Plank Knot @knotplank.bsky.social · 16/09/2026First time I've heard Colin Kaepernick speak, he's brilliant 000
Plank Knot @knotplank.bsky.social · 13/09/2026With her look you'd think way later. Ahead of her times 001
Reposted by Plank KnotRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I want to share two poems with you. The first was written in the ruins of World War I; the second, in the gathering storm of World War II. To me, both feel appropriate to the dark time we’re now living through. Read them and let me know your thoughts.robertreich.substack.comTwo Poems for Our TimeOne from the ruins of World War I, the other from the gathering storm of World War II 1112079766
Reposted by Plank KnotYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 25/08/20261. AFM, the labor union representing professional musicians in North America, is paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who was a member of its Nashville Local 257 for 58 years. AFM says that for decades, Dolly consistently filed union contracts for her recording sessions, live gigs and tours. 51746499
Reposted by Plank KnotMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/08/2026This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her. 491506737331
Plank Knot @knotplank.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Got a different copy friend? Page order is messed up, some seem missing 200
Plank Knot @knotplank.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Eros and Civilisation by Herbert Marcuse has something on this too I think 000
Plank Knot @knotplank.bsky.social · 09/08/2026This should be displayed there! Beautiful, thank you for sharing 110
Reposted by Plank KnotOpen Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The Isolator: A 1925 Helmet Designed to Eliminate Distractions & Increase Productivity (Created by SciFi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback)openculture.comThe Isolator: A 1925 Helmet Designed to Eliminate Distractions & Increase Productivity (Created by SciFi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback)The anti-distraction device is the modern mousetrap: build a better one, and the world will beat a path to your door. 37824
Reposted by Plank KnotEurozine @eurozine.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Profiles without selves, or boycott Facebook now; Sartre, Heidegger and Whatsapp; a biography of Orhan Veli, one of Turkey’s great 20th-century poets. Review of Varlık 7/2026 www.eurozine.com/the-anxiety-...eurozine.comThe anxiety of distanceProfiles without selves, or boycott Facebook now; Sartre, Heidegger and Whatsapp; a biography of Orhan Veli, one of Turkey’s great 20th-century poets. 021
Reposted by Plank KnotThe Onion @theonion.com · 23/07/2026Video Game Consists Solely Of Shooting People In Face 471015127
Reposted by Plank KnotHistory and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 21/06/2026🧵5 posts: Solstice and Midsummer: Science, Farming, and Folklore. The Summer Solstice, occurring at 9.24am (Leeds) today is a scientific milestone marking the exact moment the Earth’s northern hemisphere tilts closest to the sun, resulting in the longest day of the year. It’s the official 16820
Plank Knot @knotplank.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Anyone aware of a way to have free alcohol delivered to your house? Preferably chilled #freealocohol 0120
Reposted by Plank KnotDr. Serge Zaka @sergezaka.bsky.social · 18/06/2026On est juste 2 semaines seulement après avoir battu le record supposé millénaire de la canicule de mai 2026... L’anomalie thermique moyenne sur 7j pourrait atteindre +9°C, soit davantage que lors de l’épisode exceptionnel de mai 2026, dont la période de retour était estimée à plus de 1 000 ans. 1/3 15547292
Reposted by Plank KnotRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Last night at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Downtown Los Angeles 1083079972
Plank Knot @knotplank.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Brilliant, thanks! And well done for spotting a kobo user 😂 But the continuity or discontinuity of time is an important question for HB also, so was wondering about Murdoch's relationship to him 110
Plank Knot @knotplank.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I like that they're implying they don't normally wash their hands after using the bathroom - only in the presence of "liberals" 😂 010
Plank Knot @knotplank.bsky.social · 10/06/2026.., its history neatly shows "Deconstruction" as a cultural, economic and technological tendency, underlying the political references that usually limit it to identity forming. 000
Plank Knot @knotplank.bsky.social · 10/06/2026This article contains an amazing video by artist and writer Nate Harrison, charting the appropriation of analogue by digital tech - one 1969 funk sample through jungle, d'n'b, techno off into abstraction. Alongside the lack of financial return to its creators, captured instead at each instant 1/2 110
