Read the word blogosphere and felt quite ancient, bringing me back to my Skopje days where we used to refer to the Macedonian blogosphere in all seriousness

the graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.

merry Christmas one and all abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

If, one day, AI kills us all, it's not because it became sentient and conscious or whatever, but because some private contract says the server park has dibs on the last remaining water supply. This is all completely rational in the infinitely wise calculating machine that is the capitalist market.

From this year, I guess I'd remember how unbearable have academic spaces become since the Gaza genocide (especially painful the ones you'd expect to be different). Appreciation and gratitude for everyone finding the strength to resist, organise, educate, fight, build

Wrote about the Dutch higher education crisis and why a strike without suspending exams or classes is just cosplay. @jacobinnl.bsky.social jacobin.nl/een-hoger-on...

Been vegan for ~ 15 years; can confirm 'ethical vegan' is far from reality. There's nothing 'ethical' about cashew nuts, quinoa or coconut extractivism from global souths. Nothing ethical about 'ethical chocolate' either. And heavily processed fake meat/cheese will destroy our health & planet.

My response to anything over the next two weeks

Pls can we retire the "well deserved break" phrase. Break, take it, rest, it is a right, not a matter of deserve. Especially if based on academic metrics

I try to avoid linking to Substacks but this essay is FASCINATING

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“Multinationals are rampant in my country. They lure farmers to take climate resistant seeds by offering them loans [for] seeds.." the latest episode of Peasant Voices, La Vía Campesina podcast, feature Catherine Banda from Kenyan Peasant League viacampesina.org/en/2025/12/p...

Good morning, kind reminder that when you endorse supposedly "immigration-friendly" narratives such as "we need immigrants to pick our vegetables/clean our shit/sweep our streets" (incl. the most recent Monbiot's piece) you're contributing to the creation of England's internal labour colony

Morocco Flash Floods: 21 dead, 32 injured “Morocco is experiencing heavy rain and snowfall on the Atlas mountains, following seven years of drought that emptied some of its main reservoirs.“

It takes so much time to properly understand scholarly discussions in another discipline let alone to contribute to these discussions. So yes, proper interdisciplinary scholarship is slow and it totally should be.

Anytime I interact on Linkedin I need to come here to wash my conscience and heal

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of course, it's like when Dark Web dresses up for Xmas dinner with the in-laws

"We must not forget either than scientific men are but ordinary men, and that the majority of them belong to the leisured class...most of them are even in the pay of the State. it is therefore quite evident that Anarchy does not come from Universities."

Deadline approaching: December 1

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Europe's well-being and progress were built with the sweat and corpses of Blacks, Arabs, Indians, and Asians. This we are determined never to forget. - Frantz Fanon #marxistmonday

Congratulations to Omar El Akkad for winning the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction! ICYMI: Omar's appearance on the show was one of the great all-time conversations so far. Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...

The LMU announces the cancellation of a seminar on the topic "the targeting of Palestinian academia". The cancellation announcement is titled "LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse". Couldn't make this up. www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...

Comrades, the moving labour collective is oraganising its third summer camp, this time in Malmö: June 14-17. We are hoping to create a space where labour scholars, lawyers, activists, unionists will collectively work on intersectional solidarity praxis and organising strategies. Come join us!

if anyone reading: do you know interesting work on knowledge as labour? clearly not the knowledge worker in the knowledge econ and the like neolib bs. I am rather interested in work that looks from a labour persp at creation, maintaining, passing of traditional/indigenous knowledge re food systems

watched this recently, I thought it was good www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiFW...

Syllabus Sourcing: Hoping for a little help! I'm looking for readings that challenge whether rights are the "right" frame for protecting humanity and promoting equality. I'll assign Marx and maybe excerpts from "How Rights Went Wrong." But any other recs particularly for a human rights course?

Finally some good news! www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

Our introduction to agroecology sessions continue in November with topics oriented around the role of trees and their radical potential, among other things we'll be learning about the land reclaiming movement chronicled in David E. Gilbert's book Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land

⭕DIRECTO | Arranca la jornada de huelga general, paros y marchas para denunciar el genocidio en Gaza

there is few (no?) more compelling cases for public control over investment than AI atm: the biggest misallocation of resources possibly in human history.

What's that the Italian navy shadowing the #GlobalSumudFlotilla is not about protection but is about using rescue as interception? It's the logic of Mare Nostrum all over again and I wish some people weren't so naïve to think militarism had anything to offer a politics of solidarity and justice.

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness. Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

📢ANNOUNCING our next webinar 🌱 Farmers & climate justice activists are rising up together. Join this webinar on how #Nyéléni2025 can inform bold strategies for #COP30 in Brazil. 📅 9 Oct REGISTER NOW ipes-food.org/rising-up-to... with @canclimateaction.bsky.social @actioncontrelafaim.bsky.social

“A scandal that the EU is funnelling large sums of public money [via the #CAP] into farms accused & even convicted of labour abuses. “Social conditionality has proven toothless – failing to prevent abuse or trigger meaningful sanctions” says @deschuttero.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r...

Historic: Italy is on strike, disrupting business as usual & protesting complicity in Israel’s genocide & apartheid against Palestinians, bringing major cities to a halt. Hundreds of thousands are demonstrating across 80 cities & towns, from south to north, blocking roads, ports & railway stations.

🌱🎉 Agroecology Map turns 8! An open-source, volunteer-driven platform mapping agroecological practices worldwide 🌍🤝. Together we grow resilient food systems! 💚🌾 #Agroecology #Permaculture #Agroforestry #FoodSovereignty #SustainableAgriculture #OpenData #CitizenScience #ClimateJustice #Biodiversity

Can someone tell Friedrich Merz and Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer?

De depolitisering van extreemrechts geweld

Outright fascists are now just hooligans

Yes! I just spoke to a librarian and they are spending time trying to find fake citations - they are being given pages of fake references to find via inter-library loan Again, digital asbestos - quick to produce, but so much cost and labour to clean-up.

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If you are on the TPUSA list of professors or are an otherwise visible left academic, I strongly recommend reviewing your digital footprint. Is your address public information? What about your family members? crimethinc.com/2020/08/26/d...

Deutsche Liberale, die zu Masha Gessen, Ghassan Hage oder Nancy Fraser kein Wort verloren haben, drehen jetzt frei wegen Jimmy Kimmel. Leben wir eig im selben Deutschland?

Truly grateful to the editors sharing this experience. Great piece and such an admirable level of integrity and courage anywhere but specifically in the German context.

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light: www.theguardian.com/environment/...