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A podcast by Lebanese-Palestinian writer and researcher @ayoub.bsky.social. “A place where we tell our hardest truths, and find one another" - Naomi Klein Patreon.com/thefirethesetimes Art by therosaartist.com and @mollycrabapple.bsky.social

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Depending on who you ask, Lebanon is a member of the Milk Tea Alliance which should be better understood as a term for pro-democracy movements in 2019. We were the start of the Gen Z protests, we just didn't know it at the time. But also, please remember Lebanon too when you think about HK
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The Rebuild @the-rebuild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
check it out! first time on a pod. hop over to this patreon to support a rad project and hear it now ❤️‍🔥
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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 29/09/2026
Episode 228: @the-rebuild.bsky.social and AntidoteZine's Ed join @ayoub.bsky.social to talk about Left Melancholy: A Minneapolis Retrospective. Also: Lebanon and Hong Kong. Now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/thefirethese... Public episode: October 19th 2026 Read: therebuild.ghost.io/will-minneap...
Left melancholy: a Minneapolis retrospective with mags, Ed and Elia Ayoub. TFTT episode 228.
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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 29/09/2026
Episode 227: @elgendy95.bsky.social join @ayoub.bsky.social and @essssraaa.bsky.social to talk about his years as a political prisoner in Egypt, carceral violence, solidarity, and more. Now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/thefirethese... Public episode: October 12th 2026
THE FIRE THESE TIMES EPISODE 227 

Surviving Sisi's Egypt

Abdelrahman EIGendy with israa' & Elia Ayoub
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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 22/09/2026
Episode 226: @hebagowayed.bsky.social and @ayoub.bsky.social talk about being Arab diasporic parents in the context of the ongoing Israeli genocide against Palestinians Now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/thefirethese... Video: www.patreon.com/thefirethese... Public release date: October 5th
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Arab Parenthood and Genocide (E226) | The Fire These Times
Last time, I sat down with Shui-yin Sharon Yam to talk about ambiguous loss, diasporic parenting and grieving the what-ifs. Thank you to tho
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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Been looking forward to this one... @sharonyamsy.bsky.social joins @ayoub.bsky.social on @thefirethesetimes.com talking ambiguous loss... which is something quite a lot of us have experienced in one way or another in the last few years one way or another but may not have had the language to explain
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Video: Ambiguous Loss w/ Shui-yin Sharon Yam (E225) | The Fire These Times
Over the past few years, I’ve had to reckon with loss and grief that felt unresolved, and perhaps unresolvable. It’s something we’re all dea
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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 21/09/2026
Episode 225: @sharonyamsy.bsky.social and @ayoub.bsky.social talk about ambiguous loss, diasporic parenting and grieving the what-ifs Now on Patreon www.patreon.com/thefirethese... Video: www.patreon.com/thefirethese... Public version to be released Monday 28th of September
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Ambiguous Loss w/ Shui-yin Sharon Yam (E225) | The Fire These Times
Over the past few years, I’ve had to reckon with loss and grief that felt unresolved, and perhaps unresolvable. It’s something we’re all dea
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Riot Turtle 🚴‍♀️ 🐢(Neue Möglichkeiten Era) @riotturtle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Do fascists really believe in fascism? Yes, yes they do, and we need to stop pretending otherwise to better equip ourselves against them." Fascists Really Believe It w/ Toby Buckle. An episode of @thefirethesetimes.com by @ayoub.bsky.social that I missed.
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Fascists Really Believe It w/ Toby Buckle (E224)
Yes.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Folks listen up. I’m reading Huna and I *highly* recommend it. Go get it now if you can. Looking forward to having @elgendy95.bsky.social with @essssraaa.bsky.social on @thefirethesetimes.com this week!
Huna: a memoir of revolution, prison and becoming by Abdelrahman ElGendy In 2013, seventeen-year-old Abdelrahman ElGendy was a budding student activist in Cairo. Two years after the 25 January revolution, hope for a free Egypt had dissipated; when that summer's military coup unleashed massacres of protesters, Abdelrahman joined the street movement. His father, fearing for his son's safety, accompanied him to a mass demonstration.
But minutes after they arrived, they were swept up in a brutal police crackdown - and their lives were shattered.
Abdelrahman would spend the next six years as a political prisoner, shuffled alongside his father from jail cell, to pre-trial detention centre, to prison complex. In his remarkable debut, Abdelrahman offers not a promise of hope, but a provocation.
When the very tenderness that can save you is used against you, how can you find the courage to love? Huna is a reckoning with what it takes - and what it costs - to remain when erased, and what endures, perhaps more faithfully, beyond hope.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
it's not just ugly rhetoric—they genuinely want us to die my discussion with @ayoub.bsky.social on modern fascism thefirethesetimes.com/2026/09/14/f...
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Fascists Really Believe It w/ Toby Buckle (E224)
Yes.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My episode with Toby Buckle aka @polphilpod.bsky.social on why we should believe fascists when they tell us who they are Wherever you get your pods etc thefirethesetimes.com/2026/09/14/f... Video version available for Patreon supporters www.patreon.com/thefirethese... @thefirethesetimes.com
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Fascists Really Believe It w/ Toby Buckle (E224)
Yes.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Had an absolutely wonderful convo with @sharonyamsy.bsky.social on ambiguous loss yesterday. We spoke about Hong Kong/Lebanon, our kids, the downsides of being diasporic, and so much more. It’ll be out on Patreon as early access soon patreon.com/thefirethesetimes @thefirethesetimes.com
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Both @eyshe.bsky.social and @nathantankus.bsky.social will be on @thefirethesetimes.com soon to talk about this impressive book. For early access, be one of the cool kids and join patreon.com/thefirethese...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
2 years ago @danielvoskoboynik.bsky.social and I did an episode exploring how The Zone of Interest reminded us of Israeli genocidal culture towards Palestinians. This was before we got Israeli politicians openly using Nazi imagery to describe *themselves* thefirethesetimes.com/2024/09/20/t...
Shared by Ben Gvir: AI generated video showing Palestinians on a conveyor belt being led to slaughter. The Israeli concentration camp resembles a Nazi one.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Last year, we did an episode looking at the similarities (and differences) between Warsaw and Gaza following @danielvoskoboynik.bsky.social’s visit to what used to be the Warsaw ghetto @thefirethesetimes.com thefirethesetimes.com/2025/11/07/w... @thefirethesetimes.com
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Warsaw Ghetto, Gaza Ghetto w/ Daniel Voskoboynik
Daniel joins Elia from what used to be the Warsaw Ghetto to talk about Gaza.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Dana and I will also do an episode of @thefirethesetimes.com on this soon. www.patreon.com/thefirethese...
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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 27/08/2026
You can also listen to the episode of @polphilpod.bsky.social with @ayoub.bsky.social www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/fasc-fict
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Fascism & fiction with Elia Ayoub
Why are fascists so interested in fictional universes like Star Trek or Lord of the Rings? And is there a link between the rise of the far right and the decline in creativity in mainstream entertainme...
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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 27/08/2026
This is a reference to @polphilpod.bsky.social's essay in @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...
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Fascists Really Believe It
Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.
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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 27/08/2026
Out now on Patreon: Fascists really believe it w/ Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social & @ayoub.bsky.social Audio: www.patreon.com/thefirethese... Video: www.patreon.com/thefirethese... Public release: 14 September 2026
"Fascists Really Believe It"
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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 27/08/2026
Out now on Patreon: the video version of The Rise of End Times Fascism with @astra.bsky.social @naomiaklein.bsky.social @danaelkurd.bsky.social and @ayoub.bsky.social www.patreon.com/thefirethese... Audio episode is freely available wherever you get your podcasts: pod.link/1503094935/e...
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Video: The Rise of End Times Fascism w/ Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor (E200) | The Fire These Times
Patreon-only video of my episode with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, co-hosted by Dana El Kurd, and first released in June 2025. Naomi Klein
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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.com · 26/08/2026
Really good conversation re: campism in general, beyond this one event. So often everywhere else in the world except the USA (or Israel, or “the West”) is treated as having no agency and being forced to do this or controlled to do that. And solidarity is not possible with that misunderstanding.
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Kenji @elementaleucology.com · 25/08/2026
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karima @nightshade.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
Watch this Cosmic Dream Boogie video conversation with @chanda.blacksky.app and @ayoub.bsky.social at this link: youtu.be/RkSglQezcUE via @thefirethesetimes.com 😍
Here's anAn image with a graphic design from The Edge of Space-Time (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817/the-edge-of-space-time-by-chanda-prescod-weinstein/) and text that reads as follows:

