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John Brissenden

@brissenden.bsky.social
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Grandfather. Jack Russell Terrier survivor. Senior lecturer in the [REDACTED] at the University of [REDACTED].

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Palantir repeating a central myth behind speculative whiteness: white, western culture produces the high-tech future; other cultures regress into the past.
upress.umn.edu
Speculative Whiteness
Reveals the alt-right’s project to claim science fiction and—by extension—the future Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films a...
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John Brissenden @brissenden.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I’m absolutely not a Doctor Who person (because I know it’s a programme for children), but this is a great post.
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
🗣️"To speak of the “demise” of the UK university is not to suggest its disappearance, but its transformation into something increasingly unrecognisable." #AcademicSky #HigherEducation
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Why are UK universities failing? - LSE Impact
The HE sector in the UK faces the prospect of a university going into administration. How have universities fallen so low and is change possible?
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John Brissenden @brissenden.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Is *anyone* reporting on the mass destruction of jobs in UK HE?
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John Brissenden @brissenden.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Don’t threaten us with a good time
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The amount of pain and misery that the US is heaping upon the world is staggering. Everyone knows that fuel fertilizer food shocks are coming. While millions go hungry & governments are destabilized. More here: tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe... bsky.app/profile/bloo...
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𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒂 𝑯𝒊𝒋𝒂𝒛𝒊 🇵🇸🫒𝑰𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒛𝒂 @monahijazi.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
If you love Palestine and Gaza, please sign here – we’d truly appreciate it! ❤️🇵🇸✍️
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John Brissenden @brissenden.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Fetterman is no worse and no better on the #Gazagenocide than thousands of other western politicians and media leaders. If only they could all undergo the same long, humiliating decline as him.
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John Brissenden @brissenden.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This is like a Cindy Sherman joint
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
They’re both 100% behind an ongoing genocide
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 02/05/2025
It's interesting that Reform's councillor gains almost exactly equal Tory losses, and LibDem and Green gains almost exactly equal Labour losses.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
UPDATE from the attacked Gaza aid ship: They're trying to enter Maltese territory because of damage to the ship, and fears of a possible second attack. The Maltese Coast Guard is allegedly blocking them. "I am just following orders from higher authorities," an officer is heard over the radio.
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AGC @agc1985.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
@laboursatvir.bsky.social Here's another example of the hatred and distress being unleashed against trans people. Please act with compassion and get your government to change direction urgently before it does more harm.
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Cisness brutalizes us all. The border guards of sex are the enemies of human liberation, and we fight them best by refusing to debate the fairness, let alone the accuracy, of their borders in the first place. thenation.com/article/society/supreme-court-trans-ruling-analysis-uk/
thenation.com
The UK's Anti-Trans Ruling Is a Defeat for All Women
Even the self-described feminists celebrating the Supreme Court's attempt to banish trans people from womanhood will pay a heavy price.
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
gold.ac.uk
Palestinian Scholarship
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Dr Anna Bull @annabull.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
See Anna Bull's blog post for the Good Law Project. Sexual misconduct strikes at the heart of university life. goodlawproject.org/sexual-misco...
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Sexual misconduct strikes at the heart of university life | Good Law Project
Too many professors are pursuing their students and causing untold harm, says Anna Bull.
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John Brissenden @brissenden.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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John Brissenden @brissenden.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I’m off to announce wide-ranging tariffs. Anybody want anything?
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Sir Norman of Nowhere. CSE. 🏴‍☠️ @sirnorman.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Thought for the day. Fascism Arrives as Your Friend - Michael Rosen.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/03/2025
This is a good read on why AI generated art is so beloved by fascists newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
newsocialist.org.uk
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
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John Brissenden @brissenden.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
A reminder that if you’re hoping for a big family, it’s not too late to name the kids from the NATO phonetic alphabet. Charlie, Delta, Echo, India, Juliet, Lima, Mike, Oscar, Papa, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Victor, X-ray, Zulu.
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Turns out that consumer economies implode when people lose their jobs on a mass scale and can't spend money. Who knew?
fortune.com
‘The Big Short’ investor who predicted the 2008 crash warns the market is 'underestimating’ the economic impact of DOGE’s mass firings
The cost-cutting spree isn’t limited to government—billions in private-business contracts are affected, Danny Moses told Fortune.
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John Brissenden @brissenden.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I’ve tried watching #Severance but it’s too depressing watching a show about work. Change my mind
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Leila Kawar @leilakawar.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
In light of the current events in Israel-Palestine, a large number of filmmakers have made their films available online for free. (see thread below)
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
look at the date on this. as Tracey Emin said, we are stuck! stuck! stuck! our attention economy is absolutely stagnant, it's a bad open mic night, dominated by a crew of morons who will not leave the stage and cannot get new material.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 20/03/2025
Chinese EV company BYD’s recent announcement of new fast charging tech catapulted its market value to more than $160 billion — far above that of established Western automakers. US EV darling Tesla, by contrast, has seen its shares fall precipitously since December. www.semafor.com/article/03/2...
