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big fan of bugs • connoisseur of fine boss fights • he/him

[weekend pupa 🐛💤 @slugzilla_]

🗣️📢 plant native plants!

[islay ⋆˚✧ @islaysmind]

it is so heartbreaking how the deaths of palestinians are painted as an inevitability because israel targets journalists. we also hear less & less about it. because israel targets journalists.

keep talking about the genocide in palestine, fuck israel

[丸山宗利 Maruyama🍥 @dantyutei]

とても面白い発見が論文になりました。幼虫がシロアリの巣に住むテントウムシがタイで見つかり（世界で初の確実な記録）、これまでに知られていたテントウムシの幼虫の概念を覆す形態をしていました（シロアリ擬態）。第���発見者は元ポスドクの梁さんで、北タイで発見。その後、私たちが中部タイで追認し、発表に至りました。成虫はそのへんにいそうな典型的なヒメテントウの姿です。

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[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

these are the kind of heroes that Palestinian American institutions like @theIMEU should be honoring at their Galas, not Mamdani. Not the Bernies or AOCs. Not anyone who rises to power by riding the coattails of our martyrs and fighters, but the people who willingly pay the price for justice.
I salute the Filton 6. History will exalt them. Their conviction and sacrifice is humbling and I am immensely grateful for their light in the world.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨New Testimonies Reveal Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya Stripped, Beaten, and Set Upon by Dogs in Israeli Detention

Three recently released Palestinian prisoners have provided harrowing testimony about the condition of Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, who has been held in Israeli detention since his arrest on December 27, 2024.

Released prisoner Ahmad Qaddas said he initially did not recognize Abu Safiya due to his physical deterioration. He described the doctor spending most of his time “sitting in a daze,” barely able to speak, while fellow prisoners could hear him screaming during beatings but were powerless to intervene — with those who tried to help facing tear gas raids.

A second witness, Hamza Abu Omeira, said Abu Safiya suffered constant vomiting, could not keep food down, and was denied medical care. He described seven consecutive days during which prisoners were shackled by both hands and feet. He said Abu Safiya was also reportedly forced to repeat degrading phrases about himself under torture.

A third released prisoner said he witnessed Abu Safiya being stripped, beaten after interrogation, and attacked by police dogs that “scratched him and knocked him to the ground.”

All three witnesses warned he faces imminent death if not released immediately. Abu Safiya is one of 737 medical workers arrested by Israel since the start of the war, according to Al Jazeera.

Source: Palestinian Information Center

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The lack of news on Gaza isn’t because the genocide is over.

It’s because Israel slaughtered the journalists and Western media pretends there’s a ceasefire.

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

Why isn’t every major news outlet covering the fact that Israel now controls nearly two-thirds of Gaza?

[The Aftershock @The_Aftershock_]

BREAKING: 'People Against Genocide' have abseiled through the roof of Elbit's arms factory in Leicester.

They're breaking the ceiling of the clean room used to make key parts for Israeli military drones.

Contaminating the clean room can knock it out of use for several months.

[أبو أجاليا 👨‍👩‍👦 @AgaliaAdnan]

💔 Urgent Appeal — Please Help Save My Father’s Life 🙏
Every day now feels like a race against time… ⏳
My father is currently in the hospital suffering from arterial blockage, and he urgently needs very expensive medication and medical care. 🏥💊
Living in Gaza means nothing comes easily. Medical treatment is not free, and the costs are far beyond what our family can afford. 😔
Only four months ago, we lost my mother… 💔
She was our strength, our comfort, and the heart of our home. Losing her broke us. And now, I am terrified of losing my father too.
I cannot bear another loss. I cannot imagine our family facing this pain again. 😢
I am asking you from the deepest place in my heart — please don’t just scroll past or share this post.
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[Michael Kandel @K_A_N_D_E_L]

the pitt video game actually looks pretty cool

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

UK media is forbidden from reporting these shocking facts:

