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Excellent new #TheFireTheseTimes @podcast feat. carla joy bergman on youth autonomy :agorism_heart:

@joey #youthliberation
https://thefirethesetimes.com/2023/03/24/podcast-lets-talk-about-youth-autonomy-w-carla-joy-bergman/

@theendismeh Here are some!

- Conspirituality
- The Final Straw
- Ukraine Without Hype
- You're dead to me
- There are no girls on the internet
- Live like the world is dying
- Let's talk about myths, baby
- Tech Won't Save Us
- Stadio (if you're into football/soccer)
- The poor prole's almanac
- How to survive the end of the world
- Witch, please (if you're into Harry potter)
- Surviving Society
- Death Panel
- Revolutions
- Busy Being Black
- 12 Rules for What
+ my own #podcast :) #TheFireTheseTimes

There were a 1001 problems with the 2022 #Qatar #WorldCup - and I did two entire episodes of #TheFireTheseTimes just on that - but one thing that did sort of work for Qatar is the proximity of the stadiums to one another. You just had to jump on the metro.

But that won't be possible for the #2026WorldCup as it is already being designed to be as environmentally costly as possible. By 2026 we will see even more climate-related crises than we are doing now, but #FIFA and the governments of the #USA, #Mexico and #Canada purposefully picked economically key locations to host the stadiums. So in addition to the flights from all over the world from fans who will travel to their first location there, you now have to count all the additional flights between cities and countries that will be taken *including* additional flights that will be planned due to increased demand.

So as our species get closer to climate tipping points FIFA and these three governments decided to plan the most environmentally polluting World Cup so far. The only criteria, as usual, is 'economic', here meaning catering to corporate ads and political pressure, with the resulting pollution completely ignored.

Watch this space. If this gets criticism these governments and FIFA will claim to be offsetting CO2 by planting trees, a method thoroughly disproven as you can't just plant trees anywhere to compensate for CO2 emissions - that's just not how nature works - but this is what they will propose as they'd have no other way out of this. They designed the entire thing to be as polluting as possible so that is what it will be.

We recorded a special episode on the #Football #WorldCup2022 in #Qatar on #TheFireTheseTimes with Musa Okwonga, Justin Salhani and Fabien Goa

Whether you're into football/#soccer or not, I think it's fair to say that this sport holds an incredible hold on our collective imaginary.

Its political power is inescapable, and governments, especially authoritarian governments, understand this very well. 

Out now on https://www.patreon.com/posts/surprise-episode-76234875

Coming on #Youtube + all #podcast platforms soon

#FootballUnitesTheWorld #FootballisPolitical #Qatar

@promiseli it doesn't have to be a reduction though. Football is inherently political, and arguably the most political of sports given its global reach. I did a #TheFireTheseTimes episode with Justin Salhani and Musa Okwonga on that topic some months ago if you're interested

@mythopoetica hello 👋🏽 I'm currently finishing a PhD on postwar Lebanese cinema and one of my chapters is on hauntology :) I also recorded an episode of #TheFireTheseTimes with @solarpunkcast and we discussed hauntology as well

The third episode will be with Luka aka @solarpunkcast on #Hauntings #Futurisms #Solarpunk #TheFireTheseTimes #Podcast

It's already out on https://www.patreon.com/posts/hauntings-and-w-76066567

If you like podcasts and are into #Solarpunk or are curious about it, I've got not one, not two, but *three* episodes coming up on #TheFireTheseTimes in January :) on all podcast platforms such as #Spotify #ApplePodcasts #PocketCasts etc as well as #YouTube.

#Patreon peeps will get access to all of them by tomorrow -> patreon.com/firethesetimes #Podcast

@zekuzelalem we should do a follow-up #Tigray episode on #TheFireTheseTimes

As a Christmas present, Patreon peeps on patreon.com/firethesetimes will have *three* early access episodes

the crowd goes wild hurray #TheFireTheseTimes

My Spotify Wrapped for 2022 #TheFireTheseTimes #Podcast

There are also, of course, Bosnians who have been dealing with this phenomenon longer than most. I recommend my conversations with Aida Hozic and Edin Hajdarpasic on #TheFireTheseTimes

https://t.co/x6HBIg1mx0 + https://t.co/t8Wv1NS0eB

You might have heard of recent Ukrainian-Taiwanese conversations. I recommend reading this by @wenliunyc and @brianhioe
https://spectrejournal.com/from-taiwan-to-ukraine/

Romeo Kokriatski and I interviewed them for #TheFireTheseTimes
https://thefirethisti.me/2022/06/17/podcast-a-view-on-ukraine-hong-kong-tiananmen-from-taiwan-w-wen-liu-brian-hioe/

What does #AfroSolarpunk look like? with @cprwords on #TheFireTheseTimes

Out now on Patreon.com/firethesetimes

Out everywhere else January 13th

#Solarpunk #Afrofuturism

Well reposting this here as I don't even know if the bird site will be there for much longer:

I'm a freelance racialized #actuallyautistic #migrant writer/journalist and I promise you that I'm not looking forward to being all of those if this site #twitter goes down. A good chunk of the jobs I got were through this site. It is extremely difficult for me to do the 'normal' job Interviews.

