Israel used white phosphorus in Lebanon: Report - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-used-white-phosphorus-lebanon-report
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Israel used white phosphorus in Lebanon: Report - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-used-white-phosphorus-lebanon-report
Unleashing utter hell, and not even having a clue why www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
I'm out of words here
War crime upon war crime upon war crime
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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they double bombed an elementary school for girls
This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting.
NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...
In any other sector this would be front page news along with government funding announcements.
The UK just seems to not value higher education.
Today: @pbresnihan.bsky.social will be in Edinburgh to discuss his new book, From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
Screenshot of email that reads: “This status will remain in place until the University receives notification that you are no longer participating in that action. During this period, any work undertaken will be regarded as voluntary.”
Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Hector Becerril, Ben Anderson & Alejandro de Coss Corzo (2026) entitled: 'The Life of Events: Exception and Everyday Life in Acapulco, Mexico' with a red banner at the top. The paper focuses on the event of ‘Ingrid-and-Manuel’—a Hurricane and Tropical Storm that hit Acapulco, Mexico in 2013. It traces what this event was and how it remains for people in and beyond Acapulco. It does so in the context of a place where the lines between events and everyday life are often blurred, and yet the event was still named and felt as an exception to ordinary life. By focusing on how exceptionality was and is produced, the paper supplements how human geography understands and relates to events, arguing for an approach that focuses on the ‘life of events’: following how events begin, happen, change, end and live on. This approach sits between social constructivist and realist approaches to events, orientating inquiry to the ongoing mediation of impactive experience, via Lauren Berlant's work. Through this approach, the paper tracks the affective-material variations through which Ingrid-and-Manuel became and remains an exception: excess, (dis)connection, loss and damage, recovery.
New in TIBG:
'The life of events: Exception and everyday life in Acapulco, Mexico' by Hector Becerril, @benandersongeog.bsky.social & @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social
This paper draws on Berlant to consider how certain events, such as storms, become exceptions to ordinary life.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
Because sharing is caring, below you'll find some calls for papers for this year's @rgsibg.bsky.social conference that have been circulated through the mailing lists I'm suscribed to. I'm leaving deadlines / contact info for each, in case you'd like to know more. #RGS2026
Dr Beki McElvain, Lecturer in Human Geography @lborogeog.bsky.social, has joined the Editorial Board of Urban Geography. 👏
Beki also recently published in the journal, together with @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social, on 'Rethinking the urban South?'. Read open access here: doi.org/10.1080/0272...
The Guardian doing inexplicable voluntary free public relations work for a corporation profiting from sexual abuse by headlining this as the image gen being "turned off". It isn't off: they've just monetised it. What the fuck are we doing here people, come on.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Gerardo Sámano Romero and Alma Chávez-Mejía have just published a review of scholarship on water access in Mexico City. A valuable resource for those studying this city, or interested in contemporary approaches to the urban political ecology of water: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The Guardian, following the bold steps of Keir Starmer, cannot even bring themselves to call the kidnapping of a sitting president illegal, instead going for the 'but what if the fascists get angry at us?' adjective "controversial".
Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist.
Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it
"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
The BBC keeps calling the imperialist actions of the US 'unprecedented'; I wonder if they know anything about the history of Latin America in the last 200 years or so.
Small blue house perched precariously on the edge of a concrete structure against a cloudy sky.
📣Join the States of Precarity team for the launch of the States of Precarity in UK Higher Education Geography report.
📅 Wednesday 14 January
🎦 Online
👉 Sign up to attend: https://bit.ly/4rvQgP2
Check out the report before the launch: https://bit.ly/44HTUvg
🔴 NEW: The University of Edinburgh has quietly paid more than £750,000 to a controversial consulting firm amid job cuts - staff say bosses ignored "repeated" questions about its role.
Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...
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Question from @martinwhitfieldmsp.bsky.social in the Scottish Parliament on cuts and job losses at Edinburgh University as @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social take third day of strike action this week #SaveHE #StopTheCuts www.heraldscotland.com/news/2563152...
Staff is currently striking here at the University of Edinburgh. Senior management is planning widespread compulsory redundancies (without a real need for the same). You can read more here @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/rd72kte...
Today we have called a "Lobby Day".
UoE's ongoing cuts could lead to up to 1800 compulsory redundancies in addition to the damage already being done. Our political representatives should be addressing this crisis.
Flood MSPs' offices with calls!
More here: ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-msp
If Edinburgh Uni, with no operational deficit, gets to sack 1800 people, imagine what this will signal to more fiscally challenged Scottish universities?
MSPs need to realise that this is more than a local crisis – we need urgent public scrutiny of Edinburgh’s governance.
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Good to see Scotland beginning to grapple with the question of land reform a mere 100 years later than Mexico.
Call for Papers 📢
Excited to announce our panel at the @pollenetwork.bsky.social Conference (Barcelona, June 29 - July 3, 2026): "Cities, Urban Metabolism and the Polycrisis." 🏙️
If you work on urban metabolism or critical studies of cities & infrastructure, we want your contribution!
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Next Wednesday, 5 November, I will be giving a talk on my research in Mexico City at the Centre for Sustainable Development Studies, University of Amsterdam.
I am really looking forward to it, and very happy to have Maria Kaika and Rutgerd Boelens as commenters.
