Reposted by GlumBirdNetpol @netpol.org · 12/10/2023Answering questions from Police Federation members, the Home Secretary rejected claims that police forces are “institutionally racist”. That's what Braverman means by a "“campaign against political correctness” - the same as always, cover for state racism www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...independent.co.ukBraverman doubles down on ‘woke’ police crackdown: ‘PC patrols not policing pronouns’Home secretary tells police conference she is fighting a ‘campaign against political correctness in policing’ 011
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 11/10/2023putting together the bibliography for PART ONE of For Land lmao this ain't even all of it (articles goes on for a few more pages) 020
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 06/10/2023The surprising thing isn't so much the tactic - an intimidation tactic calculated to stir fear in relation to local beliefs. The surprising this is that Amazon gold cartels have access to fucking JETPACKS 000
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 06/10/2023So, I just did some reading on this and, yeah, looks like alluvial gold mining gangs in the Amazon used fucking jetpacks and dressed up as aliens to attack indigenous people this year.indiatoday.in'7-foot flying aliens' in Peru ate faces, claim locals. Cops say they were...Terrified villagers in Peru claimed they were attacked by 7-feet-tall flying aliens. Now, local officials have stated that members of illegal gold mining gangs were likely behind the incidents. 120
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 06/10/2023this came to me in a dream and idk what to do with the idea so you all have to suffer with me 010
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 05/10/2023Deforestation in the Amazon is threatening South American monsoon patterns. If this study is correct, we are on the verge of a *rapid* decline in rainfall, of up to 30% present rates. This is the rainforest's death knell.science.orgThe South American monsoon approaches a critical transition in response to deforestationThere is evidence that the South American Monsoon is approaching a critical transition due to deforestation and land-use change. 010
Reposted by GlumBirdElizabeth Sampat @twoscooters.bsky.social · 24/09/2023This is the whole point of AI. It’s not to actually replace humans. It’s to change your title from “head writer” to “assistant AI technician,” not credit you, and pay you half of what you were paid before 3427911200
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 04/10/2023Labour will, of course, dutifully doff the cap to whatever capital demands. 000
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 04/10/2023Some of this gibberish will make it into attempts at what passes for policy in Britain today, some of it won't. The point, however, is to prepare for the most vile culture war shit you've ever seen when Labour inevitably take the reigns. 100
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 04/10/2023The Tory Party conference this year has been a circus of absurdity and reaction on a scale eclipsing any of their prior efforts. They have nothing but PR massaged violence to offer. An opposition in waiting, preparing to consolidate the far-right around it for the long haul. 100
Reposted by GlumBirdRowan 🏺 @rowantree.bsky.social · 03/10/2023This is chilling.youtube.com🚨 Undercover on the government's Rwanda planFor the past three months, Led by Donkeys has been investigating the government’s plan to forcibly send asylum seekers to Rwanda, a cornerstone of the Prime ... 013
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 02/10/2023Economic terrorism.news.sky.comChancellor Jeremy Hunt to confirm toughening of benefits sanctions while raising living wageWork and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride announced last month he was looking into changes to the Work Capability Assessment. Reducing welfare spending and getting people into work is part of the reason ... 000
Reposted by GlumBirdProlekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 01/10/2023For more of our analysis, check out this video:youtube.comFor Bread: on capitalism's global food crisisIn this short video, we give an overview of the fundamental factors driving the global food crisis. The piece looks at the way fertiliser has shaped agricult... 021
Reposted by GlumBirdProlekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 01/10/2023As we said last year: "Capitalism is not only destroying its own capacity to create food... It is ending the environmental conditions which have allowed for agricultural production per se." The food crisis is just starting.theguardian.comEurope’s olive oil supply running out after drought – and the odd hailstormHeatwaves around Mediterranean have damaged harvests and forced producers to import from South America 1137
Reposted by GlumBirdNetpol @netpol.org · 01/10/2023Refugee campaigner Tony Pierre is demanding an explanation from the Home Office and Northumbria Police after immigration enforcement officers raided his home without a warrant www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...theguardian.comRefugee activist’s house in Home Office raid for ‘unknown illegal persons’Campaigner Tony Pierre is demanding answers as to why his home was searched by immigration officers without a warrant 021
