Carl Pierer
@cp758.bsky.social
PhD student in history of political thought/pol theory at POLIS, Cambridge. Trying to think about nature, labour, marxism, and the Anthropocene through a history of the domestic labour debate. "Just a normal functioning member of the human race." he/him
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*zizek voice* there is no such thing as a gentle reminder! <sniff> all reminders are violent
October 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
*zizek voice* there is no such thing as a gentle reminder! <sniff> all reminders are violent
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“‘As a Jew’ – the phrase has always made me feel uneasy, though I might well have used it myself.“
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Berlin Diary
That Germany has a responsibility to remember the Holocaust is beyond question. But it’s striking how little concern...
www.lrb.co.uk
August 14, 2025 at 6:54 AM
“‘As a Jew’ – the phrase has always made me feel uneasy, though I might well have used it myself.“
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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some frankly amazing AI slop that someone decided to try and post on the r/dataisbeautiful subreddit
![the same image in context of a reddit post from the subreddit "r/dataisbeautiful" saying it's "the most popular food of each state from voting [OC]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kbwkbgkz2zssoj22ebartpgy/bafkreihanvynageumop7hvniq3bft4koyuf7uskvatstjnkcro5mw4fp24@jpeg)
July 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
some frankly amazing AI slop that someone decided to try and post on the r/dataisbeautiful subreddit
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We're hosting the Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought’s conference in Edinburgh in January. Plenary speakers are Alyssa Battistoni, Ross Carroll, Sean Fleming, Rahul Rao, and Johanna Thoma. Now we want your proposals! Pls RT www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/biapt-2026-i...
BIAPT 2026 in Edinburgh: call for papers - BIAPT
CALL FOR PAPERS: Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought Conference 7–9 January 2026 – University of Edinburgh Academic Convenors: Alfred Moore (York), Tom O’Shea (Edinburgh) and Signy G...
www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk
May 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
We're hosting the Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought’s conference in Edinburgh in January. Plenary speakers are Alyssa Battistoni, Ross Carroll, Sean Fleming, Rahul Rao, and Johanna Thoma. Now we want your proposals! Pls RT www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/biapt-2026-i...
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The European Union has an online petition with a deadline of Saturday to ban conversion therapy:
If you are a EU citizen, please sign & share 👇🏼
🇪🇺🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
#conversiontherapy #lgbtplus #EU
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/
If you are a EU citizen, please sign & share 👇🏼
🇪🇺🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
#conversiontherapy #lgbtplus #EU
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
eci.ec.europa.eu
May 16, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The European Union has an online petition with a deadline of Saturday to ban conversion therapy:
If you are a EU citizen, please sign & share 👇🏼
🇪🇺🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
#conversiontherapy #lgbtplus #EU
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/
If you are a EU citizen, please sign & share 👇🏼
🇪🇺🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
#conversiontherapy #lgbtplus #EU
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/
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The petition to ban conversion therapy practices in the EU is lacking enough votes from:
- #germany (49.9%)
- #sweden (49.96%)
- #Netherlands (94%)
- #austria (25.5%)
- #Slovenia (83.14%)
- #portugal (24.46%)
If you're a citizen there you can help advance a ban on conversion therapy by voting:
- #germany (49.9%)
- #sweden (49.96%)
- #Netherlands (94%)
- #austria (25.5%)
- #Slovenia (83.14%)
- #portugal (24.46%)
If you're a citizen there you can help advance a ban on conversion therapy by voting:
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
eci.ec.europa.eu
May 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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EU friends -please sign and share this! especially if you're in the countries mentioned!
The petition to ban conversion therapy practices in the EU is lacking enough votes from:
- #germany (49.9%)
- #sweden (49.96%)
- #Netherlands (94%)
- #austria (25.5%)
- #Slovenia (83.14%)
- #portugal (24.46%)
If you're a citizen there you can help advance a ban on conversion therapy by voting:
- #germany (49.9%)
- #sweden (49.96%)
- #Netherlands (94%)
- #austria (25.5%)
- #Slovenia (83.14%)
- #portugal (24.46%)
If you're a citizen there you can help advance a ban on conversion therapy by voting:
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
eci.ec.europa.eu
May 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
EU friends -please sign and share this! especially if you're in the countries mentioned!
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Had a great time launching Issue I of @the-breakdown.bsky.social last night with the exceptional @geoffmann.bsky.social and Quinn Slobodian.
Thanks to everyone who turned out, asked great questions and supported new climate writing.
Issue I here: www.break-down.org/issues/1
Thanks to everyone who turned out, asked great questions and supported new climate writing.
Issue I here: www.break-down.org/issues/1
May 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Had a great time launching Issue I of @the-breakdown.bsky.social last night with the exceptional @geoffmann.bsky.social and Quinn Slobodian.
Thanks to everyone who turned out, asked great questions and supported new climate writing.
Issue I here: www.break-down.org/issues/1
Thanks to everyone who turned out, asked great questions and supported new climate writing.
Issue I here: www.break-down.org/issues/1
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Geoff Mann and Adrienne Buller's editorial from the first print issue of @the-breakdown.bsky.social is up on our site www.break-down.org/post/the-hea...
The Heat of the Moment
In place of paralysis or bland positivity, this is the moment for an honest reckoning with where we stand, what we are up against, and where, already, resistance is underway.
www.break-down.org
May 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Geoff Mann and Adrienne Buller's editorial from the first print issue of @the-breakdown.bsky.social is up on our site www.break-down.org/post/the-hea...
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👗📊✨ Bonjour, hier soir c’était les Oscars et c’est donc l’heure de mon désormais traditionnel thread
🍿 LES TENUES DES OSCARS AS GRAPHIQUES DE L'@insee.fr, version 2025 🍿
Je commence avec Mikey Madison as Une pyramide des âges proche de celle de l'ensemble de la population
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🍿 LES TENUES DES OSCARS AS GRAPHIQUES DE L'@insee.fr, version 2025 🍿
Je commence avec Mikey Madison as Une pyramide des âges proche de celle de l'ensemble de la population
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March 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
👗📊✨ Bonjour, hier soir c’était les Oscars et c’est donc l’heure de mon désormais traditionnel thread
🍿 LES TENUES DES OSCARS AS GRAPHIQUES DE L'@insee.fr, version 2025 🍿
Je commence avec Mikey Madison as Une pyramide des âges proche de celle de l'ensemble de la population
⬇️⬇️⬇️
🍿 LES TENUES DES OSCARS AS GRAPHIQUES DE L'@insee.fr, version 2025 🍿
Je commence avec Mikey Madison as Une pyramide des âges proche de celle de l'ensemble de la population
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Applications now open for this year's postgraduate summer school in sunny Turin -- come and talk to us about slavery and serfdom in the early modern period
Call for applications Summer School THP 2025 | Fondazione 1563
Online call for applications to the Summer School Turin Humanities Programme 2025 for postgraduate students and early career researchers
www.fondazione1563.it
April 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Applications now open for this year's postgraduate summer school in sunny Turin -- come and talk to us about slavery and serfdom in the early modern period
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Extremely thrilled to share that my article "The multiple audiences dynamic of status (dis) satisfaction: examining China’s shifting response to the emerging global environmental regime, 1950–1972" is now published #openaccess in @ejir.bsky.social at doi.org/10.1177/1354...! (1/n)
The multiple audiences dynamic of status (dis)satisfaction: examining China’s shifting response to the emerging global environmental regime, 1950–1972 - Zikun Yang, 2025
How does status dissatisfaction shape a state’s behavior? Existing literature suggests that mistreatment and misconception by the great powers could elicit a st...
doi.org
April 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Extremely thrilled to share that my article "The multiple audiences dynamic of status (dis) satisfaction: examining China’s shifting response to the emerging global environmental regime, 1950–1972" is now published #openaccess in @ejir.bsky.social at doi.org/10.1177/1354...! (1/n)
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La loi is mightier than Le Pen (for the moment, at least):
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen found guilty of embezzling EU funds
The presidential hopeful was found guilty in a case that could see her banned from standing in the 2027 election.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 31, 2025 at 10:15 AM
La loi is mightier than Le Pen (for the moment, at least):
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4 years, 5 countries, 6 languages, 8 archives,thousands of pages later, bound proofs of INDIGNITY have landed on my (or, rather, Beatrice Webb’s) desk at LSE! Publishing @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social in the UK in Sept +🇦🇱🇺🇸🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇸🇸🇪🇳🇴🇩🇰🇳🇱🇮🇹🇸🇮🇧🇷 + more. So excited (and terrified) to share with you all ❤️🧿!
