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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Thu 27 Jun 2019 21:46

This is one of the greatest legal outrages I’ve seen in long time: 3 sisters in Russia who endured years of systematic violence & sexual abuse from their father facing 20 years each for finally killing him https://t.co/WcQVg6eNH7

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Thu 27 Jun 2019 13:58

I’m just pointing this out because often I feel guilty & rude that I can’t reply to them all, let alone do all but a tiny fraction of the events: all these nice people read & were moved or at least impressed by my work! I do try to at least reply to the personal ones.

Thu 27 Jun 2019 13:54

dear world: as part of an academic exercise I surveyed my emails from Jan-March 2019. The # of requests I received to do (unpaid) interviews, talks, events, essays, averaged 50 per month. The # of letters from strangers who wanted to ask questions or bounce ideas was c.30/month

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Tue 25 Jun 2019 12:17

this was the way I felt about GWBush. All my life I knew that guy. I was the poor kid working my ass off to make something of myself. He was the drunken slacker laughing at me bcs he knew no matter how hard I worked, how stupid & lazy he was, he could be President, and I couldn’t https://t.co/IrXT1fzBef

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Sun 23 Jun 2019 17:25

When will some people learn that putting a statuette of Donald Trump with a Hitler mustache on your dashboard is still putting a statuette of Donald Trump on your dashboard https://t.co/pDALF4JYuJ

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Sun 23 Jun 2019 10:02

“These people want to push us into a war, and it’s so disgusting,” Mr. Trump told one confidant about his own inner circle of advisers. granted, he hired them, but tells you a lot that even such a notorious jerk says this on learning how DC really works https://t.co/Kiog0Q7yJ7

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Fri 21 Jun 2019 12:40

we also need to ask: what does it mean, legally, when you find evidence of a false flag, that is, not only did the PKK not put a bomb in a market, but Turkish gov’t (MT, cops…) actually DID. How does that not make the Turkish gov’t party to terrorism?

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Fri 21 Jun 2019 12:36

basically the AKP strategy has been to repeat it aggressively & have proxies repeat it aggressively thousands of times, hoping therefore it never occurs to anyone to actually check the evidence; Belgian courts found they had no compelling evidence for ANY of the charges

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Fri 21 Jun 2019 12:35

this is important because there’s a standard list of supposed recent PKK “terror acts” that the UK especially has been circulating, which, on investigation, appear to be full of acts which even TURKISH COURTS established were false flags or wrongly attributed

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Fri 21 Jun 2019 12:26

there’ e now been 5 Belgian court decisions challenging the PKK’s listing as a terrorist org, and all found the same thing: they are parties to a civil war, not terrorists, & Turkish gov was unable to come up with any compelling evidence to back their claims of terrorist acts https://t.co/TX4xbYTYlu

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Thu 20 Jun 2019 11:23

as part of the never-ending German war on anything that makes Greece a nicer place to live than, say, Germany, after having forced them to sell everything they own short of the Parthenon, they are now forcing Greeks to accept poison food. https://t.co/HgDCKPG7OC

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Sat 15 Jun 2019 21:32

For the second week in a row I am a bestseller at Neil & Magdalen’s bookstand in Portobello market! (They sold two.) Here are the happy customers – mother and daughter https://t.co/eRbD8MqW3q

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Wed 12 Jun 2019 11:59

this is the kind of thing that assholes like @shawncarrie is effectively facilitating by recycling every known Turkish propaganda line to attack anyone who gives a sympathetic portrayal of Rojava https://t.co/HTLkrzwq2O

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Wed 5 Jun 2019 19:49

Now let us reflect on how many outraged messages were sent saying how unfair it was to suggest his work might imply he thought … exactly what it turns out he does think

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Wed 5 Jun 2019 18:31

I am shocked, shocked to discover NC actually does think Black people are genetically inferior after all. https://t.co/WPdK4AITdJ

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Tue 4 Jun 2019 16:55

Please sign this petition for Grenfel campaigner imprisoned just before the two year anniversary. #iamreismorris #freeriz https://t.co/UAag31tf3q

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Tue 4 Jun 2019 14:45

this was so obviously going to be the plan. We all said it the moment the vote was in: if the Tories preside over Brexit, it will be all their evil dreams come true. That’s why I was a Remainer despite hating the EU https://t.co/z9MI45Fnzq

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Tue 4 Jun 2019 09:09

this is important: this is still a feudal country. New Labour report proposes to start to address the very roots of class power. https://t.co/siHt0RA5xV

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Mon 3 Jun 2019 21:29

If I were to create a Patreon account to enable myself to get a place to live big enough to fit my books how would I label it? How about “David Graeber is creating problems for all sorts of powerful and influential people”?

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Thu 30 May 2019 17:37

the fact anyone, esp. a journalist can say Assange describing he & Manning as “the people’s intelligence agency” means they WEREN’T journalists shows just how far contemporary journalists have fallen. Was a time it would have been assumed that’s precisely what journalists are.

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Thu 30 May 2019 12:35

John, Basil Fawlty was a CHARACTER. I thought British actors were down on Stanislavsky and method acting; you’re not supposed to actually BECOME the character you play. https://t.co/rQiaggX5RF

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Sun 26 May 2019 15:54

In ancient Athens 1. Police were Scythian archers, who were slaves; 2. In court slaves’ testimony was only admissible under torture. My question: did 2. apply to police, and is it possible to bring back a system where police testimony is only admissible under such conditions?

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