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Jon Schubert

@jonschu.bsky.social

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Political anthropology: #infrastructures, #extractives #politics and #climatechange, esp. in #Angola and #Mozambique; find me Allegralaboratory.net and at critical urbanisms @unibas D/F/E/P

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Jon Schubert @jonschu.bsky.social · May 23

my conceptual piece from the #PRECURBICA is out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
many thanks to @ijurresearch.bsky.social editors and reviewers for a very constructive process! @zasb.unibas.ch

Contact Zones of Climate Preconstruction in Coastal Africa

This essay advances the notion of coastal contact zones as heuristic lens, and develops the conceptual framework of climate preconstruction, bringing them together to better understand the challenges....

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 13h

I suppose everyone knows that this is really just classist gatekeeping--mostly from people who themselves have humanities degrees that led to fun, remunerative jobs. Point is they want YOU to pay 30,000 quid for a degree in "prompt engineering" or whatev so that you can make their coffee

Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 13h

Once again, the sensibles find themselves on the wrong side of history

Helen Lewis

@helenlewis

Corbyn: "There is a poet, a painting, a novel, a play in all of us." DON'T ENCOURAGE THEM JEREMY.

8:22 pm 21 Aug 16

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 13h

"English is a ripoff degree" is something that should mark you out as a complete nutter unless your point is that our current leadership is so incompetent that you'd be better served getting on with it and learning Chinese.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 13h

sociology and anthropology are dangerous to them, because those fields help us understand the power dynamics, ethics, and human cost of what the industries they like better are doing.
Performing arts is hugely important for the economy, but it doesn't benefit them directly.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Jon Schubert @jonschu.bsky.social · 2d

and despite this, the current Federal Council (esp. SVP energy&transport minister Rösti) is pushing for expanding motorways, _against_ a popular vote on the issue last year... the car/anti-cyclist lobby sadly still strong, especially outside the larger cities...

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

Abolish this terrible technology.

Futurism @futurism.com · 2d

"The proliferation of AI is an impending threat to travel."

AI Endangering Tourists by Sending Them to Nonexistent Landmarks in Hazardous Locations

Hallucinating AI platforms are spitting out nonexistent landmarks and it's putting tourists in dangerous situations.

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... and behold @andbhold.bsky.social · 3d

* Natürlich könnten wir noch viel mehr für die leidende Zivilbevölkerung machen. Bisher kann sich der Gesamtbundesrat ja zu keiner griffigen Position gegenüber Kriegsverbrechen durchringen. Es ist einfach nur peinlich, als Schweizer von so Drückebergern regiert zu werden.

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PS Suisse @pssuisse.ch · 4d

Lors de sa séance extraordinaire, le Conseil de parti du PS Suisse a abordé la situation à Gaza. www.sp-ps.ch/fr/artikel/l...

Le PS condamne l'interception illégale par Israël de la flottille civile à destination de Gaza - PS Suisse

Lors de sa séance extraordinaire d'aujourd'hui, le Conseil de parti du PS Suisse a abordé la situation à Gaza. Le PS condamne l'interception ...

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5d

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked about the Home Secretarys comments that yesterdays protests about Israels actions were dishonourable (she also said they were unBritish).

Zack is spot on.

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Jon Schubert @jonschu.bsky.social · 5d

for anyone interested in Angolan media history, Israel Campos is giving a paper in Basel next weds, 08 Oct, 18.15, at #BaslerAfrikaBibliographien and online: zasb.unibas.ch/en/events/de...

Israel Campos: "Beyond Toeing the Party Line: A History of Angola’s Postcolonial State Press (1975-1991)"

Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 7d

Seeing a malapropism or a comma splice in a student paper has never felt so good.

Emily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social · 7d

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness.

Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

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Kierán Suckling @kieransuckling.bsky.social · Dec 13

Please re-tweet so I can quit X. I've got 45k followers there, just 500 here. When I get to 5k I can dump Musk forever

I'm the director of @centerforbiodiv.bsky.social. Follow me for real-time, insider takes on endangered species, climate, public lands, oceans, toxics. We sue Trump alot. Very alot.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 7d

To add to this: Sadiq Khan took a big political risk by doing this, and it appears to have paid off - or rather, the policy has worked as intended.

