Xen Ray

Art. Space. Tennis.
(he/him)

[old toons @oldtoons_]

1984 short film Orpheus and Eurydice by animator Lesley Keen🏺

The entire film is masterfully animated in the exact style of ancient Greek red-figure and black-figure pottery. Without a single word of dialogue, characters glide across the screen like a rotating classical vase.

[Xen Ray @ray_xen]

@yossi_rainer It's crazy how many ppl in the comments are talking to this fucking Nazi like he's a normal human being.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

The NATO-backed coup in Ukraine was on February 22, 2014. In the article below, the New York Times confirms that two days later, on February 24, the new Ukrainian intelligence chief of the government that the US had handpicked, called the CIA and MI6 to establish a partnership against Russia. Only a few days earlier, Russia had been the main security partner of Ukraine - after the coup, it would become NATO's frontline state against Russia.

The CIA operation against Russia developed from 2014-2022:
- "12 newly-built, forward operating bases constructed along the Russian border. From each base, General Kondratiuk said, the Ukrainian officers ran networks of agents who gathered intelligence inside Russia. C.I.A. officers installed equipment at the bases to help gather intelligence and also identified some of the most skilled Ukrainian graduates of the Operation Goldfish program, working with them to approach potential Russian sources."

- "The listening post in the Ukrainian forest is part of a C.I.A.-supported network of spy bases constructed in the past eight years that includes 12 secret locations along the Russian border... Around 2016, the C.I.A. began training an elite Ukrainian commando force — known as Unit 2245 — which captured Russian drones and communications gear so that C.I.A. technicians could reverse-engineer them and crack Moscow’s encryption systems.

The CIA/MI6 presence in Ukraine became a key motivation for the Russian invasion:
- "Toward the end of 2021, according to a senior European official, Mr. Putin was weighing whether to launch his full-scale invasion when he met with the head of one of Russia’s main spy services, who told him that the C.I.A., together with Britain’s MI6, were controlling Ukraine and turning it into a beachhead for operations against Moscow."

*** The war in Ukraine was clearly provoked (and even started) by NATO. The amount of evidence makes this undeniable. However, the political-media establishment defends the "unprovoked invasion" narrative by dismissing and criminalising all explanations of NATO's involvement as efforts to "legitimise" the Russian invasion. Why is NATO's contribution to starting this war important? If we recognise NATO's contribution and the legitimate Russian security concerns, then it opens up an opportunity for compromise and peace. By clinging to the "unprovoked invasion" narrative, weapons are the path to peace, and NATO gets to continue its war against Russia to the last Ukrainian.
https://t.co/gmmWD698bx

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

A major war is already underway, believes Emir Kusturica.

How the new conflict will differ from the wars of the last century and what bankers have to do with it—the director explained in an interview with Vesti journalist Daria Grigorova.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The American empire survives not because its crimes are hidden, but because millions of Americans have made peace with being the passive shareholders of atrocity.

That is the part no one wants to say plainly.

They do not have to pilot the drone.
They do not have to interrogate the prisoner.
They do not have to starve the child.

They only have to keep believing the old fairy tale that their comfort is somehow detachable from the machinery that produced it.

It is not.

The suburb is connected to the sanction.
The pension is connected to the plunder.
The national myth is connected to the mass grave.

And every time you point that out, they call you "extreme."

Of course they do.

Truth sounds extreme inside a civilization built on denial.

[Xen Ray @ray_xen]

https://t.co/MFGOae2yil

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

Imagine thinking that the demons who committed a genocide in Gaza are God's chosen people.

[Xen Ray @ray_xen]

@ConciousLabRat Pls don't forget Yugoslavia, Serbia, and countless such crimes in Africa and Latin America.

[Xen Ray @ray_xen]

@kafkasbluebug They are all complicit. And part of the problem.

