Explicit genocidal threats directed towards Iran enabled by 2.5 years of genocidal threats that continue relentlessly to be put into practice in Palestine. I feel beyond mad.

I should also mention that it is part of an upcoming thematic collection with sthv with a series of other wonderful papers on noise sound and knowledge in and as disturbance in changing climates that we are putting together in the context of the wavematters project (wavematters.eu).

Two or Three Confusions About Vibrations - Brett Mommersteeg, 2026 Road traffic noise is considered the largest contributor to excessive noise exposure levels in Europe. Central to this type of noise is what is called “rolling ...

I have a new article on confusions and the sense of vibration published in @sthv.bsky.social . It’s partly about experiences that do not neatly fold into clear and distinct categories and classifications, and how to think with them.

Incredible writing in unbearable circumstances by Batool Abu Akleen, published in the UK by @commapress.bsky.social.

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

In Gaza City, we are saying goodbye Forced expulsion is looming and we know this time we may never see our homes again.

"My beloved city Gaza stands on the brink of a full military occupation by the Israeli army. Their plan is to force us all to leave our homes and move into tents... We do not know what will happen to those who resist. We may be living our last days in Gaza City"

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

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“The Nation” Interviews Zohran Mamdani New York's Democratic mayoral nominee shares his views on the city's affordability crisis, the new media landscape—and how Democrats need to stand up for what they believe.

"At a moment when the language of politics is so dour and so dark, it’s important to understand that the tonic to the darkness is not imitating it, but rather to marshal the same lightness and joy that also characterizes our lives."

--Mamdani, in this interview:

The WaPa headline says: 60,000 Gazans were killed. 18,500 of them were children. These are some of their names. Then follows an enormous list of small print names

Thousands of small print names interspersed with some photos of some of the child victims

NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

The Washington Post has just published every single known name.

A seminal moment.

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Slumlord Empire • Protean Magazine In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bahndar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a tu...

proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...

Ahhhhh

Judith Butler: ‘Swimming is the closest thing I have to a religion’ The philosopher, 68, tells Michael Segalov about kayaks capsizing, imitating trees, left-wing schisms and how instead of being stony-faced and serious, they like to clown around

“We need to be capacious and accept differences, however deep.” (Note: to be capacious —)

No more americanos at the cafe