Michael Pearson
@mprpearson.bsky.social
📚Historian & researcher
⚽ Melbourne Victory tragic
👨💻He/him
📄Personal account, opinions my own
⚽ Melbourne Victory tragic
👨💻He/him
📄Personal account, opinions my own
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My latest RedBridge Intel Substack (it's been a while!): understanding the appeal of Trump and the right, what it means here and what progressives can do about it.
@rachelwithers.bsky.social & @timdunlop.bsky.social - as discussed.
open.substack.com/pub/redbridg...
@rachelwithers.bsky.social & @timdunlop.bsky.social - as discussed.
open.substack.com/pub/redbridg...
Private Splendour; Public Squalor
As the sense public squalor intensifies, promises of private splendour gain ever more purchase among a public feeling brutalised by government retreat from its core responsibilities.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2024 at 5:19 AM
My latest RedBridge Intel Substack (it's been a while!): understanding the appeal of Trump and the right, what it means here and what progressives can do about it.
@rachelwithers.bsky.social & @timdunlop.bsky.social - as discussed.
open.substack.com/pub/redbridg...
@rachelwithers.bsky.social & @timdunlop.bsky.social - as discussed.
open.substack.com/pub/redbridg...
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Last year ACU was the latest Uni to put their academics through a hunger games, a spill-and-fill scramble. It was needlessly cruel, claimed the jobs of close friends. Read this grand reckoning by @kfullagar.bsky.social, starting with @hannahforsyth.bsky.social. 🔥💜
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reflections on the hunger games
Published in History Australia (Ahead of Print, 2024)
www.tandfonline.com
November 14, 2024 at 7:12 AM
Last year ACU was the latest Uni to put their academics through a hunger games, a spill-and-fill scramble. It was needlessly cruel, claimed the jobs of close friends. Read this grand reckoning by @kfullagar.bsky.social, starting with @hannahforsyth.bsky.social. 🔥💜
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Fun fact: it was an Australian journalist working for the state broadcaster who was giving Spencer an interview platform when this happened -->>
www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01...
November 22, 2024 at 10:37 AM
Fun fact: it was an Australian journalist working for the state broadcaster who was giving Spencer an interview platform when this happened -->>
www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01...
I am extremely proud. Thank you to @hannahforsyth.bsky.social, all the editors at Labour History and to the ASSLH.
November 25, 2023 at 3:19 AM
I am extremely proud. Thank you to @hannahforsyth.bsky.social, all the editors at Labour History and to the ASSLH.
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Sydney folk, come join a celebration of my new book Virtue Capitalists launched by Professor Emerita Raewyn Connell on Tuesday, November 21, 2023 5pm for 5.30 (ending at 7pm) at the University of Sydney Western Tower room, in the Quad. RSVP 👇asap docs.google.com/forms/d/1Mze...
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October 27, 2023 at 6:30 AM
Sydney folk, come join a celebration of my new book Virtue Capitalists launched by Professor Emerita Raewyn Connell on Tuesday, November 21, 2023 5pm for 5.30 (ending at 7pm) at the University of Sydney Western Tower room, in the Quad. RSVP 👇asap docs.google.com/forms/d/1Mze...
Just as a heads up to my Melbourne friends, n*zis were just at Parliament Station. Cops keeping their distance, so they're just roaming around.
September 23, 2023 at 5:21 AM
Just as a heads up to my Melbourne friends, n*zis were just at Parliament Station. Cops keeping their distance, so they're just roaming around.
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ACU is apparently disestablishing its vibrant medieval and early modern research program. And in history 19 historians will be forced to apply for 10 remaining jobs. If you aren't already suffering outrage overload from the global state of HE, please lend them your support.
September 12, 2023 at 11:05 AM
ACU is apparently disestablishing its vibrant medieval and early modern research program. And in history 19 historians will be forced to apply for 10 remaining jobs. If you aren't already suffering outrage overload from the global state of HE, please lend them your support.
Australia are through to the quarter finals at a home world cup. I am going to be feral on Saturday, and if we get past that I might go MIA for a week.
August 7, 2023 at 12:47 PM
Australia are through to the quarter finals at a home world cup. I am going to be feral on Saturday, and if we get past that I might go MIA for a week.
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I’ve spent much of the last year examining car bloat, the process through which smaller vehicles are being replaced by increasingly massive SUVs and trucks.
What I’ve learned: Huge cars are terrible for society, often in ways that are hidden.
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What I’ve learned: Huge cars are terrible for society, often in ways that are hidden.
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August 5, 2023 at 5:45 PM
I’ve spent much of the last year examining car bloat, the process through which smaller vehicles are being replaced by increasingly massive SUVs and trucks.
What I’ve learned: Huge cars are terrible for society, often in ways that are hidden.
THREAD
What I’ve learned: Huge cars are terrible for society, often in ways that are hidden.
THREAD
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me: I need a passport so I can go to australia
clerk: have you ever been convicted of a crime?
me: is... is that still necessary
clerk: have you ever been convicted of a crime?
me: is... is that still necessary
August 1, 2023 at 10:10 PM
me: I need a passport so I can go to australia
clerk: have you ever been convicted of a crime?
me: is... is that still necessary
clerk: have you ever been convicted of a crime?
me: is... is that still necessary
I'm here now, so if you've managed to find me here's a sleepy Juno as a reward.
August 3, 2023 at 1:15 AM
I'm here now, so if you've managed to find me here's a sleepy Juno as a reward.