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João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/russians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russians</span></a> celebrate their national day by losing 1 million people, killed and wounded, since Feb 2022, in an imperialist genocidal war</p><p>russian imperialist culture today is all about exporting lies, aggression, violence, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecocide</span></a>, terror, murder and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> leads by example with their own people being sent to their death like irrelevant walking dead meat.</p><p>The sooner the russian <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empire</span></a> collapses the better for everyone.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RussiaIsATerroristState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussiaIsATerroristState</span></a></p>
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>**Gold Solidus of Theodosius II, Constantinople, 425–429 AD.**</p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Gold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gold</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Coin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coin</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Numismatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Numismatics</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Byzantine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Byzantine</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Empire</span></a></p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Image" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Image</span></a> attribution: ANS, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gold_Solidus_of_Theodosius_II,_425-429.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil</span><span class="invisible">e:Gold_Solidus_of_Theodosius_II,_425-429.jpg</span></a>.</p>
Dag-Rune ZCommon heritage framed by trees<br> <br> Framed by trees and jungle, the Sâmbor Prey Kŭh temples of pre-Angkor Chenla kingdom was added to our common World Cultural Heritage list in 2017. <br> <br> I visited this site and took this photo the year before this admittance, in the end of December 2016.<br> <br> The bridge city near the river city Kampong Thom<br> North of the Kampong Thom city area the Sambor Prei Kouk complex marks the old capital Isanapura of the Chenla civilization. <br> <br> The Funan state was a loosely organized confederation of cities and lesser kingdoms with large population centres and advanced technology. It was established around the start of current Common Era and lasted about 500 years, covering most of today’s Cambodia and Thailand, Southern Viet Nam, and northern part of Malaysia.<br> <br> Establishing the Chenla kingdom marks the rapid development of architecture, culture and society building into a unified centralised kingdom and culture. This led into the foundations of the Angkor era. The Chenla kings increased their power north into today’s Laos and close to Burma.<br> <br> The Chenla capital city Isanapura (Khmer: ឦសានបុរៈ – Isan Borak) was the core city of pre-Khmer Empire for 250 years, between 550 and 800 CE. The first writings in the Khmer alphabet are found here, marking a continuous written culture lasting up to modern times.<br> <br> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambor_Prei_Kuk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambor_Prei_Kuk</a><br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/worldculturalheritage?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#worldculturalheritage</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/humanity?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humanity</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/onerace?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onerace</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/sharedworld?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sharedworld</a> <a 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Thomas Barrio<p>Quand l’Empire façonne la <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> : Hardt, Negri et la production <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biopolitique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biopolitique</span></a> du&nbsp;<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/savoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>savoir</span></a></p><p>🔬🌍 Les grandes découvertes scientifiques, comme le boson de Higgs ou les ondes gravitationnelles, sont-elles vraiment indépendantes du pouvoir ? Selon <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hardt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hardt</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Negri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Negri</span></a>, l’ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Empire</span></a> façonne non seulement nos sociétés, mais aussi la production du savoir scientifique. La science, loin d’être neutre, s’inscrit dans les logiques biopolitiques et économiques de notre temps. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Philosophie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophie</span></a>…</p><p><a href="https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/quand-lempire-faconne-la-science-hardt-negri-et-la-production-biopolitique-du-savoir/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">homohortus31.wordpress.com/202</span><span class="invisible">5/06/01/quand-lempire-faconne-la-science-hardt-negri-et-la-production-biopolitique-du-savoir/</span></a></p>
Nathanael C<p>Was Luthen right to deliberately goad the Empire in order to galvanise people into action and resistance rather than risk the Empire becoming so powerful that resistance might be impossible?</p><p>And did George Lucas' motivations for the Star Wars franchise have any noticeable impact on society, perceptions of the United States, and the wars it waged in the second half of the 20th century? </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/4fyr_H1iQxc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/4fyr_H1iQxc</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mountains.social/tags/StarWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarWars</span></a> <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/Andor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andor</span></a> <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empire</span></a> <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a></p>
iamBullivant<p>"Giant of African literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o dies aged 87. The Kenyan author sent shockwaves through African literature by refusing to write in English."</p><p>I'd be interested in reading his work. But it would have to be in translation which would somewhat undermine the point of his stance towards literature and empire. Oh, the complexities of the legacy of imperialism.</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce999kwxn1ro" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce999k</span><span class="invisible">wxn1ro</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/AfricanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AfricanLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Kenya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kenya</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ng%C5%A9g%C4%A9WaThiongO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NgũgĩWaThiongO</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Empire</span></a></p>
Mal 🇿🇦🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p>My country, <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a>, is closely associated with the <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/RhodesMandela" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RhodesMandela</span></a> scholarship system. That system has a terrible history, all about <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empire</span></a> and the <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techbro</span></a> s of the late 19th Century.</p><p>One 21st Century pattern in Rhodes Mandela scholarship grants is for <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/SouthAfrican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrican</span></a> students to go to <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a>. There's even local jokes about it - when you've blown your political capital in SA, you bow out to 'do a post-grad at Harvard'.</p><p>We want that. We want that to continue. We want that SO MUCH.</p><p>It's a history thing. It's a money thing. It's a relationship thing. It's an intellectual capital thing.</p><p>When my country-people go to Harvard, it makes my sometimes parochial or provincial country look outwards, raise their heads, dream dreams and see visions.</p>
