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Oli Mould

@olimould.bsky.social

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Academic at large, but lectures in human geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. linktr.ee/olimould Researches anti-capitalism & cities. Christianarchist. Toffeeman. Interested in scifi, films, architecture, music and t-shirts. Toffeeman

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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · Nov 23

I'm an anti-capitalist, and here's why you should be one too.

A spoken poem by me

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7W9...

I'm an Anticapitalist, and here's why you should be one too: Spoken Word Poem

YouTube video by Oli Mould

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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 47m

As such, billionaires live outside of what it means to be human: no community, no difference, no care: they are overdetermined by the system that defines humanity through property and profit.

Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 49m

Billionaires aren't human. Using Slyvia Wynter's work, we can say that they exist at the apex of an *anti-human* system, where the capacity for care, relationality, and mutual dependence (the basis of praxis, of community) is replaced by accumulation and abstraction.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 10h

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 5h

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 7h

This is the kind of energy I need for Teams meetings

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 10h

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7h

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 7h

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 11h

For a global economy to 'function' (i.e. for trade practices to actually benefit the agreeing countries financially) then the free flow of labour needs to match the free flow of goods: this is the basic premise of any globalisation theory.

Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 11h

I remember, when helping in the Calais Jungle back in 2016, the massive razor wire fences going up around the arterial roads in and out of the port to stop people jumping onto the trucks. I thought then that they'll do their utmost to protect the flow of goods, but not people.

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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 11h

This excerpt about the PM's trip to India speaks volumes as to how global trade in our increasingly nationalistic world is attempting to drive a harder wedge between the movement of goods and the movement of people

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It will mean UK cars and whisky will be cheaper to export to India, and Indian textiles and jewellery cheaper to export to the UK as part of the multi-billion pound trade boost.

The deal included a three-year exemption on social security paid by Indian employees working in the UK on short-term visas.

But ministers insisted there were no wider changes in immigration policy.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 13h

There is something deeply broken in the UK and it has absolutely nothing to do with migrants, especially with 1 in 25 properties being vacant.
This should be the number one priority for the government. Instead more and more homeless individuals are dying.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high

Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.

www.bbc.com

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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 1d

Why is this statue of a narcissistic, libertarian, hyper-militaristic monster who butchered India on proud display in front of the Foreign Office of all places?

Statue of Robert Clive on a plinth outside the Foreign Office in London

Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 1d

that's kind of what I was hinting at

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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 1d

If he was ever PM, he'd outsource all the meetings, admin and probably PMQs to private subcontractors.

Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 1d

Then a coalition being the end game? The fights would be even worse as they'd be in cobra meetings.

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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 1d

*Spilled pint. A pilled pint is something very different indeed

Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, but this kind of doomerism is not helpful now. We know the playbook, we know their end game. All this rhetoric does is depress us.

Yes it's bad, but we're not there yet, and there's every chance we won't if we continue to infuse our politics with a bit of hope.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 1d

If, sorry, when Jenrick defects to Reform, it'll be interesting to see how him and Farage joust for being top dog. They're both narcassist blowhards and so they'll end up fighting each other like a couple of pissed up hags squabbling over a pilled pint at closing time.

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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 2d

You don't need to be a geographer (though it helps) to know that the our experiences of life is so bound up with the local 'scale', that if you have a party that has been completely born out of the ideological scale of the 'nation' trying to do local politics, it will ALWAYS fail

Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 2d

When you explain to people why local council funding is in the doldrums (i.e. perfect storm of austerity, real estate gentrification, inequality etc.), it's such an excellent tonic to the hate of Reform. It's when their ideologies come crashing onto the rocks of reality.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone remember Reform promising to go into their new councils with DOGE-style units to slash “waste” and stop taxes from rising? Yeah, it went exactly as you’d expect if you put people in charge who have no idea how anything works.

Reform poised to raise Kent council tax as Musk-inspired attack on costs falters
ANNA GROSS - KENT
Kent's local authority will probably raise council tax rates next year as Reform UK strugglesto find big savings under an Elon Musk-inspired cost-cutting drive.
Kent was one of 10 councils that Nigel Farage's rightwing populist party seized in a swath of local election victories in May. He vowed to save "a lot of money" by abolishing "wasteful" spending.
But Diane Morton, Reform's cabinet member for adult social care on Kent county council, told the Financial Times that services were already "down to the bare bones".
"We've got more demand than ever before and it's growing." she said, stressing she did not believe access to those services should be limited. "We just want more money." As with many local
authorities in England, the bulk of declined to say whether council tax Kent's budget went on adult and chil-
would be raised but other Reform coun-
dren's social care, as well as on children cillors said they wanted to avoid hitting
with special educational needs, which the full 5 percent.
together accounted for about 50 per
Reform's experience highlights some
cent of its £2.5bn annual expenditure.
of the obstacles it may face in national
All councils have a legal duty to bal-
government if it won the next general
ance their books and will set next year's
election and pursued its pledge to slash
budgets in February or March. Ahead of taxes and spending. "Everyone thought
that, most councils in England are we d come in and there were going to be
expected to increase council tax by 5 per
these huge costs we could cut away but
cent, the maximum allowed.
there just aren't," said a third senior
"I think it's going to be 5 per cent,"
Reform cabinet member in Kent.
Morton said of where Kent would land
Farage has set up a Reform Depart-
on tax rises, adding that every 1 per cent ment of Government Efficiency team -
increase equated to an extra E10mn.
modelled on Musk's "Doge" i…

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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 2d

The military going into cities, and folk being dissappeared is not a 'distraction', it's THE problem. As are the files yes, but please can we stop with 'everything else is a distraction' discourse? A dead cat is still dead.

Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · 2d

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.

But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 2d

(of course, science fiction horror films, Alien, Event Horizon, The Thing etc. are extra political)

Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 2d

Horror is a more political genre than science fiction. There I said it.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 3d

Biden was the midwife of fascism, and Starmer appears to want to be the same. The UK electoral system might not let that happen, but it's going to be a scary 4 years waiting to find out.

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