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Jess Bier 🌈
@bierjess.bsky.social
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Associate prof. of urban sociology
Erasmus University Rotterdam

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PI: DIGIPORTS project, digitalization + racialization in maritime logistics

Author: Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge
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This has to be among the weirdest AI outputs I've seen, which is saying a lot
A screenshot of Youtube showing thumbnails and titles of two videos. The first shows a painting of the ship Titanic that famously sank in 1912 with the words "Life. Love. Lofi" written in yellow bubble letters on the right side of the image. The second shows an underwater photograph of the white, cigar-shaped Titan submersible that imploded in 2024, against the dark blue background of the ocean. Over the submersible image is written "Tiantic Submarine Missing". The title of the second video is "Titanic Tourist Submarine is Missing Musif Lofi Hip Hop / Lofi Study ,Work with Me / Pomodoro 25/5
March 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Mood
January 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Mood
An image of a comic book that shows Raphael of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Tutles in a grey 'Turtle Land' baseball cap and red bandanna mask punching Hitler (actually robot Hitler) and saying "For the millions!" Raphael's is at right with his fist arm outstretched towards the left with Hitler's standing behind Raphael's arm in a brown shirt and black tie with red armband, and his face turning towards the left side of the image having just been punched.
January 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Rotterdam is cutting trams and raising pricies in a low-lying coastal city during a time of climate change--and you can guess who are most affected.
Sign at former tram stop with the Dutch text "Vanaf 6 januari 2025 rijdt hier geen tram meer" (English translation: Starting 6 January 2025 no more trams run here.) Picture of the same tram stop showing the removal of the top of the sign which marked it as a tram stop. Description: a city street with multiple metal poles including lights, tram electrical, and a former tram stop with empty encased glass boards, which previously held the tram schedule for this stop, and top of pole removed. with rainy street, sidewalk, bollards, cars, and brick and white apartments and stores in the background.
January 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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2024 in a nutshell: something about the agora being not just closed but condemned seems prescient for many things including gentrification, academia, journalism, and the rise of fascism more generally
A cafe named "Agora" in Rotterdam that has been condemned. IT is a brown brick building with a blue lighted sign that has been boarded with metal grates and with a red 'no entry' symbol and sign on the door
December 2, 2024 at 12:55 PM
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What a scabby bit of union-blaming from the BBC

Why are packages delayed? Executives are trying to end healthcare for workers. They're slashing pay and benefits, gigifying an essential public service and replacing it with a grift. That's why

Without unions most of us wouldn't have holidays
Screenshot of the opening of a BBC article entitled "Why Canada’s Christmas presents may not be delivered on time this year" with two photos of a handful of postal workers in warm outdoor clothing holding signs with slogans like "CUPW on Strike"
December 1, 2024 at 10:34 AM
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The MP is Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke and they're singing Ka Mate

Source: Radio NZ via this tweet:
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MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke of New Zealand's Māori party tears a paper copy of an anti-Māori bill in half. She is shown standing in her prliamentary seat, visible from the waist up facing to the right in half profile, wearing a black suit and grey turtleneck with longish black hair. She is picture in the act of ripping the paper which fills one fourth of the picture and loudly singing Ka Mate
November 14, 2024 at 9:21 AM
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"We take over 3/4 of the earnings from the people who actually made this" isn't the flex they think it is
Image (likely AI generated) in the style of a bright colored realistic drawing. It shows a young thin woman with a black pony tail ajd headphones staring at her phone, smiling. The text says "Support Creators on X by subscribing...up to 25% of your fee goes directly ro creators."
October 12, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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"Workers' power" for those who prefer photos
A black-and-white photography from 1979 of a march of workers, led by several mean on bicycles and four men in a car, two standing behind a large sign on top of the car with the words "Arbeidersmacht Arbeidersmach" (Workers' power written twice) while someone on a motorcycle wearing a white helmet rides in front.
June 3, 2024 at 10:34 AM
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New podcast out: Compositions Book Club with Willem Schinkel!

Ep. 1 with @rvanreekum.bsky.social on Cedric Robinson's The Terms of Order

Ep. 2 with me on Michel-Rolph Trouillot's Silencing the Past

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A purple square with three orange and one light purple diagonal stripes running from top right corner to lower left in the background. In white and orange the text reads: Compositions Book Club with host Willem Schinkel (above), and Exploring pathways beyond the confines of planetary pluner (below).
February 14, 2024 at 4:45 PM