[IMS @IMSforfreemedia]

A new report from IMS and @asiacentre_org uncovers how climate disinformation is used across South and Southeast Asia to distort public discourse, marginalise Indigenous perspectives and legitimise environmentally harmful policies.
Download the report: https://t.co/w0nUJusGHU

[Down To Earth @down2earthindia]

Comment:

Climate awareness alone won’t drive climate action

The challenge is not simply whether people understand climate change. It is whether they believe collective efforts can make a difference, write
Nimmagadda Bhargav and Jagdish Thaker

https://t.co/ZMvM4i1exZ

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Take our fourth poll.

4. Do you think that Britons who have served in the Israeli military during the Gaza genocide should be investigated for involvement in possible war crimes?

Please repost after voting.

[Xen Ray @ray_xen]

Apologies to the white rebels who are too incapacitated to foster any revolution. But it's more like Sorry, not sorry.

[Xen Ray @ray_xen]

All white people have lost the privilege of using the word 'Democracy'!

[Xen Ray @ray_xen]

https://t.co/PPYvaAF6pu

[Xen Ray @ray_xen]

@HunterBiden @realDonaldTrump Today is Day 1,000 of the genocide your father began. Can't believe you shameless mass murderers are still allowed in any public spaces.

[Xen Ray @ray_xen]

Day 1,000 of the genocide in Palestine. In which we are all complicit. Our species has no right to peace or love or anything of beauty after this.

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

British Museum colludes with pro-Israel lobby to erase Palestine from historical exhibits
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An investigation by Middle East Eye has exposed the British Museum for covertly removing the terms “Palestine,” “Palestinian,” and “Israeli occupation” from its historical displays following intensive lobbying by pro-Israel activists. Internal emails obtained via a freedom of information request reveal that the London institution rapidly altered descriptions of artifacts dating back to 7,500 BCE to appease political pressure groups, including the Board of Deputies of British Jews and high-profile figures.

While museum director Nick Cullinan publicly claimed the changes were part of a standard curation refresh and backed by audience testing, the newly released disclosures confirm that no visitor research regarding the term "Palestine" was ever conducted.

The internal correspondence details a frantic effort by museum staff to pacify complaints lodged between October and December 2024, with one directive explicitly ordering curators to remain hyper-conscious of the anniversary of 7 October. In one instance, a panel describing ancient rulers of “Palestinian descent” was scrubbed and changed to “Canaanite origin” within five hours of receiving a complaint from the Board of Deputies.

Middle East Eye cross-referenced the redacted emails to identify key lobbyists, including right-wing commentators and historians who weaponized access to the museum's leadership to argue that historical references to an ancient Israelite occupation would stoke modern antisemitism.

The targeted erasure has sparked a severe diplomatic and cultural backlash, with Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zumlot accusing the public institution of betraying its historical integrity to serve political ends. Cultural figures and human rights defenders have condemned the museum for complicity in what the United Nations classifies as an ongoing genocide in Gaza, noting that the bureaucratic deletion of Palestinian history in London directly mirrors the physical destruction of heritage sites on the ground.

Despite photographic evidence showing that references to "modern Palestine" were replaced with "Gaza and the West Bank" at gallery entrances, the British Museum has refused to answer specific inquiries, issuing a blanket denial to Middle East Eye that any erasure took place.

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

It took a little longer than expected, but we have created a website for people to view the footage collected from Gaza in one place. You no longer have to download the entire archives to see them.

It includes:

64,537 videos
17,905 photos
Ability to download individual videos
Searchable index
Exhaustive sources list (300+ journalists)
Geolocation data
Livemap with minute to minute updates
Victim list

It can be accessed here: https://t.co/s0Se94PXWF

Please share & quote tweet to help this post break out of the twitter algorithm prison.

We will keep adding the rest of the archives to the site, be patient- it is difficult work. Continue to seed the torrents provided, as that is the best way to ensure the footage remains stored in decentalized way.

God bless all those who sacrificed their lives to get this footage out, and everyone invovled in collecting/archiving it.

Join our telegram:
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Follow our backup accounts:
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[Mondoweiss @Mondoweiss]

Robin Andersen's indispensable new book, The Complicit Lens, offers a comprehensive examination of the media's role in supporting the Israeli genocide in Gaza. https://t.co/pQNQWMbiNb