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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 8h

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Because for me, love is not blind loyalty – to an ideology, a state or even a community. Love is to be whole and honest, not fragmented. It struggles and wrestles. Perhaps it refuses to let go.

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz

Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 12h

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 14h

Solar panels or cryoto bubbles? Impossible to tell which one is better

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 15h

Unfortunately, the choice seems to be between two models of authoritarian capitalism. Fortunately, one might have just cured diabetes while the other claims that wifi ‘opens up the blood/brain barrier’ so the choice is easy

Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15h

China — here is stem cell therapy breakthrough in treating severe diabetes

US under trump — WiFI radiation opens up your blood brain barrier … VaCcINes aRE bAd www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/h...

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 1d

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 1d

Not only does this create a dangerous precedent that weakens UK sovereign rights upon vessels flying its flag, it also weakens freedom of navigation for all states, particularly those without significant diplomatic or naval power to enforce their own rights criticallegalthinking.com/2025/10/07/t...

The UK’s recognition of the State of Palestine is meaningless without the proper recognition of international law on the aid flotillas

Israel has boarded the Global Sumud flotilla, representing a further escalation of their response to flotillas seeking to deliver aid to Gaza. The

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 1d

I feel that this summarises the situation very well

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 1d

I have learnt so much and it is also such a model for a better version of the internet, if it hadn’t been captured by corporations

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever anarchism — or any idea more radical than the status quo — gets dismissed as unserious, it's worth remembering the current system runs on things like "we put all the money on a scam machine that tells rich dipshits they're god."

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 1d

'Whether it’s rebuilding a demolished home, harvesting olives under threat, or simply staying rooted in place, Sumud is how Palestinians turn survival into resistance. It is not just endurance. It is resistance through presence’. criticallegalthinking.com/2025/09/24/t...

The Culpable Liberal, The Latte Legalist and the End of the Settler Siege at Sea

It is the early hours of the morning on the 8th September 2025 and I am in Tunis at Sidi Bou Said Port listening to the sounds of stress, solidarity, and

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, you guys?

Is it a good sign or a bad sign if a federal judge has to remind you (multiple times) that you’re a lawyer and an officer of the court?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

Immergut: You're an officer of the court. Do you believe this is appropriate way to deal with my order?

Hamilton: I'm not a policy maker

Immergut: You're a lawyer

In response, Hamilton basically argues no geographic limit to federalization of CA guard...

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Francisco J. Quintana @fjquintana.com · 6d

What does de-dollarisation mean in practice? How does it relate to global law and governance?

My article 'Dollar Dominance, De-Dollarization, and International Law' is now out in JIEL. I present dollar dominance and de-dollarisation as competing legal institutions.

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Dollar dominance, de-dollarization, and international law

Abstract. Recent proposals to seize Russian Central Bank assets expose how little international lawyers have engaged with the intensifying competition over

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 2d

frog from Chrono Trigger arriving at exactly the historical moment we need him I see

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 3d

wizard frog is insane

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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 2d

It's a new era for reckless adventurism. Not less of it, just in a different location.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

Doocy: "If a young man or woman signs up today, are they more likely to deploy to the Middle East or the Midwest?"

Hegseth: "The era of sort of reckless adventurism around the globe is over...We're here to defend the hemisphere, the homeland, the border."

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Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 2d

Not even the prospect of a $20 billion bailout paid by U.S. taxpayers is stabilizing Argentina after Milei’s peso/dollar manipulation failed. His sister (and chief of staff) is caught in a bribery scandal, and his top candidate was caught taking $200k from a narco. It’s over.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3d

Argentina’s wily currency traders drain Javier Milei’s dollars on.ft.com/4pUkn1R

Argentina’s wily currency traders drain Javier Milei’s dollars

Labyrinthine restrictions and chronic instability spawn strategies to profit from foreign exchange policies

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 2d

I was lucky enough to sit down with Ardi Imseis and discuss the law, politics and history of the recent Western recognitions of the State of Palestine for Called to the Bar: soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

54. Recognition, the United Nations and the Question of Palestine

In this episode, host Dr Ntina Tzouvala is joined by Professor Ardi Imseis (Queen’s Law School, Canada) for a timely conversation about international law, the United Nations, and the long struggle for

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 3d

This type of critique as cover has been run either in the name of an ironic pragmatic expertise, or a disenchanted revolutionary purity standing above the fray of what is purported to be rival truth claims. twailr.com/critique-and...

Critique and Cover: Inheriting Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law amidst the ‘Radiance’ of Gaza

Adil Hasan Khan’s reflection celebrates Antony Anghie’s formative TWAIL text, drawing on Khan’s presentation at the ‘Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law: 20 Years On’ Conferen...

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Roots and Branches I The Podcast @rbpodcast.bsky.social · 5d

🔊 Episode #3 out now!
@whitproject.bsky.social (@politicsoxford.bsky.social) explores how the gender binary shaped the production and reception of international thought and what recovering overlooked voices means for present-day international relations.
open.spotify.com/episode/76f2...

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 5d

hope EU member states take this historical opportunity to NOT be weird xenophobic loser-monkeys and instead fast-track citizenship for researchers who relocate (as well as for their families)

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 5d

This is probably a desired goal for the Trump regime? They have inconsistent preferences mind you so there's another sense in which this is undesired. But "drive out the intelligentsia and weaken academia" is, under this aspect, a favoured policy goal of theirs.

www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Top US researchers rush to relocate to Europe

U.S.-based applicants to a prestigious EU research scheme have increased five-fold.

www.politico.eu

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 5d

since early 2025 I have set up a monthly donation to Wikipedia (one of humanity’s greatest achievements) and you should too. AI is (partly) a reaction against the extraordinary democratic promise that is Wikipedia.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7d

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 6d

one thing i think which informs ezra klein / derek thompson thought is this notion that liberalism won the war of ideas with facts and logic and not like a century and a half of intermittent warfare against the ancien regime(s).

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 6d

enlightenment 2: we are no longer asking

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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 5d

This is a disgusting conflation by the police of an abhorrent act of political violence and antisemitism on the one hand, and a completely unconnected peaceful political protest on the other.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Police ask for Palestine Action protest to be postponed to free up officers in wake of terror attack

Exclusive: Group organising protest says it will go ahead as planned and it is up to Met police whether or not it diverts resources to make arrests

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

i'll make you a deal: i will tearfully restrain myself from bringing up "surplus value" at all so long as you present a definition of working class that does not rule in car dealership owners on vibes

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 6d

I AM NOTORIOUSLY BAD WITH EXCEL SPREADSHEETS AND EVEN I HAVE HIGHER ACCURACY THAN 57%

LAISSEZ LES BON QUESO ROULER @thequeso.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely been said before but if you’ve got an AI agent that is 57% accurate you have an AI agent that is 0% accurate

Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 6d

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