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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 · 23h

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 · 24m

This is an excellent conversation between David Perell and @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social

(ignore the title)

Cambridge Professor: Why All Writing Sounds the Same Now (Robert Macfarlane)

YouTube video by David Perell

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14h

Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?

I talked to him yesterday.

He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 17h

Organizing works. Online and off.

Thanks to @hopenothate.org.uk and 34,000 friends, the Neo-Nazi music festival ‘Resurrection 4’ was canceled in September.

It would’ve been “the biggest white power gig in Britain in 10 years”…

And this is why we host the ‘Ant!fa Panels’ — to provide *solutions*

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 6h

Israel attacks and intercepts another convoy of Gaza-bound boats, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

No letup in Israeli attacks on Gaza as ceasefire talks enter third day

Israel attacks and intercepts another convoy of Gaza-bound boats, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 15h

BREAKING: Israeli forces have opened fire on a young Palestinian man near Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, reports our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/72upo8

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 16h

THEY HAVE MOUSTACHES

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 17h

The docuseries is called White Tribe and it’s on Channel 4

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 17h

Just Darcus Howe talking about how those complaining about the boat people in the year 2000 reminds him of how they talked about him in the 1960s and I’m watching this thinking of how it’s identical to 2025

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 22h

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah, exactly. 1.5 is not okay, it's just less of an emergency than 2.

But - the PPM level that got us 1.5 will get us 2, and beyond. It needs to come down. It's currently going up.

MEER @meercool.bsky.social · 20h

The idea that 1.5°C is safe is a dangerous illusion. We’ve already crossed multiple tipping points — the Great Barrier Reef, West Antarctica, Greenland. These shifts aren’t future risks. They’re happening now. — David Spratt

#ClimateCrisis #Globalwarming #Heat #MEERPodcast

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 23h

it's ok

Euronews @euronews.com · 2d

Chancellor Friedrich Merz says that if Israel is excluded from Eurovision 2026, Germany will not take part.

German chancellor threatens to boycott Eurovision if Israel excluded

Chancellor Friedrich Merz says that if Israel is excluded from Eurovision 2026, Germany will not take part.

l.euronews.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 23h

(boosting this as a separate post bcs it would otherwise get lost as a reply)

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 23h

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

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 23h

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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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 1d

This is one of the issues London Labour insiders raised with me in this piece on Labour & London – Labour is taking the votes of the capital for granted, and is about to impose major local government austerity on councils who were hard hit first time round.

www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-l...

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

Photo is from 1992, which is explained in the article. But a clear lack of oversight on CNN's part here to post it like this with the current caption.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

The so-called populists rarely make the distinction between a brown or black person who was born here and one who wasn't

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

"How does one mourn and commemorate an atrocity against your people in the midst of an atrocity done to another people in your name?" www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

The Zionist consensus among US Jews has collapsed. Something new is emerging | Shaul Magid

Two years after the 7 October massacre and the onset of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, American Jewry has been profoundly transformed

www.theguardian.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone know whether this phrasing was always used in police statements? "British-born Asian man".

www.northants.police.uk/news/northan...

What's the equivalent for when a White person does a crime? The arsonist of Peacehaven mosque were not described as "British-born White men"

Man, 43, charged with attempted arson

In court News • Published: 10:17 07/10/2025 A 43-year-old man has been charged in connection with an attempted arson at the mosque in Headlands, Kettering. Arif Ali Rafiq, a British-born Asian man, of Harlestone Road, Northampton, has been charged with attempted arson with intent to endanger life. The charge relates to an incident on the afternoon of Sunday, October 5, when an attempt was made to set fire to the front door of the mosque. Rafiq will appear at Northampton Magistrates' Court this morning (October 7).

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile, the UK continues to be directly complicit in Israel's genocide in Gaza while criminalising peaceful dissent in the UK. Labour is hemorrhaging support, at least in part due to these widely unpopular policies, and it is the responsibility of the Labour party to change that fact.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer told anti-genocide protesters in London to not protest because of what a terrorist did in Manchester, and Starmer is now telling anti-genocide protesters throughout the UK to not protest because of what Hamas did in Israel 2 years ago.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

It's always those opposing genocide that are labeled as 'un-British'. This is simply Far Right discourse. People can be in denial of that as much as they want, the effect is the same: a further descent into authoritarianism.

Israel marks 7 October attacks anniversary as Starmer tells students to avoid 'un-British' protests

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Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · 1d

Germany was never de-nazified. Thats the argument of my latest video essay. I use A Clockwork Orange as a metaphor to demonstrate this.
youtu.be/DrxKR3UjJwk

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

They keep on shifting the goalpost because OpenAI just does not do any of the things it has claimed it could do, all while demanding more and more money.

It’s almost like it’s a grift or something

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“While Ive acknowledged the potential for AI to boost productivity, efficiency doesn’t appear to be his core goal with these devices. Rather, he hopes for them to bring more social good into the world. The devices should ‘make us happy, and fulfilled, and more peaceful, and less anxious…’”

Jony Ive Says He Wants His OpenAI Devices to ‘Make Us Happy’

“I don’t think we have an easy relationship with our technology at the moment,” the former Apple designer said at OpenAI's developer conference in San Francisco on Monday.

www.wired.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d

OpenAI is essentially a social arsonist, developing and releasing tools that hyper scale the most racist, misogynistic, and toxic elements of society, lowering the barriers for all manner of abuse. The so called guardrails make a pinky swear look like an ironclad contract.

This social app can put your face into fake movie scenes, memes and arrest videos

The new Sora social app from ChatGPT maker OpenAI encourages users to upload video of their face so their likeness can be put into AI-generated clips.

www.washingtonpost.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

When there are no political consequences for hate speech, these people need mainstream media time to show their social media followers that they’re out there fighting the good fight against woke censorship, or whatever the latest thing will be.

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