taslim
@tasjini.bsky.social
Best if you find me in a natural space (maybe taking photos).
Otherwise I’m writing, reading, or dreaming up an art project I probably won’t complete.
Otherwise I’m writing, reading, or dreaming up an art project I probably won’t complete.
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After Israel slaughtered several Al Jazeera journalists, I asked the foreign affairs minister's office whether Canada intends to take action.
Their response made me, as a journalist, feel sick.
They pointed me to a tweet repost. One with a grammatical error.
It didn't even name Israel:
Their response made me, as a journalist, feel sick.
They pointed me to a tweet repost. One with a grammatical error.
It didn't even name Israel:
August 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
After Israel slaughtered several Al Jazeera journalists, I asked the foreign affairs minister's office whether Canada intends to take action.
Their response made me, as a journalist, feel sick.
They pointed me to a tweet repost. One with a grammatical error.
It didn't even name Israel:
Their response made me, as a journalist, feel sick.
They pointed me to a tweet repost. One with a grammatical error.
It didn't even name Israel:
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This will likely be the greatest transfer of wealth upwards in Canadian history.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Carney to announce Canada’s defence spending will hit NATO’s target of 2% of GDP this fiscal year, sources say
Canada’s existing level of investment has been criticized as insufficient at a time of increasing global threats
www.theglobeandmail.com
June 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This will likely be the greatest transfer of wealth upwards in Canadian history.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Please read. We hoped that one of the many members of the Bluesky community from Gaza could be first to share this letter, but we were worried that their account would get taken down if they did. This letter is for
@moderation.bsky.app, Bluesky leadership, and the wider community here. Thanks!
@moderation.bsky.app, Bluesky leadership, and the wider community here. Thanks!
Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza
[CLICK here if you would like your name added to this letter] النسخة العربية من هذه الرسالة متاحة أدناه. Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza The signatories...
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May 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Please read. We hoped that one of the many members of the Bluesky community from Gaza could be first to share this letter, but we were worried that their account would get taken down if they did. This letter is for
@moderation.bsky.app, Bluesky leadership, and the wider community here. Thanks!
@moderation.bsky.app, Bluesky leadership, and the wider community here. Thanks!
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BREAKING: Israel calls up tens of thousands of reservists to expand war on Gaza aje.io/m0g6bk
May 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
BREAKING: Israel calls up tens of thousands of reservists to expand war on Gaza aje.io/m0g6bk
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While Israel is committing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, the city of Ottawa raises the Israeli flag. Shame on Ottawa forever for supporting genocide.
May 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
While Israel is committing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, the city of Ottawa raises the Israeli flag. Shame on Ottawa forever for supporting genocide.
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😂
Dear Mr. Poilievre,
If you have any questions or concerns about a matter that is the responsibility of the federal government, you may write to your MP, Mr. @brucefanjoy.bsky.social
If you have any questions or concerns about a matter that is the responsibility of the federal government, you may write to your MP, Mr. @brucefanjoy.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
😂
I don’t stay up on NYE but I stay up for election results.
April 29, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I don’t stay up on NYE but I stay up for election results.
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A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it.
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
New study reveals wealth inequality was never inevitable
A recent study published in the journal PNAS is overturning traditional wisdom regarding the origins and inevitability of wealth inequality
archaeologymag.com
April 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it.
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
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It's now been over a month since Trump sent innocent man Andry Hernández to one of the world's worst prisons because of "Mom" and "Dad" tattoos. Like the others, he is being imprisoned with no contact with the outside world.
Don't let him be forgotten.
Don't let him be forgotten.
April 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
It's now been over a month since Trump sent innocent man Andry Hernández to one of the world's worst prisons because of "Mom" and "Dad" tattoos. Like the others, he is being imprisoned with no contact with the outside world.
Don't let him be forgotten.
Don't let him be forgotten.
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Palantir just got a huge new ICE contract for "target analysis." It is becoming clear that Palantir is the technological engine powering Trump's mass deportation campaign:
www.404media.co/ice-just-pai...
www.404media.co/ice-just-pai...
ICE Just Paid Palantir Tens of Millions for ‘Complete Target Analysis of Known Populations’
The records show that Palantir is actively working on the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts which could soon impact U.S. citizens.
www.404media.co
April 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Palantir just got a huge new ICE contract for "target analysis." It is becoming clear that Palantir is the technological engine powering Trump's mass deportation campaign:
www.404media.co/ice-just-pai...
www.404media.co/ice-just-pai...
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Canadian COVID Forecast Apr 12-25, 2025
CANADA
VERY HIGH (no change)
About 1 in every 151 people infected
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections ~9X higher
-Long COVID ~9X higher
-Hospitalizations ~13X higher
-Deaths ~12X higher
CANADA
VERY HIGH (no change)
About 1 in every 151 people infected
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections ~9X higher
-Long COVID ~9X higher
-Hospitalizations ~13X higher
-Deaths ~12X higher
April 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Canadian COVID Forecast Apr 12-25, 2025
CANADA
VERY HIGH (no change)
About 1 in every 151 people infected
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections ~9X higher
-Long COVID ~9X higher
-Hospitalizations ~13X higher
-Deaths ~12X higher
CANADA
VERY HIGH (no change)
About 1 in every 151 people infected
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections ~9X higher
-Long COVID ~9X higher
-Hospitalizations ~13X higher
-Deaths ~12X higher
Four question limit.
lol and he gives a one word answer.
lol and he gives a one word answer.
Here’s this interaction:
April 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Four question limit.
lol and he gives a one word answer.
lol and he gives a one word answer.
Listening to an interview with philosophy prof and writer, Jason Stanley (who is leaving the US for Canada).
He says Canada is an important place from which to combat rising authoritarianism in the US.
Anyone have thoughts on how?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn_d...
He says Canada is an important place from which to combat rising authoritarianism in the US.
Anyone have thoughts on how?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn_d...
Why Yale professor Jason Stanley is moving to Canada
YouTube video by CBC News
m.youtube.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Listening to an interview with philosophy prof and writer, Jason Stanley (who is leaving the US for Canada).
He says Canada is an important place from which to combat rising authoritarianism in the US.
Anyone have thoughts on how?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn_d...
He says Canada is an important place from which to combat rising authoritarianism in the US.
Anyone have thoughts on how?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn_d...
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My friend Taslim is an amazing human, and if you like intelligent, funny, heartfelt sentiment, with insightful commentary - including some truly moving verse - you should totally follow!
Hehehe ok! I’ll spend more time finding and following my favourite people (and having that lopsided 10,000 following to a ratio of 10 followers hahahah)
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
My friend Taslim is an amazing human, and if you like intelligent, funny, heartfelt sentiment, with insightful commentary - including some truly moving verse - you should totally follow!
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I have listened to the six-minute clip shared by colleagues in Gaza, documenting the moments of paramedic Refaat Radwan and his colleagues when they were attacked by Israeli gunfire. They are the best of us. May we find strength and courage from their bravery and selflessness.
April 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I have listened to the six-minute clip shared by colleagues in Gaza, documenting the moments of paramedic Refaat Radwan and his colleagues when they were attacked by Israeli gunfire. They are the best of us. May we find strength and courage from their bravery and selflessness.
Randomly looking up stuff from a book I’m reading and came across this list full of even more books for my own bloated (but I love their bloat) lists. Enjoy!
Cleaning up my files and deleting the #book covers I’ve already posted in my daily #SmallPress #BookSky #DSPBposts. Enjoy these beauties again! A 🧵. (Alt-text for book details.) 1/15
March 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Randomly looking up stuff from a book I’m reading and came across this list full of even more books for my own bloated (but I love their bloat) lists. Enjoy!
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Joining the pickets and demo today in Brussels. Against the corporate elite, right wing parties, that are destroying workers rights, our planet. #StopArizona
March 31, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Joining the pickets and demo today in Brussels. Against the corporate elite, right wing parties, that are destroying workers rights, our planet. #StopArizona
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A bunch of teenagers from Laval went missing and nearly became the victims of human trafficking. We know this only because of an investigation by @laconverse.bsky.social. The kids were fleeing a youth centre in Laval. An essential read in @therovermedia.bsky.social
therover.ca/runaways-sou...
therover.ca/runaways-sou...
Runaways: Sounding the alarm at the Centre jeunesse de Laval – The Rover
At least three of the four young girls who went missing from the Montreal region in early February are placed at the Laval youth detention centre.
therover.ca
March 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A bunch of teenagers from Laval went missing and nearly became the victims of human trafficking. We know this only because of an investigation by @laconverse.bsky.social. The kids were fleeing a youth centre in Laval. An essential read in @therovermedia.bsky.social
therover.ca/runaways-sou...
therover.ca/runaways-sou...
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NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
March 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
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Closer to 165,000 excess deaths in Canada in the last 5 years
--AFTER subtracting excess mortality attributable to toxic drugs and overloaded healthcare system (% excess cancer deaths)
-from '22 on it's ~35-45K/yr, similar to (and on top of) annual smoking deaths
-about 10-13X annual flu deaths
--AFTER subtracting excess mortality attributable to toxic drugs and overloaded healthcare system (% excess cancer deaths)
-from '22 on it's ~35-45K/yr, similar to (and on top of) annual smoking deaths
-about 10-13X annual flu deaths
Five years ago today, Canada recorded its first #COVID19 death, an 83-year-old man at Lynn Valley Care Centre in North Vancouver. There have been more than 60,000 pandemic deaths since.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
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www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
B.C. records Canada’s first coronavirus death
The elderly man who died of COVID-19 on Sunday night lived at a North Vancouver nursing home where two workers and at least one other resident are also infected
www.theglobeandmail.com
March 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Closer to 165,000 excess deaths in Canada in the last 5 years
--AFTER subtracting excess mortality attributable to toxic drugs and overloaded healthcare system (% excess cancer deaths)
-from '22 on it's ~35-45K/yr, similar to (and on top of) annual smoking deaths
-about 10-13X annual flu deaths
--AFTER subtracting excess mortality attributable to toxic drugs and overloaded healthcare system (% excess cancer deaths)
-from '22 on it's ~35-45K/yr, similar to (and on top of) annual smoking deaths
-about 10-13X annual flu deaths
International Women's Day
And I am thinking about trafficked women, assaulted women, impoverished women, houseless women, addicted women, abused women, women targeted for their identity, Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls,
women & medical research, women preventably dying in childbirth
1/
And I am thinking about trafficked women, assaulted women, impoverished women, houseless women, addicted women, abused women, women targeted for their identity, Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls,
women & medical research, women preventably dying in childbirth
1/
March 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
International Women's Day
And I am thinking about trafficked women, assaulted women, impoverished women, houseless women, addicted women, abused women, women targeted for their identity, Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls,
women & medical research, women preventably dying in childbirth
1/
And I am thinking about trafficked women, assaulted women, impoverished women, houseless women, addicted women, abused women, women targeted for their identity, Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls,
women & medical research, women preventably dying in childbirth
1/
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Boycott Blood Wines.
Ontario's LCBO removed US products to retaliate against tariffs, but still sells wines from Israeli apartheid's illegal settler colonies, We must resist US economic warfare, but also resist US client states committing crimes against humanity. Ask your LCBO to remove blood wines.
Ontario's LCBO removed US products to retaliate against tariffs, but still sells wines from Israeli apartheid's illegal settler colonies, We must resist US economic warfare, but also resist US client states committing crimes against humanity. Ask your LCBO to remove blood wines.
March 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Boycott Blood Wines.
Ontario's LCBO removed US products to retaliate against tariffs, but still sells wines from Israeli apartheid's illegal settler colonies, We must resist US economic warfare, but also resist US client states committing crimes against humanity. Ask your LCBO to remove blood wines.
Ontario's LCBO removed US products to retaliate against tariffs, but still sells wines from Israeli apartheid's illegal settler colonies, We must resist US economic warfare, but also resist US client states committing crimes against humanity. Ask your LCBO to remove blood wines.
When you have to stare at the ballot for minutes because:
you know how you have to vote,
there’s no party you fully want to vote for and
you’re worried about how others are going to vote.
There was a time voting didn’t seem so hard.
you know how you have to vote,
there’s no party you fully want to vote for and
you’re worried about how others are going to vote.
There was a time voting didn’t seem so hard.
February 28, 2025 at 12:49 AM
When you have to stare at the ballot for minutes because:
you know how you have to vote,
there’s no party you fully want to vote for and
you’re worried about how others are going to vote.
There was a time voting didn’t seem so hard.
you know how you have to vote,
there’s no party you fully want to vote for and
you’re worried about how others are going to vote.
There was a time voting didn’t seem so hard.