Fi Mac

She/Her. Will talk about the works of Tolkien until your eyes glaze over if given the chance.

[geni - Nia day!!! @rainylavndr]

ideas for what to do with jewelry that makes decisions for you:

[Maiko Ochiai @MaikoOchiai]

Time to say goodbye…
Don’t go, Kaori😭💙❄️
#WorldFigure #FigureSkating

[fettuccine molho alfredo @misguidedgus]

this woman even being allowed near an olympic village after that scandal in 2022 is insane to me

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

Staggering interview by a Haaretz correspondent with the BBC.

“They entered Jerusalem without a permit… the IDF is trying to track how they entered from the West Bank…”

Why are permits needed to enter another city? Is there a name for a system based on racial hierarchy?

[John Lee @koreanforeigner]

People who don't closely monitor South Korea won't understand the implications of the conservative Chosun Ilbo and progressive Hankyoreh to agree on just about anything.

And when those 300 engineers come home and they start accepting TV interviews, this anger will get worse.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

WAR CRIME!

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

'israeli' jews kidnapped her, sent her family a different body wearing her clothes and official ID, then months later confirmed she was alive, but that they had given her a serious spinal injury that left her partially paralysed.

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

These were all Civilians!

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

In less than 2 years, we lost over 250 Journalists

These are their names and faces. Please do not forget them

[John L @jwsal]

If Ofcom and the Secretary of State decide to impose Category 1 duties on Wikipedia, it will be one of the biggest and most egregious acts of censorship on free expression in the history of British law.

[Brandon Stanton @humansofny]

“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”

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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

BREAKING: Police confirm 466 people were arrested under the Terrorism Act today.

The largest number of arrests in history by the Met police at a single protest, was for people holding signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

[Tom Dale @tom_d_]

Meet Colonel (ret.) Chris Romberg, former British army officer (29 Commando Regiment), military attache at UK embassies in Egypt and Jordan, and son of a Holocaust survivor.

Chris was arrested today for supporting a terrorist organisation.

A quick thread >

[Turtlesong Farm @TurtlesongFarm]

The Israeli army just destroyed A SEED BANK. Apparently, now seeds are also Hamas. Can we please please admit that Israel is doing evil depraved things, and end the genocide, the starvation, the destruction, and the occupation NOW? Please

[yuna @noldorina]

the mass hallucination of the marauders fandom would be sociologically fascinating if it wasn't for the fact that its continued existence threatens the life of very real trans people in the uk

[UNDΘΘMΞD @Undoomed]

"Don't worry about it. It's just to protect kids."

Literally 5 days later: ID check for listening to music.

Don't give them an inch, because they'll take a mile.

[Vikram Murthi @fauxbeatpoet]

“We” are under zero obligation to “accept” AI just because you’re scared of being perceived as anti-tech from people whose only goal is to make money at the expense of culture. You’re making a choice to accept it.

[Nathaniel St. Clair @NatStClair]

A typical AI data center uses as much power as 100,000 households right now, but the largest centers currently being constructed will consume 20 times that amount. https://t.co/vmDWWG4y2b

[Euro-Med Monitor @EuroMedHR]

⚠️ As Israel announced a series of measures to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, facts on the ground show it was merely a new attempt to deceive global public opinion by promoting an alleged increase in aid and the opening of new access routes. But the reality is starkly different.

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