I don’t know the value of posting on these platforms anymore but I still do when I have a moment of joy or extreme grief. Yesterday, while our politicos were fighting over influencers, this news from Ohio hit as hard as history. I teared up for this beautiful Haitian kid who died in pain over the cruelty of our State. I teared up at the horror of his death and at the impotence of leadership. The debates we’re having are small, petty, and utterly disconnected from the inhumanity of the moment.
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JD Vance spread a vicious lie about Haitians eating dogs and cats, said "If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do." Then, the administration stripped Haitians of their TPS and this kid was so distressed, he killed himself.
794 bodies recovered. Thousands still unaccounted for. Tell us, what was their crime?
I am writing this from the Himalayas from a country responsible for only around 0.1% of global greenhouse-gas emissions. Nearly 46% of our land is covered by forests. Around 94% of our installed electricity capacity comes from hydropower. We are rapidly moving away from fossil-fuel vehicles too: EVs accounted for about 74% of Nepal’s four-wheeled passenger vehicle imports in 2025/26. We protect forests. We generate electricity from our rivers. We are embracing electric mobility at a pace few countries in the world have matched. Yet today, our people are digging through mud, searching rivers and waiting beside phones for the names of their loved ones.
The Bhote Koshi flash flood has shown us what it means to live beneath a rapidly changing cryosphere. Our glaciers are retreating, our frozen mountains are becoming increasingly unstable, and the rivers that generate our clean electricity can also carry destruction into communities below. We did not build our prosperity by burning generations of coal and oil. We contributed almost nothing to creating the climate crisis at this scale. But we are being forced to survive its consequences. The people whose bodies are being pulled from rivers did not cause this crisis. The families still waiting for thousands of missing people did not cause it. The children, farmers, workers and mountain communities who lost everything did not cause it.
So from the Himalayas, we ask the industrialised world: how many Himalayan bodies will be enough? How many mothers must wait for children who never return? How many villages must disappear before “climate justice” becomes more than a speech at another conference? Do not come to us only with sympathy after the bodies have been counted. Come with responsibility. Come with climate finance, adaptation, loss-and-damage support and the courage to cut emissions at the scale this emergency demands. We want climate justice. We want the right to survive in our own mountains. We want a world where being born in the Himalayas is not a death sentence for a crisis we did not create.
and I think it’s so weird that literally in the midst of an *ongoing* genocide where palestinians are actively being killed, people’s bone of contention is that people are being too annoying about talking about it
in 3 years we went from "do you condemn hamas" to "do you condemn hasan" and israel is still a belligerent entity that is causing destruction, goading trump into war with iran & prominent dems are focusing on a critic of trump and israel instead of trump and israel itself. fools
hello, i’m a democratic congressman/woman. i know it costs $50 to fill your gas tank with the cheap gas, you have to pull out your credit card to keep food on the table, and you can barely afford housing. that’s why i’m online today posting lies about hasan piker.
This is Sliman Mansour’s most famous work, and I decided to share it in a separate post.
It is called Jamal al-Mahamel (جمل المحامل), meaning “Camel of Hardship.”
Mansour first painted it in 1973, then created two other versions in 1975 and 2005.
Our Palestinian people today are not only displaced, carrying their cities and villages on their backs. They are also carrying the rubble of their homes, beneath which the bodies of their loved ones remain trapped. They carry their uprooted trees, their burned tents, their destroyed homes, and the remains of refugee camps.
Unsurprising: the guy who started the witch hunt against Arday has not only been misrepresenting his academic title but also seems completely unqualified for his postdoctoral position. Will there be 500 articles in the British media on this? Unlikely somehow
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A reminder that Bill Ackman’s wife plagiarized her PhD after leading a successful harassment campaign against Claudine Gay—Blk woman, the president of Harvard—over accusations of her plagerism
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Jason Arday has been found dead.
The obsessive media focus on this one man - as if it was one of the biggest scandals in history - was disproportionate beyond belief.
Push notifications, top headlines, constant investigations.
And now he is dead.
WTF
AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books. Scanning their contents to train models. Then turning the originals to pulp.
The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded.
Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently. The knowledge survives only as training data inside a system no one can hold, browse, or resell.
What used to sit on a shelf for centuries now exists as weights in a model that might get deprecated next quarter.
Everyone needs to see this. Hundreds of Israeli settlers are coming down from hilltops and setting entire Palestinian villages on fire. Full on pogroms.
Despite all we’ve seen, there are still images from Gaza that break me and become imprinted in my mind.
This is Ayham Nasman. A Palestinian boy left alone, grieving his family, because Israel killed his parents and siblings. This is childhood in Gaza.
What happened during halftime of the World Cup final highlights a bizarre contradiction: while America markets its false principles of being a land of peace and love, the real, contrasting side shows it sending its missiles to Israel to kill and annihilate us.
This is an irony that the world no longer believes.