Alex Doherty
@redandinexpert.bsky.social
Host of @poltheoryother podcast.
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ICYMI - Liz Pelly on the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform negatively impacts musicians, and how Spotify manipulates the listening habits of users:
Spotify unwrapped w/ Liz Pelly | Politics Theory Other
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December 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
ICYMI - Liz Pelly on the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform negatively impacts musicians, and how Spotify manipulates the listening habits of users:
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reposting so i remember to listen
📢💥 Spotify unwrapped 📢💥 - Liz Pelly on the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform negatively impacts musicians, and how Spotify manipulates the listening habits of users:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Spotify unwrapped w/ Liz Pelly
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 12/03/2025 · 1h 36m
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December 4, 2025 at 11:41 AM
reposting so i remember to listen
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Good news from Mexico:
The government will: "incrementally trim the working week from 48 hours a week to 40 hours per week by 2030. If passed, the official working week limit would be reduced two hours a year starting in 2027"
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
The government will: "incrementally trim the working week from 48 hours a week to 40 hours per week by 2030. If passed, the official working week limit would be reduced two hours a year starting in 2027"
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Mexico to increase minimum wage and shorten work week
The 2026 minimum wage increase will bring the accumulated rise in salaries to 154 percent since 2018
www.independent.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Good news from Mexico:
The government will: "incrementally trim the working week from 48 hours a week to 40 hours per week by 2030. If passed, the official working week limit would be reduced two hours a year starting in 2027"
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
The government will: "incrementally trim the working week from 48 hours a week to 40 hours per week by 2030. If passed, the official working week limit would be reduced two hours a year starting in 2027"
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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1) Putting this out on Spotify wrapped day is top drawer leftist killjoy behaviour, respect
2) Ok I'll start biting the bullet, anyone tried the bandcamp alternatives mentioned here / UK library streaming services?
2) Ok I'll start biting the bullet, anyone tried the bandcamp alternatives mentioned here / UK library streaming services?
📢💥 Spotify unwrapped 📢💥 - Liz Pelly on the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform negatively impacts musicians, and how Spotify manipulates the listening habits of users:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Spotify unwrapped w/ Liz Pelly
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 12/03/2025 · 1h 36m
podcasts.apple.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
1) Putting this out on Spotify wrapped day is top drawer leftist killjoy behaviour, respect
2) Ok I'll start biting the bullet, anyone tried the bandcamp alternatives mentioned here / UK library streaming services?
2) Ok I'll start biting the bullet, anyone tried the bandcamp alternatives mentioned here / UK library streaming services?
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Really interesting discussion for Spotify Wrapped day 😬
📢💥NEW EPISODE 📢💥 @lizpelly.bsky.social joins PTO to talk all things Spotify. We spoke about the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform impacts musicians, and its insidious consequences for music listening.
Spotify unwrapped w/ Liz Pelly
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 12/03/2025 · 1h 36m
podcasts.apple.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Really interesting discussion for Spotify Wrapped day 😬
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📢💥 Spotify unwrapped 📢💥 - Liz Pelly on the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform negatively impacts musicians, and how Spotify manipulates the listening habits of users:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Spotify unwrapped w/ Liz Pelly
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 12/03/2025 · 1h 36m
podcasts.apple.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
📢💥 Spotify unwrapped 📢💥 - Liz Pelly on the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform negatively impacts musicians, and how Spotify manipulates the listening habits of users:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Spotify doesn't respect artists or music lovers.
📢💥 Spotify unwrapped 📢💥 - Liz Pelly on the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform negatively impacts musicians, and how Spotify manipulates the listening habits of users:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Spotify unwrapped w/ Liz Pelly
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 12/03/2025 · 1h 36m
podcasts.apple.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Spotify doesn't respect artists or music lovers.
