money where his mouth is, hand captioning all of his own videos). He's mostly been vocal about the need for doing something about climate change. Then there's also the video about algorithms that clearly originates from him being pissed about people wanting to invade Canada.
I'm not enough of a fan to look up other social media, I just occasionally watch some of his videos on topics that are interesting to me. But that's great to hear!