BoissonProcess

Burner account of an unknown scientist: NBA, ancient and medieval history and other fun stuff

[BoissonProcess @BoissonProcess]

Wedgies are a Poisson process
#nbatwitter #thestarters #nbawedgies #probabilities

[Collectif Golem @Collectif_Golem]

Établir des listes d'étudiants juifs, remplacer leur photo de profil par un drapeau palestinien et le slogan Free Palestine le 7 octobre. Nous ne voulons plus entendre "tout va bien". Il est temps de protéger
les étudiant.e.s juifves de l'antisémitisme

https://t.co/2gvzeht0Jn

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Imbeciles in Europe and the United States who celebrated Hamas's 10/7 massacre are now moving on to their next favorite terror organization because that's what they do: jump from cause to cause, sabotage it, get bored, and then find the next viable group of brown and dark people to "save" and "de-colonize. It is entirely possible to feel anger & horror for what's happening in Lebanon without then cheering on, celebrating, glorifying, or promoting Hezbollah, the terror organization that unnecessarily brought death & destruction upon the Lebanese people & could have avoided this war by simply not attacking targets in northern Israel. An entire year: that's how long Hezbollah had to prevent this war and not give Sinwar & Netanyahu what they both want, which is a prolonged and expansive regional conflict.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

What being pro-Palestine means to me / my platform: I'm passionately, unequivocally, and without hesitation, a proponent of the Palestinian people’s just and urgent aspirations for self-determination, liberation, sovereignty, and safety. I grew up in Gaza, where I experienced Israeli violence and bombardment, including one incident that almost killed me and caused me permanent hearing impairment; my family is still in Gaza and has suffered dozens of deaths during this latest war; my grandparents were expelled from their ancestral homelands in 1948 and fled to the Gaza Strip; and my parents were raised in a refugee camp in Rafah during the 1950s. This background informs and influences me and speaks to why I care about the Palestinian issue and consider myself pro-Palestine. I am motivated by a sincere desire to see my people obtain their legitimate and undeniable rights, which they have not had for decades.

Yet I, and many others, especially those who are silent or are forced to be quiet, struggle with finding a political home in today’s pro-Palestine movement. Increasingly, it feels as if pro-Palestine activism is dominated by maximalists (wanting all of historic Palestine and other zero-sum positions and approaches), slogan-driven voices, and narratives. There is a lack of pragmatic and humanistic ability to hold multiple truths at once and to advocate nuanced and color-rich positions and views that are not black-and-white depictions and understandings of the Israel and Palestine conflict.

Here’s what, to me, an effective and meaningful pro-Palestine platform entails:

1. Supporting the right of Palestinians to a sovereign and independent state living in peace side by side with Israel.

2. Condemning Israeli government actions, policies, priorities, and decisions that kill, harm, undermine, or oppress the Palestinian people.

3. Criticizing and decrying the conduct of the war in Gaza, the military occupation in the West Bank, and the Israeli government’s disregard for Palestinian civilian lives, and the destruction of property and cities.

4. Rejecting, denouncing, and exposing the theft of Palestinian lands in the West Bank and the sprawling settlement enterprise and settler violence.

5. Supporting highly targeted, specific, and effective sanctions against individuals, groups, and entities that are enabling the unjust and illegal occupation of the West Bank and harming Palestinian civilians.

6. Denouncing and combating the dehumanization of the Palestinian people or the denial of their existence as people with the right to live on the land they called home for generations.

7. Acknowledging the tragedy experienced by hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians from 1948 and giving them/their descendants the right to return to the lands of a future Palestinian state in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip.

8. Understanding past and contemporary mistakes that have set the Palestinian people back by decades and made them pawns in ideologies and geopolitical programs, agendas, and designs.

9. Developing a pragmatic and realistic framework for recognizing Israel’s existence, right to exist, and the inevitability of its continued existence, all of which should inform how a solution is approached.

10. Dispensing with delusional and destructive elements of the Palestinian narrative and acknowledging that there will not be a full liberation of all of Palestine, there will not be a right of return to what is now mainland Israel, and that Israel cannot and should not be confronted militarily or through any form of violence.

11. Promoting a cultural shift away from revolutionary rhetoric, martyrdom, and armed resistance, and instead, rebranding coexistence and peace as a courageous and necessary evolution to preserve Palestinian lives, lands, and heritage and foster a new generation of nation-builders who are focused on doing the most with what the Palestinians currently have and can have in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

12. Denouncing and rejecting antisemitism while also acknowledging that Zionists and Israelis are a diverse group/people and that the Palestinians have to work with all of these segments to have sustainable coexistence and peace.

13. Understanding how violent/hateful rhetoric, actions, and mistakes are detrimental because they empower right-wing and extremist forces in Israel who are opposed to Palestinian rights and that persistent mistakes and incendiary rhetoric and proclamations erode support for the Palestinian people and cause.

14. Recognizing Palestinian agency, responsibility, and accountability when taking actions that have negative consequences and outcomes and acknowledging that, while there’s an asymmetry of power dynamics, Palestinian leaders, political groups, and prominent figures should make rational and responsible choices to optimize for better prospects.

15. Accepting that even with East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state, access to holy sites must always be shared and open to all.

16. Realizing how nefarious regional players like the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies are not sincere or helpful allies to the Palestinian people and have done so much damage to the entire region and the Palestinian cause.

17. Developing the capacity to hear Jewish perspectives and grievances, historical and contemporary, to understand why pro-Israel supporters believe what they do and why Israel means so much to so many, even if one disagrees with those opinions and views.

18. Understanding that Hamas recklessly endangered Palestinian lives and placed the people of Gaza in significant harm and that the group relies on Palestinian suffering as part of its strategy to delegitimize Israel globally while perpetuating the conflict without any meaningful resolution.

19. Registering the dangers of Islamist rhetoric and ideology that seeks to Islamize Palestinian society and to turn the Palestinian national project into a religious one in pursuit of an Islamic state that, by default, will be exclusionary and incapable of accommodating diverse residents in a future Palestinian country.

I am compelled to share the aforementioned because, for far too many people, pro-Palestine activism has been reduced to incendiary language that fails to capture the multiple moving parts of what is needed to advance the just and urgent Palestinian aspirations for freedom and independence. While many students, activists, advocates, academics, and analysts have their hearts in the right place, many cannot present viable and pragmatic ideas that are not mere rhetorical statements and empty slogans.

I know that many strongly disagree with my views and opinions, and that’s entirely fine. Still, many more are eager to see a recalibration of pro-Palestine activism to actually help the Palestinians achieve statehood instead of inflaming division and fostering hostility towards supporters of Israel and the Jewish community. Many in Palestine are aware of the need to be pragmatic and don’t think that angry protests, BDS, antisemitism, endless academic lectures, social media activism, or “feel good” slogans will actually make a difference.

It’s time for a rejuvenated pro-Palestine movement that serves as a big tent to encompass multiple views and opinions and to invite and promote broad alliances, especially with mainstream Jewish and Israeli communities, to work towards a just and sustainable resolution of the conflict once and for all. This is entirely attainable and achievable with humility, civility, patience, compassion and kindness, perseverance and determination, a willingness to accept reasonable compromises and accommodations, and, most importantly, the recognition of both sides’ undeniable and mutual humanity.

[BoissonProcess @BoissonProcess]

@jeskeets Btw, as an outro gift to Nora, I suggest this book of French idioms with real and fun litteral translations (it doesn't have the raunchy ones)

[BoissonProcess @BoissonProcess]

@jeskeets Thanks for the laurghs! I wanted to be your french expert, for occasional zany parentheses. Tonight, during the Bronze vs Silver debate and the comment on Bronze's caca color, I'd have added that there is a French idiom saying "couler un bronze" that means going #2.

[François Malaussena @malopedia]

La question des ministres votants est à la fois pas la bonne question s’agissant du vote du perchoir, et très préoccupante pour la suite. C’est bien plus complexe que ce que tout ce qui a été écrit. Un thread mais je préviens, ça va être long (donc retweetez dès maintenant 😉) ⤵️

[Jean Mizrahi @JeanMizrahi]

Lyon, France, 2024

[Le Zelenskyste 🇫🇷🇺🇦 @VolodimirZelen1]

🚨 Vous avez probablement entendu parler du candidat RN Pierre Gentillet, connu pour son soutien à Poutine et son amitié avec Jordan Bardella. Ce que vous ne savez pas, c'est qu'il est BIEN PLUS QUE ÇA (white pride & IVG...)👀 je vous explique, c'est OUF 👇

[Edwy Plenel @edwyplenel]

Mise en garde. Ces projections qui prédisent que le RN n’obtiendra pas de majorité absolue oublient que les dynamiques électorales ne se réduisent pas à des probabilités. Jusqu’à la dernière minute tout doit être fait, dans la vie réelle, pour éviter la catastrophe. Faire front.

[🦏 Babar le Rhinocéros🦏 @Babar_le_Rhino]

Les candidats FN sont réputés pour leurs très nombreuses condamnations :
Fraude, racisme, antisémitisme , islamophobie, homophobie, misogynie ...

Pour s'y retrouver, des militants ont rassemblé 112 candidats dans cette carte interactive

https://t.co/TM2jNPfwAV

Partagez ! 🙏

[Réseau contre l'Antisémitisme et tous les Racismes @RAAR2021]

Urgence antisémitisme
Le @RAAR2021 interpelle les partis du #NouveauFrontPopulaire et demande des actions concrètes contre l'#antisémitisme et tous les #racismes.
@EELV @FranceInsoumise @PCF @partisocialiste
https://t.co/GmM1PZnxpk

[Cartes du Monde @CartesDuMonde]

Un monde qui brûle🧵

L’actualité française éclipse une situation internationale qui est au bord du gouffre. Au Soudan une épuration ethnique a lieu, la Chine menace ses voisins et la Géorgie sombre dans l’autoritarisme. Voici un tour du monde qui tangue dangereusement⤵️

1/22

[Cory Le Guen @coryleguen]

Le RN ne change pas et nombre de ses candidat•es posent problème tant l’ADN du FN semble omniprésent.

Petit tour d’horizon de ces « drôles » de candidatures ⬇️

◾️Frédéric Boccaletti
Candidat dans la 7e du Var
Condamné à de la prison ferme pour avoir tiré sur des compatriotes noirs et ancien détenteur d’une librairie négationniste.

[BoissonProcess @BoissonProcess]

L'anglais aussi a une orthographe compliquée et pourtant, je ne crois pas que la dictée soit devenu une obsession comme en France, du moins pas aux US. Il serait interessant de comprendre pourquoi? l'absence d'une "éducation nationale" centralisée?

[BoissonProcess @BoissonProcess]

Quel ouvrage suggérez vous pour apprendre une véritable théorie de la langue française et surtout pour enseigner de manière intelligente aux petits les bases d'une véritable grammaire sans les saouler avec des dictées? @TractLinguistes @Laelia_Ve @Linguisticae

[Tract Linguistes 🐘🦋 @TractLinguistes]

Que faire ?
Tout revoir.

Tout l’enseignement de la langue et de la grammaire. Enseigner les bases mêmes des catégories grammaticales. Les sciences du langage contribuent à la formation de l’esprit, comme la philo.
Changer le regard sur le langage.

On est là 🎶
(bon dimanche)

[Tract Linguistes 🐘🦋 @TractLinguistes]

#DimancheLinguistique
On continue!

Qui a dit "La grammaire scolaire est une imposture scientifique et pédagogique"

?

André Chervel, linguiste, 1977

il l'a prouvé, magistralement.
C'était pas mieux avant. C'est toujours vrai

RT, écoutez et déroulez ⬇️
https://t.co/1JeC5m6dpQ

[BoissonProcess @BoissonProcess]

@Linguisticae Aussi utilisé en chimie organique, pour décrire des isomères Cis ou Trans.

[BoissonProcess @BoissonProcess]

@alecmimoun @threadreaderapp please unroll

[BoissonProcess @BoissonProcess]

Compost bench wasn't great tonight... Guano would have improved the chemistry

[BoissonProcess @BoissonProcess]

@NoDunksInc @treykerby Most people know what guano is, no? And it's not necessarily bat shit, it generally refers to seabird poop. Learned that as a kid in Tintin. What I learned today is that it's Quechua for "dung", as Andean people taught Europeans to use it as fertilizer

[BoissonProcess @BoissonProcess]

A good tip for green thumb @TasMelas. Would be great if the @nuggets could add a player named Guano to their Brown Braun Green compost bench