Justin Pearce

radical online collections and archives I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…

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I honestly thought this was an Onion headline the first time I saw it.

I know. I was just making a very poor joke based on Moldova's best-known musical hit.

Share your reaction to the Moldova election results We would like to hear from people in Moldova and what they think about Maia Sandu’s Action and Solidarity party (PAS) winning the election

My reaction to the Moldova election results: Maia who?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I don't really polisci post much anymore because it's like "Hi, political scientist here. I'm a big brain expert who ran 5 trillion lines of code in R and read 900 books and I'm here to tell you it's bad when masked stormtroopers kidnap your baby. Don't forget to like and follow."

Munching almonds and dates as I type.

can't wait for kids 20 years from now to create carefully handcrafted visual media that looks like creepy AI slop and call it 2020s aesthetics

It's amazing, isn't it? Sometimes I get a better signal at the airport than in my own university building.

Post a banger that's not in English.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6wl...

a severe-looking man with a beard and a halo wears long robes as he sits in a room cluttered with books while a sad lion sits beside him as he removes a thorn from the lion's paw.

It is the feast day of St. Jerome, who had a pet lion.

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A DA saga — the rise and fall of Mmusi Maimane In this extract from James Selfe’s memoir, he charts the rise and fall of Mmusi Maimane in the Democratic Alliance and the role of Helen Zille.

Reading Zille's response to this, I'm struck by how she digs herself ever further into her delusional sub-Trumpian reading of South African politics.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Makes sense - I recognise there are likely ulterior motives for the issue being raised at this particular moment in UK politics, which may justify the concerns, even if as @davidturnbull.bsky.social points out the majority of Brits are not anti-ID. And interesting RefUK voters are most anti-ID.

I like how English 'mere' = German 'See' and English 'sea' = German 'Meer'.
Also the gender changes: French 'la mer' (f), Portuguese 'o mar' (m), German 'das Meer' (n).

The more interesting question to discuss is why British people on the whole are so averse to ID cards, which co-exist with democracy and freedom in many other countries.

It's taken him this long to realise?

Yes, me too - a real person in the room can hold my attention in a way that a recording, or an online meeting, cannot.

Not weird at all. I cannot imagine listening to a podcast nor to an audiobook. Radio is like that annoying person who talks too much.

Vegan burgers are losing the US culture war over meat: ‘It’s not our moment’ Once seen as a climate fix, vegan burgers now languish at 1% of the US market amid rising meat culture

As a vegan I understand. I recently ate fake meat for the first time in ages (it was the only vegan thing on the menu) & regretted it for the rest of the day. Processed fake food is not the way to promote veganism.

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

Epstein possibly heard 'miners' and thought 'minors'?

'für Captain Kirk das gab ein großes Feuerwerk' #toosoon

Journal of Southern African Studies Publishes leading research concerning the history, economics, sociology, demography and anthropology of Southern Africa.

Applications are now open for the 2025 Colin Murray Award. Deadline: 30 September 2025. The award supports post-doctoral researchers to carry out original ‘engaged field research’ in Southern Africa. Please see the link below for more details jsas.blog

I take it that your post is really more of a comment than a question.

Next up, fish-coated Weetabix.

One of the creepiest things about Facebook is when it's the birthday of a long-dead friend. No problem with the 'happy heavenly birthday' or 'missing you always', but it's the comments like 'HBD have a blast, mate' sent by someone who's been out of contact for so long that the death passed them by.

But kind of like Corona Lager. Suddenly their brand got overtaken by global events.

Ah, good to know.

TBH I don't think it's very Sandton but jokes aside, I wouldn't read too much into it. But maybe a precedent in white SAn appropriation of white US culture - the Spur iconography, the Confederate flags on random burger joints etc.

😂

No, Sandton 😅