Ecosocialist bluestocking. Immigrant & settler 🇪🇺🇨🇭🇺🇸🇬🇧. Social ecology & ecological economics at Uni Lausanne in 🇨🇭. Bad at email. She/her
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🚨 The HRF has filed a second urgent complaint in the #Netherlands 🇳🇱 demanding the immediate arrest of IDF officer Assaf Aviram, identified in Amsterdam. As commander in the 601 Combat Engineering Bat. in Gaza, Aviram is implicated in war crimes and genocide. Full details → https://bit.ly/3K9zc07
So far Trump has raked in as much as $3 Billion from crypto just since he has been in office, and Forbes estimates that half the family net worth is now in digital assets. And his cronies are busy cashing in, too. Outrageous and deeply damaging to our government and society. @rbreich.bsky.social
Yup. Irritant, makes it worse. It's been 2.5 years. I think I have tried everything.
Anyway. Health issues suck, doctors and dentists are saints, we are only as strong and ok as our bodies allow us, in the mean time we rely on the kindness of the community. We owe our lives and functionality to so many other people. Infinite thanks to the welfare state, etc.
Painkillers hardly put a dent in it, what works is continuous consumption of chocolate milkshakes. Sounds fun, but it is not. Super unhealthy, makes me gain lots of weight I don't need, feels gross and horrible. But it's that or insane debilitating pain. I am not enjoying this.
Not large in the scheme of things, but I have a horrific toothache (not infection, not life threatening) that will only be resolved next Thursday when the dentist has time to remove the goddamn molar. I cannot express how sucky this makes life. SUCKY.
"Economic Planning in the Anthropocene" 24-26 september, UNIGE Program : => shorturl.at/fuFbA @dehes.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @louisoncf.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social @rosiecollington.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social
L’université de Berkeley a transmis les noms de 160 enseignants et étudiants à l’administration américaine dans le cadre d’une enquête sur des «actes présumés d’antisémitisme». Judith Butler, qui figure dans la liste, dénonce de graves atteintes aux droits civils. ➡️ bit.ly/46nxaka
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Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...
The Washington Post wrongly fired Opinions columnist Karen Attiah over her social media posts. The Post not only flagrantly disregarded standard disciplinary processes, it also undermined its own mandate to be a champion of free speech.
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
Exactly.
Israel launched various attacks on six countries in the region over the course of 72 hours, according to Al Jazeera. But according to Israel, it is the one under threat from "hostile neighbors".
Boebert’s measure received no discussion when it was approved by the House on a voice vote as part of a package of amendments to the budget bill Tuesday. interc.pt/4pcpXw2
TL:DR: a man is dead. No-one knows who killed him. He had awful, extremist beliefs. No-one should be killed for their beliefs. Nor should anyone seek to use his killing to whitewash, normalise or capitalise on such beliefs. Boris Johnson is a self-seeking embarrassment who brings shame on Britain.
A propos of nothing much... www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLkP...
I forgot to write "evil". "evil inefficient clown fuels".
My therapist wants to read my book. For real.
PS in first plot, nuclear is multiplied by 3 for "thermal conversion" which is a nonsense convention. So yup, it should be closer to 2.7, if you want to compare directly to hydro, wind and solar.
Like I always say, dependency on fossil fuels is itself the main product of the last century. Cars being among the worst (best?) example.
I mean, fine, back in the day when fossil fuels were basically competing with burning every last single tree, fine. But now? When we have actual efficient alternatives from production to use, with negligible losses? Using FF is only profitable because of lobbying & state capture.
Amazing plot by LBNL heroes, showing oh-so-clearly that fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) are inefficient clown fuels that no one should ever take seriously. 2/3 losses from primary to useful, Jesus wept.
Btw need to be careful with ritalin and actual depression. They do Not Mix Well as far as I have read. Other paths should be explored with that combo.
This is what the book would be about basically. It's ... not quite there yet 😬🥸🤔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIUG...
So that's going well 😂
Went back into therapy, because [gestures] and also ADHD diagnosis + successful treatment is paradoxically making me super sad. Me: I think ADHD explains why I couldn't write a book, and probably never will, and I am trying to make my peace with that. Therapist: You need to write that book.
Happy to share our new research on UK climate politics 🚨 We found Members of Parliament (MPs) use the language of climate "pragmatism" to avoid rapid change. It risks becoming a new discourse of delay. More detail below and in 🧵 1/ theconversation.com/politicians-...
Let me guess: they are both psychopathic assholes and the whole world would be better off if they didn't have two dimes to rub together and had to depend on the kindness of the community.
Remember that what they are actually saying is that people should be removed to face torture and persecution
We haven’t reached out in days due to very harsh circumstances😔💔 Please I have a little daughter who can’t endure this. All I want is to feed her and my family😭 We haven’t received donations for days! Please help, you are our only hope in this genocide🙏 gofund.me/cbf569a9 @mommunism.bsky.social🙏
Got this heartbreaking message from Hanadi this morning chuffed.org/project/1339...
