Marika Rose
@marika.bsky.social
Communist theologian. Angelologist. “Too angry and gratuitously crude” - Church Times
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Marika Rose
@marika.bsky.social
· Dec 24
Daniel Domig and I made a short film for a Christmas haunted by genocide: www.instagram.com/reel/DD9MYIR...
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Attn @marika.bsky.social here is a gopher angel 4 u
December 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Attn @marika.bsky.social here is a gopher angel 4 u
Just under a week to get your paper proposals in!
Call for papers for the SST annual conference is out now! Come join us in April to talk about theology and failure (generous bursaries available, especially if you're a grad student): www.theologysociety.org.uk/information/
December 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Just under a week to get your paper proposals in!
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The Adam Kotsko roundtable continues with Peter Gratton's reading of Neoliberalism's Demons, a political theology of neoliberalism as governance through debt and guilt that produces the illusion of freedom, updated for a post-neoliberal grift society: olrsupplement.com/2025/12/08/a...
A Hell Without End? Neoliberalism and the Grift Society - The OLR Supplement
Gratton brings into a post-neoliberal age of grift Adam Kotsko's Neoliberalism's Demons, an account of the theological roots of using debt to govern subjects with the illusion of freedom
olrsupplement.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The Adam Kotsko roundtable continues with Peter Gratton's reading of Neoliberalism's Demons, a political theology of neoliberalism as governance through debt and guilt that produces the illusion of freedom, updated for a post-neoliberal grift society: olrsupplement.com/2025/12/08/a...
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We gotta do something about metaphors
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
We gotta do something about metaphors
Daniel Domig and I made a short film for a Christmas haunted by genocide: www.instagram.com/reel/DD9MYIR...
December 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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This is the guy Wes Streeting wants your health data to belong to btw
it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this
December 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This is the guy Wes Streeting wants your health data to belong to btw
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open borders for the rich, militarized closed borders for the poor - a bipartisan position
December 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
open borders for the rich, militarized closed borders for the poor - a bipartisan position
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If it were steel works we would have a government bailout plan, yet losing thousands of jobs at unis is met with a shrug. & unlike steelworks universities were profitable when they had foreign students.
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…
HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…
HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
Every sympathy for University of Essex (and pressures facing them) but this is very bad news for Southend.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
Roles to be lost are part of wave of redundancy programmes across UK’s higher education sector
giftarticle.ft.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
If it were steel works we would have a government bailout plan, yet losing thousands of jobs at unis is met with a shrug. & unlike steelworks universities were profitable when they had foreign students.
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…
HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…
HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
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One of my favourite things is that people who eat Ice Cream on average once per week have lower all cause mortality rates, several studies have had the same outcome, but the reason you never see that anywhere is no one wants to be seen to be the person saying Ice Cream has health benefits
“For example, studies find that coffee drinkers have a lower risk of death from any cause compared to people who don't drink coffee.”
