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Jamie Richards @jrichards.bsky.social · Feb 8

Maybe—just for kicks?—could be a good moment to re/read Michela Murgia's How to Be a Fascist (Istruzioni per diventare fascisti).
(RIP Michela Murgia, tr. @alexvalente.fyi, review in @wwborders.bsky.social)
wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

These days, there could be fierce competition over who could write the book on “how to be a fascist”—if we could agree on what a fascist is. Michela Murgia’s lapidary definition, depicted in a Forrest...

wordswithoutborders.org

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 9h

learned this fun fact in a first year applied botany course, which replaced my prev fun fact that sweet potatoes and yams are genetically opposite (dicot and monocot, respectively). often mislabeled in groceries/menus but the latter (my plant ag prof thought) only from afro/caribbean grocers

mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 10h

brassica oleracea and its descendants was always going to be one of my trivia questions if I ever had to write one!

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 1d

2. Remove caps and language and education exclusions that deny status to workers and their families
3. Renew all expired and expiring permits
4. Allow spouses and partners to have open work permits

mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 1d

this petition is just 82 signatures away from their goal. it calls on the Canadian Government to:
1. Create a comprehensive permanent residency program for all migrant agricultural, fishery, and food workers

Send an email now: Permanent residency for farm workers!

Immigration cuts deny the people who feed Canada rights & protections. End 60 years of injustice, take action with us.

migrantworkersalliance.org

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 2d

ooooh my god chronixx new album ive been anticipating for years is here

mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 2d

as a former (recovering) brunch server, i stand by Matheson’s sentiments and would add @shawnmicallef.bsky.social arguments in The Trouble with Brunch!

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 2d

the energy patrons bring to brunch is really unsettling. simultaneously ready to indulge, but really cheap; willing to wait in long lineups but impatient by the time they’ve been seated, before you’ve had a chance to please them. orders are complicated by mods, cooks are frustrated. i could go on

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 2d

my bestie is telling me that Matty Matheson is dishing on brunch.
“People that go to brunch are like white walkers and you can’t stop those mutherfuckers…brunch is like a year round pumpkin spice latte…brunch is a fake culture”
he is correct !!!

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 3d

Can’t trust anyone anymore (pedestrians who don’t press the button at a crosswalk)

mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t trust verified people on Twitter who write paragraph long tweets. It’s just not right.

mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 3d

relatedly/unrelatedly, I also went to a talk by Elizabeth Povinelli, whose thoughts on inheritance and differential materialisms intrigued me. both Povinelli and McNally share heavy influence from Sylvia Wynter

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 3d

the launch for David McNally‘s new book Slavery and Capitalism, was totally packed here in Toronto, felt like a room filled with his biggest fans and interlocutors.

Red white and black book cover that reads:

DAVID MCNALLY
SLAVERY AND CAPITALISM
A NEW MARXIST
HISTORY

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 3d

I was only vaguely familiar with his work, but after hearing excerpts share tonight, along with Pablo Idahosa’s appraisal of his contribution, I’m hooked!

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 3d

the launch for David McNally‘s new book Slavery and Capitalism, was totally packed here in Toronto, felt like a room filled with his biggest fans and interlocutors.

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 3d

Now it's a day later and the APTN and CBC Indigenous news sites still have no story about, or even mention in another story of Israel abducting, in international waters, a First Nations person who has Canadian citizenship.

canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 5d

Mskwaasin Agnew (Dene/Cree, Salt River First Nation) was among the humanitarians on board Conscience that was illegally boarded by Israel in international waters.
We are asking everyone to contact the Canadian Government (email addresses & phone numbers on the poster)
#EyesOnGaza #EndGazaBlockade

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 4d

AI this/AI that slop on the radio everyday

the use of “we” and “everyone” is egregious

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4d

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 4d

i know facebook is absolutely garbage app but it has very specific uses for me still. One of the most annoying features as of late, when you open it third-party audio apps (books radio etc.) continue playing, but as soon as you close fb app, the audio is cut

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 5d

after reading Hngerstone, I requested Carmilla from my library on audio. I’ve delayed borrowing it for so long, purely because the cover art terrifies me. Realized today, how short of a book it is and that I could probably manage but still!

screenshot of audio book Carmilla, a vampyre tale, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Image art is a terrifying close-up of a woman’s face with bright red lips and black hair covering her face.

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 6d

Rima Hassan is a Palestinian with French citizenship born in a a refugee camp in Syria, as well as a Member of the European Parliament for France. She reports, “I was beaten by two [Israeli] police officers when they put me in the van,” after the flotilla was intercepted.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 6d

Among the 161 arriving in Athens, MEP Rima Hassan reports that she was 'beaten' by Israeli police officers.

Israel deports Greta Thunberg and other Gaza flotilla activists

Among the 161 arriving in Athens, MEP Rima Hassan reports that she was 'beaten' by Israeli police officers.

bit.ly

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 6d

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 7d

The Venn diagram of urban density and average household GHG emissions is pretty much a circle. Interesting study on “Mapping household GHG emissions in the Greater Golden Horseshoe” from the University of Toronto School of Cities schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/mapping-hous...

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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 7d

But it does mean that to be trans is to have a visceral understanding of what it means for something to be ‘up for debate’. So, it can teach you something about the stakes of argument.”

mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social · 7d

Andrea Long Chu interview for her recent book of essays: “To be trans, right now, is to be living in a situation where consensus has not been reached about you. That can be difficult and painful; it can also be, I think, energising and interesting, depending on context.”

Andrea Long Chu: ‘Being trans can teach you about the stakes of argument’

The Pulitzer-winning critic speaks to Eli Cugini to mark the UK publication of her latest essay collection, Authority: Essays on Being Right

www.dazeddigital.com

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