Saadoon

What?

[Saadoon @SaadoonMinhas]

@TK_HelpDesk DM-ed and still awaiting a response…

[Saadoon @SaadoonMinhas]

@TurkishAirlines why would you refuse to confirm a pet booking a few hours before a flight, when the service was paid for and previously confirmed a month in advance!
And this is after the original flight was cancelled at the very last minute *after* boarding had commenced.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Trying to provoke both a world war and a civil war at the same time while demanding a Nobel Peace prize is a level of insanity we’ve never seen ever before.

[Eli Clifton @EliClifton]

Ms. Rachel responds to Sarah Hurwitz’s complaint about trying to talk “through a wall of dead children.”

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING: A new UN report finds that Israel’s assault on Gaza - with the destruction of health care, education, infrastructure, even the banking system - has erased 69 years of human development, marking the worst economic collapse ever recorded.
This is not war: it is genocide.

[Rick @colonelhogans]

Only six more weeks until Christian Nationalists celebrate the birth of a Palestinian baby they wouldn’t even feed

[shri @shriiyasays]

jewish supremacist logic: every israeli serves in the IDF by law and gets to be called a civilian but lebanese and palestinians who have never picked up arms in their lives are default “terrorists”

[Juan J. Arroyo @juanjoarroyo23]

"testing the ceasefire" is such a fucking evil and insidious way of framing this news

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

For the thousandth time, “Israel says” is not journalism.

[Saadoon @SaadoonMinhas]

@okayysorryy coffeemistry just doesn't hit like it used to anymore

[Saadoon @SaadoonMinhas]

@okayysorryy That would be so amazing

[Ryan Moulton @moultano]

Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

[Haider Abbasi @HaiderKAbbasi]

Congrats to New York City’s mayor-elect @ZohranKMamdani who defeated Andrew Cuomo and Zaid Hamid.

[Saadoon @SaadoonMinhas]

Will this take motivate me to start populating my own empty substack? Stay tuned to find out

[roro, PhD @fuglibetty]

I think everybody should write substack personal essays. I think everybody should be self-indulgent and self-flagellating and narcissistically milking the most mundane minutiae of their lives. Because what else do you have but stories… And maybe it brings us closer

[Saadoon @SaadoonMinhas]

Calcium supplement

[S♡ @iamdieforyouuu]

You have to name him the last thing you ate

[Saadoon @SaadoonMinhas]

@RotiKholDeyo I've been ordering tikka from a place for 3 years now but still haven't developed a shred of familiarity with them. I wonder if I'm doing sth wrong or they just dgaf

[Osman Khalid Butt 🇵🇸 @aClockworkObi]

This list is weak. Allow me to expand:

- won’t whisper 𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘢’𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘩 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘰𝘺 𝘐’𝘮 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 every time you breathe.
- doesn’t fry an egg without a haya ka tarrka.
- thinks a man can, God forbid, operate a washing machine.
- had the audacity to say she was not your servant one hot July summer.
- doesn’t fold your emotional baggage & oedipus complex neatly.
- refuses to laugh hysterically at your mummy’s WhatsApp forwards.
- doesn’t greet your extended family like she’s applying for a visa.
- once said ‘khud kar lo mai thaki hui hoon’ without an ounce of haya.
- doesn’t wake up at fajar to apologize for feminism.
- once, in 2016, forgot to smile at your balding phuppa.
- refuses to exorcise the jinn that hides your car keys.
- lets her contour deviate from sharia-compliant geometry.
- doesn’t spontaneously transform into a Kababjees whenever guests come unannounced.
- fails the saalan consistency test.
- can’t make roti that heals your generational trauma.
- hasn’t yet dissolved her personality in the lassi she made for you.
- doesn’t serve said lassi like she’s auditioning for a drama serial.
- once referred to herself as a human being.
- refuses to hand-wash your fragile masculinity in washing powder nirma.
- once said ‘therapy’ instead of ‘dua’.
- once voiced an opinion during PSL season.
- won’t press your shalwar kamiz with the weight of patriarchal tradition.
- commits spiritual treason by calling your mother ‘aunty’ instead of ‘ammi jaaaan’.
- won’t align the TV remote with the qibla after use.
- hasn’t watched an oppressive Pakistani drama for moral calibration.
- can’t produce electricity through sheer guilt when the generator dies.

[Anita Zsurzsan 🇵🇸 🕎 @iamjourjean]

If you want to understand what colonialism is and how it works, just sit with the thought that a "peace deal" in Palestine is drafted by American real estate developers

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Western discourse about the ceasefire is so full of double standards it truly boggles the mind.

The West insists that Hamas must be disarmed because of October 7... but if we accept this logic we surely must conclude that Israel, which has committed *actual genocide for two years running*, must also be disarmed, and even more urgently.

The West insists that Hamas cannot have any role in governance of Gaza (irrespective of whatever the wishes of people in Gaza may be). But again, if we accept this logic then Netanyahu, Likud and the other parties that govern Israel, which again committed *actual genocide*, must also be forcibly removed and debarred from governance.

The West insists that Palestinians must be "deradicalized". How could this possibly not apply a thousand times more to Israeli society, which has actively conducted and supported the genocide with little to no dissent?

In other words, even by the West's own logic, leaving aside all other aspects of international law, we should disarm Israel, forcibly remove its government, and impose deradicalization on Israeli society in order to prevent it from posing any further threat.