absolute banger of a piece from @charmainechua.bsky.social. a history of logistical space, from customs zones of the 1800s to their newfound use as concentration camps today, go get it placesjournal.org/article/the-...

a while back me and @miriammthsn.bsky.social wrote a piece about how 90% of the world's goods do not, in fact, move by sea. now its the source for google's claim that they do. like come on man read just two words on

alright this makes Helen Dewitt's blog title 'we lose again' ten times funnier

This! Also, Greek ships delivering arms, coal etc to Israel have been basically turning off their AIS and faking their destinations on their manifests...

What does calling a ship part of the 'ghost fleet' mean, and who gets to decide? New writing from @miriammthsn.bsky.social over at liquidtime dot substack dot com liquidtime.substack.com/p/four-quest...

Presenting the reopening the Strait of Hormuz as a victory is like the Greeks failing to take Troy but celebrating the safe return of their wooden horse

My neighbour's son was wrapped up with this church for a bit in Peckham – apparently the pastor told congregation to go home and get their valuables, trade them in at CeX up the road, then put the cash on the altar as a sign of devotion

New improved shelf labelling at Sainsburys

There is no death for an otter, only life to the end.

The first part of our symposium on the American-Israeli war on Iran. @tobycjones.bsky.social on the deep and terrible intertwining of Empire, oil and Palestine. @guylaron.bsky.social on the history, and future, of oil wars. www.break-down.org/oil-war/

very much urge everyone to learn the weeds of political economy through my friend @yusufimaadkhan.com's batshit chart aggregator that ends with an all-timer boss fight (click top right 'the owl of minerva flies at dusk') www.yusufimaadkhan.com/charts

One fossil fuel crisis costs the UK more than shifting to net zero by 2050. And how many more such crises can we expect in the next 24 years? A great example of how the proper temporal frame clarifies costs and benefits #longproblems www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Goldsmiths at long last offering what all of us alumni crave: free will

global trade calmness fantasy sadly paywalled

UPDATE: it was not good

Hate to say it but likely a lot of the crews on older cargo ships will get abandoned. Gulf already a dumping ground for crews (very few have signed the IMO agreement that offers seafarers protections), and faced with exorbitant insurance and fuel charges I see operators just cutting ties

in the timeline where the DFC becoming insurer of last resort for gulf oil sounds... about right

telegraph doing fine

Hell yeah I love a Ceilidh C - cotton E - eye I L I D - djoe H

for your consideration

god i love discourse

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

It's probably not about minerals. Wrote about Greenland, shipping lanes and the political work that all this arctic speculation is doing over at @the-breakdown.bsky.social www.break-down.org/after-the-th...

Forgot about this one. suggestions welcome

Wrote about all the wild speculation around the Arctic Ocean for @the-breakdown.bsky.social. In very good company for issue 2, go subscribe!

Lfg

“It’s just a joke. Yvette Cooper says she is a fan of the Suffragettes. I don’t think the Suffragettes would have thought much of her.” observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

“I am planning to offer a public lecture series in New York focused on parts of this course that will be streamed and available for later viewing. Proceeds, if any, will go to Gaza’s universities, every one of which has been destroyed by Israel with US munitions, a war crime…”

incredible reviewing from 'washerman2009'

going through old photos, think I had to go for this for work? constantly amazed and humbled at Biz Thinking

Zohran Mamdani spams comet azur and cerulean hidden tear

Apparently Mamdani voters are the most privileged class in history AND are bitter about having no money and living in an apartment with 3 roommates into their 30s. Pick a damn lane.

Peckham’s Aylesham Centre redevelopment, a gross project of luxury flats, getting absolutely ratioed in the planning process

groupings-wise, it looks a lot like the opening matches of the euros are just fights over who has the coolest flag variant

“The research – conducted jointly by the Palestinian Youth Movement, Progressive International and Workers for a Free Palestine – uses Israeli tax authority import data to try to uncover what the continuance of the 200 arms export licences has allowed Israel to import.”

could you guys stop attributing power to earthworms for just one minute

list of games consoles allowed in UK prisons. no infrared equipped gameboy colours lol

Hey I heard your boyfriend enrolled in a

oneohtrix point never gonna listen to that shite again

Who wants to come to the fucked up landlords conference with me (it is, amazingly, free)

extremely dumb and slapstick moment in the edda (1200s)

truly the dumbest of timelines

strongly hope that in researching greenlandic indigenous sovereignty people don't think i'm john bolton

finally

i only hope they don't abolish the IMF before i get my 5 billion us dollars

art world woefeully unequipped to talk about shitting

not the mao-cedes benz

I saw the best years of my 26-30 Railcard destroyed by the novel coronavirus

some sage cooking advice from the country consistently bringing you the best food in the world 🇬🇧