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.
25.09.2025 09:55 β π 38 π 8 π¬ 3 π 3@emrose.bsky.social
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.
25.09.2025 09:55 β π 38 π 8 π¬ 3 π 3Matthew 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
20.09.2025 12:15 β π 33651 π 6216 π¬ 87 π 322yes, which makes the in-fighting infinitely more embarrassing
18.09.2025 20:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0No 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.
π§π· Brazil shows hunger is not a tragedyβit's a scandal.β
ICYMI Brazil has lifted 33M people out of hunger β through family farming, public food programmes, and massive action.
This is what political will looks like.
π’ Read @rajpatel.org on what the world can learn:
π ipes-food.org/no-beef-here...
Once every ten or so years, La Via Campesina hosts a NyΓ©lΓ©ni 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...
09.09.2025 17:12 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0βThe importance of this meeting convened by The Hague Group lies in moving from words to action and halting the genocide," Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir π¨π΄ tells Middle East Eye in BogatΓ‘.
16.07.2025 13:20 β π 19 π 10 π¬ 0 π 1π½οΈ Missed our Land Reform at a Crossroads webinar?
Rewatch the powerful exchange on land grabs, inequality, & the fight for #LandJustice β with voices from Brazil, Colombia, Mali, South Africaβ¦
π www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD_R...
#FoodSovereignty #ICARRD20 #COP30
π¨ In the fight for #FossilFreeFood, beware false solutions.
π§ͺβBlueβ ammonia fertilizer = fossil gas
π§ͺβGreenβ ammonia = costly & energy-hungry
π²Digital ag = farmer surveillance & fossil-fuelled monoculture.
π±There is another path #Agroecology
π 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,
30.06.2025 16:01 β π 91 π 11 π¬ 1 π 1The 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
28.06.2025 02:58 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1same. the one and only thing
07.05.2025 23:03 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Iβm honored to receive the Pulitzer Prize today. I dedicate this success to my family, friends, teachers, and students in Gaza.
Iβm praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and justice.
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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:
Thread π§΅
Resist, egghead's!
you know things are bad when the tech magazines are putting this out
20.04.2025 13:43 β π 1600 π 226 π¬ 13 π 15Every 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.
16.04.2025 11:53 β π 169 π 22 π¬ 2 π 0just 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
05.02.2025 19:04 β π 9222 π 1645 π¬ 125 π 133just reading darryl by @essj.bsky.social and the violent delight reference nearly made me spit out my tea
13.04.2025 18:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0i think itβs 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.
27.02.2025 22:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In 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...
itβs always fuck VAR
25.02.2025 16:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Such a fascinating analogy @reproutopia.bsky.social draws between TERFism & nationalism: βItβs almost like a nationalism of sex....At the psychic level, they want strong borders, & they want to make sexuation great again.β
23.02.2025 21:03 β π 49 π 19 π¬ 1 π 0The 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
09.01.2025 08:20 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Every educational, academic, and cultural institution in Gaza where I studied, worked, or attended a conference or eventβevery theater, every archive, every historic landmark and siteβhas been completely destroyed. They no longer exist.
07.01.2025 03:04 β π 1217 π 729 π¬ 18 π 28I just donβt 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 canβt function without the stream of fundraising. itβs giving βgive me more money, Iβll replace your employees, I swearβ
07.01.2025 07:56 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hereβs 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. π§΅