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elia ayoub 🌱

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Authoritarianism, memory, violent temporalities and alternative futurities. Post-doc researcher and journalist. In Sussex, from Lebanon. @thefirethesetimes.com / @thestartrekpod.bsky.social / https://hauntologies.net / @972mag.com / https://shado-mag.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

I added some thoughts on the Peacehaven mosque attack here www.hauntologies.net/p/going-to-t...

Going to the Peacehaven Mosque

Some reflections following the 4 October terrorist attack

www.hauntologies.net

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 4h

Obviously it’s not Kushner. This means that Tony Blair persuaded Trump to accept that Palestinians cannot be ethnically cleansed and that Israel cannot rule Gaza.

What an indictment of our international system that Blair was a lesser evil to Trump’s initial plan

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

By then Trump, with the help of his son-in-law Jared Kushner and the former British prime minister Tony Blair, had been convinced to change his mind on two critical issues. First, Palestinians should not be driven from Gaza
and Israel should not
*erritory. "Gaza
should be for Gazans,
one sai
-• That meant Trump dropping the displacement rhetoric he deployed earlier in the year, when he triggered widespread alarm by speaking of
plans to develop a "Gaza Riviera" Secondly, Trump was persuaded a "day after" plan for the future of Gaza would not complicate the negotiations on a ceasefire- hostage release agreement by adding new contested ingredients, but was the precondition for success. A UK diplomat explained Blair's thinking: "Hamas was not going to give up unless it knew the Israelis were going to get out and the Israelis were not going to get out and stop occupying Gaza unless they
knew Hamas were not going to

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

Besides the unsurprising antisemitism, it’s further proof that Kirk was fine with changing positions based on who was funding him

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA is freaking out & splintering over a leaked text chain—which TPUSA’s Andrew Kolvet says is real—where Kirk wrote “Just lost another Jewish donor…Jewish donors play into all the stereotypes. I cannot & will not be bullied like this. Leaving me no choice but to leave the pro Israel cause.” 1/

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

There are more and more reports on the AI bubble‘s inevitable burst

So, naturally, Starmer and Modi proudly announce a joint AI centre

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Modi, Starmer hail UK-India trade deal as new investment revealed

Indian foreign ministry says the two sides agreed to set up a connectivity and innovation centre and a joint AI centre.

www.aljazeera.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

Some 40 ppl are stuck under the rubble of that building

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

Might have been optimistic of you

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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 5h

Israeli attacked a residential building in Gaza City and, according to Al Jazeera, killed and injured more than 70 civilians with most of them still under the rubble.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

24h into the ‘ceasefire’, Israel bombed a residential building in Gaza.

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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 5h

Israeli attacked a residential building in Gaza City and, according to Al Jazeera, killed and injured more than 70 civilians with most of them still under the rubble.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

I can work with proportional at least.

The current one is just wrong.

electoral-reform.org.uk/support-for-...

Support for proportional representation hits record high according to new research

The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) has, this week, published the latest findings from their British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey. The survey has been conducted almost ever

electoral-reform.org.uk

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

First past the post is a morally bankrupt system and needs to be replaced immediately.

We need preferential voting.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5h

Greens are close to overtaking Labour.

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 13h

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 6h

I know it won’t make a diff right now, but man what an absolute loser Kash Patel is

mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 1d

>not a veteran
>wall full of challenge coins

Kash Patel wearing the corniest Christmas camo punisher skull sweatshirt with his own podcast advertised on the sleeve, wearing his own merch hat too and another behind him, in front of an American flag challenge coin holder that also contains stickers for his podcast

buster bluth in fatigues with arms full of stuffed animals. "these are my awards, mother. from army."

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 6h

This is actually what is going to happen.

That’s already what’s happening in Lebanon. Israel kills regularly, violates the ceasefire agreement on an hourly basis.

It’s just not on the news anymore.

This is why pressure against Israel mustn’t just continue, but increase.

The Onion @theonion.com · 7h

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

theonion.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 7h

How many kids died for no other reason than Biden and his people not giving a shit?

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 9h

what do you even say. what do you even say.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 8h

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

www.freefunder.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 14h

There is absolutely no doubt that the Democrats could have had this ‘win’ as early as October, or latest November, 2023. They chose not to. It’s that simple.

If things are to really change there must also be accountability within the party.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 23h

This was just a few hours ago

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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 1d

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 23h

Bray has been the target of a rightwing campaign for the past few days

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 23h

The IDF took 3D animations from the Scottish Maritime Museum, a cyberpunk project and other places to make shit up about Gaza, Lebanon and Iran and these were reproduced in international outlets for the past 2 years.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

They talk about dearborn like rightwingers talk about chicago or portland

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Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 1d

Hope they get Marwan Barghouti and he can rise to the moment

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

BREAKING Hamas says alive hostages to be exchanged for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners within 72 hours of deal implementation

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations, used to justify Gaza strikes and amplified by international outlets, discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators

www.972mag.com/israeli-army... @972mag.com

How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda

An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.

www.972mag.com

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 1d

Me whispering like Wanda: no more apps.

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

18,457 names of children murdered by Israel in two years. Those are just the names we have so far.

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

The first 15 min are enough to give you a sense of just how deranged Milei is www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXuJ...

Among the explosion videos is the port of Beirut one from 2020

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

It’s Baldwin’s own words! One of the insights of his that continue to guide me

shado-mag.com/articles/opi...

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