iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Reposted for Paul Thomas Anderson’s birthday. www.unemployednegativity.com/2008/02/prim...

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Primitive Accumulation: The Movie

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Kai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

It's quite simple: if we have the right to protest, but not the right for protest to be disruptive, we don't have the right to protest. We live in an anti-democratic, genocide perpetuating, police state. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Really sad to hear this. Duncan brought myself and others together to work on the Stuart Christie archive at the Mayday Rooms. A true gent. Was never the loudest in the room but always the most interesting. Not many left in the building. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

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Duncan Campbell, celebrated Guardian crime reporter, dies aged 80

Tributes paid to ‘courageous’ journalist who covered police corruption, Rosemary West trial and Hatton Garden heist

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I understand that the University is dying, and will eventually be replaced by some kind of new world of for profit online job training modules, but in the interregnum do we really have to endure the morbid symptoms of programs in "Leadership studies" and "Entrepreneurship"?

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jamila squire @jamsqu.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

‘If what you want is calm to be restored you are still the enemy you have not thought thru clearly what that means’ RIP Joshua Clover. poetrysociety.org/poems-essays...

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EPSU @epsu.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

On #25April we remember the power of resistance and hope. Liberation Day in Italy and Portugal marks two uprisings, 29 years apart, united against fascism. We honour the power of the ordinary people who rose up - and the workers who keep fighting to protect democracy today.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 17/04/2025

"Historians and history students will be among those to suffer in an ongoing political culture of tough love and market solutions. Alongside its teachers and students, history—as a practice and discipline—will also suffer." 🗃️

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Was great to chat with @medicinered.bsky.social about histories of worker self-management and the example of the Lucas Plan. Trade unionists used to speak the language of workers' control. We need to learn that language again, and fast. open.spotify.com/episode/1rcn...

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An Introduction to Workers' Self-Management w/ Jess Thorne

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Keir Milburn @kmilb.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Another great pod from @medicinered.bsky.social. @jlthorne.bsky.social discusses worker self management - the Lucas Plan, and reaches conclusions congruent with our forthcoming Radical Abundance book. We must move beyond defensive struggle to propositional politics. open.spotify.com/episode/1rcn...

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An Introduction to Workers' Self-Management w/ Jess Thorne

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Big day in the office. 50+ Healthcare Assistants crash a board meeting. The Trust emailed all staff this morning. In it they tried to dupe members into accepting an inferior deal, which they are now trying to impose, with no consultation. They should know by now that HCAs will put up a fight.

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Charlotte @charlottor.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Counting up all the International Womens Day ‘woman holding a gun’ posts from men on the left and asking them how many times they have offered to run the childcare or cook the food at a political meeting

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Twentieth Century Communism journal @20thccommunism.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

In 1910, socialist women gathered in Copenhagen and first proposed an international working women's day be established. 8 March eventually became the annual day for this event. In recognition of International Women's Day, here is a thread of articles from our journal dedicated to communist women.

Front page of CPUSA's 'Daily Worker' (New York edition) from 8 March, 1931, with headline 'Working Women! All Out! Demonstrate March 8'

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

February; month of love, Paris, and working like a demon.

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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

What this Times article ignores is that this is already happenning with agricultural workers and care workers... and it is a human rights disaster. As we reported workers live on farms in uninsulated, cramped, mouldy and unsafe housing. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023...

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‘It’s almost the same as living on the street’: this is how people…

Forced to share beds and live in freezing caravans with leaking ceilings, all while paying more per square foot than for a flat in London – migrant farm…

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The Autonomy Institute @autonomy-institute.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

NEW REPORT 🚨"Shaping digital futures in work and society: the case of worker-led innovation" by Jessica Thorne Commissioned & published by KIT Karlsruhe, the report offers a deeper dive into the Lucas Plan, including new interviews with former employees 👇 buff.ly/42J0phx

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Keir Milburn @kmilb.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

There's been a big renewed interested in democratic, bottom up planning over the last few years as the problem of ecological transition presents itself. This excellent report by @jlthorne.bsky.social examines key antecedents including the the important Lucas Plan. Also includes incredible diagrams

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Shaping digital futures in work and society : the case of worker-led innovation

Read our report exploring lessons to be learned from case studies of worker-led innovation from history.

