Hassaan Ahmed حسان احمد
@ancienthydra.bsky.social
Writer, serial procrastinator. Wild-haired, tired-eyed purveyor of words like purveyor. Evil marketer, aspirant academic - Free Palestine, of course - he/him
Heartbreaking, infuriating (because how many of us have struggled to articulate how they feel about the death of friendships over the utter disdain to the eradication of a people) and a ridiculously beautiful read.
Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
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Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
stone-soup.ghost.io
November 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Heartbreaking, infuriating (because how many of us have struggled to articulate how they feel about the death of friendships over the utter disdain to the eradication of a people) and a ridiculously beautiful read.
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Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List
The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…
soniasulaiman.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
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"Police want to drop charges against a man they arrested last year for wearing a F*** Israel F*** Zionism t-shirt. But Andrew Brown, wants his day in court."
#freespeech #auspol #antisemitism #Israel
michaelwest.com.au/anti-zionism...
#freespeech #auspol #antisemitism #Israel
michaelwest.com.au/anti-zionism...
Anti-zionism v antisemitism. Bondi Beach "F*** Israel" t-shirt man in court battle for freedom of speech - Michael West
Police want to drop charges against a man they arrested last year for wearing a F@#* Israel t-shirt. But Andrew Brown, wants a court battle.
michaelwest.com.au
November 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
"Police want to drop charges against a man they arrested last year for wearing a F*** Israel F*** Zionism t-shirt. But Andrew Brown, wants his day in court."
#freespeech #auspol #antisemitism #Israel
michaelwest.com.au/anti-zionism...
#freespeech #auspol #antisemitism #Israel
michaelwest.com.au/anti-zionism...
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imagine if Labor cabinet ministers & MPs had an ounce of the character & courage of Senator Fatima Payman—they could prevent harms, achieve positive changes or at the least represent their constituents instead of Big Business, miners, weapons corps, financiers, property developers, landlords etc
Senator Payman: "The more I’ve lived and worked in public life, the more I’ve come to realise that bravery isn’t about never feeling afraid. It’s about recognising fear for what it is and choosing to act anyway. It’s a choice open to us all, not just those whose names end up in the history books."
The Floor I Crossed Was Between Fear and Freedom
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
imagine if Labor cabinet ministers & MPs had an ounce of the character & courage of Senator Fatima Payman—they could prevent harms, achieve positive changes or at the least represent their constituents instead of Big Business, miners, weapons corps, financiers, property developers, landlords etc
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Our beautiful city has become like this
November 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Our beautiful city has become like this
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Meta's Facebook now encourages people to donate to hateful zionist organizations with prominent roles in Israel's genocide.
November 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Meta's Facebook now encourages people to donate to hateful zionist organizations with prominent roles in Israel's genocide.
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It's important to boycott Uber. They will use the drones that killed children, who stood in line for flour, to deliver your food order. Do not use Uber. For anything.
November 21, 2025 at 5:09 AM
It's important to boycott Uber. They will use the drones that killed children, who stood in line for flour, to deliver your food order. Do not use Uber. For anything.
It is very fucking weird to sit down for a metal concert. My legs thank me, but every instinct in my body wants to get up to headbang.
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
It is very fucking weird to sit down for a metal concert. My legs thank me, but every instinct in my body wants to get up to headbang.
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I think about the hypocrisy of the EU all the time. Disgusting.
November 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I think about the hypocrisy of the EU all the time. Disgusting.
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Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
What stage of dystopian nightmare are we at?
Adobe Acrobat, a PDF editor, keeps asking, nay demanding, that I generate an image every fucking time I highlight any text to mark it up, edit, or in any way try to do something to TEXT.
Adobe Acrobat, a PDF editor, keeps asking, nay demanding, that I generate an image every fucking time I highlight any text to mark it up, edit, or in any way try to do something to TEXT.
November 17, 2025 at 3:27 AM
What stage of dystopian nightmare are we at?
Adobe Acrobat, a PDF editor, keeps asking, nay demanding, that I generate an image every fucking time I highlight any text to mark it up, edit, or in any way try to do something to TEXT.
Adobe Acrobat, a PDF editor, keeps asking, nay demanding, that I generate an image every fucking time I highlight any text to mark it up, edit, or in any way try to do something to TEXT.
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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Anyone else noticed how Nazi rallies get the go-ahead fairly easily from state governments, then the horrified public reaction is weaponised to pass anti-protest laws, which are then used to quash anti-genocide dissent and justify police assaults on small brown women? You picking up on this, too??
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Anyone else noticed how Nazi rallies get the go-ahead fairly easily from state governments, then the horrified public reaction is weaponised to pass anti-protest laws, which are then used to quash anti-genocide dissent and justify police assaults on small brown women? You picking up on this, too??
