Say what you will about Zohran (and there is a lot to criticize him for), but he actually gets shit done

It's too late I have already depicted myself as the stoic and unbothered corrupt police chief Irons and you as the emotional and irrational surviving members of S.T.A.R.S following the events of resident evil 1 in the lead up to the raccoon city outbreak

For such an iconic story, it’s funny that we still don’t know how “shibboleth” was actually pronounced by the Ephraimites and Gileadites

In math, this is what we call “vacuously true”. The preposition “∀ country ∈ 🌎, if country ∈ Coalition, then country is willing” is true because the set Coalition = Ø

This is the same strategy that has caused Labour to implode in the UK. They cracked down on immigrants and trans people while adopting more conservative positions to appeal to Reform voters. The result is that they're approval ratings are in the teens and they're hemorrhaging support to the Greens.

Bluesky needs its own Bad Arabic and Hebrew Takes account

this is one of the most amazing conversations I have ever seen on Bluesky. It’s a shame that the Louvre deleted his account because this should be framed

The extension of the Gaza genocide to the whole of the Middle East

Proud to see that the JUSTICE FOR HIND RAJAB ACT has been introduced by Welch and Van Hollen in the Senate as well as by Jacobs and Castro in the House. It demands a full federal accounting and investigation, to be reported to Congress, on the murder of innocent civilians in Gaza by the Israelis.

The center-right Le Monde editorial board this morning:

Qliffī! Save us!

Nazi rhetoric from the Nazi president of the United States of America

This is heartbreaking and infuriating. Ms Rachel makes every celeb who mumbles "I don't want to get political" when confronted about the horrors being committed in our names look like the absolute cowardly enablers that they are.

The *apists were caught on camera and defended their actions. The Israeli public filled the streets to defend their right to *ape. This is Israel. This is Zionism. And it is irredeemable.

Israel told 750,000 people to leave their homes or be killed and then bombed them as they slept rough in a “safe area” miles from Dahiyeh Where is the global condemnation of this daily war criminal? www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

"[R]easonable to conclude that Israel's ambitions in Lebanon extend beyond weakening or eliminating Hezbollah." "I think Israel just wants an ongoing conflict, internal pressure, and chaos — and to see the Lebanese state collapse." #Israel #Lebanon #Military #Genocide

I agree with @ayoub.bsky.social that “Israel’s territorial ambitions and drive for total domination far outweigh any commitment to long-term regional stability.”

My latest for @972mag.com on how Israel’s war is against Lebanon. Not Hezbollah. Lebanon. www.972mag.com/israels-rene... Quoted @justinsalhani.bsky.social

Can someone who understands Taiwanese politics explain to me why the DPP forms the government when the KMT alone has more seats? Does the TPP tend to vote with the DPP?

The first word in this post contradicts the rest of it

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a Saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist." -Brazilian Archbishop Hélder Câmara.

This is one those instances in which someone who is just honest about the reality and argues that it's actually good and fine ends up being far more coherent. And I've met plenty of those people.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his substack depends on his not understanding it".

This is a fragment from the oldest Hebrew Bible manuscript with a given date of production. It's the end of the book of Nehemiah, pointed with Babylonian vowel signs. A Jewish scribe named Joseph ben Nimorad completed it in 903/4 CE at Gunbad-i-Mallgan (modern Dogonbadan, Iran).

All right: I’m putting out an open invitation: if you’re a moot living in or visiting Europe and would like to meet, let me know, and we’ll arrange something* *Time tbd because I still don’t have permanent housing lol

There's so much to be depressed about right now, particularly if you are connected to or focused on the Middle East. This podcast with @rachelschine.bsky.social, talking about her recent monograph on race in medieval Islam, gave me joy. music.youtube.com/podcast/M_PM...

‘Not a happy place’: CNN staff fret about the future under David Ellison

Look back on Gaza and you will see a pattern of Israeli strikes designed to kill children in hopes of intimidating and breaking the minds of journalists, doctors and government workers. Many children at this school in Iran had parents working for Iran's government. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

OMFG they think we are the dumbest people who ever lived.

UN education agency, UNESCO, says bombing of school during US and Israeli military attacks on Iran constitutes a grave violation of humanitarian law. Missiles reportedly destroyed a girl’s primary school in Minab, Iran, killing around 150 and wounding almost 100.  news.un.org/en/story/202...

Besides the lack of effort to manufacture consent for this war, another depressing change from the Iraq War is how obsequious European and Arab countries all are. Remember when the Iraq War made the US unpopular in Europe? Remember “freedom fries”? No such opposition now

The number of dead kids in the Israeli bombing of a girl’s school in Minab, southern Iran, has now reached 148. Don’t let them sell you dead children as “collateral damage of a just war”. The death of Khamenei does not justify 148 dead children.

Whether Iranians celebrating Khamenei's death or Bahrainis and Palestinians celebrating Iranian missiles hitting Israeli and American targets, there is nobody in the Middle East who lives in a country where the people have the power. The people want the fall of the Regime, from Tel Aviv to Tehran.

The country that should look at what has happened and get nukes the fastest is actually Egypt, but it won't

Israel, immediately after vaporizing a bunch of little girls:

"I want lasting peace and so I support bombing elementary schools and murdering 60 girls"

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

If Americans can’t figure out why we’re starting a war with Iran, then frankly they don’t deserve to know. by Karoline Leavitt

Haven't seen an official statement, but AP says Houthi officials are resuming attacks on Israel and the Red Sea. This fulfills their pledge to take part in a response, allows them to redirect discontent toward an issue they're popular on, and I think underlines how seriously they see the situation.

If the US is notorious worldwide for school shootings, Israel has been notorious for half a century for bombing schools everywhere it goes

Do not forget the people of Lebanon either, who have been suffering the "preemptive" bombardment of Israel for well over a year and a half and are suffering it intensified tenfold today

To my Iranian friends: I hope you all stay safe during this war of aggression by the rogue terrorist states of Israel and the United States

I’m an internationalist in the sense that I think DC should be occupied by coalition forces

The French word ‘aujourd’hui’ (today) consists of ‘au’ (on the), ‘jour’ (day), ‘de’ (of) and ‘hui’ (today). It was formed during the late Middle Ages. However, many Romance words come from even older combinations. Some are hardly identifiable as such anymore. Click my new graphics to explore them:

I was reminded of a neat English example of stacking: 'about'. Via Middle English 'abuten', it comes from Old English 'onbūtan', literally "on the outside". This was a combination of 'on' and 'būtan', a cognate of Dutch 'buiten' ("outside"). 'Būtan' and 'buiten', in turn, come from ... 1/

Do what you gotta do to reach people, but I fucking hate shorts and the fact that YouTube’s algorithm (and search) is useless for anything except shorts now

I hope this is true, and that we see some evidence of this position dying before thousands more people do as a result of it

Well yeah, the name kind of gave it away