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I visit brussels about once a month from the netherlands and have never lived there but it still feels more like home than the Netherlands 😂

Ikr its perfect

Harry Stopes | Police Violence in Berlin In the last six months human rights officials at both the Council of Europe and the United Nations have written to the...

‘The frequency, intensity and visibility of the violence leave only two possible conclusions: either the Berlin police operate beyond democratic control, or the city’s government wants them to behave like this.’

@harrystopes.bsky.social on German police violence.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

zionists will tell you it's antisemitic to conflate the people of israel with the government of israel and then tell you it's antisemitic to NOT conflate the people of israel with the government of israel

GOATed audio books for sleepytime story time:

Eric Hobsbawm's Age of... series
All of @marcusrediker.bsky.social's books on audio book
Moby Dick

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Is that woody allen and steve bannon?

Heard a door creaking in the office and thought ‘whoa sick trumpet solo’

😂

Cover image for Radical History Review Issue 153 "Radical Histories of Decolonization" with artwork of Kiluanji Kia Henda “A Descoberta” (2006)"

Delighted that the *Radical History Review* 153 (Oct 2025) "Radical Histories of Decolonization*, I co-edited with Marissa Moorman, Jessica Namakkal, and Golnar Nikpour is now up! Cover features Kiluanji Kia Henda's “A Descoberta” (2006)" read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist... cc @jecca.bsky.social

@denizcamp.bsky.social is writing the kind of superhero comics that got me into the medium as a teen and its nice to see someone still doing this kind of hopeful, wild, imaginative and politically engaged spandex stories

good news professionally - it did! haha

you ever google yourself because you can't remember if the thing you submitted ever came out for publication?

Tune though!

If i played a bingo on potential gorillaz collabs i wont say i would have for sure put those two on there but i may have

Its my first time since getting this job almost four years ago where i’m not teaching in our period 3, which is a truncated period going from jan 5 to feb 2 and i am So. Happy.

someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning

Oh my god … rest in power comrade …. ان لالله وان اليه راجعون

💔 a place that taught me as a young person away from home that a better world is possible. Thanks for your service comrades but this is quite sad

i dont really have celebrity crushes and white men are usually not my type but holy fuck ethan hawke is just so hot

The BDS movement is partnering with @nogamesforgenocide.com. Together we can help end Microsoft’s technological support of Israel illegal apartheid regime and genocide in Gaza.

Sign the pledge to boycott Microsoft’s Xbox.

Read more: loom.ly/1FQEDiA

Why is the entirety of the US political + pundit class, on left right and centre, named like pynchon characters now

Fishify a song

Material Gill by Madonna

An image of a Blakc man holding a sing "The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy"

Most profound writing I read in 2026 was "The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy" by a Nairobi man who dreamed of working in air traffic control but instead winds up sexting & chatting w ppl who think they're talking to AI (while AI trains on him). 16 pages & free - READ IT data-workers.org/michael/

Bog Communism Ireland’s bogs were degraded by industrial exploitation. Today, they play host to a growing network of data centres. Can we reclaim them as commons, and restore their value—cultural, social and ecolog...

"The bog, once the terrain of anti-colonial struggle, now plays host to vast swathes of global fibre-optic cables and server halls."

ROISIN AGNEW writes on the data centre takeover of Ireland’s peat bogs for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS 👇

RIP Jack Kirby you'd hate this

Frankly cowardly move for the tooze podcast series on heterodox economists to start their marxism strain with lenin and not with the old man himself 🤌🏾

"The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/" - @mims.bsky.social

My takeway is that The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech

Ran a modulated version of @rpanchasi.bsky.social’s endnotes exercise and it worked a treat!! Highly recommended

UK joins call for Europe’s human rights laws to be ‘constrained’ Britain aligns with some of Europe’s hardline governments in calling for change to allow Rwanda-style migration deals

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Imagine ever voting labour again