After the failure of negotiations in Damascus, a general mobilization has begun in Rojava. Youth from northern Kurdistan appear To have crossed the border to join the defence. it feels like 2014 again, complete with horrific executions of SDF prisoners.

Feels like something cracked today in the transatlantic alliance. Europeans have been swallowing their pride, bitting their tongues, and bending the knee. That strategy may have bought them time but it has now clearly failed. It also had a major cost - it has made the WH think Europe will cave. 1/

this is fucking incredible

www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-... watch the 60 minutes segment on cecot that was censored by bari weiss

Use @libertyhq's helpful tool to tell the House of Lords to reject the dangerous proposals in the Crime and Policing Bill secure.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/page/180398/...

Full speech here: www.sdvfp.org/war-is-a-rac... Butler bio here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley...

Here's something that's never made sense to me: when Zionists call Palestinian Arabs/Muslims colonisers, are they expecting people to believe it was Arabs and/or Muslims who expelled Jews from Palestine in the 1st century CE, ~500 years before the birth of Mohammed?

People turn to drugs when their life conditions are unbearable and they are suffering. It would be far less expensive to take care of people's material needs than to fund an expensive and wasteful war. But we all know they don't care about Americans or Venezuelans. They only care about resources.

I just finished laying my food out on the baking tray and realised it was shrimp with a side of shrimp 😂

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

This is probably true but G-d I hope video-based social media isn't The Future :/ it would still be better than Elon Musk controlling a significant part of the world's social infrastructure though

I've had it with pushy voice assistant "features". My phone literally just interrupted my music to suggest I "try asking it to play music"

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

abstract support is the best description. “your trans? oh i support you living your truth!” “oh, you’re transitioning and taking hormones and your body is changing? well now i am going to be quietly uncomfortable.” “wdym you need my help because our government is trying to erase your existence?”

Chanukah sameach to everyone who celebrates <3

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

If some creatures from Hoth had a collection of Belgian comics that they agreed would belong to the one who lived the longest, that would be a tauntaun Tintin tontine.

We live in a time of terrifying political violence, and JFREJ is fighting for a world where these kinds of attacks on Jews and on anyone would be a nightmare of the past. Baruch dayan haemet. (2/2)

As Jews around the world gather to celebrate Chanukah this week, we are horrified to hear of the antisemitic attack on our fellow Jews in Australia. No one should be afraid to light a Chanukiah. No one should be afraid to attend a community gathering or go to school. (1/2)

If you believe "the State of Israel has a right to exist", do you believe the same of any other nation-state?

Um, ok... This paper forthcoming at the JOP provides evidence that rent control in Germany actually made tenants MASSIVELY *less* NIMBY. This result was in the opposite direction of the authors' pre-registered expectations. And the effect sizes are, truly, massive.

There are lots of other ways to address the very real harms that kids experience online: ✅ Strict privacy laws that make it illegal to harvest data and use it to recommend content ✅ Antitrust laws so we have real choices for where to go online ✅ Regulate features like autoplay & infinite scroll

The thing to understand about "age verification" laws is that they are not just for kids The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE. This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE

They're trying to evict my asylum seeker friend from her temporary accommodation in Rusholme today, despite an ongoing appeal. On-the-ground support potentially needed. The address is the OYO Hala Guest House, Dickenson Road, M14 5HZ. Watch this space

Does anyone have a source for an epub of Edward Said's Orientalism? (I already checked libcom & marxists dot org)

Apparently trans hate crimes are down - success! Or is it? We've seen a post from @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social where two forces are pretty much refusing to take a trans hate crime report. How often is that happening? www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/crime/p...

Tfw not sure if losing interest in men in practice or if all the individual men are just individually gross >_> I still like the *idea* of men but any time I try to do anything with one recently it seems to trigger my mucus issue lol

Omg the #DailyHeil discovered #HazbinHotel 🤣

Absolutely insane. Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani. Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo. The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".

Woke up with a vague recollection of re-enrolling in formal education of some sort and panicked, cos the new academic year started 2 months ago and I've definitely not been *going* to any such course >_< 90% certain this is just my anxiety making shit up for me to panic about

Be the queercoded female Bond villain you want to see in the world

I didn't see a thing.

#DeadEndParanormalPark is a legit really fun show and I'd never have bothered to check it out if it wasn't for the fash seething at it for existing :3

Evangelio, @kierongillen.bsky.social? Bit on the nose for Masumi to be an Evangelion fan :D

Sleep? I think I heard the legend once...

Patriarchal masculinity has hurt me horribly, but I don't think that's the only type that exists. Do I know what masculinity and femininity look like outside a patriarchal framework? No. But I want to build it.

Teenage detectives who work with and are taken seriously by the police seem to be a recurring theme in Japanese fiction? Akechi in Persona 5, L in Death Note, Detective Conan, Satoshi in DNAngel? Is it an actual thing in Japan in real life or just a common trope?

Want to understand why users have lost faith in Bluesky's leadership? Or what the deal with waffles was about? Or why users are up in arms about a beloved activist and community builder was banned for criticizing Bluesky's CEO?

Greta Thunberg has arrived in Greece following her deportation from Israel, after the Gaza aid flotilla was intercepted #GlobalSumudFlotilla She said: “I could talk for a very,very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.” #Athens airport

It occurred to me earlier that I completely accidentally chose Halloween season as the time to read the gay space necromancer book xD #TamsynMuir #GideonTheNinth #LockedTomb

Hey Mom? The tranny was right again. Hey Mom? Why does no one ever listen to Cassandra's warnings?

Damn, I was hoping they'd share :(

She was arrested for holding a sign reading: “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action” How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

Where was it that I saw Stremio suggested as an alternative to the commercial streaming sites? Unless I'm missing something it just seems to tell you what commercial sites to find stuff on?