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Jacob Bolton
@jacobbolton.bsky.social
geography teacher ~ PhDing at LSE ~ climate adaptation, shipping, the arctic ~ liquidtime.substack.com
Hell yeah I love a Ceilidh

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January 23, 2026 at 1:20 PM
for your consideration
January 21, 2026 at 4:35 PM
god i love discourse
January 21, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
It's probably not about minerals. Wrote about Greenland, shipping lanes and the political work that all this arctic speculation is doing over at @the-breakdown.bsky.social www.break-down.org/after-the-th...
After the Thaw
As temperatures rise and the Arctic thaws, capital is eyeing new opportunities: for extraction, for shipping and for extending a lifeline to business as usual.
www.break-down.org
January 15, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Forgot about this one. suggestions welcome
September 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Wrote about all the wild speculation around the Arctic Ocean for @the-breakdown.bsky.social. In very good company for issue 2, go subscribe!
As temperatures rise and the Arctic thaws, capital is eyeing new opportunities: for extraction, for shipping and for extending a lifeline to business as usual.

JACOB BOLTON (@jacobbolton.bsky.social) maps the spectre of Polar shipping lanes for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.
September 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Lfg
September 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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“It’s just a joke. Yvette Cooper says she is a fan of the Suffragettes. I don’t think the Suffragettes would have thought much of her.” observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
As hundreds committed the offence of putting ink to cardb...
Nurses, doctors, retired people and architects among 466 protesters arrested as terrorism suspects
observer.co.uk
August 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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“I am planning to offer a public lecture series in New York focused on parts of this course that will be streamed and available for later viewing. Proceeds, if any, will go to Gaza’s universities, every one of which has been destroyed by Israel with US munitions, a war crime…”
August 1, 2025 at 11:36 AM
incredible reviewing from 'washerman2009'
July 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
going through old photos, think I had to go for this for work? constantly amazed and humbled at Biz Thinking
July 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Zohran Mamdani spams comet azur and cerulean hidden tear
July 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Apparently Mamdani voters are the most privileged class in history AND are bitter about having no money and living in an apartment with 3 roommates into their 30s.

Pick a damn lane.
July 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Peckham’s Aylesham Centre redevelopment, a gross project of luxury flats, getting absolutely ratioed in the planning process
July 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
groupings-wise, it looks a lot like the opening matches of the euros are just fights over who has the coolest flag variant
July 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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“The research – conducted jointly by the Palestinian Youth Movement, Progressive International and Workers for a Free Palestine – uses Israeli tax authority import data to try to uncover what the continuance of the 200 arms export licences has allowed Israel to import.”
May 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
could you guys stop attributing power to earthworms for just one minute
April 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
list of games consoles allowed in UK prisons. no infrared equipped gameboy colours lol
April 19, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Hey I heard your boyfriend enrolled in a
March 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
oneohtrix point never gonna listen to that shite again
March 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Who wants to come to the fucked up landlords conference with me (it is, amazingly, free)
March 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
extremely dumb and slapstick moment in the edda (1200s)
February 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
truly the dumbest of timelines
February 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
strongly hope that in researching greenlandic indigenous sovereignty people don't think i'm john bolton
February 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM