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The planet, and human social life, depend on peasant farmers | Aeon Essays Far from being a relic of the past, peasants are vital to feeding the world. They need to be supported, not marginalised

The world needs peasants. Far from being a relic of the past, peasants are vital to feeding the world. They need to be supported, not marginalised.

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

yes, which makes the in-fighting infinitely more embarrassing

No beef here. Brazil beat hunger the right way. By Raj Patel. Three years ago, 33 million Brazilians went to bed hungry. Today, Brazil is off the United Nations Hunger Map.

🇧🇷 Brazil shows hunger is not a tragedy—it's a scandal.”

ICYMI Brazil has lifted 33M people out of hunger – through family farming, public food programmes, and massive action.

This is what political will looks like.

📢 Read @rajpatel.org on what the world can learn:
👉 ipes-food.org/no-beef-here...

Nyéléni Global Forums | Via Campesina Read More Sri Lanka’s crisis shows how debt is devouring the Global SouthContinue

Once every ten or so years, La Via Campesina hosts a Nyéléni Forum. This year, it's in Sri Lanka, with deep questions about trade, solidarity, food, justice and land on the table. Follow along here viacampesina.org/en/nyeleni-g...

UN's Albanese calls out 'appalling' EU failure to sanction Israel as 32-nation summit in Bogota kicks off Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese addresses The Hague Group in Colombia as states are set to announce 'concrete measures' against Israel

“The importance of this meeting convened by The Hague Group lies in moving from words to action and halting the genocide," Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir 🇨🇴 tells Middle East Eye in Bogatá.

YouTube video by IPES-Food LAND REFORM AT A CROSSROADS | IPES-Food webinar

📽️ Missed our Land Reform at a Crossroads webinar?

Rewatch the powerful exchange on land grabs, inequality, & the fight for #LandJustice – with voices from Brazil, Colombia, Mali, South Africa…

🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD_R...
#FoodSovereignty #ICARRD20 #COP30

🚨 In the fight for #FossilFreeFood, beware false solutions.

🧪‘Blue’ ammonia fertilizer = fossil gas
🧪‘Green’ ammonia = costly & energy-hungry
📲Digital ag = farmer surveillance & fossil-fuelled monoculture.

🌱There is another path #Agroecology
👉 ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...
#FuelToFork

i find that writing decision so grievously annoying lol. any outlet that writes "_____, who uses ---/--- pronouns" for any trans or gender non conforming person mentioned should also make that distinction for everybody ever. i wanna see John Fetterman, who uses he/him pronouns,

Wes Streeting says chants about IDF at Glastonbury festival ‘appalling’ Health secretary also says Israel needs to ‘get its own house in order’ while condemning chants led by Bobby Vylan

The expected bollox from this lightweight

It's not cheering on a team - it's a demand to stop

Do you actually watch the news from Gaza, Mr Streeting?

50,000+ dead

Women and children enticed out to find food, then mown down by IDF automatic fire

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Faculty Writing: Ajay Singh Chaudhary, "Isfahan Tableaux" for @LateLightBISR | An early and yet all too timely preview from issue 2, written in Spring 2024, on Orientalism, imperialism, aesthetics, and American & Israeli aggression against Iran | buff.ly/WuvOpR1

same. the one and only thing

I’m honored to receive the Pulitzer Prize today. I dedicate this success to my family, friends, teachers, and students in Gaza.
I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and justice.
🍓🍓🍓🍓

This is an excellent article - I have some additional thoughts from a feminist perspective on the consequences of this Supreme Court judgment, rather than just my legal ones:

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Resist, egghead's!

you know things are bad when the tech magazines are putting this out

Every trans person in existence proves a whole army of sex cops couldn't stop us.

The organised force necessary to maintain sexual dichotomy proves it isn't a law of nature.

Transphobes of Great Britain trying to push trans people back into our boxes, fuck you make us.

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

just reading darryl by @essj.bsky.social and the violent delight reference nearly made me spit out my tea

i think it’s confusing, and vaguely upsetting, that anyone is still trying to engage with any media in a way that tends to reduce us to a set of arguments and an appeal to rights.

The UK farmer protests you probably haven’t heard about Farm workers milk cows, drive machinery and pick crops – yet their grievances are seldom heard.

In this I draw attention to the Justice Is Not Seasonal protest which highlighted the mistreatment of farm workers on British farms. I argue that better working conditions is about more than just what we pay at the checkout.

theconversation.com/the-uk-farme...

it’s always fuck VAR

Such a fascinating analogy @reproutopia.bsky.social draws between TERFism & nationalism: “It’s almost like a nationalism of sex....At the psychic level, they want strong borders, & they want to make sexuation great again.”

The images coming out of California are horrifying. These fires are no doubt caused by capitalism's prodigal combustion of fossil fuels, especially historic emissions from the global north. This can't be said enough, but there's another important side to the story. 1/4

Every educational, academic, and cultural institution in Gaza where I studied, worked, or attended a conference or event—every theater, every archive, every historic landmark and site—has been completely destroyed. They no longer exist.

I just don’t believe the technology is scalable or even good enough to do that in the long term. everything he says is a direct appeal to capital because ai can’t function without the stream of fundraising. it’s giving “give me more money, I’ll replace your employees, I swear”

Here’s a quick roundup of highlights from research we published in 2024, on unequal exchange, ecosocialism, and post-capitalist transformation.

As always, free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