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editorial assistant @newint, co-editor @redpeppermag, digital sociologist (she/they)
glasgow
Joined September 2020
my review of @jathansadowski is online with red pepper now - when i say 'everyone get more luddite' i mean it, and jathan is incredibly good at explaining why 🛠️🌶️ https://t.co/49kegwvPx9
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Jathan Sadowski's book lays the groundwork for a more cohesive resistance against capitalist technology, writes Paula Lacey
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Join RPM editors at Declassified UK’s first summit ‘Challenging the War Machine’ at EarTH in London on Saturday 31st January 2026. For anyone interested in understanding the structures and systems that underpin the drive to war, and how we challenge it. https://t.co/pAEiwftwD3
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We would love to hear from anyone whose family or local community took part in the General Strike of 1926 and have memories, thoughts or stories to offer – or even photos or news clippings from the time. Email editors@redpepper.org.uk with your story.
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Away above the Your Party noise, the Left in Scotland is rebuilding and debating the value of a new party for our own context. Our latest issue out now, with perspectives from @scottishgreens
@revsoc21
@LabourCfS
@CPBritain and many others. Read it at https://t.co/TauY1hF8hO
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Addison Rae, I have received the instructions you have encoded in your music
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🚨NEW: Latest investigation by @Amnesty exposes how the US authorities are using AI tools by @PalantirTech & @BabelKnowledge (Babel Street) to deliberately target non-US citizens & those who speak out for Palestinian rights. https://t.co/GvMb1T99uJ
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The US authorities are using automated artificial intelligence (AI)-powered surveillance tools to deliberately target non-US citizens and pose risks to those who speak out for Palestinian rights,...
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🧵 the Brits are at it again. Mo Chara is back in court tomorrow: a young Irish man facing terror charges in Britain. I wrote about @KNEECAPCEOL, the charges, the Irish language, the history of political policing, & cultural insurgency for the @newint
https://t.co/hATFnBTWZf
Tomorrow Mo Chara is back in Westminster Magistrates Court as the British government's carnival of distraction continues. Since his last court appearance Israel has murdered another 9,000 Palestinians, mainly children and women. Over 1,000 murdered whilst queuing for aid,
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'The past is not dead in Ireland — it isn't even past' Thanks to a hit film and a terror charge, @KNEECAPCEOL are better known than ever before. For the latest Long Read, @deccamuldowney places the hip-hop trio into historical context. https://t.co/d4K4T7gA3s
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Last week Columbia expelled and suspended students involved in an uprising at Butler Library. For issue 06, @hhnnccnnll writes about '68 and the history of pathologizing student movements on that campus:
parapraxismagazine.com
Diagnosing Youth Revolt at the Columbia 1968 Uprisings hannah proctor
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NEW: The Scottish community-owned island of Eigg has announced a boycott of Israel The island of 120 people has backed BDS and its sole shop will stop stocking goods from Israeli firms https://t.co/jbiylGz0th
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BREAKING: Scottish group launches by taking action against Leonardo's Edinburgh factory. The front of the site has been damaged and action takers drove a van into the perimeter. This factory makes laser target systems for Israel's F-35 fighter jets.
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"Capitalism is temporary. Dykes are forever" Seen in NYC
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scotland pals, you've got six months to convince me not to leave ... cambridge/london friends, if you have any advice on relocating in january hit me up✨
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until then i'll be continuing part-time at new internationalist, getting things moving on some longer writing projects and embracing a new role as the sulkiest bartender in glasgow's southside
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i'm so grateful to have been awarded an esrc doctoral training partnership to continue my research on online virality and social justice - i'll be returning to the cambridge sociology dept to start my phd in january 2026
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i completely forgot to post about this (i took a month off work and sunk below sea level, mentally) but in the spirit of 🚨life update🚨
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"Western gender frameworks remain deeply embedded in a simplistic, dualistic logic" Pride is exported globally and trapped in limited Western ideals. For liberation, we must look to Indigenous and Asian cultures, argues Sunil Pant https://t.co/CuXGlOWbOk
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By flattening global queer expression into one Western script, queer people in the global north close their minds to older, more fluid and more inclusive ways of thinking about gender and sexuality.
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Max Farrar and Kevin McDonnell’s book demonstrates how much Big Flame has to teach the modern left, writes Kevin Davey https://t.co/rxf7LpZYE3
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Max Farrar and Kevin McDonnell's book demonstrates how much Big Flame has to teach the modern left, writes Kevin Davey
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