Kilian
@kzaiqq.bsky.social
Futuring | Queer, technopolitical & ecosocial transitions | Life-Centred Design | Emancipatory Technology | Post-disciplinary | Irish | Prefiguring the cracks | Action research 🌱 Germination ✨ Draíocht
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🪷 May all beings be free 🪷
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Kilian
@kzaiqq.bsky.social
· Aug 15
In Vietnam, they say 'về để đi' - to return, in order, to go. Just like the Sankofa bird in the image, I'll look back to move forward. Next week, I'll be sharing lessons from some past projects that still resonate today in the hopes that they might spark some insights and further explorations.
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White Supremacy, Ableism, Misogyny, Transphobia, Homophobia, Eugenics, Colonialism, Extractivism… These projects (and more) are all bound up at the roots, branches, leaves, flowers, and fruits. Never forget that.
September 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
White Supremacy, Ableism, Misogyny, Transphobia, Homophobia, Eugenics, Colonialism, Extractivism… These projects (and more) are all bound up at the roots, branches, leaves, flowers, and fruits. Never forget that.
"Either war is obsolete or men are."
Fuller - 1966
Fuller - 1966
September 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
"Either war is obsolete or men are."
Fuller - 1966
Fuller - 1966
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Puerto Ricans are devising the food system of tomorrow.
Following a history of disinvestment and destructive climate disasters, communities across the archipelago are developing living blueprints of food sovereignty.
grist.org/food-and-agr...
#PR #Disaster #PuertoRico #Food #Farms #Farming
Following a history of disinvestment and destructive climate disasters, communities across the archipelago are developing living blueprints of food sovereignty.
grist.org/food-and-agr...
#PR #Disaster #PuertoRico #Food #Farms #Farming
Puerto Ricans are devising the food system of tomorrow
Following a history of disinvestment and destructive climate disasters, communities across the archipelago are developing living blueprints of food sovereignty.
grist.org
September 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Puerto Ricans are devising the food system of tomorrow.
Following a history of disinvestment and destructive climate disasters, communities across the archipelago are developing living blueprints of food sovereignty.
grist.org/food-and-agr...
#PR #Disaster #PuertoRico #Food #Farms #Farming
Following a history of disinvestment and destructive climate disasters, communities across the archipelago are developing living blueprints of food sovereignty.
grist.org/food-and-agr...
#PR #Disaster #PuertoRico #Food #Farms #Farming
Tongzhi (同志), the all-encompassing term for queer people in China also means 'comrade'.
My Queer Chinese Comrades, in My Mother Tongue
magazine.catapult.co
September 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Tongzhi (同志), the all-encompassing term for queer people in China also means 'comrade'.
Reposted by Kilian
Even as they fight colonialism, it is still deeply embedded in the culture.
In the new law, those found guilty of homosexuality could face a two- to five-year prison sentence.
Burkina Faso bans homosexuality as a crime punishable with prison, fines
In the new law, those found guilty of homosexuality could face a two- to five-year prison sentence.
bit.ly
September 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Even as they fight colonialism, it is still deeply embedded in the culture.
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“People doubted the Internet, too” no we doubted NFTs and the metaverse and other such bullshit these snake oil peddlers tried to hustle shut up
September 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
“People doubted the Internet, too” no we doubted NFTs and the metaverse and other such bullshit these snake oil peddlers tried to hustle shut up
On this day 80 years ago, Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam's independence - freedom from Japanese occupation, as well as an end to French colonialism. He and his ideals were ostracised by reinforced French control, aided by British and American support.
September 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
On this day 80 years ago, Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam's independence - freedom from Japanese occupation, as well as an end to French colonialism. He and his ideals were ostracised by reinforced French control, aided by British and American support.
“Those who own land would be offered “a digital token” by the trust in exchange for rights to redevelop their property, to be used to finance a new life elsewhere.”
2025: Genocide and ethnic cleansing in the name of electronic tokens, colonialism, digital enclosure and towers of stone and steel.
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2025: Genocide and ethnic cleansing in the name of electronic tokens, colonialism, digital enclosure and towers of stone and steel.
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September 2, 2025 at 7:51 AM
“Those who own land would be offered “a digital token” by the trust in exchange for rights to redevelop their property, to be used to finance a new life elsewhere.”
2025: Genocide and ethnic cleansing in the name of electronic tokens, colonialism, digital enclosure and towers of stone and steel.
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2025: Genocide and ethnic cleansing in the name of electronic tokens, colonialism, digital enclosure and towers of stone and steel.
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'The ores extracted from holes in the ground were sold to create the stories in the air. The deeper the extractions went, the higher the great towers of office work stretched into the sky' - Kate Crawford, Atlas of A.I.
The wound and the polished facade.
The wound and the polished facade.
September 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
'The ores extracted from holes in the ground were sold to create the stories in the air. The deeper the extractions went, the higher the great towers of office work stretched into the sky' - Kate Crawford, Atlas of A.I.
The wound and the polished facade.
The wound and the polished facade.
This is what solidarity against USAI-funded murder looks like!
Saoirse don Phailistín
🇵🇸🇮🇪 Solidarity!
Saoirse don Phailistín
🇵🇸🇮🇪 Solidarity!
The Global Sumud Flotilla: Over 50 ships will set sail for Gaza : Peoples Dispatch
Global Sumud Flotilla aims to break Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza, to deliver urgent humanitarian aid, and to expose the genocidal war waged on Palestinians.
peoplesdispatch.org
August 31, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This is what solidarity against USAI-funded murder looks like!
Saoirse don Phailistín
🇵🇸🇮🇪 Solidarity!
Saoirse don Phailistín
🇵🇸🇮🇪 Solidarity!
