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Alex Baker @anomiegeog.bsky.social · Jul 25

'My latest' an attempt an conceptualizing a critical eviction-logistics as the allocation of loss, at the convergence of mobility race and housing, while trying to follow the moving parts of Eviction in Cape Town (and working within the complexities of a pandemic where eviction was paused):

Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · Jul 23

Great new paper from Alex Baker in Antipode

“For a Critical Logistics of Eviction: Producing Property Through Mobility in Cape Town”

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

For a Critical Logistics of Eviction: Producing Property Through Mobility in Cape Town

Understanding eviction as a positioning of bodies and loss in a property relation, I argue a critical logistical reading may offer a means of describing the capacity to evict within the economic, rac...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Alex Baker @anomiegeog.bsky.social · 3d

One thing about this stuff is how electorally silly it is. It doesn't appeal to anyone?

David S. Moon @daimoon.bsky.social · 4d

just because you have a freedom "doesn't mean you have to use it at every moment of every day"

Just roll that sentence around your mental palate and taste the underlying logic

Laura Kuenssberg asks if it is a "dark step" to limit the fundamental right to protest?
Mahmood answers that just because you have a freedom "doesn't mean you have to use it at every moment of every day".
Under her new plans people will still have the right to protest, Mahmood adds.

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Alex Baker @anomiegeog.bsky.social · 6d

aside from anything else the last time this rhetoric was used by a home secretary, an organized far right mob attacked the cenotaph, and attempted to attack the protest.

Alex Baker @anomiegeog.bsky.social · 6d

Actively disgusted by this cynical weaponisation of a tragedy. Opposing a genocide has nothing to do with what happened and I would go so far to say these words are incitement. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mahmood: Pro-Palestinian protests 'un-British' after terror attack

The home secretary told BBC Breakfast she was disappointed pro-Palestinian protests went ahead.

www.bbc.co.uk

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 6d

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society

22% in 2022
47% in 2025

No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports

Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.

www.pewresearch.org

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Sandipto Dasgupta @sandipto.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote for the @bostonreview.bsky.social about the extraordinary Andrée Blouin, along with Lumumba, Cesaire, Fanon, and the anticolonial revolution that could have been.

The Inventor of the Future - Boston Review

The autobiography of anticolonial luminary Andrée Blouin captures her era’s euphoric highs as well as its tragic denouement.

www.bostonreview.net

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Alex Baker @anomiegeog.bsky.social · 9d

also really beating the genocide allegations with your planned New Villages/Strategic Hamlets/Bantustans with the attached Industrialists Special Economic Zone

Alex Baker @anomiegeog.bsky.social · 9d

oh GOD of course Blair would come up with the Millenium Dome combined with a War Crime

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 9d

This is what Blair’s team created together with BCG

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 12d

all of this stuff is brand new. The reason the Windrush scandal was able to happen was because it was perfectly possible to live, work, and rent in the UK for decades without formal ID. Most of this stuff was brought in because of the manufactured immigration panics of the 2000s-10s.

👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 12d

do people not realise that everyone already legally has to prove right to work in this country, using a combination of ID forms, and any job that currently skirts the law in this is just… gonna keep doing that

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 14d

The vast majority of people do not want any of this. Most of our lives are not animated by spite and revenge and a desire above all else to do harm. Most of us do not derive our sense of well-being from abusing our power over others. Most of us are normal. www.welcometohellworld.com/i-hear-the-g...

Everything is really fucking bleak right now buddy. The whole place is dark as I said the other day. It's almost too much to take. But one thing I promise you is that no matter how many of them it seems like there are – and there are quite a few to be fair – there are more of us. The vast majority of people do not want any of this. Most of our lives are not animated by spite and revenge and a desire above all else to do harm. Most of us do not derive our sense of well-being from abusing our power over others. Most of us are normal.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 16d

Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 16d

This is Australia but holy shit

Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 16d

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Alex Baker @anomiegeog.bsky.social · 16d

Can confirm The Rapture is coming.

THATS RIGHT, COMING TO THE UK ON A REUNION TOUR www.nme.com/news/music/t...

