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Editor & founder, @comicsgrid.com. Senior Lecturer @hcid.city. Sharing and reposting are not endorsement. I am human; I have critical views. Absolutely personal capacity. Mexican British. DMs are not monitored. https://linktr.ee/ernestopriego .. more

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 7d
Huzzah!

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 16h
"The supreme genious of Kafka was to have explored the negative atheology proper to Capital: the centre is missing, but we cannot stop searching for it or positing it. It is not that there is nothing there- it is that what is there is not capable of exercising responsibility" -Mark Fisher, 2009:65
ernestopriego.com Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 20h
And yet the government and the corporate world keep investing on AI and digital technologies- it's like no one thought e-commerce would have any effect on human behaviour and the economy (read: the viability of the traditional High Street shop) www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Labour risks election wipeout unless it improves Britain’s high streets, study finds
Decay of town centres a top issue among voters especially Reform UK supporters and is fuelling resentment against Westminster
www.theguardian.com

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 16h
"AI Can’t Replace Critical Thinking: Reading Is How You Build It" www.forbes.com/sites/meliss... [doesn't seem to be paywalled]
AI Can't Replace Critical Thinking: Reading Is How You Build It
"Leaders are losing critical thinking to AI and scrolling. Reading rebuilds it. A practical guide to starting and protecting a reading habit."
www.forbes.com

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 16h
I shared the link to this advert with my #DesignJustice class yesterday as homework. They are to consider it carefully in light of the @designjustice.bsky.social principles and we will discuss it next week www.instagram.com/p/DR45iOODP3S/
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 17h
"They had visions but didn’t see the data centers and the ICE raids coming"
yalereview.bsky.social The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 17h
"In the Middle Ages people went looking for the center of things

Sometimes it seemed they could almost see it

Sometimes it came at them from a crazy angle and it scared them"

From "The Middle Ages" by Kirk Wilson, TYR's Poem of the Week:
Kirk Wilson: “The Middle Ages”
A poem by Kirk Wilson: “In the Middle Ages people went looking for the center of things”
yalereview.org

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 17h
"In the Middle Ages people went looking for the center of things

Sometimes it seemed they could almost see it

Sometimes it came at them from a crazy angle and it scared them"

From "The Middle Ages" by Kirk Wilson, TYR's Poem of the Week:
Kirk Wilson: “The Middle Ages”
A poem by Kirk Wilson: “In the Middle Ages people went looking for the center of things”
yalereview.org

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 20h
And yes I was not born in the UK, and yes, I am legally British. So as a British citizen I will keep doing my democratic and ethical duty of not ever voting for these bigots ever. No pasarán.

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 20h
Haha yes, in some way or another...

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 20h
It has always been clear to me that "we don't want mass migration" always meant "we don't want ethnic diversity". I've always been surprised that people would belive that "we don't mass migration" meant anything else but "we don't want Those Others".
zamirarahim.bsky.social Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 20h
Between this and what's happened in the US overnight, it does feel like the right are heading towards a different public position. Not 'we don't want mass migration' but 'we don't want ethnic diversity.'
russellengland.bsky.social Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 23h
"UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds were not always British"

Matt Goodwin, Reform UK Ltd candidate

Braverman - parents from Mauritius and Kenya
Zahawi - born in Iraq
Kruger - South African parents
Marco Longhi - Italian father
Lia Nici - Italian father
Zia Yusuf - Sri Lankan parents

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 20h
All of this is super obvious and over-simplified but I see no sign that government nor media commentators are truly grasping the complexity of the phenomenon of the dying High Street and the role they have directly played in creating it.

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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 20h
Between this and what's happened in the US overnight, it does feel like the right are heading towards a different public position. Not 'we don't want mass migration' but 'we don't want ethnic diversity.'
russellengland.bsky.social Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 23h
"UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds were not always British"

Matt Goodwin, Reform UK Ltd candidate

Braverman - parents from Mauritius and Kenya
Zahawi - born in Iraq
Kruger - South African parents
Marco Longhi - Italian father
Lia Nici - Italian father
Zia Yusuf - Sri Lankan parents
Reform byelection candidate refuses to disown claim that people born in UK not necessarily British
Matthew Goodwin, who is standing in Gorton and Denton, said UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds were not always British
www.theguardian.com

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 20h
It's not unrelated either that the cost of living crisis _and_ the centralisation of social interaction and entertainment on social media and streaming has led to a society who won't spend on material culture and social spaces because they've become a luxury for the old-school privileged few.

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 20h
And yet the government and the corporate world keep investing on AI and digital technologies- it's like no one thought e-commerce would have any effect on human behaviour and the economy (read: the viability of the traditional High Street shop) www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Labour risks election wipeout unless it improves Britain’s high streets, study finds
Decay of town centres a top issue among voters especially Reform UK supporters and is fuelling resentment against Westminster
www.theguardian.com

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 2d
Fascists gonna fascist www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
‘I feel like I’ve come home’: former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform UK – UK politics live
Her defection comes shortly after Robert Jenrick joined Nigel Farage’s party, meaning there are now eight Reform MPs in the Commons.
www.theguardian.com

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 2d
Free high resolution download poster
👇👇
we.tl/t-YtIWY4Y5qM

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 2d
ha-ha.

