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Stephen Shapiro
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Edinburgh based:
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I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.
Pinned
Strike week at Edinburgh Napier. Our first two of 10 days of strike action happen on Tuesday and Thursday. Fighting against management's refusal to rule out compulsory redundancies. Our university has no debt, we have reserves and have already lost too many staff.
February 9, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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February 9, 2026 at 9:25 AM
The price difference between a cheaper suit and a more expensive one isn't in the materials, but the stitching (ie human labor), but “After about $1,500 or so, you are paying for details or features that you enjoy but are not necessary to make a good suit,” said Zottolo.
nymag.com/strategist/a...
How Much Should You Spend on a Suit?
You can feel like a million bucks at a range of price points.
nymag.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:25 AM
February 9, 2026 at 9:07 AM
my hunch is that people with my last name aren't that common anymore in Germany
www.zeit.de/zeit-magazin...
February 9, 2026 at 8:58 AM
it'sl ike a home invasion movie as more nazis move to the region
www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft...
February 9, 2026 at 8:55 AM
when athletes are doing more than most others to denounce the moral degenerates in the White House
www.latimes.com/sports/olymp...
U.S. Olympic athletes in Italy are speaking out about the political situation at home
American skiers Mikaela Shiffrin and Hunter Hess and other Milan-Cortina Olympic athletes aren't shying away from talking about what's going on in the United States.
www.latimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:48 AM
former Reform councillor
theboar.org/2026/02/warw...
February 9, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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Discipline and Punish is now older than Foucault was when it was published.
February 7, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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The Kill-Off (1989, dir. Maggie Greenwald), adapted from Jim Thompson, schlocky Twin Peaks-ey before Twin Peaks.

a lot of boom mike drops!
February 8, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"
February 8, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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February 8, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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February 8, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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more Catholic Buddhas!
www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...
February 8, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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Peter Hujar's Last Day was pretty good.
February 8, 2026 at 11:15 AM
The Kill-Off (1989, dir. Maggie Greenwald), adapted from Jim Thompson, schlocky Twin Peaks-ey before Twin Peaks.

a lot of boom mike drops!
February 8, 2026 at 4:42 PM