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akindnessofravens.bsky.social @akindnessofravens.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Brutal.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
One of Norway's largest fuel companies just announced that they will no longer refuel US Navy vessels after Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy. “It made us sick... We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example.”
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Suli Qyre @suliqyre.com · 01/03/2025
“The difference between inner experience and philosophy resides principally in this: that in experience … what counts is no longer the statement of wind, but the wind.” — Georges Bataille, Inner Experience
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Hopelessness is an important element of Neo-Liberalism.
I think there has been a war of the imagination 
over the last several years. I was thinking a 
lot about what there might be to be optimistic 
about and I came to the conclusion that this 
feeling of hopelessness that everybody has 
is a manufactured product, and that’s what 
Neo-Liberalism is really about. Neo-Liberalism 
isn’t just an economic program, it’s a political 
program designed to produce hopelessness 
and kill any future alternatives."
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  - David Graeber
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akindnessofravens.bsky.social @akindnessofravens.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Carl Jung; Red Book, page 129
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akindnessofravens.bsky.social @akindnessofravens.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Greg Olijnyk; F-Bomb - faith or fission? All cardboard, with a little perspex for the windows. About 800mm high, with a little illuminated atom model in the top structure and pulsating red and white lights in the reactor inner middle section.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
"Any competent economist knows 
where radically slashing spending 
during a recession is likely to lead.
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They might pretend otherwise,
summoning up obscure formulae 
to back up their political patrons 
of the moment, but that’s just 
their job – they know it’s a 
recipe for disaster."
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  - David Graeber
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akindnessofravens.bsky.social @akindnessofravens.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Endless growth leads to destruction
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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Afonin Alexander Pavlovich, Far from this world
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akindnessofravens.bsky.social @akindnessofravens.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Mikhail Mikhailovich Germashev
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Lightacandle @lightacandle.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Cartoonist Matias De Brasi
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akindnessofravens.bsky.social @akindnessofravens.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Leter alltid etter et skilt
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akindnessofravens.bsky.social @akindnessofravens.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"I don't mean to alarm you, but I was just outside and everything's basically the same."
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akindnessofravens.bsky.social @akindnessofravens.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Inverso panem et circenses… 🤔 The use of bread and circuses by the liberators to build identity with the enslaved who have come to identify with their enslavement.
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LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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Patrick @patrickstaley.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Gnome Chomsky
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akindnessofravens.bsky.social @akindnessofravens.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
åre mot eller
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akindnessofravens.bsky.social @akindnessofravens.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Albertine Books French Embassy New York City
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Tea with Tolkien @teawithtolkien.com · 05/02/2025
if I see one more post about how being a Hobbit is all about sitting around barefoot and eating potatoes I’m going to snap. it’s about toppling authoritarian regimes through self-sacrifice and love in action!!! get off your butt!!!! (you can bring the potatoes with you though)
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
"The war against the imagination is the only one the capitalists have actually managed to win." From; Revolutions In Reverse by David Graeber
"There is no better way to ensure people are not 
politically active or aware than to have them working, 
commuting to work, or preparing for work every 
moment of the day. Sacrificing so many of one’s 
waking hours to the gods of productivity ensures 
no-one has access to outside perspectives that 
would enable them to notice that organizing life 
this way ultimately decreases productivity. 
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As a result of this neoliberal obsession with stamping 
out alternative perspectives, we have been left in the 
bizarre situation where its plain to everyone that 
capitalism doesn’t work, but it’s almost impossible 
for anyone to imagine anything else."
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  - David Graeber
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Ruairi Dubh @ruairidubh.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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akindnessofravens.bsky.social @akindnessofravens.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
After this, Death tried it on a larger scale
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akindnessofravens.bsky.social @akindnessofravens.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"Our daily life has fallen among prosaic things and ignoble things, but our dreams remember the enchanted valleys." — W. B. Yeats
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akindnessofravens.bsky.social @akindnessofravens.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
WB Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This isn’t going to go well. #TrumpsTariffs
Graph showing that Americans get MUCH more oil from Canada than they think.
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Solidarity✊ @solidarity2025.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Absolutely
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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Boynton Canyon, Sedona, Arizona 📷 Pat Brod
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Ruairi Dubh @ruairidubh.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
✨Happy Imbolc✨🍀🇮🇪
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 01/02/2025
How right wing are the Westminster Unionist parties - and where might they be going? What does this mean for Scotland? I've been taking a deeper look at that new Royal Holloway comparison of MPs and their economic ideologies: open.substack.com/pub/yesinpic...
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How right wing are the Westminster Unionist parties?
How right wing are the Westminster Unionist parties in Scotland, and how do they compare with national parties like the SNP?
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RosemaryPictish🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @rosemarypictish.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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akindnessofravens.bsky.social @akindnessofravens.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC. — Kurt Vonnegut
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Ruairi Dubh @ruairidubh.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
✨ Brigid of Faughart mural, Bridge Street, Dundalk✨🇮🇪🍀
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 31/01/2025
"The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on." —Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, 1974
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 31/01/2025
As a casual non-white observer, it’s so bizarre to see folks work so hard to try to prove their superiority over someone like me when they could spend that time actually bettering their own lives and…I don’t know, be happy instead of miserable fucks.
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 31/01/2025
Alba & Èirinn: Bùth-obrach Òrain is Sgeulachdan na Fèinne Scotland & Ireland: Songs & Stories of the Fianna 26 Feb, online – pay what you can Màiri MacMillan & Gráinne Holland explore songs & stories of Finn MacCool & the Fianna scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:58...
Alba & Èirinn: Bùth-obrach Òrain is Sgeulachdan na Fèinne
Scotland & Ireland: Songs and Stories of the Fianna

(Wed 26 Feb: 7pm)

As part of World Gaelic Week/Seachdain na Gàidhlig, join Scottish Gaelic singer Màiri MacMillan and Irish Gaelic storyteller and singer Gráinne Holland for an online workshop exploring songs and stories of Finn MacCool and his band of warriors, the Fianna, which form part of the shared Gaelic cultural traditions of Scotland and Ireland.

Màiri and Gráinne will explore a selection of songs and stories related to some of the key characters in the Finn tradition, focussing primarily on Diarmaid and Grainne and their doomed love story.

This is a trilingual event in English with story and song content in Gaelic and Irish. No prior knowledge of Scottish Gaelic or Irish is required to attend, everyone welcome!
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The truth is we already have all the growth we need, it is just being stolen by the richest. We need to take it back.
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The fact that this crash, likely caused by understaffing of air traffic controllers, happened at an airport named after another shitty Republican president who understaffed air traffic controllers, is one of those hilarious little ironies that makes living in America such a treat
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services. Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt. While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant per person of £10tn. That's how privatisation 'works'.
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Relaxing in Maine🇺🇸🇨🇦🇵🇪 @retiredinmaine.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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akindnessofravens.bsky.social @akindnessofravens.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Hva med meg? [what about me?]
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akindnessofravens.bsky.social @akindnessofravens.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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akindnessofravens.bsky.social @akindnessofravens.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome. — Noam Chomsky
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