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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🏴‍☠️ #COYG 📚tsundoku📚victim📚積ん読 There is a crack in everything: That's how the 🕯️light gets in: 🌱change is permanent 💫understanding is temporary 🪢contradiction is fruitful 🥁#SelfManagement 🥁#Solidarity 🥁#MutualAid 🥁#EcoDefence

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crglddl @crglddl.bsky.social · Dec 29

Products of human activity outweighs plant life. There are now 1.3 trillion tons of man-made stuff on the planet, almost all of it built in the 20th century.

Look at these visualisations 👇🏼

A Century of Human Detritus, Visualized www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/s...

A Century of Human Detritus, Visualized

“Technostuff” built in the last 100 years outweighs all the living matter on Earth.

www.nytimes.com

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crglddl @crglddl.bsky.social · 2h

Chris Philp,
Tory Shadow Home Sec.
On BBC R4 Today

His response to the horrendous train knife attack: the most sordid political opportunism.

Endless use of the phrase "left-wing politicians" who are apparently to blame for the legal framework on knife crime Labour constructed by the Tories.

crglddl @crglddl.bsky.social · 1d

I'd quite like a view counter cos I so rarely get likes I feel like my just muttering into my beer.

crglddl @crglddl.bsky.social · 1d

Down with all fat cats!
(Except this one)

DelaneyKirk @delaneykirk.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning, BlueSky friends!

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EdinburghGary @photoscotland.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday. The day of the week when I have time to "get shit done". The shit I'm gonna get done? A whole load of nothing. Oh yeah, good old thinking about the wonderful stuff I could get done, whilst doing literally none of it.

My train has just arrived at Procrastination Station.

C'est la vie.

A dense thicket of slender, leafless branches creates a vertical lattice across the frame, with a few scattered yellow and green leaves hinting at autumn’s arrival. The background is softly blurred in muted greens and grays, enhancing the depth and texture of the scene. The interplay of light and shadow among the branches evokes a quiet, immersive woodland atmosphere.

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James Godfrey @jamesgodfrey.bsky.social · 2d

All public transport is free in Luxembourg even though their government is conservative!
luxembourg.public.lu/en/living/mo...

Public transport

Public transport is a fast, clean and free way of getting about in Luxembourg. With a network that constantly adapts to the needs of travellers, this mode of transport is increasingly popular with res...

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crglddl @crglddl.bsky.social · 1d

The return of the Tumshie
Mwa-ha-ha!🙀

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 3d

Reject modernity, embrace tradition

Cartoon of two pumpkins screaming in terror beside the traditional Irish Samhain carved turnip

#Art #Samhain #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 2d

This is from a biography of Makhno called “No Harmless Power” by Charlie Allison btw. Really enjoying it so far, and it’s got some great illustrations too.

sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 5d

Nestor Makhno, femboy anarchist.

Nestor's education began at around age eight. During winters he went to the local school, where he excelled at math and reading. It was at school that Nestor first was exposed to the theater. He had a gift for the dramatic. Later, he joined the actors' troupe and was apparently quite fond of performing-indeed the anarchist group, the Poor Peasants Union of Huliaipole would also put on productions in the town later in Nestor's life.
Nestor would sometimes play the roles of female characters, complete with dressing in their clothes and makeup.
He would reprise this trick many years down the road during the Russian Civil War, in a military context, to conduct reconnaissance. That old woman cracking sunflower seeds by the Mennonite self-defense force mustering in the town square?
Nestor Makhno in disguise!
The young woman out for a stroll with a bright shawl over her shoul-ders, surveying Red Army supply lines or artillery positions outside of a Ukrainian town?
Also Nestor Makhno!

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 2d

Not least of all on the cover art.

A copy of “No Harmless Power” with the cover art portraying Nestor Makhno kneeling among some sunflowers.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 2d

An inconvenient truth. @turnbulldugarte.com and @emiliabelknap.bsky.social puncture a pervasive myth. ‬ "Among young respondents aged 18-25, a very comfortable majority of women reject Reform UK (75%), and a similarly large majority of men in the same age group share the same view (71%)."