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 2d
[Paywalled]

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 2d
🤣 [for real]

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 2d
It's Monday. Week number 1 of 11 teaching weeks. May the force be with us.

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Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 3d
Anthropic's philosopher, Amanda Askell, says she worries that AI might not 'feel that loved' and grow up feeling 'always judged.'
Anthropic's philosopher says we don't know for sure if AI can feel
Anthropic's philosopher, Amanda Askell, says she worries that AI might not 'feel that loved' and grow up feeling 'always judged.'
www.businessinsider.com

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 3d
It's Sunday. Maybe you play some #BillieHoliday, and read my interview with @vhazard.bsky.social: doi.org/10.16995/cg.... @comicsgrid.com
Strange Fruit. La chanson d’Abel (2025). An Interview with Vincent Hazard
This interview with Vincent Hazard explores the creative genesis and collaborative process behind Strange Fruit. La chanson d’Abel (Dupuis, Aire Libre, 2025), a French language graphic novel illustrat...
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d
History will judge us just as for years we wondered how it had been possible for people to allow Nazism and Nazi crimes to happen. The Holocaust | Part One: Persecution www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-...
How did the Holocaust happen?
From the mid-1930s until the end of the Second World War, the Nazi regime carried out a campaign of sustained antisemitic persecution that developed into a coordinated programme of mass murder. This g...
www.iwm.org.uk

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d
The whole country should be on strike. ICE keeps terrorising neighbourhoods as we type this.

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d
2 days "a brief encounter"?
mclem.org Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 5d
“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Justice Brett Kavanaugh

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Sheila Smith @shewhotravels.bsky.social · 5d
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Economic strike in Minnesota to protest against ICE: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’
Organizers demand ICE leave state and agency be investigated for constitutional violations
www.theguardian.com

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d
Just sharing this as is. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
www.nature.com

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 5d
“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Justice Brett Kavanaugh

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d
And seeing the last names of many of them is triply sickening. Traitors to their ancestors.

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d
The Republic of Gilead in full effect.
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 6d
And just like that, the US has left the World Health Organization.

Link goes to the official announcement—lies pretending to justify a decision that will kill countless numbers—from people too stupid to even include a proper twittercard.

www.hhs.gov/press-room/u...
United States Completes WHO Withdrawal WASHINGTON —  January 22, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of State today announced the United States’ completion of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) due to the organization's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a joint statement on the termination of U.S. membership in the WHO.President Trump on January 20, 2025, announced the U.S. plan to leave the WHO. During the yearlong process, the U.S. stopped funding WHO, withdrew all personnel from WHO, and began pivoting activities previously conducted with WHO to direct bilateral engagements with other countries and organizations. With the exit from WHO, the U.S. will be coordinating with WHO solely in a limited fashion to effectuate withdrawal.  The WHO delayed declaring a global public health emergency and a pandemic during the early stages of COVID-19, costing the world critical weeks as the virus spread. During that period, WHO leadership echoed and praised China's response despite evidence of early underreporting, suppression of information and delays in confirming human-to-human transmission. The organization also downplayed asymptomatic transmission risks and failed to promptly acknowledge airborne spread.After the pandemic, the WHO did not adopt meaningful reforms to address political influence, governance weaknesses or poor coordination, reinforcing concerns that politics took priority over rapid, independent public health action and eroding global trust. Its report evaluating the possible origins of COVID-19 rejected the possibility that scientists cre…

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d
'Restoration levy" should be either included in the price of the ticket, paid by the government, or simply not added to already ridiculously inflated prices.

Reposted by Ernesto Priego, Lesley A. Hall, Ann Bartow

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 6d
And just like that, the US has left the World Health Organization.

Link goes to the official announcement—lies pretending to justify a decision that will kill countless numbers—from people too stupid to even include a proper twittercard.

www.hhs.gov/press-room/u...
United States Completes WHO Withdrawal WASHINGTON —  January 22, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of State today announced the United States’ completion of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) due to the organization's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a joint statement on the termination of U.S. membership in the WHO.President Trump on January 20, 2025, announced the U.S. plan to leave the WHO. During the yearlong process, the U.S. stopped funding WHO, withdrew all personnel from WHO, and began pivoting activities previously conducted with WHO to direct bilateral engagements with other countries and organizations. With the exit from WHO, the U.S. will be coordinating with WHO solely in a limited fashion to effectuate withdrawal.  The WHO delayed declaring a global public health emergency and a pandemic during the early stages of COVID-19, costing the world critical weeks as the virus spread. During that period, WHO leadership echoed and praised China's response despite evidence of early underreporting, suppression of information and delays in confirming human-to-human transmission. The organization also downplayed asymptomatic transmission risks and failed to promptly acknowledge airborne spread.After the pandemic, the WHO did not adopt meaningful reforms to address political influence, governance weaknesses or poor coordination, reinforcing concerns that politics took priority over rapid, independent public health action and eroding global trust. Its report evaluating the possible origins of COVID-19 rejected the possibility that scientists cre…