PhD opening in Bergen. Come and work with me on my NFR project looking at violence and warfare in antiquity: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Part of the reason this is all so tiresome is that what we're calling AI is a political project combining a bunch of preexisting sociotechical processes designed to shift power from the masses to the managerial class. A non-exhaustive list in no particular order:

The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

Techno-fascists & Hindutva alliance.

You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...

Ursula Le Guin wrote a response to this kind of nonsense years ago. Read it instead. www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...

"Israeli military says more than 1,500 Canadians were serving in IOF ranks last year" This is enraging. Canada is listed as one of top ten countries of dual nationals in the IOF (after US, France, Germany) Not only is Canada arming Zionist enemy, Canadians are authorized to commit genocide in Gaza

ICE reliance on Microsoft technology surged amid immigration crackdown, documents show www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Everyone suffered during the pandemic. As a teacher then I was miserable knowing I was reaching less than half of my students. They should be suing Boris Johnson not the universities who did their best.

I feel so miserable about this. Nearly broke myself working 16, 18 hour days during the pandemic. We did everything we possibly could, then doubled it, tripled it. HE is still struggling to get back off the floor, years later. Now another financial punch in the face. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

But they absolutely could have taken leave or delated starts if they wanted a different experience. Faculty and staff could not, and the threats levied against us were... a lot.

Faculty bent over backwards and were then broken in half by administrations to do double the work for the same pay, many of us in person the whole time while also having to accomodate hyflex structures without support. The student experience sucked too, I'm sure.

Please join us for the virtual seminar by Dr Crystal Ennis (Leiden), "Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies: Job Seeking and the Global Political Economy of Labour in Oman”, 24 February, 17.00-18.30 London time. For more details and to register see: www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai... All welcome.

"This reform [earned settlement] risks not only the wellbeing of migrant communities, but the fabric of British society. A system that rents belonging rather than grants it corrodes trust, weakens families and devalues people based on narrow definitions of worth" www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...

Hey Manchester! Join us Friday 20 March, at the @porticolibrary.bsky.social for the public launch of my book Queering Women, Peace and Security, with artist Sarah Joy Ford, followed by a reception. 🥂Free & open to all! Please RSVP here: bit.ly/4kDipk4 @uompols.bsky.social @oupprimary.bsky.social

If you are interested in learning more about the problem of #ChristianNationalism, the Seven Mountain Mandate and #DominionTheology take a listen. podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.org/season6/epis...

The far right label is not easily applied in China, yet xenophobia, militaristic nationalism, racism, and anti feminism are rising in online discourse and sometimes within the state. The global fight against fascism requires solidarity with grassroots resistance. www.tni.org/en/article/m...

As of this morning, only one of the men who was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel that fateful evening is still living. Since Brother Jesse passed at 84 this morning.

Ramadan kareem to those beginning their fast Happy year of the Fire Horse to those celebrating And a reflective Shrove Tuesday as well

Online panel discussion on Christian Nationalism in the UK and US Featuring @marika.bsky.social and more 13th March, 19.00-21.00 londonjesuitcentre.churchsuite.com/events/ywnqr...

Rip Jesse Jackson. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Jesse Jackson..rest in power

Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come

Wrote for @theglobeandmail.com: I spent months hearing from African survivors of Myanmar scam camps, where trafficking victims are forced to run scams targeting westerners. Chinese criminals & at least one pro-junta militia cooperate to dish out horrific abuse against migrants to ensure compliance.

QUEER BRITAIN 2.0 We’re proud to reveal the first themes of our six new rotating displays, exploring different aspects of queer life, history and culture. 🎟 Book now: link.outsavvy.com/9084latb – Images from Queer Britain

This is emblematic of the consumer culture that fees have engendered. What the hell did the students expect? It was a ONCE IN A CENTURY PANDEMIC. There were LAWS against congregating in public. Staff worked themselves to the bone to get online delivery working. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

With relentless attacks on academic freedom @ttu.edu has positioned itself to perpetuate harm against scholars whose use their academic freedom to provide dissent against the ongoing genocide in Gaza. This denial targeted one of the brightest minds in the Curriculum and Instruction department.

