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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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amitangshu @amitangshu.bsky.social · 2d

Francesca Albanese and Great Thunberg are remarkable allies, and incredibly courageous, but no one has endured what Palestinian people have had and will continue to go through. They need to be acknowledged as a collective. This is the least that the world can do.

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amitangshu @amitangshu.bsky.social · 2d

Only the Palestinian people deserve the #NobelPeacePrize. Enduring decades of brutal occupation, massacres & now a live streamed genocide, and yet holding on to their fortitude & kindness, they are the lodestar for humanity. No one deserves it more this year.

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 3d

"Under the Assad regime ... we lived together [in Homs] but did not see the city through one another’s eyes. Even planners don't recognize fractures in the pluralist city.

A just and inclusive reconstruction must confront the sectarian and class-based ruptures that old urban forms helped conceal."

Memory Maps of Homs, Syria

A mapping workshop with refugees from Homs, Syria, illuminates the complexity of rebuilding after war.

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Sango Mahanty @sangomahanty.bsky.social · 3d

The call for abstracts for POLLEN 2026 is open 🌟 Leigh-Rutt, Assa Doron & I have a panel on *Political Ecologies of Animal Agriculture* - details are here along with instructions for submitting abstracts. If this is in your zone, consider submitting an abstract!
nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...

P025: Political ecologies of animal agriculture: methods, storytelling, and convergences

We expect 3-5 presentations of apprx 12 mins each plus time for discussion.

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 4d

"The City and the City and the City"
by Ayham Dalal

A mapping workshop with refugees from Homs, Syria, illuminates the complexity of rebuilding after war.

Read more: placesjournal.org/article/mapping-homs-syria-rebuilding-after-war/

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4d

I had a moving, heartbreaking, powerful discussion with 2 Israelis who lost family members to Hamas on Oct. 7th, 2 years ago today, on the power of 'radical forgiveness' & on standing up to the Israeli government that abandoned their family members.

Full interview: zeteo.com/p/israel-gaz...

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amitangshu @amitangshu.bsky.social · 5d

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amitangshu @amitangshu.bsky.social · 6d

Requesting academics and scholars to amplify this. Please sign the petition.

IOB - Institute of Development Policy @iobua.bsky.social · 6d

Every signature matters. We’re at 2,775 — let’s reach 3,000 together!

✍️Sign and share now!

#SaveIOB #StandWithIOB #IOBCommunity #GlobalEducation #GlobalSolidarity

IOB - Institute of Development Policy @iobua.bsky.social · 11d

🌍 1,555 voices for IOB — but we need more! Every day counts: sign the petition and share it widely so our message to policymakers grows stronger. 💙
👉 https://chng.it/8DhtrFSBpm

#SaveIOB #StandWithIOB #IOBCommunity #GlobalEducation #GlobalSolidarity

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IOB - Institute of Development Policy @iobua.bsky.social · 6d

Every signature matters. We’re at 2,775 — let’s reach 3,000 together!

✍️Sign and share now!

#SaveIOB #StandWithIOB #IOBCommunity #GlobalEducation #GlobalSolidarity

IOB - Institute of Development Policy @iobua.bsky.social · 11d

🌍 1,555 voices for IOB — but we need more! Every day counts: sign the petition and share it widely so our message to policymakers grows stronger. 💙
👉 https://chng.it/8DhtrFSBpm

#SaveIOB #StandWithIOB #IOBCommunity #GlobalEducation #GlobalSolidarity

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amitangshu @amitangshu.bsky.social · 6d

Karachi?

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 7d

This extremely alarming assertion needs verification.

Alt text: "They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her as a warning to others." Statement: Ersin Celik @anadoluajansicom.bsky.social

Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 7d

Absolutely heinous.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 9d

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out

As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Sep 5

Such a striking cover (Lana gave me an advance copy last night 💚) — and such glowing reviews!

dorothyproject.com/book/the-aut...

