elia ayoub
@ayoub.bsky.social
Authoritarianism, hauntology and alternative futurities. Writer, Journalist & Podcaster. Eng/Fr/Esp/It/ع
In Brighton, from Lebanon.
@thefirethesetimes.com / @thestartrekpod.bsky.social / https://hauntologies.net / @972mag.com / https://shado-mag.com
In Brighton, from Lebanon.
@thefirethesetimes.com / @thestartrekpod.bsky.social / https://hauntologies.net / @972mag.com / https://shado-mag.com
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@ayoub.bsky.social
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Hey y'all, will soon start an online class on Lebanese history and politics.
If you're interested, send me an email or Signal. Please say why you're messaging.
I'll send an email/text (no more) with more details soon.
Email: [email protected]
Signal: @ ayoub.02
If you're interested, send me an email or Signal. Please say why you're messaging.
I'll send an email/text (no more) with more details soon.
Email: [email protected]
Signal: @ ayoub.02
Germany uses the excuse of the ’ceasefire’ which Israel routinely violates to sell weapons to Israel again. Israel is being rewarded for committing genocide by the country that pretends to have learned from the holocaust.
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Germany uses the excuse of the ’ceasefire’ which Israel routinely violates to sell weapons to Israel again. Israel is being rewarded for committing genocide by the country that pretends to have learned from the holocaust.
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Performative cruelty to appeal to voters who won’t vote for you anyway is just another level of moral decrepitude
Labour's anti-asylum policies are already fundamentally inhumane and discriminatory. Applying them retrospectively is pure cruelty though. It serves absolutely no purpose. Meanwhile it will increase the costs and bureaucracy of an already dysfunctional Home Office.
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Performative cruelty to appeal to voters who won’t vote for you anyway is just another level of moral decrepitude
Labour is actively wasting our money for the sole purpose of being cruel to people who have done nothing wrong
Labour's anti-asylum policies are already fundamentally inhumane and discriminatory. Applying them retrospectively is pure cruelty though. It serves absolutely no purpose. Meanwhile it will increase the costs and bureaucracy of an already dysfunctional Home Office.
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Labour is actively wasting our money for the sole purpose of being cruel to people who have done nothing wrong
Losing my beloved dog Flip has been the most difficult thing I've had to go through in a very long time, but I've also been blessed with how many people checked in on me these past 3 days. I'm still in disbelief and heartbroken, but I'm also extremely grateful that I got to share 13 years with him.
November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Losing my beloved dog Flip has been the most difficult thing I've had to go through in a very long time, but I've also been blessed with how many people checked in on me these past 3 days. I'm still in disbelief and heartbroken, but I'm also extremely grateful that I got to share 13 years with him.
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RIP Margaretta D'Arcy, pictured outside the Dáil, June 2025, aged 91. [pic: Rose Comiskey]
November 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
RIP Margaretta D'Arcy, pictured outside the Dáil, June 2025, aged 91. [pic: Rose Comiskey]
London police continue their duty of arresting elderly people who are not happy with the UK government’s complicity in the Israeli genocide in Gaza
Labour’s UK
Via www.instagram.com/reel/DRXxbMo...
Labour’s UK
Via www.instagram.com/reel/DRXxbMo...
November 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
London police continue their duty of arresting elderly people who are not happy with the UK government’s complicity in the Israeli genocide in Gaza
Labour’s UK
Via www.instagram.com/reel/DRXxbMo...
Labour’s UK
Via www.instagram.com/reel/DRXxbMo...
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Turkeys are flavorless and dry, and they want to live. This Thanksgiving, @mbolotnikova.bsky.social encourages you to challenge the status quo and embrace plant-based alternatives, have conversations about ethical food choices, and create more sustainable and compassionate traditions.
8 million turkeys will be thrown in the trash this Thanksgiving
We don’t have to accept all that death and waste for a dry, flavorless bird no one likes.
www.vox.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Turkeys are flavorless and dry, and they want to live. This Thanksgiving, @mbolotnikova.bsky.social encourages you to challenge the status quo and embrace plant-based alternatives, have conversations about ethical food choices, and create more sustainable and compassionate traditions.
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This Saturday, London's Metropolitan Police arrested more than 90 protestors at the Peace Garden in Tavistock Square for holding a sign reading, "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."
November 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This Saturday, London's Metropolitan Police arrested more than 90 protestors at the Peace Garden in Tavistock Square for holding a sign reading, "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."
The ‘ceasefire’
Israel just struck Beirut’s southern suburbs for the first time in months and first time since last year’s war without a warning.