Mal 🇿🇦🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p>The sack, rape, desecration and murder of <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empire</span></a> ...:</p><p>* The 1770 <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Bengali" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bengali</span></a> famine, designed by the <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/EastIndiaCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EastIndiaCompany</span></a> to destroy the local <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/cotton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cotton</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/fabric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fabric</span></a> industry and invent a poisonous drug trade in its place.<br>* The looting and burning of the <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/OldSummerPalace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OldSummerPalace</span></a> near <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Beijing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Beijing</span></a>, ordered by the same <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Elgin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elgin</span></a> who chopped up the <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Parthenon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parthenon</span></a>.<br>* The destruction of the <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Irish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Irish</span></a> language through imperial policy, as dramatised in <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/BrianFriel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrianFriel</span></a> 's <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Translations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Translations</span></a> (a magnificent and ambiguous play, describing linguistic polarisation, but not itself partisan).<br>* Labour <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> and engineered <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/alcoholism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alcoholism</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/SouthAfrican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrican</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/gold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gold</span></a> mines, from the 19th Century, with repercussions even until now - <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/ZamaZama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZamaZama</span></a> mining is its modern evolution.</p><p>None of this is forgotten. Let it never be forgotten.</p>
AstroMancer5G (she/her)<p>There was a time before the <a href="https://spore.social/tags/GazaGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaGenocide</span></a>, if we can remember. This horror has been going on so long now, and <a href="https://spore.social/tags/empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empire</span></a> has been trying so hard to make us forget, that it starts to feel like a constant. But it isn't a constant.</p><p>It wasn't some mystical otherworld, either. It was real. Unless you're a little kid, you were alive then and can remember it clearly.</p><p>There can be a time after the Gaza genocide, too, a time just as real. But that means the genocide must be defeated.</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a></p>
Thomas Barrio<p>La guerre comme forme d’existence : Rita Segato, l’Empire et la barbarie sans&nbsp;fin</p><p>Rita Segato analyse la transformation des guerres contemporaines : elles ne visent plus la paix, mais deviennent des formes d’existence permanentes, outils d’un empire sans fin. Entre barbarie, patriarcat et féminicides, elle dévoile la logique d’un pouvoir qui s’épanouit dans la perpétuation du conflit. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Segato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Segato</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Empire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Barbarie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barbarie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Guerre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Guerre</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Patriarcat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Patriarcat</span></a> Rita Segato, anthropologue et penseuse…</p><p><a href="https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/la-guerre-comme-forme-dexistence-rita-segato-lempire-et-la-barbarie-sans-fin/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">homohortus31.wordpress.com/202</span><span class="invisible">5/05/21/la-guerre-comme-forme-dexistence-rita-segato-lempire-et-la-barbarie-sans-fin/</span></a></p>
Thomas Barrio<p>La classe vectorielle : Empire, colonialité cognitive et résistances à l’ère du capitalisme&nbsp;informationnel</p><p>La « classe vectorielle » (Wark) contrôle les vecteurs de l’information, marchandisant le savoir et accentuant la colonialité cognitive. Mais la multitude, via les communs numériques, résiste à l’enclosure. Comment repenser la justice et la souveraineté à l’ère de l’Empire biopolitique ? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VectoralClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VectoralClass</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Empire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biopolitique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biopolitique</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Colonialit%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialité</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Communs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Communs</span></a> À l’ère du…</p><p><a href="https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/la-classe-vectorielle-empire-colonialite-cognitive-et-resistances-a-lere-du-capitalisme-informationnel/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">homohortus31.wordpress.com/202</span><span class="invisible">5/05/21/la-classe-vectorielle-empire-colonialite-cognitive-et-resistances-a-lere-du-capitalisme-informationnel/</span></a></p>
Kevin Russell<p>Andor is brilliant and highly recommended. Well worth your finding a way to see. Make watch parties. </p><p>So good.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/starwars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>starwars</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/andor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>andor</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/tv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tv</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empire</span></a></p>
mk30<p>A banyan tree growing on top of the ruins of an old sugar mill that shut down in the 1900s.</p><p>Located on the farm of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@saltphoenix" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>saltphoenix</span></a></span> 's friend.</p><p>Here's a history of the mill and plantation it was a part of: <a href="https://www2.hawaii.edu/~speccoll/p_kauhut.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www2.hawaii.edu/~speccoll/p_ka</span><span class="invisible">uhut.html</span></a></p><p>It's in a very remote part of the island. It's hard to get to today, and I can't imagine how hard it was to get there back in the early 1900s. But that's how profitable it was to farm sugar.</p><p>Colonials established plantations in the middle of the Pacific ocean, on other people's land, growing a plant not from there, bringing in laborers from various other countries, and shipping the output to other places. All of this was vastly profitable, until it wasn't, and they shut everything down and left. That's extractivism. The banyan (another non-native plant) has the last laugh.</p><p><a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/hawaii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hawaii</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plants</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/sugar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sugar</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empire</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>agriculture</span></a></p>
