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Jacob Bolton

@jacobbolton.bsky.social
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geography teacher ~ PhDing at LSE ~ climate futures, shipping, the arctic ~ liquidtime.substack.com

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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Pissed off, immersion totally broken, that psychic move types are super effective against a creature type without a nervous system
Photo of a Nintendo ds, showing togepic in a fight with tentacool, who has zero health, and the dialogue says ‘it’s super effective!’.
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Appreciating tuchel much more since understanding his fundamental waluigi energy
Tuchel, beside of pitch, fists clenched, a bit stooped, gangly and weird looking, sort of chaotic evil grin
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
me trying to recruit new members to the polycule
screenshot from a book, it says 'One of us is a farmer, one of us likes to draw, one is a media junkie, another has a lab, some of us are queer, and all of us think a lot'
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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 22/06/2026
@andyburnham.bsky.social
Guy showing Andy Burnham something on his phone Andy Burnham reacting like “oof”
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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Starmtroopers right now....
Willie from the Simpsons shouting at 'the leader' Willie still loves you!
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
somehow, even in his resignation speech, its not really clear what he's doing or why
Screenshot of Guardian story, it says:

09.37 BST
Starmer says he accepts 'with good grace' that he is not best person to lead Labour into next election

Starmer says he accepts the decision he has to go with good grace.

    The question being asked now is not who was best placed to change the Labour party, to take us into power and to begin the vital work of improving lives for millions of people. Those questions have been answered.

    The question my party is asking now is whether I am best placed to lead us into the next general election.

    I have heard the answer of my parliamentary party to that question, and I accept that answer with good grace.

    Every decision I’ve taken has been about putting the country I love first. That is why I will resign as leader of the Labour party.

    I have spoken to His Majesty the King this morning to inform him of my decision.
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
do you think if i factory reset it i can get it working
ebay listing of macbook air, it's hilariously bent and crushed in a kind of cartoonish way. apparently it got ran over by a car? It's £104
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
just took my 2020 trooper iphone SE to a trade in shop to see how much I could get off a newer one... £4 lol. depreciation rate absolutely wild
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Just emailed my MP urging him to add his name on this. I think others should do the same.
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
i do love the constant audacity of Liverpool, I remember when the official merseyrail metro map was titled THE CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE
Map of Britain’, colour coded, shows data of poll by borough of ‘what is britain’s second city’. In England it’s mostly Manchester, wales/midlands mostly Birmingham, Scotland mostly Edinburgh, all except for a tiny area around Liverpool that considered it firmly Liverpool.
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Happy DOI day to @elaraks.bsky.social, new article out from her massive and ambitious project on damp and housing dispossession in London www.researchgate.net/publication/...
researchgate.net
(PDF) Proximity and positionality: Situating knowledge through the experiences of quantitative air quality data collectors working in participants' homes
PDF | Data collection is a vital part of the research process, and those who conduct this work play a foundational role in shaping research. Despite... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
i saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by dutch academic positions
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Last Time I Saw Richard – Joni Mitchell It's Gonna be Lonely – Prince Cue – YMO One Mo' Gin – D'Angelo It's Not Easy – Ofege Bibo No Aozora – Ryuchi Sakamoto I Was Young When I Left Home – Bob Dylan Since I've Been Loving You – Led Zep One In a Million – Aaliyah I Try – Macy Gray (Jay Dee Remix)
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
proud to say i've done a 10k
screenshot of email inbox, live account has 10,000 unread emails
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
why didnt anyone tell me cocteau twins are actually good
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
here's my idea of how to save US-Italy relations, Catholic-protestant relations, and the World Cup
screenshot of satellite image of Vatican City. I've drawn a football pitch on the plaza outside st peter's basilica
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
here's my idea of how to save US-Italy relations, Catholic-protestant relations, and the World Cup
screenshot of satellite image of Vatican City. I've drawn a football pitch on the plaza outside st peter's basilica
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
absolute banger of a piece from @charmainechua.bsky.social. a history of logistical space, from customs zones of the 1800s to their newfound use as concentration camps today, go get it placesjournal.org/article/the-...
placesjournal.org
The Warehouse, in Plain Sight
That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
a while back me and @miriammthsn.bsky.social wrote a piece about how 90% of the world's goods do not, in fact, move by sea. now its the source for google's claim that they do. like come on man read just two words on
Screenshot of google search. It says, in the authoritative black text of google's answers, that '90% of the world's goods are moved by sea'. 

