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Geopolitics • Armed Politics/Political Violence • Philosophy • Political Geographies • Palestine —————————— BLOOD WORK: AN ECONOMY OF VIOLENCE @bloodwork.show

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 6d

If you are interested in this project, and would like to support it in its earliest stages, you can download the trailer via the link below. Please feel free to share far and wide.

Our Bluesky is @bloodwork.show
Our Instagram is instagram.com/bloodworkshow

TRAILER:
we.tl/t-qmHbkrMIOB

BLOOD WORK @bloodwork.show · 6d

This project is a conversation.
Consider this your invitation.

Send all questions (and answers) to:
[email protected]

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 4h

I went to see EDDINGTON again last night and noticed in the opening scene that Sheriff Joe Cross has a copy of The Secret in his police unit lol

Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 5h

we lack the vocabulary for what we are doing to our brains

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BLOOD WORK @bloodwork.show · 19h

BLOOD WORK is live.

It’s time to talk about violence.

An Introduction to Blood Work

open.spotify.com

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 20h

I keep saying that @bloodwork.show is a dialogue and an invitation because I mean that. I want to have discussions with people about what violence *is*, to them, and what it means, and so if you are open to having that discussion, in any idiom, please, email: [email protected]

BLOOD WORK

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 20h

This is an absolutely terrifying moment that we are only going to get out of by talking to one another. And I don't mean that in the facile, Ezra Klein sense. I mean that if any of you feel anything like I do lately, you're probably looking around asking if anyone sees what you're seeing.

I see it.

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 20h

I keep saying that @bloodwork.show is a dialogue and an invitation because I mean that. I want to have discussions with people about what violence *is*, to them, and what it means, and so if you are open to having that discussion, in any idiom, please, email: [email protected]

BLOOD WORK

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 20h

I'm working on an episode on Mike Davis's History of the Car Bomb, and contacted someone who I hoped to discuss the book with. They told me they had personally witnessed a car bomb assassination twenty years ago. I'm still trying to figure out how to reply to that email.

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 20h

And of course, the fascist project is one with clear and stated goals that it pursues with a foam-mouted ferocity, but it is also a politics of nihilism. This is the confounding contradiction that is its only truth. Fascism pursues total domination, and the only way to achieve this is annihilation.

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 20h

Of course this is all more complicated than that—300 characters—but as I gaze across this emergent political landscape and try to map out its topography, everywhere I look I find myself thinking, "I don't know if you know what you want; what you're calling for; or where you believe it's will lead."

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 20h

With @bloodwork.show scheduled to drop shortly, maybe one way to explain my motivation behind the project is this sense that violence is increasingly being embraced by one side with no idea what it ultimately wants against another side that refuses to confront how serious they are about wielding it.

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 1d

It's never about the value of one individual. But there is an undeniable power in how the actions of this one individual reveal, through the unity of politics, ethics, and moral clairty their actions express, how the character of those in charge are so cheap. And that is a deeply threatening thing.

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 1d

This thing that we call the struggle is never about, nor located in one individual. But when one individual can identify, proclaim and then act upon their political beliefs with such all-encompassing clarity is a thing so precious that it immediately, in turn, exposes our ruling order as worthless.

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 1d

Think of the immense quantities of time, money, attention, energy, access, elevation, promotion, incentivisation, valorisation and acclamation that have gone into producing the vast majority of the dominant ruling political class in virtually every country across the world. Then look at Greta.

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 1d

The media continue to present this woman as a child because at 22-years old she presents a degree of moral clarity, rhetorical potency and profound understanding of the connection between one's politics and one's actions that her detractors, many more than twice her age, not ony lack, but defile.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 1d

Tomorrow the work begins.

BLOOD WORK
AN ECONOMY OF VIOLENCE

EPISODES 1 & 2
AVAILABLE TOMORROW

07/10/25

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 1d

Pretending this is the new Taylor Swift album and asking what everyone’s problem with it is

The Hearse Whisperer @babadooknukem.bsky.social · Sep 1

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

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Cig Blaster @gotitatguineys.bsky.social · 1d

@gregk.co.uk and I are feeling generous so there’s two episodes of @bloodwork.show dropping tomorrow instead of one.

Make sure to tap in.

open.spotify.com/show/5jt9RZS...

Blood Work Trailer

open.spotify.com

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 2d

Evidence collected by the medical community shows Israeli soldiers are *systematically* shooting and killing children in Gaza. revealnews.org/podcast/gaza...

US doctors in Gaza find evidence that kids are being targeted by the Israeli military

American doctors volunteering in Gaza report a disturbing pattern of children shot by Israeli forces. Now they’re pushing for accountability.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 2d

Here is a bundle of thoughts I needed to get off of my chest as I embark on an endeavour that is filling with me with terror, trepidation, excitement and hope – but more importantly, purpose.

Small and Beautiful Things

Some thoughts from the border between a challenging present and a promising future

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 2d

Here is a bundle of thoughts I needed to get off of my chest as I embark on an endeavour that is filling with me with terror, trepidation, excitement and hope – but more importantly, purpose.

Small and Beautiful Things

Some thoughts from the border between a challenging present and a promising future

gregkfoley.substack.com

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mknb @mknb.bsky.social · 2d

Young Kingfisher
昨日アップした2個体とは別の若オス。

#birds #photography

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BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 2d

This is utterly heartbreaking. Too sad for words. A direct result of underfunding the NHS.

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 2d

I have been meaning to read more Byung-Chul Han and this hit real good

AL @seriouscynic.bsky.social · 2d

Excerpted from Psychopolitics (Byung-Chul Han):
"The idiot is a modern-day heretic. Etymologically, heresy means 'choice'. Thus, the heretic is one who commands free choice: the courage to deviate from orthodoxy. As a heretic, the idiot represents a figure of resistance opposing the violence of consensus. The idiot preserves the magic of the outsider. Today, in light of increasingly coercive conformism, it is more urgent than ever to heighten heretical consciousness."

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 2d

Moving up in the rankings for me for sure

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 2d

Here is a South Philippine Dwarf Kingfisher

A photograph of a South Philippine Dwarf Kingfisher resting on a tree branch. It has a purplish-pink head with white speckles, a long orange beak, a pearly orange chest and brown wings, with a white tuft toward the back of its collar. It is small and beautiful.

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 2d

When I first saw the video in question, I neither clicked it, nor turned the sound on. I just sat at this desk, with my chin cradled in my left hand, my elbow on the desk, and just stared, blank-faced, feeling nothing, as I contemplated and affirmed the preciousness of life as living-life.