Farah Firthous

Lawyer | Minority Politics | Conflict | Human Rights (Tweets and Retweets are personal, not affiliated to my Employer)

[Farah Firthous @farah_firthous]

சகிச்சுகிட்டு adjust பண்ணிகிட்டு வாழ்க்கைய ஒரு மாதிரி அடுத்தகட்டத்துக்கு கொண்டு போயிடுறதுக்காக இங்கே யாரும் உங்களுக்கு சிலை எல்லாம் வைக்க மாட்டாங்க.

Learn to protest.
Learn to communicate.

[NewsWire 🇱🇰 @NewsWireLK]

Women’s groups urge Parliament to speed up long-delayed family law reforms

Full Story: https://t.co/bXO2ABcIG7

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Tolstoy’s advice to achieve a long term goal:

[aether @bluewdrift]

Keep your problems smaller than your life. A flat tire is a flat tire. A bad meeting is a bad meeting. A canceled flight is just an extra two hours. These things become catastrophes when you let them. But they stay manageable when you remember the depth of your real life- the people you love, the work you care about, the beautiful years still ahead. Zoom out. Fit your reaction to the size of the problem.

[The Examiner @ExaminerLK]

Most incarcerated people in Sri Lanka are poor and oppressed, such as those imprisoned for the non-payment of fines and drug use. They’re the least able to retain lawyers, apply for bail, and mount a vigorous defence.

https://t.co/wiNA5JvnU0

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Keep showing up.

[The Golden Age @thegoldenaged]

Times have changed

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Your brain can learn anything if you practice it daily.

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

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.

[Farah Firthous @farah_firthous]

@sharmikha meeeee. but rest of the crowd were kids and parents 😂

[Hejaaz Hizbullah @hejaazh]

If he is innocent, Salley must stay strong and fight his case.

That’s what we did. We prayed, exercised, read, met our lawyers and fought our cases. Salley who detained us knows that the conditions for us were worse than what it is for him.

#EasterSundayattacks

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”

[` @lisaawrites]

Books are amazing because a stranger from 200 years ago can still ruin your afternoon emotionally.

[gal౨ৎ @prtygal777]

Being chosen by animals is a rare privilege that words can't fully define

[Neha @nehavermani]

To the endless maternal, material, and economic labour of women that sustains the world.

[UK in Sri Lanka 🇬🇧🇱🇰 @UKinSriLanka]

Deputy High Commissioner Theresa O’Mahony was in the North this week, beginning her visit at the Madhu Church.

[Andrew Patrick @AndrewPtkFCDO]

Joined Deputy Prime Minister @DavidLammy for a meeting with Tamil political leaders. The UK continues to stand firm in support reconciliation, transnational justice, and listening to their priorities on justice and equality.

[Thyagi Ruwanpathirana @ThyagiR]

Seen today at the vigil by @SP_Ekneligoda calling for justice (and the swift conclusion of her case before the Colombo Permanent High Court that’s been dragging on since 2019) - a photo of Ragihar Manoharan, given to Sandya by Dr. Manoharan from the #Trinco5 case who passed away.

[Thyagi Ruwanpathirana @ThyagiR]

Call for inputs to the Report of the Secretary-General on Missing Persons:

https://t.co/HRIsYTfjiU