London Labour will be (quite reasonably) hoping voters notice...

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 8d

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

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Mirjam Hostetmann @mirjamhostetmann.bsky.social · 7d

DIE MITTE HAT MEHR ANGST VOR REICHENSTEUERN, ALS VOR FASCHISMUS?!

Mitte-Ständerat Fabio Regazzi fürchtet einen Faschisten genauso sehr wie mich.
Mitte-Präsident Bregy sagte sogar, er habe mehr Angst vor der @jusoschweiz.bsky.social als vor Donald Trump. 1/2

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 8d

You are much more powerful than you think you are, and he is an extremely reckless man who is incapable of controlling his worst impulses. This means that there are loads of opportunities to fight back and ultimately defeat him and his ilk, and these opportunities will only increase.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 30

Motherfucking wind farms…

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Betty Pitch au Lit @bettypiccioli.bsky.social · 12d

Visuel par l'artiste Dyna Moe

Image "Arrêtez d'imposer l'I.A. partout, putain !"

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Jon Schubert @jonschu.bsky.social · 12d

Hey! Unterzeichne jetzt den Appell „Tax me if you can - Ja zur Individualbesteuerung“! Setze mit mir ein Zeichen für eine progressive Gesellschaft mit weniger Tradwives und mehr Self-made women. Für ein Steuersystem, das die heutige Realität abbildet. Zum Appell: form.typeform.com/to/kaiJsYkg

Tax me if you can - Ja zur Individualbesteuerung

Tradwives? Self-made women!!! Jetzt Appell an die Schweizer Gesellschaft unterzeichnen.

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Jon Schubert @jonschu.bsky.social · 12d

Say no! to HE cuts in Switzerland: Aktionstag 1. Oktober
Sign the petition: bezahlbar-studieren.ch

A flyer for the protest day of 1 October against planned cuts to HE in Switzerland. See also: https://bezahlbar-studieren.ch/

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13d

You're welcome to use/share this with your students. Here's a quick write-up explaining how I use it in my class, along with a link to a PDF version for easy printing/sharing.
www.jessicacalarco.com/teaching-res...

AI Isn't A Ticket to an A — Jessica Calarco

I teach a freshman seminar on kids and society. For their first project, my students create an infographic that aims to clarify a common misconception about “kids these days.” For reasons I’ll outline...

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... and behold @andbhold.bsky.social · 13d

In der Schweiz sollen Studiengebühren für Hochschulen verdoppelt, für ausländ. Studis sogar noch drastischer erhöht werden.
Am 1. OKTOBER demonstrieren wir in Bern, um dieser unsäglichen Tendenz einen Riegel zu schieben.
Bildung muss für alle erschwinglich sein!
Petition:
bezahlbar-studieren.ch

Bildung ist unsere wertvollste Ressource: In einem Land ohne natürliche Rohstoffe ist Bildung der Schlüssel zu Innovation und wirtschaftlichem Erfolg.

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Jon Schubert @jonschu.bsky.social · 15d

Classic.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 16d

IT IS TIME.

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...

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Jon Schubert @jonschu.bsky.social · 16d

In that case: certa!

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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 29d

Peruse the latest book review in our series on Settler Colonialism, Borders, and Empire: our author engages with Andreas Malm's conception of technological genocide in The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth @versobooks.bsky.social

The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth - Allegra Lab

Andreas Malm. 2024. The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth. London. New York: Verso Urgency is the word that best captures

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Allegra Lab @allegralab.bsky.social · 16d

🎞️ Join us to watch The Rose of Ioannina by Na’ama Landau, Livnat Konopny-Decleve and Adi Liraz
✨Oct. 02, 2025 12:30-13:30 CET
✨ Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

✨ more info: allegralaboratory.net/anthrokino-t...

Jon Schubert @jonschu.bsky.social · 16d

….a vitória é… certa?

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