Imran Askem

Poker, gaming, cars, films. These are some of the things I like. I'm an ISTP. Views are my own.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

I was challenged, by a defender of Israel's army, to present a list of Israeli war crimes, since the 7th of October, quoting 'chapter and verse'. Well, here it is: https://t.co/VcHLaV96oa

[Majid Freeman @Majstar7]

🇵🇸 #Gaza: This statement by Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola’s daughter, Maria Guardiola has put a lot of politicians, celebrities, journalists and others with a platform to shame:

‘My God.

So is this really what we're going to do now? Just sit back and watch a genocide happen on the telly? Then decades from now, when it's in the history books, all look round at each other and ask, 'how did that happen?'

For the first time, I truly understand how mass atrocities have been able to occur throughout history - again, and again, and again. We never learn.

What does the death count need to be before someone finally speaks against this madness and urges restraint, not more arms? 10,000? 100,000?

A million? More? When have enough Palestinians died?

I get that lots of us are scared to speak up. I get we're afraid to say the "wrong thing. But I won't sit by in silence and live with the fact that I never spoke up when an atrocity on this scale was committed because of fear. We can express our complete condemnation for what the Israeli govt are doing and also assert our unwavering belief in the equal value of Palestinian lives, without inciting hatred against Jewish communities - another persecuted people. Indeed, many Jewish and Israeli people, in the midst of their deep grief and knowing the pain of persecution too well, have had the bravery and strength to be the very first to do so.

This is quite simple. We are watching an occupied, oppressed people face annihilation by a nuclear state with the full backing of the western world. This is not - and has never been - an 'equal fight'. Right now, it is a massacre on a scale I don't think I've ever seen in my life.

6,000 bombs dropped in 6 days already. On a strip of land just 25 miles long and 7.5 miles wide at its widest point. Whole neighbourhoods flattened. Families wiped out. Hospitals collapsing under the weight of the casualties. On a population of 2 million - half of them children. 70% of them refugees. And now, the forced movement of 1 million people. A choice of forced migration or death is ethnic cleansing. The fact that it is impossible for that many to leave in that time means that this is now a genocide.

We have gone way, way beyond wishy washy 'praying for peace', 'all life is precious' IG statements, posted to show you've done your bit of performative activism. Show you mean it. If you have any kind of platform right now, please use it. Speak. Because it's becoming glaringly obvious that the world is happy to walk into an unspeakable horror that we didn't even bother to try to prevent.’

#Palestine 🇵🇸

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Israel and Gaza are not two countries at war. Gaza is a territory under siege, where every aspect of life is controlled by Israel.

Palestinians didn’t break through a “border” to enter Israel. They destroyed a fence separating them from the homes they were forced out of.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

What does Israel's occupation of Palestinians look like?

This former Israeli soldier told @dena how the Israeli army controls every aspect of Palestinians' lives.

[Femi @Femi_sorry]

@RishiSunak Are you joking?!

Millions of people are in poverty, and despite your government admitting that undoing Brexit would improve the economy, you're not willing to fix it...

But you ARE willing to go to war so that millionaires like Nigel Farage can bank wherever they want.

UNREAL!

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

Junior doctor starting salaries:

🇦🇺Australia: £60,000

🇨🇦Canada: £46,000

🇫🇷France: £43,700

🇺🇸USA: £41,900

🇬🇧UK: £29,384

79% of junior doctors say they often think about leaving the NHS — and many have already made the move.

[NHS Nurses @SocialistNHS]

Boris Johnson says it was 'Just drinks after a difficult day'

Meanwhile NHS staff had to work with inadequate PPE, staff shortages and a seriously underfunded NHS

This Government wouldn't know a DIFFICULT DAY if it slapped them in the face 🤬

#PartyGateHearing #GTTO

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

The moment I fully understood the Met police was completely and utterly beyond repair? That it had to be abolished and start over?

It was when I was arrested alongside Ashok Kumar in 2011. Multiple officers were willing to lie to destroy a young man's life (1/10)

[Ethics in Bricks @EthicsInBricks]

If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would try to figure out what's wrong.

When humans do it we put them on cover of Forbes.

[Iain May @uncutnews]

This…..
#GaryGate

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Both a Holocaust survivor and the Auschwitz Memorial Museum have pointed out that today's 'dehumanizing' immigration rhetoric on the right mirrors that of 1930s Germany, as I pointed out on Channel 5 this morning.

So why can't @GaryLineker say it?

[Brendan May @bmay]

The BBC is apparently going to ‘speak to’ @GaryLineker about this tweet, which is ironic as it’s more accurate than most of the corporation’s actual news coverage.

[George Broussard @georgebsocial]

The two states of every programmer.

#gamedesign #gamedev #gamedevs #gamedevelopment #indiedev #indiegame #indiegames #indiedeveloper #indiedevhour #indiegamedeveloper #indiegamedev #indiewatch #MadeWithUnreal #madeinunreal #madewithunity #madewithgodot #programmer #programming #solodev #unity3d #UnrealEngine

[4 Day Week Foundation @4Day_Week]

IT WORKS.

⁃ 92% of companies keep it
⁃ Burnout down by 71%
⁃ Sick days down by 65%
⁃ Revenue up 1.4% on avg.

No question about it - the UK’s 4-day week trial was a 𝙝𝙪𝙜𝙚 success.

It’s time for the 4-day week to go mainstream.

#4DayWeek

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Wholesale Gas is now 6 times cheaper than it was in August. And cheaper that it has been in a long long time.

Ofgem must lower energy bills now.

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

Lee Anderson doesn't want you to hear this

[Sam Griffiths - Just Stop Oil @griffics_play]

Making a killing.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

These striking workers have a message for Rishi Sunak.

[abby byrne @abbyshewrote]

Richard Schiff's masterful performance as Toby Ziegler in the West Wing brings us on a powerful journey of self-acceptance through the Sorkin era. In this thread, I break down 10 of his greatest scenes to examine how @Richard_Schiff's performance shapes our understanding of Toby.