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

I see James Watson has died. What did Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin's lab notes. Only we spell it 'S-T-E-A-L' these days.

“Turkey has issued arrest warrants for alleged genocide against the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and senior officials …. Among 37 suspects listed were the Israeli defence minister, Israel Katz, the national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and the army chief Lt Gen Eyal Zamir”

New reporting in Bloomberg raises additional questions about the role the Government of India may have played in the death of Avtar Singh Khanda, a Sikh activist who died in a British hospital under mysterious circumstances. Read more --> www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Haven't even really been noticing, such is the habituation

This is SUCH a thoroughly reported story. Covers every aspect of the thing most reporters don't even know to write about. Great job, @yashicadutt.bsky.social

1/5 EXCLUSIVE: I’m in Kampala, Uganda, where I’ll be living & reporting this month. Since it’s @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s hometown, I wanted to share a bit of the pride the people of Kampala have on NYC’s Election Day for their hometown boy (full video here, feel free w credit to thrashery)

Get the full story in “The bombing of Gaza Sky Geeks,” our new feature from @mohamhawish.bsky.social and Aseel Mousa about the world's unlikeliest tech hub and their hope for the future restofworld.org/2025/gaza-sk...

Thanks to @carlelliott.bsky.social for publishing this important piece about how research scandals occupy too little of the bioethics literature -- and for his extensive discussion of exploitation of disabled people in the Willowbrook hepatitis experiments. www.thehastingscenter.org/what-researc...

Israel is using a 'no war, no peace' Lebanonisation model in Gaza, analysts say. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

“Hurricane Melissa is finally leaving the Caribbean after battering communities in Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba for days, leaving a trail of devastation that killed about 50 people. The hurricane smashed into Jamaica with enormous force on Tuesday as a Category 5 storm…”

guys i need to send an email. what esoteric blood sacrifice ritual do i need to do to get the power to do this?

This whole thread is a useful perspective that I largely agree with. I will note that Dalit and Bahujan movements, specifically, have ALWAYS taken Black enslavement and the Black Americas experience seriously, and assumed solidarity with the racial struggle.

Palestinians were never wrong — they are being annihilated by mercenaries from around the world. Israel summoned its terrorists from everywhere to destroy Gaza. Archive | Jabalia, early 2024: Israeli terrorists mocking displaced and killed families, each in their mother tongue.

Sudanese people are being hunted down, humiliated and killed by RSF fighters, according to survivors and aid agencies.

INVESTIGATION: Inside Project Nimbus To secure the lucrative contract, Google & Amazon agreed to secretly notify Israel if a foreign court demands its data, and disregard their own terms of service. By Yuval Abraham www.972mag.com/project-nimb... @mekomit.bsky.social

The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab report “ATROCITY ALERT, RSF Mass Killings Persist in El-Fasher” can be found here. Warning, it is extremely distressing files-profile.medicine.yale.edu/documents/bc...

Evidence of mass killings by RSF in El-Fasher, Sudan, are chilling. They must be a wake up call for the rest of the planet too. Countries must be pressured to stop sending weapons into their proxy war in Sudan. It starts with acknowledging the horror.

Karimeh Abbud (1896 – 1940; Arabic: كريمة عبّود) was a Palestinian professional photographer and artist who lived and worked in Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century. She was one of the first woman photographers in Palestine and the Middle East. Today, a colorful postcard thread 🧵

The Ivory Coast is changing the way French is spoken and France is mad about it.

There are more speakers of Indian English than British English or even American English. We'd best do the needful.

Huh. TIL that Louis Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of British India, was a serial rapist of boys. God only knows how many victims he found in India. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

who do you hate more - websites that straight up have a blank white page until you enable javascript, or emails that are totally blank till you enable remote content? (fuck you both)

Mauritius will soon be home to one of the largest projects in the Western Indian Ocean aimed at restoring corals through sexual propagation. The initiative aligns with a recent policy push by the Mauritian government to promote coral restoration through alternative methods.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Which means that the Savarna Hindu patriarchal obsession with breeding more children is going to intensify. The kind of demolishment of sexual and medical autonomy rights that the US is seeing is going to be attempted here. Always keep fighting.

Yes you are correct. I saw Dainik Jagran wrote it as ज़ोहरान ममदानी (www.jagran.com/entertainmen...) Mum would be a better pronounciation guide than calm. But Mom is just wrong.

The first vowel is a short अ which I would say is closer to the sound in ‘mum’ than ‘calm’, which seems closer to the second long आ.

NO. The 'aa' sound in mam is not the same as the 'aw" sound in mom. The closer vowel sound would be the 'aa' in calm. Or, you know, just listen to him saying his own name. FFS.

Staggering atrocities in Sudan. Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."

Still, the suffering of the Sudanese people is on a whole other level. The indifference isn’t owned by the West alone; it’s shared by those closest too. Arabs watch Africans burn and feel nothing, just as others once shrugged as Syrians fought the flames. It’s not geography. It’s hierarchy. 2/5

“All children’s lives have equal value,” we say, with confidence. But having for years witnessed my people buried under the weight of global silence, let’s face it: That sentence only applies if the children are the right color, from the right wars, dying in ways the news can romanticize. 1/5

The women married to fascists are usually also fascists. They weren't "tricked" into being with these people. They chose them.

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

Winner of the Vaikom Award and co-founder of Dalit civil rights advocacy Equality Labs @dalitdiva.bsky.social talks to Priya Ramani about white nationalists, the collapse of democracy in the US & finding hope in dark times article-14.com/post/-aligni...

About Andrew Forrest's Fortescue from the book 'Title Fight'. Mining companies seizing indigenous lands and dividing communities while promising/ claiming to work with them in partnership and employ them is both an old trick and a global one

Bluesky isn’t bound by any of the user engagement juicing-to-profitability logic of other platforms (right?), so you shouldn’t need to rely on behavioral interaction design that attempts to reify that logic. Let users *not* engage, or be engaged with, as they will

Manipulating user behavior at the cost of user agency is big tech design thinking. It’s the Meta behavioral influence design playbook. Why would a decentralized syndication protocol and social media site benefit by drawing from that playbook?

The problem with experiments like forcing someone to read a thread before they can reply is that they attempt to manipulate user behavior while removing user agency, which is anti-human design. The alternative is to give users way more agency in controlling allowable interactions

True friendship is when you tell her what enshittification means and she tells you there's a thing called orgasmic meditation.

Drop Site using the 'died in jail' phrase on Epstein's death is, I hope, a precursor to better proof that he was killed.

🔗 Jeffrey Epstein and the Mossad: How The Sex-Trafficker Helped Israel Build a Backchannel to Russia Amid Syrian Civil War www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-ep...

⚡️NEW from Drop Site | Jeffrey Epstein and the Mossad: How The Sex-Trafficker Helped Israel Build a Backchannel to Russia Amid Syrian Civil War Hacked emails show how Jeffrey Epstein and former... Read the full story by @mazmhussain.bsky.social and @ryangrim.bsky.social at the link in reply.

A nationwide internet shutdown is still in place.

Dusk-to-Dawn curfew in place in Tanzania as protests continue following the national election yesterday. Incumbent Samia Suluhu is accused of intimidation and arbitrary arrests of leading opposition figures, including Chadema leader Tundu Lissu who is charged with treason and was not on the ballot.