Reports saying it was an airstrike in Haret Hreik. Though such attacks usually are struck by drone
Reports saying it was an airstrike in Haret Hreik. Though such attacks usually are struck by drone
November 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The ‘ceasefire’
“We will deal with it if it happens. All the [Lebanese Shia] villages around us, they are destroyed and basically uninhabitable. If you ask what is our victory, it is that we have been rebuilding for a year and they haven’t put a single pipe back in the ground.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Tense calm in far north as Israel prepares to ‘finish the job’ against Hezbollah
On the border with Lebanon, communities have started to return and rebuild – even though some are in no hurry to return
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“We will deal with it if it happens. All the [Lebanese Shia] villages around us, they are destroyed and basically uninhabitable. If you ask what is our victory, it is that we have been rebuilding for a year and they haven’t put a single pipe back in the ground.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Macc clearly a lightning rod for shifts in British politics.
First the parliamentary seat flips to Labour after being Tory for god knows how long. Now a Green councillor elected right in the middle of town!
First the parliamentary seat flips to Labour after being Tory for god knows how long. Now a Green councillor elected right in the middle of town!
Macclesfield Central (Cheshire East) Council By-Election Result:
🌍 GRN: 41.8% (+19.7)
🌹 LAB: 28.6% (-25.7)
➡️ RFM: 15.8% (New)
🌳 CON: 9.1% (-4.5)
⚖️ EQU: 2.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 2.2% (-7.7)
Green GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.
🌍 GRN: 41.8% (+19.7)
🌹 LAB: 28.6% (-25.7)
➡️ RFM: 15.8% (New)
🌳 CON: 9.1% (-4.5)
⚖️ EQU: 2.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 2.2% (-7.7)
Green GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.
November 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Macc clearly a lightning rod for shifts in British politics.
First the parliamentary seat flips to Labour after being Tory for god knows how long. Now a Green councillor elected right in the middle of town!
First the parliamentary seat flips to Labour after being Tory for god knows how long. Now a Green councillor elected right in the middle of town!
Bookmark this one everyone
November 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Bookmark this one everyone
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I have also to say, again, shame on the UK Supreme Court. Whatever led us here, it is absolutely not its apolitical application of the law.
Am increasingly with the very senior UK barrister who is telling her colleagues: "at least with the US Supreme Court you know what their politics are."
Am increasingly with the very senior UK barrister who is telling her colleagues: "at least with the US Supreme Court you know what their politics are."
At least it's honest, right? Intrusive questioning of women who don't conform to norms about how they should look, and women then being banned if they tell their inquisitor to mind his own sodding business, has always been the logical end point for the patriarchal project that is TERFdom.
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I have also to say, again, shame on the UK Supreme Court. Whatever led us here, it is absolutely not its apolitical application of the law.
Am increasingly with the very senior UK barrister who is telling her colleagues: "at least with the US Supreme Court you know what their politics are."
Am increasingly with the very senior UK barrister who is telling her colleagues: "at least with the US Supreme Court you know what their politics are."
Sudanese comedian Muayad Jamal was arrested by UAE authorities for calling the RSF a militia. The RSF is the UAE-backed armed group committing genocide in Sudan
UAE authorities told him to “forget about the army”, as in the Sudanese army which is battling the RSF
www.instagram.com/reel/DRIR682...
UAE authorities told him to “forget about the army”, as in the Sudanese army which is battling the RSF
www.instagram.com/reel/DRIR682...
Walad Kosti on Instagram: "UAE resident arrested for criticizing the RSF militia
Sudanese Comedian Muayad Jamal was arrested by UAE security forces for calling the RSF militia, interrogated and was s...
20K likes, 864 comments - waladkosti on November 16, 2025: "UAE resident arrested for criticizing the RSF militia
Sudanese Comedian Muayad Jamal was arrested by UAE security forces for calling the RS...
www.instagram.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Sudanese comedian Muayad Jamal was arrested by UAE authorities for calling the RSF a militia. The RSF is the UAE-backed armed group committing genocide in Sudan
UAE authorities told him to “forget about the army”, as in the Sudanese army which is battling the RSF
www.instagram.com/reel/DRIR682...
UAE authorities told him to “forget about the army”, as in the Sudanese army which is battling the RSF
www.instagram.com/reel/DRIR682...
I described the so-called ceasefires as gaslighting campaigns, and gaslighting campaigns are a core part of Israel’s wars. The purpose of ‘ceasefires’ in the Israeli political mindset is to reduce media attention while continuing to destroy the very fabric of life in Gaza and Lebanon.
