John BH
@johnbriggsh.bsky.social
Learning to listen. Trying to be better. Trying to escape my western perspective.
And thank you in advance for posting an academic paper that is open access.
And thank you in advance for posting an academic paper that is open access.
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John BH
@johnbriggsh.bsky.social
· Mar 18
“The invariable variability of human embodiment underwrites all human values, including that of life worthy of life.” - Joel Michael Reynolds, The Life Worth Living
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Every paragraph is a banger. I’m so happy right now. Sometimes you find a piece of writing just when you need it.
October 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Every paragraph is a banger. I’m so happy right now. Sometimes you find a piece of writing just when you need it.
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My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.
October 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.
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ah yes, the people yearn for the dersh
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
ah yes, the people yearn for the dersh
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"Another way of looking at it, the socialist way, understands that tax isn't about balancing the books. It's a tool for remaking society."
The Joy of Wealth Taxes
With the budget set to land on Wednesday, there's been a wealth of speculation and, of course, several leaks . Tax has frequently come up in...
averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"Another way of looking at it, the socialist way, understands that tax isn't about balancing the books. It's a tool for remaking society."
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🏺 Again and again - our discipline has been crucial to genocide. Pretending otherwise is complicity.
Israel, which has obliterated most of Palestine’s archeological and heritage sites, including ancient churches, mosques, and temples, has suddenly discovered an urge to protect one from Palestinian ‘neglect’. It just so happens to be in the West Bank.
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
Israel begins seizing 1,800 dunams of West Bank land to develop archaeological site
Civil Administration says development legal, taking place amid 'neglect' of site by Palestinians; Peace Now: 'Government's lust for dispossession and annexation is insatiable'
www.timesofisrael.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🏺 Again and again - our discipline has been crucial to genocide. Pretending otherwise is complicity.
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"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
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This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
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I guess the brave BBC will be sandblasting Orwell's "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" off the front of Broadcasting House?
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I guess the brave BBC will be sandblasting Orwell's "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" off the front of Broadcasting House?
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Yeah the pre-emptive nihilism people display is *very obviously* a self-fulfilling prophesy and extremely in fact part of shifting our cultural norms in exactly the direction Farage et al would prefer. Care, care simply because it matters, and it matters to you. Say as much publicly.
All the supposedly progressive people saying 'Nigel Farage's racism doesn't matter. His fans love it'.
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
November 25, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Yeah the pre-emptive nihilism people display is *very obviously* a self-fulfilling prophesy and extremely in fact part of shifting our cultural norms in exactly the direction Farage et al would prefer. Care, care simply because it matters, and it matters to you. Say as much publicly.
“This warehouse is not just a logistics company; it’s the lifeline of Israel’s war machine,” said Nadya Tannous of PYM. “Israel will use it to restock for its next assault on Gaza.”
www.dropsitenews.com/p/jersey-cit...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/jersey-cit...
A Single Warehouse in Jersey City Moved Over A Thousand Tons of Military Cargo to Israel Every Week
Three New Jersey-based logistics companies have worked for decades with Israel's Ministry of Defense, U.S. contractors, and weapons manufacturers to ship military equipment from the U.S to Israel.
www.dropsitenews.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 AM
“This warehouse is not just a logistics company; it’s the lifeline of Israel’s war machine,” said Nadya Tannous of PYM. “Israel will use it to restock for its next assault on Gaza.”
www.dropsitenews.com/p/jersey-cit...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/jersey-cit...
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Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
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A bit of a misnomer since the Israeli army has had an established occupation presence in the southern Syrian corridor since December 2024. They have put up checkpoints, rendered roads unusable, kidnapped Syrian civilians, killed Syrian civilians, and bombed countless civilian sites.
BREAKING: The Israeli army has launched an incursion into the countryside of Quneitra in southern Syria with five vehicles entering Syrian territory.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ovn8p0
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ovn8p0
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
A bit of a misnomer since the Israeli army has had an established occupation presence in the southern Syrian corridor since December 2024. They have put up checkpoints, rendered roads unusable, kidnapped Syrian civilians, killed Syrian civilians, and bombed countless civilian sites.
Totally without ideas.
Reeves is completely trapped in the “government is a household / balance the books “ mentality; further soured by a petit-bourgeois disdain for social security, foreigners, and education.
The perfect Chancellor for this government, the dregs of New Labour.
Reeves is completely trapped in the “government is a household / balance the books “ mentality; further soured by a petit-bourgeois disdain for social security, foreigners, and education.
The perfect Chancellor for this government, the dregs of New Labour.
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Totally without ideas.
Reeves is completely trapped in the “government is a household / balance the books “ mentality; further soured by a petit-bourgeois disdain for social security, foreigners, and education.
The perfect Chancellor for this government, the dregs of New Labour.
Reeves is completely trapped in the “government is a household / balance the books “ mentality; further soured by a petit-bourgeois disdain for social security, foreigners, and education.
The perfect Chancellor for this government, the dregs of New Labour.
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I've given up on pointing this out, but it is 100% true. The list of "new discoveries" about platforms that I literally filed public affidavits about in 2010 or testified on live TV about in 2012 is... really long.
We could skip a bunch of bullshit by looking at what is already public.
We could skip a bunch of bullshit by looking at what is already public.
The biggest source for any DSA investigation into addictive design features might not be platforms' risk assessments, but the more than 6 million documents that are part of the pretrial discovery process in the US www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘Massive Legal Siege’ Against Social Media Companies Looms
Thousands of plaintiffs’ complaints, millions of pages of internal documents and transcripts of countless hours of depositions are about to land in US courtrooms, threatening the future of the biggest...
www.bloomberg.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I've given up on pointing this out, but it is 100% true. The list of "new discoveries" about platforms that I literally filed public affidavits about in 2010 or testified on live TV about in 2012 is... really long.
