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: andrewfordlyons.net@timfernholz.com Just there upvoting some year old dunks…
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\nJ. G. BALLARD: “Actually, there’s no secret. One simply pulls the cork out of the bottle, waits three minutes, and two thousand or more years of Scottish craftsmanship does the rest.”
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@edjennings.bsky.social I hope it enjoys its new found freedom.
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\"Internationalism Is Not a Luxury, but a Survival Mechanism\"
\nSuperb interview with Syrian author Leila al-Shami and Ukrainian activist Oleksandr Kyselov on the vestigial Eurocentrism and American exceptionalism of the Western “anti-imperialist” Left in an increasingly multipolar world.
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Something broke in Lusaka : andrewfordlyons.net
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\n\n“So much of our past has been shaped by this petty proceduralism. You could draw a straight line between an amendment in Brussels and a mass grave in Kazakhstan.” — Molly Crabapple, ‘Here Where We Live is Our Country’
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A lot of banging great lines in this book!
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\nAI can take all the serious jobs and do whatever with them if we can just have these kinds of opportunities in exchange.
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