Rasa Samimi

Writer of Where the Dead Go

[Laura Rozen @lrozen]

Ode to long books

https://t.co/dZtityxTXN

[Iran Nuances @IranNuances]

#Iran's IRGC has published a photo which shows the skull of an American force amid the wreckage of an aircraft destroyed on Sunday morning.

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

Azov’s 12th Brigade montage of Russian occupiers being taken out. For some reason, they keep clinging to pipes.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Just as in Gaza, the US is lifting the constraints on how Israel can use American bombs. As a result, Israel uses 2,000lb bombs to strike densely populated areas in Tehran.

So, we are now seeing Gaza-style images of civilians and children being killed en masse in Iran.

[Rasa Samimi @RassaSamimi]

The incredible shrinking novel: why we’re all reading shorter books
https://t.co/wCm32QSuRl

[Rasa Samimi @RassaSamimi]

Thou Shalt Not Kill or You Shall Not Murder?
https://t.co/cxgollsNKM

[Publishers Weekly @PublishersWkly]

'Human stories are always about one thing—death': Why the shadow of death and WW1 hang over 'The Lord of the Rings' | @bbc https://t.co/9IKBZA5hhy

[Literary Hub @lithub]

What Julia Phillips learned about writing from fairy tales: “Close the circle—even if your characters suffer, your readers will remember it.”
https://t.co/gI6GUkt3dH

[Publishers Weekly @PublishersWkly]

The Secrets of Suspense in Storytelling | @newyorker https://t.co/kgAuxTmiic

[Marc Bekoff @MarcBekoff]

The Emotional Lives of Animals and Why They Matter

Detailed comparative research clearly shows that diverse animals are sentient and have rich and deep emotional lives. In the past 20 years, research in this field has exploded.

https://t.co/rmtdeq0kqQ

[Rasa Samimi @RassaSamimi]

@RobMorrow_ Joel (@RobMorrow_) turns to Maggie (@JanineTurner) & says, "When I was a kid I thought nothing was real, and that if you turn your head fast enough you catch God changing the scenery. Still have that feeling, a sense there's a whole other reality: real reality that we can't see".

[Rasa Samimi @RassaSamimi]

@RobMorrow_ Just replayed your last Northern Exposure episode here today.
Adam showing up in the middle of nowhere as Gustov the Gatekeeper was a nice touch.

[Rasa Samimi @RassaSamimi]

@globeandmail They don't feed cows grass! Who knew?

[Rasa Samimi @RassaSamimi]

@Unpop_Science @pete_ar_fryn @mbolotnikova @GeorgeMonbiot Thanks.

All y'all have to do is to look at Media pages of animal farmers.
They're constantly posting pics/video clips of cropping massive fields for animal feed, which they then call "grass" (the one word which magically vanishes their real GHG emissions with environmentalists).

[Rasa Samimi @RassaSamimi]

@julie_dutto @nagoyo07 Even more cruel than short-chained 24/7.

Electric wires/plates buzzing at 2,500 volts just above them so that when they try to stand they're forced to arch their backs to defecate/urinate in gutters dug behind concrete stalls shorter than their body size.
https://t.co/e6lsmyV0lx

[Rasa Samimi @RassaSamimi]

Nearly two thirds of Canadian dairy farms use tie-stall housing where cows are short-chained continuously all their lives. https://t.co/oNUMfksLOu

[Rasa Samimi @RassaSamimi]

@Unpop_Science @pete_ar_fryn @mbolotnikova @GeorgeMonbiot Average animal farm = ~300 acres, which must be intensively farmed 6 months of the year; other 6 months supplemented with store-bought soy/beet pellet feed shipped from Utah, razed Amazon, etc.

(But Y'all keep calculating GHG emissions of animals grazing "grass", now, you hear.)

[Rasa Samimi @RassaSamimi]

@Unpop_Science @pete_ar_fryn @mbolotnikova @GeorgeMonbiot The other 50% of animal feed also comes from crops.
https://t.co/xHRzNOgX5G
(Ryegrass, chicory, white/red clover, etc., are crops, not grass growing naturally out there.)