Palestine Action is being deceptively tried for “terrorism,” with jurors being told it��s a mere criminal trial

PA’s lawyer faces contempt of court for mounting an effective defense

The British state is so desperate to crush these antiwar activists and preserve Israeli death factories on its soil that it is resorting to crude anti-democratic tactics and corrupting the entire jury system

[Dr. Ghada Sasa, PhD 🇵🇸 @drghadasasa]

I just read the new Haaretz article about how Israeli planted pines are suddenly dying en masse and it is absolutely worth dissecting. Here are a summary & my observations as a Palestinian scholar who writes on green colonialism. 1/

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

🚨BREAKING -- Declassified attended the Filton 24 press conference today, where five recently released Palestine Action activists revealed shocking details about their experience in prison.

Teuta Hoxha began by explaining that her mind is "not as sharp as it used to be before the hunger strike". She said prison guards issued threats of 14 years in jail for saying "Free Palestine" and claimed the Palestine flag was akin to a neo-Nazi symbol.

She also brandished an evidence bag of photos of children in Gaza, which she said had been confiscated from her while in prison.

Teuta, who went on hunger strike, said the government was "willing to let us die for a ban that was ruled unlawful and to deny bail that was later granted".

Speaking directly to home secretary Shabana Mahmood about the proscription of Palestine Action, she declared: "Enough damage has been done. The appeal must be withdrawn".

Heba Muraisi said she has not heard from her family in Gaza for 27 months as they suffer from a genocidal campaign of extermination at the hands of the Israeli forces.

On being arrested, she recalled how the police used chainsaws to rip through her front door and went on to violate her dignity by exposing her body to the public on the street.

Heba subsequently spent 73 days on hunger strike during which time she was not given electrolytes despite requests.

Maddie Norman said after her arrest, she wasn't given a phone call for 14 days and was therefore unable to tell her mom where she had been taken.

In jail, she was put on an "escape list", meaning she was forced to wear an "escape suit", creating conditions which restricted her ability to access medicine and make phone calls.

Maddie was told by guards that she had been put on the "escape list" because of undefined "intel". The guards subsequently said she’d been put on the list because she had been drawing in her cell and sketching in the yard. One day the guards came and said drawing the prison was "prohibited" and signalled an effort to escape.

Maddie's poster - which said "bombing kids is not self-defence" – was also taken away for "extremism".

She condemned the government's "unprecedented Draconian response" to direct action and said it is designed to scare the public away from expressing solidarity with Palestine.

Qesser Zuhrar opened by saying the prisoners for Palestine "are the collateral damage of Britain's immoral allegiance to the Israeli state".

She recalled how she was assaulted by guards twice in prison - once for requesting help for a suicidal prisoner and a second time for the mere act of crying. "The purpose of oppression is to humiliate - from the occupation of Palestine... to our own imprisonment", she said.

While on hunger strike, Qesser said that she was left to die for 22 hours “on my cell floor - or at least the guards wanted me to believe they would let me die". The guards even left the cell door open, knowing she was unable to move. It was only after public pressure that she was taken to hospital.

Kamran Ahmed explained how, when police raided his house, his disabled mother was told by police officers she had to walk 15 minutes to the nearest take-away restaurant if she wanted to eat, despite being unable to climb stairs.

"I am one of 24 humanitarian activists who were kidnapped by British counter-terror police", he said.

[Eva Karene Bartlett @EvaKBartlett]

This is heartbreaking.

"Dr. Hossam’s lawyer warns: his heart is exhausted, his body shattered from continuous torture, and the freezing temperatures in his cell are worsening his suffering.
Between cold walls, the doctor who saved hundreds of children and the wounded is left with no adequate food, no heating, and his health is deteriorating day by day.

🔴 Every moment of silence is a contribution to his suffering.
Any delay in saving him could be the moment that costs him his life.

