Bent
@bentbos.bsky.social
PhD candidate at VU Amsterdam:
Legal Imaginaries of Climate Neutrality
Legal Imaginaries of Climate Neutrality
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Noemen het wat het zijn: fascisten!
September 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Noemen het wat het zijn: fascisten!
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You can always spot a reactionary 'rebel' by looking at who they think holds power
Even as mainstream parties, the media and economy are controlled by interests close to their hearts, they will keep pretending that the enemy is to be found in marginalised communities or 'the left'
Even as mainstream parties, the media and economy are controlled by interests close to their hearts, they will keep pretending that the enemy is to be found in marginalised communities or 'the left'
July 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
You can always spot a reactionary 'rebel' by looking at who they think holds power
Even as mainstream parties, the media and economy are controlled by interests close to their hearts, they will keep pretending that the enemy is to be found in marginalised communities or 'the left'
Even as mainstream parties, the media and economy are controlled by interests close to their hearts, they will keep pretending that the enemy is to be found in marginalised communities or 'the left'
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Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly:
"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."
"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."
July 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly:
"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."
"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."
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"for black people, for latino people, for trans people, for the people in gaza, we all deserve to live in hope and not in fear and i hope we stand together, my brothers and sisters, against hate and we protest against it"
With the BET Awards happening in downtown LA, I was wondering who was going to say something first. Doechii really is that girl.
June 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"for black people, for latino people, for trans people, for the people in gaza, we all deserve to live in hope and not in fear and i hope we stand together, my brothers and sisters, against hate and we protest against it"
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This, in a sense, is the point of capital. You cannot demand dignity, justice, freedom when you're worried about what you are going to feed your kid. It has always been a manufactured scarcity in the wealthiest country in the world.
Uncle Karl taught us that two centuries ago.
Uncle Karl taught us that two centuries ago.
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
April 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This, in a sense, is the point of capital. You cannot demand dignity, justice, freedom when you're worried about what you are going to feed your kid. It has always been a manufactured scarcity in the wealthiest country in the world.
Uncle Karl taught us that two centuries ago.
Uncle Karl taught us that two centuries ago.
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Its 'Greenhouse-gas lighting'
As explained here by... @blancheverlie.bsky.social
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April 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Its 'Greenhouse-gas lighting'
As explained here by... @blancheverlie.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
As explained here by... @blancheverlie.bsky.social
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So this is a gamble, it might not work, but to think of this as just ‘economic illiteracy’ or stupidity or whatever misses the point about the nature of capitalism, how it functions, and social relations, institutions and conflicts of which it is composed.
April 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
So this is a gamble, it might not work, but to think of this as just ‘economic illiteracy’ or stupidity or whatever misses the point about the nature of capitalism, how it functions, and social relations, institutions and conflicts of which it is composed.
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VU protest march through the Zuidas
#WOinActie #DoeHetNiet @vuamsterdam.bsky.social #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs
#WOinActie #DoeHetNiet @vuamsterdam.bsky.social #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs
April 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
VU protest march through the Zuidas
#WOinActie #DoeHetNiet @vuamsterdam.bsky.social #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs
#WOinActie #DoeHetNiet @vuamsterdam.bsky.social #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs
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Fuck yeah Frog ✊🐸
April 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Fuck yeah Frog ✊🐸
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Ever forced to find cuts to welfare, never forced to raise taxes.
March 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Ever forced to find cuts to welfare, never forced to raise taxes.
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It's not real.
It's not us.
It's not bad.
It's too hard to fix.
It's too late.
Just about every climate denial argument I've ever heard is a variant of one of these five categories, and each one is as bad as the next.
Why? Because they all have the same goal: prevent action as long as possible.
It's not us.
It's not bad.
It's too hard to fix.
It's too late.
Just about every climate denial argument I've ever heard is a variant of one of these five categories, and each one is as bad as the next.
Why? Because they all have the same goal: prevent action as long as possible.
March 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
It's not real.
It's not us.
It's not bad.
It's too hard to fix.
It's too late.
Just about every climate denial argument I've ever heard is a variant of one of these five categories, and each one is as bad as the next.
Why? Because they all have the same goal: prevent action as long as possible.
It's not us.
It's not bad.
It's too hard to fix.
It's too late.
Just about every climate denial argument I've ever heard is a variant of one of these five categories, and each one is as bad as the next.
Why? Because they all have the same goal: prevent action as long as possible.
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If you're a faculty member—especially tenured faculty—who's never spoken out against genocide and/or stood in solidarity with students, don't complain about the shit that's happening now. Your liberal indifference is what led to all of this. YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM!!!
March 8, 2025 at 3:08 AM
If you're a faculty member—especially tenured faculty—who's never spoken out against genocide and/or stood in solidarity with students, don't complain about the shit that's happening now. Your liberal indifference is what led to all of this. YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM!!!
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Had a dream I was teaching Descartes' dream argument and went out of my way to tell the students, "Look, I know it's kooky, of course none of us really doubts we're awake right now and couldn't believe this is a dream if we tried, but the point is that it's logically possible, so just play along..."
