@jggd
PhD researcher, NINE DTP - UK ESRC Political Geography at Durham University, UK Scottish Arctic GeoPolitics Scottishness & Arctic politics, Northern & oceanic imaginaries, archipelagic turn, liminal geopolitics.
Coming here to see if people are also buzzing about the Greens victory in the byelection yesterday :D
A cathartic slap in the face of Labour and a significant signal for the left that the far-right can be pushed back 😁
'Greens wins Gorton and Denton byelection'
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
"Prosecutors sought to have his case dismissed without prejudice, allowing them to later re-charge him. But the judge rejected that request, citing the defendant’s arguments that “future prosecution may be politically motivated” – a claim that, the judge noted, the government had not contested."
De plus en plus de paysans s’installent à plusieurs. Accès aux terres facilité, pratiques écologiques, meilleures conditions de travail… Les fermes collectives dessinent une voie pour sortir du système productiviste.
Lire l'article ➡️ https://l.reporterre.net/fHm
#OtD 21 Feb 1919 British suffragette and anti-war-activist Alice Wheeldon died of influenza aged 53. Her health had been broken by a stint in prison after she was framed by MI5 for a bogus plot to assassinate the PM stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9368...
« Sulfureux », c’est un terme pour qualifier une romance avec des scènes de cul, pas une fasciste.
About Epstein, Edge, eugenics, and finding my name in the Epstein files.
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
@virginiaheffernan.bsky.social: "With the Epstein files, we’re confronted with exactly what all the Edge men [...] did with the intellectual territory they seized [...] the would-be intellectuals [...] converged on nothing less than the ideology of Mein Kampf."
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
Deadline extended to the Monday 23rd Feb. 2026!
Send your abstracts to me (joaquim.gaignard@durham.ac.uk) or my co-organiser Siewying Shee (siew.y.shee@durham.ac.uk)
"The US slips to its lowest-ever rank in a global #corruption index"
edition.cnn.com/2026/02/10/b...
Trump has channeled billions of dollars to ICE for the express purpose of building a private army to scapegoat communities and repress political enemies. There is no appropriate role for ICE.
The road to fascism is paved with reforms that pacify people just long enough to tighten the vice.
It Really Is Safer in the Front
On 1/24, in response to the murder of Alex Pretti, protesters converged on the ICE facility in Portland.
A participant describes the experience of crossing the line into revolt and discovering that when everyone does this together, our oppressors’ power evaporates.
Deux chercheurs passent au crible les méthodes d’évitement fiscal des grands groupes présents en France. Et avancent des pistes pour mieux estimer le poids réel des montants qui n’entrent pas dans les caisses de Bercy.
This. What is generally termed #AI (actually mainly #GenerativeAI / #LLM -driven automation), has no real path to financial viability (or necessity), so "forced adoption" is the only way the billionaire elite and their political minions are going to enrich themselves from it in the longer term.
J'ai lu ce billet de blog l'autre jour qui parlait de ça aussi... c'était intéressant, déprimant hein, mais intéressant; en particulier la plausible accélération d'une différenciation entre production d'idées originales et relégation à la réplication et vérif'
hegemon.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
La démocrate Ilhan Omar agressée physiquement lors d'une réunion publique à Minneapolis
www.humanite.fr/monde/democr...
I see it as part of the pathetic vision of "masculinity" these losers all have: a man is an entitled whiner who has no responsibilities or duties and who demonstrates his manliness by causing harm to others.
Accordingly, anything that might impair his manly wanton destruction is unjust and unfair.
We're organising a session "Conceptualising futurity through geographies of volume" for the next RGS-IBG Conference (1–4 September 2026)!!
More information on the attached images.
Email 250-word abstracts to siew.y.shee@durham.ac.uk and joaquim.gaignard@durham.ac.uk by 19/02/26
Please share! 😀
La France a reconnu la Palestine mais ne veut pas des Palestiniens. Le programme « Pause » d’accueil en urgence des scientifiques et des artistes en danger n’examinera plus les candidatures des Gazaouis. C’est peu dire que ce pouvoir nous fait honte.
www.mediapart.fr/journal/cult...
“The general strike is the name for when the riot, the strike, and the commune all happen at once,” late theorist Joshua Clover said..."that’s the day, the week, or the year where there will be a role for everyone.” There is a role for everyone; that time must be now theintercept.com/2026/01/24/s...
Original post: hachyderm.io/@mariyadelan...
🚨Update : à 10 voix près, le Parlement européen décide de saisir la CJUE !
I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
Goes great with another fresh piece about another incident of tech hubris that crashed into a pile of burned-up money. I can tell you there will be cheering across the world if/when the AI bubble pops.
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
"it's inevitable"
"You just have to accept it"
"If you don't use it you'll be left behind"
"You're just a luddite, this is the future"
Resistance under Russian-occupation is beyond dangerous — even the smallest sign of supporting Ukraine can result in imprisonment, torture, and even death.
Ça aussi ça devrait être un scandale tonitruant mais rien…
➡️ l.humanite.fr/V4g
Tony Blair Should Be on Trial for War Crimes, Not Running Gaza
Donald Trump confirms he is appointing the former UK prime minister as one of the founding executive members of his new board to oversee a post-war Gaza.
Here’s why that’s a terrible idea: zeteo.com/p/tony-blair...
Violences à sainte-soline : le collectif de blessé-es annonce re-déposer plainte
Ste-Soline : Le collectif de blessé-es annonce re-déposer plainte
Samedi dernier, lors d'une réunion publique à Poitiers, le collectif des blessées de Ste-Soline et leurs proches a annoncé déposer prochainement, une plainte collective avec constitution de partie civile.
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Demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel’s violations of human rights:
Sign the initiative to the EU Commission:
citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...