Book cover: top half: bright - almost fluorescent red - with the title: "The Autobiography (in script) of H. Lan Thao Lam (in sans serif); bottom half: a photo of Lan Thao standing in the doorway to the left, and Lana at her desk to the right

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 10d

What an amazing woman, at last honoured for her work.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured

Mākereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by Māori today

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 10d

@delugecast.bsky.social @johnamcmahon.bsky.social @emilykcrandall.bsky.social
There is an established migration flow from Bangladesh to Venice. I read that passage as a nod from Stephen Markley to @amitav.bsky.social's climate novel 'Gun island', where it features a good deal in the plot.

Gun Island

Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down. A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but a...

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 10d

Photographs are often seen as transparent stand-ins for whatever they depict. A new series in Places aims to draw attention to images + other 2-D representations as visual artifacts in and of themselves.

In short, visually driven essays, authors consider a single image with a strong sense of place.

In a Picture

In these short, visually driven essays, authors consider a single image that depicts or suggests a strong sense of place.

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 11d

I'm a historian. Sewage systems have saved more lives than any medical intervention. Vaccines are second and antibiotics third.

Prior to the 1880s, the urban annual death rate was ~25%; it dropped to ~0.5% in under a generation.

Support your sewage system. Dispose of bodies responsibly.

NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 11d

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy.

Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social
I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 11d

So being against racism and fascism and standing with one’s community for self-defense is now considered a crime? Shame on UNC.

This is Dwayne Dixon. I know Dwayne and the students testifying to how great of a professor he is in the comments on Instagram are as shocked as I am.

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Decolonial Conference @decolonialconf.bsky.social · 14d

Submissions to our call for proposals are due October 3, 2025!

On April 6-7 2026, we will have the in-person conference and on April 8 it will be entirely online. Online attendees will have access to some in-person sessions, pending presenters' consent to being recorded.

#decolonialconference

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 16d

I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmer’s team that their strategy of communicating “Nigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us instead” is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day

Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social · 16d

Brutal new MRP poll out today showing Reform at 311 and Labour support collapsing.

Worth reading steaming @financialtimes.com column on Starmer by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social

“Starmer can’t afford to wait for reckless Reform to implode”

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · 17d

🎙️“This government structure never really took young people, especially the Gen Z people, as serious political or non-political actors. And they were considered, stereotypically, as an unserious generation,” say climate activist Tashi Lhazom from #Nepal

GenZ hopes for an inclusive new Nepal: State of Southasia #32

All eyes have been on Nepal since last week when a large but loosely organised protest by young people in Kathmandu turned into a revolution that brought down the government. On September 8th, many…

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · 26d

SEASON 2 ARRIVING 17 SEPTEMBER: In May, Himal and #KarwaneMohabbat released the first season of Partitions of the Heart with #HarshMander, in which we looked at the Muslim experience in #India. Revisit episode 12 with Zeyad Masroor Khan now

Zeyad Masroor Khan & Harsh Mander on riots, Muslim ghettos, boycotts and expulsions

Zeyad Masroor Khan grew up in a Muslim ghetto in Aligarh, a place he says is still “caught in time” and one he describes as still a slice of “India as it was envisioned by Nehru and Gandhi” with…

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · Sep 11

There is a struggle today over the meaning of "the porch." For the U.S. Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, Places curated a library of nearly 800 books on the topic. In the Reading List below, we’ve selected nine that are especially useful in defining what the porch means to us.

Reading List | Porch Thinking

A public reading list on Places Journal by Editors.

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · Sep 12

The List

“Citizen” (Claudia Rankine)
“Between the World and Me” (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
“Shade” (Sam Bloch)
“Home Ground” (Lopez/Gwartney)
“How to Do Nothing” (Jenny Odell)
“The Sum of Us” (Heather McGhee)
“One Place After Another” (Miwon Kwon)
“House” (Tracy Kidder)
“Triumph of Injustice” (Saez/Zucman)

Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · Sep 11

There is a struggle today over the meaning of "the porch." For the U.S. Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, Places curated a library of nearly 800 books on the topic. In the Reading List below, we’ve selected nine that are especially useful in defining what the porch means to us.

Reading List | Porch Thinking

A public reading list on Places Journal by Editors.

placesjournal.org

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