I’m an anthropologist, sometimes I occupy things & such.

I see anarchism as something you do not an identity...

...so don’t call me the anarchist anthropologist

Twitter was David’s public platform and tools for practicing a new language – clear and understandable for everyone, it was a space where he made friends and enemies.

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Wed 4 Mar 2020 23:22

putting people out of work is always a shame, but otherwise, I’m finding it hard to think of any reason why it’s bad that 40% of domestic air routes might soon be abandoned https://t.co/deLRbhHP5E

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Thu 27 Feb 2020 16:48

I just got a chicken club on a bagel at a deli in Brooklyn. I feel so indigenous. This is as close as it gets to my native cuisine. https://t.co/ymfAYHqx83

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Thu 27 Feb 2020 12:53

thought I’d register Labour Party to vote in the leadership election for the first time in my life, but sure enough, got a message a couple days before the vote that I didn’t qualify because they couldn’t verify I was registered to vote at my address. #hmmm

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Wed 26 Feb 2020 15:56

leaving aside the silly malicious interpretations, I do find this global panic over what is basically a bad flu to be a significant. There’s a racist element, def, but also I wonder if there’s some kind of indirect unconscious climate panic involved. https://t.co/hkger7Ru0q

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Tue 25 Feb 2020 15:36

word has reached me from France that I am working in the tradition of Veblen, Mumford, and Nitzan/Bichler, without fully realising it. Never read much Veblen in the original. I am in NYC and will go the Strand where there will certainly be some books to see if this is true.

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Mon 24 Feb 2020 13:44

just so people know: I have Indefinite Leave to Remain & was thinking of becoming a UK citizen this summer. If #KeirStarmer becomes Labour leader, I will instead consider moving to another country entirely, because all hope of positive social transformation here will be dead.

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Sun 23 Feb 2020 15:04

Each seem to have ascended to near demiurgic status in the eyes of the other’s population. The US political class see Russian spies behind everything. Russians apparently widely believe the US engineered the coronavirus to slow down the Chinese economy.

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Sun 23 Feb 2020 03:23

the rebellion of union workers against their own leadership in the #nevadacaucus is a perfect example of the revolt of the caring classes. The trad left is trying to embrace both the administrators & the carers, but it’s the road to disaster. It’s got to be one or the other.

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Sat 15 Feb 2020 12:21

correction “it hasn’t snowed heavily and there’s been no major snow on the ground for any length of time.” Average February weather used to be around -10 to -15 twenty years ago, now it hovers around +3-4.

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Sat 15 Feb 2020 11:15

apparently it hasn’t snowed in St. Petersburg in years now. In Moscow they have to produce fake snow for some televised events. So Russian Winters effectively no longer exist. Why is no one in power in the world panicking? And what’s going to happen when they do?

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Fri 14 Feb 2020 11:08

I’m not just talking about Australia. I was in Venice 6 mo.s ago & people were saying, oh no, in a few years, it’s going to start flooding. Two months later, Venice flooded. So my question is how long do people think it’ll take before rightwingers switch from denial to power grab

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Fri 14 Feb 2020 10:55

so Australia is on fire. How long now do you think it will take before the hard right switches overnight from “nonsense, I don’t see it, it’s not happening” to “omg it’s real! We’re all going to die! Now we must have absolute unchallengeable power to deal with the crisis”?

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Tue 11 Feb 2020 23:39

NO ONE CAN BRING BACK THE AMERICA OF THE 1950s. NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE FUTURE WILL BRING. NO ONE IS ALWAYS RIGHT.

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Sat 8 Feb 2020 15:55

they seem to make stupid, incompetent, idiotic mistakes that harm the left-wing candidate all the time. And every time we have journalists appear to give us stern lectures how completely insane we would have to notice a pattern here

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Sat 8 Feb 2020 15:43

I’m beginning to understand how the term “gaslight”, basically unknown 10 years ago is now used so regularly. OK. So how do we explain the way in the US like the UK highly trained professionals never make a single stupid mistake that benefits the left-wing candidate? https://t.co/ktpx3beNVX

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Sat 8 Feb 2020 01:55

this is the kind of review that makes you feel you were right to write the book in the first place I felt it was important to have all those testimonies in there, even though some found it tedious https://t.co/oOobHjC2YV

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Fri 7 Feb 2020 18:19

Certainly the least effective – unless of course it was only ever really intended to destroy the Left wing of the Labour Party https://t.co/g8Zg3q7Bud

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Wed 5 Feb 2020 14:49

. @nikadubrovsky first suggested to me the Dem Establishment is intentionally playing to lose & at first I found it hard to believe, but she pointed out, the Soviet nomenklatura did much same in the end, they allowed the system to collapse as long as they personally did better 3/

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Wed 5 Feb 2020 14:45

the major motivation of the Loser Left is the desire to feel contempt & superiority to as many people as possible. Right populists, who actually do want to win, exploit this by pretending to be morons so liberals with sneer & voters say “I bet that’s how he feels about me too” 2/

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Wed 5 Feb 2020 14:42

Conspiracy theory of the day: the US Democratic establishment don’t want to beat Trump. They know only Bernie could actually win, & are terrified by even the mildest socialism. Trump gives them policies that favour the rich (themselves) & the chance to feel morally superior

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Tue 4 Feb 2020 17:12

after having done everything they could possibly think to to do to throw the election to a far-right bully, the UK media is shocked, shocked, to discover they too now have to deal with a far-right bully https://t.co/l4xjozQfU7

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