me trying to recruit new members to the polycule

Starmtroopers right now....

somehow, even in his resignation speech, its not really clear what he's doing or why

do you think if i factory reset it i can get it working

just took my 2020 trooper iphone SE to a trade in shop to see how much I could get off a newer one... £4 lol. depreciation rate absolutely wild

Just emailed my MP urging him to add his name on this. I think others should do the same.

i do love the constant audacity of Liverpool, I remember when the official merseyrail metro map was titled THE CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE

Happy DOI day to @elaraks.bsky.social, new article out from her massive and ambitious project on damp and housing dispossession in London www.researchgate.net/publication/...

i saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by dutch academic positions

Last Time I Saw Richard – Joni Mitchell It's Gonna be Lonely – Prince Cue – YMO One Mo' Gin – D'Angelo It's Not Easy – Ofege Bibo No Aozora – Ryuchi Sakamoto I Was Young When I Left Home – Bob Dylan Since I've Been Loving You – Led Zep One In a Million – Aaliyah I Try – Macy Gray (Jay Dee Remix)

proud to say i've done a 10k

why didnt anyone tell me cocteau twins are actually good

here's my idea of how to save US-Italy relations, Catholic-protestant relations, and the World Cup

here's my idea of how to save US-Italy relations, Catholic-protestant relations, and the World Cup

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