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George Nikos
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I'm re-reading the novels, starting with Northanger Abbey. Used this edition as an undergraduate for Pat Brückmann's inspiring Fiction before 1832 course. (Long) #c18th #c18 #18thc
Cover of the Penguin edition (reprinted 1980) with a detail from JC Natte's 'View of Bath Abbey' (1805). Chapter 9: 'I am sure of _this_ – that if every body was to drink their bottle a-day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.' Drawing of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra on the inside front cover, first page with a brief blurb about the editor, Anne H. Ehrenpreis, and ownership inscription of a much younger me, 'Neil Guthrie 28th March 1981'
February 15, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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February 15, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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Act Now!
Israel is moving to legalize executing Palestinian hostages while denying them legal access, holding them in isolation, and granting total immunity to those who carry out the killings.
This is the logical outcome of decades of impunity, racist dehumanization... 1/2
[title] Mobilize against Israel's Death Penalty Bill! [sub-title] A move to legalize the hanging of Palestinians while denying legal access, enforcing isolation, and granting total immunity to those who carry out executions. Picture of woman and man standing comforting each other Violence and torture against Palestinians in Israeli prison camps—widely documented and condemned by international human rights bodies—has been met with impunity.This impunity has now paved the way for Israel to advance a bill for the execution of Palestinian hostages, denying them any right to appeal and holding them in isolation until execution—within 90 days. The world must act to stop this before it's too late. [Picture] Several men behind prison bars; one man in prison clothing with chains around his wrists giving two 2-fingered victory salutes. Genocide—especially in a globalized world like ours—is never committed in a vacuum. It is normalized through racist propaganda and legitimised with immoral legislation and policies. From the colonization of Australia and Turtle Island, to the transatlantic slave trade, European colonization of Africa, the Herero and Nama massacres in German Southwest Africa, the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, and the Rwandan Genocide, history makes clear that law and institutions intended to protect people have repeatedly been used by colonial and authoritarian regimes to legitimize mass atrocities against racialised and vulnerable minorities. Ben-Gvir, the Israeli far-right minister advancing the bill, has openly called for more lethal, cruel, and collectively punitive measures against Palestinians, further exposing Israel's genocidal intent and reliance on global inaction. This leaves no room for delay. Israel must face immediate consequences, including boycotts, sanctions, arms embargoes, diplomatic isolation, and international legal accountability.
January 26, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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Some very careful ducks
January 13, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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... Mobilize now before it’s too late! 📣:
• Boycott companies enabling Israel’s prison & surveillance apparatus
• Demand sanctions, arms embargoes & international accountability
Silence is complicity. Delay is deadly.
#BDS @bdsmovement.bsky.social
#StopTheExecutions 2/2
Act Now! Intensify the boycotts towards companies that maintain the Israeli prison industrial complex: HP / HPE supplies the central server system for the Israeli Prison Service. Amazon and Google provide the database and cloud service for Israeli surveillance data Microsoft develops AI tools for the Israel Police IBM designs and operates the biometric and population‑registry systems for Israeli surveillance Raise awareness about the bill and mobilise local protests and actions against complicit companies
January 26, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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... denying Palestinians access to their homes, farmland, & humanitarian aid & enforcing displacement through live fire. This is not security, but the quiet continuation of genocide, concealed from the world as Palestinians endure daily killing, hunger, siege, land theft & forced displacement. 2/3
“We don’t feel that the war has ended. They haven’t allowed us to return to our areas or even check on our homes. We are still living through another war, the war of displacement and suffering, especially with the arrival of winter.” Haj Abu Imad, 55 years old, displaced with his family from Jabalia Camp. “At any moment, you find people waking up in the middle of the night, panicked and disoriented. More than once, they leave their homes and are forced to flee west of Gaza. You see the (yellow) concrete blocks advancing toward them, or shelling starts, with shells landing all around them.” - Resident of Shujaiya neighborhood (about 200 meters from the “Yellow Line") While Trump's so-called "peace plan" suggested a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces, Israel had no intention of retreating, instead viewing the border "a forward defensive line and a line of operational activity.” (Eyal Zamir, Israeli military Chief of Staff). According to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, Israel continues to illegally seize Gaza's territory by shifting the yellow line daily. Palestinians living close to its border report daily attacks and shelling, as well as a continuous movement of the line. "Inside this [Yellow Line]... responsibility for killing shifts to the victim, punished for returning to their own neighborhood" (Euro Med Human Rights Monitor) In December, three-year-old Ahed al-Bayok was reportedly shot and killed by Israeli forces in al-Mawasi near Khan Younis, on the Gaza side of the Yellow Line. Within the same hour, the Israeli military claimed its soldiers had “identified a terrorist who crossed the Yellow Line.” Whether this statement referred to the toddler remains unclear; however, similar language has repeatedly been used by the Israeli military following its shooting of Palestinian children. Israel's genocide and siege of Gaza never ended. The so-called "cease-fire" and Yellow Line merely conceal Israel's atrocities from the view of the global public, acting as a fraudulent promise to the international community and to Palestinians that the genocide is over. Through the ongoing theft of land and denying Palestinians access to their homes and right to rebuild, Israel is carrying forward its systematic effort to erase the Palestinian people.
January 14, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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We condemn grotesque sexual assaults by Israeli forces. We demand accountability amid systemic culture of impunity.
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FFC Condemns Sexual Assaults by Israeli Forces - Freedom Flotilla
Freedom Flotilla Coalition Condemns Grotesque Sexual Assaults by Israeli Forces Demands Accountability Amid Systemic Culture of Impunity It recently came to light that Israeli police and prison offici...
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January 2, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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2/2 ... and where those who stand against war crimes are the ones imprisoned. Demand the Palestine Action hunger strikers' freedom now, before it’s too late.
Call on UK Govt to immediately release them, end the criminalisation of Palestinian solidarity, and to #ShutElbitDown
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December 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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One of the largest arms shipments to israel since Oct 2023 is set to pass near Greece 24 Dec. This shipment can still be stopped.
States are obliged to block weapons used in genocide.
Dockworkers and civil society must refuse to load/unload. Disrupt the supply chain. #BlockTheBoat
December 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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The latest CBC report shows why Canada urgently needs tighter oversight on military exports. When Canadian components can end up in airstrikes abroad, we have a responsibility to act.
That’s why I introduced Bill C-233 to strengthen export-control accountability.

