Alx 🐈

Designer & Researcher by day:

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

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 & #tango

I draw & get political. A lot.

My website: https://alxfsl.com/
My PhD: https://sustainabilityinthemaking.com/
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2026-02-08 09:57:29 GMT

Ghali, an Italian-Tusian rapper who went under attack for saying simply "Stop the Genocide" at the Sanremo Festival, for which he gain the "antisemitism medal", wasn't allowed to sing the Italian hymn, and then he was prohibited reading the poem he wrote and to include Arabic in the languages of the poem. His answer was a poem of Rodari and a silence louder then words.
No mainstream media mentions him in the Opening Ceremony reports.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Z9QYdsuQE_s

2026-02-07 15:57:53 GMT

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The fact that a linguist, of all people, uses the word "hysteria", the fake disease ascribed to women that didn't fall in line and that misogynistic doctors have used as an excuse to entertain themselves in sadistic "science experiments" and "medical trials", tells all you need to know about your self-appointed "anarchist". For someone who didn't believe in hierarchies, he certainly spoke like one at a top of a pyramid.
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2026-02-07 15:56:45 GMT

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Epstein exploited the dynamics the entire system was already built on: you might say that your exploitation in a company is not as violent as the exploitation of workers in illegal mines, but it doesn't take away that they are both exploitative systems. The fact that someone can write to their wealthy bestie "you are just the victim of the *hysteria* around sexual assault" is not the same of assaulting someone, but it still rooted in a misogynistic worldview that condones abuse.
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2026-02-07 13:51:03 GMT

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The morbidity of the Epstein files is disgusting and the way they've been released for voyeuristic media consumption is actually having the effects sought: people melting down on "Oh, and even him?", "Was he also a rapist?", "But that was my hero?", "His book changed my life" "how is it possible"
You know were I saw it already: fandoms. The same meltdown of fans around Neil Gaiman, which resulted in the experience of the victim being cast aside to "process our personal shattered feelings"
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2026-02-07 13:44:28 GMT

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The psychology of Chomsky is nothing special, it's exactly how a famous and powerful man grown up under patriarchy, capitalism, and media narcissism, would behave. Epstein's friends aren't people propped up by him. They are all figures that society already designed as special: they had influence, reputational power, and a large pool of people looking up to them. In narcissistic dynamics, violence is the culmination of the relationship, never the beginning.
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2026-02-07 13:30:18 GMT

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It's easy to see that when power is unchecked, the corruption that comes with it can only grow. The men cozying up with Epstein have exactly all these traits in common: powerful figures that society already put on some sort of pedestal, the special people, the real thinkers, extraordinary men. They love the attention and the power that comes with it. You are above your fellows, and that gives you tools and rights upon them. So, what about Chomsky? Just a man. An healthy son of the patriarchy.
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2026-02-07 13:23:04 GMT

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That's why the most (not all, I have many good friends in academia, just to clarify) of professors, especially men, you will encounter in your academic journey, fit perfectly in the category of "self-entitled white (or tokenistic non-white) man". Men like this love their privilege, treated as these sources of wisdom, and all the luxury that comes from it: invitation to conference, grants, book deals, magazine covers, and especially a completely dependent audience who look up to them
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2026-02-07 13:05:28 GMT

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The dynamics through which the business and the political world rewards sociopath narcissistic men are reproduced in academia. Ambition and self-confidence over integrity are the most rewarded aspects, because unfortunately they are also the ones who get most grants, issued by other sociopath wealthy powerful men (private or public). It doesn't take a genius to see that the system is self-reinforcing, with the dynamic of wealthy narcissistic men rewarding other narcissistic men.
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2026-02-07 12:54:38 GMT

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First, Academia is a hierarchy. You start as a student and little by little you progress to graduate, post-graduate, post-doc, early-career researcher, research fellow, lecturer, associate professor, professor, dean, director, rector, chancellor, etc.
Each step is a screening point: fewer and fewer people are allowed to pass. The gods of metrics used for this screening come straight from a business buzzword handbooks: impact, entrepreneurship, leadership.
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2026-02-07 12:49:21 GMT

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It's not that I don't understand the shock, but really, who cares about Chomsky's psychology.
Probably is my allergy to cult, but to me Chomsky has always felt more like a grifter than a genuine thinker.
He was good on American Imperialism, but lacked any critical analysis of situations like Syria, Bosnia, or Ukraine, and he was totally dismissive of the leftist voices from these areas.
That said, if we see how academia works,"Chomsky loves Epstein" becomes very understandable
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2026-02-07 12:43:49 GMT

