Reposted by Ruari P-Asasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Ten years since Jo Cox was assassinated and one thing is clear: her assassin’s politics have, more or less, triumphed, and with the connivance of Cox’s own party no less. 2860270
Reposted by Ruari P-AAntipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 17/06/2026"Inframetropolitan Systems: music as a mode of conjunctural analysis and cognitive mapping." If you're in London, check out these sessions -- supported by an Antipode Foundation "Right to the Discipline" grant -- on musical production, space and memory, sound and politics... 3284
Reposted by Ruari P-ALondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 08/06/2026‘The REF has now morphed into a hugely expensive, attention-engrossing status marker. Few things would improve the intellectual culture of universities more quickly than the complete abolition of this flawed and coercive exercise.’ Stefan Collini on higher education. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukStefan Collini · Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the UniversitiesThe problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and... 1144
Ruari P-A @rulapeep.bsky.social · 02/04/2026My first solo article is out for early view: ‘TRANS-TEMPORAL INTIMACY, OR, NEGATING TIME AS WE KNOW IT’. I would be immensely grateful if you were to read it and share it with whoever might be interested. I hope it’s useful! capaciousjournal.com/article/tran...capaciousjournal.comTrans-Temporal Intimacy, or, Negating Time as We Know It | CapaciousThis article is an exploration of “trans-temporal intimacy” as a methodology, a sensibility, and a desire. Trans-temporal intimacy could be understood as a closeness, a proximity, an intimate engageme... 010
Reposted by Ruari P-Acass @cassiusa.bsky.social · 13/03/2026The New School announces a faculty and staff bloodbath 2121288
Reposted by Ruari P-AMark Berry @boulezian.eurosky.social · 09/03/2026Evil. Absolute, unadulterated evil. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...theguardian.com‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombedResidents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape 2146
Reposted by Ruari P-ANatalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 03/03/2026this is so ghoulish and disgusting 327481
Ruari P-A @rulapeep.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Well written and important article www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/hiri...timeshighereducation.comHiring established scholars to junior Oxbridge roles imperils disciplinesAs lay-offs continue elsewhere, postdocs’ inability to land permanent roles will block the pipeline of future faculty, Cambridge academics argue 010
Reposted by Ruari P-Athey/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 02/03/2026I doubt we’ll even have much time to really notice how radically the world has changed for the worse in just the last few years. It won’t be long until it’s always been this way. 1485
Reposted by Ruari P-ASam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen. Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response? 3452821133
Reposted by Ruari P-AAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 01/03/2026Israel closes Gaza’s Rafah crossing amid attacks on Iran aje.news/oe589h 1494122
Reposted by Ruari P-AVicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Reminder that the IOF used LLMs to generate infinite pseudo-legitimate targets in Gaza with the guidance of the Biden admin 112929
Reposted by Ruari P-AOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts." massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...paydayreport.comRio Police Chief & Congressman Convicted in Assassination of Socialist Rio Councilwoman Marielle FrancoThe court found that the former Chief of Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Rivaldo Barbosa, Brazilian Congressman Chiquinho Brazão, and his brother, Rio State Auditor General Domingos Brazão, were responsib... 202021712
Reposted by Ruari P-AOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026shame is back on the menu boys 1064082560
Reposted by Ruari P-ASara-Jane Vigneault @sjvigneault.bsky.social · 13/10/2025The Ambivalent Archives programme for this term has just dropped! ✨ Starting this week strong with talks by @arthurasseraf.bsky.social and Ned Allen on Radio & Archival Production! For more information: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47934/ @crasshlive.bsky.social 075
Ruari P-A @rulapeep.bsky.social · 13/06/2025My first article is out (!!!) it’s a collaborative piece I wrote last year with @sophiemng.bsky.social about moments of recorded excess, laughter, fuck-ups and longing gazes. It’s a short epistolary article and I’d love for you all to read it. I’m so excited to have it out in the world! 142
Reposted by Ruari P-AAyman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Two of these trucks just had body bags. 04833
Ruari P-A @rulapeep.bsky.social · 20/05/2025This morning I woke up to an email from my college in Cambridge (King’s) saying they will divest from companies involved in occupation, weapons companies and companies that produce key or dedicated parts of such weapons. It is possible. 061
Reposted by Ruari P-AHarsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 07/05/2025This is not war btwn two states, or just about Modi. India is occupying Kashmir. There is no evidence that Pakistan was behind Pahalgam, but Indian imperial expansionism and Islamophobia drives this jingoism. Most impacted regions are lands of struggle - partioned Panjab & esp Kashmir. Free Kashmir 3033391
Reposted by Ruari P-AJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/05/2025A victory for Rümeysa Öztürk! She will be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont while her case is heard—including a hearing for potential release on bail this Friday. FULL OPINION: ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is... 4455201214
Reposted by Ruari P-ANatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 07/05/2025We need some Glaswegians to turn up to this on Friday morning… 1249
Reposted by Ruari P-AKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 29/03/2025"They looked suddenly like they’d just been served ortolan, like they needed to hide from God their ghoulish glee at disappearing a college student who, it was later reported, was walking to break Ramadan fast with her friends." www.thenation.com/article/acti...thenation.comWhat Will You Do?What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list? 113355
Reposted by Ruari P-AUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 26/02/2025We condemn the University of Cambridge's attempt to place legal restrictions on all pro-Palestine protests. Alongside @pscupdates.bsky.social and @libertyhq.bsky.social we call out this application to the High Court for an injunction what it is: a shameful attack on basic democratic rights. 05333
Reposted by Ruari P-AJP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 30/01/2025my beautiful subscribers I have written something for you about Shinichi Sawada, a Japanese ceramicist I love, and about the contentious genre of "outsider art" holapapi.substack.com/p/shinichi-s...holapapi.substack.comShinichi Sawada’s CreaturesOn outsider art and launching a new series 21517
Reposted by Ruari P-AAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/01/2025Palestinian child Nadia Mohammed al-Amoudi was killed, and several others were injured when Israeli forces opened fire on a horse cart as they traveled through the Gaza Strip, reports Wafa news agency. 🔴 LIVE updates:aje.ioPalestinians returning to north Gaza find destroyed homes, some turn backIsrael’s army opens roads to the war-battered northern Gaza Strip as mass movement home to the unknown gets under way. 11265117
Ruari P-A @rulapeep.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Putting it out there that ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down’ is the most effective piece of propaganda ever made 030