Sinéad D
@cianydeargentum.bsky.social
I spend a lot of time complaining & caring. burnt out by capitalism, statism, heteropatriarchy & colonialism 🏳️🌈 1312 🏴
Researcher: Geography ∩ Sociology
job: climate hubs; community power
other: youth futures, work, resistance; social ecology, community 🌸
Researcher: Geography ∩ Sociology
job: climate hubs; community power
other: youth futures, work, resistance; social ecology, community 🌸
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all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.
September 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.
I feel like in my 30s everything has become asynchronous, a merging of parallel worlds, years gone, to come, multiple natures of grief, overwhelm; but also the best memories, and kindness multiplied.
Sometimes it all hits at the same moment, that realisation. And all one can do is feel, be overcome.
Sometimes it all hits at the same moment, that realisation. And all one can do is feel, be overcome.
June 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I feel like in my 30s everything has become asynchronous, a merging of parallel worlds, years gone, to come, multiple natures of grief, overwhelm; but also the best memories, and kindness multiplied.
Sometimes it all hits at the same moment, that realisation. And all one can do is feel, be overcome.
Sometimes it all hits at the same moment, that realisation. And all one can do is feel, be overcome.
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A lot of would-be anti-racist people are very confused by Usha Vance, in kind of an ironically racist way, reducing her to a token brown woman. She has agency. She's a supremacist of her own accord. She met her husband in a chat about white decline. She a Hindutva Hindu and sees herself as Aryan.
April 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
A lot of would-be anti-racist people are very confused by Usha Vance, in kind of an ironically racist way, reducing her to a token brown woman. She has agency. She's a supremacist of her own accord. She met her husband in a chat about white decline. She a Hindutva Hindu and sees herself as Aryan.
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They didn’t “turn right.” They’ve been right.
This was a convo in 2020.
Weird to see it resurface.
The pipeline usually goes:
Hippie > Yoga > Hinduism > Hindutva > white nationalism
It’s Tulsi Gabbard’s path.
This was a convo in 2020.
Weird to see it resurface.
The pipeline usually goes:
Hippie > Yoga > Hinduism > Hindutva > white nationalism
It’s Tulsi Gabbard’s path.
Speaking as someone who’s lived and moved in hippy-adjacent spaces for most of my life: the hard truth that you should not trust most new age people as far as you can throw them
How New Age Women Turned Right
For some, the pursuit of inner truth is a dead end.
nymag.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM
They didn’t “turn right.” They’ve been right.
This was a convo in 2020.
Weird to see it resurface.
The pipeline usually goes:
Hippie > Yoga > Hinduism > Hindutva > white nationalism
It’s Tulsi Gabbard’s path.
This was a convo in 2020.
Weird to see it resurface.
The pipeline usually goes:
Hippie > Yoga > Hinduism > Hindutva > white nationalism
It’s Tulsi Gabbard’s path.
Chronicles of another day on this soggy island which was sunny for a change, but continued to deliver on tedious immigrant experience bingo.
✓ "we put in a lot of effort to be inclusive"
I didn't ask. But also space was full of cis, able-bodied, yt, middle class folk, but across age.
✓ "we put in a lot of effort to be inclusive"
I didn't ask. But also space was full of cis, able-bodied, yt, middle class folk, but across age.
April 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Chronicles of another day on this soggy island which was sunny for a change, but continued to deliver on tedious immigrant experience bingo.
✓ "we put in a lot of effort to be inclusive"
I didn't ask. But also space was full of cis, able-bodied, yt, middle class folk, but across age.
✓ "we put in a lot of effort to be inclusive"
I didn't ask. But also space was full of cis, able-bodied, yt, middle class folk, but across age.
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Have a look at some of the traditions of Maya women in the territories of Yucatán in my latest paper. You can even find food recipes!
"The joroch is made with the squash flowers… there are some squashes used for taking the seeds [pepita] out. Those are the ones for the joroch. 1/
"The joroch is made with the squash flowers… there are some squashes used for taking the seeds [pepita] out. Those are the ones for the joroch. 1/
February 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Have a look at some of the traditions of Maya women in the territories of Yucatán in my latest paper. You can even find food recipes!
"The joroch is made with the squash flowers… there are some squashes used for taking the seeds [pepita] out. Those are the ones for the joroch. 1/
"The joroch is made with the squash flowers… there are some squashes used for taking the seeds [pepita] out. Those are the ones for the joroch. 1/
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As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.
TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
February 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.
TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
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Save the date!
Join me and the editors and fellow co-authors of the book "Territorial Development in Latin America Cultural, Economic and Environmental Dimensions" at the online book launch organised by the RSA.
21 May 2025
16.00 BST
Registration: lounge.regionalstudies.org/Meetings/Mee...
Join me and the editors and fellow co-authors of the book "Territorial Development in Latin America Cultural, Economic and Environmental Dimensions" at the online book launch organised by the RSA.
21 May 2025
16.00 BST
Registration: lounge.regionalstudies.org/Meetings/Mee...