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Great ep
📢💥 Spotify unwrapped 📢💥 - Liz Pelly on the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform negatively impacts musicians, and how Spotify manipulates the listening habits of users:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Spotify unwrapped w/ Liz Pelly
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 12/03/2025 · 1h 36m
podcasts.apple.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Great ep
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Looking forward to listening to PTO (as ever)
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Looking forward to listening to PTO (as ever)
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📢💥NEW EPISODE 📢💥 @lizpelly.bsky.social joins PTO to talk all things Spotify. We spoke about the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform impacts musicians, and its insidious consequences for music listening.
Spotify unwrapped w/ Liz Pelly
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 12/03/2025 · 1h 36m
podcasts.apple.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM
📢💥NEW EPISODE 📢💥 @lizpelly.bsky.social joins PTO to talk all things Spotify. We spoke about the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform impacts musicians, and its insidious consequences for music listening.
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[on a prospective Andy Burnham Labour leadership]
‘I don’t think that would be even close enough to save Labour’s hide…Everytime you get a soft left leader of the Labour Party they get absolutely crucified by the rw press and they move to the right anyway’
100% agree!
‘I don’t think that would be even close enough to save Labour’s hide…Everytime you get a soft left leader of the Labour Party they get absolutely crucified by the rw press and they move to the right anyway’
100% agree!
ICYMI - @leninology.bsky.social responds to listener questions on the proliferation of AI generated content, the prospects for the Green Party, Sahra Wagenknecht stepping down as leader of the BSW in Germany - and what her political legacy consists of...
Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener questions
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 11/22/2025 · 1m
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November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
[on a prospective Andy Burnham Labour leadership]
‘I don’t think that would be even close enough to save Labour’s hide…Everytime you get a soft left leader of the Labour Party they get absolutely crucified by the rw press and they move to the right anyway’
100% agree!
‘I don’t think that would be even close enough to save Labour’s hide…Everytime you get a soft left leader of the Labour Party they get absolutely crucified by the rw press and they move to the right anyway’
100% agree!
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ICYMI - @leninology.bsky.social responds to listener questions on the proliferation of AI generated content, the prospects for the Green Party, Sahra Wagenknecht stepping down as leader of the BSW in Germany - and what her political legacy consists of...
Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener questions
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 11/22/2025 · 1m
podcasts.apple.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:40 AM
ICYMI - @leninology.bsky.social responds to listener questions on the proliferation of AI generated content, the prospects for the Green Party, Sahra Wagenknecht stepping down as leader of the BSW in Germany - and what her political legacy consists of...
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100%
"If it sounds like it's Nazi shit, it's supposed to. The bourgeois state and its political servants have for some time now been trying to get a bit of the glamour of fascism." [email protected] on Labour's asylum policy announcement:
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 AM
100%
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"There's a kind of deliberate dressing up in the regalia, and the attitudes of fascism as they - in their blithe and cynical way - pave the way for an actual fascist kind of administration." - @leninology.bsky.social on the Starmer government's announcements on asylum policy:
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"There's a kind of deliberate dressing up in the regalia, and the attitudes of fascism as they - in their blithe and cynical way - pave the way for an actual fascist kind of administration." - @leninology.bsky.social on the Starmer government's announcements on asylum policy:
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"If it sounds like it's Nazi shit, it's supposed to. The bourgeois state and its political servants have for some time now been trying to get a bit of the glamour of fascism." [email protected] on Labour's asylum policy announcement:
November 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"If it sounds like it's Nazi shit, it's supposed to. The bourgeois state and its political servants have for some time now been trying to get a bit of the glamour of fascism." [email protected] on Labour's asylum policy announcement:
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fantastic interview on the history, state of research, and problems with geoengineering. Very much in line with my writing on SRM
📢☀️NEW EPISODE📢☀️ Sofia Menemenlis joins PTO to talk about her recent article on the threat of solar geoengineering in the @the-breakdown.bsky.social:
November 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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The "social factory" as descriptive metaphor for contemporary capitalism disappeared almost as soon as it was uttered. Extraction has since been far more explanatory. So, to read:
"The global system of connection built out in the 1990s has turned the social world into a resource for the oldest form of capitalism, extraction. For that kind of work Texas makes an ideal home... - Fred Turner
The Texan Ideology | Fred Turner
The Texan Ideology reflects a century-old fusion of the oil industry and millenarian Christianity.