RE: https://c.im/@RadicalAnthro/116024652691905844
The real question from the Epstein files should be about unchecked power in patriarchal capitalist societies, instead, we have another leftist scholar writing words and words on the life & psychology of another pathetic narcissistic man who loved his guru position and access to power more than genuine intellectual critique. Focus should be on the victims, the structure of power, and in the case of names like Chomsky, the horrible tendency of the Left to behave like a cult around "strong man"
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#note1ffp…g4d2

2026-01-10 13:41:05 GMT

"These aren’t mistakes. Genocide isn’t a mistake. It is evidence of a deeply sick society, driven into the darkest of places by a racist ideology that says Jewish lives count and Palestinian lives don’t."
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-01-09/genocide-isnt-mistake-gaza/

2026-01-06 17:34:05 GMT

RE: https://mstdn.social/@junesim63/115849070993758165
I find appalling that West universities are so silent about this, and many still cooperating with Israeli universities, while schools of arts and humanities like the one I'm doing my PhD fill their mouth of "class struggle, decoloniality and [insert your favourite academic leftwing jargon].
#AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #Academia #HigherEd
#note15tf…xfxz

2026-01-03 13:22:39 GMT

I just unsubscribed from The Counteroffensive. I really followed Tim Mak and his crew on Ukraine, and believe they were providing very crucial reporting. However, their take on Venezuela unlawful bombing and abduction was appalling. Regardless of what Maduro is (and I don't have nice words for him) the US invading another country because they don't like their regime and wants control over their resources IS NOT AN END TO DICTATORSHIP, IT'S REPLACING IT.
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2025-12-27 09:59:55 GMT

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/115788404652187342
It was I think a couple of months ago, when I saw a post about a design manifesto (yes, another one, but this was framed as the anti-manifesto manifesto) which, within its typical shallow statements, had this one:
“LESS ETHICS MORE POLITICS”
(The capital was in the graphics).
Well, there you have it, this is what politics without ethics look like:
#note1942…zlul

2025-12-24 17:22:05 GMT

Tortellini of the world! Unite!
The Union of Tortellini, after seizing back the means of production and redistributing the capitalist surplus, are here to wish you revolutionary holidays. Especially to your fascist uncle (or every fascist).
Merry Marxmas everyone!
#HappyHolidays #MerryMarxmas #Marxmas #xmas #tortellini #homemade #pasta #cooking
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodondesign/media_attachments/files/115/775/649/697/829/455/original/87ae5d0df2baa6ab.jpeg

2025-12-14 11:32:00 GMT

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yep, I also get lost more than once looking for some UI element that now it’s hidden who knows where.

2025-12-14 11:16:33 GMT

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yes, I saw it. It smooths the effects a bit, but still annoying. So awful

2025-12-13 21:22:32 GMT

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is there a way to remove the Liquid Glass?

2025-12-13 09:51:58 GMT

A couple of days ago, my phone updated and now I got the Liquid Glass. I don’t even know how any designer could have thought this to be aesthetically a good choice, a nail in the coffin of clear line and geometry graphic design prided itself since its inception. All carefully designed icons and logos are now randomly deformed, the beautiful drawing on my screen background for ever stained. It looks like AI slop. Because that’s what’s next
#design #LiquidGlass #AISlop

2025-12-05 08:12:22 GMT

Hello #fediverse,
I have a question. Because everyone is integrating these stupid chatbots for "summaries", I am very skeptical of having my work circulating, even just internally within the university cohort, because I don't want my stuff to be fed to LLMs.
Is there a way to export these files in a was that when people feeds them to their "assistants" the assistants' dataset gets "poisoned" and can scrap it properly?
#FediTips #AI #generativeAI #Academia #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter

2025-11-16 22:16:07 GMT

Hello #Fediverse!
Any #wasps expert here? We might have a queen hibernating in our bedroom, and would love some advice. I might have disturbed her this evening, and she started buzzing around for some minutes. Went out, closed her inside, and by the time we returned with a cup to catch her she has disappeared and has gone completely silent. Windows and doors shut, so we believe she has probably crawled in some remote corner within the wardrobe. What should we do? Leave or find her?
#advice

2025-11-14 15:32:04 GMT

As an illustrator who publishes a lot of her work on the web, often publicly, I feel is worth reminding people that no, just because an image is found on the web, you have no rights to use it without the explicit consent of the author. There are grey areas of course, but they should be always approached with care.
If you try to contact someone to seek consent/permission to use their work, and they do not answer, the result is that you don't have the permission, so you shouldn't use the image