Thomas Barrio<p>La peur de l’autre : moteur de la mégamachine et instrument des&nbsp;oligarchies</p><p>🤖💣 La peur de l’autre n’est pas un accident : elle est le fondement des empires mégamachiniques, d’hier à aujourd’hui. Oligarchies et États exploitent xénophobie et insécurité pour justifier domination, militarisation et contrôle technocratique. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mumford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mumford</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Schleider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Schleider</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rationalit%C3%A9Instrumentale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RationalitéInstrumentale</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Empire</span></a> Tänze vor Angst* (en français : Danses de la peur ou Danses sous l’emprise de la peur)Paul Klee…</p><p><a href="https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/la-peur-de-lautre-moteur-de-la-megamachine-et-instrument-des-oligarchies/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">homohortus31.wordpress.com/202</span><span class="invisible">5/05/12/la-peur-de-lautre-moteur-de-la-megamachine-et-instrument-des-oligarchies/</span></a></p>
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>📖 **How Republics Die: Creeping Authoritarianism in Ancient Rome and Beyond**</p><p>"_This book gathers together Roman historians with political scientists and scholars of other periods of authoritarian takeover to explore how open and democratic political systems have historically fallen prey to autocrats._"</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111705446" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.1515/9783111705446</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/OA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OA</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/DOI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOI</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Ancient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ancient</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/PoliticalScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalScience</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Romans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Romans</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Empire</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/RomanEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RomanEmpire</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Academics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academics</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/politicalscience" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>politicalscience</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span></p>
Nils Wilcke<p>Sans spoiler, les épisodes 7 et 9 de Star Wars Andor sont incroyables. Des moments d'émotions pures, du suspense et beaucoup de frissons... Genevieve O'Reilly qui interprète la sénatrice Mon Mothma mérite son nouveau statut d’icône de la saga. Le showrunner Tony Gilroy a fait un sacré bon boulot. On regrette presque que la série s'arrête... </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politique</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StarWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarWars</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Andor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Serie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Serie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EtatsUnis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EtatsUnis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Disney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Senat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Senat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Palpatine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palpatine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Empire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dictature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Liberte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberte</span></a></p>
Weyoun 6<p>Worth reading:</p><p>Excerpt: "Turning to the US imperial half life, it lasted for about 120 years, from 1889 to 2008. As such, virtually every US politician who is now in power was born and raised during the period of US dominance — an era when America was ‘exceptional’. But that era has now passed; the ‘American century’ is dead. Hence the widespread confusion among US elites, who still think in terms of US supremacy, but cannot fathom that America’s halcyon days are gone and will never return."</p><p><a href="https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/05/04/the-half-life-of-empire/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">economicsfromthetopdown.com/20</span><span class="invisible">25/05/04/the-half-life-of-empire/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Empire</span></a></p>
Paul Healey<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Climatehistories" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Climatehistories</span></a></span> To change it for the Party, by division and the ideology of the few, or the democratic rights of diverse interests? <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Marx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marx</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Capital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capital</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/TheCultsOfIdeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheCultsOfIdeology</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Terror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Terror</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Purges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Purges</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Empire</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Oligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchs</span></a></p>
Geriatric Gardener<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DrALJONES</span></a></span> </p><p>It’s the Empire’s way of war! </p><p>Since WWII, the arrogance that underpins the notion of US “exceptionalism” has enabled successive administrations, w/ impunity, to wage a “permanent war” across the globe - murdering &amp; impoverishing millions of (usually non-white) civilians &amp; enriching the “merchants of death” in its military industrial complex! </p><p>And obviously the Imperial mini-me, Zionist Israel, has been an avid student of the “war without fronts” model!</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Empire</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PermanentWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PermanentWar</span></a></p>
50+ Music<p>"Silent Lucidity" is a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/powerBallad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>powerBallad</span></a> by the band <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Queensr%C3%BFche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Queensrÿche</span></a> from the 1990 album <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Empire</span></a>. The song, which was composed by lead guitarist <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ChrisDeGarmo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChrisDeGarmo</span></a>, was the biggest hit for the band, peaking at #9 on the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Billboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Billboard</span></a> Hot 100 and at #1 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. "<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SilentLucidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilentLucidity</span></a>" was also nominated in 1992 for the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GrammyAwards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrammyAwards</span></a> for Best Rock Song and Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ylsNHXJljk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=4ylsNHXJljk</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>