'The rationalistic tradition remains at the level of the divide'
August 31, 2025 at 6:39 AM
'The rationalistic tradition remains at the level of the divide'
"...heading into the night together..." 👌
August 31, 2025 at 2:18 AM
"...heading into the night together..." 👌
Cultural spaces are lifelines for communities, not just for 'fun and decadence'. Dancefloors are sites of resistance and togetherness.
Property speculation & shifting lifestyles are squeezing Berlin’s beloved nightclubs. For a European capital that like no other built its reputation on fun and decadence, the pain is especially palpable www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘March of commercialisation’: writing is on the wall for Berlin’s nightclubs
Rising rents and gentrification in the once-cheap and abundant real estate market have put the pinch on the clubbing scene
www.theguardian.com
August 31, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Cultural spaces are lifelines for communities, not just for 'fun and decadence'. Dancefloors are sites of resistance and togetherness.
"Perhaps we lose sight of wisdom when we try to see the world from a godlike perspective." - one of 'masculine maximalism'.
“When I hear the best minds of my generation rhapsodize about intelligence explosions while devoting their own prodigious intellects to ketamine binges, mixed martial arts, and Hellenistic fashion design, I can’t help but wonder whether more intelligence is really a good thing.”
None the Wiser, by Meghan O’Gieblyn
harpers.org
August 31, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"Perhaps we lose sight of wisdom when we try to see the world from a godlike perspective." - one of 'masculine maximalism'.
No doubt. Both and. It's a symbol.
August 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
No doubt. Both and. It's a symbol.
It called those who see behind the mystification & the illusions 'woke' because it fears the people's awareness. It fears others waking up to the fact that we are all oppressed. We are all colonized. It is the ontology of colonization itself and it replicates like a virus inside the host until seen.
August 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
It called those who see behind the mystification & the illusions 'woke' because it fears the people's awareness. It fears others waking up to the fact that we are all oppressed. We are all colonized. It is the ontology of colonization itself and it replicates like a virus inside the host until seen.
All of our struggles are interconnected.
All of them.
All of them.
August 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
All of our struggles are interconnected.
All of them.
All of them.
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Humanitarian groups say that 'Israel' has blocked fruits with pits or seeds that could be planted, such as olives or dates, from being sent to Gaza.
truthout.org/articles/tho...
truthout.org/articles/tho...
Those With Chronic Illness in Gaza Say They’re Denied a Bare Minimum to Survive
Living with chronic illness means not just fighting disease and hunger, but also trauma and a collapsed health system.
truthout.org
August 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Humanitarian groups say that 'Israel' has blocked fruits with pits or seeds that could be planted, such as olives or dates, from being sent to Gaza.
truthout.org/articles/tho...
truthout.org/articles/tho...
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This, by @jasonhickel.bsky.social, is the clearest explanation I have yet read of why the US and UK governments continue to support the Israeli government, regardless of its great crimes against humanity.
jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-does-t...
jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-does-t...
Why does the US support Israel's crimes?
Why does the US support Israel’s genocidal crimes against the Palestinian people, even in the face of overwhelming international condemnation, at massive expense, and to the point of totally debasing ...
jasonhickel.substack.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This, by @jasonhickel.bsky.social, is the clearest explanation I have yet read of why the US and UK governments continue to support the Israeli government, regardless of its great crimes against humanity.
jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-does-t...
jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-does-t...
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IMF-backed land consolidation by large agribusinesses.
"It cannot be ruled out that giant agricultural holdings will make attempts to illegally purchase land through a network of their subsidiaries or bribed natural persons (so-called frontmen)."
"It cannot be ruled out that giant agricultural holdings will make attempts to illegally purchase land through a network of their subsidiaries or bribed natural persons (so-called frontmen)."
The act on the land market – a key step towards the development of Ukrainian agriculture
On 28 April, President Volodymyr Zelensky signed the Act on introducing an agricultural land market in Ukraine. The document envisages that the moratorium on the sale of agricultural land will be part...
www.osw.waw.pl
August 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
IMF-backed land consolidation by large agribusinesses.
"It cannot be ruled out that giant agricultural holdings will make attempts to illegally purchase land through a network of their subsidiaries or bribed natural persons (so-called frontmen)."
"It cannot be ruled out that giant agricultural holdings will make attempts to illegally purchase land through a network of their subsidiaries or bribed natural persons (so-called frontmen)."
"A poll showed that only 19.6% of Ukrainians supported the introduction of free trade in agricultural land ~64.4% were opposed to it, resulting from their fear of a repeat of the situation in the 1990s involving the privatisation of state property."
August 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"A poll showed that only 19.6% of Ukrainians supported the introduction of free trade in agricultural land ~64.4% were opposed to it, resulting from their fear of a repeat of the situation in the 1990s involving the privatisation of state property."
IMF-backed land consolidation by large agribusinesses.
"It cannot be ruled out that giant agricultural holdings will make attempts to illegally purchase land through a network of their subsidiaries or bribed natural persons (so-called frontmen)."
"It cannot be ruled out that giant agricultural holdings will make attempts to illegally purchase land through a network of their subsidiaries or bribed natural persons (so-called frontmen)."
The act on the land market – a key step towards the development of Ukrainian agriculture
On 28 April, President Volodymyr Zelensky signed the Act on introducing an agricultural land market in Ukraine. The document envisages that the moratorium on the sale of agricultural land will be part...
www.osw.waw.pl
August 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
IMF-backed land consolidation by large agribusinesses.
"It cannot be ruled out that giant agricultural holdings will make attempts to illegally purchase land through a network of their subsidiaries or bribed natural persons (so-called frontmen)."
"It cannot be ruled out that giant agricultural holdings will make attempts to illegally purchase land through a network of their subsidiaries or bribed natural persons (so-called frontmen)."