2025-11-10 10:18:10 GMT

Welcome to Monday, Women of the Fediverse. I'm sending you a special hug because ruining the workplace is very hard job and as the New York Times showed us, we still have a lot of work to do.
#feminism

2025-11-08 21:49:22 GMT

“I read it over now with this kind of full-spectrum cringe of the spirit. It’s the rattle of a person going on and professorially on, quite as if the substance of a discipline, or its intellectual trajectory, or even just the nourishing joy of sustained and serious study, mattered at all to the person he was talking to, or to the majestic institution he represents. And honestly, what could be more feeble?”
https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/
#journalism #ethics #NYT

2025-11-05 08:45:55 GMT

It's amazing how uncompromising socialists can actually win over the masses.
In the hope that Mamdani won't be another huge disappointment, thank you New York, for demonstrating once again that someone can win by anchoring their political programme to real material issue without scapegoating any minority.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKcooz1HEWc
#USPol #Mamdani #ZohranMamdani

2025-10-28 22:17:19 GMT

We are at a point in which bombing a small area full of displaced people is described as “skirmishes”.
That’s the world these miserable governments are building, for all of us.

2025-10-21 07:11:56 GMT

"The quiet part, of course, is that when Maccabi fans speak out against refugees, chant “death to Arabs”, associate their enemies with Hamas and commit violence in our city centres, there is a small but significant part of our country that tacitly agrees with them, and a much larger part of our country willing to humour them out of expediency."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/21/standing-with-maccabis-football-hooligans-against-local-police-is-that-what-patriotism-looks-like-now

2025-10-10 10:48:09 GMT

Drawings saying what language will always fail to convey.
https://aje.io/a7ost4?update=4023182

2025-10-08 09:33:45 GMT

Remember that while Western governments loves to use their "care for children" to pass down racist, anti-trans, and surveillance policies, they have absolutely no problem with supporting the slaughter of 18,457 Palestinian children.
Without even counting the endless maimed ones, physically and psychologically.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/oct/08/young-lives-cut-short-on-an-unimaginable-scale-the-18457-children-on-gazas-list-of-war-dead

2025-10-03 17:02:04 GMT

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I'm not a translator, so please forgive me if it isn't the best, but I hope you get the gist.
The class solidarity that is being shown towards the Palestinian struggle is deeply moving, I think. From prisoners to other prisoners, the longing for freedom knows no boundaries and is stronger than capital.
That's probably why they are using everything to suppress it.
Here's the news (in Italian):
https://www.fanpage.it/attualita/a-bologna-scioperano-anche-i-detenuti-lavoratori-rinunciamo-a-un-giorno-di-liberta-per-gaza-e-la-flotilla/
#Palestine #Italy #strike #GeneralStrike #prison #inmates #solidarity

2025-10-03 16:57:24 GMT

Today in Italy, even inmates went on strike. From Bologna's jail, their message:
"For us inmates going to work is a moment of freedom from our imprisonment. Nevertheless, we forgo one day of freedom and salary. We took this decision to show our disdain against the current genocide and to support all Flotilla crews, arrested under the charge of being ambassadors for humanity. To strike today is the least we can do to thank all citizens that everyday fight for the rights of detainees"
#Palestine

2025-10-01 09:45:36 GMT

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Italy is getting ready to block everything again, this time, even with the support of the mainstream unions (that did not participate in the Sept 22 general strike)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DPOPfv7DSXi/
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodondesign/media_attachments/files/115/298/240/264/496/050/original/02a9c33f7acf209b.png

2025-10-01 08:23:29 GMT

It starts today!
More info here:
https://mastodon.design/@alx/115281947906661536
#peacetober #peacetober2025 #CoffeesForGaza #october #ArtChallege #EverydayDrawing #MonthlyArtChallenge #MastoArt #FediArt #Art #PixelfedArt #ArtOnPixelfed #Artits #ArtistsOnMastodon #Artists4Palestine #Palestine #Gaza
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodondesign/media_attachments/files/115/297/931/643/179/296/original/6f77019089cb215b.jpg

2025-09-28 12:35:25 GMT

*ART CHALLENGE BY COFFEES FOR #GAZA *
Hello #FediArt and #MastoArt
A 🧵
The collective Coffees for Gaza is launching #Peacetober, an #inktober inspired art challenge with the goal to support Palestine through art. Because they're a small team, they don't have the resources to run an account on the Fediverse, so, following the response to my post here
https://mastodon.design/@alx/115062606539705813
I agreed to post their art initiatives here through my profile
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#palestine #Art #ArtChallenge
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodondesign/media_attachments/files/115/281/870/188/230/067/original/80c505d54b15b16f.jpg