GAME SET MATCH
GAME SET MATCH
December 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
One of my favourite things is that people who eat Ice Cream on average once per week have lower all cause mortality rates, several studies have had the same outcome, but the reason you never see that anywhere is no one wants to be seen to be the person saying Ice Cream has health benefits
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Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
December 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
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Church of England commissioners are now able to invest in defence companies. This is horrendous
Probably the most heinous line " The Commissioners’ new policy focuses on where a company is domiciled rather than where it sells its wares"
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
Probably the most heinous line " The Commissioners’ new policy focuses on where a company is domiciled rather than where it sells its wares"
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
Church Commissioners change policy to allow investment in UK defence companies
‘The bar to investing in defence businesses will remain high,’ Commissioners say
www.churchtimes.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Church of England commissioners are now able to invest in defence companies. This is horrendous
Probably the most heinous line " The Commissioners’ new policy focuses on where a company is domiciled rather than where it sells its wares"
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
Probably the most heinous line " The Commissioners’ new policy focuses on where a company is domiciled rather than where it sells its wares"
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
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There’s surely a whole article to be written about the terrible quality of heraldry in Continuing Anglican churches
December 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
There’s surely a whole article to be written about the terrible quality of heraldry in Continuing Anglican churches
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I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
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Seeing a lot on my TL about horrific anti-Somali bigotry expressed by US officials and I am here to tell you that Ireland’s recent moves to restrict refugee naturalisation and family reunification- as well as the last law change to restrict refugee FR - are mainly aimed at Somalis #speirghorm
December 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Seeing a lot on my TL about horrific anti-Somali bigotry expressed by US officials and I am here to tell you that Ireland’s recent moves to restrict refugee naturalisation and family reunification- as well as the last law change to restrict refugee FR - are mainly aimed at Somalis #speirghorm
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you can just point your infinite lawfare hose at trans inclusive organisations now, that's the lesson they've learnt. something the labour government could fix in an afternoon with their super majority if they felt like it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
you can just point your infinite lawfare hose at trans inclusive organisations now, that's the lesson they've learnt. something the labour government could fix in an afternoon with their super majority if they felt like it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Contact us if you have been affected by the policy changes of Girl Guiding or the Women's Institute. This could be as an individual, or because you lead a local Brownie group who don't want this policy change. We want to help protect trans inclusion.
goodlawproject.org/about/contact/
goodlawproject.org/about/contact/
December 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Contact us if you have been affected by the policy changes of Girl Guiding or the Women's Institute. This could be as an individual, or because you lead a local Brownie group who don't want this policy change. We want to help protect trans inclusion.
goodlawproject.org/about/contact/
goodlawproject.org/about/contact/
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Would just like to plug Woodcraft Folk (aka the militant wing of The Coop), where children of all genders will always be welcome and you don't have to promise to serve God and the King woodcraft.org.uk/woodcraft-fo...
Woodcraft Folk statement on the exclusion of trans children from Girlguiding - Woodcraft Folk
Woodcraft Folk stands in solidarity with every trans child, young person and volunteer who faces exclusion from Girlguiding UK following the announcement on Trans inclusion. We recognise that Girlgui...
woodcraft.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Would just like to plug Woodcraft Folk (aka the militant wing of The Coop), where children of all genders will always be welcome and you don't have to promise to serve God and the King woodcraft.org.uk/woodcraft-fo...
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This part is *infuriating*. This cis woman heard an 80 year old trans woman say, 'This is the only place I've been respected as a woman IN MY LIFE.'
And did not immediately think, 'I will fight every inch like a dying badger to keep her in my organization.'
Absolutely pathetic.
And did not immediately think, 'I will fight every inch like a dying badger to keep her in my organization.'
Absolutely pathetic.
December 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This part is *infuriating*. This cis woman heard an 80 year old trans woman say, 'This is the only place I've been respected as a woman IN MY LIFE.'
And did not immediately think, 'I will fight every inch like a dying badger to keep her in my organization.'
Absolutely pathetic.
And did not immediately think, 'I will fight every inch like a dying badger to keep her in my organization.'
Absolutely pathetic.
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They were 8 and 11 years old
December 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
They were 8 and 11 years old
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Free Palestine lit??? Free Palestine lit. 🇵🇸 🍉 📚 ✨
Arab Lit Quarterly is making all of their pdfs of works with Palestinian authors free for #ReadPalestine week. arablit.gumroad.com
Subscribe to ArabLit Store on Gumroad
Scroll down for buyable items related to ArabLit (Arabic Literature and Translation) and the Bulaq podcast.
arablit.gumroad.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Free Palestine lit??? Free Palestine lit. 🇵🇸 🍉 📚 ✨
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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who says the humanities are dead
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:46 AM
who says the humanities are dead
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The numbers in here are hilarious.
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The numbers in here are hilarious.
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
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For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.
When Is It Time to Flee?
Trans people and their families are facing hard questions and choices as threats to their safety and rights proliferate.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.