Rich Hawkins

While I’m on a posting roll, I just realized that the way to save the Humanities is by rebranding Higher Ed as where you go to learn how to Do Your Own Research

Permanent military occupation, as confirmed by the ICJ and by countless legal organizations, is a crime. Settlement of occupied territory is a war crime explicitly delineated by the 4th Geneva Convention. This was, and is still, happening to this day for over half a century.

Imagine all cars were electric, and then one Volkswagen engineer comes up with another idea …

#EMobility

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

This hits pretty hard, from the chair of the UN commission on Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

"Every country was put on notice by the ICJ that there was a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza.. every country became obliged under the law.. not to speak fine words, to take action to prevent genocide.. that obligation was activated on 24th Jan 2024"

Chris Sidoti spells it out

New research published in The Lancet finds that Western unilateral sanctions have caused 38 million deaths since 1970. The average death toll ranges from 400,000 to over 1 million per year.

Staggering levels of violence. This system is intolerable and must be replaced.

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic...

This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.”

It existed yesterday and is gone today.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

This seems like almost implausibly on point evidence for the @mtsw.bsky.social and/or @theophite.bsky.social theory of billionaires liking Trump out of pure class interest. Gates doesn’t even have a board or shareholders he’s responsible to, he’s being a lickspittle for pure love of the game

The United States—right now, this very moment—is putting individuals in ICE detention, revoking and denying visas, and canceling billions in grant dollars specifically because of the viewpoints they express

I'm not sure many folks realize just how persistent the warming from CO2 is.

Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!

Yeah, Arvind was engaging, but the lack of wider critique and the implied inevitability of this tech (in this form, and with this ownership and social and environmental impact) was extremely disappointing...

a map of europe showing temperatures in the low 40s and high 30s

can you imagine trying to convince the average skepti-dude in the year 2010 that this is what summer europe will look like in 2025

Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.

Text: "North American be like, oops we're out of milk, I'll just run to the store to get some." Image: A huge metal tank-like Sandcrawler from Start Wars.

"The fact that a Labour government after Grenfell has decided that the regulation of construction is the problem and the thing they need to dismantle, I think is a fucking obscenity."

What other player-specific rules would you like to see agreed and introduced?

Never felt so ashamed to be an Arsenal fan. Thanks @gunnerblog.bsky.social for treating the issue with the seriousness it deserves, and putting the anger with arsenalfc.bsky.social to good use: they cannot be allowed to hide behind such flimsy & self-serving legal defences...

Edmund Gordon · No Pork Salad: On the Court Professional tennis requires extraordinary psychological capacities – obsessive focus, epic self-belief – so it...

Immediate hall of fame piece, laugh-out-loud funny, especially the second half: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽

Séamas O'Reilly: We need to stop lying about what makes lost boys such easy marks for cons Economically depressed young men are aggressively targeted with the oldest, most seductive pitch there is — money for nothing — by bad faith actors with enormous wealth

One of the best things I've read on this... www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

I am willing to (and probably will) die on this hill...

New research provides conclusive proof that 20mph in London is saving lives 🚶🚲🚌🚗

14 yrs of analysis at 150+ sites - reviewed by experts - shows:
❤️40% fewer deaths (vs 7% drop on roads where no changes were made)
❤️75% fewer children killed & 50% fewer kids hurt.

...until the land sink collapsed.

From 1990 to 2023, GHG emissions decreased 43%, more or less on track.

However, the sink has turned into a source, meaning net GHG emissions have increased 8% from 1990 to 2023!

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There have always been e.g:

Hijra in India
Fa’fafinis in Samoa
Bakla in the Philippines
Māhū in Hawaii
Two spirits for Native Americans
Sworn virgins in Albania
Kathoey in Thailand
Mudoko dako in Uganda

Yet the UK imagines trans as a modern ‘woke’ invention and is trying to stamp it out (again)