2025-09-27 22:11:41 GMT

Hello #Fediverse
I am again in need of tech advice*, this time about a good free data recovery #software for external hard drives. Running on Windows 11.
My hold HDD is failing miserably and would love to recover anything I can before it will end its life completely (which will be soon)
As usual, thank you in advance!
*I am in a process of recovering tech and I am going back old laptop and old archives, which also means encountering a lot of tech problems
#advice #Tech #DataRecovery #HDD

2025-09-22 13:36:03 GMT

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Pictures from AlJazeera.
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/9/22/pro-palestinian-protests-strikes-and-port-blockades-held-across-italy
#sciopero
#ScioperoGenerale
#ScioperoNazionale
#strike
#GeneralStrike
#StrikeForPalestine
#Palestine
#Gaza
#StopTheGenocide

2025-09-22 13:29:14 GMT

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Brief interruption of my solidarity symbolic strike from social media and email - as an Italian in the UK and as a human being - to keep you all updated that Italy is blocked today by millions of workers and students that decided that during a genocide there cannot be business as usual.
You can follow live updates here (in Italian) here:
https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025/09/22/diretta/sciopero_generale_oggi_gaza_22_settembre_diretta-424861774/?ref=RHLF-BG-P2-S1-T1-r046
#sciopero #ScioperoGenerale #ScioperoNazionale #strike #GeneralStrike #StrikeForPalestine #Palestine #Gaza #StopTheGenocide

2025-09-21 20:03:59 GMT

General strike in solidarity with Palestine tomorrow in Italy. Called by trade unions (minus 3 major ones), tomorrow Italian workers of major industrial sectors will fill the squares of city in protest against the genocide Israel is inflicting on Palestinians.
Participation might be very high. Major disruptions forecasted.
I’not in Italy, but I will adhere in solidarity.
https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2025/09/19/news/22_settembre_sciopero_generale_gaza-15315665/
#Palestine #strike #GeneralStrike #Sciopero #Sciopero22Settembre #Italy #Italia #BlocchiamoTutto

2025-09-21 07:47:16 GMT

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💕
@npub1p09…m5vl

2025-09-20 18:08:26 GMT

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I just want to say that when I made my donation the bar was on about $1550 and little more than half an hour after we are at $2971.
It's still a long way to go, but people of the Fediverse, you are amazing, keep going!
@npub1p09…m5vl @npub1nv8…za59

2025-09-20 17:34:35 GMT

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their safety is top priority ❤️🖤🤍💚

2025-09-20 17:30:09 GMT

Emergency fundraising to help people evacuate from the North of Gaza by @npub1p09…m5vl and @npub1nv8…za59
https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115237729623351428
If you can, donate whatever you can (I made a very very small donation myself, as finance aren't great atm), no matter how small, every dollar counts.
#GazaVerified #EmergencyAppeal #Gaza #Palestine

2025-09-19 17:41:13 GMT

The only way to really address the ecological breakdown is to topple capitalism and invert the cultures of divisions that are functional and inherent to capitalism. Green policies aren't about 'just the environment', but about our social organisation and wealth, because we are in the environment: imagine believing that we can have an economy without a material reality. This is the story for the Greens: healthy environment means healthy societies.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/19/good-at-self-sabotage-people-react-to-corbyn-and-sultana-row-in-new-leftwing-party
#UKPol #ClimateDiary

2025-09-17 13:58:51 GMT

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I find amazing that we still deny how in current societies *not being racist* is an active choice, while racism is the default, as the nation-state political & economic system is founded on and needs racism to exist & function. We all grow with internalised racism, from jokes to stereotypes, that is why the far-right rhetoric is so powerful: people learn to otherise people from very young age, so racist slogans resonate with the most part of the population.

2025-09-09 14:08:38 GMT

So, to get this straight, Qatar gave a golden jet to Trump few months ago, only to have him bombing Iran so that Iran retaliates bombing US bases in Qatar, and now the US are allowing Israel to bomb Doha, making Qatar the 6th country that Israel bombs.