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COSMIC DREAM BOOGIE

CHANDA PRESCOD-WEINSTEIN (with a thumbnail pix of her face)

ELIA AYOUB (with a thumbnail pix of his face)
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
One of my favorite podcast stops!!!!!
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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 25/08/2026
The video version of the Cosmic Dream Boogie with @chanda.blacksky.app is now available youtu.be/RkSglQezcUE Support TFTT here www.patreon.com/thefirethese... @ayoub.bsky.social
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Cosmic Dream Boogie w/ Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (E219)
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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 25/08/2026
The video version of James Baldwin and the Black Atlantic (ep 222) will be out in 3 hours youtu.be/nCSYUGWl-Sc
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James Baldwin and the Black Atlantic w/ John Drabinksi (E222)
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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 25/08/2026
Today on TFTT: @ayoub.bsky.social sat down with @jdrabinski.bsky.social to talk about James Baldwin and the Black Atlantic thefirethesetimes.com/2026/08/24/j... Wherever you get your podcasts: pod.link/1503094935/e... To support: www.patreon.com/thefirethese...
Photo of James Baldwin. Title is "James Baldwin and the Black Atlantic". There's also a photo of John Drabinksi, and an illustration of Elia Ayoub. This is episode 222 of The Fire These Times.This will come as a total surprise, but I really like James Baldwin. I know, it’s shocking. I always kept it subtle, like how I named this podcast after his book The Fire Next Time, and how I have been bringing him up every other episode for years, and how I have a shelf that is just for books by him and about him. 

The reason I like James Baldwin is that I’ve found something for me in his work, something that I can not just relate to but also use to understand the wider world, including my own world. This is a curious thing in the context of Baldwin because he was, ultimately, an American writer. An African-American writer, to be exact of course, but his Americanness is something which he took to heart. Not in a weird nationalist way but rather in a sort of matter-of-factly kind of way. So how did I come to relate to him? That’s one of the questions we explored here, but to be honest it’s not even the main one. What I wanted to know, and what my guest ⁠John E. Drabinski⁠ has explored in his book ⁠So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic⁠, is why did Baldwin, a man clearly concerned with the fate of the world, rarely engage with the Black Atlantic and might even be described as an ‘anti-diaspora’ thinker, at least to some extent. This is a conversation about Baldwin, yes, but ultimately it is a conversation about shifting identities and perspectives in a rapidly changing world, one which seems to be changing even faster now than it did during Baldwin’s time.
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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 22/08/2026
Please check out a great book on luddites (Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant) because the term is often inaccurately used to describe someone who is ‘anti-tech’, but that’s not what they were
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Der Spekter @derspekter.org · 21/08/2026
Now on to the main event. This week we have two complementary essays that address the question of memory and its mobilization for political ends. First, repeat contributor and host of The Fire These Times podcast @ayoub.bsky.social looks at German memory culture and ongoing scapegoating of the Other
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German Catechism Versus Memory Culture
Germany’s scapegoating of the racialised Other is the end result of the absence of a critical memory culture that seeks to confront the past in all its ugliness.
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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 21/08/2026
Just over two weeks to our first hangout since the summer break!
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Cordilleran Margin @cordilleranmargin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Really enjoyed listening to this, makes me think I should read the first book again soon. And I need to pick up the second book when I see it.
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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 20/08/2026
enjoyed this interview that I was listening to on my bike ride in South Vancouver yesterday. great conversation
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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 18/08/2026
In which I talk about the upcoming November class on modern Lebanese history and politics, the 5th and last one one this year. thefirethesetimes.com/2026/08/18/n... thefirethesetimes.com/lebanonclass/ open.spotify.com/episode/3fKQ...
"Modern Lebanese History and Politics with Elia Ayoub, PhD" on top of a 2019 protest from Beirut
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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 18/08/2026
The video episode with @chanda.blacksky.app will be out on Monday 24th! Science is political. Reality is queer af. Also: race, imperialism, Star Trek (of course), Supergirl and post/colonialism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkSg... @ayoub.bsky.social
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Cosmic Dream Boogie w/ Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (E219)
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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This interview was phenomenal. Can't wait to get into Waubgeshig Rice's books, they sound amazing. If you like what our collective does, you'll likely want to check them out too!
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The audio version of my interview with @waub.bsky.social is already available wherever you get your podcasts @thefirethesetimes.com To support TFTT -> patreon.com/thefirethesetimes
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The video interview with @waub.bsky.social will be out in less than 3 hours youtu.be/37-oFTg6xBI @thefirethesetimes.com
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Beyond the Apocalypse w/ Waubgeshig Rice (E221)
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Want to learn about modern Lebanese history and politics? The 5th and final class of the year is happening this November. Registrations now open! thefirethesetimes.com/lebanonclass @thefirethesetimes.com
Modern Lebanese History and Politics with Elia Ayoub, PhD

