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alx

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Designer & Researcher by day:

AHRC TECHNE DTP #PhD (doing) @ Kingston School of Art + Crafts Council UK (sometimes lecturer)

Research on #design #craft #makerspaces #sustainability #anthropology

Blogging about #research, #SocialDesign, #DesignJustice & #tech

Illustrator by night:
occasionally accepting #illustration #commission

Former #architect & Founder at AK0 - architettura kilometro zero

#Vegan since 2007
#degrowth

Love #cats #coffee #bonsai #manga

I draw & get political. A lot.

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"“There really are two things going on at once. We are mourning the loss of the mother and we are trying to help the young one to find her family,” the Ehattesaht council said in a statement. “It really is something that rings home for Native people: this loss and this struggle for the next generation.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/28/race-to-save-an-orphaned-orca-calf-brave-little-hunter-canada

#orcas #IndigenousPeople #FirstNations

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It took sometimes to finally complete my reading, and thank you @kissane for such a well-informed analysis.

https://erinkissane.com/untangling-threads

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#ClimateDiary

It’s end of March here in South Devon, UK. Spring break is starting in around 36 hours. It’s snowing and the Met Office website is in total denial because it keeps saying it is raining

#spring #snow

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❤️💔

https://www.theverge.com/24113428/the-spider-within-marvel-sony-short-film

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Meanwhile their missiles are terrorizing us day and night.

Russian missile attack hit Dnipro hydroelectric dam.

The Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was on the verge of blackout after a massive missile attack on Ukraine this morning cut one of its power lines.
#RussiaWar

alx,
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@saint_rebel_ukraine_ amazing how they get frustrated over Ukraine but are completely fine with Israel keeping on their razing of Gaza, which have also created all a series of trade disruptions.

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"2023 was a watershed year in the history of #genocide "
The Lemkin Institute published their 2023 report and just reading the list of content on their Twitter is depressing and infuriating at best.

https://twitter.com/LemkinInstitute/status/1770832307475116519

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I bet the Tories are wishing they’d trademarked conservatism right about now.

https://www.politico.eu/article/margaret-thatcher-david-lammy-visionary-labour-united-kingdom/

#labour #thatcher

alx,
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@aral that's so depressing.

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One of the most balanced essay on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I know many don't like YouTube, but for anyone interested in politics, follow this podcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLr_VCqnId0

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he also has a whole breakdown critique of the Dawn of Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJIHWk_M398&list=PLU4FEuj4v9eBWP22ujafheoEejbQhPAdl

(following up on the thread https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/112111448378653586 - I saw it yesterday but didn't participate because I still need to finish the book)

@pvonhellermannn @breadandcircuses @RadicalAnthro

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@pvonhellermannn 🤣 nice to know I'm in good company :)

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Susan Neiman: ‘I wanted to revive Jewish intellectual life in Germany, but now I don’t think they really want it’ – The Irish Times
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2024/03/18/susan-neiman-i-wanted-to-revive-jewish-intellectual-life-in-germany-but-now-i-dont-think-they-really-want-it/

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@pvonhellermannn I agree that all the condition about "not being the right kind of Jew" is worrisome, however, from a philosopher saying "the woke idea that has gotten around that Israelis are white and Palestinians are people of colour is ridiculous” highlights big flaws in her understanding of white supremacy, which describes a power dynamics, not an ethnicity. White supremacy can be and is embraced by people of colour, hence the criticism of Israel as 'white'.

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Frans De Waal was enlightening in many ways, but I think the concept that will stuck forever with me is his criticism of the general attitude of comparing humans to chimps, using them as an evolutionary explanation for our violent hierarchical social structure. De Waal stressed how we share the same amount of genes with Bonobos, 'The Forgotten Ape', and there's no evolutionary reason why we couldn't have been more Bonobos, instead of Chimps: a 'make-love-not-war' ape. Imagine that.

#FransDeWaal

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@dustcircle yep, I also was a very big fan of his work.

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Today I stumbled upon a conversation about deleting your old posts here. I've been jiggling with the idea myself. I've mixed feelings about it, but this obsession of archiving everything about the past is something that has always made me very uncomfortable.
Then I listened to this amazing episode by @parismarx podcast and I can't stop thinking that Eco's Ur-Fascism 1st two fundamental traits are the syncretic cult of tradition and the refusal of modernism
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6x5ymv2k6O1wOOdZ0DAG0l?si=2fea1e090b9e4de4

#foreverism

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Well, Happy Pi Day everyone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a9YgCCQYVI

#Pi #PiDay #PiDay2024 #ViHart

alx, to Palestine
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"It is almost as if the world is telling us a morbid joke: we will kill you if you resist and kill you if you hide, and if you refuse, and if you concede, and we will devour your land and gulp your oceans and kill you with hunger and thirst.

The massacres will be televised, broadcast in broad daylight."

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/are-we-indeed-all-palestinians/

#Palestine

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“ “Never again” must mean never again by anyone, against anyone. If this call is not applied to Palestinians, there can never realistically be any hope that others will apply it to Jews – especially in an era in which so much anti-Semitism goes ignored because it does not fit into the pro-Israel/pro-Palestine dichotomy.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/3/13/criticism-of-israels-war-and-occupation-is-not-anti-semitism

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Well, in case anyone was starting to think that Biden had any sort of empathy for the Palestinians, the answer is: NO. The shameful temporary port is for helping Israel to get rid of UNRWA, having more control over Gaza, and absolving Israel from the accusation of starving people.

That's all so sickening.

https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1767513248285213133

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Rescuing animals from warzones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJoCzxIkO-w

#Sudan #FourPaws #AnimalRescue

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a different #SilentSunday

Mastodon limits the view to 4 pictures, but on my pixelfed page you can see more:

https://pixelfed.social/p/alx.fsl/672452956402958058

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As part of my graphic “Women Warriors” project (started in 2018), I’m a bit late, but this year I’m dedicating it to Palestinian women. This is a sneak peak, tomorrow I’ll post the picture on @alx.fsl@pixelfed.social

*Update: full picture, close ups, and work-in-progress images here: https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/672452956402958058

#InternationalWomensDay #IWD2024 #MastoArt #FreePalestine #watercolour #sketchbook #SketchbookSaturday

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@alx.fsl@pixelfed.social the full fliptour of the sketchbook is available on my Instagram
(Yes I know Zuckerberg is bad, so feel free not to follow the link):

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpiSJqrqeSU/?igsh=MXg5N29qZWUwNmwxbA==

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International Women Day 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/05/my-period-has-become-nightmare-life-in-gaza-without-sanitary-products

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The most will remember him for Drangon Ball, but to me Arale will always be one of the most hilarous robot character that accompanied my childhood. I'm sure that rewatching it would make me cringe in many, many ways, but still, memories are what they are, and my memories of Dr Slump are of funny absurdities and sincere laughs. Godspeed, Toriyama-sensei.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/08/akira-toriyama-dragon-ball-creator-manga-series-dies-aged-68

#manga #anime #AkiraToriyama

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The Design Research Society Special Interest Group on Design Ethics has just published a web collection of UNETHICAL Designs:

https://unethical-designs.framer.ai/

Ah, you can also send more examples.

#Design #Ethics #DesignResearch

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