March 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
4 years, 5 countries, 6 languages, 8 archives,thousands of pages later, bound proofs of INDIGNITY have landed on my (or, rather, Beatrice Webb’s) desk at LSE! Publishing @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social in the UK in Sept +🇦🇱🇺🇸🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇸🇸🇪🇳🇴🇩🇰🇳🇱🇮🇹🇸🇮🇧🇷 + more. So excited (and terrified) to share with you all ❤️🧿!
From Siobhan Angus "Chemical Necromancy: Plantations and Petrochemical Refining in Cancer Alley"
(tinyurl.com/ez7wcb73)
(tinyurl.com/ez7wcb73)
March 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
From Siobhan Angus "Chemical Necromancy: Plantations and Petrochemical Refining in Cancer Alley"
(tinyurl.com/ez7wcb73)
(tinyurl.com/ez7wcb73)
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This is happening today. If you are in London and want to learn about commoning in the energy sector, join us at Pelican House.
Next Tuesday we have an event at Pelican House featuring Joelson Ferreira de Oliveira & Melka Barros from Teia dos Povos (People's Network), a Brazilian articulation of self-managed communities and territories.
Free & open to the public.
Register here
👇
tinyurl.com/mh4xvnuw
Free & open to the public.
Register here
👇
tinyurl.com/mh4xvnuw
Energy Commons: Indigenous Knowledge for Post-Capitalist Transitions
Organized by the Centre for Commons Organising, Values, Equalities, and Resilience (COVER) with Teia dos Povos
tinyurl.com
March 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
This is happening today. If you are in London and want to learn about commoning in the energy sector, join us at Pelican House.
one of the more enjoyable features of bsky imho are those bots, such as @restaurant-bot.bsky.social @townsusa.bsky.social and @britishvoter.bsky.social, that offer intriguing (unsettling?) glimpses into more or less distant other lives and possible realities
March 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
one of the more enjoyable features of bsky imho are those bots, such as @restaurant-bot.bsky.social @townsusa.bsky.social and @britishvoter.bsky.social, that offer intriguing (unsettling?) glimpses into more or less distant other lives and possible realities
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I do love this account. A constant stream of reminders that hardly anyone ever fits neatly onto a two-dimensional political spectrum.
March 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I do love this account. A constant stream of reminders that hardly anyone ever fits neatly onto a two-dimensional political spectrum.
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Come join me and @stoffelalex.bsky.social for a conversation with @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social about his important new book, Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx, hosted by the Gender, Sexuality and Feminism Stream @histmat.bsky.social. Register here www.eventbrite.com/e/subsumptio...
March 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Come join me and @stoffelalex.bsky.social for a conversation with @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social about his important new book, Subsumption in Kant, Hegel and Marx, hosted by the Gender, Sexuality and Feminism Stream @histmat.bsky.social. Register here www.eventbrite.com/e/subsumptio...
each decade you're entitled to one new conservative opinion. edgy enough to be interesting, but not so far gone that you go reactionary
March 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
each decade you're entitled to one new conservative opinion. edgy enough to be interesting, but not so far gone that you go reactionary
Fantastic new article by Mirko Palestrino in @EuroJournIN
- and what a timely and important argument!
- and what a timely and important argument!
Hot off the press! My new article on wartime gardening and the meaning and politics of military victory is now out #openaccess in @EuroJournIN at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... What does it argue? A thread:
March 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Fantastic new article by Mirko Palestrino in @EuroJournIN
- and what a timely and important argument!
- and what a timely and important argument!
excellent paper and congrats to @absander.bsky.social !!
💻PhD candidate, @absander.bsky.social, has published an article in Constellations, an international journal of critical & democratic theory, titled "Social Media, Democracy, and the Popular Public Sphere".
Read the article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@jesuscollegecam.bsky.social
Read the article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@jesuscollegecam.bsky.social
Social Media, Democracy, and the Popular Public Sphere
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
excellent paper and congrats to @absander.bsky.social !!
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willem dafoe in movies he wasn’t in: thread
March 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
willem dafoe in movies he wasn’t in: thread