Vesna Manojlovic @becha@v.st

Op het dorpsplein in Renkum werden vandaag 17 emmers van 10 liter water leeg gestort. Zonde van al dat water? Ja, zeker. Maar dit is precies wat papierfabriek Parenco iedere seconde (!) oppompt uit de grond: 170 liter schoon bronwater en dat vlakbij Natura 2000 gebieden. [1/5]

“The perfect postapocalyptic vehicle isn't a big ugly truck. It's a bicycle — light, reliable, easy to fix and scavenge parts for, able to move cargo, doesn't need any power except you and calories. And the thing that will actually get us through an apocalypse — or, preferably, prevent one — isn't driving a steel-plated War Rig. It's working together.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-cybertruck-apocalypse-inequality-2023-12

This year there will be a new ETC in Berlin and the CFP is out https://eclectictechcarnival.org/etc/call/ #etc #feminism #technology

#AcademicVenting ❤️ (on the office door of Andrew Douglas - spotted on X)

Vandaag protesteerden we, tijdens de opening van de Keukenhof, tegen het grootschalige gebruik van gevaarlijke pesticiden in de bollenteelt. Wij eisen een gifvrije bollenteelt en maakten het gebruik van gif zichtbaar door “gif” over Spicey Rebels heen te gieten. [1/5]

🚨 Help needed: Are there here any (former) PhD students or their supervisors who did a cotutelle between the Netherlands and Germany (specifically these two countries) and could help me finalize a contract for my PhD student?

Many thanks! 🙏

#AcademicChatter #Academia #PhD #Cotutelle #Germany #Netherlands

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/03/15/poetin-komt-tanken-bij-vlissingen-a4193179

Last week the NRC reported about a little-known refueling (bunkering) point in the south-west of the #Netherlands, at the entrance of the Schelde near #vlissingen. The newspaper uncovered that it is being used by a #shadow #fleet of often badly maintained and very old tanker vessels which play a pivotal role in turning sanctioned Russian #oil in to not sanctioned oil. The vessels make their way from Baltic ports along the North Sea, either to India or Turkey. The newspaper called this bunkering point "Putin's petrol station", because on the way back the sanctioned vessels stock up on fuel. The ships all fly under several different "flags of convenience" and as their companies get put on sanction lists, the ships move to other owners.

It is not often that international politics, global capital, supply chains, the news and infrastructure congeal the way it does at Putin's Pitstop so I had to go take a look #infrastructours.

infra thread!

How to keep internet open? What should the EU’s role be in internet standard-setting? – read this recap of a conversation between Clément Perarnaud, Mallory Knodel, @olaf, and Geoff Huston 👉 https://openfuture.eu/blog/how-can-the-eus-approach-towards-internet-standards-be-improved/ #OpenInternet #InternetStandards #PublicDigitalInfrastructure

SQUIRRELCEPTION

Today is the start of #Spring / Lente / Proleće / BECHA ! (in the northern hemisphere…) . Greetings from Osdorp/de Aker, #Amsterdam

DIY Methods, our conference-by-zine/mail on experimental research, returns in 2024! Send us your methods zine idea by April 15th.

https://diymethods.net/

The deadline for our call for submissions has been extended to 22 March 2024. We have also added examples and resources for zine-making to our website https://morethanhumanfreedom.wordpress.com/resources/.

We are delighted to share with you our call for submissions for a zine-based conference on more-than-human freedom. Inspired by the first zine-based conference organised by the Low-Carbon Research Methods Group, this conference aims to bring together scholars and artists to produce and disseminate low-carbon, free, and accessible knowledge around the capability of self-willed ecologies to sustain and reproduce themselves. We invite contributors to address this theme by making use of the experimental and DIY character of zines, which will be printed and circulated among participants by post.

Please, find below the original text of the call, find more resources on our website https://morethanhumanfreedom.wordpress.com/ and feel free to contact us at morethanhumanfreedom2024@gmail.com for any questions. We are looking forward to receiving your pitches!

Organized by Laura Andriessen (Ghent University, CARAM), Emelien Devos (Ghent University, CARAM) and Alessandro Guglielmo (University of Milan)

@anthroplogy@a.gup.pe @ecologies

#anthropology #AcademicChatter #OpenScience #STS #MoreThanHuman #capitalocene

Amid so much that’s so utterly wrong in this world, it’s already been a delight to be part of the Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair (ACAB) organizing crew for the 2024 version of this particularly sweet “anarchist ritual of spiritual recovery” and its “big gay” spirit. After all, #ACAB falls on Stonewall weekend and happens to take place in a town with lots of us queer+trans rebels.

Personally, I want to encourage you to dream up all sorts of imaginative proposals! I’d love to see ideas that reflect the changing (for the better) voices and faces, strategies and practices, of anarchism; that tell stories of inspiring anarchic histories and lessons gleaned for today; that reflect on the new fascist landscape we’re now in, and what ways we might shift to better fight and outwit it, to lessen losses and expand life against the murder machinery, to engage in communal care and self-defense as well as world-building; and that offer different formats, ranging from panels to play, conversations to ritual, workshops to hands-on to keynotes.

If you want to run ideas by me before you put in a proposal, DM me (keeping in mind I’m just one of about ten collective mates).

For now, read and revel in our friendly public invite, from which you can find links to the session proposal and tabling request forms. And big gay love to Bash Back News for posting our invite, which I had the joy of collaborating on with my dear friend and fellow Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair organizer Shuli Branson!

https://acabookfair.noblogs.org/

Here’s an excerpt:

“Amid all the horror, we cannot neglect our capacity for joy. To struggle against the state and for liberation, there must be a life worth fighting for. Our anarchism taps into our pleasures along with our disgust, our wholeness along with our brokenness. The bookfair offers us a space to feel and reflect on these oppositions together. During these gatherings, we witness the breadth of our interdependences and solidarities as we contemplate the crumbling of infrastructure and social well-being, devastation of ecosystems, and growing hot spots of fascist action. We see how much we already make possible through the spirit and substance of our practices.”

#AllComradesAreBeautiful 🖤🩷🌿

Genius!

A scheme calculating how much carbon is saved by industrial sabotage and other direct actions:
https://offset.labr.io/

How much would it take to offset your lifetime emissions?

#Climate #ClimateCrisis #Sabotage #CarbonCredits

Feeling a bit disillusioned with taxes in these Nordic welfare states. I was fine with our extremely high tax rates as long as I was able to think the money was used for things like:
-social security
-public transport
-healthcare
-elderly care
-education.

More and more its money given to freaking fur farmers, different capitalist operators, endless car infrastructure and military funding.

This is not my social contract.