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Kevin Sanders
@kjsanders.bsky.social
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PhD candidate on the politics of open research and publishing environments at [redacted]. OBC. Copim. Synths. Tapes. Perennial pain. Skullduggery. Ⓐ 🍉 ORCID: 0000-0003-1217-0149. https://hairdryerexcommunication.bandcamp.com/ (he/him).
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We all know webservers fall over from time to time, but this isn't a great look for "academic control" of OA scholarly publishing #scholar-led
A screenshot showing a 401 Unauthorized message when trying to access the Stockholm Declaration
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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The Stockholm Declaration appears to currently be inaccessible via the DOI (but it remains accessible via PubMed):
A screenshot showing a login required to access the Stockholm Declaration via the VoR's primary hosting
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Reading Gelderloos' 'Anarchy Works':
However, here are some basic principles most anarchists agree on. Autonomy and Horizontality All people deserve the freedom to define and organize themselves on their own terms. Decision-making structures should be horizontal rather than vertical, so no one dominates anyone else; they should foster power to act freely rather than power over others. Anarchism opposes all coercive hierarchies, including capitalism, the state, white supremacy, and patriarchy. Mutual Aid People should help one another voluntarily; bonds of solidarity and generosity form a stronger social glue than the fear inspired by laws, borders, prisons, and armies. Mutual aid is neither a form of charity nor of zero-sum exchange; both giver and receiver are equal and interchangeable. Since neither holds power over the other, they increase their collective power by creating opportunities to work together. Voluntary Association People should be free to cooperate with whomever they want, however they see fit; likewise, they should be free to refuse any relationship or arrangement they do not judge to be in their interest. Everyone should be able to move freely, both physically and socially. Anarchists oppose borders of all kinds and involuntary categorization by citizenship, gender, or race. Direct Action It is more empowering and effective to accomplish goals directly than to rely on authorities or representatives. Free people do not request the changes they want to see in the world; they make those changes.
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Living on colonial TERF rainy fascist island is only bearable because of the absurdity of existence
"powers recognised as held by the monarch"
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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e.g.
Starboard aft, just above the swim, showing epoxy cracking off at the waterline
November 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Nice to be comfortable looking at the boat and not seeing epoxy cracking off at the waterline.
Portside view of the boat on my berth
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Never been so glad to get back...
Entering Roydon Marina, heading my berth
November 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:...
These are insurrections that are an active and prolix part of the production, construction and creation of other knowledge: alter, anti, pluri, trans. These are key to the ongoing construction of other possible worlds here and now. But it is also worth saying that they coexist with systemic knowledge practices (thus in the singular) that serve to continue reproducing past and current dominant forms of knowledge/power.
November 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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"Us 'ow workin' folk should have some dignity an' pride an' self-respect" youtu.be/I2AcJSkUw6M?...
October 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Day #2: a full coat on the entire hull. Two more coats to go, with five days to play with, so well ahead of schedule. Hard work is hard, and my deck hands assistant is a trooper.
Picture of my boat on a loading truck showing the portside from the bow with its first coat of fresh bitumen Picture of my boat showing the starboard side's first coat of bitumen Picture of my boat showing the swim/swim tank with a fresh lick of bitumen
October 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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I started my day as I always dreamed of doing. (By hanging.)
My narrowboat being craned out of the River Lea at Stansted Abbots.
October 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Absolutely shaming the heck out Hertfordshire for such a monstrosity 🤮
Cocktail menu item: 'Pumpkin spice Espresso Martini'
October 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Dr. @kirahopkins.bsky.social is incapable of using their hands to put popcorn in their gob. This is a sample of what we have found from a smol bag of popcorn (that they poured on the floor.) @scholtom.bsky.social l, you need to have word, mate. They've gone wrong. May need medical intervention?
Kira feeds the ants, mice, and rats more than themself. Is this biopolitics?
October 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Nice of Garth to turn up to the theatre of debate, amirite
Some caricature of a man from the '70s
October 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Fucko is getting battered by subtitles. Harsh AF. Sam Seder's not getting this treatment. (Historical materialists are everywhere, man).
October 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Fuko is harsh.
October 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Standard Friday night watching Foucault and Chomsky with @kirahopkins.bsky.social as they do some kind manual labour that is beyond poststructural comprehension.
A laptop that is playing the recording of Foucault and Chomsky having a wee chat/beef off Kira doing some kind of magical practice involving a loom (rather than sage -- with hing hour is to come)
October 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Currently agreeing harder than ever with Vincent van Gerven Oei (@punctumbooks.bsky.social & @thoth-metadata.bsky.social).
"Let's redeem the university! Let's redeem our institutions! Let's redeem the state! I say: Let it all burn. May our gardens not be small and tended, but a flourishing sanctuary of invasive species, weeds, brain-eating fungi, ecosystems pirates, unleashed across the world."
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Hands up who is on the train home having caught the 0531 this morning?
A tired me on a train A necessary beverage on said train
October 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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It lives!
I checked the engine yesterday.
October 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Bloodied and soiled by flag-bearing cuntery.
Too many flags referencing things around nationalism and racism etc.
October 19, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Marx had an idea from the confusion in his head Then there were a thousand more waiting to be led The books are sold, the quotes are bought You'll learn them well and then you're caught Another's left, another's right Another's peace, another's fight
October 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Fournier on Laclau & Mouffe...
“Again, the big problem here is that neoliberalism, far from being threatened by it, has been particularly accommodating towards multiplicity and difference. As Hardt and Negri (2000) have argued, Empire’s biopolitical machine has been very successful at recuperating the creativity emanating from the multitude. It has also filled floating signifiers like freedom with libidinous enjoyment and has basically replaced the more or less organic solidarity of the welfare state with a barely updated Darwinism. This is the full circle of ideology – it is instinctive enough to work through individual perception without it being entirely conscious or even fully accepted and its main tenets are willingly disseminated by those who stand to gain from it. Combined with the rise of inequality, wage compression and economic volatility, the celebration of difference has at least contributed to a backlash among the increasingly apprehensive middle and working classes in the Western world. It is less than clear that Laclau and Mouffe provide us with the means to actively change the meaning and operationalisation of signifiers like freedom.” from Fournier's 'Laclau and Mouffe’s Blind Spots: A Reply to Philip Goldstein in Reflections on Post-Marxism' in Laclau and Mouffe's Project of Radical Democracy in the 21st Century (2022)
October 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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FYI, I have started cutting the 5" single that will accompany the collaborative full length with @thegnarrator.bsky.social that *is* forthcoming, hopefully later in the month.
Lathe and a couple of the Carrie Wade & Kevin Sanders 5"s that have been made (photo on laptop webcam as my phone camera has died)
October 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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100% fine
October 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM