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Fathi Alhaj Family 🍉🤍🐈 @fathifam.bsky.social · 4h

Oct 12 Fathi update:

Fathi always 💭 about how he will get his 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 out of 🇵🇸. He needs our support, nobody knows if this 🛑🔥 will last 😢

🇮🇱 has stopped 💣 but the drones still fly overhead. Nutrient dense 🥘 still isn’t entering

$27,256/$50k

- N.

gofund.me/0afe1dcda

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveFathi

Alhamdullah two days now without boombs just the sound of drones
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Untill now we did not eat any thing from this list
Egg
Meat
Chicken
Fish Etc.
6:26 AM
Today we are making
Pasta with bachamel sauce
It's missing a lot like chicken or meat and it's missing many other ingredients as well, but as usual, we make do with what's available.
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Our thinking all the time now is finding way to travel just this is all our thinking yarab yarab can some one make our dream true so we can be ready sis i feel if the border open that i will be lost and not ready at all
yarab i can save my family this time from this life ya rab Nicola

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 4h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19h

Very funny considering this was about six months ago

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Apr 29

Under attack from Nate Silver, "the man who is always right"

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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much a jew about nothing @lynskoang.bsky.social · 7h

extremely mayor coded behavior @nogodsnomayors.com

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 8h

SIX YEARS after Harris County deputies took a man's life savings - $41k - saying it ~could~ potentially be used to buy drugs at some point in the future, a Texas appeals court has ordered them to return it.

Will be interested to see if the current DA tries to appeal this... ij.org/press-releas...

Texas Appeals Court Reverses Forfeiture of Innocent Americans’ Life Savings and Orders Harris County to Return the $41,680 It Seized - Institute for Justice

Today, the Texas First Court of Appeals reversed a Harris County civil-forfeiture judgment entered after a six-day jury trial and rendered judgment for Institute for Justice (IJ) […]

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much a jew about nothing @lynskoang.bsky.social · 7h

does anyone know which chapter of the parable of the sower we're on next week?

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 10h

Get ready for "one day"

meme: ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS
Omar El Akkad

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

People who act confused by Hamas' desire to free Barghoti are bizarre to me, Hamas wants him out even though he isn't Hamas affiliated because they believe he is one of the few, or maybe even the only, individuals who can unite the whole of Palestinian factions under the PLO

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much a jew about nothing @lynskoang.bsky.social · 9h

Luffy = Jesus
Roronoa Zolo = St. Peter
Nami = mary magdalene
arlong the fish man = roman emperor
Brook = holy ghost

Is he onto something???

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 11h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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iman 🪂🔻🔻 @imanisthere.bsky.social · 9h

There might be a ceasefire but our work is far from finished. Palestinians in Gaza need shelter and winter clothes. Khawla's children are suffering in the cold and need sweaters. Can anyone buy them four sweaters? Please support 🙏🏽

chuffed.org/project/1276...

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Adam (human animal)🍉 @forcolumb.us · 10h

Palestinian farmers in Tarqumiya, west of Al Khalil, wanted to harvest their crops, so Zionist terrorists stole their vehicles and took them hostage.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 10h

If your instinct is to reply with something like "that would only create chaos" shut down the internet and read Freire's Pedagogy Of The Oppressed instead

The man or woman who proclaims devotion to the cause of liberation yet is unable to enter into communion with the people, whom he or she continues to regard as totally ignorant, is grievously self-deceived.
The convert who approaches the people but feels alarm at each step they take, each doubt they express, and each suggestion they offer, and attempts to impose his
"status," remains nostalgic towards his origins.
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 15h

People gave a record amount of money to multiple organizations for the people of Gaza and all this money just sat there for the past 2 years because Israel blocked it. I hope this money gets distributed quickly now so that the people of Gaza don't have to beg anymore
news.un.org/en/story/202...

Private donations boost UN support for war-torn Gaza

From celebrities to civil society, a growing number of people around the world are providing unprecedented support for UNRWA, the UN agency supplying a lifeline to two million Palestinians trapped in ...

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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 10h

De la Alemania nazi a los Estados Unidos de Trump: por qué el autoritarismo quiere amas de casa

Los regímenes fascistas del siglo pasado promovían narrativas de felicidad doméstica, pero dependían del trabajo no remunerado de las mujeres. En la actualidad, en Estados Unidos, las influencers de l...

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 10h

"And when masked men grab a parent from the school car line or the corner coffee shop, all students in that school or neighborhood are subject to trauma and made to understand: The state can make people disappear. It is to be feared."

The Assault on Children

MAGA's use of kids to consolidate authoritarianism

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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much a jew about nothing @lynskoang.bsky.social · 1d

that's how i saw it too!!! the first act of the real mima, for real this time (/real)

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much a jew about nothing @lynskoang.bsky.social · 1d

you couldn't waterboard this confession out of me

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much a jew about nothing @lynskoang.bsky.social · 1d

Can we help this beautiful family today?

Help Mohammed and Heba @mohammedandheba68.bsky.social · 1d

My child, Jamal, a diabetic and war-wounded man, survived the most brutal war in history and the horrors that shook his heart. He tells you: Don't forget us, and support us with your donations and your sharing.

Please support my sister with any word and give her some hope

gofund.me/f3e7f81c8

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much a jew about nothing @lynskoang.bsky.social · 1d

not only is this purported libertarian man a feminist in words AND action, but he never once shows a sliver of creepiness toward underage girls.

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much a jew about nothing @lynskoang.bsky.social · 1d

interrupting my own progress on 3 different writing projects to blast out a 4000 word screed about how ron swanson was a liberal wet dream of a species of libertarian that has never existed in america and never will

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much a jew about nothing @lynskoang.bsky.social · 1d

also like.... source???!?

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not sure how poorer districts in any state will be able to stomach the costs from IEPs. I expect disability support staff (i.e. paraprofessionals) may be furloughed.

Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

⚠️ USAToday reporter confirms the office in charge of special education funding has been “decimated”:

Zach Schermele
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NEW: The Education Dept. layoffs continued overnight, w/ the main office in charge of special ed funding being
"decimated," as one person described.
"They cut just about everyone that works with IDEA funding," said another.
"I'm not sure how these programs exist moving forward."
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 1d

I've yet to see this properly analysed from a psychological point of view. Obviously RFK is a nut, but there's also a broader pattern in the GOP ranks that seems deeply peculiar, of wanting positively to welcome the threat of disease and death. It feels like a collective psychosis.

Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump admin is in the midst of laying off 1,100-1,200 HHS staff. The CDC's outbreak responders, gone. The office producing CDC's weekly journal MMWR is gone. CDC staff securing sensitive data, gone. Worker safety, gone. Immunization group, gone.

Instead, Congress watches RFK "make the proof"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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