Soumaya Majdoub

Excuse me, what?

@rebeccasear.bsky.social

The colonial machinery of research — Pause and Effect Modern research was born from war, slavery and imperial expansion

While it’s nice to imagine research as the innocent pursuit for knowledge the reality is that much of what we label research today didn’t just grow out of humble curiosity It grew from violent systems that saw research as a tool to justify, legitimize supremacy

www.pauseandeffect.ca/blog/the-col...

The Surprising Durability Of Africa’s Colonial Borders - 3 Quarks Daily Alden Young at Noema Magazine:

The surprising durability of Africa’s 140-year-old colonial borders. Scholar Ali Mazrui reminded us that by 1993, nearly 2 million Africans had lost their lives defending the borders inherited from colonial regimes. Since then, millions more have died. Yet the borders have held.

Africa’s minerals are being bartered for security: why it’s a bad idea African nations need to negotiate contracts that ensure they hold on to the power their resources bring.

Africa’s minerals are being bartered for security: why it’s a bad idea. Such deals aren’t new in Africa. They first emerged in the early 2000s as resources-for-infrastructure transactions.

Gaza: UK and 27 other nations condemn Israel over civilian suffering Israel rejects a joint statement which says the suffering of civilians has "reached new depths".

We need action and sanctions, not just statements 'condemning' Israel. Israel has denied food, water & fuel to 2 Million people & bombed them incessantly for nearly two years. People are on the brink of starvation & the health system is destroyed. Truly shameful

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Incredibly talented this man! His wife is lucky.

I finally found a diagnosis for my behavior!

We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales.

This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.

We are doing this and history will never forgive us.

Gaza:

Exactly! Been saying this for years only to be met with disdain…

Excuse me, what??

I’m embarrassed.
But in our defence, we genuinely have the best fries.
We are also quite autonomous and low-maintenance, 1 or 2y without a government is standard procedure after elections. And we’re proud of our negative credit rating (thank you Moody) because ceci n’est pas une pipe.

Do I even want to read this?

‘Profound concern’ as scientists say extreme heat ‘now the norm’ in UK Frequency of heatwaves and flooding raises fears over health, infrastructure and how society functions

This framing is misleading.

It's super important that we recognise that there's no 'new normal' until we stop burning fossil fuels - it just keeps getting worse & worse!

As the scientists quoted in the article say "today’s high temperatures are likely to be average by 2050, & cool by 2100"

look at what was just delivered

it’s the

@pashukanist.bsky.social & co. masterpiece that everyone should read

& it looks even more 🔥🔥🔥 than online & IT HAS THAT FRESH BOOK SMELL (in case you needed another reason to ordered it right this moment)

It has been designed to be and remain an empty shell…

RIP Saleemul Haq

Fossil fuel is terror…

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I suggest we shut down EVERY Holocaust museum in this hypocritical world.

Day 2 #ECMN25
Debunking and deconstructing…

Guten Morgen Bonn! #ECMN25
Amazing keynotes by Binai Desai on the analytical weaknesses of ‘climate mobility ’ and Andrew Baldwin on its genealogy and function of reassertion of power. We’re well awake now.

www.climatemobilities.network/ecmn25-progr...

War? Which war? You mean the zionist US-backed attacks on the country’s sovereignty?

Cannibalism aka limits to growth 😁

Yep.
Ku Klux Klan meets Turbocapitalism meets Ecomodernism meets Pronatalism. Haven’t we been through this before?

I’ll be there too! 😉

The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse

The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi

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Have you even understood my message?

And how is that any worse than the current situation?

Oh that’s kind, I thought more of needing to reorganise my conference news feed but being too lazy.