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stephenshapiro.bsky.social

Edinburgh based: read my scholarly books below! I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.

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Just for the record. Musk's track record on employees that are actually unionized is like nearly 100% failure.

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stormy day in Scotland. It's a gender/generational mark that every time the wind picks up like this I think of Hemingway's "The Three Day Blow"

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The Philadelphia Eagles 🦅 have declined an invitation to the White House to celebrate their awesome victory with this shit ass piece of shit. 💩 This is really America’s team, goddamnit

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There's a '45 Togliatti speech that goes, Mussolini promised to make Italy great again, & he left it in ruins & rubble; Mussolini promised to unite Italians & he brought it into war with the nation of the greatest number of Italians overseas. and so on. echoes of Trump/Musk's Götterdämmerung

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What I'd like to see by 5 pm FDP and BSW fail to cross 5% threshold Die Linke up to 8 CDU held at 29 The nazis held at 20

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www.latimes.com/california/s...

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blogs.mediapart.fr/pascal-maill... snips from this in a thread 1/

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get your Lovecraft plush toys www.kickstarter.com/projects/c-i...

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www.dw.com/en/why-hate-... "Fascism isn't an opinion" [ie. it's not free speech, its criminal one]

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Life in Edinburgh means random bagpipes practice outside

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blogs.mediapart.fr/pascal-maill... snips from this in a thread 1/

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There's a story that Bosch told Hitler that if the nazis continued their anti-Jewish bans, then German chemistry (then world-leading) would be set back a hundred years. Hitler is supposed to have replied, I don't care.

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no pasaran www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/poliz...

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www.dw.com/en/why-hate-... "Fascism isn't an opinion" [ie. it's not free speech, its criminal one]

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This! This all day!!

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Heidelberg Germany changes street names (sadly none yet for Magnus Hirschfeld) www.heidelberg24.de/heidelberg/s... @philippgutbrod.bsky.social

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www.spiegel.de/panorama/ss-...

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www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/link...

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The new epidemic www.latimes.com/environment/...

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www.jta.org/2025/02/20/g...

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ok, first time viewer of Twin Peaks. I've gotten to s2's reveal of Bob. This is the point where the season starts to go downhill, right?

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The takeover of the USPS seems to have the reinstallation of the Comstock Act as one of its goals.

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It's a staple of the spy genre that agents who feel unfairly dismissed and discarded use their tradecraft to take revenge.

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www.dw.com/en/afro-germ...

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Musk lies, what a surprise www.dw.com/en/fact-chec...

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Engels thought only 2 younger Germans had the intelligence to carry forward #Marx's theoretical legacy: Conrad Schmidt (Käthe Kollwitz's brother) & Werner Sombart. Both rejected the VFM idea that only manual laborers produce surplus-value. Engels knew these quotes & never tried to reject them.

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Just for the record. Musk's track record on employees that are actually unionized is like nearly 100% failure.

stormy day in Scotland. It's a gender/generational mark that every time the wind picks up like this I think of Hemingway's "The Three Day Blow"

The Philadelphia Eagles 🦅 have declined an invitation to the White House to celebrate their awesome victory with this shit ass piece of shit. 💩 This is really America’s team, goddamnit

There's a '45 Togliatti speech that goes, Mussolini promised to make Italy great again, & he left it in ruins & rubble; Mussolini promised to unite Italians & he brought it into war with the nation of the greatest number of Italians overseas. and so on. echoes of Trump/Musk's Götterdämmerung

What I'd like to see by 5 pm FDP and BSW fail to cross 5% threshold Die Linke up to 8 CDU held at 29 The nazis held at 20

www.latimes.com/california/s...

blogs.mediapart.fr/pascal-maill... snips from this in a thread 1/

get your Lovecraft plush toys www.kickstarter.com/projects/c-i...

www.dw.com/en/why-hate-... "Fascism isn't an opinion" [ie. it's not free speech, its criminal one]

Life in Edinburgh means random bagpipes practice outside

blogs.mediapart.fr/pascal-maill... snips from this in a thread 1/

There's a story that Bosch told Hitler that if the nazis continued their anti-Jewish bans, then German chemistry (then world-leading) would be set back a hundred years. Hitler is supposed to have replied, I don't care.

no pasaran www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/poliz...

www.dw.com/en/why-hate-... "Fascism isn't an opinion" [ie. it's not free speech, its criminal one]

This! This all day!!

Heidelberg Germany changes street names (sadly none yet for Magnus Hirschfeld) www.heidelberg24.de/heidelberg/s... @philippgutbrod.bsky.social

www.spiegel.de/panorama/ss-...

www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/link...

The new epidemic www.latimes.com/environment/...

www.jta.org/2025/02/20/g...

ok, first time viewer of Twin Peaks. I've gotten to s2's reveal of Bob. This is the point where the season starts to go downhill, right?

The takeover of the USPS seems to have the reinstallation of the Comstock Act as one of its goals.

It's a staple of the spy genre that agents who feel unfairly dismissed and discarded use their tradecraft to take revenge.

www.dw.com/en/afro-germ...

Musk lies, what a surprise www.dw.com/en/fact-chec...

Engels thought only 2 younger Germans had the intelligence to carry forward #Marx's theoretical legacy: Conrad Schmidt (Käthe Kollwitz's brother) & Werner Sombart. Both rejected the VFM idea that only manual laborers produce surplus-value. Engels knew these quotes & never tried to reject them.

We made a starter pack for those who want to get involved in the resistance in NYC. Follow these groups/people and join us! go.bsky.app/32pne29

www.theguardian.com/education/20... The world flees from life in America

Der Spiegel: "Betrayed: Zelensky first, us next?"

sell Tesla www.zeit.de/mobilitaet/2...