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2023There have been material preparations for escalation in the public domain since June last year too. News source below. Full speech from Army Chief here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=99iF...dailymail.co.ukBritish troops must be prepared to fight, says Army ChiefIn a speech on Tuesday, General Sir Patrick Sanders will say he had never seen such a clear threat to democracy as the 'brutal aggression' of Vladimir Putin 000
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2023This is not the first time British troops have been sent to Ukraine since February 2022, however. They've been there for the duration of this phase of the war (and before but that's a distinct thing).theguardian.comUp to 50 UK special forces present in Ukraine this year, US leak suggestsDocuments appear to list number of western special forces personnel in Ukraine in February and March 100
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2023One big factor in why Britain is particularly aggressive over Ukraine: Shell secured a 50 year exclusive deal to exploit the natural gas fields in the east of Ukraine, between Kharkiv and Donetsk, in late 2013. The outbreak of war has stopped the investment from realisation. 100
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2023To be clear: this is the first time since February 2022 that British troops will be deployed in Ukraine *openly*. That is a major escalation, verging on catastrophic. Whether or not the troops are there for training (doubt), the potential for open direct conflict is huge.theguardian.comBritish troops could deploy to Ukraine to train soldiers, says Grant ShappsDefence secretary says proposal being discussed would reduce reliance on UK and other Nato members’ bases 100
Reposted by GlumBirdProlekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 30/09/2023New podcast: www.patreon.com/posts/90077697?patreon.com[Podcast #33] Approaching Ecosocialism, part two: development debates and social bases | PatreonOfficial Post from Prolekult 033
Reposted by GlumBirdAlex Heffron @alexheffron.bsky.social · 29/09/2023Let’s be real the lack of solidarity with disabled people across the British left is fucking appalling. Even the bare basics are lacking. We’re still being told things like: “sorry we haven’t got the budget for it”. (I don't think it's just a British thing but it is very bad here) 4163
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 29/09/2023"Forgotten Crimes: The Holocaust and People with Disabilities" www.canonsociaalwerk.eu/1943_apeldoo...canonsociaalwerk.eu 130
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 28/09/2023little more up to date - regrowth for year already seems to have peaked (source: twitter.com/EliotJacobso...) 020
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 28/09/2023The second volume of Capital is absolutely fucking insufferable to try and translate into supplementary study aids and pedagogic materials. 030
Reposted by GlumBirdGhouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 28/09/2023Canada research chair of water resources and climate change: “The low streamflows in rivers across Alberta this year are unprecedented. In Calgary, he said the Bow River is at about half its normal level.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 196
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 28/09/2023What I mean isn't the chauvinist "class analysis first" shit. What I mean is that following the bourgeois media and its provocations down every rabbit hole or focusing on individuals to nauseous obsession is doing neither class analysis nor solidarity with oppressed people. 020
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 28/09/2023It feels futile to say that to not be beaten by the culture war shit, the left needs to stop biting at this point. Focus on signifiers and individuals above conditions, policy and class throughout the online left seems pretty ubiquitous, to the point of compulsivity. 110
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 27/09/2023The neoliberal climate consensus, insufficient and tentative as it was, has collapsed.bbc.co.ukRosebank oil field given go-ahead by regulatorDevelopment and production consents have been given to the offshore development west of Shetland. 042
Reposted by GlumBirdNetpol @netpol.org · 26/09/2023Presenting a reluctance to accept the importance of accountability for using lethal force as some kind of wellbeing issue is a new low for Rowley. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...theguardian.comMet chief says anxiety led firearms police to refuse to carry weaponsForce says some of the officers have started to return to duties but others are still refusing to carry firearms 021
