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[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@daniel_dsj2110 Thanks for the pointer. Shall keep an eye out for that.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

They married by phone from separate prison cells. They executed a groom the morning after his wedding.

Alireza Sepahi and Mahshad Kashani were engaged before they were arrested during Iran’s January uprising. Mahshad, just 22, was sentenced to five years in prison. Alireza was sentenced to death.

The day before his execution, they were married over the phone. Their fathers listened as the vows were read.

No embrace.
No kiss.
No holding hands.

Just two voices saying “I do” through a prison telephone, while the Islamic Republic was preparing the gallows.

This was not the first time they tried to kill him. In July, Alireza was taken to be publicly hanged. Minutes before reaching the gallows, under enormous psychological pressure, he suffered a heart attack. They rushed him to hospital.

Then they sent him back to prison.

Today, they came back for him.

This morning, the Islamic Republic hanged Alireza Sepahi.

He was 25 years old.

For one day, he had a wife.
He never got to hold her as his wife. He never got to kiss her goodbye.

Think about the cruelty of a regime that is so terrified of young people that it cannot even tolerate their love.
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[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@isaacchan450 @PAHoyeck Yes

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@PAHoyeck Shklar?

[brian shaw @briansh09853445]

@daniel_dsj2110 As Sartre said “the worst thing the Bolsheviks ever did was provide Ayn Rand with an education “

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@TimDuy So far, the audited value delivered from this technology is essentially zero (and it is not as if people are not looking). I genuinely do not understand why this is not already a problem, but at some point it will become one, at which point things will surely get extremely ugly.

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@thomasfbloom More precisely, the 'but not yet' bit assumes, essentially, what is called 'the Gartner hype cycle', and there no more reason to believe that the Gartner hype cycle is true that there is to believe in Marxist theories of history.

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@thomasfbloom Exactly. Personally I'm sceptical about the 'but not yet' bit. Think autonomous vehicles.

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@delong I'm afraid I'm with Slok.

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@Birdyword Mr. Dornbusch to the white courtesy phone. Mr. Rudiger Dornbusch to the courtesy phone please.

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@thomasfbloom My point is that the 'at least' there is doing a lot of work.

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@KathaPollitt You are only thinking that now?

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@Paroles_auteurs This is also called depressive realism.

[TERFTimes @TERF_Times]

Latest corker from @ripx4nutmeg who asks why our national broadcaster is so obsessed with boys in dresses.
"the BBC repeatedly presented boys dressed as girls, children performing as drag queens and children identifying as transgender not simply as subjects of reporting, but as figures to be celebrated"
https://t.co/Pkymx7bu2F

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@PAHoyeck Yeah. There is a line as clear as a charcoal streak on a whitewashed wall from William Shakespeare to Quentin Tarantino.

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

People in 2026 AD: “Movies these days are too violent.”

Shakespeare in 1593 AD: “First, Titus Andronicus killed the Queen’s sons. Then fed them to her. Then he stabbed her to death. Then the Emperor stabbed him to death. There was blood everywhere. Like rivers of blood. You wouldn’t even believe it. The End.”

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@John_Attridge Like Bob Dylan, you mean?

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

Reading novels has made me more empathetic. For instance I know that coworkers have subjective experiences of their own

[Sean Matthews @Seanmatty123]

@daniel_dsj2110 Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

What ever happened to Paul de Man?

[Actually don't tell me - I know]