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Darin. Darin was studying business administration and her husband Fesal was studying accounting. Darin gave birth to their little girl Lareen during the war. They’ve lost everything and Lareen was injured by shrapnel recently. They need help ❤️
Honestly I think it had more to do with the pressure by Zurichs Regierungsrat Mario Fehr, than Della Valle. He is well known in Zuri for doing such things. Even though it is more than just a little tone deaf of her to basically join fundraising efforts for a genocide: www.watson.ch/schweiz/wirt...
Links to stories here. Looks like she was still working as head of FedPol in January, and started working for Israeli firm in February. Jesus. www.reuters.com/world/middle... www.20min.ch/fr/story/sui...
🤔🧐 Putting 2 & 2 together: it looks like January's extrajudicial arrest of @aliabunimah.bsky.social of @intifada.bsky.social in Switzerland might be linked Swiss FedPol police chief Nicoletta della Valle's political & financial interests, since she now works for Israeli security fund. 🤯🤦♀️
“It isn’t students who shy away from serious discussion – it is powerful elites enraged by the protests against Israel's war on Gaza and determined to restore by force a narrative and political consensus that has collapsed under the weight of genocide” — excellent piece by @abuaardvark.bsky.social
The only prayer that matters when it comes to the regular and repeated murder of American children while they are at school is the kind of prayer that is taking action, the kind of prayer that materially fights for the living, the kind of prayer that says "never again" and means it, from MN to Gaza.
The Antons, mother and daughter Nadha and Samar. Shot dead in turn by an Israeli sniper outside their Church. Their execution is described by the late Pope Francis in his book Hope.
I remember them too.
This is precisely why I asked this...I knew there were stories I forgot because no brain can retain this amount of countless horrors. It is good to have written accounts everywhere. And I'm glad you all remember this didn't start 22 months ago...but you don't have to remind Palestinians of that
THE most important thing, bar none, you need to understand about Israel bombing hospitals, killing journalists and double-tapping rescue workers is that it's been happening for almost 2 years straight with not a single Western media outlet giving a single fuck.
What is the one atrocity Zionists have committed in the past 22 months that you think about the most?
So many pictures of murdered and maimed children. So many. But also there was a beloved music teacher, Elham Farah, shot in the leg by a sniper to use as bait, then run over by a tank, in November 2023. A beloved old woman. A teacher.
There's not a soul in the streets, just a little 4-year-old boy playing in the sand in his yard. The commander suddenly starts running, grabs the boy, and breaks his arm at the elbow and his leg here. Stepped on his stomach three times and left. We all stood there with our mouths open.
And that's how we get 200+ murdered Palestinian journalists, no functioning hospitals, children dying from amputations with no anaesthesia, rescue workers buried alive, doctors singled out for the most brutal torture in Israeli jails. Oh yes- and famine and genocide. Slowest clap.
THE most important thing, bar none, you need to understand about Israel bombing hospitals, killing journalists and double-tapping rescue workers is that it's been happening for almost 2 years straight with not a single Western media outlet giving a single fuck.
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Definitely don't repost the research that anti-wind groups are trying to bury using lawsuits www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/services-1 drive.google.com/file/d/1TAZw...
Ezra Klein perfectly encapsulates why "abundance" thinking = climate failure. Infinite, unlimited new clean power is a fantasy, and always will be. And reducing demand is unthinkable: so something like the anxiety-expansion of data centres will *always* drive new fossil fuel use archive.ph/XALqd
THIS IS A BIG DEAL 🔥⛽🌏💀 MAKE A SUBMISSION ! The Australian Senate now has a Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change & Energy investigating climate disinfo orgs & funders Due by 12 Sept 2025 here: www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar... Cont'd below 🧵 #auspol #NZpol #AtlasNetwork
If you want to understand the plan here, you also have to understand what they’re doing in Haiti. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Yup.
"Necropolitics is the politics of being in conditions that are death-adjacent, death-inducing... Climate necropolitics means we are being sacrificed... Fossil fuel company CEOs (and of course all who support them) ... have made the calculation, and our lives, well, just don’t matter to them."
"Exxon-Mobil, BP, Shell, Gazprom, Saudi Aramco: they have all decided that power and wealth is worth more than all of our lives." Read @jksteinberger.bsky.social and join in this: "Bracing for the heat of the day, I wonder where we could find that half a chance …"
Necropolitics: “the death-inflicting politics of colonialism…where those in power don’t have to care who lives or dies. The priorities of the colonisers are elsewhere, in land, power and wealth grabs. The colonised are left in conditions where their lives are not even secondary, but irrelevant.”
Global warming is a deliberate policy of death for the poor, sick and vulnerable. A global necropolitics. jksteinberger.medium.com/climate-necr...
