Carl Pierer

Fingers crossed!

also the country flags? London and leeds are in the UK, as oppposed to Manchester and Sheffield (England) and Edinburgh (scotland)

*zizek voice* there is no such thing as a gentle reminder! <sniff> all reminders are violent

Kirchberg!! Enjoy ❤️

Adam Shatz · Berlin Diary That Germany has a responsibility to remember the Holocaust is beyond question. But it’s striking how little concern...

“‘As a Jew’ – the phrase has always made me feel uneasy, though I might well have used it myself.“

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

an AI slop map of the united states that seems to be trying to indicate what the most popular food is in every state. it contains such gems as Alaska's favorite food being a reddish slab labeled "ALASKA", Oregon's favorite food being what looks like a steak sitting on top of a cereal bowl labeled "APPLE", California's being simultaneously a goblet full of red liquid labeled "SHRIMP COCKTAIL" and a beige slab labeled "TATO", Wyoming's being a crudely drawn bison labeled "WYMONG" and an oblong apple on Alabama labeled "CRANFISH". There is also a square to the right of Florida that just says "SALMON" for no reason.

the same image in context of a reddit post from the subreddit "r/dataisbeautiful" saying it's "the most popular food of each state from voting [OC]"

some frankly amazing AI slop that someone decided to try and post on the r/dataisbeautiful subreddit

Gratuliere!

We're hosting the Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought’s conference in Edinburgh in January. Plenary speakers are Alyssa Battistoni, Ross Carroll, Sean Fleming, Rahul Rao, and Johanna Thoma. Now we want your proposals! Pls RT www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/biapt-2026-i...

European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

The European Union has an online petition with a deadline of Saturday to ban conversion therapy:

If you are a EU citizen, please sign & share 👇🏼

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#conversiontherapy #lgbtplus #EU

eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/

European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

The petition to ban conversion therapy practices in the EU is lacking enough votes from:
- #germany (49.9%)
- #sweden (49.96%)
- #Netherlands (94%)
- #austria (25.5%)
- #Slovenia (83.14%)
- #portugal (24.46%)

If you're a citizen there you can help advance a ban on conversion therapy by voting:

EU friends -please sign and share this! especially if you're in the countries mentioned!

Had a great time launching Issue I of @the-breakdown.bsky.social last night with the exceptional @geoffmann.bsky.social and Quinn Slobodian.

Thanks to everyone who turned out, asked great questions and supported new climate writing.

Issue I here: www.break-down.org/issues/1

The Heat of the Moment In place of paralysis or bland positivity, this is the moment for an honest reckoning with where we stand, what we are up against, and where, already, resistance is underway.

Geoff Mann and Adrienne Buller's editorial from the first print issue of @the-breakdown.bsky.social is up on our site www.break-down.org/post/the-hea...

👗📊✨ Bonjour, hier soir c’était les Oscars et c’est donc l’heure de mon désormais traditionnel thread

🍿 LES TENUES DES OSCARS AS GRAPHIQUES DE L'@insee.fr, version 2025 🍿

Je commence avec Mikey Madison as Une pyramide des âges proche de celle de l'ensemble de la population

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Call for applications Summer School THP 2025 | Fondazione 1563 Online call for applications to the Summer School Turin Humanities Programme 2025 for postgraduate students and early career researchers

Applications now open for this year's postgraduate summer school in sunny Turin -- come and talk to us about slavery and serfdom in the early modern period

Tough vote splitting between rememberance day and rememberance sunday

still one of my favourite bots on this website, hands down

The multiple audiences dynamic of status (dis)satisfaction: examining China’s shifting response to the emerging global environmental regime, 1950–1972 - Zikun Yang, 2025 How does status dissatisfaction shape a state’s behavior? Existing literature suggests that mistreatment and misconception by the great powers could elicit a st...

Extremely thrilled to share that my article "The multiple audiences dynamic of status (dis) satisfaction: examining China’s shifting response to the emerging global environmental regime, 1950–1972" is now published #openaccess in @ejir.bsky.social at doi.org/10.1177/1354...! (1/n)

Congratulations!!!

Congratulations!

The end of the world is easier to imagine than the end of Tatort

yes - I can send it to you

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen found guilty of embezzling EU funds The presidential hopeful was found guilty in a case that could see her banned from standing in the 2027 election.

La loi is mightier than Le Pen (for the moment, at least):

4 years, 5 countries, 6 languages, 8 archives,thousands of pages later, bound proofs of INDIGNITY have landed on my (or, rather, Beatrice Webb’s) desk at LSE! Publishing @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social in the UK in Sept +🇦🇱🇺🇸🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇸🇸🇪🇳🇴🇩🇰🇳🇱🇮🇹🇸🇮🇧🇷 + more. So excited (and terrified) to share with you all ❤️🧿!

A Monsanto Ad from 1939 with the title "It's Plastics Picking Time down South". The painted picture shows an African American Woman and Man carrying bags and baskets, as well as three children in the foreground playing on top of what looks like cotton. Several more workers labour in the background. The caption reads "FRONTIS. Monsanton "It's Plastics Picking Time Down South", Fortune Magazine, September 1939, 13."

From Siobhan Angus "Chemical Necromancy: Plantations and Petrochemical Refining in Cancer Alley"

(tinyurl.com/ez7wcb73)

This is happening today. If you are in London and want to learn about commoning in the energy sector, join us at Pelican House.

one of the more enjoyable features of bsky imho are those bots, such as @restaurant-bot.bsky.social @townsusa.bsky.social and @britishvoter.bsky.social, that offer intriguing (unsettling?) glimpses into more or less distant other lives and possible realities

I do love this account. A constant stream of reminders that hardly anyone ever fits neatly onto a two-dimensional political spectrum.