James Duggan
@dugganjr.bsky.social
Researcher interested in participation, coproduction and trying to create a youth state. Also process and speculative practice, UCU.
Fortune is talking about friction maxxxing. Reads like the Lauren Berlant these awful times deserve. Why my $150 million startup thinks it can solve the $406 billion loneliness problem | Fortune share.google/gPDqFid6ssCa...
Why my $150 million startup thinks it can solve the $406 billion loneliness problem | Fortune
A global loneliness epidemic is quietly spawning a new trillion-dollar economy, and "friction maxxing" is key to its success.
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Other branches feel the same. At our regional committee last week, there was a motion from another branch in support of Marie and the disrepute into which we believe this situation brings our trade union. The chair of regional committee read out a statement prohibiting this motion. It was 5/12
Research as an Intense and Inconvenient Gift: Participatory Youth Research and the Co-Productive Imagination, just published in Qualitative Inquiry journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Already laughing at @trashfuture.bsky.social describing epstein as 'nefarious forrest gump'
If the Greens defeat Farage in Gorton and Denton, it'll change politics forever. I think that's worth donating a few quid to, don't you? donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/parliamentar...
Loving labour acknowleding that ground rent is a scam, a relic from medieval times, and then only agreeing to reduce it to £250.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Loved More Weight by Ben Wickey. Densely researched and a monumental commitment to an ever relevant topic.
Don’t be disabled, ill or get injured, don’t have a disabled child or dependent, get made redundant, or do a low paid but vital job in social care. And crucially - when falling bombs, rising temperatures, or war threaten your life - just stay put and wait to die because this Government hates you
Refugee and Migrant Justice@rmjusticeuk.bsky.social · 11mo agoNew Labour policy is that if you've ever had to borrow money because this country is incredibly expensive or if you're sick and therefore don't work and pay tax, you can never secure permanent immigration status. Just let that sink in. 👇👇👇
Pass the phone… to the 40,000 Young Greens! 📲 💚 We now have the largest youth and student movement in UK politics - AND the biggest Young Greens group in Europe 🥳 This is the generation that’s done waiting. Join us. ⤵️
NEWSFLASH: Plans @northumbriauni.bsky.social are daylight robbery, and the world needs to know! @ucu.org.uk @unison.org.uk @ducu.bsky.social @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social @umucu.bsky.social @uswucu.bsky.social @danhollandnews.bsky.social @northeastbylines.co.uk @theguardian.com
It has been nearly a year since Starbucks has offered us a single proposal to finish the remainder of our union contracts. The company knows where we stand: we need fair wages, better scheduling, and an end to union-busting. Instead, Starbucks is fighting US, their workers.
Can we ban fascists from the olympics? If they believe they are genetically superior then surely that's an unfair advantage.
Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorker.com
So the guy who thinks the UK is heading for civil war has a $1 trillion dollar incentive to put robot armies on streets around the world? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Tesla shareholders approve $1tn pay package for Elon Musk
Chants of ‘Elon’ erupt after compensation plan approved despite opposition from several high-profile investors
theguardian.com
Ready to merge sociology with art? Applications to the 2026 cycle of the Image-Maker in Residence series are now open! We seek to commission four online residencies that showcase experimental methodologies and ways to disseminate research beyond plain text. APPLY NOW – buff.ly/TD5raNw
@unison.org.uk and @ucu.org.uk working together to get the vote out! Please share widely.
Northumbria UCU Branch@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 11mo ago
It's not a grassroots working class movement. "Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
manchestermill.co.uk
"We are coming for the Labour government and we are taking the fight to Reform.” Be part of it. Join the Green Party today! 👇
I've been advised to write a book chapter in the historical present tense. As i only ever write about failed and discontinued policies, it reads as though i'm not willing to admit that the party is over.
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
A new week - and a new huge milestone! @greenparty.org.uk now have 100,000 members!!! We are absolutely on track to next overtake the Tories - let's make hope normal again! Join.greenparty.org.uk
So many Australian colleagues put through a year of worries and uncertainty. All because Nous Consultancy only thrives on a scarcity narrative? Bit if a reminder that those cuts can never be justified in pedagogical or academic term, whatever the spin.
Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · last yr.New analysis by The Australia Institute finds the Australian National University has a $90 million surplus, not a $142 million deficit!
Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be. Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.
““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+
Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
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