✊🏻 Speak about him… spread his name… do not let the voice of the doctor who saved lives fade away."
https://t.co/NZnI5jZILW

[Tariq Kenney-Shawa @tksshawa]

Contacts in Gaza are all reporting the same thing tonight: Israeli air strikes have resumed at what feels like full force across the strip. The only reason anyone is still calling this a ceasefire is because not a single shot is being fired at Israel.

[Ewan MacKenna @EwanMacKenna]

Cancel me. Israel is a barbaric and sick state populated by savages, and the world would be a better place if is never existed and ceased to exist.

[The Sameer Project @sameerproject]

Help with tents: https://t.co/IJ5bPXQS8b. Last week we posted an appeal from a family of 26 members with widows, babies, elderly and man with an amputated leg. They were all sharing a small makeshift tent that was in horrible condition in Sheikh Radwan, Gaza City.

The Translating Falasteen (@translatingpal) x Sameer Project team went back this week and provided 3 new sturdy tents that cost $706 with 9% commission. Each tent will take around 8 people and will hopefully keep them protected from the wind and rain for the winter.

Unfortunately our team sometimes face violence when setting up tents from other camp residents who need tents. This is why we try to avoid individual cases and do assessments of entire camps to avoid this type of conflict or harassment of our ground team members. It is important to understand that operating during a genocide and with a huge néed puts our team members at risk, and we do what we can to mitigate that.

Donate to the North Campaign for tents in the North: https://t.co/IJ5bPXQS8b

Other ways to donate include:
https://t.co/OmIU4SifDD (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "North aid")
https://t.co/WNZu0ERJci (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "North aid")

[asia murphy phd (river to the sea) @am_anatiala]

PALESTINIAN FAMS STILL NEED SUPPORT‼️

People in Gaza are facing a winter homeless or in flooded tents. YOU can help H & his kids eat & stay warm!

In TWO DAYS we send $ to fams in Gaza. @ 1660/7000. If you can't give, can you RT? https://t.co/9YiyqdP1u8

[أخبار شرق كردفان @EastKordofan]

🔴 بلغ عدد شهـ.ـداء قصف روضة نبع الحنان بمدينة كالوقي لأكثر من 100 حسب مصدر محلي تحدث إلينا، إستهدفت مسيرات الجنجويد والحركة الشعبية الروضة حوالي التاسعة صباح اليوم بالروضة حوالي 60 طفل نجى منهم 5 فقط

"مقطع الفيديو متداول محلياً لأطفال روضة نبع الحنان قبل يوم واحد من الحادثة"

[asia murphy phd (river to the sea) @am_anatiala]

🚨SUPPORT SUDANESE FAMS RT🚨

This initiative feeds fams in El-Fashir, the city currently under siege in North Dafur! Drop $5 & hit that ✨ WEEKLY✨ button.

A $5/10 = EVERYTHING & RTing = FREE #KeepEyesOnSudan https://t.co/LuOQGOO6k4

[The Sameer Project @sameerproject]

These families are warning that Winter is coming, and they don’t know what to do, they have no protection from the cold and rain. Well, now Winter is here…https://t.co/jw67AhauWA.

That’s why The Sameer Project is launching our winter initiative “Give Warmth to Gaza.” After countless displacements and structures razed to the ground, families are surviving in makeshift shelters. Many of which have been destroyed after today’s rainstorm.

Gaza needs our assistance NOW - the genocide is not over, it has just been reshaped into long and slow torture, breaking Palestinians in Gaza. They are cold, they are hungry, they feel deserted after the so called “ceasefire.” Aid has not been allowed in by the occupation in the amounts promised, and now rain. It is unbearable suffering.

Our teams are already hard at work sourcing tents, tarps, blankets, sweatsuits, boots, anything to keep people warm and dry. But we need your help. There is not enough free aid entering, so we have to purchase these items that do exist in Gaza already for our free distributions to those most in need.

Donate to the “Give Warmth to Gaza” initiative within our Return Home Campaign.

Other ways to donate include:
https://t.co/OmIU4SiNtb (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Winter")
https://t.co/fWlJpZkj23 (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Winter")