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Oscar Talbot

@talboto.bsky.social

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PhD at Uni of Amsterdam Abolition Ecology and all things to do with power, ecology, and climate collapse

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine this happening in the UK and not having to sigh 'what do their parents do?' every time you hear about a new band. Wouldn't it be great to hear music from somebody who isn't directly related to the Lord Admiral Wythenshawe Bloodfeast MP, the Butcher of Bangalore?

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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 3d

the right to peaceful protest (even when you don’t like the cause or the protestors or how often they do it) is not a gap in the law, it’s called living in a free democratic state.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 3d

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 3d

The ICE agents claiming workers comp for whatever weird cancer these chemical weapons cause in 10 years is going to drive me insane

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 4d

ICE gassed members of the Chicago Police Department sent to protect them from protesters

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 4d

Continued video of feds gassing protestors and CPD alike. In the chaos one woman came to a CPD officer asking for help for a relative that she says feds just grabbed.

Officer response: "We just clocked in. We don't know what's going on."

Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 6d

I once went to a Purim celebration where we read Critiques of Violence aloud and discussed it for about hours. I think we managed something like 4 pages

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 6d

This is both the most encouraging and most terrifying response anyone could possibly receive about the prospect of trying to summarise Walter Benjamin's Critique of Violence for a general audience in a single podcast episode. But I am both an ambitious and insane individual.

Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 6d

Sounds great. It’s a tricky text but I look forward to hearing how you tackle it

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 6d

This is both the most encouraging and most terrifying response anyone could possibly receive about the prospect of trying to summarise Walter Benjamin's Critique of Violence for a general audience in a single podcast episode. But I am both an ambitious and insane individual.

Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 6d

Sounds great. It’s a tricky text but I look forward to hearing how you tackle it

Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations on this exciting accolade

Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 6d

Sounds great. It’s a tricky text but I look forward to hearing how you tackle it

Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 6d

Wat fijn!! Gefeliciteerd

Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 6d

Have you considered that maybe the cartoon robot has male chromosomes??

Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 6d

This looks great! If you ever want to talk about abolition (and climate justice) or Walter Benjamin's Critique of Violence let me know

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Truthout @truthout.org · 7d

Italy’s largest union has announced another general strike on October 3rd in response to the treatment of the Global Sumud flotilla which has put out a statement confirming the “vessels are being illegally intercepted”.

We Said “We Will Block Everything” and We Did: Inside Italy’s Strike for Gaza

Following a 24-hour general strike on September 22, the country is now gearing up for a national protest on October 4.

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 7d

Alma vessel has been boarded - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/alma-vessel-has-been-boarded

Alma vessel has been boarded

<article data-history-node-id="429494" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/alma-vessel-has-been-boarded" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/alma-vessel-has-been-boarded" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Alma vessel has been boarded</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli soldiers have boarded the Alma vessel, Middle East Eye can report. </p> <p>Alma is a the lead vessel of the Sumud Flotilla. </p> </div> </div> </article>

www.middleeasteye.net

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12d

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died

Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

www.whatimreading.net

Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 14d

the latest Sumud vessels from @freedomflotilla.bsky.social has been attacked for the tenth time on its current mission including using chemical irritants and flares

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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 15d

VVD:
Een keffiyeh = antisemitisme.
Een 🍉 = antisemitisme.
‘From the river to the sea’ = antisemitisme.
‘Free Palestine’ = antisemitisme.

Een Hitlergroet?
Ook VVD: ‘Laten we niet te snel iedereen een neonazi noemen.’

Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 16d

Just like Isaak asimov promised us

Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 16d

“This isn’t the metaverse of science fiction—it’s a way of getting around the fact you, an adult, live in a small room in an expensive flatshare without the space or money for a large television.”

gabriel burrow @gabrielburrow.bsky.social · 16d

As Mark Zuckerberg continues to humiliate himself trying to capture the AR and VR space, I figured it was worth taking the pulse of the "metaverse".

tl;dr: It’s sub-par escapism for people experiencing a sub-par way of living—cyberpunk with the knobs turned down.

gabrielburrow.com/2025/09/22/m...

Metaverse or Torment Nexus?

There’s a common joke within science fiction circles derived from a Tweet by author Alex Blechman (2021). It reads, “Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale. Tec…

gabrielburrow.com

Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 16d

Misschien we kunnen een survey met deze vragen bij de VVD congres

Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 17d

It might help if he came out and said something really normal. Perhaps that he ‘always sits in front of a union Jack’ or that he is a ‘supporter of flags’. I think it would really resonate

Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 18d

An underemphasised aspect of this is that you also had to disconnect your phone taking you out contact and setting a time limit

Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 18d

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 19d

Are these pencils nice? I'm mostly a blackwing user

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 19d

The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization.

This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.

Kamermeerderheid vindt Antifa terroristische organisatie

Een meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer wil dat Nederland, in navolging van de Verenigde Staten, de extreemlinkse beweging Antifa aanmerkt als terroristische organisatie. Een motie daartoe van Lidewij de V...

Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 20d

One day you’re accusing your political opponents of being pro paedophile, the next your political opponents are accusing you of being pro paedophile. Life moves fast in British politics

Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 21d

Prisons are necessarily places that use concentrations of human beings in terrible conditions to punish.
A prison can never be green, it can only use eco language to continue the tighten the ratchet
Heat deaths, propensity to infection, and exposure to pollutants are part of the program of jail

Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 22d

A formerly incarcerated writer argues that, as long as prisons exist, they should reduce their environmental impact.

How Prisons and Jails Can Go Green

A formerly incarcerated writer argues that, as long as prisons exist, they should reduce their environmental impact.

prisonjournalismproject.org

Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 22d

Given that Melvyn Bragg is stepping down from In Our Time I really hope that the BBC is able to see the success of intellectual programming and choose someone with intellectual heft rather than more dumbing down of the programming

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 22d

“15m downloads a month and more than half their audience is under 35.” Good read on the success of The Rest Is History pod. Strikes me that mainstream broadcasters dumbing down history to “OMG #iconic” spoon-fed shite left a huge gap that they’re filling

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

‘We’re insanely hubristic’: how The Rest Is History became the world’s biggest history podcast

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook on storytelling, their strangest interactions with fans and bonding over The Lord of the Rings

www.theguardian.com