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Silver Press @silver-press.bsky.social · 4h

The Word for World: an exhibition presenting the maps of Ursula K. Le Guin is now open at the AA Gallery! It's free and on until 6 Dec. Here are some photos from opening evening 🌀 www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogra...

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 1d

That's where I heard it!

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 1d

Listened to the second episode of 'The Bog Shaman: Manchán on Moriarty' on the way up to the site this morning. Storm clouds are glowering over the gulf, and the power's down so it's handsaw time. The radio plays Willow's Song. Every bush is a burning bush. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

The Bog Shaman: Manchán on Moriarty - RTÉ Radio 1

A celebration of the wild and wonderful Co. Kerry philosopher John Moriarty. Manchán Magan rifles through the audio recordings of this great prophet and deep-thinker.

www.rte.ie

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 2d

“They have issues around hunger, poverty, mass unemployment – and we’re getting them to commit towards some fancy projects like using drones and AI.” @lighthousereports.com on The Tony Blair Institute, Oracle, and Larry Ellison. A fairly disturbing read archive.is/mKi7s

archive.is

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 4d

@bruces.bsky.social how many arms is the new how many fingers

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · Aug 1

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

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This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron.

Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept.

This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 7d

This BBC Radio 4 three-part doc on fascism as a continuous, and continuously opposed, thread in British life is very good and worth a listen. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Britain's Fascist Thread, Episode 1

Camilla Schofield explores the unbroken thread of fascism in Britain.

www.bbc.co.uk

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 8d

Writing essays about design, quantum theory, the discovery of mRNA, seagrass, while occasionally popping out to move a tonne of wood, varnish it, cut, cover again. Typing for coins and the Towers of Hanoi: a self-build story.

Several large stacks of timber on palettes, drying varnish, red earth, pines, sky.

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Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social · 9d

A first foray into podcast script-writing... helped make this series on what to do now that we're overshooting 1.5c global warming. Presented by Laurie Laybourn and produced by Planet B. More things soon I hope!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

Episode 1: Uncharted Territory

Podcast Episode · Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C · 05/10/2025 · 35m

podcasts.apple.com

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 9d

I would really appreciate a Euro-centric social media platform precisely for this. I want to know what's happening in the US, but I really want to be able to work and organise around Europe, where I have (some) agency. Greysky?

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 9d

I wonder what the equivalent of those album covers which seemed to shape culture in the 80s is now? Good morning :)

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 9d

So I think the 80s is interesting as a time when that energy seemed to dissipate in the Big Bang and North Sea Oil, except of course it didn't - it went into rave and reclaim the streets and punk and more DIY as you say. It became counterculture again when the dominant culture went the other way.

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 9d

And I'm particularly interested in the countercultures of the 70s, of DIY, self-build, radical alternative lifestyles and design - from Superstudio to Ken Isaacs to John and Sally Seymour - and what happened to them. Where did that energy go?

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 9d

And there are obviously others which I/"we" don't have access to, but I think it's just ridiculous to say there's no counterculture(s) now.

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 9d

... which delaminates everything. But I get really angry at the idea that there are no countercultures right now. I think much of the eco movement (more radical green) and queer and trans culture will be seen - because it is - as an extremely strong and vibrant counterculture.

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks for these thoughts @edwinheathcote.bsky.social @markhurrell.bsky.social - a couple in return. First is that, yes, countercultures only visible in hindsight. It feels like there's no outside to the dominant culture right now, because of the flattening effects of the internet...

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 11d

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 11d

Yes.

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 11d

(Adaptive reuse for everything? Enjoyed that too.)

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 11d

Yes, very much so. And now? (Genuine Q)

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 11d

It's morning in America... But I can't see the dawn. www.radioalhara.net on 🔥 this morning fyi

Radio Alhara

Radio AlHara راديو الحارة

www.radioalhara.net

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 12d

Such an amazing book. Was absolutely shattered when I read it, a rare thing.

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 13d

Read this instead: "A Map, the Sea, and Many Olive Trees", by Elia Ayoub www.hauntologies.net/p/a-map-the-... (via palestinegeographies.org)

A Map, the Sea, and Many Olive Trees

And some trains

www.hauntologies.net

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 13d

I don't know them. I was looking for olive groves, not strawberries. I was trying to distract myself from the Flotilla, and now the Synagogue. It was a strawberry farm.

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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 13d

Here's their Facebook: www.facebook.com/strawberry.g...

A photo of a man carrying a basket of plants, from the Gaza Strawberry facebook page.

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