jacobbolton.bsky.social
geography PhD at LSE ~ climate adaptation, shipping, the arctic ~ liquidtime.substack.com
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tbf maybe the military thinktank guys will be more responsive to "J. Bolton"
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i joined recently, its deranged, has it always been like this?
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the blanket is there because you whack it with a stick whilst singing this song, then lift the blanket to reveal, of all things, presents
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also catalonia, where my friend told me people talk about their shit like people in the UK talk about weather, and where instead of santa they have caga tío (uncle shit), the log who poops presents
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thinking about this bit of the dispossessed
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‘For a change, instead of lubricating your chopping board and whacking the garlic from a distance with an oar, why not try 1/4tsp of Saxa™️ and a knife’
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also @elaraks.bsky.social whose life is cursed by slippery garlic never even occurred to me that could be a problem
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me, a british salt quantity surveyor, in any situation:
whewwww yup this is gonna a 1/4 tsp job
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the uk mind cannot comprehend not boiling vegetables
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it might seem cool and hydrating but think of the ever-dashing pocaris from whom they harvest the sweat. not so refreshing now
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how is a horse $800k, my net worth could never
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lol he bought an $800k horse for the president’s mate’s daughter. my horse my horse my kingdom etc
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remember when the (twice) imprisoned samsung heir who got caught bribing the president was pardoned, explicitly because the country apparently needed him to step up and be a CEO
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it’s the best! my partner has a switch tho and botw is great. we just finished mario wonder
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do you go as far as elden ring
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me and @miriammthsn.bsky.social are social scientists looking into things like seafarer labour, digitalisation of shipping, and what people in remote areas think of port developments! We also run abandonedseafarermap.cargo.site
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hello, for my first article i wrote about the systemic abandonment of seafarers and what it tells us about the strange ways capitalist shipping systems have developed www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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exercise for a pol ecology course. had no idea the orange was one of the leading symbols of palestinian identity until after the intifada. I mean look at this
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made multiple people try this the past 2 weeks
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correct
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such a banger! been looking into the history of the jaffa orange for something and the bit about british mandate pushing fuel (instead of mule) powered pumps for the settler orange groves is super interesting
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who is gramsci’s waluigi
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this is great, thank you!
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if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything
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which is powered by burning massive amounts of LNG from illegal gas fields in palestinian maritime areas
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and the north pole has no time zone which is hard to get your head around. Special mention to ‘tomorrow island’ and ‘yesterday’ island, two islands that are 9.3km and 21 hours apart!
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like we all know the standard mercator greenwich-centred projection of the world map warps space, but it’s next level in the arctic – it is literally incomprehensible (or omitted)
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not pictured is the interlocking star of david keffiyeh