Underneath is a link to a blog, called '90% of the World's Goods are Moved By Sea. Says Who?'
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
alright this makes Helen Dewitt's blog title 'we lose again' ten times funnier
Wikipedia page of The Last Samurai, the novel by Helin Dewitt. Highlighted texts says 'DeWitt had found the publication process to be a struggle: there were typesetting problems arising from her use of foreign text, an "accounting error" that led to her owing a publisher $75,000 when she thought they owed her $80,000, and a struggle with obtaining the rights for the book's original title, The Seven Samurai (a reference to the Akira Kurosawa film featured in the book), forcing her to change the title only to see it be used for a Hollywood film starring Tom Cruise.[1][2]'
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This! Also, Greek ships delivering arms, coal etc to Israel have been basically turning off their AIS and faking their destinations on their manifests...
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
What does calling a ship part of the 'ghost fleet' mean, and who gets to decide? New writing from @miriammthsn.bsky.social over at liquidtime dot substack dot com liquidtime.substack.com/p/four-quest...
liquidtime.substack.com
Four Questions About the So-Called ‘Shadow’ Fleet
In recent months there’s been a lot of talk about the ‘dark’ fleet, or the ‘shadow’ or the ‘ghost’ fleet.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 08/04/2026
Presenting the reopening the Strait of Hormuz as a victory is like the Greeks failing to take Troy but celebrating the safe return of their wooden horse
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
My neighbour's son was wrapped up with this church for a bit in Peckham – apparently the pastor told congregation to go home and get their valuables, trade them in at CeX up the road, then put the cash on the altar as a sign of devotion
Guardian article. Text says 'They say you have to buy blessings’: the London women who gave everything to a controversial church

Regulator rules Universal Church of the Kingdom of God did not protect vulnerable donors, including woman who says she gave life savings'

There's a photo of a dismayed looking Black woman in a smart coat standing in front of a sign that says 'UCKG', showing the entrance to the church.
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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
New improved shelf labelling at Sainsburys
A fake label slipped into place on a shelf in a Sainsbury’s supermarket. It’s designed copying the house style exactly, but the price has been replaced with the date of the Palestinian Nakba.  The product info has other information.


Apartheid hummus

Buying this product helps support genocide.

Since £19.48
The year of the Nakba
Israel has killed 20,000 Palestinian civilians in the last 2 months

Search #BDS for more info.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
There is no death for an otter, only life to the end.
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The first part of our symposium on the American-Israeli war on Iran. @tobycjones.bsky.social on the deep and terrible intertwining of Empire, oil and Palestine. @guylaron.bsky.social on the history, and future, of oil wars. www.break-down.org/oil-war/
break-down.org
Oil War
Responses to the American-Israeli war on Iran
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
very much urge everyone to learn the weeds of political economy through my friend @yusufimaadkhan.com's batshit chart aggregator that ends with an all-timer boss fight (click top right 'the owl of minerva flies at dusk') www.yusufimaadkhan.com/charts
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Thomas Hale @thomasnhale.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
One fossil fuel crisis costs the UK more than shifting to net zero by 2050. And how many more such crises can we expect in the next 24 years? A great example of how the proper temporal frame clarifies costs and benefits #longproblems www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’
Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Goldsmiths at long last offering what all of us alumni crave: free will
Email from Goldsmiths Alumni people, it says 'Your free Will Service'

Dear Jacob,

We are pleased to share a new benefit available to our alumni and friends. You can now write a basic Will for free with MyIntent.

A Will means peace of mind. It ensures your loved ones are taken care of and reflects the causes you believe in.

MyIntent offers you a convenient Will-writing service with clear guidance each step of the way.
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
global trade calmness fantasy sadly paywalled
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
UPDATE: it was not good
screenshot of first post in this thread: Gizmodo link to "Silicon Valley execs Join the Army as officers" and my commentary: "historians is it good when the robe nobles are able to buy the positions and honors usually reserved for the sword nobles?"
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Hate to say it but likely a lot of the crews on older cargo ships will get abandoned. Gulf already a dumping ground for crews (very few have signed the IMO agreement that offers seafarers protections), and faced with exorbitant insurance and fuel charges I see operators just cutting ties
Al Jazeera screenshot: UN says 20,000 seafarers, 15,000 passengers stuck in Gulf

The UN’s International Maritime Organization has told AFP news agency that around 20,000 seafarers and 15,000 cruise ship passengers are stuck in the Gulf because of the ar.
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
in the timeline where the DFC becoming insurer of last resort for gulf oil sounds... about right
Screenshot from Al Jazeera, it says:

White House says US navy to begin escorting tankers through Strait of Hormuz ‘if necessary’

President Trump has stated he will task the US Navy with “escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz” if necessary, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Iran’s IRGC has declared the strategic waterway closed during the war and threatened to attack passing vessels.