Plank Knot @knotplank.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Was once involved in a major confrontation between fascists and antifascists. Eventually the cops came. Antifascists were arrested and recorded, fascist terrorist groups walked around unbothered, allowed free rein by the police. They could have been on a campsite. 0131
Plank Knot @knotplank.bsky.social · 28/05/2026One of my friend's library users once said: "If Tony Blair had an ounce of integrity, he'd be walking the streets of Baghdad dressed in rags and begging for for forgiveness" Guess he doesn't! 000
Plank Knot @knotplank.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Is it true that it was once used as a hospital to treat people with leprosy? 000
Reposted by Plank KnotSuella De-Vil Shadowy spokesdemon for learning stuff @suellade.bsky.social · 21/05/2026There’s a rogue “O” in the book title 1604164629
Plank Knot @knotplank.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Read Kierkegaard. Don't read Kierkegaard. You will be baffled either way 0213
Reposted by Plank KnotWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 16/05/2026#OtD 16 May is European Romani Resistance Day, commemorating the Roma people who fought fascism during WW2, like the 'Lions of Breda Solini', a partisan battalion in Italy made up entirely of Sinti participants who had escaped from a concentration camp stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1096... 115077
Reposted by Plank KnotUNISON @unison.org.uk · 14/05/2026🚨 TODAY 🇵🇸 Workplace Day of Action for Palestine Join the TUC-backed day of action calling for a permanent ceasefire, an end to the occupation & respect for international law. 📸 Share a workplace photo action ✍️ Write to your MP 🇵🇸 Join the #Nabka78 march on Saturday in London unsn.uk/48Pmzkp 043
Reposted by Plank KnotAbilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 13/05/2026The IPCC says we must cut emissions 43% by 2030. The biggest 20 fossil fuel companies are increasing production 23% by 2030. Math doesn’t lie: their growth = our collective death warrant. Time’s almost up. Their greed is just getting started. 991384631
Reposted by Plank Knotmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 11/05/2026too many stupid people have money; that's why I'm launching protein cigarettes 289105611708
Reposted by Plank KnotEurozine @eurozine.bsky.social · 11/05/2026The European far right’s instrumentalization of difference as a threat to national identity leaves minorities in a vulnerable position. How could this entrenched culture war be infused with democratic vitality? 'The great wokeism paradox' by Yves Plasseraud via Esprit 111
Reposted by Plank KnotMatt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I think it should be a bigger deal that tech companies are trying to erase children’s critical-thinking skills before they can fully form them. 417373
Reposted by Plank KnotHistory and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 30/04/2026🧵There is nothing new in this world. The 1517 "Evil May Day" was a violent, xenophobic riot in London where apprentices and citizens attacked foreign merchants and residents, driven by claims that immigrants were stealing jobs and ruining the local economy. 13812
Reposted by Plank Knotjoysters5.bsky.social @joysters5.bsky.social · 27/04/2026List of 9 websites where you can download unlimited books for free: 1. gutenberg .org 2. standardebooks .org 3. manybooks .net 4. openlibrary .org 5. bookboon .com 6. freecomputerbooks .com 7. internetarchive .org 8. digilibraries .com 9. librivox .org 20367093161
Plank Knot @knotplank.bsky.social · 21/04/2026'Tech bros launch shit experiments on human behaviour' is on my level 000
Reposted by Plank KnotEurozine @eurozine.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Modernism promised a bright future. Now 'shit experiments', launched by tech oligarchs and authoritarian governments, utilize neuroliberalism’s handle on malleable human behaviour. Can anything of social experimentation be salvaged for welfare and basic income needs? Karl Palmås via Glänta 113
Plank Knot @knotplank.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Compares not unfavourably to Saint Geneviève in Paris, next to the Pantheon 110
Plank Knot @knotplank.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Difficult to believe, the sheer brass neck of these people 000
Reposted by Plank KnotOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again 123147763
Plank Knot @knotplank.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Absolutely, just look at how they did it in South Korea only 18months ago. 000
Plank Knot @knotplank.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Hoping but also looking at Achille Mbembe's Necropolitics 000
