The Turkey Sandwich, formerly the Ottoman Club

Not mentioned enough but all it would’ve taken Israel to avoid this was the occasional rhetorical nod toward wanting to resolve the conflict. Even so, it took years of actively objecting to peaceful resolution to get to this.

And the removal of turkey

Australia🇦🇺, Canada🇨🇦, & the UK🇬🇧 formally recognize the State of Palestine. I thought this statement by Albanese/Wong sums up the position of the 3 countries perfectly, which is, “we think Israel has become a belligerent state, & represents a danger for the region and itself.” Don’t downplay this

Britain, Canada and Australia recognize a Palestinian state. Israeli settler right pressuring Netanyahu to annex the West Bank in retaliation. OTOH they call for WB annexation in response to inclement weather and on days ending with day, and UAE clarified it won’t tolerate annexation so no biggie.

Major story from @jacobmagid.bsky.social in @timesofisrael.com www.timesofisrael.com/revealed-ton...

The tech oligarchs are basically Dune’s Spacing Guild

Okay everyone, stop writing new books. I’m still caching up

September 2023 Bluesky was much more fun. I also suspect this had very little to do with Bluesky.

Oh. It was Bob Iger then as well. I did not remember that when posting this

Some people hate the word moist. I hate the word virility with the fire of a thousand burning suns

The Silicon Valley East India Company

Weak prediction: this ends up being Kimmel’s James Gunn moment. ABC ends up regretting all of it.

i Am Bullish the Channel will come to regret this decision

Not sure why, but I woke up feeling a pressing need to recommend everyone buy and read @panievsky.bsky.social’s The New Censorship

Gaming and A/V sky, what is the best way to connect two sources (PS5 and Switch) to the same HDMI input on a screen that has a single HDMI in?

#CivMilSky Selection criteria matter a lot

I've been productive over the last few weeks, which for me is usually correlated with listening to some artist on repeat. In this case, it's Hozier who's always been vocal on social justice issues. In every concert this year he spoke about freedom for Palestinians. 1/2

Sadly, I think Stancil is right

One thing I do that I’m inordinately proud of is that I fix stuff that breaks in my apartment. Like right now I took apart the flushing mechanism on our toilet and I’m in touch with a plumbing wholesaler to buy a replacement part and that makes me happy :)

Hear me out. Editorial manager, but once you've entered your login information you choose which of the journals you've added to your account you'd like to check.

So how many people actually attended London rally last week?

The fact you own the crowded theatre doesn’t give you the right to shout FIRE in it.

So, do we know if he was a groyper?

There is one thing we can say about him for certain and that's the fact that he's affected by the aesthetics of the terminally online.

You know the hagiographic ai slop is coming

Politics is at some base level the human mechanism for resolving disagreement without resorting to actual violence every time things don’t go our way. A society sinking into more political violence is undergoing the tragic death of politics as a human good.

Wild how economists and political scientists worry so much about unbiased tests **in their papers** and yet basically ignore how their journals filter on significance. Given our noisy tests, the latter creates huge bias away from zero.

“It's hard to imagine anyone in the Middle East being willing to take part in US-brokered talks anytime soon, since that now seems like an invitation to a surprise bombing.” Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, um, ah, don’t get fooled again. abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/assassinatio...

Is it worth explaining why failing in the assassination attempt of Hamas leadership is such a terrible outcome for Israel or is it obvious?

Oh well, at least they gave it the ol’ college try

Trademark "Trump is willing to forgive a success but not failure," Avishay. (I'd add, he's also liable to claim a success once he's forgiven it.)

I’m not sure if this includes suspension of Horizon and ECF funds or not. If it does, the effect on Israeli academia could be profound.

What is happening in Gaza has shaken the conscience of the world. Man-made famine can never be a weapon of war. This must stop. EU aid to Gaza far outweighs that of any other partner. But of course, Europe needs to do more. Here are measures for a way forward ↓

Israeli sources increasingly doubtful that Hamas leaders targeted in Qatar had (all?) been killed. If this is true, this is a colossal clustertruck. You don’t get another chance to do this and now you’ve angered everyone involved including Trump who’s willing to forgive a success but not failure.

Barak Ravid claims, based on talks with five separate sources, that the US learned of the attack through its early detection systems and fumed at Israel. I am searching for crows for culinary purposes. Hit me up if you got em.

I don’t buy that Israel kept the administration in the dark (until I’m credibly told otherwise). And if I don’t buy it, and I’m inclined to give more credence to official statements than most, then no one will.

Blessed are you who frees the captives.

And now come the air raid alarms in Jerusalem

In an additional announcement from Netanyahu and defense minister Katz, Israel says that this attack is partially in response to yesterday’s Jerusalem terror attack

Netanyahu just released the following statement: *Prime Minister's Office:* Today's action against the top terrorist chieftains of Hamas was a wholly independent Israeli operation. Israel initiated it, Israel conducted it, and Israel takes full responsibility.

Israeli sources confirm that the US was informed ahead of the action.

Now I’m just speculating, but I assume this was green lit by the US which has significant presence in and relations with Qatar. It fits the pattern of the strike in Iran. Trump offer rejected. Israeli strike follows.

Official announcement by IDF and Shin Bet that this was an aerial strike against Hamas leadership using precise munitions meant to target the leadership while reducing harm to bystanders

Israeli reporters confirm from senior sources that this is israeli action aimed at Hamas leaders in Qatar

IDF orders all residents of Gaza City to evacuate

Two comments about this bozo's response. 1. Killing civilians is bad. Killing them intentionally is worse. That's true when Israeli forces do it too. 2. I grew up in Jerusalem during the Oslo bus bombings and the 2nd intifada. Forgive me if this isn't terribly philosophical for me.

I don't curse on the web almost ever, but If this is your response to a terror attack on a civilian bus then fuck right off. Feel free to block. I did.

Now this is a story all about how My boat got flipped turned upside down And I'd like to take a minute, tell you 'bout that curséd whale Which came fresh out of hell; call me Ishmael

This is just outside the neighborhood I grew up in.