ishaj som levt på havets botten i 400 år

🦠🏜🪐🌞🦧"Han kom som en rysk bot en aprilafton och hade en catboy dakimakura i en svångrem om halsen." @athunderoussecret.bsky.social

[ishaj som levt på havets botten i 400 år @mpreg_socrates]

I'm certain almost every single person with a take on Persepolis being imperialist or not had never heard about it before Satrapis passing.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

The two men in the photo were identified as:
1.Haj Nadi Marouf
2.Haj Ali Marouf

Both were arrested by Israel from their home in Beit Lahiya north of Gaza.

After being used as human shields, their relatives found them three days later executed.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

I'm sorry, I didn't realize Israel had now escalated to the "quadruple tap" where they just keep killing and killing as people try desperately to help the wounded

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

"The mother is in critical condition because there’s shrapnel close to her heart, he said. They haven’t told her yet that her son, who turned seven months old on Friday, was killed."

“What kind of army in the world does this?” asked the baby's grandmother.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

Israel kills a baby and the response I get is “accidents happen in war”. Israel has killed over 1,500 -yes one thousand five hundred- babies under one year old since 7/10.

[David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow]

Charles Read's book has enjoyed a vogue, as any revisionist take will, but it is part of a longer history that sees the evils of the British empire as the result of happenstance and the bumbling of well-intentioned men (I am reminded of Andrew O'Hagan on Grenfell in the LRB).

[The_War_Economy @The_War_Economy]

Just so we're clear on how absolutely stupid the British Government is.

When a petition is signed with over 2 million people saying No to Digital ID, it gets ignored.

When 9000 people answer an online, unadvertised survey, suddenly it's "overwhelming support".

[beecier @UdsiAsli]

This was two years ago

[Shaun King @shaunking]

Did you know that Israel, using American weapons, has killed over 3,500 Lebanese men, women, and children SINCE MARCH?????

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Yesterday, the UN Human Rights Office reported that Israel is systematically targeting public servants in Gaza—collapsing public order—as Palestinians continue to be killed and maimed.

You might not know since it got no coverage. Because why would ongoing genocide be newsworthy?

[Jim Milne 🇨🇦 @milneice]

How can you possibly appease people who claim that the word "Palestine" threatens their safety?

[Daniel Finn @DanFinn95]

"I merely asked the Mick if he had any relatives who planted bombs in London. I wasn't suggesting he had planted the bombs himself, I know he was too young for that, but I was genuinely curious. Is it a crime to be curious?"

[Ricky Hollywood @victim_burn77]

We should call incels the unpussied like when we changed the name for the homeless

[Asa Winstanley @AsaWinstanley]

Ban all Israeli sports teams from EVERYTHING now!

[Nick Kapur @nick_kapur]

Compelling essay by sci-fi writer Ted Chiang on why LLMs are nowhere near consciousness, but why it serves the interests of LLM companies to constantly suggest that they might be.

I've pulled one quote below, but the whole article is worth reading.

[ishaj som levt på havets botten i 400 år @mpreg_socrates]

No I actually do think we can say both preventable deaths under capitalism and a massacre carried out by the oh-so-anti-imperialist friends of Pinochet are both bad.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

Imperialists keep having to invent socialist massacres to deflect from the reality that capitalism is one continuous, world-spanning genocide.

We often hear about the 140 people who died trying to cross the Berlin Wall over a period spanning 28 years. But we never hear about the 9,900 people who die every single day because they lack access to healthcare — a direct outcome of imperialism's denial of sovereignty to the global periphery.

We often hear about some number of people who supposedly died at Tiananmen Square in 1989 — a highly-contested narrative. But we do not hear about the 1,545 people who die every single day because of Western sanctions — 38 million people in total over a fifty year period.

Given the sheer barbarism of the imperialist world system, we should marvel at how mild the actions of socialist and revolutionary projects are by the standards of the systemic and unrelenting violence they are forced to confront. And there is certainly no need for progressive forces to be apologetic or ashamed about these measures.

[Branko Marcetic @BMarchetich]

The Trump admin was planning to force out nearly 3 million immigrants - incl. citizens & Green Card holders - by falsely declaring them dead, but this whistleblower refused to do it. You can imagine they would have cast the net wider if this worked out for them.

[Peter Raleigh @PetreRaleigh]

A lot of people are annoyed about this post for multiple valid reasons but I do think "our narrative conventions have been shaped by a material world our daily experience no longer resembles" is actually an interesting problem