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Founded in 2022. Addressing biopolitical emergency & climate justice through art-critique-experiment. Building a new society in the shell of the old. Join us at the Art Workers' Guild in London or across seven continents online! www.nsota.org

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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 2h
'The opposite of genocide,' claims Israel's demon of mass extermination. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Solar 22.3% ☀️ | 🌬️ Wind 42% bsky.app/profile/mygr...
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 21h
Breaking News! The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly for Sept. 29th came in at 3.18°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This marks yet another record all-time high and the 123rd consecutive record daily high at 1.1°C above the previous daily record set in 1997.
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 20h
A Confederacy of Illiterates.
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How saddening to contemplate that such examples of human skill & magnificence will soon end up in the bank vault of a billionaire's estate. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside andy burnham's Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A Blair scion (net worth £350m) commands every British worker to be retrained to accept micro-surveillance in their every act in the interests of furthering his power and influence. It's revolution time, people.
theguardian.com
Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What's instigated this Damscene Conversion? Why has the glut of reports of IDF barbarism only now penetrated the Labour brain? What will the Gvmt do about the hundreds of peaceful protestors it demonised & imprisoned for supporting Palestine Action if, indeed, they were now right all along?
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‘You were right’: Ed Miliband tells critics Labour was wrong on Gaza
Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WE SAY NO TO PALANTIR 🙅‍♂️ We and 120+ organisations and unions across Europe are calling on our governments and the European Commission to scrap all existing public sector contracts with Palantir. Read the open letter here: www.globaljustice.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Text reads: 120+ organisations and unions across Europe call on governments and the European Commission to SCRAP Palantir contracts. Palantir provides support to warmongers, drains our public wealth, deepens our dependence on tech billionaires. WE SAY NO TO PALANTIR.
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And we are quietly surrendering our autonomy to people with such a moral compass.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
To live with ignorance and contempt is a source of immense pain. One must feel sadness towards such people.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
'Paid for by the U.S. Government.'
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
NAZA takes its name from an acronym used euphemistically by Israeli intelligence to indicate how many civilians it expects to die in an airstrike, which are often conducted at night in private homes, killing many family members, including children, at once.
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NAZA - official trailer
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The University that gave us Cameron, Johnson and Osborne now further speeds the end of academia, and perhaps the termination of life on earth, by colluding with Open AI. Oxford can always be relied upon to pursue the dishonourable course.
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Oxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian Library
University staff voice concerns over reputational risk of partnering with company behind ChatGPT
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You have to get a very long way through this BBC report before you learn which party runs the council which took the decision to close all these nurseries www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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South Tyneside Council nursery closures decision 'devastating'
Councillors confirm that all 10 Stanley's nurseries in South Tyneside will close by July 2027.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Important piece by @fionaharvey.bsky.social on huge significance of the Report by UK Security Chiefs on rising climate & nature threats which has been shamefully suppressed by Government. Also the focus of my @therestpolitics.bsky.social mini-series, #WhenNatureBecomesASecurityThreat
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Why is the UK’s suppressed climate national security report significant?
Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous prime minister
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If a politician takes money from weapons manufacturers, don't be surprised when they back weapons contracts. If a politician takes money from Big Pharma, don't be surprised when they try to stop guaranteed healthcare. That's why I don't take ANY corporate money. None.
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We know the answer to the question of who benefits from the deployment of this murderous technology.
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It’s not hypothetical: the dangers of AI are already here | Granate Kim and Mohamed Hussein
Israel and the US have used AI to kill in Gaza and Iran, while law enforcement uses it in surveillance and arrests. The future is here
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A community seeks to establish agency & autonomy through formal channels & is cynically crushed by hegemonic vested interests - in this instance, Frome's LibDem-led council & their corporate-development sponsors far away. The wider consequences for confidence in civic administration are dire.
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‘Devastating’: council rejects Frome residents’ bid for regeneration project
Locals raised £1m for Mayday Saxonvale scheme involving homes and park but Somerset officials agreed deal with London-based real estate company
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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I was arrested protesting Netanyahu’s New York visit. Here’s why we took a stand | Darializa Avila Chevalier
I refuse to play host to a man who has overseen the slaughter or injury of more than 64,000 children in Gaza with American taxpayer dollars. I refuse to be complicit in genocide
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hundreds of Jewish, Palestinian, Iranian and Lebanese New Yorkers, among hundreds more from all backgrounds today protested against the presence of the psychopathic butcher, Netanyahu, at the UN. Arrest Netanyahu. Free Palestine.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Denying wheelchairs for amputee children in Gaza? There are no sadistic depths to which the State of Israel will not bend.
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Trump rolls out red carpet for Xi; Israel blocks wheelchairs for Gaza’s amputee children; Argentine president threatens Falklands
Drop Site Daily: September 24, 2026
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Come all ye oligarchs, bureaucrats and psychologists of money: the academic fire sale is now on and morality-free. While stocks last.
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Zohran blazes the jouissance trail.
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Should a polluter be caught, any tools that were at [the Environmental Agency’s] disposal to take action have been systematically removed,” a whistleblower said in 2022. “Officers are actively encouraged not to take enforcement action.” This England.
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‘The eels were climbing out of the water to die’: why did every fish in this idyllic lake perish overnight?
Furnace Brook in East Sussex was home to carp, tench, bream, roach and trout – and 15 trailer-loads had to be buried. The mystery led to a neighbouring farm, and a story of waste, pollution and dirty ...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NSotA is delighted to be screening Power Station followed by a Q&A with directors, Hilary & Dan, at our first in-person festive gathering next week. Stand by for the coming community!
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The AI Productivity Delusion: As with previous tech revolutions, it is natural to focus on AI's net effects: Will it create more than it destroys? But unlike previous eras of creative destruction, the real question this time is, “Create more of what?” www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
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The AI Productivity Delusion
Yanis Varoufakis sees the technology converting markets into fiefs and profits into rents, ending capitalism as we know it.
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Climate protestors have been routinely imprisoned for planning peaceful civil disobedience. A racist lout & convicted criminal performatively endangers the life of a rescue worker. Will he be charged with attempted murder? Or is this a proportionate act regarding a 'legitimate concern?'
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This reckless, entltled hyena has unleashed untold harm upon Britain from multiple positions of unearned privilege. And now, Osborne not only runs the British Museum but issues commands on behalf of AI billionaires to trash our ecology & launder the martial dominance of surveillance capital.
theguardian.com
OpenAI’s George Osborne says datacentre nimbys holding back Britain
Former chancellor, now senior figure at OpenAI, says UK needs datacentres to maintain ‘sovereignty’ over AI tech
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Britain... It's a class act. 🎩 Privately Educated: Senior Armed Forces 63% Senior Judges: 62% House of Lords: 52% Foreign Office Diplomats: 53% Newspaper Columnists: 50% Political Commentators: 47% Leading Podcasters: 45% BBC Executives: 38% General Population: 7% elitistbritain.suttontrust.com
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Elitist Britain 2025
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half.” - Emmeline Pankhurst. UK suffragette arrested, 1914 #womensart #Tuesday
Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman being carried by a policeman as other men crowd around
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Don't look up. Everything will be fine. 'The planetary life support systems relied upon by humans have deteriorated to their worst levels ever recorded amid ongoing pollution and habitat destruction, according to a key yet grim annual update by scientists.' www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 20/09/2026
Tonight, Jewish New Yorkers mark the start of Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. It is the peak of the Yamim Noraim, the Days of Awe, and an opportunity for profound reflection.
 