Netanyahu says the war is not over
My latest with comments from @ayoub.bsky.social @aburass.bsky.social & Rob Geist Pinfold
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
My latest with comments from @ayoub.bsky.social @aburass.bsky.social & Rob Geist Pinfold
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
Despite ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon, the war isn’t over for Netanyahu
US President Donald Trump has declared peace but Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu says the war on Gaza is not over.
www.aljazeera.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I described the so-called ceasefires as gaslighting campaigns, and gaslighting campaigns are a core part of Israel’s wars. The purpose of ‘ceasefires’ in the Israeli political mindset is to reduce media attention while continuing to destroy the very fabric of life in Gaza and Lebanon.
That in addition to the widespread use of mines, white phosphorus etc has been part of Israel’s arsenal for decades. That’s how ecocide is committed on a mass scale, and how large parts of where I’m from - Lebanon/Palestine - is rendered unliveable by the West’s favourite genocidal state
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
That in addition to the widespread use of mines, white phosphorus etc has been part of Israel’s arsenal for decades. That’s how ecocide is committed on a mass scale, and how large parts of where I’m from - Lebanon/Palestine - is rendered unliveable by the West’s favourite genocidal state
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Netanyahu says the war is not over
My latest with comments from @ayoub.bsky.social @aburass.bsky.social & Rob Geist Pinfold
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
My latest with comments from @ayoub.bsky.social @aburass.bsky.social & Rob Geist Pinfold
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
Despite ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon, the war isn’t over for Netanyahu
US President Donald Trump has declared peace but Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu says the war on Gaza is not over.
www.aljazeera.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Netanyahu says the war is not over
My latest with comments from @ayoub.bsky.social @aburass.bsky.social & Rob Geist Pinfold
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
My latest with comments from @ayoub.bsky.social @aburass.bsky.social & Rob Geist Pinfold
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
Israel has been using cluster bombs - which are banned - on Lebanon for decades. They used them in 2006 as well.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel used widely banned cluster munitions in Lebanon, photos of remnants suggest
Exclusive: Images are first indication that Israel has used cluster munitions in nearly 20 years
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Israel has been using cluster bombs - which are banned - on Lebanon for decades. They used them in 2006 as well.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Honestly think this could be worse for Trump than it is for MTG
let's see how that works for him
Trump un-endorses Marjorie Taylor Greene
November 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Honestly think this could be worse for Trump than it is for MTG
Mike Pence proudly celebrating Britain’s role in Christian Zionism, and note his religious use of ‘rebirth’ here.
Been repeating the same thing for years: Christian Zionism is by far the greater threat. It is also deeply antisemitic, starting from Balfour himself.
Been repeating the same thing for years: Christian Zionism is by far the greater threat. It is also deeply antisemitic, starting from Balfour himself.
November 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Mike Pence proudly celebrating Britain’s role in Christian Zionism, and note his religious use of ‘rebirth’ here.
Been repeating the same thing for years: Christian Zionism is by far the greater threat. It is also deeply antisemitic, starting from Balfour himself.
Been repeating the same thing for years: Christian Zionism is by far the greater threat. It is also deeply antisemitic, starting from Balfour himself.
Israel announced that they will bomb two villages in Southern Lebanon
That’s how they do it. They tell you that they will violate the ceasefire for the thousandth time, and there will be no consequences.
That’s how they do it. They tell you that they will violate the ceasefire for the thousandth time, and there will be no consequences.
November 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Israel announced that they will bomb two villages in Southern Lebanon
That’s how they do it. They tell you that they will violate the ceasefire for the thousandth time, and there will be no consequences.
That’s how they do it. They tell you that they will violate the ceasefire for the thousandth time, and there will be no consequences.
fuck yeah Scotland's back
November 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
fuck yeah Scotland's back
In other words, Trump is fine with doing the same to US journalists
Trump defends Mohammed bin Salman over the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi:
"A lot of people didn't like that gentleman... Things happen... He knew nothing about it."
A US intelligence report concluded that bin Salman personally "approved an operation" to "kill or capture" Khashoggi.
"A lot of people didn't like that gentleman... Things happen... He knew nothing about it."
A US intelligence report concluded that bin Salman personally "approved an operation" to "kill or capture" Khashoggi.
November 19, 2025 at 9:29 AM
In other words, Trump is fine with doing the same to US journalists
I will never get over how boring these people are. It's really like you get to a certain level of wealth and privilege and your brain breaks.
Corruption out in the open
Corruption out in the open
November 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I will never get over how boring these people are. It's really like you get to a certain level of wealth and privilege and your brain breaks.
Corruption out in the open
Corruption out in the open