2025-09-03 17:47:28 GMT

In important notice, instead, Lush shut down all their UK shops (online too) today to protest against the genocide in Palestine:
https://www.lush.com/uk/en
I like how they close their statement:
"Whilst Lush is losing a day of takings, this also means that the UK Government is losing a day of tax contributions from Lush and our customers."
It's rare for a company taking a loss for a humanitarian protest, so well, that's a good show of ethics, I guess.
#Palestine #Lush #Genocide #Gaza #BDS

2025-08-20 18:54:02 GMT

I am participating in a drawing challenge #drawtabkha lunched by the art collective Coffees for Gaza, and decided to put up my drawing for sale on Ko-fi. All revenues will be donated to families in Gaza, so if anyone would like to own some culinary art of typical Palestinian cuisine, you can find them here:
https://ko-fi.com/alxfsl/shop
I decided to approach the challenge as a personal, Mediterranean, cultural exploration project.
A 🧵
#palestine #ArtforPalestine #MastoArt #MutualAid #ArtSale
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodondesign/media_attachments/files/115/062/513/935/107/463/original/16e8ba497e921523.jpg
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodondesign/media_attachments/files/115/062/513/648/786/984/original/261e253dd2b36432.jpg

2025-08-18 09:00:02 GMT

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out of ignorance: isn't Apple as involved as Microsoft with Israel?
(without mentioning that e.g. Apple allowed for the Chinese Government to unleash a huge mass surveillance on Uyghurs through their phone and Tim Cook has just gave Trump a golden plate)
The comment is not for controversy, just to understand the rationale on boycotting one but not the other.

2025-08-14 09:11:45 GMT

As a reminder: occupying Palestinian land in the West Bank through the construction of massive settlements isn't 'controversial': it's a crime, it's land theft and it's illegal.

2025-08-09 17:03:51 GMT

It doesn’t look like it, but it’s a working Saturday for me. The inquisitive dragon has a lot of reading to do
#drawing #illustration #fantasy #dragon #art #MastoArt #FediArt #ArtistsOfMastodon #illo #sketch
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodondesign/media_attachments/files/114/999/872/916/039/737/original/03b154462acccc84.jpeg

2025-08-08 16:18:41 GMT

This is another horrible reading.
The internet is neither free or just, I suppose.
Before all you #replyGuys starts with the benefits of the Fediverse, I want to point out that the biggest instance here is blocking and obscuring everyone who speak up for Palestine following the reports of aggressive anonymous accounts that claims to 'combat antisemitism' and lets those profile roam free harassing everyone.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/08/palestinians-gaza-bluesky-spam

2025-08-07 16:20:14 GMT

Remember that Zadie Smith last year was publishing on The Atlantic arguing semantics about the word genocide. It took only 22 months and a mass starvation for finally take a position.
The intellectual cultural class - though with some notable few exceptions - has been an utterly spectacular failure, and we must never forget nor forgive them:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/07/zadie-smith-michael-rosen-irvine-welsh-and-jeanette-winterson-sign-letter-calling-for-israel-boycott

2025-08-06 18:20:39 GMT

What a conversation, a 19-yrs-old trans Israeli talks about her refusal to be conscripted and the consequences of making such decisions.
A must listen
https://pca.st/oll9lebv

2025-08-06 07:58:07 GMT

Hiroshima, 80 years ago.
Gaza’s bombing of today is said to be “equivalent to six Hiroshimas”.
In a world that glorifies the Oppenheimers, stand with the victims those “brilliant minds” engineer to exterminate.
#NeverAgain #AntiWar #NoNuclearWeapons #Hiroshima #Gaza #Palestine
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2025-08-05 17:50:05 GMT

Remember the propaganda about traumatised stolen donkeys from Gaza that Israel relocated in sanctuaries in Belgium and France?
Apparently crocodiles don't deserve any of this kindness, so, after being taken away from their natural habitat to become tourists attraction in an illegally occupied territory in the West Bank, they were neglected and then culled.
And we have the likes of Gary Yourofsky screaming that Israel is a 'heaven for veganism'.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-crocodiles-euthanised-west-bank-b2801646.html
#AnimalRights #Vegan

2025-07-28 12:17:54 GMT

All that is not action is noise.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/28/gaza-israel-aid-starvation-children

2025-07-27 18:13:51 GMT

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"The genocide in Gaza signals the abolition, for Israelis as well as Palestinians, of the rule of law. It marks the obliteration of even the pretense of an ethical code. Israelis are the barbarians they condemn. If there is any warped justice in this genocide it is that Israelis, once they finish with the Palestinians, will be forced to live together in moral squalor."
https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/the-gaza-rivera?r=plrsq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

2025-07-27 10:50:10 GMT

So, for the Israeli opposition, the biggest problem is not that they are mass starving 2 million people, stealing land, raping abducted Palestinian, carpet bombing a strip in an ecocide voted to kill all forms of lives. No the problem is that they will need visas for traveling to Europe and that the EU might refuse to issue them.
The moral void in which Israeli live is just stunning, is like the Nothing of the Neverending Story: an uncanny, surreal vacuum that devours life as it grows.
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2025-07-24 15:44:10 GMT

