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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Tue 14 May 2019 08:06

Required reading for everyone who feels that “anti-imperialist principles” or realpolitik oblige them to support the Assad regime. You’re just validating systematic industrial-scale rape, torture, and murder as a means of suppressing civilian dissent. https://t.co/nYP6tLJqzq

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Sun 12 May 2019 15:07

To judge his general veracity: he once challenged my interpretation of an argument by Michael Hudson. I checked with Hudson himself who confirmed I had it right & HF wrong, & announced this. HF replied just pretending this hadn’t happened & continued to insist I got Hudson wrong

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Sun 12 May 2019 14:30

I don’t directly interact with this man, who after I said I refused further engagement because of the personal nature of his attacks spent literally years coming after me with further personal attacks (knowing I had pledged not reply). I HATE bullies. He’s the quintessence of one https://t.co/NfFXKe0lGe

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Sat 11 May 2019 12:01

Question is should I make the whole thing public? It’s kind of tedious stuff but I guess I could screenshot it

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Sat 11 May 2019 12:00

Finally it reveals CB’s constant repeated lie that I tried to get him to change “criticism” of me as just that – he tried to get ME to soften criticism of one of the commentators, I just said he bore some responsibility for publishing a troll piece in the first place

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Sat 11 May 2019 11:15

I made it abundantly clear I thought it was a set-up, using intentionally false statements to get a rise out of me & so everyone could pile on & condemn me as a rotten person – which is of course exactly what happened. He pretended to reassure me.

Sat 11 May 2019 11:13

I’ve been going through my original Crooked Timber correspondence with .@crookedfootball and it’s even worse than I remember: I repeatedly complained I felt I was being lured into a trap, & at first refused to write a reply of any sort at all.

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Fri 10 May 2019 11:57

So it turns out Margaret Hodges’ gripe against Corbyn might well have begun when she was head of a local council that tried to sell off & destroy a Jewish cemetery & JC joined a Jewish campaign to stop if https://t.co/h015PRxKCA

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Thu 9 May 2019 17:18

Soviet realist painting not, for some reason, entitled “worker contemplating rubber duck” https://t.co/HvMzB6a4LC

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Mon 6 May 2019 17:34

I have heard it said that halos were first invented so that pigeons would not shit on the heads of sculptures. Sounds plausible to me. https://t.co/jGURcFBEDy

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Sun 5 May 2019 08:45

say, @EsquireUK, you managed to be condescending about others’ “errors” & wrong simultaneously: your quote, and the original article (showing I used the British spelling; you changed it to US spelling then claimed I got it wrong) nice piece otherwise https://t.co/fnQv3vhMuI

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Fri 3 May 2019 16:26

wait a week for just £7 mil?? The average 1-2 day summit protest in the US cost 20x that! The London Met is clearly not paying their cops proper overtime or bonuses, not doing extra training or getting extra equipment. No wonder XR ran circles around them https://t.co/v08tttIvG9

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Fri 3 May 2019 11:02

10/ to this day, he continues to insist that it was me who tried to privately intervene to stifle “criticism”, even though he knows perfectly well the reality was precisely the other way around

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Fri 3 May 2019 10:59

9/ then, later, when all his friends were piling in on me with character attacks for the tone of my response, he went public to announce, repeatedly, that I had privately intervened to try to make him change “criticism” of my work that I objected to

Fri 3 May 2019 10:57

8/ he replied he wasn’t the editor, it wasn’t his responsibility (but somehow my comments were),

Fri 3 May 2019 10:55

7/ I asked him why if he was willing to intervene to tone down criticism of his friend’s factually incorrect statements, he did not feel it appropriate to intervene in a similar way to the original statements themselves

Fri 3 May 2019 10:52

4/ Bertram wrote back privately, noting the author was a friend of his, and asking me to tone down or eliminate my criticism of the piece

Fri 3 May 2019 10:50

2/ in that forum, most comments were constructive & I responded in a friendly fashion, but one used a technique I have since come to recognise as a form of trolling, including intentional falsehoods to goad the author into making an intemperate response

Fri 3 May 2019 10:48

1/ for the record, let me lay down precisely why I believe Chris Bertram (.@crookedfootball) to be a malicious slimeball. This is what happened. 1. He asked me to take part in a forum I didn’t particularly want to be engaged in, when I had a bad flu

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Thu 2 May 2019 23:44

I take it back. I’ve been saying for years Obama didn’t have a vision, he just got elected by acting like the kind of who *would* have a vision. Now I realise he did have a vision. But it just applied to himself & his family, not really to anybody else.

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Thu 2 May 2019 12:03

fascinating. By once months ago retweeting a petition I’d been asked to sign (after hundreds of other scholars already have), I seem to have morphed into George Soros https://t.co/7vF1jQBZ6K

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Tue 30 Apr 2019 22:46

Internet out again. Allow me to remark, for the 437th time: hey Sir Richard Branson! I hope a tsunami hits your stupid island.

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