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Oscar Talbot
@talboto.bsky.social
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PhD at Uni of Amsterdam Abolition Ecology and all things to do with power, ecology, and climate collapse
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 14h
But when you realize that most violence is not by strangers (hence police violence being large %), you see why it's vital for cops to obscure it: no one believes more $$ for punishment bureaucracy is a solution to the reasons people **in some kind of relationship with each other** hurt each other.
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Levi @levi98k.bsky.social · 13h
"Terwijl de man richting de uitgang liep, riep hij nog "Timmermans hoerenkind"."

Geen woord over de Hitlergroet.
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NU.nl @nu.nl · 13h
Frans Timmermans uitgescholden tijdens interview in Amsterdam vlak voor debat #politiek
Frans Timmermans uitgescholden tijdens interview in Amsterdam vlak voor debat
Frans Timmermans is zondag uitgescholden op het terras van een caf in Amsterdam. De voorman van GroenLinksPvdA werd op dat moment genterviewd door emRTL Nieuwsem voorafgaand aan het verkiezingsdebat dat later op de avond plaatsvindt.
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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 13h
We strijden tegen fascisme en voor een toekomst voor iedereen
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Jacobin Nederland @jacobinnl.bsky.social · 19h
Nederland wordt van oudsher gezien als een land met een relatief liberaal strafrechtelijk systeem en een reputatie voor evidence-based benaderingen in plaats van enkel vergelding door opsluiting.

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Voorbij de tralies: abolitionisme als antwoord op fascisme | Jacobin
Veel mensen denken dat de gevangenis een oplossing is voor sociale schade. In werkelijkheid zou juist de afschaffing van het gevangeniswezen leiden tot een rechtvaardige samenleving, waarin sociale ri...
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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 21h
We zullen de beperken van staatsantifascisme zien vandaag
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AT5 @at5.nl · 21h
Liveblog: meerdere demonstraties en veiligheidsrisicogebieden in de stad
Liveblog: meerdere demonstraties en veiligheidsrisicogebieden in de stad
Op drie plekken in de stad zijn zondag demonstraties aangekondigd, burgemeester Halsema heeft daarom het Museumplein en delen van het centrum als veiligheidsrisicogebied benoemd. Naast het antiimmigratieprotest op en rondom het Museumplein, is op het Jonas Danieumll Meijerplein een tegendemonstratie met als boodschap fascisten niet welkom in Amsterdam. Bij de Schreierstoren in het centrum verzamelt zich deze middag de antioverheidsgroep Defend voor een demo. Volg in dit liveblog alle ontwikkelingen:nbsp
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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 1d
Day two of the conference is underway with great panels on transformative futures and on critical aesthetics 🤩
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 5d
Imagine this happening in the UK and not having to sigh 'what do their parents do?' every time you hear about a new band. Wouldn't it be great to hear music from somebody who isn't directly related to the Lord Admiral Wythenshawe Bloodfeast MP, the Butcher of Bangalore?
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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 7d
the right to peaceful protest (even when you don’t like the cause or the protestors or how often they do it) is not a gap in the law, it’s called living in a free democratic state.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 7d
Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.
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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 8d
The ICE agents claiming workers comp for whatever weird cancer these chemical weapons cause in 10 years is going to drive me insane
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 8d
ICE gassed members of the Chicago Police Department sent to protect them from protesters
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 8d
Continued video of feds gassing protestors and CPD alike. In the chaos one woman came to a CPD officer asking for help for a relative that she says feds just grabbed.

Officer response: "We just clocked in. We don't know what's going on."
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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 10d
I once went to a Purim celebration where we read Critiques of Violence aloud and discussed it for about hours. I think we managed something like 4 pages
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 10d
This is both the most encouraging and most terrifying response anyone could possibly receive about the prospect of trying to summarise Walter Benjamin's Critique of Violence for a general audience in a single podcast episode. But I am both an ambitious and insane individual.
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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 10d
Sounds great. It’s a tricky text but I look forward to hearing how you tackle it
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 10d
This is both the most encouraging and most terrifying response anyone could possibly receive about the prospect of trying to summarise Walter Benjamin's Critique of Violence for a general audience in a single podcast episode. But I am both an ambitious and insane individual.
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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 10d
Sounds great. It’s a tricky text but I look forward to hearing how you tackle it
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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 10d
Congratulations on this exciting accolade
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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 10d
Sounds great. It’s a tricky text but I look forward to hearing how you tackle it
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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 10d
Wat fijn!! Gefeliciteerd
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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 10d
Have you considered that maybe the cartoon robot has male chromosomes??
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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 10d
This looks great! If you ever want to talk about abolition (and climate justice) or Walter Benjamin's Critique of Violence let me know
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Truthout @truthout.org · 11d
Italy’s largest union has announced another general strike on October 3rd in response to the treatment of the Global Sumud flotilla which has put out a statement confirming the “vessels are being illegally intercepted”.
We Said “We Will Block Everything” and We Did: Inside Italy’s Strike for Gaza
Following a 24-hour general strike on September 22, the country is now gearing up for a national protest on October 4.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 11d
Alma vessel has been boarded - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/alma-vessel-has-been-boarded
Alma vessel has been boarded
<article data-history-node-id="429494" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/alma-vessel-has-been-boarded" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/alma-vessel-has-been-boarded" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Alma vessel has been boarded</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli soldiers have boarded the Alma vessel, Middle East Eye can report.&nbsp;</p> <p>Alma is a the lead vessel of the Sumud Flotilla.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16d
Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.
Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died
Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 19d
the latest Sumud vessels from @freedomflotilla.bsky.social has been attacked for the tenth time on its current mission including using chemical irritants and flares
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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 19d
VVD:
Een keffiyeh = antisemitisme.
Een 🍉 = antisemitisme.
‘From the river to the sea’ = antisemitisme.
‘Free Palestine’ = antisemitisme.

Een Hitlergroet?
Ook VVD: ‘Laten we niet te snel iedereen een neonazi noemen.’
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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 20d
Just like Isaak asimov promised us
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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 20d
“This isn’t the metaverse of science fiction—it’s a way of getting around the fact you, an adult, live in a small room in an expensive flatshare without the space or money for a large television.”
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gabriel burrow @gabrielburrow.bsky.social · 20d
As Mark Zuckerberg continues to humiliate himself trying to capture the AR and VR space, I figured it was worth taking the pulse of the "metaverse".

tl;dr: It’s sub-par escapism for people experiencing a sub-par way of living—cyberpunk with the knobs turned down.

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Metaverse or Torment Nexus?
There’s a common joke within science fiction circles derived from a Tweet by author Alex Blechman (2021). It reads, “Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale. Tec…
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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 21d
Misschien we kunnen een survey met deze vragen bij de VVD congres
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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 21d
It might help if he came out and said something really normal. Perhaps that he ‘always sits in front of a union Jack’ or that he is a ‘supporter of flags’. I think it would really resonate
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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 22d
An underemphasised aspect of this is that you also had to disconnect your phone taking you out contact and setting a time limit
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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 23d
Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.
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erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?