Talat Gokdemir

Writer/Director/Filmmaker. Working at Imperial College London in Public Engagement.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

The concept of having a spine & taking a stand in solidarity to use our power to force change has completely disappeared from our collective imagination somehow

We’ve all capitulated quietly to the atomised, disempowered silence of complicity.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Labour is a dead party.

Fuck every last one of them.

[Andre Omietanski @punk6052]

On 22 May 2026, @AztecLabs_ submitted a response to the UK government's consultation on children's online safety.

I'll be direct about where we stand. We are sceptical of mandatory age verification. The evidence that it works is mixed, and the surveillance infrastructure built in the name of child safety rarely stays narrowly scoped. We said so plainly in the submission.

But the consultation is happening, and if the government proceeds, the detail that matters most is how these systems are actually built.

Every method deployed today related to online age verification either gets bypassed easily or forces users to hand a document scan to a third-party server, which creates centralised databases of sensitive personal data. Those databases get breached often and easily, creating personal and national security risks. This is the predictable result of collecting far more than the question requires.

So our submission, among other things, asks the government for three things:

1. make privacy by design a hard requirement rather than an aspiration;

2. recognise device-level proofs within the existing trust framework; and

3. do not restrict VPNs, which serve real privacy and security purposes.

The UK can set the global standard for how this is done, or it can attach a breachable identity database to every platform its citizens use. I think the choice is clear.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

You cannot commit genocide in Gaza, invade Lebanon, bomb Iran, Syria, Yemen, and Iraq, violate Geneva and Vienna Conventions, international law, human rights, and state sovereignty, then hide behind anti-Semitism.

There is no rise in anti-Semitism. There is a rise in the number of people who are very angry at what Israel is doing. Your inability to separate the two is equally problematic.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

People like me take great pains to avoid coming across as antisemitic in our criticisms of Israel, and then Jewish Zionists go to these events all “Yes we Jews need to be actively manipulating western institutions in order to deceive everyone and control society.”

[Yousef Munayyer @YousefMunayyer]

They want to rig AI chatbots to regurgitate Zionist propaganda and they are telling you that, out loud and on video.

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

Not a single peep from the likes of the BBC or CNN, the same outlets that were reporting on the Iranian women’s football team three times a day.

Western media doesn’t care about women’s freedom in Iran, Palestine or Lebanon unless it can be weaponised to serve their narrative.

[Ahmed Shihab-Eldin @aseisfree]

"I took my rocket launcher and ordered the soldiers to bombard a building where a Palestinian family lived, I ordered them to burn them all alive. When we bombed them, I looked at my friend and told him it was very fun to hear them scream while they burned alive."

Yarden Megira, Zionist soldier, war criminal, and professional psychopath, confesses that he burned a Palestinian family alive and then stayed to listen as they screamed in pain while they burned.

[Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎 @rafaelshimunov]

Come with me as I learn about each person at the official Israeli delegation at today's Israel Day Parade in New York City.

These are the people some of my fellow Jewish and other New Yorkers demanded Mayor Mamdani stand with today.

🧵

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

probably because you bombed their country and stole their oil

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Failure to vote for Israel at Eurovision is a sign of grave alarm and apparently warrants a Senate investigation in Australia.

Beyond parody at this point. They already eroded their free speech laws to protect Israel. Next: mandatory voting for Israel in song competitions.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israel publicly declared - again - that Gaza will be emptied of Palestinians.

Where are the front page headlines?

Where are the denunciations from Western politicians?

There's none - because it's not the "inflammatory" words of some activist opposed to genocide.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I'm trying to imagine Muslim kids chanting something similar about the Jewish or Christian faiths at a rally in London. The Prevent folks, counter-terrorism police, the entire British media would be all over the story, asking why Muslims are so extreme & brainwashing their kids.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

No condemnation from our politicians.

No outrage from the media.

No action by the police.

British Muslims are sent a clear message:

You are fair game for hatred.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

This is vile, but because it’s targeted at Muslims, the Met Police don’t care.

Imagine if a pro-Palestine march had someone on stage mocking Orthodox Jewish women.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The media spent 2.5 years telling you this is “targeting Hamas.”

[Etan Nechin @Etanetan23]

Israel is threatening to sue the NYT over Kristof’s piece on sexual violence in Israeli prisons.

Prediction: it won’t actually go forward. A real suit means discovery, witnesses, and opening the prisons. The last things Israel wants on the record.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

A government that ludicrously tries to sue a foreign paper rather than grant unfettered access to foreign reporters and UN investigators to its prisons, or even launch its own internal investigations to clear its ‘innocent’ troops.

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

I’ve been thinking this all day long.

A Syrian man and his 12 year old daughter were riding on a motorcycle in southern Lebanon when an Israeli drone strike took the dad out.

His daughter made it 100 yards & another drone came for her.

They’re hunting 12 year olds w drones.