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Mary Towers @marymayling.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Worker led innovation is key to ensuring AI at work is genuinely beneficial for all, equitable, sustainable and just. This timely and important report from @jlthorne.bsky.social KIT Karlsruhe @autonomy-institute.bsky.social sets out historical examples we can draw on to inform present challenges.

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Ed Luker @edluker.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

quite beautiful, in an era where earnestness is hard to do, that lots of the tributes are “David Lynch taught me that it was okay to be weird.”

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Look what came through the post (finally)

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Time to wear some nice threads and enter... The Weekend youtu.be/6zxnoT3XBu0?...

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COME ON, LET'S GO

YouTube video by Tyler, The Creator

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Really, truly hope that the ceasefire holds - but this must not be the end of demanding accountability and redress for the genocide that has been perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinians, and the material and ideological support our governments lent it to do so.

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

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Kate Flood @kateflood.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

As we cross over to a new platform, I've made a starter pack of active trade unionists and worker organisers so we can link in with one another - message if you'd like to be added 💖 go.bsky.app/JTVKG6z

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

"In the long run, it’s not unions taking a stand to defend human rights that future generations will condemn—it’s the indifference and profiteering from war that they will find impossible to justify.” labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

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Swedish Dockworkers Vote to Block Military Shipments to and from Israel

In a resounding display of international solidarity, members of the Swedish Dockworkers Union (SDU) voted by 68 percent in December to block the handling of military shipments to and from Israel. The ...

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”

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AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.

It also guzzles enormous sums of water.

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Left media is saturated with talking heads, so boy oh boy am I excited to see workers go on podcasts and connect theory with practice. More of this!

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Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

We are supporting two careworkers facing intimidation tactics by their employer after trying to unionise. The employer refused to pay them their wages, leaving them in immediate economic hardship. We would greatly appreciate donating and sharing this. 🤝 gofund.me/9037ecb4

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Donate to Emergency Solidarity Appeal: Support our Comrades!, organized by Norwich IWW London Organising Area

Since November 2024, members of the Pan African Workers' Asso… Norwich IWW London Organising Area needs your support for Emergency Solidarity Appeal: Support our Comrades!

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Beautiful series of reflections on the past year put together by @edluker.bsky.social. Really enjoying reading these. belowdeck.substack.com/p/clearing-t...

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Clearing the Decks — Part I

Eleven perceptions from the year 2024.

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

This is well worth a listen for anyone interested in organising the workplace (which should be all of you tbh).

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Listening to The Marías and lying next to the fire. I think I might be...relaxed?

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas all. An old CNT veteran once told me that not only did they not celebrate Christmas, but that any gifts they received from friends had to be returned! Hope all revolutionaries are maintaining discipline today 👀

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Good to see healthcare workers turning increasingly precarious working conditions into a source of strength. An incredible show of solidarity which is hard to pull off, but all the more necessary! www.nursingtimes.net/workforce/ex...

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Exclusive: Nurses boycotting bank work over enhanced pay dispute

More than 1,000 nurses working across Greater Manchester have pledged to boycott the staff bank,...

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Martijn Konings @mkonings.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

“Twelve new billionaires have been created in the homebuilding industry over the past few years; these homebuilders control more of the market and make more profit while building fewer homes.” prospect.org/infrastructu...

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Tackling the Housing Crisis

A symposium on how housing unaffordability happened and what can be done

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I really enjoyed this. It speaks to the thoughts I think we've all had (on the contemporary left) on how to maintain political commitment during the ebbs and flows of class struggle. Saul Williams suggestion from 'Jess' was cool too.

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