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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 20h

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

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Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 1d

Fun doesn't take away from the seriousness nor does it nullify the anger. But joy goes much further in sustaining long-term action than anger and seriousness alone.

Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 1d

All the commentary about humor being effective in fighting fascism is true, but one thing I think Americans sometimes miss is that protesting *should* be fun and contain joy...

I will always look back fondly on the guy in Khartoum who attended anti-coup protests in 2021 in full spiderman costume.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

Stillframe from a video of Portland protesters dancing in inflatable suits

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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't a commentary on Machado, it's a criticism of the prize itself. If the ERRs in Sudan had won, it would have been good for their access to funds and leverage re armed parties. But *they* would have given the Nobel foundation prestige as far as I'm concerned, not the opposite.

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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 1d

Look, the Nobel Peace Prize has *never* been the arbiter of good works. Maria Corina Machado takes her place among Abiy Ahmed, Henry Kissinger, and Theodore Roosevelt. That good people sometimes get awarded it is just proof that a broken clock is correct twice a day.

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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · 9d

I've said it before and will say it again: people who use endnotes have something to hide and should not be trusted.

Andrew Lebovich @andrewlebovich.bsky.social · 9d

Endnotes are never acceptable, and this is one of my most strongly-held writing beliefs.

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 16d

the people at the institutions they are admitted to are unwilling to help them find funding, or even write letters in support of their visa applications. Without that support, it’s almost impossible to get a N. American visa. (2/3)

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 16d

Push your institutions to designate scholar at risk funds + other support that may already exist for Ukrainian students. It’s heartbreaking to see how many Sudanese students exhaust all their resources w/o any support from the institutions and faculty who admitted them. (3/3)

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 16d

🧵 Fellow academics in N. America if a Sudanese student has been admitted to your graduate program MA or PhD please please do your best to help them gather the necessary paperwork for their visa. So many are getting into great programs but (1/3)

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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · Sep 4

For sure. But the speed at which Giles could find stuff on his own vs having to walk 16 year olds on how to skim things and then trust that they didn't miss critical info would be such a huge risk. Once they got good, it'd be okay, but the learning curve at the beginning is what gets me.

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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · Sep 4

Like, as a university lecturer, I'm still working with getting early uni students to learn how to read and take notes for less complicated texts. The idea that he just gives them big ancient texts on demons and expects them to find anything useful at all seems wild to me.

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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is random, but your buffy posting has prompted me to rewatch the show, and while I have no problem suspending disbelief for vampires and other magical forces, I'm having trouble believing Giles can get assistance in his research from high school students.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Aug 29

Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, you’re helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Aug 29

What a cursed sentence (gift link)

“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures

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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · Aug 26

It's also significant that this is happening now, as the Port Sudan government seeks to pressure and convince the middle class to return to Khartoum. The demolition of the homes of the lower classes may be a sort of incentive, even as it functions as a means of demographic change for cities

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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · Aug 26

At it's core, this is a campaign against those from the periphery who resettled in Khartoum over the course of Sudan's civil wars. Some of those people were displaced by the war, others stayed through it. But cities have long sought to oust these people.

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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · Aug 26

Important piece on government demolition of informal settlements in Khartoum and Gezira.

No Shelter After War: The Demolition of Khartoum and Al-Jazirah’s Informal Settlements - أتر

In mid-March 2025, residents of the Al-Izba neighbourhood in Bahri, north of Khartoum, were jolted awake by the roar of bulldozers and heavy machinery as their homes were razed to the ground, with fur...

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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · Aug 26

The great curse of adulthood is knowing that there will always be dirty clothes and dirty dishes to clean.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Aug 24

I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.

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merritt @merrittk.com · Aug 18

the final insult of AI is going to be forcing us all to become linux guys. we're all going to be like oh yeah downloading stuff on linux is super easy you just juice the tarball and compile the pulp in the sudo command line. not like windows where you have to click on things

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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · Aug 11

My colleague Muna Elgadal and I just wrote a follow up on our report last year on higher education in Sudan, speaking about what's happened in the last year and ways academics and institutions in the global north can show solidarity.

Sudanese higher education in crisis

Since war broke out in 2023, institutions of higher education in Sudan have faced existential threats. In this blog we describe how fa...

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MissDahl @missdahl.bsky.social · Aug 11

What can the academic community in the Global North do to show solidarity with Sudanese faculty and students who continue working in an extremely challenging situation?

Check out @rmglade.bsky.social and Muna Elgadal's latest contribution to the Sudanese Perspectives blog.

#Sudan #KeepEyesOnSudan

Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · Aug 11

My colleague Muna Elgadal and I just wrote a follow up on our report last year on higher education in Sudan, speaking about what's happened in the last year and ways academics and institutions in the global north can show solidarity.

Sudanese higher education in crisis

Since war broke out in 2023, institutions of higher education in Sudan have faced existential threats. In this blog we describe how fa...

www.cmi.no

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Rebecca Glade @rmglade.bsky.social · Aug 11

My colleague Muna Elgadal and I just wrote a follow up on our report last year on higher education in Sudan, speaking about what's happened in the last year and ways academics and institutions in the global north can show solidarity.

Sudanese higher education in crisis

Since war broke out in 2023, institutions of higher education in Sudan have faced existential threats. In this blog we describe how fa...

www.cmi.no

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · Aug 7

hoping that when they say the LLM talks like a Ph.D.-level expert, they mean "holds indecipherable decades-long academic grudges expressed largely in the form of questions that are actually more of a comment"

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notes on sudan @notesonsudan.bsky.social · Aug 6

I'm sorry but given that Sudanese live tweeted and live streamed multiple massacres including the day the RSF took Medani - we saw footage of corpses & people digging mass graves in real-time - I'm actually so tired of any explainer that indirectly suggests we are the reason for the lack of empathy.

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · Aug 7

Using anti-imperialist, Decolonial language does not make someone’s analysis anti-imperialist and anti-colonial. Reactionary propaganda can dangerously be cloaked in such language and I’m not talking about the US context here.

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