March 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Save the date!
Join me and the editors and fellow co-authors of the book "Territorial Development in Latin America Cultural, Economic and Environmental Dimensions" at the online book launch organised by the RSA.
21 May 2025
16.00 BST
Registration: lounge.regionalstudies.org/Meetings/Mee...
Join me and the editors and fellow co-authors of the book "Territorial Development in Latin America Cultural, Economic and Environmental Dimensions" at the online book launch organised by the RSA.
21 May 2025
16.00 BST
Registration: lounge.regionalstudies.org/Meetings/Mee...
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The Safe & Professional Workplace dispute must be resolved. I'm deeply concerned by the tone of multiple emails received from #UCU HQ about the dispute and urge members to look at @uniteucu.bsky.social's website too.
There's also an open letter to UCU GS and SMT here: tinyurl.com/ucuunitesoli...
7/7
There's also an open letter to UCU GS and SMT here: tinyurl.com/ucuunitesoli...
7/7
UCU - End the dispute with Unite and embody the union’s commitment to equality
Please NOTE: This letter has been sent to Jo Grady at 9am on Thursday 27 March 2025. Signatures are still accepted after this time.
Dear Jo Grady,
We, the undersigned UCU members and members of the...
tinyurl.com
April 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Safe & Professional Workplace dispute must be resolved. I'm deeply concerned by the tone of multiple emails received from #UCU HQ about the dispute and urge members to look at @uniteucu.bsky.social's website too.
There's also an open letter to UCU GS and SMT here: tinyurl.com/ucuunitesoli...
7/7
There's also an open letter to UCU GS and SMT here: tinyurl.com/ucuunitesoli...
7/7
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I know some members struggled to believe this could really be true earlier this week. But anyone who emailed a UCU staffer on strike earlier this week got an identikit out-of-office + deleted advice page + this email to #UCU staff sadly confirms this really happened.
6/7
bsky.app/profile/unit...
6/7
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It gets worse…
Members back at work today after taking lawful strike action are now being threaten with disciplinary procedures if their auto-replies mention the reason for their absence during future strikes.
In what trade union world is this acceptable?
Members back at work today after taking lawful strike action are now being threaten with disciplinary procedures if their auto-replies mention the reason for their absence during future strikes.
In what trade union world is this acceptable?
April 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I know some members struggled to believe this could really be true earlier this week. But anyone who emailed a UCU staffer on strike earlier this week got an identikit out-of-office + deleted advice page + this email to #UCU staff sadly confirms this really happened.
6/7
bsky.app/profile/unit...
6/7
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This was a terrible choice which has:
-worsened industrial relations
-directly undermined every #UCU member & branch in dispute
- directly undermines UCU's own advice & organising tactics
- is likely to further embolden post-16 ed employers to use more aggressive tactics citing 'well you do it'
5/7
-worsened industrial relations
-directly undermined every #UCU member & branch in dispute
- directly undermines UCU's own advice & organising tactics
- is likely to further embolden post-16 ed employers to use more aggressive tactics citing 'well you do it'
5/7
April 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This was a terrible choice which has:
-worsened industrial relations
-directly undermined every #UCU member & branch in dispute
- directly undermines UCU's own advice & organising tactics
- is likely to further embolden post-16 ed employers to use more aggressive tactics citing 'well you do it'
5/7
-worsened industrial relations
-directly undermined every #UCU member & branch in dispute
- directly undermines UCU's own advice & organising tactics
- is likely to further embolden post-16 ed employers to use more aggressive tactics citing 'well you do it'
5/7
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I've now seen an email which essentially claims by putting info about being on strike into an autoreply (again: a tactic UCU has routinely advised us to use as members) that the staff doing so have caused UCU to disclose personal sensitive data. Let's compare this assertion to UCU's template:
4/7
4/7
April 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I've now seen an email which essentially claims by putting info about being on strike into an autoreply (again: a tactic UCU has routinely advised us to use as members) that the staff doing so have caused UCU to disclose personal sensitive data. Let's compare this assertion to UCU's template:
4/7
4/7
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I hoped #UCU would redouble efforts to resolve the @uniteucu.bsky.social staff dispute
Instead our own union-as-employer has issued management instructions NOT to use tactics #UCU members have routinely been advised to use *by #UCU*
Then this page was deleted: web.archive.org/web/20230218...
1/7
Instead our own union-as-employer has issued management instructions NOT to use tactics #UCU members have routinely been advised to use *by #UCU*
Then this page was deleted: web.archive.org/web/20230218...
1/7
April 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I hoped #UCU would redouble efforts to resolve the @uniteucu.bsky.social staff dispute
Instead our own union-as-employer has issued management instructions NOT to use tactics #UCU members have routinely been advised to use *by #UCU*
Then this page was deleted: web.archive.org/web/20230218...
1/7
Instead our own union-as-employer has issued management instructions NOT to use tactics #UCU members have routinely been advised to use *by #UCU*
Then this page was deleted: web.archive.org/web/20230218...
