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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 32m

What an absolute disgrace. 284 people excluded this year, countless imprisoned for tweets, others trapped under travel bans. Women are still being sent to ‘care homes’ for disobedience — and this clown dares lecture us about progress in Saudi Arabia? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili

The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.

www.theguardian.com

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 5h

It's clear that when the US wants a ceasefire deal, one miraculously occurs. Makes the "working tirelessly for a ceasefire" stuff from last year even more disgusting.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 1h

Like for real. The plot of Spirited Away is about a kidnapped child forced into a life of indentured servitude in realm of gods after her mother and father are magically forced into becoming pigs by a witch. Meanwhile, Princess Mononoke exists.

Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever someone uses Ghibli or Miyazaki as a synonym for "quaint, charming, unthreatening" I'm always like "bro did we watch the same movies?"

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1d

every ai bro who has reduced miyazaki to empty gentle aesthetic should no exaggeration get the judas cradle bc this man's markmaking & passion about telling WAR STORIES

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Critical Renee Theory🌶 🍉 📕 😷 @mossyoakmaoist.bsky.social · 1h

Can we stop calling Trump "anti constitutional" like it means anything?
The Constitution was written to codify the ability to send the military in to crush popular (usually minority) uprisings.

Sound familiar?

The Founders would've loved Trump.

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alice says Palestinians in Gaza aren’t scammers! @bluwhalien.bsky.social · 1d

“Tel Aviv” is marketed as a gay friendly city but in reality, it’s all just pinkwashing, making people think it’s safe for queer people to become settlers there.

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Limón de Beauvoir @ottomanvampire.bsky.social · 1h

Dear LinkedIn Community

Thrilled to announce and humbled to point out that there is no such thing as “responsible AI.” AI is not a thing with agency for being responsible but also every thing it is built on is an act of irresponsibility.

Warmest bitches

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Limón de Beauvoir @ottomanvampire.bsky.social · 2h

“A new report released yesterday by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the Costs of War Project at Brown University has found that the US has provided at least $21.7 billion in military aid to Israel since October 7, 2023.”

No money for healthcare but lots for AI slop and genocide

US bankrolled Israel’s Gaza genocide with $33 bn in military aid, damning new report reveals

A new report released yesterday by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the Costs of War Project at Brown University has found that the US has provided at least $21.7 billion in mili…

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 2h

I know that Gazans are celebrating, but I don't trust this at all. This is a deal with the devil if I've ever seen one.

I fully expect Hamas to comply and release the hostages, and for Israel to resume the genocide.

Gaza peace deal reached, hostages to be freed

The announcement comes two years after Oct. 7, with 67,000 Palestinians killed.

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2h

This is some serious Nazi shit. They pulled the boarding passes for him and his family.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 7h

My hot take is that if does not actually matter to Palestine, or to any Indigenous population, what DNA tests show. I'm obviously not an Indigenous person but if my DNA showed I was 96% donkey and 4% tardigrade, it still wouldn't be okay to kill me and take my house.

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 2h

Ceasefire will not redeem a thing for Israel.

Doom hangs heavy over the promised land, the chosen people. Blood and fire, as Niney the Observer sang in 1971: “let it burn burn burn.”

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 1d

The attack on Mark is another stunt by right-wing grifters to victimize a random person in an effort to use MAGA fear mongering to justify their existence. It should go without saying we should do anything possible to support his family.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 4h

Angry face reactions from Israelis at the announcement that food will enter the Gaza Strip again

Israeli Telegram @israeligram.observer · 4h

Source

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10h

1. In a devastating new Pew Research Survey, only 3 in 10 transgender adults report being accepted by their parents.

And only 1 in 10 say they are accepted by their extended family.

This is the lowest number ever found in surveys asking similar questions.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents

The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Brocky Horror Picture Show 🧟⚗️🪩 @queeralchemy.com · 12h

Listen to my interview on my community quilt project on CBC's Daybreak that aired this AM. Special thanks to Dionne Codrington who did an amazing job and was caring in her work and questions.

Yes, me complaining about the comité des sages made it to the interview!

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Limón de Beauvoir @ottomanvampire.bsky.social · 23h

This post about a former McGill student who claims he cured Alzheimer and then sued McGill for stealing his “revolutionary findings” published in a pay to publish journal is a masterpiece saga about academic nepotism, entitlement, sexual misconduct, and all other things wrong with Academia.

From the mcgill community on Reddit: Student suing McGill for half a billion

Explore this post and more from the mcgill community

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 17h

Your Bubbe and Zayde are now Hamas

Blame the grandparents: Why young Jews align with antisemites - opinion
Parents and grandparents denied their offspring the necessary tools that would make being a proud Jew a priority in their lives.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 17h

Just 14 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are partially functioning, WHO says, as Israel continues to bomb amid ceasefire talks.

‘Horrific trauma patients’: WHO details harrowing scenes from Gaza

Just 14 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are partially functioning, WHO says, as Israel continues to bomb amid ceasefire talks.

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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 1d

Footage from the Israeli Occupation Forces assault on #Conscience, shortly before dawn. In international waters, close to Palestinian territorial waters. Another act of state piracy by the rogue, lawless Israeli occupation.
www.youtube.com/live/PSQcbIw...

Live from Conscience Boat to Gaza, FFC & TMTG (Live 3)

YouTube video by Freedom Flotilla Coalition

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15h

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 15h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 14h

“You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross."

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

www.theguardian.com

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 1d

For 2 years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, not one Palestinian voice has been featured on NBC, ABC or CNN’s Sunday shows.

@ahjohnson.bsky.social writes about how the U.S. media has debated Palestinians’ annihilation without letting a single Palestinian speak.

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In 2 Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest

In a microcosm of the U.S. coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, since Oct. 7, 2023, influential Sunday news shows have not seen fit to book any Palestinians.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 23h

It was created by Germans. What else could it possibly be.

micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 1d

“Mastodon is a very white space ... when people tell marginalized subjects to make their own instances, they grossly underestimate the resource intensity of doing so. It is not … the case that we can make an instance and then suddenly be free of all of the things that we're trying to get away from”

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