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Joaquim Gaignard
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PhD researcher, NINE DTP - UK ESRC
Political Geography at Durham University, UK

Scottish Arctic GeoPolitics
Scottishness & Arctic politics, Northern & oceanic imaginaries, archipelagic turn, liminal geopolitics.
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Le réarmement des Etats-Unis (et de l’Europe) doit se comprendre comme réponse à la crise du capitalisme financier et des bulles spéculatives au bord de l’implosion. La guerre n’est pas un accident de parcours au milieu de la paix perpétuelle promue par l’économie mais son coeur même.
November 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Precarity is often presented as something that only effects early career researchers or people on fixed term contracts.

Our report found that 45% of geographers on permanent contracts feel precarious.

The implications for the discipline are wide ranging. Read more 👇
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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The EU Parliament is set to fast-track a vote on one of the final hurdles in front of the trade agreement with the Latin American Mercosur bloc, three parliament officials told POLITICO.
Mercosur momentum grows with fast-track vote on safeguards likely next week
Leaders of the chamber will pave the way for a fast-track vote, and derail a push to refer the Latin America trade deal to the EU’s top court, say officials.
www.politico.eu
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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l'IA soigne aussi les problèmes d'arthrose, fait gagner au loto, guérit des écrouelles et fait revenir l'être aimé en moins de 24h mais POURQUOI vous y croyez encore bordel
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. cbsn.ws/4oRZ8Nm
November 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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La "fermeture du cycle du nucléaire" est non seulement une illusion techno-solutionniste, mais en plus elle repose sur une coopération étroite avec la Russie.
En effet, ce pays détient la seule usine capable de ré-enrichir l'uranium de retraitement issu des centrales françaises.
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Welcome to the new European Parliament. 

In the year and a half since the far right surged at the EU election, Brussels’ mainstream forces have been anxiously wondering if the center can hold. Yesterday, they discovered it couldn’t.
In Brussels, the far right can no longer be ignored  
EU conservatives working with the far right have signed the death warrant of the cordon sanitaire.
www.politico.eu
November 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."

As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.

jrnl.ie/6864189
Opinion: We’ve grown far too comfortable excluding older people from the digital world
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Even after the Israeli military said it resumed the ceasefire on Wednesday morning, it carried out another airstrike in Gaza’s Beit Lahiya area in the evening, killing two more people.
We Asked People in Gaza What They Think of the Ceasefire: “Just a Declaration, Not Reality”
Israel and the Trump administration insist that the ceasefire is still in place. Dozens of residents in Gaza disagreed.
interc.pt
November 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Après je remercie Amélie de Montchalin de décrire simplement et honnêtement sa politique de services publics de droite : plus de militaires et de policiers, moins de professeurs.
1. Text alt de l'image, tweet sur Amélie de Montchalin à télématin ce matin : "On a besoin de plus de militaires, de plus de policiers, de plus de gendarmes", mais "de moins de professeurs".

Ce "on" c'est sa classe, celle qui fait la guerre à la nôtre.
Et pourquoi cette non-élue qu’est Amélie de Montchalain déclare qu’il faut plus de militaires, de policiers, de gendarmes mais moins de professeurs ?

Parce que le macronisme ne défend que l’enseignement catholique privé et veut canceller l’enseignement public.

C’est l’unique projet macroniste.
October 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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1. Text alt de l'image, tweet sur Amélie de Montchalin à télématin ce matin : "On a besoin de plus de militaires, de plus de policiers, de plus de gendarmes", mais "de moins de professeurs".

Ce "on" c'est sa classe, celle qui fait la guerre à la nôtre.
Et pourquoi cette non-élue qu’est Amélie de Montchalain déclare qu’il faut plus de militaires, de policiers, de gendarmes mais moins de professeurs ?

Parce que le macronisme ne défend que l’enseignement catholique privé et veut canceller l’enseignement public.

