GlumBird
@glumbird.bsky.social
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Marxist. I do writing and narration for videos and some other stuff:
https://linktr.ee/prolekult
Forgot about this app again lmao
almost 2 years ago
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Netpol
about 2 years ago
Answering questions from Police Federation members, the Home Secretary rejected claims that police forces are âinstitutionally racistâ. That's what Braverman means by a "âcampaign against political correctnessâ - the same as always, cover for state racism
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
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Braverman doubles down on âwokeâ police crackdown: âPC patrols not policing pronounsâ
Home secretary tells police conference she is fighting a âcampaign against political correctness in policingâ
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/suella-braverman-police-woke-crackdown-b2427910.html
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putting together the bibliography for PART ONE of For Land lmao this ain't even all of it (articles goes on for a few more pages)
about 2 years ago
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So, I just did some reading on this and, yeah, looks like alluvial gold mining gangs in the Amazon used fucking jetpacks and dressed up as aliens to attack indigenous people this year.
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'7-foot flying aliens' in Peru ate faces, claim locals. Cops say they were...
Terrified villagers in Peru claimed they were attacked by 7-feet-tall flying aliens. Now, local officials have stated that members of illegal gold mining gangs were likely behind the incidents.
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/flying-alies-peru-ate-faces-lima-illegal-gold-miners-2420289-2023-08-13
about 2 years ago
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this came to me in a dream and idk what to do with the idea so you all have to suffer with me
about 2 years ago
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Deforestation in the Amazon is threatening South American monsoon patterns. If this study is correct, we are on the verge of a *rapid* decline in rainfall, of up to 30% present rates. This is the rainforest's death knell.
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The South American monsoon approaches a critical transition in response to deforestation
There is evidence that the South American Monsoon is approaching a critical transition due to deforestation and land-use change.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add9973
about 2 years ago
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Elizabeth Sampat
about 2 years ago
This is the whole point of AI. Itâs not to actually replace humans. Itâs to change your title from âhead writerâ to âassistant AI technician,â not credit you, and pay you half of what you were paid before
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The Tory Party conference this year has been a circus of absurdity and reaction on a scale eclipsing any of their prior efforts. They have nothing but PR massaged violence to offer. An opposition in waiting, preparing to consolidate the far-right around it for the long haul.
about 2 years ago
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about 2 years ago
This is chilling.
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đš Undercover on the government's Rwanda plan
For the past three months, Led by Donkeys has been investigating the governmentâs plan to forcibly send asylum seekers to Rwanda, a cornerstone of the Prime ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZylpF1t328
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Economic terrorism.
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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to confirm toughening of benefits sanctions while raising living wage
Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride announced last month he was looking into changes to the Work Capability Assessment. Reducing welfare spending and getting people into work is part of the reason ...
https://news.sky.com/story/chancellor-jeremy-hunt-to-confirm-toughening-of-benefits-sanctions-while-raising-living-wage-12974271?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter
about 2 years ago
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Prolekult
about 2 years ago
For more of our analysis, check out this video:
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For Bread: on capitalism's global food crisis
In this short video, we give an overview of the fundamental factors driving the global food crisis. The piece looks at the way fertiliser has shaped agricult...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXYKFVXjQcU
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Prolekult
about 2 years ago
As we said last year: "Capitalism is not only destroying its own capacity to create food... It is ending the environmental conditions which have allowed for agricultural production per se." The food crisis is just starting.
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Europeâs olive oil supply running out after drought â and the odd hailstorm
Heatwaves around Mediterranean have damaged harvests and forced producers to import from South America
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/28/europes-local-olive-oil-supply-runs-almost-dry-after-summer-of-extreme-weather
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Netpol
about 2 years ago
Refugee campaigner Tony Pierre is demanding an explanation from the Home Office and Northumbria Police after immigration enforcement officers raided his home without a warrant
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...
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Refugee activistâs house in Home Office raid for âunknown illegal personsâ
Campaigner Tony Pierre is demanding answers as to why his home was searched by immigration officers without a warrant
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/01/refugee-activists-house-in-home-office-raid-for-unknown-persons
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To be clear: this is the first time since February 2022 that British troops will be deployed in Ukraine *openly*. That is a major escalation, verging on catastrophic. Whether or not the troops are there for training (doubt), the potential for open direct conflict is huge.
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British troops could deploy to Ukraine to train soldiers, says Grant Shapps
Defence secretary says proposal being discussed would reduce reliance on UK and other Nato membersâ bases
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/30/british-troops-could-deploy-to-ukraine-to-train-soldiers-says-grant-shapps
about 2 years ago
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Prolekult
about 2 years ago
New podcast:
www.patreon.com/posts/90077697
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[Podcast #33] Approaching Ecosocialism, part two: development debates and social bases | Patreon
Official Post from Prolekult
https://www.patreon.com/posts/90077697
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Alex Heffron
about 2 years ago
Letâs be real the lack of solidarity with disabled people across the British left is fucking appalling. Even the bare basics are lacking. Weâre still being told things like: âsorry we havenât got the budget for itâ. (I don't think it's just a British thing but it is very bad here)
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The second volume of Capital is absolutely fucking insufferable to try and translate into supplementary study aids and pedagogic materials.
about 2 years ago
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Ghouly Hoye đšđŠ đ»
about 2 years ago
Canada research chair of water resources and climate change: âThe low streamflows in rivers across Alberta this year are unprecedented. In Calgary, he said the Bow River is at about half its normal level.â
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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It feels futile to say that to not be beaten by the culture war shit, the left needs to stop biting at this point. Focus on signifiers and individuals above conditions, policy and class throughout the online left seems pretty ubiquitous, to the point of compulsivity.
about 2 years ago
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about 2 years ago
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The neoliberal climate consensus, insufficient and tentative as it was, has collapsed.
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Rosebank oil field given go-ahead by regulator
Development and production consents have been given to the offshore development west of Shetland.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-66933346
about 2 years ago
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Netpol
about 2 years ago
Presenting a reluctance to accept the importance of accountability for using lethal force as some kind of wellbeing issue is a new low for Rowley.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...
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Met chief says anxiety led firearms police to refuse to carry weapons
Force says some of the officers have started to return to duties but others are still refusing to carry firearms
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/26/met-chief-says-anxiety-led-firearms-police-to-refuse-to-carry-weapons
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oh boy, full fash from Braverman "She said multiculturalism âhas failed because it allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives in it", and even "pursue lives aimed at undermining the stability and threatening the security of our society"."
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Uncontrolled migration poses âexistential challengeâ to the West, says Home Secretary Suella Bra...
The Home Secretary has warned that a failure to control migration poses an "existential challenge" to the West.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uncontrolled-migration-existential-challenge-west-suella-braverman/
about 2 years ago
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Getting my head around the extent of plastic pollution has been fucking terrifying. It's everywhere, in the water and the air. It's estimated that the average person now consumes 5 grams of plastic a week, the equivalent of a credit card, through water, food and air intake.
about 2 years ago
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Jack O'Lantern Graham
about 2 years ago
"Every morning, news reaches us from around the globe. And yet we lack remarkable stories." Nothing to see here; just Walter Benjamin being so prophetic it's actually frightening.
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Rowan đș
about 2 years ago
The UK is a nightmare for trans people. Attitudes are not just becoming more reactionary, but are moving from a laissez-faire ignorance to hardened hate. There is no previously existing model of solidarity, but there is an increasingly entrenched cult of anti-trans violence and dehumanisation.
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Britain becoming more liberal-minded â but less tolerant of trans people, survey finds - The Big I...
Britain is becoming more progressive and tolerant, a new survey has revealed â except when it comes to attitudes towards trans people.
https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/british-societal-attitudes-survey-trans-abortion-gay-sex/
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This is chosen very specifically. It is vile in every conceivable way. Join any migrant support group in your area. If there isn't one, start one. This cannot stand.
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Anti-gay discrimination not qualification for asylum, says Suella Braverman
The home secretary says fearing discrimination for being gay or a woman is not enough to qualify for refugee protection.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66919416
about 2 years ago
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There's a difference between understanding how institutions utilise history for ideological reproduction and "the sins of the father pass unto the son". The latter is a-historical moralising and, regrettably, seems to be the dominant view among the popular anglophone left.
about 2 years ago
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Slogan politics must die
about 2 years ago
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Netpol
about 2 years ago
As reporting makes clear, it was the Home Office that asked for this: a Military Aid to the Civil Authorities (MACA)Â request to heighten the sense of a crisis. It is actively seeking to undermine the prosecution of Chris Kaba's killer
www.bbc.com/news/uk-6690...
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Chris Kaba: MoD offers military support after armed Met officers turn in weapons
Review into armed police is set up as dozens turn in weapons after an officer faces a murder charge.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66906201
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Netpol
about 2 years ago
Britain's media has been played like a fiddle by the government. "Army stood down as enough Met Police armed officers return to duty"
www.bbc.com/news/uk-6690...
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Chris Kaba: Army stood down as enough Met Police armed officers return to duty
Up to 300 officers had stood back from firearms duties after the prosecution of a colleague.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66909729
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explaining Malthus lmao
about 2 years ago
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Rowan đș
about 2 years ago
Thank you to
@timescarcass.bsky.social
@smenor.com
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@glumbird.bsky.social
for your responses to this. It was genuinely helpful today. Solidarity to you all, and I would recommend the replies to the post below for anyone grappling with the extent of the current crisis.
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In light of the Canadian Parliament's applause for the Waffen SS, it's worth again reminding ourselves of what fascism is as a political and economic structure.
