Toni Čerkez
@tonicerkez.bsky.social
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Mostarac 🇧🇦. PhD IP Theory @interpolaber. Lecturing IPT at #TallinnUniversity Focus: Arendt, relational IR, Anthropocene and cosmotechnics. Theory=practice. Interested in thinking alternatives to Big Tech capitalism: plurality. https://securityhub.ee 🇪🇺🇭🇷🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳‍🌈🇱🇹
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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robkitchin.bsky.social
Call for papers. Workshop: Data Migration and Mobilities: Towards a New Research Agenda. Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Tallinn, Estonia, 8-9 April 2026. Organised by Anu Masso & @robkitchin.bsky.social. Deadline for submissions 15 Oct.
tonicerkez.bsky.social
I cannot believe the US is still a democracy
chrislhayes.bsky.social
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
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tonicerkez.bsky.social
#Lithuania New culture minister resigned after a week in office, driven out by blazing civic mobilization by the culture sector.

He was incompetent and appointed by a corrupt party.

Fabulous work, Lietuva!
tonicerkez.bsky.social
“The Arctic is the first region where climate change is changing the geopolitical map. If we didn't have climate change, we wouldn't be talking. Russia would not be producing oil and gas in the Arctic. China would not be sending container ships through the Arctic.”

www.politico.eu/article/chin...
China tests an express route to Europe through a thawing Arctic
“Climate change is rapidly and actively changing the geopolitical dynamics” in the region, an Arctic researcher says.
www.politico.eu
tonicerkez.bsky.social
The tide is (ever-so-slowly) turning
vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
What is happening in Gaza has shaken the conscience of the world.

Man-made famine can never be a weapon of war. This must stop.

EU aid to Gaza far outweighs that of any other partner.

But of course, Europe needs to do more.

Here are measures for a way forward ↓
tonicerkez.bsky.social
A prepayment of €533.2 million for EU defense aid was made, yet only around 10 percent was covered by submitted grant agreements, while €88.9 million was frozen in the budget for nearly 18 months due to incomplete transactions.
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internatltheory.bsky.social
#OpenAccess from our latest issue -

The spectre of statelessness - cup.org/42wNYDJ

"stateless people have broad prima facie moral permissions to resist the state system’s constitutive norms, practices, and institutions..."

- @lrafanell.bsky.social
International Theory abstract discussing political obligations, statelessness, and the justice system's role in protecting rights, with a focus on Hong Kong's 'Refugee Occupy' movement.
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timhowles.bsky.social
“White Light: The Elemental Role of Phosphorus – in Our Cells, in Our Food and in Our World”
by Jack Lohmann.
lrb.co.uk
‘Fertiliser companies often mine the phosphate, pile up the phosphogypsum, then declare bankruptcy and leave the taxpayer to pay for the clean-up.’

@jjvincent.bsky.social on the environmental impacts of phosphate production: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Vincent · Where the Power Is: Planet Phosphorus
The rarity of phosphorus makes it the single most limiting factor for the growth of biomass on Earth. It is, as Isaac...
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tonicerkez.bsky.social
Tako! #stopgenocide
majasever.bsky.social
“Dođite. Nije vrijeme za neutralnost.” – poručuje predsjednik HND-a Hrvoje Zovko uz poziv na prosvjed ispred Novinarski dom 28. kolovoza u 16 sati. ✊
#ZaustaviteUbijanjeNovinara #ZaustaviteGenocid #Solidarnost
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timhowles.bsky.social
Bettina Brandt & Daniel L. Purdy eds.
"Colonialism and Enlightenment: The Legacy of German Race Theories"
- Oxford University Press, November 2025
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social
Episode 195 is live and to wrap up Season 13 we're taking a deep dive into Hannah Arendt's concept of the "banality of evil."

(Cover art from Jonathan Glazer's 2023 film "The Zone of Interest")

hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/aren...
Episode 195: Arendt’s “Banality of Evil” - Hotel Bar Podcast
"Evil arises from a failure to think." -Hannah Arendt
hotelbarpodcast.com
tonicerkez.bsky.social
I swear, #Tallinn public transport is an enemy of AC! The same goes for other Baltic cities. Like, it’s hot people!!!
tonicerkez.bsky.social
This is important! The University Represseion League Table assesses UK universities based on repression of free expression.

Proud of @aberuni.bsky.social - but more to be done!

si4j.org/universityre...
SI4J League Table - Site & PDF
UK University Repression League Table 2025
si4j.org
tonicerkez.bsky.social
You said it all! Thanks.
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tonicerkez.bsky.social
Bunz called it ‘we do not want to be governed like that’
charleswlogan.bsky.social
"Decomputing is the development of a counter-power to the technopolitical apparatus of AI and its totalising transformations...And this is my final point about decomputing, that it's not a vision for any return to a pre-AI status quo but a deliberate claim on a better world for all." 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
danmcquillan.bsky.social
I posted the text of my talk on 'Decomputing as Resistance' danmcquillan.org/decomputing_...
It's a work-in-progress: comments welcome!
tonicerkez.bsky.social
Ecce homo!!! Beautiful
rozkaveney.bsky.social
It's my 76th birthday today. I transitioned in my late 20s - should have been earlier but fear and politics - and I will never back down. I've had a good and productive life of politics and writing and I hope to get more done yet. Remember GCs lie. A photo from 79 and one from 23...
29 year old Roz looking pretty. 74 year old Roz