Eoin Palmer
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Eoin Palmer
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Urban Geographer writing about land rent and real abstraction, build-to-rent housing and heritage under capitalism.

Edinburgh

He/Him
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eoinpalmer.bsky.social
I try to be as generous and constructive as possible but I did once have to write "this essay tells me more about you than the subject of the essay."
joolia.bsky.social Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d
when I was in college a famous novelist was a guest professor for a year and immediately became notorious for her scathing comments to undergrad writers, including, “it’s not that you need to be a better writer, [name], it’s that you need to be a better person”

anyway, thinking about that today
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
eoinpalmer.bsky.social
Q: You have described Attila as a barbarian and the scourge of God. Are you affirming that Attila is the scourge of God?

POPE LEO I: -

ATTILA: That's OK. You can just say yes. It's easier.
November 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
eoinpalmer.bsky.social
After Trump Mamdani, I fully believe Pope Leo I really did just talk Attila out of it.
November 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
eoinpalmer.bsky.social
Condé Nasty
condeunion.bsky.social Condé Union @condeunion.bsky.social · 18d
Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.
Statement from The NewsGuild of New York and Condé United on illegal firing of four union leaders who demanded answers about this week’s layoffs at Teen Vogue, other brands Late Wednesday night, Condé Nast’s VP of Labor Relations notified the Guild that the Company was immediately terminating four Condé United leaders for engaging in the protected concerted activity of gathering in their 1 World Trade Center office to demand answers on this week’s abrupt layoffs at multiple brands including WIRED and the consolidation at Teen Vogue. These egregious terminations are a flagrant breach of the Just Cause terms of our contract and an unprecedented violation of their federally protected rights as union members to participate in a collective action. Through these illegal terminations, Condé Nast management is attempting to intimidate and silence our members' advocacy for the courageous cultural and political journalism of Teen Vogue, as well as diverting attention away from the obvious lack of corporate leadership at the company. Condé United members illegally fired are: Alma Avalle: Writer, digital producer at Bon Appetit; NewsGuild of New York first vice president, trans activist, and union leader Jake Lahut: Wired senior reporter covering the Trump White House Jasper Lo: Senior fact checker at The New Yorker and US Army veteran: outgoing first vice chair of The New Yorker Union Ben Dewey: Videographer at Condé Nast Entertainment, former vice chair of the CNE unit “Management’s attempt at union-busting, using intimidation and grossly illegal tactics to try to suppress protected union activity, will not stand,” said Susan DeCarava, president of The NewsGuild of New York. “The NewsGuild of New York has zero tolerance for bad bosses who harass, target and disrespect our fellow Guild members. We represent nearly 6,000 media workers across the tri-state area and we stand firmly in solidarity, ready to fight for the rights of our members illegally fired from their jobs at …
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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juliecupples79.bsky.social
This is so wrong, utterly heartbreaking.
mutablematter.bsky.social Angela Last @mutablematter.bsky.social · 18d
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
November 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
eoinpalmer.bsky.social
Hot Stove League Season 2
codifybaseball.bsky.social Codify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 29d
Completely fix baseball with five words.
October 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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drandrewthaler.bsky.social
There are so very few opportunities in this modern life to say this, so I just want to record for posterity:

My copper merchant has delivered very high quality copper, in the amounts requested.

Break the cycle.
drandrewthaler.bsky.social Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · Oct 24
Maxed out my large format printer for this very fun little project of mine.

First form printed. Now to go visit my friendly local blacksmith to do some bronze casting.

For the Deep Sea. From the Deep Sea. The Abyssal Blade.
A 3d-printed khopesh on a big 3d printer. A 3d-printed khopesh
October 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
eoinpalmer.bsky.social
When you see an open letter.
October 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
eoinpalmer.bsky.social
Even on the left in discussion of the imminent AI bubble burst, I don't see much on the immediate stakes for normal people; jobs, housing, mortgages etc. beyond the exposure of pensions, index funds etc. Mostly preoccupied with the downfall of hated companies and technologies. What am I not reading?
October 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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stopcambo.bsky.social
BREAKING 🚨: Equinor has admitted the Rosebank oil field would result in 249 million tonnes of CO2.

That's more than the combined annual emissions of Ireland, Belgium and Greece.

But Equinor says that's not their problem. They profit, everyone else pays the price.
October 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers

www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
This single story is worth the cost of my year's subscription to
@wired.com
What do you like about the truck? What I love about the truck is just how it's so polarizing. The shape of it, the body of it, the manufacturing technique with the body panels and everything. I just love that it's completely outside of the box. And are you married? I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle. In July, Tesla rolled out a software update to integrate Grok into many of its vehicles. Do you use it? Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist. When I'm driving, I'll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice.
October 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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cominsitu.bsky.social
🚨 Conference Announcement 🚨

The Land Question
October 30-31, 2025
Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin

Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come!

criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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gillianmacmsp.bsky.social
The richest man on the planet is paying for Tommy Robinson's legal fees.

