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Alon (they/them)

@alonlevy.bsky.social

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Transit researcher in Berlin. Lived in Tel Aviv, Singapore, the Riviera, New York, Providence, Vancouver, Stockholm, Paris. https://pedestrianobservations.com/ http://patreon.com/alonlevy [email protected] @[email protected]

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 5h

Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 5h

What consumption is gendered enby? :(

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 11h

Its origin is in the Palestinian Territories and I've seen it in Germany in spaces with ~no Americans.

Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 11h

Paris is starting to talk about it, and I'd bet even money Paris gets to 100% before New York does.

Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 17h

I think it's notable that, precisely because she had a track record of bad campaigning contributing to defeat, she didn't succeed in running in the 2012 primary in the conservative or insurgent lane, and instead that lane filled with grifters like Cain and had little chance against Romney.

Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 17h

Yes, but.

Palin was, in the summer of 2008, a governor of Alaska with a record that looked solid, and was opposed to the Murkowski political machine. She ended up crumbling under media scrutiny with questions like "which newspapers do you read?" but that was bad campaigning and was punished.

Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 17h

The 2022 choice of human rights orgs in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus was for all intents and purposes a do-gooder choice rather than an opposition choice - it was drawing equivalence between Russia and Ukraine in a war in which Russia invaded Ukraine without provocation.

Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 17h

What is the history of the Manchester trams, anyway?

Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah, they adopted mission command from Germany, but by the 1970s the American attitude toward European militaries was "oh, God, these people again?". It wasn't at all Wehrabooism to learn from civilian light rail systems.

Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 18h

Okay, who's Keir Starmer in this story?

Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 18h

The elected president of Poland (who can veto laws - he's not at all ceremonial) is a historian whose oeuvre is notable for playing down Polish anti-Semitism and collaboration with the Nazis; when PiS had a legislative majority, it passed laws criminalizing saying the Nazis didn't exterminate Poles.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 18h

Not just blind morons - those videos are shot from a distance, and often are targeting infantry and not armor, so it's hard to see what is being targeted without the aid. Hezbollah did the same during the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon.

Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 18h

In the US, yes. But as mentioned in other comments, the watermelon was used as a Palestinian symbol within Palestine independently of it because the colors are similar to those of the Palestine flag. Its spread has nothing to do with the American white supremacist mocking of black people.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 18h

No, not at all, it's purely civilian - the Cold War US military didn't think much of the Bundeswehr, complaining even then that Germany wasn't spending enough on the military.

Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 19h

Problem set.

Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 20h

Probably neither. Of notes:
1. The deal is incredibly favorable to Israel.
2. There's likely more behind-the-scenes pressure on Hamas from Qatar.
3. Bibi just got 4-5 more seats in the form of Hendel's satellite party and feels less politically insecure than since the war started.

Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 20h

Yes, but that's not the argument the academic right and anti-wokes are making. They complain about grade inflation but their solution is not to make psets harder, it's to demand political commissars for hiring more Republican made men as professors.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 20h

Stop the War UK more or less did that - not Al-Qaida flags, but a lot of Saddam apologia. Then in the 2010s, Žižek, calling the Syrian opposition a "pseudo-revolution," got interested in ISIS and wrote with obvious disappointment that it wasn't the revolutionary org he'd hoped for it to be.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, she didn't invite an Israeli either. Probably because an Israeli would know that 7.10 did not lead to a wave of national unity the way she said it did after her trip to the country, but rather deepened pro- vs. anti-Bibi polarization.

Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 1d

People keep saying that universities are training left-wing activists, but evidently, activist-y writing is not taught in general writing classes - students don't learn how to write a call to action, or a position paper to a political insider-y audience, or a report supporting an allied group, etc.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 1d

What do the students prefer to keep and what do they prefer to remove?

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 1d

The doc reveals that within 72 hours, Hamas must provide all the info it possesses about the casualties to a mechanism established by Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey - and it turns out, also the Red Cross. The release of the hostages, as determined, will be carried out without ceremonies or media coverage.

Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 1d

“Comprehensive End of Gaza War," as signed by the mediators in Egypt.

Via Gili Cohen

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 1d

(That said, the fact that he's aligning with John "I don't let my kids ride the subway" Samuelsen bodes ill for his leadership; he should be the one providing left cover for when the MTA modernizes and sends most of those workers pink slips.)

Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 1d

I've found an issue that matters even less than the New York mayor's opinion of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, Clipper is fare medium integration, which is unrelated to the issue of fare integration, which is that the fare between Hyde Park and the Loop should be the same by bus, L, or MED with free transfers, and transit planning should reflect this (e.g. cancel the Red Line extension).