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Bertha Del Valle Diaz
@bmdelval2013.bsky.social
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Ph.D. student in History of the Emotions and Contemporary Cuban History.
Predoctoral researcher at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
It is good to know about the history of Debt.
"David Graeber traced the long arc of civilisation through cycles of credit and violence. Periods of trust and mutual obligation gave way to eras of hierarchy, slavery, and debt peonage, when the moral logic of reciprocity was replaced by the coercive logic of repayment. Debt then became a weapon. Kings, priests, and empires used it to bind the powerless to the powerful. Today, that same dynamic persists: in the relationships between banks and households, creditors and governments, the global north and the global south. Debt is not merely financial; it is moralised subordination." . - Richard Murphy
November 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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flavorflav.bsky.social
65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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oh-that-guy.bsky.social
Cover | Julia Andreevna Petrova
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 3 Nov 1979 the Greensboro, NC, massacre occurred when five communists at an anti-Ku Klux Klan protest were murdered by members of the KKK and the American Nazi Party., who were helped by police who gave them a map of anti-racists stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1023...
November 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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leaypi.bsky.social
no words
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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chrislord.bsky.social
#BlueSkyArtShow #Relax

#Cojima #Cuba #photo #photography #travel #travelphotography
Two young men relaxing on a dock in Cojima, Cuba
October 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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kojamf.bsky.social
Dr. Jane Goodall was a gift to humanity
October 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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kojamf.bsky.social
Uncle Pappy 🌴
Link👇
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
September 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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ignacioregulez.bsky.social
Una pregunta al gobierno de grandes actores españoles
August 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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barbaraneuhoff.bsky.social
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
August 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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boddice.bsky.social
Happiness has many more meanings besides and can't be divorced from the situated politics in which it is entangled. Pain is no less complex. One could argue that modern (since C18) happiness has been about economic satisfaction (serving whom?!); and pain (grief) is defined by failure to comply.
nicolecrust.bsky.social Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Aug 18
So many emotion terms have double meanings. Like *happiness* as "living virtuously" (eudaimonic) vs happiness as "the pursuit of pleasure not pain" (hedonic).

Nontrivial progress in the neurosci. of the 2nd is in scope for this era, I think. (How! Exciting!).

link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Insightful reflections about the happiness concept and its semantic space may be drawn from psychological research. Scholars working in this field have conceptualized happiness on the basis of two approaches: eudaimonic and hedonic (Deci & Ryan, 2008; Haybron, 2008; McMahon, 2006; Ryan & Deci, 2000; Sotgiu, 2013;White,2006). Eudaimonic happiness is a concept originally defined by Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics. He stated that happiness is only attainable by living virtuously. Similarly, on the basis of Stoicism, Seneca and Epictetus affirmed that the main path to happiness is through virtuous living, by facing and resisting temptations that could corrupt personal inner harmony. The eudaimonic trend was followed by Christian philosophers including Augustine and Tommaso d’Aquino. Conversely, hedonic happiness is a concept that refers to the Cyrenaic school of Aristippus and Epicurus, who considered the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain to be the main path to happiness.
August 18, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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arenasproject.bsky.social
🎧 All 8 episodes of the first ARENAS Podcast are live!

Extreme Europe, an eight-part series produced by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona @uab.cat, explores how extremism has taken shape across 10 European countries.
August 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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nataliepeluso.com
🔥🔥🔥"Scientists must reckon honestly and explicitly with the ways in which the knowledge they produce, and the processes by which they produce it, are already and unavoidably political."

Also, the book 'Feminism in the Wild' sounds amazing! 👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Science could enable a fascist future. Especially if we don’t learn from the past
We need to reckon honestly with science’s past and present to avoid a grim future
www.theguardian.com
July 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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ctxt.es
🚨 Gaza muere de hambre.
Israel impone la desnutrición como arma de exterminio. La UE lo sabe. Y calla. Más de 60.000 civiles asesinados. Niños ejecutados por acercarse a un saco de harina.
CTXT, ACO y Viento Sur exigen a Von der Leyen que suspenda los acuerdos con Israel

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Exigimos la suspensión inmediata de todos los acuerdos de la UE con Israel
Ciudadanas y ciudadanos de la Unión Europea, convocadas por la asociación Acción Contra el Odio y por las revistas CTXT y Viento Sur, se movilizan contra “la bochornosa” posición de la Comisión ante e...
ctxt.es
July 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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stevenforti.bsky.social
Grazie a Francesca Albanese per dire le cose chiaramente
July 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
bmdelval2013.bsky.social
I so needed this,
Hope ♥️
rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jul 10
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.

Will we listen to his words today?
July 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
davidpham5.bsky.social davidpham5 @davidpham5.bsky.social · Jun 19
@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
kottke.org kottke.org @kottke.org · Jun 19
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]
June 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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stevenforti.bsky.social
❤️
May 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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grantdraws.bsky.social
This week on the Incidental Comics newsletter: Five Ways To Slow Down Time
incidentalcomics.substack.com/p/creative-r...
March 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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byungchulhan.bsky.social
1/4 The inner music of things only plays when we close our eyes, which introduces permanence with them. Thus, Barthes quotes Kafka: "Things are photographed to distance them from meaning. My stories are a kind of closing-the-eyes."
March 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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byungchulhan.bsky.social
2/4 Given the enormous quantity of hypervisible images, it is no longer possible to close our eyes today. Furthermore, the rapid change of images no longer gives us time for this.
March 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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byungchulhan.bsky.social
3/4 Closing our eyes is a negativity that does not fit well with the positivity and hyperactivity of today's accelerated society. The coercion to hypervigilance today prevents us from closing our eyes. It is also responsible for the neuronal exhaustion of the performing subject.
March 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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byungchulhan.bsky.social
4/4 A contemplative lingering is a conclusive form. Closing our eyes is like showing oneself the conclusion. Perception can only be concluded in a contemplative rest.

The Agony of Eros
March 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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fundacion1mayo.bsky.social
🗣 “La #ExtremaDerecha está ganando la #BatallaCultural y ha conseguido que sus ideas, antes inaceptables, se hayan convertido en sentido común”
@stevenforti.bsky.social , historiador, reflexiona sobre el auge de la derecha en el mundo y la vuelta de Donald Trump
porexperiencia.com/debate/steve...
Steven Forti, historiador: “La extrema derecha está ganando la batalla cultural y ha conseguido que sus ideas, antes inaceptables, se hayan convertido en sentido común”
El historiador Steven Forti reflexiona sobre el auge de la derecha en el mundo y el impulso que ha supuesto la vuelta de Donald Trump a la Casa Blanca. «Hay una ruptura de una época histórica.
porexperiencia.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM