If there's any justice, that extreme error of judgement (how could any human being think that Mandelson was not a piece of shit?) should bring down Starmer. Frankly it should bring down the whole government. And all of you Labour party members who didn't bury this bastard years ago - fuck you all.

And then he was allowed to undermine any attempt within the Labour party to restore its principles. And then Starmer, the inept fool, decided to give him a job. Probably on the very grounds that he went to the same parties as Trump. And we now know clearly what kinds of parties those were.

A traitorous associate of paedophiles was allowed to sit at the heart of the Labour government for so long - and happened to be the man who was instrumental in its pivot away from being a party for the working classes! The amoral architect of Labour's abandonment of its heartlands.

Alas, so do I.

hmmm. That's true, but this kind of thing emerges even in contexts where there aren't such pressures, as in the case of the guy who said "previously there has not been an anthropology of ethics". He might have even taught you ;)

see also "previously there has not been an anthropology of Christianity"

Growing up in Liverpool (80s/90s) it was usually "entry" but occasionally "jigger".

That climate change interest group listserv explosion was one of my highlights of AAA, did a great thing in burying all my other emails so I could focus on having fun in New Orleans

I liked twitter for Mongolian reading practice but even then most of the social interaction with friends there and keeping up to date with Mongolian stuff happened on facebook. (Still does - pretty much the only reason I'm still on facebook now.)

I like discord in a way that I never liked twitter.

I don't have much nostalgia for anthrotwitter though. It was far too America-centric, just parochialism all the way down.

@wildtwin.bsky.social hope you don't find this too much of a mischaracterisation!

And I think it's certainly true that Adam Smith would have torn into this bullshit.

I used to be sceptical about the concept on the grounds that I thought it more useful to call it liberalism &to emphasise the historical continuity (& highlight the relation between social and economic liberalism).I've gradually come around to the idea that there is discontinuity that needs the neo-

I got your Viking Blood Feud for Christmas. Given it has an academic affiliation on it I'd say you're in more danger of being absorbed by greedy academic megapublishers!