Global EV market faces major shakeup as Tesla recedes, BYD ascendsA chart labeled "BYD and Tesla stock price performance, year-to-date" shows BYD rising 57% and Tesla dropping -39%
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Grant Buttars @gbuttars.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Please support ending UCU's dispute with UCU Unite and uphold the union's commitment to equality. We need Jo Grady, UCU General Secretary to end the dispute and act on the union's commitment to equality, especially to Black staff and members tinyurl.com/UCUUniteSoli...
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UCU - End the dispute with Unite and embody the union’s commitment to equality
Dear Jo Grady, We, the undersigned UCU members and members of the community, urge you to do everything in your power to resolve the dispute with UCU Unite as soon as possible. UCU proudly signed up ...
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John Brissenden @brissenden.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I need an Ennui Coordinator
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John Brissenden @brissenden.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
How it started etc
Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura in some Ace Ventura filmWalton Goggins as Rick Hatchett in THE WHITE LOTUS S3
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John Brissenden @brissenden.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Who said it: Paul Mason or Donald Trump?
Let nobody be fooled! The hundreds of attacks being made by Houthi, the sinister mobsters and thugs based in Yemen, who are hated by the Yemeni people, all emanate from, and are created by, IRAN. Any further attack or retaliation by the "Houthis" will be met with great force, and there is no guarantee that that force will stop there. Iran has played "the innocent victim" of rogue terrorists from which they've lost control, but they haven't lost control. They're dictating every move, giving them the weapons, supplying them with money and highly sophisticated Military equipment, and even, so-called, "Intelligence." Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN, and IRAN will be held responsible, and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire!
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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I'm so happy that I discovered Andrew de Waard's brilliant book DERIVATIVE MEDIA while still finishing the final edit of my Fast & Furious book! His argument about media production as a form of derivative perfectly matches my point on hegemonic media franchises. www.ucpress.edu/books/deriva...
ucpress.edu
Derivative Media by Andrew deWaard - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Tfw you are tireless in your “support and defence of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets”
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Annanson John @annanson-j.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Neocolonialism is the last stage of imperialism.
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Chad M. Baum @chadmbaum.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
New #GENIE article on #climate emotions at a global level, and how these correspond to support for ten climate intervention approaches. Now available in Risk Analysis (with @liviafritz.bsky.social, Elina Brutschin, Benjamin Sovacool) 🧵 Open access link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
F I G U R E 3 Emotions about climate change (hopeful, afraid, angry, and sad) across 30 countries, on a 1–5 scale (1 = not at all, 5 = extremely) withN = 30,284 participants (at least 1000 participants in each country); Numbers to the left reflect those answering “1” or “2,” in the middle “3,” and to the right“4” or “5.” Panel (a) shows the results for “hopeful”; Panel (b) for “afraid”; Panel (c) for ”angry”; and Panel (d) for “sad”.
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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"West Europeans, liberal media elites, and establishment figures are seeing the face the US routinely presents itself to the nations of the global south. And the truly shocking thing is they're now getting the same treatment."
averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com
The End of the American Illusion
With Donald Trump in the White House, the political climate can change with the wind. The grotesque spectacle of the tangerine tyrant and ...
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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Other world leaders are now getting pulled into Starmer's rake stepping singularity. The draw is too powerful.
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Charlotte @charlottor.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
You have to say that it is simply very funny that *the very next day* after Starmer was all “hello please come for tea with our king” Trump’s gone FUCK OFF THEN to Zelenskyy. The only thing Starmer’s briefcase brigade care about is Ukraine, he’s fucked it
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
7D chess has gone well I take it?
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Bassam Khawaja @khawaja.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Israeli authorities denied an orthopedic surgeon entry into Gaza last week, preventing her from providing crucial treatment to children with disabilities. www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...
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Israeli Authorities Block Health Care Workers from Entering Gaza
Israeli authorities denied an orthopedic surgeon entry into Gaza last week, preventing her from providing crucial treatment to children with disabilities. One of her patients, Minah, a 3-year-old girl...
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Fascinating interview with @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social exploring the concepts needed to make sense of Trump’s threat thepointmag.com/dialogue/the...
thepointmag.com
The Real People | The Point Magazine
Jan-Werner Müller is a political philosopher and historian of ideas who teaches at Princeton University.
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John Brissenden @brissenden.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Be great to see Trump deal with Netanyahu like this www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
bbc.co.uk
Trump tells Zelensky 'make a deal or we're out' in angry White House meeting - follow live
The US president calls his Ukrainian counterpart
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
My publisher wrote to ask for my consent to allow the #Scarfolk book to be used in #AI training. My reply is post watershed.
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John Brissenden @brissenden.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Reminds me a bit of Gudetama, the perpetually tired and apathetic egg yolk from Japan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudetama
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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
your bill is going up in april
keir starmer on a podium saying "there's a famous slogan in the united kingdom"
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Gourdo! 🎃 @posting.fan · 28/02/2025
Starmer should bring back Happy Slapping
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