The Rapture reunite for 2025 tour in the UK, Europe and North America

The Rapture are back for a new tour, which will see them perform across the UK, Europe and North America later this year.

www.nme.com

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Alex Baker @anomiegeog.bsky.social · Jul 25

Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · Jul 23

Great new paper from Alex Baker in Antipode

“For a Critical Logistics of Eviction: Producing Property Through Mobility in Cape Town”

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

For a Critical Logistics of Eviction: Producing Property Through Mobility in Cape Town

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Alex Baker @anomiegeog.bsky.social · 17d

The thing is, once an employer has got rid of labour through AI, the company providing AI has them by the throat and can extract whatever rent they think is possible.

Alex Baker @anomiegeog.bsky.social · 21d

Shareholder capitalism has basically given authoritarians tremendous power. Even if you live in a nominal democracy there's an army of people willing and with standing to sue you if you decide not to work with an Authoritarian overseas who can shut you down in their country.

Alex Baker @anomiegeog.bsky.social · 22d

Old Enough to remember when the destruction of Buddhist monumental architecture in Afghanistan was unequivocal proof of the subhuman barbarity of the regime there.

Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 22d

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 22d

My rage knows no bounds

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Alex Baker @anomiegeog.bsky.social · 22d

they share a single surface though 🥁

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 23d

We're excited to present the trailer for our new Global Corridor film by director Spyros Gerousis

"Contained: A new Silk Road Story"

Watch here: vimeo.com/1103055839

"Contained:A new Silk Road Story" trailer

"Contained:A New Silk Road Story” is a brief ethno-artistic glimpse into the everyday life of one of the largest Romani communities in Greece, located…

vimeo.com

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Alex Baker @anomiegeog.bsky.social · 25d

A 100,000 number being thrown around that really doesn't match the images I'm seeing, I think

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wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 26d

ok, having checked a bunch of editions i now reckon there was a section of text removed from the uk edition of american psycho. it’s a bit which says bono is the devil so maybe there was a worry about uk libel law?

wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 27d

if you’ve got a copy of american psycho nearby, could you snap a quick photo of this passage for me (it’s the u2 concert bit) — i’ve got a query about whether this has changed between editions that i want to try and iron out

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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 28d

One unexpected detail in the revelations about Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein is they were involved in a mining deal in Congo-Brazzaville:

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

Screenshot of an email.
Email reads:
"FWD From: STALEY, Jes
To: EPSTEIN, Jeffery
Sent: 7 October 2010

From: MANDELSON, Peter
In Congo Brazzaville last week, I talked at length with President Sassou N'Guesso, including about the above new mine. Exploration, he told me, has been undertaken by a consortium of investors backed by JP Morgan. The government is reaching a final decision on whether to issue a full mining licence. I spoke to the Minister of Mines about this, who is favourable to the licence, but the President wanted to discuss it further with me. No obligation but if there is anyone in JPM who might want to talk to me privately about this, please shout. I would be grateful for no approaches to other third parties about this in meantime. Hope you are well. Sorry not to see you in London this week."

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Alex Baker @anomiegeog.bsky.social · 28d

It's bad that he died, but Kirk wasn't killed because his opponents couldn't beat him in debate. He'd been doing turning point since he was 18 and yet the legislatures of the most conservative US states have still had to intervene on college campuses to banish the left.

Alex Baker @anomiegeog.bsky.social · Sep 2

Just got back in after a weekend at Supersonic festival. I don't think there's much that comes close in the UK at the moment in terms of the level of attention to curation of the interaction of different acts, the commitment to supporting anti-genocide speech, and uncompromising music.

Alex Baker @anomiegeog.bsky.social · Aug 23

By this logic no ambulance should have come for Farage after his plane crash, no one should have helped him, you aren't responsible.

Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · Aug 23

According to The Times, Farage’s deportation “plan” - more a taunt - is “controversial”. It isn’t. It’s objectively inhumane. What’s most shameful though is that he should have been mainstreamed to such an extent that he is taken by much of the press & public as a serious politician.

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mcc @dryad.technology · Aug 21

What frightens me is when they say "X could be replaced by AI" they don't mean "AI could do the work of X" they mean "we could replace the work of X with incorrect, randomly generated filler, and no one would stop us". What would the side effects be? They don't care, they already cashed the check.

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