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 27 Feb 2018 00:53

it reminds me a lot of the cops during direct actions in 2000, 2001… The reporters had to maintain good relations with the cops so they couldn’t just say “but wait that’s obviously not true.” So they’d just print whatever they said until we proved it wasn’t true.

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Tue 27 Feb 2018 00:45

if it wasn’t so outrageous it’d be fascinating to watch the Western press just blindly report whatever lies an obviously fascist government feeds them, just because it’s a government. https://t.co/RBrWA3JRek

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Sun 25 Feb 2018 20:56

here is a piece of a letter I got from someone whose parents are still living in Afrin, reporting back on conditions there. It’s simply extraordinary that no nation on earth has spoken against this https://t.co/qRjFpQego4

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Sun 25 Feb 2018 01:45

outrageous, but… what’s up with the persecution of Hawaiians? It seems the most disproportionate on the chart https://t.co/7xbWhSiHKf

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Sat 24 Feb 2018 11:52

so 6% of voters feel that allegations that Corbyn was a spy make them “think better of him.” Well I guess his main weakness was he always came off as slightly boring. https://t.co/NS90AgjU4I

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Fri 23 Feb 2018 15:22

Turkish army terror-bombs civilian convoy of protestors coming to support Afrin. And like clockwork, @jricole appears to try to convince Western liberals it was really a military convoy https://t.co/KCKygGezeJ https://t.co/MxlZ3IKBp2

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Fri 23 Feb 2018 14:46

H of Commons debate Tuesday: Foreign Secretary defends Turkish invasion of Afrin, Shadow FS speaking for LP “unequivocally condemn[s] Turkey for its disgraceful assault on Afrin.” https://t.co/xiG7uYLJGh

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Fri 23 Feb 2018 12:01

the idea that Turkey’s persecution of the Kurdish Democracy Movement or invasion of Afrin is somehow in a different category than anything done by “Western” powers is racist on so many levels it’s hard to even count them all https://t.co/YX5JJRGiSV

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Thu 22 Feb 2018 14:46

Interesting advice for strikers from the Internet support staff at all London unis – use the system! It’s the same one the administrators use. There’s no one maintaining it right now.

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Thu 22 Feb 2018 09:18

okay, can’t help myself: does anyone out there know what “Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology” is called “Focaal”? I know two people on the masthead & both say they don’t know.

Wed 21 Feb 2018 12:37

yes, because Mr. O’Brien at 14 saw the world from an unbiased perspective. Then later he discovered that people would give him lots of money to think the opposite. https://t.co/hCENq9hv98

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Wed 21 Feb 2018 02:16

can someone tell this guy I said they decided not to take up arms themselves, not that they didn’t provide social services! I mean honestly wasn’t that obvious? What’s wrong with some people? https://t.co/girAniFrwf

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Tue 20 Feb 2018 13:56

damn I’m late for Citizens Basic Income day at LSE. I guess I’ll just have to blame Russian spies.

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Mon 19 Feb 2018 13:31

today I learned from @paulmason that I was part of a broad resistance to Postmodernism on the part of the British Left that was one key to it’s rebirth. Good on me! (And Mark & Roy & Terry apparently but what about Hilary and Bev?) https://t.co/UEqCj8FgUo

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Mon 19 Feb 2018 10:35

maybe I should write something about the symbolic significance of Russian spies in Western culture: once an ideological threat to our way of life, now… what? a symbol of the absence of ideological alternative and collapse of our way of life?

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Sun 18 Feb 2018 17:17

I am going to visit a friend. She told me to take the bus and get off at “Mount Pleasant.” I asked why there was a place w such a name in a flat part of London. She said “because it used to be a garbage dump.”

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Sun 18 Feb 2018 11:18

the question I’m asking is: why isn’t the UK hiring more customs agents? Is it? https://t.co/li1C8pco9y

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Fri 16 Feb 2018 23:07

how .@jricole appears to be intentionally trying to deceive his liberal readers about events in Southern Turkey and North Syria https://t.co/HVz2uzGqLa

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Thu 15 Feb 2018 14:48

Hmm, think it’s a reference to something? #justice4grenfell (wasn’t sure about the movie but this is awesome.) https://t.co/MAoVKSOMPr

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Tue 13 Feb 2018 03:00

Mr. Sessions might be interested to learn the word “sheriff” is actually derived from the Arabic “sharif”, since the Normans imported the Arabic system of administration from Norman Sicily https://t.co/w28wiXRFHs

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Mon 12 Feb 2018 11:31

Some friends of mine in Malaysia are trying to create an alternative to their two awful Tweedledum Tweedledee parties https://t.co/msqE2uj2Iq

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