For those fasting — tzom kal, may your fast be easy and meaningful. 
 
And to all who observe, G'mar chatimah tovah. May you be sealed in the Book of Life for a good year to come.
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
US fascism stares us in the face.
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Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“This event is a huge redistribution of energy in the climate system & is dangerous because it is unfolding on top of a much warmer, human-influenced climate system. We will see never-before-experienced heat extremes, with all their consequences on health, food security & water stress."
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‘Jaw-dropping’: Super El Niño bursts through temperature record months ahead of peak
The ‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will heavily impact communities across the world
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Racist, entitled, ecocidal billionaires are deeply unpleasant, aren't they?
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Will the U.S. megadrought ever end? A controversial new hypothesis suggests “No” www.sciencenews.org/article/unit...
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Will the U.S. megadrought ever end?
For 27 years, the Southwest has been gripped by a historic drought. Scientists think it might be here to stay.
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Please keep Gaza in your thoughts & actions. The Israeli genocide of Palestinians has not ended.
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Gaza building Collapse
YouTube video by Oxfam GB
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The precipitous ethical and intellectual decline of the BBC is typified by the masculinist rot of this article, which makes no allusion to the pulverization of bodies and ecocidal collapse.
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War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?
The military and government say the risk of conflict is growing, but we may not be mentally ready for it
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
No amount of fudge can make airport expansion compatible with our climate commitments. It is disgraceful to see this government twist its own promises into knots simply to try to make bigger profits for the bosses of one private company in spite of the ever-growing costs of climate breakdown.
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
These anti-elitist billionaires are adminstering a damn good thrashing to The Establishment, while standing shoulder-to-shoulder with their great friends, the working class. Especially the ones in balaclavas.
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Christopher Harborne matches £36m Reform donation of Ben Delo
Party leader, Nigel Farage, ‘humbled’ by contributions from billionaires as Harborne addresses ‘media speculation’
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New School of the Anthropocene @nsota.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
As always with fascism, the real motive is to loosen capital from all forms of transparency & accountability, & to dismantle systems that enshrine social reciprocity. In this instance, politics is brazenly for sale: government for criminal crypto-spivs by criminal crypto-spivs.
theguardian.com
Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire
Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.
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