thebaffler.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The "social factory" as descriptive metaphor for contemporary capitalism disappeared almost as soon as it was uttered. Extraction has since been far more explanatory. So, to read:
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📢💥NEW PTO EXTRA 📢💥 - @leninology.bsky.social responds to listener questions on the proliferation of AI generated content, the prospects for the Green Party, Sahra Wagenknecht stepping down as leader of the BSW in Germany - and what her political legacy consists of...
Interregnum - Richard Seymour responds to listener questions | Politics Theory Other
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November 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
📢💥NEW PTO EXTRA 📢💥 - @leninology.bsky.social responds to listener questions on the proliferation of AI generated content, the prospects for the Green Party, Sahra Wagenknecht stepping down as leader of the BSW in Germany - and what her political legacy consists of...
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So it's funny that David Keith was the name referenced by Bill Gates here, bc this REALLY GOOD @poltheoryother.bsky.social podcast episode includes a bunch of detail on Gates + Keith's geoengineering efforts
pca.st/episode/fa6c...
pca.st/episode/fa6c...
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
So it's funny that David Keith was the name referenced by Bill Gates here, bc this REALLY GOOD @poltheoryother.bsky.social podcast episode includes a bunch of detail on Gates + Keith's geoengineering efforts
pca.st/episode/fa6c...
pca.st/episode/fa6c...
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fantastic interview on the history, state of research, and problems with geoengineering. Very much in line with my writing on SRM
📢☀️NEW EPISODE📢☀️ Sofia Menemenlis joins PTO to talk about her recent article on the threat of solar geoengineering in the @the-breakdown.bsky.social:
The Sunlight Managers w/ Sofia Menemenlis
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 11/05/2025 · 46m
podcasts.apple.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
fantastic interview on the history, state of research, and problems with geoengineering. Very much in line with my writing on SRM
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“New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible.” --Zohran Mamdani
For @hammerandhope.bsky.social I wrote about what comes next.
hammerandhope.org/article/mamd...
For @hammerandhope.bsky.social I wrote about what comes next.
hammerandhope.org/article/mamd...
Zohran Got New Yorkers to Hope. What’s the Plan to Deliver?
Organizers who brought him to the verge of victory are looking ahead to the challenges of democratic governance.
hammerandhope.org
November 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
“New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible.” --Zohran Mamdani
For @hammerandhope.bsky.social I wrote about what comes next.
hammerandhope.org/article/mamd...
For @hammerandhope.bsky.social I wrote about what comes next.
hammerandhope.org/article/mamd...
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📻 Sunday listening 📻 - Alexander Gallas on popular support for the Thatcher governments of the 1980s, Thatcherism as a "two-nations hegemonic project" and the debates between Stuart Hall and Bob Jessop on how to make sense of Thatcherism:
Rewind: Alexander Gallas on the Thatcherite offensive
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 11/15/2025 · 52m
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November 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
📻 Sunday listening 📻 - Alexander Gallas on popular support for the Thatcher governments of the 1980s, Thatcherism as a "two-nations hegemonic project" and the debates between Stuart Hall and Bob Jessop on how to make sense of Thatcherism:
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Fully endorse. Alexander's book on Thatcherism is truly excellent.
📼 PTO REWIND 📼 - Alexander Gallas on popular support for the Thatcher governments of the 1980s, Thatcherism as a "two-nations hegemonic project" and the debates between Stuart Hall and Bob Jessop on how to make sense of Thatcherism:
Rewind: Alexander Gallas on the Thatcherite offensive
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 15/11/2025 · 52m
podcasts.apple.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Fully endorse. Alexander's book on Thatcherism is truly excellent.