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Decay: on fascism and breakdown
Decay: on fascism and breakdown is a feature length Marxist documentary looking at 20th Century fascism, early English settler colonialism in the Americas an...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO-7cymgtqo
about 2 years ago
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Important report here
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Disabled people and the environmental crises - NPC
This Everyone's Environment paper is one of four published in September 2023, each exploring the input from a different social group
https://www.thinknpc.org/resource-hub/disabled-people-and-the-environmental-crises/
about 2 years ago
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Jesus fucking Christ. He's just taking a sledgehammer to all legislation that will better anyone's life.
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Rishi Sunak to halt ban on gender therapy
A ban on conversion therapy is expected to be shelved by Rishi Sunak, five years after the Conservatives vowed to legislate against the practice. The government is expected to announce that the legisl...
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/54b8a450-5a45-11ee-9c2e-1c7fe7ce2a43?shareToken=d2f9d46b84e8d4678c7ce3bd68d9a723
about 2 years ago
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"You've got nothing to worry about. It's only working out as a dry run for martial law."
www.lbc.co.uk/news/londone...
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Public have 'absolutely' nothing to worry about amid armed police walkout, minister tells LBC
A minister has told LBC Londoners have nothing to worry about over the walkout of armed police officers after one of their colleagues was charged with murder.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/londoners-nothing-fear-armed-police-walkout/
about 2 years ago
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Rickets and scurvy. A four-fold increase in hospital admittance for malnutrition since 2008.
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/time...
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Thousands of people admitted to hospital with malnutrition
Almost 11,000 people in England were hospitalised with malnutrition last year, as doctors warned that the cost of living crisis has also led to a rise in âVicto
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/times-health-commission-thousands-of-people-admitted-to-hospital-suffering-from-malnutrition-n23hqgzjr
about 2 years ago
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Making everything dependent on industrial technology couldn't possibly deepen any problem whatsoever. Life support for permanent use is, as all doctors know, the best medicine.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines...
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Farmers turn to tech as bees struggle to pollinate
With bee populations struggling, mechanical pollination may be increasingly needed as a back-up.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66807456
about 2 years ago
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Jeffrey Lewis
about 2 years ago
Here is the write-up that goes with the CNN story on the chances of resumed nuclear explosive testing.
www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1218...
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Prolekult
about 2 years ago
In the seventh episode (and the second seriesish - new aesthetic), we discuss debates between the first and second waves of ecosocialism on Marx's view of nature, and the importance of understanding this today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qwt...
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Marx and Nature | Approaching Marxism
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/prolekultKo-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/prolekultApproaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marx...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qwtey25QFo&t=1s
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Prolekult
about 2 years ago
In the sixth episode, we discuss the revisionist controversy in the German social democrat party. We then offer the lessons of this as a way to begin discussing problems in the contemporary communist movement.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8_j...
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Orthodoxy and Revisionism | Approaching Marxism
Approaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they h...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8_ju1VCfyM
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Prolekult
about 2 years ago
In the fifth episode, we discuss how to approach Marx's life and work, the danger and necessity of canonisation, and the importance of developing both analytical and popular Marxist approaches.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFzo...
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Marx | Approaching Marxism
Approaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they h...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFzo3mcWrgY&feature=youtu.be
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about 2 years ago
In the fourth episode, we take a look at the concept of class in Marxism. We begin by highlighting that Marx never gave a definition of the concept, but only of concrete classes, then work backward to illustrate some elements of his view.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN68...
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Class | Approaching Marxism
Approaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they h...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN684xLjSDc&feature=youtu.be
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about 2 years ago
Episode three looks at the "base-superstructure" framework used by Marx in his famous "Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy". It looks at many vulgar applications of this, and a recent intervention which outlines its limits.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkjR...
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Base and superstructure | Approaching Marxism
Approaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they h...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkjRsLVux-Q&feature=youtu.be
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Prolekult
about 2 years ago
The second episode looks at the concept of a mode of production in Marx's work and Marxism more broadly. It gives an overview of the concept and a critique of common reductionist errors in its application.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBxV...
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Modes of production | Approaching Marxism
Approaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they h...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBxVeOl30IM&feature=youtu.be
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Prolekult
about 2 years ago
The first episode of the series gives an introduction to its overall purpose and the need for more detailed introductory materials within Marxism. This one is a very short primer on the general problems the series is intended to address!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV-c...
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Approaching Marxism: introduction
Approaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they h...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV-chUKWAvA&feature=youtu.be
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Prolekult
about 2 years ago
Approaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they have spawned since. Episode guide - a thread
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Literally "if I can't murder black men I quit"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
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Chris Kaba: Armed officers step back from duties after murder charge
Some police relinquish right to hold firearms after colleague is charged with the murder of Chris Kaba.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66903749
about 2 years ago
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