Artist. Filmmaker. Post Grad Researcher. Associate Lecturer. UCU Anti Casualization Rep.
Student learning conditions are staff working conditions.
I'd just like to remind Americans that France is currently on its Fifth Republic since 1789 (with three Empires—with monarchs—interleaved until 1870).
The USA appears to be in the dying days of its Second Republic (time out in 1860-65) but something better will emerge eventually, if we avoid planetary ecosystem collapse in the meantime.
This, too, shall pass.
The silence of the world is more frightening than the sound of the bombs.
Reposted from Mazen Kerbaj on insta.
The Government of Japan has made an ad about its prosecution of Captain Paul Watson, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 🇯🇵🐋
"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."
-- William Gibson, Count Zero - The favorite author of the exact people he was writing about.
Microbial rare earth and other metal recycling. Love it. This feels like a Solarpunk future to me:
Cults are weird.
Capitalism is a cult.
It does things like felling thousands of carbon storing and oxygen creating lifeforms to…
create emissions by building a factory that makes cars that are supposed to ‘cut emissions’ but will be scrapped in less time than it took the things it felled to grow to maturity, and telling itself this is rational
Charlie Stross
Stephen Cornford
velzie
thejuicemedia
danmcquillan
jwz
Jonathan Schofield