'we should be more punk, or better solarpunk'
Thank you @npub16wc…ehf0 for such a clarifying and hopeful conversation, connecting AI with larger theories like Degrowth and giving nice examples of community and collective organising that can offer models for moving forward. I particularly appreciate also how the rollout of AI is actually a continuation if policies and extractive cultures that were already there.
A must listen
https://pca.st/vztggy3y
@npub157r…8pny

2025-07-16 10:30:27 GMT

I bet on weapons Kallas wants from Israel to 'fight Russia' as the reason behind this absolute shitshow.
It's an economy of war and destruction within the parochial double standard that some are displaying in "Russia is a bad empire and Eastern Europe needs defence", in which people like Ukrainians are used as the people worth saving on the expenses of the Palestinians. This isn't anti-Imperialism, this is just a camping effort to defend one Empire and not another.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/16/eu-cruel-unlawful-betrayal-palestinians-failure-sanctions-israel

2025-07-14 21:30:52 GMT

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I am very excited to participate in this event, as I explain here, there is an interesting circularity in it:
https://sustainabilityinthemaking.com/craft-farm-live-sketching-with-handmade-charcoal/
#craft #drawing #handmade #UK #farm #research #CraftResearch #ethnography #Design

2025-07-14 14:04:28 GMT

Fancy a crafty farm day in Cornwall?
Join us this Friday July 18!
A spin off of my current graphic ethnography on sustainability craft cultures, I’ve been invited to draw with handmade charcoal this Friday at the Craft Farm event organised by the Flax Project and Royal College of Arts. They'll show the old techniques to make artists' charcoal, and there will be basket weaving & natural dyeing. And ofc, me sketching live.
Info and booking
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/craft-farm-artists-charcoal-flax-crafts-natural-colour-willow-weaving-tickets-1411824508109
#craft #drawing #handmade #UK
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2025-07-05 15:34:17 GMT

Hello #Fediverse,
I need your help again. I want to ditch #Spotify because fck all who support genocide, so here we are:
- advice for a new podcast streamer (no Apple)
- advice for a new music streamer (I already use Indie Beat radio when studying/writing)
So, #FediCitizens, do your magic again
#advice #AdviceNeeded #AlternativeTo #alternative #music #streaming #podcast

2025-06-26 06:10:43 GMT

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the core principle of being on the Left is to tackle inequality, to achieve egalitarianism. Anything that doesn’t prioritise this isn’t the Left. Liberals who see themselves as the “managers” of the status quo, who are perfectly fine with a deeply unequal society, are on the Right, even if (sometimes, when convenient) they use the correct pronouns and acknowledge indigenous land (but never give it back)

2025-06-25 09:37:32 GMT

Nouveau Front Populaire in France last year.
Zohran Mamdani in NY today.
It looks like that when the Left actually behaves as the Left, it wins.
#NewYork #ZohranMamdani #Left #politics

2025-06-23 08:54:51 GMT

"This default position is so naked in its hypocrisy, so ignorant and parochial in its worldview, so clear in its disregard for human life, that it represents a colossal erosion of sophistication in political discourse, and a new low in contempt for the public. Support for Israel can only be defended by facile, logic-defying references to its right to defend itself even when it is the aggressor, and Iran’s “threat to the free world”."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/23/us-iran-israel-war-western-leaders-diplomacy

2025-06-22 15:16:43 GMT

"if killing 23 civilians at an aid distribution site is not terrorism, how can we possibly be expected to accept that spray-painting a plane is? Law-abiding protest has so far failed to stop the genocide. More than 50,000 innocent children have been killed or injured. In what circumstances could civil disobedience ever be justified if not now?"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/22/israel-palestine-action-uk-government-terrorism-sally-rooney

2025-06-19 07:53:23 GMT

Oh, suddenly bombing hospitals is bad:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/19/israel-iran-conflict-live-hospital-in-southern-israel-hit-in-iran-missile-strike-say-israeli-officials
Let's recap how many hospitals and health facilities Israel has bombed & besieged (a 🧵):
Gaza
Al-Ahli Arab
Al-Shifa
Indonesian Hospital
Al-Quds
Al-Amal
Turkish-Palestinian Friendship
Jordan Field
Al Awda
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani
Doctors Without Borders convoy
Al-Shifa ambulance
Kamal Adwan
Yafa
Nasser Medical Complex
Al-Rantisi and Al-Nasr children's hospitals
European Hospital
Field hospital at Khadija school
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2025-06-16 12:54:47 GMT

