@mattrest.bsky.social
peasant / anthropologist / antifascist: milk & microbes, ancient DNA & energy infrastructures, Himalayas & Alps, working at Uni Fribourg & roadsides.net
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Bye forever, WeTransfer.
14.07.2025 23:57 — 👍 6465 🔁 3452 💬 207 📌 984“Donald Trump has guaranteed that Iran will be a nuclear weapons state in 5 to 10 years from now.”
Iranian writer @tparsi.bsky.social tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social that US bombing of Iran would push Tehran toward developing nuclear weapons.
Watch the full conversation:
zeteo.com/p/breaking-t...
‘‘On the last day of his life, God gave him a gift, which was an attack chihuahua all the way from Washington who bowed and scraped. Vance was like Mr Collins in Pride and Prejudice.’
Colm Tóibín on Pope Francis (and Pope Leo), on the podcast: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Anthropologists: please support @sapiens.org magazine and staff (who are trying to unionise!) by writing a letter to the Wenner-Gren Foundation that may choose to shut it down. At a time in which eugenics 2.0 is now debated in US politics, people need anthropology!
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
Did I get that right that he thinks the cardinals in Rome are the left wing of the church?
21.05.2025 12:36 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We're hosting the next conference of the Swiss Anthropological Association in Fribourg next February. The Call for Panels is open now. Please send us your proposals!
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One of the most important recent texts for me - by Masha Gessen. Held in honour of Hannah Arendt. Both Jewish, both defying categorisation. Today, more than ever, read this text. I say this as an anthropologist who knows how difficult comparisons are.
#8May #May8
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Foto einer nachgestellten Szene: Sprayer besprayt Frau (Krone)
Gold.
25.04.2025 07:15 — 👍 170 🔁 14 💬 10 📌 1
The word “fuck” over a picture of a couch. The word “marry” over a picture of Usha Vance. The word “kill” over a picture of Pope Francis.
FMK: JD Vance edition.
21.04.2025 22:49 — 👍 10541 🔁 2554 💬 154 📌 224Nikolaos Olma and Janine Hauer ask how infrastructures become instruments of slow violence in their introduction to the latest issue of roadsides. Out now!
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Call for abstracts for our fall issue on foodways, edited by @dollykikon.bsky.social and @mattrest.bsky.social
roadsides.net/call-for-pap...
Excited to be editing the fall issue of @roadsides.bsky.social on food and infrastructure together with @dollykikon.bsky.social
Check out the CFP here: roadsides.net/call-for-pap...
roadsides.net is now on Bluesky :) bsky.app/profile/road...
19.03.2025 19:45 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Great to see Kathryn Yusoff's new book getting the attention it deserves (the good faith, engaged kind of attention, that is): www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
19.03.2025 15:20 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“Cars are supposed to kill people, not the other way around.” Maggie Falix, Deed Issuer
Tesla Dealerships Attacked With Molotov Cocktails
theonion.com/tesla-d...
if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
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#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur
Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…
The only sensible response to J.D. Vance‘s speech in Munich would be to shut down X in Europe. Because that seems to be the thing he was sent to fight, with threats and insults. He just said what Elon had told him to. If X loses Europe, it‘s decline to obsolescence gets steeper.
14.02.2025 19:24 — 👍 2277 🔁 719 💬 60 📌 38I have no beef with Mac and cheese
11.02.2025 20:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Spätzle mit Bechamel sind wie Carbonara mit Rahm
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