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Italo-Tired. Feeding anticapitalism to the AI bot. I love things that rest and grow underground. Sardinian archaeology and heritage, and some mushrooms ENG|NL|IT
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touching grass is no longer enough, I need to see the wealthiest man in the world's empire of fraud reduced to ruin

International Law & the Question of Palestine: A Reading List A great resource covering 23 topics on IL and Palestine, historical and contemporary👇 twailr.com/internationa...

Ik begrijp er is iets gebeurd in een park?

Hey ehm crazy question, but what is up with uni's in the UK, Canada, the Netherlands (and prob other places not in my tl) cutting hundreds and hundreds of jobs?

Ik die non stop naar italiaanse verzetsliederen luistert Mijn brein wanneer de dopjes uitgaan: BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM, I WANT YOU IN MY ROOM, LETS SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER, FROM NOW UNTIL FOREVER

When Essex planned to close a third of its libraries, thousands of residents refused to let it happen. Protests, petitions and persistence forced the council to about-turn – now, every library remains open, some with imaginative refurbs. @jennyrhodes42.bsky.social reports

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

Seriously fuck BP - this is literally waging a war on life www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Refuse Damn it!" Anti-militarist graffiti seen on a wall outside Kiriya military base in Tel Aviv / Jaffa

Good thing there isn't any historical precedent for a government opening camps and creating a violent paramilitary group and what comes next, right?

Bij wie moet ik wezen die dit wel pleit?

i think the takeaway here is that there is nothing special about Zionism. it is just another genocidal far-right ethnonationalist movement whose backstory includes being the victims of another one.

Interesting to see that everyone's hunch about a trade off between an execution of genocide in Gaza for one in the West Bank was pretty correct

Happy 10th birthday to the Ea-Nasir complaint tablet meme! A glorious decade of memes, mashups, merchandise, erotic fanfic, real-life copper fraud, and pilgrimages to the British Museum. Thread 🧵:

Hein de Haas: “Als kiezers vaak genoeg in talkshows horen dat asielmigratie het grootste probleem is, wordt het vanzelf een beleefde realiteit.”

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In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

In de derde plaats bevorderen algoritmen sociale ongelijkheid. Mensen aan de ‘onderkant’ van de samenleving, die afhankelijk zijn van de instanties, worden streng gecontroleerd, terwijl de ‘bovenlaag’ van rijke mensen niet wordt gecontroleerd.

Neo-Nazi group plots rebuild as Trump’s FBI chief takes helm, audio reveals

'Multiple Dutch universities have announced reorganisations that are likely to involve layoffs, in the wake of drastic government budget cuts that will amount to about €500 million (£414 million) a year across higher education and research.' 1/2

The more the genocide continues, the less I am convinced German support for Israel is derived from a supposed sense of guilt from the Holocaust. It just looks like manufactured consent for their weapons trade mixed with racism.

trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

the rise of the fascist nerds was anticipated by Ellen Ullman's 1995 essay "Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life."

First they kwam voor de communisten, en ik zei niets, want ik vond de poster lelijk.

ik vind het wel humor dat het schimmelpenninck gelukt is het discours om te buigen naar posterdesign terwijl het in principe om zijn eigen militante luiheid en onwetendheid draaide

Maybe, but on the other hand I have never heard Pope Benedict XVI be called anything other than Papa Ratzinger so I have good hope for Papa Pizzaballa

Voices of anarchist women: links to rare articles by Louise Michel, Lizzie (Swank) Holmes, Lucy Parsons, Emma Goldman, Marie Louise Berneri, and lesser known but nonetheless important writers

Nominatief determinisme strikes again

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

Call for abstracts: I’m putting together an edited book on archaeology and horror. Details below. Contact me for full CFP or to discuss potential submissions. 🏺👻🧟🏛️

Happy birthday, Nina! 🥳 Die als Nina Simone bekannte US-amerikanische Musikerin und Bürgerrechtsaktivistin wurde heute vor 92 Jahren in Tryon, North Carolina geboren.

My favorite posts are: "just look at this weird little guy"

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At what point can we officially declare Russia the winner of the Cold War?

good morning! www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/20...

We launched the Society for the Study of the Past yesterday at our Palestine event - a response to the fact that our disciplinary associations have failed us. It’s already looking like the only club I want to be in… More coming soon, but for now check it out here: societyforthestudyofthepast.com