More than 400 people suspected to have died from extreme heat so far this summer in Phoenix, Arizona, and surrounding county - Temperatures have at least 110F (43C) nearly every day in August #climatecrisis Story by @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A soldier posted an image from his sniper scope targeting crowds at a Gaza aid distribution site, where over 1,800 aid seekers have been killed, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
Left- The IDF officer who planned the attack on the five Al Jazeera journalists Right- Boy mourning the death of his father
"“We are talking about a catastrophic reality taking place now in Gaza City,” said Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Civil Defense in Gaza, describing the blatant decimation of the city before the eyes and ears of the world" #TranslatingFalasteen #Gaza #Genocide
Over the past 16 months, @thenation.com has published regular dispatches from Lujayn, a teenager in the Gaza Strip. Lujayn has endured huge loss and trauma. Now she, along with the rest of Gaza, is starving. But she is still writing. This is her latest. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Israel has killed 237 journalists in Gaza in less than 2 years. That's more than both World Wars, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia and the US war in Afghanistan - combined. Which is what, some 60 years combined? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Israel kills 5 journalists of Al Jazeera and the New York Times decides to publish a piece explaining why Israel doesn’t like Al Jazeera and how AJ is controversial.
That is some crazy awful heat, especially in a lot of countries that don't normally deal with that heat level and don't have the air-conditioning and infrastructure to deal with it. Oof. That is a bad situation.
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Reminder that no-platforming fascists is always the right decision, and telling anyone who would want you to do otherwise to go fuck themselves is also always the right decision. The influence economy is rotting people's everloving actual brains.
American media would have absolutely held a live-stream with Hitler himself debating the pros and cons of fascism because it would go viral, the only metric that matters. I was invited to this and I told them to go fuck themselves
Damn, thats like over 104 degrees
I remember the super dry hot summer and smoke from the fires on the moors in the Pennines in Manchester in 2019 or 2017? Eery does not start to cover it. So wrong.
I hope we make it. I hope my elderly mother who is so vulnerable will make it. But some, many, human and non-human, will not. The fossil fuel and livestock industries are angels of death, torching their way through Europe right now. t.co/YwTBoLGvSo
I cannot describe Europe and the heatwaves this year. They started early, they kept going sooo high and sooo long, now one of the fiercest one is still roaring. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Two children died of starvation on Thursday, as WHO warns 12,000 children aged under five suffering acute malnutrition.
bit.ly/41wUn1L
Bronnie! So lovely to see you here. I was just thinking about you!
Plastics are a major threat to life and health, at all ages, all species. So the stakes are rather high, I would say. t.co/6vcptz0r8b
FWIW the list of participants to the Treaty negotiations is here. Some these groups are overtly dodgy (US petroleum and plastic bottling companies), many more will be covertly dodgy (coughs in Atlas Network astroturf). Lots of work to be done here. 💪💪💪 wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/ha...
Was alerted to this by the great @dpcarrington.bsky.social n and this epic article in the @theguardian.com . Top journalism, no notes, this is how it is done. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A propos of not very much, it would sure be great if scholars working on disinformation and industry lobbying were to investigate who is trying to derail plastic pollution treaty and who the heck is paying them.
This article mentions several "tactical options" but at numerous central London demonstrations, police often seek to identify individuals and then raid and arrest them later. If the Met doesn't detain 500+ people on Saturday, as organisers expect, protesters should prepare for this possibility too
Helsinki has recorded its first year without a single traffic-related casualty, with the last death occurring in early July 2024. Today, over half of the city’s streets have a speed limit of 30 km/h.
Revealed: Microsoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack Palestinians The tech giant developed a customized version of its cloud platform for Israel’s Unit 8200, which is housing audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians. www.972mag.com/microsoft-82...
I have not been on here much because words fail to describe how desperate, angry and hopeless I am at the accelerating genocide in Gaza. Obviously, this state is not helpful to anyone, so I am going to try to crawl out of it. Anyway. Listen to this. thefirethesetimes.com/2025/07/30/t...
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I cannot get over how no one in mainstream politics even disputes factual claims like this. Everyone admits that Israel is starving children and murdering desperate civilians. The only ‘debate’ is about what to call it and whether the motives of people protesting it are pure enough.
LinkedIn has removed hate speech protections for transgender people and people of color. www.advocate.com/news/linkedi...
Latest: I got the medical examiner report on Marie Blaise, who died of a heart attack in ICE custody Blaise's son told an investigator that he spoke with her on the phone the day of her death, and she complained of chest pains and said staff wouldn't let her see a doctor reason.com/2025/07/30/w...
Palestine Actions wins permission to challenge the Labour government’s ban. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
What is left to say? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please support Ahmed Nashwan in Gaza via this fundraiser. He is supporting a large family of children. The situation is unbearable. chuffed.org/project/1325...
Hasan and his kids need food, so please donate if you have the means and share regardless
Please donate if you can, and share/quote the original post 🙏