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guy mannes-abbott

@guymannesabbott.bsky.social
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Author & critic of things essential, sometimes in the form of e.things -see In Ramallah, Running (2012) for example. In muddy flight… #rivering

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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
‘I do not believe in time, I do believe in water.’ Nomenclature. Now… Raven Row
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Yes. If you're a bigot who wants to divide communities, a billionaire wanting to preserve your wealth or a "newspaper" that wants to preserve power: we're very sinister indeed. To everyone else: feels a lot like hope. Join.greenparty.org.uk
The greens could be about to get even more sinister
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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Happy Father’s Day, from A. 13yrs (and I).
Happy Father’s Day, from A. 13yrs (and I).
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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
‘Karachi lacks sufficient cooling centres and public heat-relief infrastructure. [Yasir Darya] added that the city’s shrinking tree cover is worsening the urban heat effect and increasing exposure for vulnerable populations.’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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‘It’s no longer exceptional’: Karachi struggles under brutal new reality of extreme heat
Experts say the unseasonably hot weather across south Asia shows the impact of the climate crisis
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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Palestine will be free
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Labour MPs showed much boredom at the amount I talked about the Govt’s outrageous attack on jury equity while I was on the committee for the Courts and Tribunals Bill. This principle, established firmly since 1670 (!) must remain in place, and any new leader absolutely must leave juries alone.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Completely unacceptable from the Board of Deputies. This nakedly partisan hypocrisy does not represent me or many other British Jews. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Michael Wegier, executive director of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, told Haaretz that Reform UK “is a serious party with many supporters, local councillors, and an increasing number of members of Parliament from month to month, which cannot be ignored. They have also expressed very broad support for the fight against antisemitism. There was no way we would not invite them.”

He added: “We did not invite the Greens’ Zack Polanski because we very strongly do not believe he has done enough to root out antisemitism from his party.”
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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
3 out of 3 💚💚💚
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Make Hate Weird Again.
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
“How Israel is wiping Southern Lebanon off the map” — front page of today’s @liberation.fr
Front page of French daily newspaper Liberation showing large scale destruction with the headline:

“How Israel is wiping Southern Lebanon off the map”
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Some men say an army of horse and some men say an army on foot and some men say an army of ships is the most beautiful thing on the black earth. But I say it is what you love. -Sappho, trans. Anne Carson #everynightapoem as ever
Some men say an army of horse and some men say an army on foot and some men say an army of ships is the most beautiful thing on the black earth. But I say it is what you love.

Easy to make this understood by all.
For she who overcame everyone in beauty (Helen)
left her fine husband

