Monday:

UpScrolled is blowing up due to the Tiktok ban - #2 in the US right now. It's ethical social media: no shadowbans, no algorithmic bullshit, no controls on your feed, not designed for addiction, doesn't sell your data

Resolution for 2026: Make some friends who are witches.

When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.

"Do not be too timid or too squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“…where do we turn when our cultures are both something we want to protect and the sources of our oppression?” An incredible read.

It’s almost impossible to put into words the horror of what’s happening in Gaza. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking at the same time. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2mtfvyua

The other day, a white American lady on Substack was lamenting that she no longer felt proud to be an American, proud to send aid to poor countries and be associated with doing good in the world. It was obvious that she had completely forgot about this, among other atrocities committed by the US:

If any of you were subject to not only the situation in Gaza, but the constant deletions of accounts that are their one source of support, I don’t think many of you would show the same tenacity as Marah and her family have shown. Please: follow, share, and donate what you can to help their family.

The reason I have a mini-series on Hauntologies called “the ghosts if Israel’s future” is because of this: hating Palestinians is the glue holding Israel’s dominant political culture together. They have no identity beyond genocide anymore. www.instagram.com/reel/DT7w6sX...

As Israel’s genocide has continued, western outlets have undermined the death toll from the Min of Health in Gaza, dubbing it “Hamas run.” Even tho the Ministry’s #s r reliable & a big undercount. When it comes to Iran, they openly run w/the highest unverified #s they can time.com/7357635/more...

Today, January 25, marks fifteen years since Egyptians took to the streets to demand "bread, freedom, and dignity." For 18 days, protesters challenged decades of repression, injustice, and corruption despite violence by security forces that injured thousands and killed at least 846.

I clicked on this video and immediately thought of the hundreds of videos from Gaza I’ve received with the sound of a drone overhead in the background. Our struggles are all the same.

We have a new shop on Vinted, but it's only the hats guys on our team right now. Watches, toys and clothes will get listed on there soon...If you're on Vinted please follow us on there or check out the hats: www.vinted.ie/invite/vinta...

Canada has to stop sending military equipment to the US. It has to revoke the country’s “safe” status as soon as possible to permit sanctuary for refugees. At this time, bc the US has “safe” status, if you are in America you are not eligible for asylum in Canada.

People just get online and write the most startlingly classist thing you have ever seen despite the fact that our ruling class is foaming at the mouth racist, very wealthy, and having a nice time at the Spectator garden party.

Asking myself the same fucking question, Franz my friend:

When I say that I saw members if the Knesset wearing yellow noose lapel pins…

تمر اليوم الذكرى الخامسة عشرة لخروج المصريين إلى الشوارع يوم ٢٥ يناير ٢٠١١، منتفضين ضد عقود من الظلم والفساد؛ مؤمنين بحقهم في تغيير واقعهم ومستقبلهم؛ وهاتفين بالعيش والحرية والعدالة الاجتماعية. قابلتهم قوات الأمن بالعنف؛ قتلت ٨٤٦ شخصًا، على الأقل، وجرحت الآلاف.

To all that object to us pointing out the fact that Israel is a goddamned apartheid state... now do you see it?

I forcefully resist the characterization of any Canadian liberal government as “progressive” relative to Conservatives. They are 100%, by-the-book centrists who don’t give a fuck, and will do the exact same as Cons, but hide it under a veneer and a smarmy grin.

This is already happening under Carney, too. Immigrant communities in Québec are terrified. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

#SpeirGorm #Ireland Please go and sign this EU Citizens Directive #Gaza #Israel #FreeGaza #FreePalestine #Palestine

what the ai art IS art temper tantrum tells us is that being curious and creative and daring and putting in the effort to learn and expand your ability to convey are all enviable skills. you're basically magic in the eyes of these fools. keep it up.

Herr Himmler objects to the characterization of his Einsatzgruppen death squads.

The @nytimes.com is capable of writing an active voice headline that clearly identifies the perpetrator — as long as it's not the Israeli military

Canada! Now is a good time to contact your MP and also Evan Solomon and Mark Carney to tell them that, as a sovereign nation, we don't need US data, tech and AI contracts. Stop them signing up for more American tech control of vital Canadian data and infrastructure! www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

No, honey: they save the passive voice to cover up Israel’s crimes against brown people.

Patriarchy and capitalism are two serious addictions the world needs to be freed from.

🌀Canada Feed🌀 I've designed this feed to specifically highlight independent journalism archived by Harms Committed on state violence in Canada. If you find it useful, please consider liking, sharing, or pinning it. 1/3 🧵

Tens of thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel gathered in the northern city of Sakhnin to protest what they say is Israeli police inaction in the face of soaring violent crime targeting their communities:

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Joyce knew he’d spark a debate when he referred to the mysterious “word known to all men.” But, despite the scholarly debate, it’s neither Death nor Love. It’s both; they’re the same thing. For Irish that Eros/Thanatos paradigm is a syntagm.

“You’re right that I don’t have much hair on my chest, but I don’t cry when my lizard bites me. Latin macho is fear of the feminine; Irish macho is attraction to death.”

they called it trickle-down economics because 'financial waterboarding' didn't poll well with focus groups

“I don’t think poems have to have easy translation. I believe strongly in emotional and psychological narratives.” —Carl Phillips

I hope #BookSky and authors alike will consider donating to this effort to cover the costs of translating a Palestinian poet into English. Heba Al-Madhoun and two of her children were killed in a 2023 Israeli air strike. Her husband, now based in MA, wants to share her work with the world.

“Board of peace” to describe a body tasked with the utter annihilation of a people is something not even Orwell had the imagination to conceive of.

How this failson was able to make this speech without people walking out in disgust or him being arrested and taken to the ICC, tells you all you need to know about the current state of capitalism, and the absolute evil of not only the JudeoNazi regime of Israel, but the world itself. Vile.

Call this cultural propaganda: every single Israeli launched into the world who acts as if Israel is the most normal country in the world, not at all the racist, apartheid, genocidal, colonial outpost it actually is, is justifying something the world can see for itself is morally unjustifiable.

Israeli forces are massacring Palestinian journalists - committing war crimes on a scale that would normally make headline news - and yet Western media are still calling this a "ceasefire". Pure propaganda.

In our January issue, TMR 57 • PALESTINE, we ask: How do we bear witness without spectacle or amnesia? 🗣️ Featuring essays, art, interviews, and more. The issue drops on Friday, January 30th. Stay tuned. #TheMarkazReview #TMR57Palestine #PalestinianLit #SWANAlit

Albanese: "'[N]ever again' is every day." "[P]eople ask me whether Israel has the right to exist." Many "seem to be talking about [..] Israel's right to exist as an apartheid state, without accountability." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #USA #Apartheid #Military #Suicide #SexualViolence

Please watch and share this Bill C-233 explainer. Write your MP to request a block to the flow of Canadian military products to Israel via the US. Here is a way to take a position about Canada's part in genocide.

Reuters confirming Drop Site’s earlier reporting that Israel and the U.S. have Syria the green light to launch an offensive on the Kurdish-led SDF. Pay attention: When Syrian forces were attacking Alawite & Druze clans, pro-Israel accounts here made it a global story. Today, w/ Israel approving...

Fitting to read Carney in the context of European interwar period, when Césaire wrote "it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it"

3) Most importantly is the solutions Carney talks about and we already see - 'diversifying' by building more pipelines & resource extraction on Indigenous lands; more capitalist trade deals (Canada just signed one with UAE and is finalizing one with India); more AI, and further militarization