Photo shows a protest from October 2019, including a large fist that says 'revolution' in Arabic + a bunch of Lebanese flags
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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 12/08/2026
The monthly hangout is back this September! Grab something cold or hot and join @ayoub.bsky.social every first Saturday of the month, 4-6pm UK time, to chat about all things TFTT, world events, personal shit, and everything in between. thefirethesetimes.com/hangout/ www.patreon.com/thefirethese...
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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 11/08/2026
Beyond the Apocalypse, episode 221 with @waub.bsky.social, is now out as early access on Patreon. www.patreon.com/thefirethese... @ayoub.bsky.social
"Beyond the Apocalypse: The Fire These Times Episode 221" with Elia Ayoub and Waubgeshig Rice. The image is the cover of Moon of the Crusted Snow, and shows a car overtaken by snow.These days, the apocalypse has been on my mind a lot. Maybe that's not surprising, given the state of the world. This can easily descend into dread and hopelessness, which is something I try and avoid for my own sake. When I picked up Moon of the Crusted Snow and Moon of the Turning Leaves, written by my guest Waubgeshig Rice, in a bookshop in Ottawa, I didn't know what to expect. I've always been into 'post-apocalyptic' stories, but I soon found out that there was something different about this cast of characters: their people, the Anishinaabe, had already survived multiple apocalypses at the hands of the Canadian state. In this episode, Waubgeshig and I spoke about the Whitesky saga books, the ongoing wildfires, passing on traditions, learning Ojibwe and teaching it to his kids, Gaza, how the father-daughter relationship in the books inspired my own relationship, and so much more.

This episode was first released on Patreon on 11 August 2026, a day after recording.
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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 10/08/2026
And the way to help make that happen is by supporting TFTT on www.patreon.com/thefirethese... You'll get everything as early access, including mini-series like "A Lebanese in Belfast" (Working title. Might be "From Beirut to Belfast")
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
In memory of the Warsaw Uprising, I’m resharing my convo w/ @danielvoskoboynik.bsky.social for @thefirethesetimes.com, recorded days after his return from what used to be the ghetto thefirethesetimes.com/2025/11/07/w...
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Warsaw Ghetto, Gaza Ghetto w/ Daniel Voskoboynik
Daniel joins Elia from what used to be the Warsaw Ghetto to talk about Gaza.
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Elena Cal @elenalibia.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026
Europa percibe a migración como unha crise existencial, por riba do cambio climático, o auxe do fascismo, as guerras imperialistas, a IA... Isto facilita que se poda instrumentalizar á poboación refuxiada para ameazala (Belarús-Polonia, Erdogan-sirios, Ceuta...)
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Simusz @simusz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A good take on takes on Ceuta👇
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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 04/08/2026
Episode 220, @ayoub.bsky.social is joined by @aymanmak.bsky.social to talk about the Ceuta 'incident' Available wherever you get your podcasts pod.link/1503094935 thefirethesetimes.com/2026/08/04/t...
The Ceuta 'incident' showing people crossing the fence
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The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com · 28/07/2026
Recording more episodes this month! Updates to come soon
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a wear a mask iteration @an-iteration.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It was a great listen! Thanks for you both!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/07/2026
I feel very honored that I got to have this conversation with @ayoub.bsky.social!
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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Solarpunk is a subgenre of science fiction that challenges the apocalyptic scripts of capitalist realism and opens radical possibilities. Our podcast of the week explores the past and future of the idea. With @arielkroon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy et al. on @thefirethesetimes.com buff.ly/Y5P1qjG
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The Fire These Times @thefirethesetimes.com is back! I had the one and only Chanda Prescod-Weinstein @chanda.blacksky.app on. Go listen to it. Now! Wherever you get your podcasts etc thefirethesetimes.com/2026/07/20/c... pod.link/1503094935/e... Video will be out soon too
Cosmic Dream Boogie with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and meself.
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