Most British young men reject the far right - UK in a changing Europe

Emilia Belknap and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte explain their analysis on the demographics of Reform UK voters in the UK. They argue that while the dominant narrative is that young men are the most likely ...

ukandeu.ac.uk

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 2d

Green councillors in Glasgow have secured a pilot scheme for free public transport! 🙌

In 2022 we delivered free bus travel for under 22s. It's reduced climate emissions and congestion, and increased mobility and the money in people's pockets.

Free public transport pilot scheme announced for major Scottish city

A FREE public transport trial is to take place in a major Scottish city early next year

www.thenational.scot

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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 2d

My most recent Peter Watkins viewing and it is my favourite so far. It is lengthy but never anything less than fully immersive. One of the greats of British and world cinema… ❤️❤️❤️
We will not see his like again.

boxd.it/azV90N

A ★★★★★ review of La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)

Peter Watkins employs a formal, docudrama style that, at first glance, can appear stiff and awkward. However, and particularly with La Commune, Watkins is aggressively experimental and improvisational...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Why far from being a disadvantage, hostility to people from different races and cultures has now become an active requirement for career advancement on the right of British politics

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-racism...

The Racism Premium

Far from being a disadvantage, hostility to people from different races and cultures has now become an active requirement for career advancement on the right of British politics

www.adambienkov.co.uk

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 1d

So pleased to get my book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War". @HurstPublishers publishers have done a wonderful job in producing it.
Advanced copies available thru
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/travels... with 25% off with code TRAVELS25. Otherwise 20 November in UK/Europe and 5 Jan for US, etc

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Chris 🏳️‍🌈 🔜 PAX Unplugged @gawkinggeek.bsky.social · 2d

it fucken wimdy

An orange fox stands amidst the howling winds of a snowy landscape with a very disappointed look on its face.

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Solid Evidence @solidevidence.bsky.social · 2d

Can you take a quarter cup of composite sewage, simply ask ‘what’s in there?’, and find out all of the pathogens circulating in that community?

That is the question we asked in our latest pre-print.

Turns out you can.
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www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Untargeted longitudinal ultra deep metagenomic sequencing of wastewater provides a comprehensive readout of expected and unexpected viral pathogens

Wastewater surveillance has become a powerful tool to monitor circulating viruses at a community level. Currently, most wastewater surveillance efforts use target-based approaches such as quantitative...

www.medrxiv.org

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enrich12 @enrich12.bsky.social · 2d

trickle down economics

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...

Sudanese survivors of el-Fasher siege tell the BBC about RSF brutality | BBC News

YouTube video by BBC News

www.youtube.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2d

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

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crglddl @crglddl.bsky.social · 1d

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Solidarity Collectives Ukraine @solcolua.bsky.social · 11d

The fundraising campaign continues – help is still needed!

Our humanitarian department's coordinator has made a video asking for support ❤️

On 1 November, we are setting off on a humanitarian aid trip.

💶 PayPal to support: [email protected]

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crglddl @crglddl.bsky.social · 1d

There is direct fear of the outsider being a threat as the vector of novel pathogens, but also as the source of 'cultural infections' which will weaken indigenous society.

Paradoxically 'culture', the quintessential arena of human innovation can be defended, as 'tradition', from change.

crglddl @crglddl.bsky.social · 1d

Anti-immigration politics often models incomers as a cultural virus which infects & weakens the indigenous society.

Virology is now allowing us to see the biological depth of the impact of viruses within our DNA & the adaptations at the basis of evolutionary development.

crglddl @crglddl.bsky.social · 1d

This is a fascinating exposition of the role of viruses in all life forms. As with bacteria we need to recognise their positive role in the history & function of every living being, bacterial or human.

Infection is a metaphor often employed in politics & culture...👇🏼

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Radio 4 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds

Listen live to Radio 4 on BBC Sounds

www.bbc.co.uk

crglddl @crglddl.bsky.social · 2d

I'll assume you're not being deliberately disingenuous & go to bed simply baffled by that response.

crglddl @crglddl.bsky.social · 2d

"...call this what it is"

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 3d

This is all that remains of now occupied Toretsk. Not a living soul. Just dead ruins. Russia destroys everything.