We could skip a bunch of bullshit by looking at what is already public.
We could skip a bunch of bullshit by looking at what is already public.
Reporting that Boris Johnson “took four days off” implies, incorrectly, that he *worked* on other days, instead seeking opportunities to help himself.
November 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Reporting that Boris Johnson “took four days off” implies, incorrectly, that he *worked* on other days, instead seeking opportunities to help himself.
Given the ultra-wealthy, tech-bro, loathing of the USA, (of the rest of humanity) and overwhelming desire to live on private islands, in bunkers, or on other planets while the world burns or drowns, it is of no consequence whether the influence is foreign or not.
It’s all a sham and a foreign influence operation as we have been saying on @pivotpod.bsky.social for a while now.
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given surprising new insight into the online “America First” movement.
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Given the ultra-wealthy, tech-bro, loathing of the USA, (of the rest of humanity) and overwhelming desire to live on private islands, in bunkers, or on other planets while the world burns or drowns, it is of no consequence whether the influence is foreign or not.
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FTA: "if NHS nurses can have the courage to walk towards Covid patients in paper masks and bin bags... And if NHS doctors are willing to speak out about the dangers to patients... then a prime minister should surely be capable of more than deadly vacillation."
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
FTA: "if NHS nurses can have the courage to walk towards Covid patients in paper masks and bin bags... And if NHS doctors are willing to speak out about the dangers to patients... then a prime minister should surely be capable of more than deadly vacillation."
Once again, for those at the back:
The younger you are (the further from retirement age), the greater the loss from any reduction of the state pension.
The younger you are (the further from retirement age), the greater the loss from any reduction of the state pension.
Up to 7m extra working-age people could be denied minimum standard of living in retirement if UK state pension triple lock is ditched.
Neoliberals squeeze wages and call for real cuts to pension.
Thousands will die prematurely.
State pension must not be less than the minimum wage
archive.ph/UaHIw
Neoliberals squeeze wages and call for real cuts to pension.
Thousands will die prematurely.
State pension must not be less than the minimum wage
archive.ph/UaHIw
The total number of retirees facing poverty if state pension triple lock is cut
Figures have been released days before the Budget, in which Reeves may target tax perks given to pension savers
inews.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Once again, for those at the back:
The younger you are (the further from retirement age), the greater the loss from any reduction of the state pension.
The younger you are (the further from retirement age), the greater the loss from any reduction of the state pension.
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It astounds me that after over two years of recognized genocide, large media outlets are still publishing headlines like this. I don't know what else to say except I hope one day there is a reckoning for it.
BREAKING: At least 24 people are dead and 54 wounded after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began in October, officials say.
Israel launches strikes in Gaza ceasefire's latest test as hospitals say 20 killed
Israel's military says it has launched new airstrikes against Hamas militants in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began on October 10.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
It astounds me that after over two years of recognized genocide, large media outlets are still publishing headlines like this. I don't know what else to say except I hope one day there is a reckoning for it.
“The problem is not poverty,” he repeats ad infinitum, “but the deficit.”
Return to monetarism: extractive financialism in Argentina.
“Milei’s model shows that contemporary capitalism no longer needs to produce in order to dominate.”
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
Return to monetarism: extractive financialism in Argentina.
“Milei’s model shows that contemporary capitalism no longer needs to produce in order to dominate.”
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
The Chainsaw and the Miracle | Mercedes D’Alessandro
Argentina's midterm elections have given Milei a renewed mandate to slash the state, working in concert with the IMF and US Treasury.
www.phenomenalworld.org
November 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
“The problem is not poverty,” he repeats ad infinitum, “but the deficit.”
Return to monetarism: extractive financialism in Argentina.
“Milei’s model shows that contemporary capitalism no longer needs to produce in order to dominate.”
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
Return to monetarism: extractive financialism in Argentina.
“Milei’s model shows that contemporary capitalism no longer needs to produce in order to dominate.”
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
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No way I’m sharing Stock’s UnHerd article. But I am going to point to this bit which amply demonstrates the anti-trans=>anti-women’s rights pipeline. “Abortions should only be done for a highly restricted set of reasons. They should not be just nodded through for any reason a pregnant woman likes.”
November 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
No way I’m sharing Stock’s UnHerd article. But I am going to point to this bit which amply demonstrates the anti-trans=>anti-women’s rights pipeline. “Abortions should only be done for a highly restricted set of reasons. They should not be just nodded through for any reason a pregnant woman likes.”
Representative of the Arab states, Algeria voted in favour. But with no alternatives to discuss, and the US veto ready for anything else anyway, this was the only option : weasel words and bad-faith offers or nothing.
The question is whether voting for this “plan” merely salves consciences.
The question is whether voting for this “plan” merely salves consciences.
The US-led “Board of Peace” effectively nullifies Palestinian self-determination, reducing it to mere “aspiration.” The UNSC’s adoption of this resolution is yet another example of the sidelining of Palestinian voices and concerns.
ℹ️ https://icjpalestine.pulse.ly/ikqoycddwg
#GazaPeacePlan
ℹ️ https://icjpalestine.pulse.ly/ikqoycddwg
#GazaPeacePlan
November 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Representative of the Arab states, Algeria voted in favour. But with no alternatives to discuss, and the US veto ready for anything else anyway, this was the only option : weasel words and bad-faith offers or nothing.
The question is whether voting for this “plan” merely salves consciences.
The question is whether voting for this “plan” merely salves consciences.