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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 2d

‘Ramallah is a city with a greater annual rainfall than London.
Although it sits on top of the abundant Central Aquifer, residents are forbidden to dig wells & draw water. There is no absolute water scarcity; the shortage is entirely manufactured by Israeli authorities’
jacobin.com/2025/08/colo...

Colonialization Through Dehydration in Palestine

Israel’s extreme rationing of water to the Palestinian people is central to its larger project of control, domination, and ethnic cleansing.

jacobin.com

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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 14h

Gauge the ‘seriousness’ of Israel/Israelis want for anything like peace, never mind the coming justice, by whether they see the urgent need to free Marwan Barghouti.
They won’t because they don’t…

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 16h

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point

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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 13h

‘The problem isn’t the planning system. It’s a broken, profit-driven housing model that banks land and starves supply. Scrapping nature protections won’t build 1.5m homes, it will just bulldoze public trust and the countryside.’
Reeves’ contemptuousness is not merely wrong but dumb & dangerous.

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 2h

Empire empiring, always.

But there are no tribes beyond us, nothing indeed but waves and rocks, and the yet more terrible Romans, from whose oppression escape is vainly sought by obedience and submission. Robbers of the world, having by their universal plunder exhausted the land, they rifle the deep. If the enemy be rich, they are rapacious; if he be poor, they lust for dominion; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them. Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty and riches. To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace.

Complete Works of Tacitus. Tacitus. Sara Bryant. edited for Perseus. New York. : Random House, Inc. Random House, Inc.
1876. reprinted 1942.

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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 9h

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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 11h

On form & bigging up R Belben’s Dreaming of Dead People (And Other Stories):
‘If you’re going beneath the surface of life, into this more subterranean place that is by its nature amorphous, how are you supposed to put a shape on it without compromising its essence?’
observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Claire-Louise Bennett: ‘Mystery is an essential part of l...

The Big Kiss, Bye-Bye novelist on the challenges of capturing romantic relationships and the appeal of the gothic

observer.co.uk

guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 13h

‘The problem isn’t the planning system. It’s a broken, profit-driven housing model that banks land and starves supply. Scrapping nature protections won’t build 1.5m homes, it will just bulldoze public trust and the countryside.’
Reeves’ contemptuousness is not merely wrong but dumb & dangerous.

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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 13h

‘When asked whether wildlife should be protected even if it delays/raises the cost of infra, every single voter group –incl Labour, Conservative & Reform UK– chose wildlife. Among the general public, 62% prioritised nature protection vs 18% building at any cost.’
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on Labour targeting nature: the problem isn’t snails, but a broken housing model | Editorial

Editorial: Rachel Reeves’s drive to speed up development is beginning to treat wildlife and the environment as expendable. Voters want homes built, but not at any cost

www.theguardian.com

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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 13h

And because it matters respect to Ronald Lauder 😶

guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 14h

Gauge the ‘seriousness’ of Israel/Israelis want for anything like peace, never mind the coming justice, by whether they see the urgent need to free Marwan Barghouti.
They won’t because they don’t…

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 16h

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alice says Palestinians in Gaza aren’t scammers! @bluwhalien.bsky.social · 17h

Did you know you can donate to the Municipality of Gaza? They have been trying to get water into Gaza again for a while now and have an active campaign:

gaza-city.ensany.com/campaign/6737

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 14h

thanks to everyone who signed and shared! now let’s get to 11,000!!

Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 2d

We really really need all hands on deck to get Tarek’s mitigation letter to the judge with 10,000 signatures by Monday. Please circulate offline and here, and sign!

www.change.org/p/free-tarek...

Sign the Petition

FREE TAREK BAZROUK NOW! NO MORE JAIL TIME! SIGN HIS MITIGATION LETTER!

www.change.org

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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 1d

Send Isreal to rehab, yes, yes, yes!

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Lebanese president condemns Israeli attack on Msayleh as a 'blatant aggression' against civilian infrastructure.

