modergirliezzz

phd researcher / writer / curator (they/them)

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

resist the urge to weigh in on everything

[modergirliezzz @oversizedtrous1]

@RohanJivanAFC they are too hot heated and that bozo gene is hard to get rid of given their squad age

[modergirliezzz @oversizedtrous1]

@dinho2x @1hawa__ she was like 10

[Redacted @redactedobscure]

“what the fuck are we doing”—Fred Moten. Florida State University Department of English.

[modergirliezzz @oversizedtrous1]

@FabrizioRomano @GeorgeV_AFC another domino piece, more realistic to Alvarez and opens doors for Arsenal to capitalize

[modergirliezzz @oversizedtrous1]

@validclipx these are the girlies big old drake hangs out with

[modergirliezzz @oversizedtrous1]

@RohanJivanAFC Deeply talented but also deeply unserious guy

[M ⌖ ÆON @YUNGSADISTlC]

the only data center that should be funded is the fucking library.

[Benjamin Fogel @BenjaminFogel]

My blackpilled prediction is that VAR will be AI by the next World Cup and FIFA will have a Palantir or something equivalent contract for it.

[modergirliezzz @oversizedtrous1]

@Emzyl_ how are you this miserable

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

The most duplicitous UK politician in my lifetime.

[Nat ✨ FREE 🇵🇸 @loopzoooop]

that’s the question isn’t it. what WILL she do? there are no youth clubs for her to attend. food, cinema tickets, any sort of third space activity is all too expensive. their parents are underpaid, saturday jobs don’t exist any more, children have truly been abandoned by the govt

[Mohammad @MargBarAmerica]

Wemby was so unlucky to face the biggest sports market in his first finals run. He wouldn’t be getting this sort of insane overreaction by casual fans if he faced a mid level city. He’s 22 and English isn’t his first language! Fucking relax!

[josh! @queersocialism]

every knicks game it seems the cameras casually pans to about a dozen or two ghouls whose wealth accumulation, if this was a sane and just world, should certainly land them in whatever the modern equivalent to the nuremberg tribunal. and the fans, many of whom can no longer afford to watch the game from inside of the building, choose to devote their excitement, anger, and fleeting militancy at their fellow fans, opposing team and their fans instead those responsible for being out-priced!

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

I worry that Wembanyama will get caught up in the distractions of New York City, like the Rose Reading Room at the public library or the upcoming conference on participatory futures at The New School

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

A Champions pose 📸

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

we both up now

[The xG Philosophy @xGPhilosophy]

0.00(xWork) tomorrow morning

[حيدر | Haydar @chronicalihere]

I can respect him for saying this. But let's be real. Because I also know him to be a grifting culture vulture extraordinaire— who knows what mask to don and when; precisely how to engage certain audiences and market himself to them by latching onto certain cultural aesthetics, terminology and narratives he knows will get traction.

The rap sheet on how easily he code switches; borrowing traits and components from communities across the city has long been documented— hopping from one to the other— treating it as some fad depending on marketability. He has been able to wear so many different personas because ultimately he's still an actor under there.

As a global phenomenon on such a scale; a commercial icon who has way too much to lose to actually be truly in solidarity with Palestinians and those resisting; he's found a way to deliver the perception of that solidarity by positioning himself within a popular narrative that has long been a fixture in the Palestinian/ Arab/ Muslim diaspora communities (esp. here in Toronto)— that of DJ Khaled's silence on his own people's suffering.

He knows how strongly these communities identify around this cause and how it has come to shape their value-systems and worldviews; particularly around belonging. This sort of reference gains him further credibility within these spaces.

It's ingenious really. But I take it with a grain of salt given we know what actual advocacy and support for palestine means— what it entails. The price so many artists and figures have paid when they actually make a fundamental stand.

When they put their careers, livelihoods and reputations on the line because they don't just name drop palestine or believe in its liberation privately; but are willing to act upon it to aid those suffering by using their platforms to do so.

We know what happens to them. Please do not mistake this for that when I'm already seeing fans frame his reference here as such.

It boils down to being truly principled. I'm sure he knows enough to be unequivocally against the mass extermination of Palestinian life. That's good.

But it is important that we do not allow public figures to aestheticize this cause; the resistance or its politics as something you just don for plaudits and then take off.

The bare minimum we should measure a celebrity on Palestine by is whether they allow themselves to be put into a position where they know their livelihood, status or privilege is under threat.

Because that is when you know you're actually enough of a threat to them; that you're actually able to make that much of a impact— you're silenced, punished and ostracized for it.