Academic, (outer) Space Governance at Northumbria University. Legal geography and environmental humanities of space governance (space resources, planetary protection, astrobiology, settlement etc). Working on project 'Life the Ultimate Frontier'. He/him.
Thomas Cheney
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BREAKING EU says will resume membership talks with Ukraine on Monday
Re the Trillionaire: "...every new invention is a synthesis, the resultant of innumerable inventions which have preceded it... by what right then can anyone whatever appropriate the least morsel of this immense whole and say - this is mine, not yours?" - P. Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread
so all in all good writing day
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think ive managed to connect my chapter on the racism of the international order to the racism of space expansionism and the connection is more than the South Africanism of Jan Smuts and Elon Musk... but does owe a lot to @duncanbell.bsky.social, @quinnslobodian.com and @jordanscarroll.bsky.social
No one who opposes justice in Northern Ireland for those killed and injured by the Brits has any chance of Labour leadership. Our armed forces cannot and should not be above the rule of law.
Thomas Cheney
Thomas Cheney
UCU - Global academic boycott imposed on University of Sheffield over job cuts & pay docking www.ucu.org.uk/article/1453...
The REAL world cup of this summer is finally here, let's gooooo 🎉
#Cricket 🏏 #T20WorldCup
Fuck this country.
Farage and Tommy Robinson free to spout their vile hate, yet hold up a placard for peace and you get arrested.
#FuckLabour
For all would-be SpaceX investors, reading "A City on Mars" is a strong recommend.
Very funny on the many ways space is terrible, uneconomic, and the decades/centuries of (boring, non-phallic rocket related) research needed to make settlement even a vaguely realistic proposition.
Thomas Cheney
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Also the world's first trillionaire directly responsible for the deaths of potentially millions around the world due to the illegal destruction of USAID