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Canadian-made jet fighter maintenance parts, bombs shipped to Israel via U.S., report suggests | CBC News
Hundreds of shipments of explosives and fighter jet components have made their way from Canada to Israel by passing through the U.S. over the last two years, a new report by a group of four NGOs alleg...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘It’s state terror’ – journalist Sarah Wilkinson on her own ‘terror’ trial

Terrorism
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EXCLUSIVE: 'It's state terror' - journalist Sarah Wilkinson on her own 'terror' trial
In an exclusive interview with the Canary, Sarah Wilkinson spoke before entering the Old Bailey and after the hearing
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November 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Hear from the U.S journalist who had been abducted from the Gaza Aid Flotilla - Worth the long watch!
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Hear from the U.S. Journalists Abducted from Gaza Aid Flotillas
YouTube video by Freedom of the Press Foundation
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November 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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En #Gaza, la población necesita atención médica urgente.
En UNRWA reabrimos un centro médico, donde muchas familias reciben cuidados vitales. Desde octubre de 2023, nuestros equipos han realizado más de 15 millones de consultas, manteniendo viva la esperanza y la dignidad.
October 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Sitting atop a volcano — unexploded munitions turn Gaza’s rubble into a death trap www.thecanary.co/global/world...
Sitting atop a volcano — unexploded munitions turn Gaza’s rubble into a death trap
Unexploded munitions buried in Gaza’s rubble are killing survivors and blocking aid — turning Israel’s war crimes into a daily death trap
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October 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Verbotspartei!
February 14, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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⚠️ AVISO ROJO | Lluvias muy abundantes en Grazalema (Cádiz) el miércoles 4.

🌧️ Se pueden acumular más de 140 mm en doce horas y más de 200 en 24 horas.

➡️ El peligro es extraordinario. Puede haber inundaciones y crecidas de cauces. Sigue las recomendaciones de Protección Civil.
February 2, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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February 15, 2026 at 10:15 AM