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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 7d

#catsofmastodon

A fluffy calico cat standing outside an ice cream shop.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 7d

Pls join us in following the Global Sumud Flotilla as it attempts to break Israel’s starvation siege of Gaza.

It will make more noise if more people are watching on YouTube.

So far over 60,000 people are following live.

www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 8d

الضريبة على «المشروبات المُحلاة».. بحثًا عن صحة أفضل أم موارد أكثر؟ | مدى مصر […]

Authorities arrest 3 Egyptian Sumud Flotilla members

Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Authorities arrest 3 Egyptian Sumud Flotilla members | MadaMasr
https://www.madamasr.com/en/2025/09/30/news/u/authorities-arrest-3-egyptian-sumud-flotilla-members/

#globalsumudflotilla #Gaza #Egypt

Authorities arrested at least three members of the Egyptian Sumud Flotilla on Monday evening, the flotilla’s media spokesperson, Hossam Mahmoud, told Mada Masr. Volunteer activists and members of political groups began weeks ago to organize from Cairo to join over 50 boats from around the world s

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Group indoor #cycling at a local gym.

Check out my ride on Strava: https://strava.app.link/cLbpk1he2Wb

Photo of a projected screen showing live infographic of the efforts of a group of cyclists. Each circle shows the cadence and average wattage and percentage of FTP. Most are blue as we were at the start of the session. With more effort it turns green the yellow then orange the red. Overlayed on the photo are statistics of the entire session from Strava. Title is Power Ride 5. Time: 47:38 Avg Power: 95W Distance: 19.77 km

Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Now that Instapaper works with Kobo. I am trying to finish a backlog of saved articles from 2010 :sadness:

Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15d

منظمة الصحة العالمية: لا علاقة بين التوحد وتناول الباراسيتامول أثناء الحمل

https://www.reuters.com/ar/technology/X6BZKFRHMJJDTFIT2KQVPQ3EXE-2025-09-24/

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argumento :socialiststar: @argumento.hispagatos.space.ap.brid.gy · 15d

The Sumud #freedomflotilla was attacked 10 times tonight, by Israeli drones. The attacks weren't lethal, but meant to terrorize the crew. Still, one attack broke a mast and six ships appear to be damaged.

These attacks are meant to terrorize the activists, to instill fear in them so they'll […]

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16d

Impossible Referrals | Mina Naguib | Granta

"how do you balance the risks when one is entirely unpredictable and lies outside the scope of medical expertise? How do you weigh the chance of being bombed by a genocidal Israeli regime against the danger of an untreated heart arrhythmia or diabetic […]

Egypt’s president pardons jailed Arab Spring activist Alaa Abdel Fattah

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16d

Below are photos of Alaa Abdel Fattah free and at home with his sister, Sanaa, and mother, Laila.

It’s wonderful to see his beautiful smile again!

(Photos via his sister, Mona, on X)

#FreeAlaa

Smiling Alaa seated with his arm around his sister Sanaa

Smiling Alaa standing with his arm around his mother Laila

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 17d

May Alaa Abdel Fattah live the rest of his life free.

🎁🔗 #FreeAlaa
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Abdel Fattah was a symbol of the 2011 uprising but was arrested two years later. He has since spent almost all of the past 12 years behind bars.

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16d

My feed reader today 🎉😊

#freealaa

Screenshot showing a list of headlines from Google news from different newspapers and news agencies all headlines say more or less the following "Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah pardoned by president's office"

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17d

Egypt's President Sisi pardons high-profile Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, al Qahera news says | Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/egypts-president-sisi-pardons-high-profile-egyptian-british-activist-alaa-abd-el-2025-09-22/

After 6 yrs & 5 years before that. A quarter […]

Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17d

"By the time our website, Mada Masr, was up and running on June 30, 2013, the military was in power and Alaa was in prison again. Somehow, he managed to finish the work, developing our code in smuggled letters filled with instructions shared during prison visits."

Free Alaa | Bidoun […]

Claes de Vreese ☑️ (@[email protected])

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17d

The Opium Eater - Providentia
https://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2010/09/the-opium-eater.html

Opium and it is relationship with 18th and 19th century literary scene.

Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17d

Time to delete my LinkedIn account which I was forced to join to apply for a job.

https://mastodon.social/@claesdevreese/115225491642383229

Attached: 1 image LinkedIn user? Starting November 3 posts will be used to train their AI. Unless you opt out, actively. Your text, your data, your choice! This should have been an opt-in, not op-out

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17d

House Arab | Bidoun
https://bidoun.org/articles/house-arab

Read this 👆

Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17d

Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) has launched a call for applications for projects under the title "Ecologies of Culture."

The grant has an interesting category called "Creative Labs" which support co-creators from the arts and culture sector, and from a different professional field such […]

المنصة الموحدة لخدمات الكهرباء

Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18d

@gharbeia ينفع لكن ما جربتش ادفع عن طريق الموقع ده

https://eservices.eehc.gov.eg/

اكتشف منصة متكاملة لخدمات الكهرباء، مع خيارات دفع آمنة وإدارة سهلة وفعّالة. ابدأ الاستخدام واستمتع بتجربة سهلة وموثوقة.

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Mostafa Hussein Omar @moftasa.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18d

نجحت في تسحيل عداد الكهرباء وأرسال القراءة باستخدام المنصة الموحدة لخدمات الكهرباء، حاسس أني أستاهل نيشان المواطن الاكتروني المثالي من الجمهورية الجديدة 🫡🎖️

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Gharbeia, Ⓐ @gharbeia.org · 20d

RE: https://mastodon.online/@debborah/115229452690255355

Many interesting details about the type of urban development, the culinary, and many other aspects of daily life in the last days of one of the oldest continually settled places in Ancient's Egypt's delta: Imet, which was known for its […]

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