The UK's problems are not caused by migrants or refugees.

They are caused by billionaires like Elon Musk.
October 15, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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theferret.scot
One campaigner said the spread of industrial chemicals to some of Scotland’s most remote waters was “really heartbreaking”
theferret.scot/orkne...
October 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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gregk.co.uk
I am so sick of living in a world where certain groups insist art & culture be re-oriented to serve their tastes and whims when their own pitiful inability or unwillingness to critically engage with and contemplate creativity clearly demonstrate that art & culture are too good for them.
Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”
While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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budgetmotelabyss.bsky.social
The blurbs for my book are in. It's out March 26th 2026. Since I don't have a publicist let me know if you have any interest in reviewing it. Also more than happy to talk about it in a class, seminar series, or podcast.
October 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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cristofol.org
This is very insightful from Max Horkheimer. I can really feel what he means here, not only understand it. This text taken from @jamescrane.bsky.social's blog here:
jamescrane.substack.com/p/max-horkhe...
Civilization itself cannot be cleared of the responsibility of having engendered its opposite: barbarism. History achieved the domestication of man only by continuous suffering.23 In the childhood of humanity all activity was directly conditioned by immediate need, under menace of danger. Vital instincts comparatively unfettered by social organization guided the first men. The path from that era until people first became used to organized labor was a painful one, and the necessity to provide for hard times was often impressed upon their minds. Ruthless conquerors who had come to rule the aborigines, tyrants and castes of military oppressors, —in one word, domination, did the job. The profound story of Paradise and the expulsion from it in the first chapters of Genesis may combine a theological truth with a historical memory which toiling and oppressed people harbored of happier days free from the burden of organized and regular work. Only during the last one or two thousand years has man learned to do his work without the pressure of the ruthless taskmaster by transforming the outside coercion into the power of conscience in his own soul, by translating the immediate need into concepts which comprise the future as well as the past and the present. What I am referring to is the process which leads from a stage in which compulsion of the masses by the very few was a social necessity to a level where force finds its expression in the law, where people have become capable of molding their own relations by respecting their mutual interests and of making work a tolerable and even desirable expression of life. If we try to understand the psychology of the present-day human being, we have to remember that this whole transmutation is a recent one. It has left its imprint not only on the institutions of modern society but also on the character of its individuals. They still bear the marks of the terrible punishments, the humiliations and tortures which humanity had to undergo until it learned to respect law, the neighbor’s property and life, the woman’s or the stranger’s weakness. These marks are shown in the ambiguity with respect to such values, in the readiness of the individual to tear down the boundaries of civilized life not only because of a strong materialistic urge but also for the sake of the violation itself.
October 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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sellottie.bsky.social
It’s happened again
October 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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theferret.scot
🔴NEW: At least 20 racist incidents took place in Scotland last month including attacks on mosques and asylum hotels, alleged assaults – and the jailing of a neo-Nazi for slashing a student in the face with a knife.

Find out more: bit.ly/477AYHY
October 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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lmacfarlane.bsky.social
Who Owns ScotWind?

Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social reveals who owns Scotland’s offshore wind resources — and who stands to benefit

Spoiler alert: it isn’t the people of Scotland 👇
futureeconscot.bsky.social Future Economy Scotland @futureeconscot.bsky.social · Oct 4
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Who owns Scotland's offshore wind assets?

Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects – and who stands to benefit

Highlights in 🧵
Explore the map 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind
October 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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tomwalker.bsky.social
KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor
July 17, 2023 at 3:57 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Just the worst people imaginable: hurling the most insane, deliberately inflammatory drivel they can and then, at the slightest sign of pushback, hurling themselves squealing to the pitch clutching their shins, rolling around pretending to be injured, shouting for a red card.
Patrick Maguire @patrickkmaguire •5h S.. EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage will his afternoon to accuse Keir Starmer of inciting violence against Reform In live address after PM's conference speech, he will say allegations of racism risk US-style polarisation Says Starmer "wholly unfit" for office
September 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
First time this guy has ever made me laugh
Comedian Tim Dillon said on his podcast last month that he signed up for financial reasons. He said he had been offered "a large sum of money" - $375,000 for one performance - and said that other comedians had been offered as much as $1.6 million. He told his detractors to "get over it," adding, "So what if they have slaves, they're paying me enough to look the other way." But in an episode of the Tim Dillon Podcast last week, the comedian announced he'd been removed from the lineup for the comments he made about the country's record on slavery.
September 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM