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Communication & Public Diplomacy Specialist
Géopolitique | Géoéconomie | Corne de l’Afrique.
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[Electra @Electrarythm]

There is a certain type of person everywhere now, especially online.

He consumes endless information every day: philosophy, psychology, productivity, spirituality, neuroscience, business, self-improvement, history.

He knows a little about everything and deeply experiences almost nothing.

His entire identity becomes built around understanding instead of living.

He watches videos about confidence instead of speaking confidently. Reads about discipline instead of becoming disciplined. Studies relationships instead of learning how to love. Consumes motivational content instead of taking action.

He feels intelligent because he is constantly mentally stimulated. But stimulation is not transformation.

Most of the time, knowledge becomes emotional protection. Reality is unpredictable. Reality humiliates. Reality exposes weakness. Books and ideas do not.

Inside information, he can continue imagining himself as intelligent, deep, insightful, different from ordinary people. So he remains trapped in preparation.

He constantly feels as if he is "becoming" someone, while his real life remains strangely untouched. He develops sophisticated language for problems he never confronts directly. He can explain human behavior beautifully while being unable to handle ordinary discomfort, rejection, uncertainty, loneliness, or risk.

He slowly turns life into observation instead of participation.

The internet rewards this personality heavily. He receives validation for sounding aware rather than becoming capable.

Eventually, he begins confusing self-analysis with growth and information with wisdom.

But beneath the intelligence usually exists the same thing: fear. Fear of failure. Fear of embarrassment. Fear of reality answering back.

Because action destroys fantasy. The moment he truly acts, he can no longer hide inside potential.

[The Touchmine | 𝐓 @TouchmineX]

🚨🇨🇳 CCTV (China Central Television) President Shen Haixiong on FIFA’s outrageous $300 million demand for broadcasting rights in China:

“FIFA have become corrupt under Infantino. All they care about now is money — the fans are no longer their concern. Just look at the ticket prices for World Cup matches. How can an average working-class person afford them?”

“Football used to belong to everyone, but they have slowly taken that away from the middle class.”

“They could lose a combined audience of 3 billion people from India and China alone if they do not reduce their greed.” 😳

[Fatima Menâl Akin 🍉 @FattumaMannul]

🎬 Gelin size Hollywood filmlerinde kamera ne zaman Meksika’ya, 'Ortadoğu’ya', Güney Asya’ya ya da Afrika’ya dönse ekranın neden aniden tozlu bir sarı tona büründüğünü anlatayım:

Sinema literatüründe "Yellow Filter" (Sarı Filtre) olarak bilinen bu uygulama, aslında sadece sanatsal bir tercih değil, modern bir oryantalizm ve sömürgeci bakış açısıdır. Breaking Bad ve Traffic’te Meksika’yı, Extraction ve Slumdog Millionaire’de Hindistan’ı, Black Hawk Down’da Afrika’yı ya da pek çok ajan filminde İstanbul’u ve “Ortadoğu’yu” sanki üzerine sarı bir sis çökmüş gibi görmemiz tesadüf değildir.

Bu görsel manipülasyon, Edward Said’in bahsettiği "Öteki"ni inşa etme sürecinin en kestirme yoludur: Batı dünyası parlak ve "soğuk mavi" tonlarla rasyonelliğin, ilerlemenin ve medeniyetin merkezi olarak sunulurken; "Küresel Güney" olarak adlandırılan ve tarih boyunca sömürgeciliğe maruz kalmış coğrafyalar sarı filtreyle boğularak "kaotik, tehlikeli ve durağan" birer suç mahalline indirgenir.

Bu durum, kolonyalizmin kurduğu o üstenci görsel hiyerarşiyi her karede yeniden üretir. Sarı ton; kuraklığı, fakirliği ve "eskiyi" sembolize ederek izleyiciye bu bölgelerin modern zamana ait olmadığı ve "ıslah edilmesi gereken, kirli bir geçmişte takılı kaldığı" mesajını bilinçaltından fısıldar.

Hikaye anlatma biçimi olarak bu filtreyi seçmek, o coğrafyanın gerçek renklerini ve modern dokusunu yok edip Batılı izleyicinin zihnindeki stereotipleri beslemektir. Sonuçta sinematografi, burada bir sanat dalı olmaktan çıkıp dünyayı "medeni merkez" ve "egzotik/vahşi çevre" olarak ikiye bölen politik bir araca, yani sömürgeci zihniyetin görsel bir mührüne dönüşür.

[toparlanın gitmiyoruz @toparlanvegitme]

Bir adam Buhârî dersi yapan hoca'ya:

"Batıda insanlar ay'a ulaştı, sen hala Buhârî şerhi yapıyorsun!" Der.

Hoca'nın cevabı:

"Mahluk mahluka ulaşmış, biz Hâlık'a ulaşmak istiyoruz. Lakin aramızda müflis olan bir tek sensin. Ne onlarla ay'a ulaştın, ne bizimle Buhârî okudun."

[Aldo Sterone @AldoSterone111]

Ernie Dosio, millionnaire californien, vient de se faire tuer en Afrique. Il partait souvent chasser le fauve. La, il s'est fait écraser par 5 éléphants femelles qui protégeaient un petit. Il en reste une bouillie. La famille est sous le choc et ne comprend pas.

[Media Lens @medialens]

This is the world we're living in:

'Trump’s executive order sanctioning Albanese prohibited any American person or entity from providing her with “funds, goods or services” – a description so broad it has been compared to a “civil death”. Her apartment in Washington, bought when she and her family were living in the US capital, has been seized. She can no longer use a credit card anywhere in the world, as almost all such transactions are processed by US-based services. “I go around with cash or I have to borrow from friends or from family members,” she says.

'She accuses pro-Israel activists based in Geneva of hounding her husband, Massimiliano Calì, a senior economist at the World Bank, in a campaign that led to him being removed from his lead position running its Syria file. “The World Bank was completely craven,” Albanese says. “He has stellar records of performance in all his positions.”'
https://t.co/w6j2l1gEYM

[Aleksey The Great 🇷🇺🎖 @aleksthgrt]

🇷🇺 Russian political strategist Pavel Dubravsky shared a meaningful graphic:

🇺🇸 In the photo of US Congress members, those funded by the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC are highlighted in red.

324 of the 435 members of Congress are controlled by Israel, and this is not a conspiracy theory.

[Iran in Ghana @IRAN_GHANA]

The US flew their Vice President halfway across the world to Islamabad. 21 hours of talks. They demanded everything they couldn't achieve through war.
Iran said a BIG NO.
The talks are over.
The Strait is still closed. And the VP is flying home empty-handed.
Just Iran's word. Again.
They don't have any option left to save face.

[Global Impact Intelligence @globalintel_]

🧵 𝐋’𝐞́𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐨-𝐚𝐦𝐞́𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 : 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐞́𝐠𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞́𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐬. Des pourparlers à Islamabad qui avancent malgré tout, mais dont chaque progrès reste menacé par des forces extérieures, des calculs concurrents et des pressions politiques qui en brouillent constamment la trajectoire. Ce qui se joue dépasse largement un simple dialogue bilatéral : c’est l’équilibre d’une région entière qui se redessine, au gré des hésitations de Washington, de la fermeté de Téhéran et des interventions d’acteurs tiers.⤵️

[True Promise - الوعد الصادق ✪🇮🇷 @IRTruePromise]

Yesterday, saw some tweets crying about 4 people stuck under the rubble for 6 hours in Israel.

Here's the funeral procession of the young Iranian student Mohammad Taha Jafari, one of the martyrs of the Minab school massacre whose body was recovered after more than 30 days of the US–Israel airstrike on a school in Minab, that killed about 165–175 children aged 7–12.

[Huthaifa | حذيفة @Shack_Rat]

“And whenever they learn anything of Our revelations, they make a mockery of it. It is they who will suffer a humiliating punishment.” — Qur’an 45:9

When sacred expressions like “praise be to Allah” are used sarcastically to turn remembrance of God into ridicule, the Qur’an warns that this mockery ends in humiliation.

It's a recurring pattern, time and time again: the one who mocks the sacred seeks to belittle it, yet the consequence is that they themselves are ultimately belittled and humiliated.

[Ernest Ng Bro @ernestngBRO]

2026 so far. I am not enjoying this new series. #WorldHighSchool (1/4)

[VAN MUTOKA @vanmutoka1]

La plus courte nouvelle de l’écrivain satirique Aziz Nesin , qui lui valut le prix du meilleur satirique en 1966
« Un homme attrapa un poisson et se précipita chez lui, demandant à sa femme de le frire.
Mais elle s’excusa : il n’y avait pas d’huile.
— Alors grille-le, dit-il.
Elle s’excusa encore : il n’y avait pas de grill.
Il réfléchit un instant, puis lui demanda de le faire bouillir.
Cette fois, la femme s’écria, agacée :
— Nous n’avons même pas de gaz !
L’homme reprit le poisson et retourna à la mer pour le rejeter à l’eau.
Alors le poisson s’écria :
— Vive le gouvernement ! »

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

A rare instance of France doing the right thing: this resolution would effectively launder a US-Israel unilateral war of aggression into a multilateral UN mandate, which is completely egregious.

This resolution is the geopolitical equivalent of a rapist asking the police for help to restrain his victim because she's fighting back too hard. Letting it pass would make a complete mockery of everything the UN was supposedly created to prevent.

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

Stone Age?
At a time when you were still in caves searching for fire, we were inscribing human rights on the Cyrus Cylinder.

We endured the storm of Alexander and the Mongol invasions and remained; because Iran is not just a country, it is a civilization.

[Translating Falasteen (Palestine) @translatingpal]

What is described here is one of the mildest forms of torture used inside Israeli occupation jails. Palestinian hostages are deliberately exhausted under heat until their bodies are soaked in sweat, then forced to stand before air conditioning at its coldest setting, sending the body into uncontrollable shaking. This is not an isolated incident, it is a method applied continuously, sometimes for a day, sometimes for months, with some hostages enduring six months of sustained abuse because their captors could not break their will.

This is the baseline. Behind it sits sleep deprivation, stress positions, beatings, rape, medical neglect, and deliberate humiliation that former hostages describe as worse than the physical pain itself. These are the same 10,000 people the Israeli Knesset has now placed under a death penalty law passed on March 30, 2026, with a 96% military court conviction rate, no real avenue for appeal, and a 90-day window to execution.

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

🚨 BREAKING: The European Commission has urged people to work from home, drive and fly less, and for EU countries to urgently roll out renewables, as it warned of a prolonged energy crisis as a result of the conflict in the Gulf.

Full story: https://t.co/0IU3HD1E8u

[Maitre_ Kébabier 🔻↙️↙️↙️🔻 @ndoyeanouni]

@dembadiopci

[Demba Diop @dembadiopci]

Dans le monde actuel, il n’existe aucun État qui applique la peine de mort exclusivement à une population non‑citoyenne ou ethnique, tout en excluant totalement ses propres citoyens. Historiquement, le seul précédent est l’Allemagne nazie, où les lois et tribunaux spéciaux (ex. le Volksgerichtshof ou tribunaux du peuple) étaient utilisés pour condamner les Juifs, opposants politiques, populations occupées à des peines extrêmement sévères, y compris la peine de mort, alors que les citoyens “aryens” étaient épargnés pour ces mêmes actes. Cette nouvelle loi votée par la Knesset ne fait aucune limite d’âge ou même de santé mentale. On peut « légalement » condamner à la pendaison un jeune palestinien de 10 ans jugé coupable de « terrorisme » sans qu’il ait été prouvé qu’il ait participé à aucun acte de terrorisme car c’est un tribunal militaire qui condamne par association. Je n’aurais jamais imaginé vivre cela un jour, dans un silence assourdissant !

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

The objective of the war has become undoing the consequence of the war.

The stupidest war in history.