Having a Twitter account was even part of how I helped get political prisoners out. There were situations where the very risk of making noise on Twitter may well have saved the lives of people I know.

It's how I connected with people from all corners of the world and got them on my podcast #TheFireTheseTimes. I have no other tools. I barely make minimum wage at the moment.

I'll be fine dw but many people are much more vulnerable and this is just fucked up.

Through Twitter I met queer Syrians hiding in Lebanon and Turkey, Ukrainians who wanted to learn about Lebanon or Syria, Hongkongers seeking to get in touch with Iranians, Palestinians sending their solidarity to Ferguson.

I helped document two major uprisings from my country, as well as its collapse. I was part of a network of translators translating from dozens of languages into English.

I saw people at risk of suicide being reached out to in real time by others. As someone who did try to kill himself several years ago, I know that this would have made a difference.

And as a non-American non-US resident there's the added insult to injury of not even being part of the calculation in the first place. Here's this tool that can change everything in your life and the people controlling it couldn't care less about what happens to you.

And as this is an American problem, and specifically a Silicon Valley one, my expectations are extremely low. Americans barely matter to policy makers and matter even less to Silicon Valley ghouls. Musk has to be fucking haunted by this, his life turned into a living hell.

I got lucky because I've built enough of a base, either around #TheFireTheseTimes or around my other projects, that I know that I'll find a way. But that took nearly a decade. Rebuilding all of that won't be easy, and this will absolutely lead to a number of crises.

It all feels dizzying right now, and unfortunately no amount of hating Elon fucking Musk will make any difference. I don't even know what would. I wish Twitter employees occupied all offices. Or Dems turning it to a nonprofit ala PBS. Maybe. Honestly I don't know anymore.

Good luck to everyone who will move from that site to this site. I see value in this site, and I see its potential. I also recognize the loss that will come if Musk is truly destroying that site.

Hello again Mastodon, reposting this for #followbackfriday:

I'm Joey Ayoub (@ joeyayoub on Twitter), Lebanese writer in Geneva, Switzerland (previously London and Edinburgh). I'm into #Postgrowth #Solarpunk and building internationalist solidarity against capitalism and to fight global warming. You know, fun stuff.

I'm the host of the #podcast #TheFireTheseTimes (thefirethisti.me - patreon.com/firethesetimes) and I'm an editor at Shado Mag. I'm doing a PhD at the University of Zurich in cultural analysis and I'm involved in way too many projects.

I've also been involved in a couple of uprisings and I'm a campaigner against the disgusting Kafala system. I help out the Domestic Workers Alliance Network.

I have a soft spot for animals, and I don't eat them. I try not to use airplanes whenever possible. My happy place looks like a diverse Shire. I recognize mother nature as a real entity worthy of respect.

Oh, and I'm also one of those scary antifa. I support uprisings and struggles against authoritarianism everywhere. Free #Syria #Palestine #HongKong #Xinjiang #Tibet #Chechnya #Kurdistan #Iran #WesternSahara and everywhere else under occupation. And #SlavaUkraini.

Three things I recommend for y'all today

1- How #Degrowth Can Save the World by #Andrewism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQrI2GBvn5Q

2- How to fix a broken #Ecosystem by Andrew Millson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL-i_yNcFVY&feature=youtu.be

3- #Solarpunk and Post #Capitalist Desires on #TheFireTheseTimes with Andre aka @hydroponictrash
Full episode now on www.Patreon.com/firethesetimes

Clips: https://kolektiva.social/web/@ayoub/109320220296817814

On all podcast platforms + YouTube in January

Preview clip 4 of #TheFireTheseTimes #Podcast
episode with Andre aka @hydroponictrash on #Solarpunk, Post-Capitalist Desires, #SpeculativeFiction, #CollectiveAction and #DirectAction, and thinking about new and future countercultures.

What is Solarpunk?

It will be out on Patreon today @ Patreon.com/firethesetimes

And on all podcast platforms in January 2023.

Preview clip 3 of #TheFireTheseTimes #Podcast
episode with Andre aka @hydroponictrash on #Solarpunk, Post-Capitalist Desires, #SpeculativeFiction, #CollectiveAction and #DirectAction, and thinking about new and future countercultures.

It will be out on Patreon today @ Patreon.com/firethesetimes

And on all podcast platforms in January 2023.