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Faysal 🍁
@faysal.bsky.social
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A journalist. Interested in tech-politics, social movements and culture. Kashmiri.
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Faysal 🍁 @faysal.bsky.social · 1d
if it were easier, i wouldn't be here
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Faysal 🍁 @faysal.bsky.social · 10d
we might have a ceasefire in gaza tonight.
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Faysal 🍁 @faysal.bsky.social · 11d
work all week for a story, only for it to get canned. nice!
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Kraut @derparrot.bsky.social · 14d
You know why so many rivers run through France?

Because they take the path of least resistance.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 14d
The former British prime minister has been discussing postwar arrangements for the besieged strip with the US president, according to people briefed on the proposal on.ft.com/4pIG1pI
Tony Blair. Text on image reads: Tony Blair seeks to play key role in Gaza under Trump’s peace plan
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Don Lemon @donlemonofficial.bsky.social · 17d
Zohran Mamdani Pulls Out of ABC Town Hall After Kimmel Suspension
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Black Sabre Jr. 🏆 @homunculusdick.bsky.social · 21d
All of this shit sucks ass but it's insult to injury that not one of these people are attractive. We're under the boot of a bunch of hatchet face dweebs. I saw a video of Trump in the UK and that bronzer made him look like a rack of ribs.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23d
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk’s record.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 24d
It is over for the genocide deniers.

Even the BBC is now splashing on the UN commission of inquiry concluding that Israel has committed genocide.

Those who supported Israel's onslaught:

You backed a genocide.

You will never scrub the shame away.
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Faysal 🍁 @faysal.bsky.social · 24d
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Olivia Snaije @oliviasnaije.bsky.social · 25d
Such an interesting interview!
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 25d
Transnationalism and Translation

In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Margaret Litvin discuss the triangulation of translating Arabic literature and Soviet Russia into English, vanishing intertexts, and why translating Sonallah Ibrahim's Ice into a single…
Transnationalism and Translation
In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Margaret Litvin discuss the triangulation of translating Arabic literature and Soviet Russia into English, vanishing intertexts, and why translating Sonallah Ibrahim's Ice into a single language would have been like "putting salad through a blender."
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 28d
In Hong Kong, intense storms in recent years has pushed the government and businesses to upgrade their responses to rain and flooding. Those efforts are working.
The Future of Flood-Fighting Is Being Charted in Hong Kong
Intense storms in recent years has pushed the government and businesses to upgrade their responses to rain and flooding, and those efforts are working.
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Faysal 🍁 @faysal.bsky.social · 29d
two years of genocide, and thousands of videos go through. i need therapy after this story
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WIRED @wired.com · 29d
Charlie Kirk, the internet personality and cofounder of Turning Point USA, was shot on Wednesday afternoon at Utah Valley University (UVU), where he was holding an event. His condition is currently unknown.
Charlie Kirk Shot at Utah Valley University Event
Turning Point USA cofounder Charlie Kirk was shot at an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. A suspect is in custody, according to campus police, but details remain murky.
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Faysal 🍁 @faysal.bsky.social · Sep 7
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Rahat Kurd @rahat.bsky.social · Aug 31
Things weren't shitty enough in #Kashmir, so sure, this latest book ban makes perfect sense

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India’s Book Ban in Kashmir Is a War on Memory
Twenty-five titles — including a work by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy — have been banned in Kashmir. The crackdown has left authors, students, and booksellers navigating fear and defiance, as the...
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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · Aug 29
AI art does not exist. It is an oxymoron.
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FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com · Aug 25
Global famine deaths rise as leaders use food as a weapon on.ft.com/3JuVjxK
Global famine deaths rise as leaders use food as a weapon
After decades of decline, the number of people dying from hunger is increasing as starvation spreads from Sudan to Gaza
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FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com · Aug 28
The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights on.ft.com/4mvzOva
The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights
Companies are jostling for billions of dollars to fly immigrant detainees out of the US
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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · Aug 26
Schools doing deals with these companies and integrating these systems into classrooms without consent should also be held accountable.

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Attorneys General To AI Chatbot Companies: You Will ‘Answer For It’ If You Harm Children
Forty-four attorneys general signed an open letter on Monday that says to companies developing AI chatbots: "If you knowingly harm kids, you will answer for it.”
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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · Aug 21
Ahhh so it's not genocide if it takes longer than an afternoon?

Why is Netanyahu engaging in Holocaust denial now?
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 21
Israel is intensifying attacks on Gaza City, which it plans to seize, as world leaders condemn E1 settlement project.
‘Systematic demolitions’: Israel intensifies attacks in Gaza City offensive
Israel is intensifying attacks on Gaza City, which it plans to seize, as world leaders condemn E1 settlement project.
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Samyaza Panoptes (art acc) @seraphsriddle.bsky.social · Aug 17
Honestly this is an excuse.

I know plenty of people who are not “naturally gifted” who do art.

It requires effort to learn. I feel you did not approach it correctly or think things happen over night.

Also hard work and skill is not “naturally gifted” as that undermines their efforts to draw.

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Faysal 🍁 @faysal.bsky.social · Aug 11
@susieprotschky.bsky.social Hello Professor, would it be possible for you to DM your email? This is an interview for a story I am doing on Indonesia and its struggle against colonialism. Thank you
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Faysal 🍁 @faysal.bsky.social · Aug 10
two weeks. straight shifts. migraine knocks inside my head. i need sleep, maybe more.
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