1/7
Anti-tourism, housing for the people, solidarity with immigrants, trans solidarity.
Lisbon, February, 2025.
Lisbon, February, 2025.
March 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Anti-tourism, housing for the people, solidarity with immigrants, trans solidarity.
Lisbon, February, 2025.
Lisbon, February, 2025.
Writings on the wall: anti-tourism, Kurdish and Palestinian solidarity, and talk about the revolution.
Athens. October, 2024.
Athens. October, 2024.
March 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Writings on the wall: anti-tourism, Kurdish and Palestinian solidarity, and talk about the revolution.
Athens. October, 2024.
Athens. October, 2024.
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In honor of the anniversary of her passing here’s a cartoon drawing I did of Lucy Parsons back in 2023, pen and ink on paper.
March 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
In honor of the anniversary of her passing here’s a cartoon drawing I did of Lucy Parsons back in 2023, pen and ink on paper.
Narrated my to-do list for next 6 weeks to a friend & realised I've bitten off more than I can chew, but for the first time in years I feel the push to do them.
3 papers
1 report
1 blog
~20 interviews for research
2 guest lectures
Regular work, applications, volunteering & survival.
Let's go! 🦾
3 papers
1 report
1 blog
~20 interviews for research
2 guest lectures
Regular work, applications, volunteering & survival.
Let's go! 🦾
February 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Narrated my to-do list for next 6 weeks to a friend & realised I've bitten off more than I can chew, but for the first time in years I feel the push to do them.
3 papers
1 report
1 blog
~20 interviews for research
2 guest lectures
Regular work, applications, volunteering & survival.
Let's go! 🦾
3 papers
1 report
1 blog
~20 interviews for research
2 guest lectures
Regular work, applications, volunteering & survival.
Let's go! 🦾
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Today I gave my attention to the early morning sounds beyond the window and I heard the murmurs of spring in birdsong -- which left me feeling delighted and open to the power of rupture and the following transformation into beauty (and freedom) that spring is so good at reminding us about.
February 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Today I gave my attention to the early morning sounds beyond the window and I heard the murmurs of spring in birdsong -- which left me feeling delighted and open to the power of rupture and the following transformation into beauty (and freedom) that spring is so good at reminding us about.
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Indigenous Leader Leonard Peltier Released After Nearly 50 Years Imprisoned
Indigenous Leader Leonard Peltier Released After Nearly 50 Years Imprisoned
www.anarchistfederation.net
February 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Indigenous Leader Leonard Peltier Released After Nearly 50 Years Imprisoned
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Lisa Tilley discusses the landmark work of #CedricRobinson, the subjects of history, and why race is central to capitalist formation.
🔎 Explore #ConnectedSociologies Curriculum Project's open-access educational resources, including video lectures and detailed lesson plans.
🔎 Explore #ConnectedSociologies Curriculum Project's open-access educational resources, including video lectures and detailed lesson plans.
Racial Capitalism - Dr Lisa Tilley
An intellectual product of the Black Radical Tradition, ‘racial capitalism’ was first expansively developed as an account of the historical origins and embed...
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February 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Lisa Tilley discusses the landmark work of #CedricRobinson, the subjects of history, and why race is central to capitalist formation.
🔎 Explore #ConnectedSociologies Curriculum Project's open-access educational resources, including video lectures and detailed lesson plans.
🔎 Explore #ConnectedSociologies Curriculum Project's open-access educational resources, including video lectures and detailed lesson plans.
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A gentle reminder that I keep an archive of the Indian anticolonial anarchist M.P.T. Acharya's writings available for download on my website. Today I added two more, ‘La conciencia fisiológica de la especie’ and ‘Gandhi y la no-violencia’, from La Protesta olebirklaursen.wordpress.com/miscellaneous/
January 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
A gentle reminder that I keep an archive of the Indian anticolonial anarchist M.P.T. Acharya's writings available for download on my website. Today I added two more, ‘La conciencia fisiológica de la especie’ and ‘Gandhi y la no-violencia’, from La Protesta olebirklaursen.wordpress.com/miscellaneous/
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The new “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism—Yes, You! Yes, Now!” zine makes a great gift for your liberal fam, friends, neighbors & coworkers!
Read, print & distro freely!
Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social:
itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...
Read, print & distro freely!
Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social:
itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...
January 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The new “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism—Yes, You! Yes, Now!” zine makes a great gift for your liberal fam, friends, neighbors & coworkers!
Read, print & distro freely!
Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social:
itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...
Read, print & distro freely!
Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social:
itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...
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Por la construcción de un mundo más justo busquemos el estado ideal del ser, para no ser el ser ideal del Estado. ✊🏿❤️🖤🔥
📸Ig:fer_apincel
📸Ig:fer_apincel
January 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Por la construcción de un mundo más justo busquemos el estado ideal del ser, para no ser el ser ideal del Estado. ✊🏿❤️🖤🔥
📸Ig:fer_apincel
📸Ig:fer_apincel