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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 22h

Please bookmark this reportage on how Anant Ambani's exotic pet trafficking has been permitted by a bought-out Supreme Court.

Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Two stories unfolded in India recently. They show how Modi govt shields billionaire coal & oil tycoons from scrutiny. One case concerns a private zoo, located with a petrochemical refinery, accused of wildlife trafficking. The other is about SLAPP suits by Adani Group
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75,000 Endangered and Exotic Animals, SLAPP Suits, and Zero Oversight

How oil and coal billionaires with close ties to the Modi government escape judicial and media scrutiny in India.

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 22h

"The 'Conscience' volunteers have been... abducted by #Israeli forces while in international waters on their way to... to #Gaza. These are the 6 volunteers from so-called Canada."

Six Canadian Citizens Attacked and Abducted by Israeli Military in International Waters
www.youtube.com/watch?v=inpI...

Six Canadian Citizens Attacked and Abducted by Israeli Military in International Waters

YouTube video by Freedom Flotilla Coalition

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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 2d

Israel has released hundreds of Sumud Flotilla members from EU countries. But it’s still holding our US citizens.

Many of the activists who’ve made it home from this ordeal say that—unlike w/ the June flotilla—Ben Gvir’s Israeli security forces beat them.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 3d

There’s a misconception that Africans didn’t utilize their mineral resources before colonialism

We now have sufficient evidence for precolonial mining of Gold, Tin & copper,
And that these metals were used in coin mints at the coast and furnished grave goods in Great Zimbabwe

Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 3d

copper coins from Great Zimbabwe, Kilwa, and Ibo (Mozambique), ca. 11th-14th century

The Ibo coins were made with copper from the Katanga copperbelt (Congo/Zambia)
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-history-...

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 3d

You can give them table scraps, including meat and bones. Eggs will also be appreciated. Try to establish a routine and they'll recognise you pretty soon.

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Nita K @nitajk.bsky.social · 4d

#Cancer is attacking the young & genetics is not the cause. 75% of cases are coming up in those with no family history or genetic predisposition. Growing evidence is pointing to ultra-processed food as a major cause.

#health

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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 4d

there likely will never be a reckoning for how much AI tech companies have stolen from sex workers, but at least we have records of it

Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI ‘Superintelligence’

Strike 3 Holdings is suing Meta in federal court, alleging the tech giant pirated copyrighted adult videos to train its AI models.

www.wired.com

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Abeeha Tariq @abeehatariqart.bsky.social · 4d

finally got around to making my Karachi stamp

Illustration of a colourful Karachi bazaar with a red decorative rickshaw in the front. Set within a stamp border

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 4d

White silicon Valley techies reinventing the casteism that makes people feel entitled to get angry if someone kicks a book or wears shoes on a stage. My Stuff Is Sacred is a longstanding fascist con.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4d

Do Nothing and Cry Anyway Award is cross ideological btw. The ostensibly left wing people who complain about No Kings, liberals who criticize Thunberg for actually putting herself on the line for Gaza, and right wingers who complain about protesting after a political event are the same types of ppl.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4d

Rule of thumb is always if they're actually out there getting the shit beat of them by government or by police then 99% of the criticism is from Do Nothing and Cry Anyway Award winners

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 4d

"Corporations, being artificial, immortal colony-organisms that use humans as their inconvenient gut flora, do not have consciences to appeal to"
Cory Doctorow on enshittification. Share with people not terminally online. (Ignore his silly comment on Audre Lorde) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

www.theguardian.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4d

BREAKING: Since dawn, Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 46 Palestinians, despite US President Trump’s call for Israel to cease its attacks, medical sources told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/08ph6v

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d

“Lorenzo D’Agostino, a journalist and another flotilla participant, said after returning to Istanbul that Thunberg was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy” – a scene described with disbelief and anger by those who witnessed it.””

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 4d

OK but everyone's seen Khalid's Out of Body though, right? Whattay beaut.

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 5d

"According to the CGIL union, 300,000 people marched through the streets of Rome alone, while the national average participation in the general strike stood at around 60%, halting all the main services in key sectors including transportation and schools."

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 5d

Also, sockpuppets

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 5d

If you were online before 2010 you know it's not a true mod crashout until a mod takes all the Adderall and then posts a sprawlingly incoherent sephiroth speech manifesto, breaks the site, and then vanishes for 3 months

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article-14.com @article-14.com · 5d

In India, the new stated aim is to separate Hindus from Muslims, with the latter meant to be consigned to a twilight zone of second-class citizenship.

@betwasharma.bsky.social writes that Islamophobia in India is starting to resemble apartheid.

To read, subscribe article-14.com/subscribe

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 5d

I only have to do one (1) work thing this whole weekend and if I finish and send it off I can legitimately fuck around in bed all the rest of the time eating chips and reading fic.
So of course it is evening of the first day and I am squirming at my laptop reading about pop stars to avoid Doing It.

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 5d

The only appropriate way to consume white pop culture is to be informed by your tumblr mutuals that some tacky new album has dropped because they are all making fun of the lyrics.

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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 5d

And of course Indian pharma companies have been sending adulterated and spurious cough syrup to Black and Brown populated markets abroad, killing multiple children before this.

Scroll @scroll.in · 5d

Eight children, aged between one and seven, died in the past month in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The authorities have suspected cough syrup poisoning as the common cause.

Read more: scroll.in/latest/10872...

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evelyn maguire @evelyn.fyi · 5d

A couple folks have thoughtfully asked me if it's okay for white people to be on Blacksky and I want to clarify:

Migrating to one of these two handles keeps you out of the Blacksky feed but gives you the same moderation services.

Bring a host gift if you're able:

opencollective.com/blacksky

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 5d

i too would love for there to be many options of bluesky servers besides this bluesky social media app. but i don't think that's coming any time soon. so it's a horrible shame that bluesky admins don't really seem to want to sustain the actual users they have here with the moderation we deserve.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 5d

Lately I've been doing sequence edits of pelicans diving, but for the marine life feed hitting 2k likes, how about a NEARLY FULL BODY HUMPBACK BREACH sequence? 🦑

a humpback whale jumping out of the water, 6 images stacked as it goes from nearly straight up, through to the right where you can see the bottom of the whale, until it slaps down onto the water with a great splash

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