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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Sun 28 Apr 2019 13:48

truly sick that as fascists attack both mosques & synagogues murdering innocents, people like Donald Trump, Margaret Hodge, #BBCNews, #TheGuardian & entire UK media establishment endlessly tell us the real terrorists & antisemites are the antifascists https://t.co/pmS5nEM6ob

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Fri 26 Apr 2019 23:26

Amnesty International denies basic human rights (ie toilets) to protestors, then sends in cops with dogs to attack hunger strikers. Way to keep the moral high ground AI! https://t.co/07dMaS0EVA

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Thu 25 Apr 2019 08:38

I’ve never been married before. Even though the proper ceremony is later, in London & Berlin, I have never been more moved than that someone who actually knows me would want to be with me forever. https://t.co/AyJieDnuYi

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Tue 23 Apr 2019 15:40

this is so important … “libertarian communalism” is something of a new phrase for me does anyone know its history? https://t.co/xtqdXy8I8o

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Tue 23 Apr 2019 15:20

National Review concerned that the abject failure of Macron’s regime has discredited centrism & will lead to Melanchon running France, Corbyn in the UK, and Sanders in the US https://t.co/TLAoIYt0lt

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Sun 21 Apr 2019 14:51

the especially hilarious part is that all these guys don’t seem to even notice I expound an explicit class struggle version of social change throughout the book, then at the end I say “well I’m not going to propose solutions…” I mean figure it out for yourself.

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Sun 21 Apr 2019 14:11

Oh look the guy who took & circulated the Diane Abbott pic is a rightwing nut so extreme even the police kicked him out https://t.co/LO416sEZ1y

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Sun 21 Apr 2019 14:08

Funny I could have sworn I was a working class revolutionary. Always handy to have some sectarians around to explain to me what I’m really about https://t.co/kI3b6tDIUj

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Sun 21 Apr 2019 00:05

the exact measure of how racist a society Britain is today: the degree to which the media can try to create a scandal about Diane Abbot drinking a mojito on the tube and NOT have it backfire on them. https://t.co/HZXPSBeEBA

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Thu 18 Apr 2019 13:15

I walked out silently when he said that (after I’d been invited over to be with family at a difficult time), but no one else in my family ever intervened to try to mediate or even express solidarity after that. So in effect I have no family. Well they were never really close.

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Thu 18 Apr 2019 13:14

while I’m at it, a big fuck-you to my cousin the bond trader with a huge brownstone in the Village & two (2) houses in the Hamptons, who demanded to know why I was complaining they were kicking me out if they had a legal right to.

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Thu 18 Apr 2019 13:12

Until police intelligence & counter-terrorism had a little chat with the Penn South building management, I’d always had NYC as my real residence; in London, I was always a lodger, had at best a room in someone else’s flat

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Thu 18 Apr 2019 13:11

… let alone a place to live in the city where I was born and grew up & always had as my primary residence, & to which I had obviously worked very hard to contribute a fair amount.

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Thu 18 Apr 2019 13:10

I can’t think of how many times people clearly born to professional-on-up families lectured me, the kid of working class origins who actually tried to act, in however limited a way, on principles they claimed to share, how entitled I was to assume I deserve a job in academia …

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Thu 18 Apr 2019 13:08

it’s not so much the right wing assholes who first kicked me out of academia, then my family home – they’re my enemies, that’s all that one expect of them – but the hordes of supposedly left-wing bougies who were passively or even actively on their side

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Thu 18 Apr 2019 13:04

Going back to NYC for a week, for personal reasons. First time in years. I find myself almost emotionally paralysed.

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Mon 15 Apr 2019 00:30

Lord Sugar keeps threatening to leave the UK because of Corbyn. But he never actually does it. We’re all waiting! In fact I suspect one reason many people are intending to vote Labour is because then people like you might leave. https://t.co/k9mqdL2ncf

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Fri 12 Apr 2019 08:16

this is serious because though ostensibly aimed at ISIS territory, which no longer exists, we all know there’s about a 99% chance it will be applied to Rojava – i.e., to the territory of the ostensible Western allies who’ve been fighting ISIS https://t.co/ocVZtHNmSe

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Thu 11 Apr 2019 23:15

chapter 347 of “why I’m so glad I no longer live in the United States of America” https://t.co/L0wSykIReJ

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Thu 11 Apr 2019 18:47

miraculous prophet Jennings announces what we “get wrong” about cities based entirely on his prescient fore-knowledge of things we haven’t written yet, then explains our future mistakes are due to my political convictions https://t.co/dhWxCrljOr

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Thu 11 Apr 2019 18:06

I’m so tired of this weird reduction of political issues to personal morality. Isn’t it possible someone can be a rotten guy, even a rapist, but it’d still set a disastrous precedent to extradite an Australian in the UK for publishing US secrets? https://t.co/VL74g5UGx0

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Tue 9 Apr 2019 17:48

this just in; one of the very few left pro-#GiletsJaunes media in France experiences sudden coup, director replaced with anti-GJ journalist https://t.co/r3j1cNVp4R

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Tue 9 Apr 2019 17:28

surprise! Turkish government decided they didn’t like who won the elections in Kurdish cities so they didn’t win. https://t.co/FuIN7qLDbb

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Sun 7 Apr 2019 21:01

finally blocked that weird person who seems to have followed me just to occasionally (usually personally) attack me & then if I replied tell me i was endangering their career.