A friend is wondering whether Egypt, with its internet disconnected, should just be called "Gypt".

The 2016 US Presidential Election takes place on 18 Brumaire, acc. to the mathematical version of the @jacobincalendar  http://www.stevepugh.net/revcalendar.html …

It's good to read on pp.383-4 of his PhD that Saif Gaddafi is generally enthusiastic about the work of the International Criminal Court.

The fourth and, especially, fifth are the best.  http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/languagetranslation/sortedbooks.php … via @carlraincoat

The Daily Mail, 8 July 1934: "HURRAH FOR THE BLACKSHIRTS" pic.twitter.com/T4zHfbNJOy via @ejhchess, @ilkleychess #hurrahfortheblackshirts

Presumably if everyone at St Paul's resigns, then #occupylsx will have to move into the Cathedral to keep everything running smoothly?

This Mayan Apocalypse malarkey shd be harnessed for wider alt. calendar awareness purposes, so do follow Twitter's very own @jacobincalendar

"Come, then, Epictetus, shave off your beard." "If I am a philosopher, I will not shave it off." #stoicweek #qtwtain @kmflett 1/2

For #NationalPoetryDay, I have archived much of the #chloesmithpoetry from earlier in the year. http://t.co/YEzCszSD @chloesmithmp

@annebillson @jacobincalendar Don't forget Olympe de Gouges & her Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne http://t.co/sPa9lFgD

For some reason they seem to be making the middle chapters of Capital, Volume One, the theme of the Olympics opening ceremony.

I have just been alerted to the existence of a Søren Kierkegaard / Kim Kardashian mash-up twitterfeed, @kimkierkegaard, which is excellent.

Dear everyone who is paying attention to anything Paul Staines says: stop it, now.

TOO MUCH NEWS! #brodieclark #stephenlawrence #ows #leveson #europeprettymuchinpermanentcrisisthesedays

"Civil government...is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor" [Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, bk 5, ch 1, pt 2]

The Associated Press is reporting that Ronald Dworkin has died.  http://bigstory.ap.org/article/us-legal-scholar-ronald-dworkin-dies-uk-aged-81 …

Here's a link to Jon Cruddas's Warwick industrial relations PhD thesis, on value theory [16MB pdf]:  http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4247/1/WRAP_THESIS_Cruddas_1991.pdf …

How sensible they were. RT @jacobincalendar French Revolutionaries designated the 25th day of Nivôse as a celebration of cats. @annebillson

I endorse this tweet. MT @simonk133 I wd like pre-emptively to inaugurate the #whytheuselectionresultmeanswemustsupportmypolitics hashtag...

Why The Olympics Means We Should Support My Politics: me, over at CiF http://t.co/vboSeyMv #whytheolympicsmeansweshouldsupportmypolitics