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This has always been the real truth of the eradication of the Palestinian people: that it took place over decades through grinding everyday misery, murder and dispossession that was invisible on the news radar. Which allowed news to frame an 'outbreak' of violence as something unusual.

We are in peak French heist season.

Ahmad and his wife need the last push of funds to get the hell out of danger. If we can help a small family, let us do so. Please. Donate only if you can. Spread the word if you cannot. #GazaAid 🍉 chuffed.org/project/159168

In the US when you get an eye exam, they will almost never tell you the pupillary distance in the prescription, making it purposely harder to buy a correct pair of glasses outside the monopoly of Luxxotica. If you want to buy glasses without that monopoly markup you usually have to self-measure

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... "The settlement is built on land the intrntl community expects to form part of a future #Palestinian state, which UK #recognised this year. ICJ last year ruled Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza was #illegal, ordered it to end it as rapidly as possible"

Please share & donate to help the Nashwan family survive Israel's continuing genocide in Gaza, which has left Palestinians homeless and starving in brutal winter conditions:

This research was published 14 months ago. In *Nature*. Three months BEFORE Wes Streeting announced a "permanent ban" on puberty-blockers. & yesterday, the Tories insisted you don't even need a clinical trial to keep that ban, forever... www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped

Palestinians should be allowed the right to self-determination and to protect their borders. Ukraine should be allowed the right to self-determination and protect their borders. Neither should be decided by Trump colluding with the invading state.

Israel is a terrorist state.

I’m usually giving counsel of despair so let me offer a hopeful note now: all this is the desperate thrashing of a dying generation, horrified to see up close the consequences of raising their children to believe violence and racism are wrong, and that people should treat each other decently.

Absolutely staggering to me that someone can utter the phrase "I realise I'm talking through a wall of dead children" and not reconsider their life choices.

This one really is useful because you won’t see a more clear demonstration of one of the most damaging political phenomena of the era: the reactionary professional mind rejecting unacceptable reality, only able to process and comprehend it via something close to conspiracy theory.

Hey, come on now. Be fair. It also killed millions of children across the globe. That's got to count for something.

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Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...

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still getting scolded for saying "scratch a liberal a fascist bleeds" when my nations liberal party is openly copying far right policies targeting immigrants and trans people and closely aligning itself with maga lol fuck offfffffffffffffffff

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Bringing up the Kurds after they set up a multicultural anarchist federation that lasted a decade and significantly improved conditions for other ethnic groups in north eastern syria is just fucking wild. Like we already know what a safe land for Kurds looks like, and its not an ethnostate

I think the most grotesque thing about zionists is the way they will breathlessly argue for total global ethnonationalism while framing it as enlightened and progressive (image is top comment from a "is antizionism antisemitic" thread. yes they are comparing being Israeli to being Native American)

This is my point I have been making for months They dont care about the law They dont care about who is a citizen or not And this country is simply laying down in the gutter sacrificing immigrants as Omelas Abu Gharib children

ppl will laugh at me but this is what ppl like maurice glasman want to do here. it's not jus reform we need to be worried about.

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"During the pandemic" is right now! Why are YOU past tensing Covid, @longcovidadvoc.com?!

oh whoa the models aren't just getting better and better consistently huh

If there is a CEASEFIRE in place and a country continues firing, that is not a “test“ that is a violation. There’s no wiggle room here, that is the inarguable objective reality. This is, non hyperbolically, logic that a 5-year-old would understand. But somehow it cannot be said by mainstream media.

“Testing“ a ceasefire would be like amassing troops on the border or delaying a hostage release. There is no sense in which dropping bombs and killing peoples “tests“ a ceasefire. That literally doesn’t make sense linguistically.

Do journalist ever find it strange that they have to reinvent the English language to report on one country?

Israel cannot break ceasefires, they can only “test“ them by killing dozens of people

This is not law enforcement it’s a slave catching militia

Jesus to his disciples:

“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.” Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget

Most "ethnic" food hate is just poor shaming. Britain is just the "here's how we made palatable the pig intestines, sheep lungs, and handful of barley that we have left after the rich, exploitative land owner took 98% of what we worked to raise" variation.

I think Trump and the lack of real resistance against him is actually the result of settling repeatedly and lesser evilism, personally

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Why is startup culture always “I am inventing a coffeeproof phone you can put in your coffee cup to keep it warm with cell radiation” and never “I’m inventing a new library wholesaler to replace the single company that is shutting down and sending libraries into crisis”

What's fascinating about this is two heterosexual GCs speaking over a lesbian with lived experience.

Find someone who loves you as much as British political journalists love an extremely right wing crackpot arsehole

While I'm not quite at the point of losing my house, the harm ai has done to my animation work income is huge, like 80% gone and it makes me wonder how many freelance artists and animators ARE losing everything while billionaire con men continue to rake it in.

The U.S. is never going to stop terrorizing and killing people out of compassion. That's a truth people should internalize.

Mind you this exists because of assault. The bag is being blocked because other men are assaulting women at such high numbers that the company HAS to do something. The men in Japan aren't happy about the women only train cars either but, such is life.

people keep saying that SpaceX is not like Elon's other companies but I increasingly question that

Hey remember when Trump called for the death penalty for the Central Park Five and expressed no regret or desire to retract that statement despite finding new information

A part of European history, reason and hope ⤵️ by @nialloconghaile.bsky.social Smart and warm words.

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