In a sane world, this searing, short essay by @keithadams.bsky.social would drive national discourse. We sadly don't live in that world www.jcfj.ie/2026/02/16/p...

UN HR Special Rapporteurs weigh in on the Epstein Files “So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Anyone aged 16 or over in Scotland can vote in Scottish Parliament elections. For the election on 7 May, register to vote by 20 April: gov.uk/register-to-vote

Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person. Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines: zinelibrary.org

Every single person involved in this hate campaign and everyone who has supported them - Anas Sarwar, for example - needs to be run out of public life the way they've run Dr Upton out the NHS. Being trans isn't a risk factor for people around you; this obsessive hate absolutely is.

Mercado Central, a cooperative of small Central American businesses in Minneapolis, is still raising money to try to save itself from closure. It’s an institution and makes this community much richer. www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-...

Hi #skystorians! A freshman in my History of Animals course wants to do research on the history of service animals. I would love some recommendations for secondary sources to get her started. Anybody working at the intersection of disability history and animal history? 🗃️#animalhistory

Chicago UP is running a HUGE sale, and you can get extremely well-researched hard-bound books about all sorts of topics and all sorts of places for a price of a cheap paperback press.uchicago.edu/resource/Sal...

miigwech @honortheearth.bsky.social

The Swiss consider Palantir a security risk. In UK Mandelson takes Starmer to Palantir, and they hire MOD officials to hand over British intel over to the US. p.s. Palantir sued the newspaper Republik for publishing this news. www.republik.ch/2025/12/08/w... www.opendemocracy.net/en/palantir-...

Updating the tracker and I came across this fascinating story of trans and/or non-binary trans life woven into the Catholic practices of Naples, Italy. For the photo alone I felt like I had to share it - but it's fascinating throughout. From @apnews.com apnews.com/article/ital...

The Women’s Institute was pressured to exclude trans women by the threat of litigation brought and paid for by JKR’s legal fund. So now the newly trans-hostile WI groups are haemorrhaging members and many groups are folding, closing opportunities for all women. Well done JK and the GCs, eh?

A good number of the people who think it's doing an awesome job are in for a rough surprise

One leukemia patient at Children’s who lived an hour from Minneapolis stopped coming in for treatment due to ICE presence. When she finally did, she was in complete liver failure. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Bannon scrisse a Epstein: “Faremo cadere papa Francesco” https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2026/02/14/news/bannon_epstein_papa_francesco-425158251/?rss

excited for a full day of amazing sessions on Buddhist studies, South Asia, temporality and archive, Muslim ritual and law, biblical interpretation and more, plus Lamya H’s evening keynote at the annual Queer and Trans Studies in Religion conference! studyofreligion.ucr.edu/holstein-cha...

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail. It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children. Vought is a mass murderer.

USAID funds didn't just kill people, it has harmed people in myriad ways— including making sex hurt more and be more dangerous, due to a lack of lube and condoms theintercept.com/2026/02/09/t...

What's the best theological treatments of Christian Nationalism (that you would want me to expose the European Dominicans to)? @herenowandthere.bsky.social @jaredstacy.bsky.social

Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England is out now with Cambridge University Press: www.cambridge.org/core/books/v... This watery, riotous book has been more than a decade in the making, and I'm delighted to see it out in the world to live its own life!

Don't even get me started on the hateful utter nonsense of who gets to use what toilet, or the fact that my own country's government can't stop using the CSAM app, or that we're turning a blind eye to the US military stopping here en route to flying people to their deaths. I fucking hate it here.

Everywhere is flooded, unless it's on fire. We're ending vaccinations and we've invented bombs that vaporise you, but please keep paying taxes - which we won't use for housing. We're investigating the sportsball music because we're too ignorant to learn a second language. Women belong in sex gulags