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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 11h

End of an era

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 1d

Is thisthe best methodology section ever written or the worst?

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 1d

We decided today that if i were a white woman i would be ‘rose’ but insist on being called ‘rosa’

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 1d

Looks pretty freaking fire

Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · Aug 7

Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!

It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 1d

A new piece by us up on Substack: "Against Colonial Conferencing," where we reflect on the akademic conference circuit as an integral part of the global tourism industry, as well as the destruction of Native Hawaiian and Palestinian lands and knowledge.

open.substack.com/pub/workshop...

Against Colonial Conferencing: A w4g screed against the phenomenon of academic conferences in general

workshops4gaza
October 07, 2025

If you are thinking of visiting my homeland, please don’t. We don’t want or need any more tourists, and we certainly don’t like them. If you want to help our cause, pass this message on to your friends. Thank you.

“Lovely Hula Lands” by Haunani Kay-Trask

Recently, the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) announced that it will be convening its 2026 annual conference in Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

The call for proposals describes Hawai‘i as a “space, place, and time through which to collectively reflect on, respond to, and reckon with settler colonial and U.S. imperial desires and designs that continue to shape everyday life and futures.” So far, neither the participants nor the conveners appear to see a contradiction between the theme of the conference and its very material and environmental impact, in which hundreds of primarily North American scholars and their families will flock to a place that is actively under U.S. colonial military occupation.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 1d

somebody made something to appeal exactly to me lol

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 1d

My dentist is turkish, my barber syrian, my grocery store pan-ummah, my doctor moroccan.

Am in the whitest place i’ve ever lived by FAR yet the infrastructure of my social reproduction is staffed by arabs and muslims.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2d

"the solution is still the one that can succeed: to build a new cultural order, a new civilization. To do so, academics must embrace an unusual new role: as knowledge workers, they must seize the means of knowledge production."

www.publicbooks.org/academics-mu...

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

www.publicbooks.org

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 2d

Lol

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 2d

Twee halen, een betalen!

Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 2d

Go to drunk, Germany. You’re bed!

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 3d

Even with that many people (literally many moments we couldnt move we were squashed up against others) you run into people. I ran into a prof we hosted last for a talk with her husband and baby (it was baby’s first demo.)

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 3d

This is in stark difference to the everyday realities built by our leaders and our institutions.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 3d

it was really something in amsterdam today. took us an hour and 45 minutes to make what should have been 30 mins to the heart of the demo. The entire way everyone in red. was just good to walk in a city know, visually and at such scale, that gaza is not alone/

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 3d

قرة عينكم

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 3d

youtu.be/R5G4GRGcNlc?...

Kokoroko literally went and said ’lets make the platonically ideal rnb sexy slowjam’ and succeeded.

Actually perfect.

Kokoroko - Closer To Me - Visualiser

YouTube video by Kokoroko

youtu.be

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

Must-Reads and the War on Chicago

"Chicagoans will not be a conquered people."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Miriam Matthiessen @miriammthsn.bsky.social · 3d

there were over a quarter million of us in the streets of Amsterdam today. Free Palestine, solidarity forever

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 3d

Hard to undersell how huge this palestine demo in amsterdam was today.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 3d

Not sure as the kids still really value it, and not just the woke ones

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 3d

if europe spent all the money its spending to prop up a genocidal apartheid state on fixing and modernizing its train system everyone would win

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 3d

jah jah watch over i

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 4d

Like if your first instinct is to whatabout an actual antisemitic murder on jewish peoples most holy day, you’re turning our movement into zionism.

If you are using the antisemtic murder (cc all of uk establishment) to clamp on pro palestine voices fuck you to hell.

Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 4d

Man truly fuck the discourse in the UK on all fronts.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 4d

Man truly fuck the discourse in the UK on all fronts.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 4d

eye balled it but basically 2 part cream, 2 part milk, 1 part sugar, 1 part tahini and it in the ice cream maker for about 15 mins and added a couple of spoons of the molasses at the end to make a swirl

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 5d

Dwayne has his job back because we organized for it. We fight or we die. Join AAUP today www.aaup.org/join

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