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[Iran Screenshot @iranscreenshot]

On the day of Arbaeen, remember what General Soleimani said:

"Today the Islamic Republic is the only stronghold for both Sunni and Shia Islam"

[Khamenei Media @Khamenei_m]

The battle between the front of Imam Hussain and the front of oppression is never-ending

Listen to Martyr Khamenei's words in his last Arbaeen speech during the 2024 Arbaeen mourning ceremony in the Imam Khomeini Hussainiyah

[julia kassem @jmaher568869]

A whole mood

[Press TV 🔻 @PressTV]

Millions of pilgrims from different countries gathered in the Iraqi city of Karbala to commemorate Arbaeen, the anniversary of the 40th day of the martyrdom of Imam Hussain (AS) and his companions at the Battle of Karbala.

Follow https://t.co/B3zXG73Jym

[Arya Yadegaar @AryJeayBackup]

The FT confirms that the US has withdrawn its presence from Kuwait & Bahrain after Iranian attacks.

The US is now fighting at a pace that’s set by Iran.

[julia kassem @jmaher568869]

In Iran, cochlear implant surgery is for free for deaf children

The State Welfare Organization also supports rehabilitation for over 55,000 deaf kids, with their parents paying maximum $10 each for treatment

In the US, the procedure runs around $100,000

[head to ground media @headtoground]

@alon_mizrahi @georgegalloway 💯

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

They're trying to make us worse. These billionaire generative AI corporations reap profits by making us worse human beings.

They want us to become less human. Less connected. Less creative. Less capable. Less wise. Less intelligent. They want to atrophy our ability to speak, write, research, relate, draw, make music, and cultivate intimate connections with the most important people in our lives, and then sell those things back to us at the hands of some chatbot.

Their entire business model is built around turning us into a bunch of soup-brained narcissists who can't manage our own lives and our own relationships, and then being the crutch that we use to compensate for that self-inflicted debilitation.

The product they are selling us is not the chatbot itself. The actual product they're selling is freedom from cognitive and emotional discomfort. From the discomfort of learning new skills. From the discomfort of personal growth. From the discomfort of taking risks. From the discomfort of pushing past that intimidating blank page to get something written. From the discomfort of having to think about other people and consider their interests and feelings. From the discomfort of having to interact with other humans and maybe say the wrong thing sometimes. From the discomfort of leaping into the unknown.

But all the best things in life sit on the other side of discomfort. Love. Romance. Intimacy. Art. Creativity. Growth. Healing. Rising beyond our limitations. Liberating ourselves from the illusion of the ego. They all require us to push through discomfort to the treasure on the other side. An aversion to discomfort is an aversion to a fulfilling human life on this planet.

But that's exactly what these chatbot companies are nudging people into. They're encouraging us to spend our lives curled up in impotent little balls of emotional infancy and intellectual stagnation so that they can sell us machines which act as digital prostheses for the sacred parts of ourselves we have amputated.

We mustn't let them do this to us. We must remain human. We must hold fast to all those precious aspects of our humanity they're trying to extract and commodify.

So let's stay human.

Let's face our discomfort.

Let's face our fears.

Let's take that risk.

Let's tell our crush we fancy them.

Let's go in for that kiss.

Let's get our hearts broken.

Let's write that poem.

Let's learn to draw.

Let's learn to surf.

Let's learn the saxophone.

Let's learn all sorts of new things.

Let's learn about the people in our lives.

Let's nurture our relationships.

Let's heal our wounds.

Let's become better people.

Let's sink our toes deep into the earth and feel these wonderful terrestrial bodies of ours in each moment.

They're trying to pull us away from our humanity, so we must plunge deeper into it.

As things get more and more dystopian, simply holding fast to your humanity becomes an act of rebellion.

[Mahdi Rastani @mahdi_rastani]

It all starts from home...

Imam Sajjad (as) said: "Certainly, the most pleasing of you to Allah is the one who brings the most convenience and ease to his family."

- Al-Faqih, 4, 408

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

You're never going to get me to believe that Israel control US foreign policy. But I understand why the US would want you to believe that. And the fact many do believe it so strongly despite all material evidence to the contrary shows how good/effective the US are at what they do

[smilinglllama @smilinglllama]

I think this is what AI will take from us, knowledge like this, the ability to converse like this on topics that you have deep knowledge of, because why bother spending years deepening your understanding of something when you can just ask AI to spew it out for you. And most of our conversations of length these days are done over typed message. No one really has these type of conversations face to face anymore. When was the last time you really chewed it out on a topic with a friend irl?

[Iran First @IranFirst_PTV]

🚃 Tehran is the world’s largest city to offer free public transportation

Tehran is now the largest city in the world by population to provide free public transportation. Studies suggest fare-free transport improves social inclusion and expands equitable access.

#IranFirst

[Awaited Hope @Awaited_Hope]

"If we divide Imam #Hussain’s (as) movement into the period of Ashura and the period of #Arbaeen, we should consider #Ashura to be Imam Hussain’s (as) sacrifice. And Arbaeen is the beginning of the spread of Imam Hussain’s (as) way of thinking and the foundation of resistance."

Martyr Ayatollah Khamenei (ra)

A message that resonates loudly
#GazaGenocide
#LebanonGenocde
#IranWar‌

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Disgusting

[head to ground media @headtoground]

@RealCandaceO @GAJamLive @RealAlexJones 😂😂🔥🔥

[Imam Reza Shrine @ImamRezaEN]

“If the people of faith knew their true refuge is the Master of the Age (aj), is it possible that they would not be under his care?”

—Ayatollah Bahjat

[The Marxist Research Collective @MarxistInfo]

𝘾𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙙𝙢𝙞𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙩𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮'𝙧𝙚 𝙗𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣.

[Propaganda & co @propandco]

Don't say 'Jew'

[Imam Reza Shrine @ImamRezaEN]

“A person must define their stance daily: is he among the people of truth and its followers, or among the people of falsehood and its adherents?”

—Ayatollah Bahjat