Intensive Israeli air strikes kill one, injure seven in southern Lebanon

Lebanese president condemns Israeli attack on Msayleh as a 'blatant aggression' against civilian infrastructure.

bit.ly

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 1d

"It is difficult to imagine what a single voice can do. It is time for deep reflection and new modalities of engaging with things, and to try to find new modalities for freedom."

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 1d

"I think we have got to stop thinking about victories and start thinking about how the hell we are going to live with each other, how are we going to live with the world we have inherited...The only way to make the world a kinder place is to champion these lost causes."

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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 1d

There’s nothing so good as scrub! Especially in our denuded cities!
Let it go, let it grow, let it overgrow, merge and undermine meaningless boundaries of every kind!

Andy Zahn @andyzahn.bsky.social · 2d

Far too often, scrub/brush is treated as a nuisance, hazard, or eyesore, when in fact it is vital habitat and a key component of natural succession.

Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 2d

For years, this was part of a path through the land, but it's now an impenetrable tangle of gorse and young trees.

As the trees grow, the gorse and other vegetation will be shaded out, and I'll be able to pass again, but through *rainforest*.

Scrub is how natural forest ecosystems form.

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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 1d

It’s such a blatant con if people want to use it like this, as they do! Esp once dealing w hundreds of millions, which frees you of all constraints incl or esp tax!
These are good suggestions & fold in with Zack Polanski’s headline focii very well.
Brits love being taken for a ride by vulgar rich!

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d

Limited liability is one of our weird silences. It's a massive free gift society makes to plutocrats, seldom remarked upon, let alone contested.
Shareholders should have to buy limited liability, like any other insurance. The insurers would then be liable. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

www.theguardian.com

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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 2d

‘Ramallah is a city with a greater annual rainfall than London.
Although it sits on top of the abundant Central Aquifer, residents are forbidden to dig wells & draw water. There is no absolute water scarcity; the shortage is entirely manufactured by Israeli authorities’
jacobin.com/2025/08/colo...

Colonialization Through Dehydration in Palestine

Israel’s extreme rationing of water to the Palestinian people is central to its larger project of control, domination, and ethnic cleansing.

jacobin.com

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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 2d

Nakba to genocide, 1948 to 2025.
#FreePalestine

guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 2d

A bit of context, more (irresistible!) at the link:

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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 3d

From my 2015-17 Supercommunity text: www.e-flux.com/journal/65/3...

I listen closely to the patient Arabic translation and circling revisions until laughter embraces my little dig at a Marx-free lightness of being.

Something about the precision of this and other responses satisfied my uncompromising comrades from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine—that and my long familiarity with Abu Jihad, whose memorial service I attended in London after the state of Israel assassinated him in Tunis. I’d just returned from a revolutionary Nicaragua under murderous North American siege, slipping back and forth across the border in between Contra raids. A signal year, 1989.

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/65/336378/laboring-one-to-seven-island-of-terror

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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 3d

From my Journal, spring 1989 #October6th

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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 3d

That particular person is laughable tbh but that took place at the fruitfully time-warping Wolfgang T opening…
I still find art contexts less bounded than others, esp viz risk-aversion (& remain entangled). Ldn, hmm, always more market than making but yr last phrase resonates!

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 3d

Reposting some things I posted on the devil's site: Congrats to László Krasnahorkai & all of his translators & publishers, including New Directions Publishing Corp. You can find quite a catalogue of his work in English translation here: www.ndbooks.com/author/laszl...

László Krasznahorkai

New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914–1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies.

www.ndbooks.com

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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 4d

Crucial to sweep as much as possible under the (techboy billionaires’) carpet; where latent denial merges with blatant denial.

Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 4d

Well, that's one way of handling global ecosystem collapse

Block publication of research that might raise awkward questions about whether UK govt is doing enough about it

Can't see any flaws in that approach....

www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices

Downing Street has vetoed release of an assessment that says the loss of the Amazon ecosystem could drive up food inflation as well as lead to mass migration

www.thetimes.com