The headline is awful and misleading, but as usual Nesrine Malik nails it. .
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/16/gaza-israel-destroyed-reputation-attacking-iran-benjamin-netanyahu

2025-06-06 10:53:36 GMT

So, I am in this design conference in France. In my registration form I was explicitly asked about my dietary needs. I’ve been vegan for 18 years, so I checked on the vegan box. Which apparently organisers ignored thoroughly. On the 3rd day, having one of the people of the catering answering to me “there’s a lot of cheese after all you are in France” is frankly only offensive. This happening on a conference themed around ethics tells you everything about how empty the word “ethics” has become

2025-05-15 13:22:01 GMT

"if we silence ourselves on Palestine, how can we call ourselves human rights defenders?"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/15/israel-apartheid-human-rights

2025-04-12 14:23:31 GMT

#caturday #CatsOfMastodon #FediCats
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2025-04-07 08:28:44 GMT

"Every corpse, every city pulverised into rubble, every bloodied child exists not in a hopeless land far away, but within people’s human hinterland. Because it is impossible for a world to be shown the daily ravaging of a people and become intimidated or exhausted into habituation. Some may choose to ignore it, or justify it, or even support it, but they can never normalise it."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/07/politicians-normalise-gaza-moral-outrage
#Gaza #Palestine #Protest

2025-04-06 16:11:15 GMT

#SilentSunday
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2025-03-30 10:57:40 GMT

#SilentSunday
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2025-03-19 08:02:55 GMT

Let's start the day with some linguistic corrections, shall we?
"Jailed young white man climate activist confirms what inmates has been denouncing since forever: 'The prison system is insanely broken'"
#FixingHeadlines
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2025-03-18 11:52:22 GMT

An interesting review, and for those who wonder, Vassallo and Vignati miss the point: it's not that Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy) is a normal conservative party and therefore not a fascist one, but that conservatives party are, at the core, fascist.
Remember, fascism is just any right-wing agenda of steroid. There is no such thing as a non-fascist right.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n05/jan-werner-mueller/no-one-is-further-right-than-me

2025-03-15 18:47:50 GMT

My Saturday started early, and my field work ended with unplanned hands on porcelain clay. My PhD is a dance between exhaustion and absolute marvel.
#saturday #making #craft #handmade #drawing #research #MastoArt #FediArt #UrbanSketching
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2025-03-11 10:35:18 GMT

#Fediverse, I need your help again!
tl; dr: I need a font maker software!
I'd like to convert my handwriting into a font for my research output, as I'd like to maintain my personal handwriting in my sketchnotes but I'd like the written notes to be text.
I'm already very familiar with vector graphics and lettering but never made a font so would love an open source/free font design software to start.
#FediTips #fonts #lettering #design #FontDesign #type #typography #typeface #TypeDesign

2025-03-10 21:47:59 GMT

Hour little “wildlife friendly” garden (which basically means very little maintenance, lots of mess, and boyfriend rescuing every single damage wildlife nest he can find) tonight surprised us with not one but two hedgehogs! We don’t know if they were courting or fighting, anyway seemed pretty busy. What can I say, after cats, frogs, small birds, various bees, squirrels, and yes, also mice, welcome to the family, little spiky balls!
#ClimateDiary

2025-03-04 14:02:53 GMT

@npub1fdr…lvhs call for action:
"The tech sector built a 10 foot high wall around its business, then the US government convinced the rest of the world to ban four-metre ladders. Lift the ban, unleash the ladders, free the world!"
https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/04/object-permanence/

2025-02-27 10:56:08 GMT

Hello #Fediverse @npub1vuz…esa4
I need your help for a privacy-focused local-host (run offline from my computer) transcription software.
I am (luckily?) collecting more interviews than I planned and transcribing manually is becoming a giant task, so it would really be helpful to have an automatic assistance.
Any suggestions?
@npub1uhm…uxtp
#academia #research #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi #transcription #software #privacy #localhost #interviews #OralHistory #help #tips

2025-02-18 13:23:00 GMT

Paula Scher finally unveiling what should have been clear since for ever: Pentagram and big design firms are just elitist f*ckers serving and nurturing capitalism. Remember this next time one of them (from Scher to Lupi) are there lecturing us about 'design humanism' or 'the power of design':
a 🧵 (or a rant)
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#design #pentagram #capitalism #AI #elitism #illustration
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2025-02-17 21:32:07 GMT

Me, presenting a comic-style flyer of a diverse group for a community-based research project to a University:
"WTF are you doing, this against policies, it MIGHT be offensive, I'm unhappy with your work, you're fired"
Also, Academia:
"Business elite scholars doing bad science that will justify our nice elitist ivory tower being exclusive: absolutely brilliant, let's give them ethical blessings and publish it"
@npub1fdr…lvhs last piece got kinda personal, I guess
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/17/caliper-ai/#racism-machine
#AI

2025-01-30 16:29:42 GMT

I wonder what kind of institutional mix of hate, contempt, and toxic masculine fragility is needed to prohibit people to celebrate the release of loved ones, some of them imprisoned for more than 3 decades.