behind and went sailing to Troy.
Not for her children nor her dear parents 
had she a thought, no-
]led her astray
]for lightly
reminded me now of Anaktoria 
who is gone.
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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
SomedAy Everybody miGht Sort of ReflecT a liTTle Bit on whEther BeinG lethAlly GunG Ho duRing a Genocide whEn it TRULY maTTered MiGht Just Be a Bit of a CareEr Obstacle giVen the Genocide and All. So a MicRo ShaVe migHt be iN hOrs d’oeUvre? PerhapS.
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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
It’s the day! Vote FOR actual change, where ‘major’ meets ‘minor’, planet meets locale! And against genocide! Vote @greenparty.org.uk 💚🌱
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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
It’s the day! Vote FOR actual change, where ‘major’ meets ‘minor’, planet meets locale! And against genocide! Vote @greenparty.org.uk 💚🌱
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The Green Party want to end Rip Off Britain. This Thursday, vote for the party that wants to put wealth and power back into all our communities. Meltdown headlines from billionaire press this morning alone show what we're up against. Vote Green. Join.greenparty.org.uk
Claire coutinho: green party is biggest threat to ukPoliticians are capitalising on the public's economic delusion Is this the green party's worst policy yet?Green shirts; Polanskis party are the real racists.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The system is rigged. An illegal war hikes bills for stuggling families - meanwhile energy giants rake in profits. We don't have to live like this any more. Vote Green on May 7th.
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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
And that levy should be hypothecated for or to green/clean/renewable energy infra build or roll out or retrofit in a clearly identifiable. This* happened because of this windfall and sped this*, which would represent some steely justice💚
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
While ordinary British families struggle to cope with rising energy prices, oil giant BP has more than doubled its profits in the wake of Trump and Netanyahu's illegal war - an absolute disgrace. We need a further windfall tax now. news.sky.com/story/oil-gi...
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Oil giant BP announces huge rise in profits in first results since Iran war
"Exceptional" oil trading contributed to the more than doubling of profits, BP said.
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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
England (little).
England (little).
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 21/04/2026
Israel has killed more than 700 people in Gaza since last year's US-brokered 'ceasefire' aje.news/niqwe0
Israel has killed more than 700 people in Gaza since last year's US-brokered 'ceasefire'
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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Fugitivity here is not only a historical phenomenon.
It is a present living condition, the logic by which the dispossessed, the colonised, and the native carve out spaces of life that remain opaque to the systems that seek to track, classify, and eliminate them?
Firas Shahadeh | The Maroons
IBRAAZ
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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
A day like this…
A day like this…
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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Zumthor’s monumental LACMA ‘required 15,000 tonnes of steel reinforcement, twice as much as all the metal in the entire Eiffel Tower. For every sq metre of floor area, there are 2 cubic metres of solid concrete supporting it’ multiples of ‘typical’ concrete build. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Like a concrete aircraft carrier: was LA’s giant new $724m gallery really worth all the carbon emissions?
Built on tar swamps and two tortuous decades in the making, Lacma’s latest addition used twice as much metal as the Eiffel Tower. How did America supersize revered architect Peter Zumthor?
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
💥Polls closed in Hungary. No exit poll, but 21 Research Institute’s Apr 8–11 exclusive survey for @telexhu.bsky.social shows the opposition Tisza party leading Orbán's Fidesz 55–38, with the far-right Our Homeland around the 5% threshold. Tisza is on the verge of a parliamentary supermajority.
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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
tell somebody who'll tell somebody another world is possible
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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
And why she’ll almost certainly return to big contract column life on the Times or Telegraph in the time-honoured way (since they don’t quite need to go to ‘Paraguay’ hehe). Steady supply of these fools who, when they get in the room with tangible £power$, pirouette wildly in their neediness.
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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Bud. Ladybird. Snail. ‘Kin. Emerging wetlands scrub, Burgess Park, Southwark.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Today I asked Ministers to reconsider suspending visas for students from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan, including for the prestigious Chevening scheme. An extremely poor response to an extremely important question.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
@sussex.ac.uk's no.1 world ranking for Development Studies makes it a prime destination for Chevening scholars. This is a truly devastating decision for students in the global south and conflict regions who wish to develop their knowledge to affect positive change in their home countries.
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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
https://experimenter.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4e1f9fcaadd2699833204bbae&id=a80f5bd918&e=ca70f5097c
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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Caught late but caught.
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 06/03/2026
'Thoughts of exploration are never far from the mind when immersed in this remarkable record. It lives up to its title, sounds apparently sprouting from the seeds of ideas, climbing through the creative consciousness’s soil...' Shabaka - Of The Earth buff.ly/a4H1F76
Shabaka - Of The Earth album cover. The artist wearing a hat and black, red and green scarf, glancing skyward.
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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Mutt Not-Sore Goodloser should be rewarded by Reform with the Admiralty of Cornus Cobus Commonwealthia.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Picasso's depiction of a fascist massacre, a murdered family unceremoniously tangled together under a dining table. [Pablo Picasso, The Charnel House, 1944-45]
Oil and charcoal on canvas, abstract cubist bodies piled together. Description from MOMA site: "With its varying degrees of finish—you can see traces of charcoal and sections of blank canvas—and vast network of undulating lines and geometric shapes, Picasso seems to have obscured legibility in favor of generating a rhythmic abstraction. As if questioning the ability of painting to represent war, he created a shifting, spectral vision."
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 02/03/2026
Plumber, Plasterer, Parliamentarian! 💚
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/03/2026
Warner: "There was no imminent threat to the United States by the Iranians. There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the US, then we are in uncharted territory."
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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
If you’re feeling up to it… one if my favourite songs just got more resonant: www.instagram.com/reel/DTjLINz...
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All There Is with Anderson Cooper on Instagram: "Patti Smith and Anderson Cooper listen to “Farewell Reel,” a song Patti released in 1996 after her husband, Fred “Sonic” Smith, died. “Every line in it...
87K likes, 1,522 comments - allthereis on January 15, 2026: "Patti Smith and Anderson Cooper listen to “Farewell Reel,” a song Patti released in 1996 after her husband, Fred “Sonic” Smith, died. “Ever...
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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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Jehad Abusalim @jehadabusalim.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
36 children were killed in an Israeli strike on a girls’ elementary school in Hormozgan province, Iran. The same doctrine that bombed schools in Gaza is now bombing schools in Iran.
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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
At least 40 students killed so far at a school in Minab according to AlJazeera
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Two fascist regimes dragging the world into war.
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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Even that imperial mouthpiece the NYTimes is not having it.
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Israel waged a war of annihilation in Gaza. Now it wants everyone but itself to disarm. Trump is acting on Israel's direction in bombing Iran. Israel ignores the sovereignty of neighbouring states & is a danger to humanity. Israel should surrender their WMDs. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...
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Israel waged a war of annihilation. Now it wants everyone but itself to disarm | Opinion
As Israel Ignores the Sovereignty of Its Neighboring States, the Country Continues to Prove How Dangerous It Is to Leave Unrestricted Weapons and Armaments in Its Hands, and How Much It Endangers Regi...
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guy mannes-abbott @guymannesabbott.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Zev زيف זאב @zevsamm.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Somehow the Americans have a more cringe war name (Epic Fury) than the Israelis (Roaring Lion)
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Here's a clip of me reading from my translation of Mathias Énard's THE DESERTERS, from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social and New Directions, recently longlisted for the @thebookerprizes.com , for Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social : youtu.be/qSxnBV4aMh4?...
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Charlotte Mandell reads from Mathias Énard’s THE DESERTERS (Fitzcarraldo/New Directions, 2025)
YouTube video by Translators Aloud
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