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 26/09/2023oh boy, full fash from Braverman "She said multiculturalism “has failed because it allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives in it", and even "pursue lives aimed at undermining the stability and threatening the security of our society"."lbc.co.ukUncontrolled migration poses ‘existential challenge’ to the West, says Home Secretary Suella Bra...The Home Secretary has warned that a failure to control migration poses an "existential challenge" to the West. 011
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 26/09/2023Getting my head around the extent of plastic pollution has been fucking terrifying. It's everywhere, in the water and the air. It's estimated that the average person now consumes 5 grams of plastic a week, the equivalent of a credit card, through water, food and air intake. 010
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 26/09/2023It's gibberish which utterly ignores literally everything that happened in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s in terms of struggle 010
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 26/09/2023Crucial point: it's both gay people *and* women they're assaulting with this. Absolute patriarchal assault. 000
Reposted by GlumBirdJack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 25/09/2023"Every morning, news reaches us from around the globe. And yet we lack remarkable stories." Nothing to see here; just Walter Benjamin being so prophetic it's actually frightening. 011
Reposted by GlumBirdRowan 🏺 @rowantree.bsky.social · 26/09/2023The UK is a nightmare for trans people. Attitudes are not just becoming more reactionary, but are moving from a laissez-faire ignorance to hardened hate. There is no previously existing model of solidarity, but there is an increasingly entrenched cult of anti-trans violence and dehumanisation.bigissue.comBritain becoming more liberal-minded – but less tolerant of trans people, survey finds - The Big I...Britain is becoming more progressive and tolerant, a new survey has revealed – except when it comes to attitudes towards trans people. 163
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 26/09/2023I know and have known quite a few people who would literally be dead without this provision. The degree of humiliation that the British immigration system put them through to remain here on this basis is unrelenting already. 110
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 26/09/2023This is chosen very specifically. It is vile in every conceivable way. Join any migrant support group in your area. If there isn't one, start one. This cannot stand.bbc.co.ukAnti-gay discrimination not qualification for asylum, says Suella BravermanThe home secretary says fearing discrimination for being gay or a woman is not enough to qualify for refugee protection. 162
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 26/09/2023It truly is remarkable how fucking Christian anglophone interpretations of history - whether they're attempting to be progressive or not - really are. 000
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 26/09/2023There's a difference between understanding how institutions utilise history for ideological reproduction and "the sins of the father pass unto the son". The latter is a-historical moralising and, regrettably, seems to be the dominant view among the popular anglophone left. 100
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 26/09/2023My view is that what can end the quagmire is that it can only be practical things. Atm it feels like a lot of ecosocialism doesn't really know what to *do* in terms of action, so I think we need to force a strategic perspective. 110
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 26/09/2023I think that's a very reasonable commentary and I agree. I don't think the critique of degrowth or ecomodernism within it is good if I'm honest - quite ironically misses what the real crits are of both. But yeah, I do agree with it on the character of the discourse. 110
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 25/09/2023The two tendencies contain a few different definitions each tbh, and idk if that is the root of the problem. I think a lot the animosity can be rooted in the stakes of popular academic confrontation. Public intellectuals gotta showboat these days, so detail and constructive debate suffer. 110
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 25/09/2023Not defending his choice of publication at all, to be clear. I think the misrepresentation of degrowth is more egregious, but it does occur on both sides. Bit tired rn, but I'll try to remember to dig out some examples tomorrow! 110
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 25/09/2023The ending paragraph doesn't make very much sense at all and is misleading, do agree there. It earnestly feels like it comes out of nowhere. I think it's most realistically just been shoved in to meet a brief unherd put in after accepting a draft, but it does contain a right wing canard. 010
GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 25/09/2023I don't think he is punching left here. Do agree with the crit of the publication though. Can understand not wanting to give him a generous reading, but I think it weakens the counter-arguments not to. To be clear, I don't the article is very good; my concern is effective criticism. 210