March 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Had a dream I was teaching Descartes' dream argument and went out of my way to tell the students, "Look, I know it's kooky, of course none of us really doubts we're awake right now and couldn't believe this is a dream if we tried, but the point is that it's logically possible, so just play along..."
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'In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.' is such a beautiful indictment of bourgeois culture.
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.
February 23, 2025 at 10:48 PM
'In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.' is such a beautiful indictment of bourgeois culture.
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there's an ongoing project of conflating Being a Man with being an asshole, and i tend to think it's a mistake
February 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
there's an ongoing project of conflating Being a Man with being an asshole, and i tend to think it's a mistake
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Of the many lengths which people will go to in an attempt to advocate against migration, the "breed for Britain" one is one of the most insidious in my opinion. It is the absolute pinnacle of removing choice, from women, from people moving etc. It embeds the idea of people as a disposable resource.
January 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Of the many lengths which people will go to in an attempt to advocate against migration, the "breed for Britain" one is one of the most insidious in my opinion. It is the absolute pinnacle of removing choice, from women, from people moving etc. It embeds the idea of people as a disposable resource.
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In welke bochten het CU en CDA zich ook wringen, het is een bezuiniging op het hoger onderwijs om belastingkorting mogelijk te maken voor het grote bedrijfsleven, en wat snippers voor het volk.
December 12, 2024 at 7:58 AM
In welke bochten het CU en CDA zich ook wringen, het is een bezuiniging op het hoger onderwijs om belastingkorting mogelijk te maken voor het grote bedrijfsleven, en wat snippers voor het volk.
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Bashar al-Assad: leaves Syria
The French arrest warrant no longer blocked by head of state immunity:
The French arrest warrant no longer blocked by head of state immunity:
December 9, 2024 at 7:40 AM
Bashar al-Assad: leaves Syria
The French arrest warrant no longer blocked by head of state immunity:
The French arrest warrant no longer blocked by head of state immunity:
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The new iPhone Photos update is the worst thing since they put U2 on my phone against my will.
December 6, 2024 at 1:08 AM
The new iPhone Photos update is the worst thing since they put U2 on my phone against my will.
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wrote about socialising nature as a way out of hell
“Unlike a workplace, nature cannot simply be seized by its employees & run under democratic self-management ... it is not just another factor of production... it is the condition & limit of our existence.”
Read @cominsitu.bsky.social on socialising nature 👇
break-down.org/post/sociali...
Read @cominsitu.bsky.social on socialising nature 👇
break-down.org/post/sociali...
Socialising Nature
How we can live together without exploiting each other? This is the work of socialising nature.
break-down.org
November 28, 2024 at 10:19 AM
wrote about socialising nature as a way out of hell
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Thus the only way to squeeze real, revolutionary justice from law is to pervert it, to turn it against itself. Can you turn a sentence against itself? Can you turn violence against itself? The revolutionary asks, and history answers. proteanmag.com/2024/09/24/a...
A Struggle To Destroy The World
The following is the text of a short lecture by Dylan Saba on the Palestinian struggle, the difference between a structure and an event, and the destruction of the old world as a bridge to the new.
proteanmag.com
November 27, 2024 at 10:39 AM
Thus the only way to squeeze real, revolutionary justice from law is to pervert it, to turn it against itself. Can you turn a sentence against itself? Can you turn violence against itself? The revolutionary asks, and history answers. proteanmag.com/2024/09/24/a...
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Climate reports & annual updates issued during #COP29 find:
🫠 2024 set to be hottest yr yet
📈 Fossil CO2 emissions at record levels
🛢️95% of oil & gas co's still expanding
🌡️ World on track for ~2.7°C heating by 2100
@catclimate.bsky.social
oneearthnow.substack.com/p/post-cop29...
🫠 2024 set to be hottest yr yet
📈 Fossil CO2 emissions at record levels
🛢️95% of oil & gas co's still expanding
🌡️ World on track for ~2.7°C heating by 2100
@catclimate.bsky.social
oneearthnow.substack.com/p/post-cop29...
Post COP29 Reality Check: World on the Verge of Breaking Its Paris Promise
Global heating on track to reach 2.7°C (or higher?), while fossil fuel CO2 emissions and oil and gas production have hit record levels.
oneearthnow.substack.com
November 25, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Climate reports & annual updates issued during #COP29 find:
🫠 2024 set to be hottest yr yet
📈 Fossil CO2 emissions at record levels
🛢️95% of oil & gas co's still expanding
🌡️ World on track for ~2.7°C heating by 2100
@catclimate.bsky.social
oneearthnow.substack.com/p/post-cop29...
🫠 2024 set to be hottest yr yet
📈 Fossil CO2 emissions at record levels
🛢️95% of oil & gas co's still expanding
🌡️ World on track for ~2.7°C heating by 2100
@catclimate.bsky.social
oneearthnow.substack.com/p/post-cop29...