2025-01-22 15:08:39 GMT

For someone like me, with a strange passion for ephemeral paraphernalia, I can't even express how beautiful this little essay by @npub1rhy…u5ma on a collection of Japanese chopsticks sleeves is.
https://letterformarchive.org/news/this-just-in-chopstick-sleeves-as-emissaries-of-japanese-typography-and-culture/
#EphemeralDesign #Ephemera #Design #Things #Japan

2025-01-21 20:49:54 GMT

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what a beauty

2024-12-29 12:36:39 GMT

One example: the 'leftist' Guardian home page is too busy posting about Christmas recipes or defending 'signs of economic growth' than telling you Israel is burning down hospitals in Gaza and that children are freezing to death. This is how they make a genocide a background noise.
Don't let them:
via @npub1j3k…56rp
https://mastodon.social/@ridicol/113732352006176253

2024-12-24 19:15:45 GMT

As usual, my little army of homemade tortellini for Christmas here ready for tonight’s dinner
It’s though to feel festive in these hard times. Remember that Mussolini tried to ban pasta because it wasn’t “Italian” enough, so it’s a great way to prepare an anti-fascist Christmas dinner. Let your far-right relative enjoy it.
Happy Christmas Eve🎄
#christmas #tortellini #pasta #homemade #Italian #antifa
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2024-12-20 18:00:11 GMT

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I set it up but it was causing some issues with deploy through the CMS ( @npub1gj8…7adj ), solved when I actually decided just to use Netlify DNS

2024-12-20 17:19:23 GMT

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I added the records and now the domain is showing the homepage, however all other pages keep using netlify subdomain:
https://sustainabilityinthemaking.com/
when I click 'about' becomes:
https://sustainainabilityinthemaking.netlify.app/about/
Is it still something that needs to adjust or is something I need to set up somehow in Netlify?
#Netlify #web #WebDesign #DNS

2024-12-20 09:31:33 GMT

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Also, as I'm on it, I want to optimise the site images, which are currently slowing it down a bit. Has anyone resources to share (this is an art website so it contains a lot of images and media in general) on best practices for lighter image-driven website?
Thank you in advance for your help!
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#FediTips #Website #WebDesign #sustainability #accessibility

2024-12-20 09:28:09 GMT

Hello #Fediverse, I need some help!
I am moving a website from GitHub Pages to #Netlify . The domain is register via #Namecheap, and when I was looking to the documentation, it isn't clear to me how to set up the DNS (I don't want to transfer the domain to Netlify).
Any tips or instruction pages that I can use will be very much appreciated!
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#FediTips #Website #Hosting #DNS

2024-12-18 10:03:15 GMT

The R&D of this carnage and colonial war is funded by the EU. Just in case anyone thought European colonialism was something of the past
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/18/eu-horizon-funding-israel

2024-12-09 12:59:53 GMT

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probably counting on bombing The Netherlands too

2024-12-09 12:56:50 GMT

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He probably thought Syrians would feel excluded, everyone Netanyahu bombs and massacres deserves a speech on the benevolence of Israel.

2024-12-09 12:52:14 GMT

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did he make another liberation/democracy export speech to the Syrian people (in English as for the Palestinians in Gaza, the Lebanese, and the Iranian people)?

2024-12-09 09:18:58 GMT

Good morning #fediverse, I need some advice from people in the UK who have experience in organising small cultural events. I am planning a small Argentine tango event in March, and I need to find a good public liability insurance. Do anyone here has experience with insurances for event and can recommend an affordable but good one?
#tips #advice #insurance #UK #Events #PublicEvents #Tango #Dance #Art #Performance

2024-12-07 17:27:54 GMT

For everyone who is interested in deepening their knowledge on the Levant, I strongly recommend to read @npub1vlk…m0nh newsletter:
https://www.hauntologies.net/
and I personally love the podcast he is co-producing:
https://fromtheperiphery.com/
with such a diverse cast of voices from peripheral regions.
I've been learning so much from them in the last months.
#Levant #Lebanon #Palestine #Syria #support