Leavitt also said Trump has announced that crude oil carriers and cargo ships moving in or near the Gulf region would be eligible for political risk insurance from the United States Development Finance Corporation “at a very reasonable price”.
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Tweet that says 

male group chat
USER 1: What's so important about the Strait of Hormuz anyway
[Many people are typing]
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
telegraph doing fine
Screenshot of opinion piece, it’s Jake Wallis Simons and the opinion is ‘The Greens’ extremist victory pushes Britain one step closer to abyss’
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Hell yeah I love a Ceilidh C - cotton E - eye I L I D - djoe H
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
for your consideration
Picture of Wario, looking a lot like Lutnick
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
god i love discourse
Youtube vid, 'LIVE: Trump's Speech at WEF 2026 in Davos'. Comments say 'CHINA CHINA CHINA CHINA' many times, then 'US RUSSIA NORTH KOREA' with hearts and flags, then two more posts of 'CHINA CHINA CHINA' then someone else saying 'KING OF THE ARCTIC'. More 'CHINA CHINA CHINA' then 'Russia will laugh at us'. Chaos.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
It's probably not about minerals. Wrote about Greenland, shipping lanes and the political work that all this arctic speculation is doing over at @the-breakdown.bsky.social www.break-down.org/after-the-th...
break-down.org
After the Thaw
As temperatures rise and the Arctic thaws, capital is eyeing new opportunities: for extraction, for shipping and for extending a lifeline to business as usual.
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Forgot about this one. suggestions welcome
Screenshot of Spotify playlist for Landsat 9 leaving drinks. Songs include satellite of love (Lou reed), messages from the stars (rah band), I can see clearly now (Johnny nash)
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Wrote about all the wild speculation around the Arctic Ocean for @the-breakdown.bsky.social. In very good company for issue 2, go subscribe!
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Lfg
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Netpol @netpol.org · 10/08/2025
“It’s just a joke. Yvette Cooper says she is a fan of the Suffragettes. I don’t think the Suffragettes would have thought much of her.” observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk
As hundreds committed the offence of putting ink to cardb...
Nurses, doctors, retired people and architects among 466 protesters arrested as terrorism suspects
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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 01/08/2025
“I am planning to offer a public lecture series in New York focused on parts of this course that will be streamed and available for later viewing. Proceeds, if any, will go to Gaza’s universities, every one of which has been destroyed by Israel with US munitions, a war crime…”
I regret deeply that Columbia's decisions have obliged me to deprive the nearly 300 students who have registered for this popular course - as many hundreds of others have done for over two decades - of the chance to learn about the history of the modern Middle East this fall. Although I cannot do anything to compensate them fully for depriving them of the opportunity to take this course, I am planning to offer a public lecture series in New York focused on parts of this course that will be streamed and available for later viewing. Proceeds, if any, will go to Gaza's universities, every one of which has been destroyed by Israel with US munitions, a war crime about which neither Columbia nor any other US university has seen fit to say a single word.
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
incredible reviewing from 'washerman2009'
Screenshot of fice-star review of washing machine from user 'washerman2009'. It says:
12 Years Old!. Still Going Strong

Just found my curry's receipt from July 2011. apart from a stupid mistake which my now ex wife did and damaged the door seal, this maching is just amazing. never has it let me down through malfunction. it is a constant. I keep it in am outhouse along with the dryer. Yes an outhouse, NOT a utility room, and it had been there since I got it.

I dont think you can get these any more but if you see one on an well known auction site, and you want a machine that will last longer than my now ex wife did. get it. Yes the machine was more reliable and faithful to me than she ever was.
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
going through old photos, think I had to go for this for work? constantly amazed and humbled at Biz Thinking
shot of powerpoint at a conference, it says 'INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR BUSINESS 2016', followed by three bullet points:
'INTERNATIONAL'
'FESTIVAL'
'BUSINESS'
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Jacob Bolton @jacobbolton.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Zohran Mamdani spams comet azur and cerulean hidden tear
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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Apparently Mamdani voters are the most privileged class in history AND are bitter about having no money and living in an apartment with 3 roommates into their 30s. Pick a damn lane.
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