"A breast feeding baby was shot by a quad copter through the head" Yesterday the UN commission of inquiry published a report detailing how Israel deliberately targets & kills Palestinian children

Saddened to learn that Marjane Satrapi, artist, activist and creator of this master piece has passed away at age 56. I carried her books with me from Belgium to the UK to India, because I loved them so much. RIP

From @article-14.com’s editor, Samar Halelarnkar, an appeal for support. They are one of the few — and vanishing — indie news outlets reporting with integrity on India. If you can afford to support them, see article-14.com/subscribe A basic subscription is INR 5000 (~ €46 / USD53 / £39)

🐍 Cover Reveal 🐍 THE POISON PALACE retells the story of Alexander the Great's invasion of India from the point of view of a courtesan sent to assassinate him. Out with Dutton Books in Jan 2027, will link to pre-orders below. #booksky #amwriting #debutnovel #books

With #RightsCon now officially cancelled, perhaps #FiFAFRICA is a good place to meet next, at least for those in Africa? Next edition is 28 Sept-1 Oct in Mauritius, which also happens to be home for me now. If you'll be joining, let me know! internetfreedom.africa

A sad, difficult day for my community as #RightsCon the world's largest conference on digital rights was cancelled at the eleventh hour by the Zambian government. It was to start in less than a week www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/04/zamb...

An excellent description of the experience of so many of us who has tried to keep an organisation running in the Global South. #philanthropy #movements

#mustread Every day I wish there was a way to keep all the AI generated content out of my IG feed. So tired of seeing 'people' who don't actually exist.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

🇩🇪 Hey Berlin friends 👋 Chayn is throwing a little party for the launch of our feminist AI tool - Survivor AI - which helps survivors of image based abuse take content down. Come for the AI hype, stay for the drinks and good company. Register here: luma.com/rg71dkhb

To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

Oh wow. So good to finally have some good news 💜 #freeAlaa

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

The protests in Nepal, and the governments violent repression of them, are an increasingly important story right now. @globalvoices.org has reporting from Nepal on the "Nepo Kid" movement, including what the "international media" are getting wrong

📣 TIMEP is recruiting for an in-person Bassem Sabry Fellow to spend six months working full-time in our Washington, DC office. Check out this rare opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of MENA policymaking! Applications are due August 28: timep.org/2025/08/08/o...

'Out of space: Picturing the big, crowded business of satellite internet' - a gorgeously visualised, superinformative story by @restofworld.org. Impressive restofworld.org/2025/satelli...

Very insightful piece by @scotttimcke.bsky.social, with lessons valid across the Global South. #aigov

"Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X on Saturday. "They are expensive, inefficient & can even kill starving civilians. It is a distraction & screensmoke." www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-...

'The bench also stated that the foreign policy of the country differs from the stance the party has taken and warned it of potential diplomatic consequences of such protests.' 'Our country has enough issues. We don't want anything like this' .

Send these monsters to the Hague

Breaking News: President Emmanuel Macron said France would recognize the state of Palestine, making it the first of the G7 nations to do so.

Starving people to death is terrorism.

Tomorrow’s Guardian front page

#BREAKING Slovenia has imposed sanctions on Ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, declaring them persona non grata due to statements "that encourage genocide" This is the first European Union country to impose sanctions on Ben-Gvir and Smotrich

Hey Bluesky. If you come across opportunities for writers (calls for submissions, contests, jobs, gigs), please send them my way? I send out listings via Google Groups (when I have time to do a collection) and Telegram/WhatsApp (when I spot them). More: zigzackly.blogspot.com/2022/02/cafe...

How can you talk about AI for Good if you won't let one of the most visionary thinkers on AI (and a keynote YOU invited) speak about the way AI is being used for evil? Total farce.

The Guardian view on Egypt and Alaa Abd el-Fattah: Starmer and Lammy vowed to do all they can. So do it #FreeAlaa #SaveLaila

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has confirmed: Alaa Abd el-Fattah is being held unlawfully. Egypt must release him, and the UK must use every tool to bring him home www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Last day to oppose Meta platforms training their AI with your personal data! Go to Privacy Centre in your account settings (Facebook or Insta) and click ‘object’ in blue.

WCK trucks loaded with food and cooking fuel have been ready at the Gaza border since early March. Additional food and equipment are ready to be shipped to the border from Jordan and Egypt. Our vital work cannot continue without permission from Israel for this aid to enter. #ChefsForGaza (3/5)

After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/5)

Another one. Terrible #tfgbv

BREAKING: More journalists have died in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023 than in both World Wars and other major wars, combined. Our new report outlines the costs of war to journalists – and the journalism we all rely on. [THREAD, 1/8] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

There is a big conversation I feel is missing in #RightsCon, but that I for one really would like to have. If you do too, come and find me. More about what I'm thinking here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #TheWorldIsOnFire

If you are at #RightsCon, join us today for a session on doing #quantitative surveys while #feminist. We'll talk about some of the challenges we faced and how we solved them, but most importantly, you'll learn hands-on how to get the most out of any data. It will be life-changing, I promise! :)

an old co-author emailed me looking for a confirmation a non-existent paper supposedly authored by me that one of her students has cited in an essay... so i got curious and prompted gpt-4o “papers by abeba birhane”. it listed 9 papers none of which I authored

To #IGF2025 participants from developing countries: ⚠️ Lillestrøm travel support deadline is *17 February* ⚠️ intgovforum.org/en/content/s... This info hasn't been sent to social media or IGF news yet. It's only been sent to MAG list. Pls share link widely ASAP, given there's only 1 week to apply.

“journalism does not serve any public purpose and therefore cannot be carried out as a non-profit exercise in India” If accurate, this is a bizarre and damning statement by the government of India. #FoE #journalism

New research: in 'The cost of transgression: Gender, sexuality and online violence in India', I try to make sense of the sometimes surprising, even confounding India findings of a global survey on online violence. #OGBV #feministinternet #India #CIGI www.cigionline.org/publications...

The only painting I have ever made (so far) was a canvas covered in sky blue paint. Because the point is not that every cloud has a silver lining, but rather that behind the clouds, the sky is always blue. The painting reminded me of that. It's good to be here, in these blue skies 💙