I am thinking of starting a thread that points out the current dystopia of living in the Levant Exhibit 1 www.instagram.com/reel/DRMVAee...

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“Despite the strict prohibition on accessing the site due to heavy rainfall and the risk of landslides, illegal diggers forced their way into the quarry” << people shouldn’t have to live in circumstances that makes this seem like their best option 😭 edition.cnn.com/2025/11/16/w...

AICHI PREF. IS ENDING THE MATCHING PROGRAM WITH ISRAEL. We smashed the match 😭🥳 #BDS #SmashtheMatch

As Langdon Winner put so well 40 years ago, don't fall into the trap of accepting "RISK" as a good framework for these conversations. Business interests love framing their violence in terms of "risks & rewards" bc as a society, we love to heroize & reward risk-takers. Talk instead about "HAZARD."

"We read not because we hope, but because each sentence feels like defiance of the ruin that surrounds us." jewishcurrents.org/alphabets-on...

Starting soon with a Zoom option 👇🏻

I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

"Our actions are working, and they are not enough. Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters. We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously. Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul. This is how change happens." Dan Berger

when i saw language learners use LLMs to learn the language despite paying big money to take classes and learn from teachers, i was really disturbed. i thought i was being misanthropic until i saw how much people don’t want to use resources made by humans. they are the real misanthropes, not me.

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

Actually the police skeet reminded me that I want to check out Julian Go’s book. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

good news for the people who are saying they'd never touch starbucks coffee anyway: you can go ahead and drop $5 in their strike fund sbworkersunited.org/strike-fund/

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

I got used to telling people that the Thursday demo in Osaka has around 40 people but this week we had over 50. #BoycottIsrael #FreePalestine

Final call to sign this letter!! #SmashtheMatch

November 29 is International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People 🍉 Kansai Gaza Emergency Action has planned a standing demo 🙌🏻 Place: JR Osaka Station by the city bus terminal Time: Nov. 29 (Sat.) 6-7 p.m. JST

PCHR’s report: pchrgaza.org/pchr-documen... The testimonies are very frank, so be warned.

Some eggs, milk, and yogurt have finally made it into the city after such a long shortage. It’s a small thing, but it means so much after all this deprivation. Prices are extremely high, though. Please, your donations matter now more than ever help us keep going 🙏

No one should be publishing the U.S. navy's "near Gaza, Israel" w/o comment. Gaza is in Palestine. Israel is illegally occupying Palestine. It's your responsibility to call these things out, yet the word "Palestine" (a country recognized by 150+ states) is not even in the article @bloomberg.com

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“Israel exists. Palestine doesn’t. And so I always wonder why nobody asks me why Palestine doesn’t have a right to exist.” - Abdul el-Sayed, candidate for Senate in Michigan.

I’m running out of time, and all I’m asking for is a chance to live, learn, and begin again. All I want is the chance to leave Gaza safely, to continue my education, and to use language to heal, connect, and inspire others. Every donation brings me one step closer to rebuilding my life and future.

Good morning I wish it truly were a good one. I woke up with a headache and a deep sense of depression after spending the night translating testimonies of Gazan women who were raped, recounting what happened to them.

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

Secretary of the Political Bureau of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front and General Secretary of the Palestinian Struggle Workers Union Mohammad Alloush is on a speaking tour in Japan this week. Osaka on Sunday. zenko-peace.com/palestine-so...

The cheapest plan available to me (a Georgian) is over $1,000 a month. Healthcare is no longer an option for me. I will ration the medication I take for as long as I can and then I will wait to die.

Before ACA, many Americans couldn’t afford insurance Alex Smith was a diabetic who got kicked off his Mom’s insurance at 26 He made 35k a year which was “too much” for Medicaid, but not nearly enough to cover insurance premiums He had to ration his insulin & died a month after losing insurance

Tbh just seriously join something. Plenty of my followers hate DSA— perfectly fine. The thread illustrates my point. Don't be lazy.

Reasons I like DSA despite my misgivings & annoyances over the years: genuinely multi tendency, a genuine democratic membership structure, people dedicated seriously to electoral work even with all the discontents, people seriously dedicated to labor union reform, pro Palestine, extremely pro trans.

This is a “Do not forget—replace their asses” situation, yes? 🫠

The Barbellion Prize celebrates and promotes writing that represents the experience of chronic illness and disability. Since the re-launch laste week we've raised 10% of our target, so there's still a way to go. Pllease support this unique literary award barbellionprize.org Thank you!

Please donate if you can. Best is to set a weekly or month amount.

Activists in Spain changed the Israeli flag for the Palestine flag at the Fencing World Cup after the organization refused to ban Israel from competing.

BDS calls on supporters worldwide to join a global day of action on 22 November, targeting @Chevron for its role in Israel’s genocide and apartheid, in addition to its role in climate destruction globally. Disrupt business as usual, throw sand in the gears of Israel's genocide. loom.ly/QYV9BUs

Athleticide is a modality of genocide designed to eradicate cultural expression, identity, and representation. It is a significant feature of Israel’s ongoing genocidal project in Gaza.

I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation

Alaa sent me this video of their tent- they are trying to upgrade for the winter gofund.me/5b58571b

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Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

send him to the ICE protest

New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks. I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:

Failed country.

You cannot run the basic infrastructures of a functioning society- healthcare to education-on systems that cut out human empathy & negotiation. So we have to reassert over and over again that the problems aren’t glitches or errors—even big ones. The problems are fundamental, systematic, endemic.

Identifying flaws in GenAI unfortunately offers a pretext for claims that perfecting the product is just a matter of time & money. So pointing to chatbots’ role in,say, suicides can only go so far if we don’t also identify the systemic, irresolvable lack of Gen AI’s human commitment bc math has none

I can’t type anymore but I don’t think it matters. ICR who said it, but we’re doing the work governments & NGO networks should be doing. And it has maxed out because people stopped caring. We’re matching £500 for six families ok? 14 HOURS LEFT. 0/1000

The company says it’s heartbreaking, they promise improvements, new guardrails. Anything but shutting it down. Suicide is just a metric in their ongoing beta test. Sam Altman and everyone like him should be in fucking jail.