Just popping in to say… PhD thesis handed in ✅ External reviewer approved ✅ Thesis defence coming June 2025 ✈️ 🇮🇹 Thanks to all for the support 🥰

I'm so sorry we weren't willing to compromise our existence for your comfort. Actually, no, I'm not. I'm not sorry at all.

Books everyone in the U.S. should read: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass -Frederick Douglass The Souls of Black Folk -W.E.B. DuBois Go Tell It on the Mountain -James Baldwin Native Son -Richard Wright Four Hundred Souls -Ibram X. Kendi The Color Purple -Alice Walker #BlackHistoryMonth

It's very weird to me how many cis white Democrats are angrier with me for defending the votes of Arab and Muslim Americans whose families were being murdered by the Biden administration's flow of arms to Israel than they are with the flow of arms to Israel.

One of my goals for the year is to sprinkle a bit of non-fiction in with my usual genre-fiction slate. Seeing as it’s now February, I thought I’d start with this one by @michaelharriot.bsky.social #blackhistorymonth #booksky

So we threw Black people under the bus and we threw Indigenous people under the bus and we threw Palestinians under the bus and we threw disabled people under the bus and we're throwing trans people under the bus and I'm just wondering if it will only stop when cis white folks are the only ones left

Love this! 🫶🏾

Fascinated enough yet?

Greensboro sit-ins 1 Feb 1960

Hey good people! I made some graphics to show support for Black History Month and Carter G Woodson. Feel free to use them on your socials.

Brilliant thread from @leftistlawyer.com (and not just because I’m cited). She has an amazing ability to contextualise developments in light of everything that’s happened before.

And maybe Trump goes there with domestic courts. But right now, he still needs the legal system to enforce his agenda. And if his acts are illegal, until the law is changed by SCOTUS, that means they won't. At the very least, it buys us time. These little victories can save lives in the meantime.

It's tyranny. Understanding legal frameworks are important because it matters whether you are complying with law or with raw power. And the difference explains how compliance will be enforced. The US enforces its will on the world not with law, but with bombs. We don't listen to the ICC and ICJ.

I mean, all laws are fake in that they're just words on paper, not self executing force fields that keep people from doing illegal things. But illegal things aren't legal just because everyone decided to listen to the Global Imperial Hegemon instead of the rulebook. That's not law, that's coercion.

And we pointed out then that when power chooses not to enforce the law, when people listen to power instead of the law, the law didn't stop existing. The same is true in the US right now. International law isn't any more real or fake than American domestic law.

A while back, @kristenzeta.bsky.social and I had a conversation On Threads about international law. A bunch of people were saying that international law didn't matter, that it was all fake, that the genocide in Occupied Palestine proved as much.

Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.

I really can’t stress enough how much Israel has launched attacks on the West Bank less than two days after the Gaza ceasefire and it is getting almost no coverage in the media

Just a reminder that the International Court of Justice has found that Israel’s entire occupation of the West Bank is illegal and Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid.

I love my people 🤣🤣🤣

Kristen is spot on. I just wanted to add that Musk is 100% into Roman Empire/Stoicism/Marcus Aurelius fash edgelord nonsense and I’d bet he did that salute knowing full well how people would react and him wanting to be like “uhhh well actually it was the Roman salute 🤡”

“Here only butterflies and birds are free”. I took this photo in Aida refugee camp, Bethlehem, when I visited the West Bank in 2016. Overnight, the camp was raided by Israeli forces. Despite the “ceasefire” in Gaza, Israeli military activities in the West Bank are escalating.

What is happening in the West Bank is apartheid. And it is still happening. Israel has just locked down the West Bank, preventing movement between each town for Palestinians, while violent settlers roam free destroying property and inciting violence, backed by the IDF, egged on by the far-right.

“It’s not a Nazi salute, it’s a Roman salute” The Roman salute IS the fascist salute. It came to be known as the Roman salute more because fascist mythologists wanted to draw parallels between the strength of Fascist Italy and the Roman Empire. There is little evidence the ancient Romans did it.

Kind of a funny suggestion when you know Hans Asperger was a Nazi psychiatrist who supported exterminating autistic people precisely because they typically LACKED the characteristics (eg ability to read social cues, need for social approval) required to make people submit to supremacist groupthink.

yeaahhh so I don’t think you’re freeing yourself from propaganda by using an app aggressively censored to conform with a government’s political messaging lol

“TikTok users who flocked to Chinese social media as a gesture of protesting the TikTok ban say they had been fooled by anti-China propaganda, a narrative Beijing quickly amplified.” My own write-up of the REDnote situation. wenhao.substack.com/p/american-t...

H/t @kristenzeta.bsky.social @alt-text.bsky.social

Waiting for some commentary from the deranged penguin about Australia’s most liberal and well governed state.

As an Australian well-accustomed to destructive bushfires, I really empathise with those in LA facing the fires right now. Please stay safe and don't leave it too long to evacuate.

Of all the things Twitter gave us, normalizing dunking on random strangers is my least favorite. People now think acting like middle school bullies makes them seem cool. And here we are as a country.

The comic that got us demonetised on Facebook back in August. (We’re no longer on Facebook).

As someone who spent years reporting on Zuckerberg, I've struggled to find something coherent to say about today. Then @cwarzel.bsky.social reminded me of my old reporting. This is what a FB employee said to me in 2020 after Zuckerberg addressed workers following FB-enabled violence in Kenosha, WI.

Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking thehardtimes.net/culture/mark...

53 years old

"Trump talking about annexing Panama, Canada and Greenland is a DISTRACTION from the incoming fascist US government" Not for the people of Panama, Canada and Greenland you insensitive f*cks

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

So, quick background, Australia’s pro-Israel attorney-general last year outlawed display of Nazi gestures & symbols, claiming it was happening at pro-Palestine protests. So far, a man was prosecuted for a swastika on a sign that read, “Israel is a Nazi state”. You know who hasn’t been prosecuted?

Yeah this is why the world hates Americans

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

The number of people out here going " forcibly annexing sovereign territory is a distraction from the fascist plan" is making me weep for every history teacher in the country

"Stop hitting yourself"

The Palisades Fire burning outside of Los Angeles has now burned nearly 16,000 acres, according to the latest estimate by CalFire. That’s an increase of 4,000 acres – or 34% -- in the past two hours. There is 0% containment. More: www.npr.org/2025/01/08/n...

What the actual fuck?

Government drones above my barn: How long will the radical left liberals cover this up? They keep calling it “the big dipper” but I know it’s just drones.

Something I enjoy in Star Trek TNG is when an officer is like 'I wanna do this thing' and Picard is all 'mmmidk bout that one' But then an Admiral or someone comes in like 'we're here to stop your officer from doing the thing' and Picard is like 'I think the fuck not you trickass bitch'

Seems completely insane a think tank funded by the Australian and US defence departments is treated as a neutral, unbiased source of information by the entire Australian media establishment www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...