C’est l’unique projet macroniste.
October 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Le quart des départements de physique du Royaume-Uni menacés de fermeture.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Quarter of UK university physics departments at risk of closing, survey finds
Four out of five making staff cuts as physicists say findings are ‘great concern’ for UK’s leadership in important areas
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Le système universitaire britannique est en train de s'effondrer lui aussi. Il est remarquable que les "réformateurs" qui démolissent l'Université en France depuis deux décennies aient pris les universités états-unienne et anglaise comme modèles.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq...
Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU
Proposed job losses almost triple since March as unions prepare to vote on nationwide industrial action
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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All these people turning out for No Kings make me proud to be an American.
Protesters Denouncing Trump Unite Across the Country
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Maltrail : un système de détection de trafic réseau malveillant Open Source qui utilise à la fois des listes noires publiques et des mécanismes heuristiques pour repérer des comportements suspects.

👉 Le projet : github.com/stamparm/...
October 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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“When it comes to the almost 2,000 Palestinians who were released by Israel as part of the deal… there has been silence from much of our mainstream media.”

Read five stories about Palestinian hostages released from Israeli detention following the Gaza ceasefire agreement: zeteo.com/p/five-pales...
October 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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“Despite the UK government claiming to have suspended arms licenses to Israel and thousands of people demonstrating in the streets, weapons continue to flow from Bristol”, an activist was quoted in a press statement.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/10/11/b...
Bristol activists blockade Elbit - Freedom News
Filton facility’s involvement in the ongoing genocide in Gaza has prompted a range of groups to take action there ~ Scott Harris ~ Around 40 …
freedomnews.org.uk
October 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Interstellar is a religious experience... for atheists

via @damiengwalter.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIdf...
Interstellar is a religious experience...for atheists
YouTube video by Science Fiction with Damien Walter
www.youtube.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Visuel par l'artiste Dyna Moe
September 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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1/3 There’s a strong relationship between Reform / far right support and the Brexit Leave constituency. A continuation of the refusal to accept that Britain is poorer and more unequal not due to immigration but because it is no longer subsidised by an Empire. theconversation.com/brexit-how-t...
Brexit: how the end of Britain’s empire led to rising inequality that helped Leave to victory
The link between empire, inequality – and Brexit.
theconversation.com
September 22, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.
September 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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"the most important anticolonial intellectuals may not use the language of decolonization and may not be in unis, but on the streets, with social movements, and in prison" Alpa Shah. not the state-affiliated think tanks talking deco, not the deco big names talking multipolar civilizational order
22yo student Zhang Yadi, an activist with 华语青年挺藏会 ChineseYouthStand4Tibet who's supposed to begin her MA study at SOAS, has been detained while visiting family in China & charged with "inciting separation" www.instagram.com/p/DOy4rwViEk...
September 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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22yo student Zhang Yadi, an activist with 华语青年挺藏会 ChineseYouthStand4Tibet who's supposed to begin her MA study at SOAS, has been detained while visiting family in China & charged with "inciting separation" www.instagram.com/p/DOy4rwViEk...
September 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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September 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Mon amie Afghane me dit qu'après d'autres villes, il se prépare peut-être un blocage d'Internet à Kaboul et elle me demande de diffuser au maximum cette information. De sa part, je vous demande de diffuser si vous le voulez bien.
Afghanistan: le gouvernement taliban réduit l'accès à internet pour lutter contre "le vice"
Le gouvernement taliban a réduit mercredi pour la deuxième journée consécutive l'accès à internet dans plusieurs provinces afghanes, où des responsables ont justifié les coupures par la lutte contre…
https://www.france24.com/fr/info-en-continu/20250917-afghanistan-le-gouvernement-taliban-réduit-l-accès-à-internet-pour-lutter-contre-le-vice
September 19, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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On ne souligne jamais assez que ce n'est pas sur les réseaux sociaux que les jeunes se familiarisent avec l'autoritarisme mais bien au contact des entreprises, lors de leurs premiers emplois : il n'y a rien de moins démocratique que le monde économique 🤷‍♂️
September 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM