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Carl Pierer @cp758.bsky.social · Aug 16

Kirchberg!! Enjoy ❤️

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · Aug 14

“‘As a Jew’ – the phrase has always made me feel uneasy, though I might well have used it myself.“

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Adam Shatz · Berlin Diary

That Germany has a responsibility to remember the Holocaust is beyond question. But it’s striking how little concern...

www.lrb.co.uk

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The John Wicker Man @sprobeforebros.bsky.social · Jul 6

some frankly amazing AI slop that someone decided to try and post on the r/dataisbeautiful subreddit

an AI slop map of the united states that seems to be trying to indicate what the most popular food is in every state. it contains such gems as Alaska's favorite food being a reddish slab labeled "ALASKA", Oregon's favorite food being what looks like a steak sitting on top of a cereal bowl labeled "APPLE", California's being simultaneously a goblet full of red liquid labeled "SHRIMP COCKTAIL" and a beige slab labeled "TATO", Wyoming's being a crudely drawn bison labeled "WYMONG" and an oblong apple on Alabama labeled "CRANFISH". There is also a square to the right of Florida that just says "SALMON" for no reason.

the same image in context of a reddit post from the subreddit "r/dataisbeautiful" saying it's "the most popular food of each state from voting [OC]"

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Carl Pierer @cp758.bsky.social · Jun 2

Gratuliere!

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · May 20

We're hosting the Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought’s conference in Edinburgh in January. Plenary speakers are Alyssa Battistoni, Ross Carroll, Sean Fleming, Rahul Rao, and Johanna Thoma. Now we want your proposals! Pls RT www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/biapt-2026-i...

BIAPT 2026 in Edinburgh: call for papers - BIAPT

CALL FOR PAPERS: Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought Conference 7–9 January 2026 – University of Edinburgh Academic Convenors: Alfred Moore (York), Tom O’Shea (Edinburgh) and Signy G...

www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk

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Mattie ‘Boo 👻’ Battie @mattieboombattie.bsky.social · May 13

The petition to ban conversion therapy practices in the EU is lacking enough votes from:
- #germany (49.9%)
- #sweden (49.96%)
- #Netherlands (94%)
- #austria (25.5%)
- #Slovenia (83.14%)
- #portugal (24.46%)

If you're a citizen there you can help advance a ban on conversion therapy by voting:

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

eci.ec.europa.eu

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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · May 14

EU friends -please sign and share this! especially if you're in the countries mentioned!

Mattie ‘Boo 👻’ Battie @mattieboombattie.bsky.social · May 13

The petition to ban conversion therapy practices in the EU is lacking enough votes from:
- #germany (49.9%)
- #sweden (49.96%)
- #Netherlands (94%)
- #austria (25.5%)
- #Slovenia (83.14%)
- #portugal (24.46%)

If you're a citizen there you can help advance a ban on conversion therapy by voting:

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

eci.ec.europa.eu

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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · May 8

Had a great time launching Issue I of @the-breakdown.bsky.social last night with the exceptional @geoffmann.bsky.social and Quinn Slobodian.

Thanks to everyone who turned out, asked great questions and supported new climate writing.

Issue I here: www.break-down.org/issues/1

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · May 8

Geoff Mann and Adrienne Buller's editorial from the first print issue of @the-breakdown.bsky.social is up on our site www.break-down.org/post/the-hea...

The Heat of the Moment

In place of paralysis or bland positivity, this is the moment for an honest reckoning with where we stand, what we are up against, and where, already, resistance is underway.

www.break-down.org

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Clara Dealberto @claradealberto.bsky.social · Mar 3

👗📊✨ Bonjour, hier soir c’était les Oscars et c’est donc l’heure de mon désormais traditionnel thread

🍿 LES TENUES DES OSCARS AS GRAPHIQUES DE L'@insee.fr, version 2025 🍿

Je commence avec Mikey Madison as Une pyramide des âges proche de celle de l'ensemble de la population

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Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social · Apr 30

Applications now open for this year's postgraduate summer school in sunny Turin -- come and talk to us about slavery and serfdom in the early modern period

Call for applications Summer School THP 2025 | Fondazione 1563

Online call for applications to the Summer School Turin Humanities Programme 2025 for postgraduate students and early career researchers

www.fondazione1563.it

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Carl Pierer @cp758.bsky.social · Apr 29

Tough vote splitting between rememberance day and rememberance sunday

Carl Pierer @cp758.bsky.social · Apr 25

still one of my favourite bots on this website, hands down

Carl Pierer @cp758.bsky.social · Apr 25

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Zikun Yang @zikunyang.bsky.social · Apr 22

Extremely thrilled to share that my article "The multiple audiences dynamic of status (dis) satisfaction: examining China’s shifting response to the emerging global environmental regime, 1950–1972" is now published #openaccess in @ejir.bsky.social at doi.org/10.1177/1354...! (1/n)

The multiple audiences dynamic of status (dis)satisfaction: examining China’s shifting response to the emerging global environmental regime, 1950–1972 - Zikun Yang, 2025

How does status dissatisfaction shape a state’s behavior? Existing literature suggests that mistreatment and misconception by the great powers could elicit a st...

doi.org

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Carl Pierer @cp758.bsky.social · Apr 23

Congratulations!!!

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Carl Pierer @cp758.bsky.social · Apr 11

Congratulations!

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Carl Pierer @cp758.bsky.social · Apr 8

The end of the world is easier to imagine than the end of Tatort

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Carl Pierer @cp758.bsky.social · Apr 7

yes - I can send it to you

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Mar 31

La loi is mightier than Le Pen (for the moment, at least):

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen found guilty of embezzling EU funds

The presidential hopeful was found guilty in a case that could see her banned from standing in the 2027 election.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · Mar 18

4 years, 5 countries, 6 languages, 8 archives,thousands of pages later, bound proofs of INDIGNITY have landed on my (or, rather, Beatrice Webb’s) desk at LSE! Publishing @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social in the UK in Sept +🇦🇱🇺🇸🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇸🇸🇪🇳🇴🇩🇰🇳🇱🇮🇹🇸🇮🇧🇷 + more. So excited (and terrified) to share with you all ❤️🧿!

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Carl Pierer @cp758.bsky.social · Mar 26

From Siobhan Angus "Chemical Necromancy: Plantations and Petrochemical Refining in Cancer Alley"

(tinyurl.com/ez7wcb73)

A Monsanto Ad from 1939 with the title "It's Plastics Picking Time down South". The painted picture shows an African American Woman and Man carrying bags and baskets, as well as three children in the foreground playing on top of what looks like cotton. Several more workers labour in the background. The caption reads "FRONTIS. Monsanton "It's Plastics Picking Time Down South", Fortune Magazine, September 1939, 13."

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Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · Mar 25

This is happening today. If you are in London and want to learn about commoning in the energy sector, join us at Pelican House.

Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · Mar 20

Next Tuesday we have an event at Pelican House featuring Joelson Ferreira de Oliveira & Melka Barros from Teia dos Povos (People's Network), a Brazilian articulation of self-managed communities and territories.
Free & open to the public.
Register here
👇
tinyurl.com/mh4xvnuw

Energy Commons: Indigenous Knowledge for Post-Capitalist Transitions

Organized by the Centre for Commons Organising, Values, Equalities, and Resilience (COVER) with Teia dos Povos

tinyurl.com

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