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"In the waning weeks of [..] Biden's first term, the U.S. came into possession of intelligence of Israeli officials discussing their military's use of Palestinians as human shields in Gaza — but refused to act upon this knowledge."
#USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military #EthnicCleansing
#USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military #EthnicCleansing
Biden Administration Had Evidence That Israel Used Palestinians as Human Shields
Biden administration officials raised "concerns" that amounted to nothing over Israel’s actions in its final weeks.
truthout.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"In the waning weeks of [..] Biden's first term, the U.S. came into possession of intelligence of Israeli officials discussing their military's use of Palestinians as human shields in Gaza — but refused to act upon this knowledge."
#USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military #EthnicCleansing
#USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military #EthnicCleansing
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For all the BS capitulation to Jill Segel that's happened in Australian unis, I was pleasantly surprised to be in a work all-staff where the host referred to it as "the genocide in Gaza", without any qualifying statements around Hamas & "antisemitism" (bonus separation of zionists and Jewish folk)
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
For all the BS capitulation to Jill Segel that's happened in Australian unis, I was pleasantly surprised to be in a work all-staff where the host referred to it as "the genocide in Gaza", without any qualifying statements around Hamas & "antisemitism" (bonus separation of zionists and Jewish folk)
A sliver of light in the darkness of this world: Deadloch (aka the greatest piece of Australian television) returns for season 2 in March '26!
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
A sliver of light in the darkness of this world: Deadloch (aka the greatest piece of Australian television) returns for season 2 in March '26!
My real fucking problem with his keighleyness is that (and this could just be an algo thing) I've never seen him give interviews, or do anything interactive outside of social media and his events. Which highly reduces the chances for good journalists to call him on his shit to his face.
"We found out later that Keighley had a party in another room with all the influencers and industry people. You know where Future Class met that day? At a Starbucks.”
‘We were effectively props’: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My real fucking problem with his keighleyness is that (and this could just be an algo thing) I've never seen him give interviews, or do anything interactive outside of social media and his events. Which highly reduces the chances for good journalists to call him on his shit to his face.
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NSW Police:
Anti-genocide 🍉 protest? 🙅♂️
Pro-genocide Nazi protest? 😀👍
#FCKNZS
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Anti-genocide 🍉 protest? 🙅♂️
Pro-genocide Nazi protest? 😀👍
#FCKNZS
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Police allowed Nazi rally outside NSW parliament
More than 60 people attended Saturday morning’s rally after notifying police more than a week ago. The police commissioner said he had no idea it was going to happen.
www.smh.com.au
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
NSW Police:
Anti-genocide 🍉 protest? 🙅♂️
Pro-genocide Nazi protest? 😀👍
#FCKNZS
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Anti-genocide 🍉 protest? 🙅♂️
Pro-genocide Nazi protest? 😀👍
#FCKNZS
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Yes, no one should really be talking to the New York Times.
It is increasingly clear that there is a crisis of trust in legacy media, five-alarm fire stuff. It is bad for any news outlet to have a reputation that wards off people it should be talking to, and the wary are growing in number
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Yes, no one should really be talking to the New York Times.
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This should be reported alongside any coverage of the GTA 6 delay
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
UK union accuses GTA maker Rockstar Games of firing employees attempting to organise
According to The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain, the developer fired more than 30 staff last week for being members of a union-affiliated Discord channel
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
This should be reported alongside any coverage of the GTA 6 delay
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
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Biden knew that Israel was committing crimes against humanity in Gaza and then decided to keep US commitments to Israel, shortly before handing it over to Trump
www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
Biden Discussed Potential Israeli War Crimes In Gaza. He Kicked The Can To Trump.
New intelligence shocked officials in late 2024, spurring heightened fear of U.S. liability, HuffPost has learned. The period saw Secretary of State Antony Blinken ask if Israel’s actions constituted ...
www.huffpost.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Biden knew that Israel was committing crimes against humanity in Gaza and then decided to keep US commitments to Israel, shortly before handing it over to Trump
www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
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At Sydney’s mighty arms convention, weapons are sold as ‘solutions’. No one mentions the people they will target
At Sydney’s mighty arms convention, weapons are sold as ‘solutions’. No one mentions the people they will target
As protesters outside condemn war, inside the Indo-Pacific International Maritime Exposition the defence minister praises the ‘beautiful, menacing and extremely cool’ technology on show
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Inside the heavily guarded, aseptically cool halls of the Indo-Pacific International Maritime Exposition, Australia’s defence minister, Richard Marles, describes it as, for some in the room, “a kind of Disneyland … the happiest place on Earth”.
Standing outside, facing barricades and a broad line of armed police, those protesting the very presence of the arms conference in Sydney view it is anything but. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
At Sydney’s mighty arms convention, weapons are sold as ‘solutions’. No one mentions the people they will target